It’s a strange invasion, is it okay for me to fight back?

Chapter 723 The Foundation of All Things
The scene inside the spindle is not like that.

She shouldn't have died here.

But she also clearly felt her consciousness gradually separating from her body, and her gaze uncontrollably plummeting downwards—

It wasn't a flat surface after all. The interior of the mother nest's remains resembled an upside-down bird's nest, with countless branches crisscrossing. Feng Ling's head stumbled and fell through the gaps between the branches, like a ball.

Her body, her internal organs, slowly slid off, and fresh blood, like a lubricant, gushed downwards, flowing along the charred bones into the lake.

Feng Ling returned to the place that made her feel at ease.

With her head submerged in the water, she thought blankly: What should I do now? Can I save myself?

I'm already half-dead, so why not try advancing? I just don't know if I can still process the cards in my current state...

My consciousness is becoming increasingly blurred.

She tried hard to concentrate, wanting to select the Goddess of Spring and Life, but her thoughts were too scattered. She felt very sleepy, her soul wandering in a dream, unable to be sure if she had actually digested the cards.

Finally, her consciousness fell into a deep sleep.

Unbeknownst to her, lines of code were rapidly scrolling through the game program—

[The theme "Spring and the Goddess of Life" has been digested.]

The deck has seen a significant increase in strength. Pollution level: 26%.

You are the source of life, the mother of the world. You possess a robust physique and inexhaustible strength; as long as a sliver of life remains, you are virtually impossible to kill. You can bring new life, and you can bring destruction; life is your authority. You are everywhere, you are omnipotent. You witness the end of the world and the future.

【You are "■:#紝匓※鎷"】

[An error was detected and is being corrected...]

You are the foundation of all things, the mother nest.

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Meteor leaned against the withered bones, kneeling to treat the wounds of the short-legged sheep.

Despite the injection of recovery serum, it would take time for the severed legs to grow back. She gave the only potent recovery serum to the dwarf sheep.

She was more worried about the dwarf sheep dying than about herself.

Fortunately, she won her gamble. Feng Ling did not pierce her heart or sever her neck. Instead, in order to preserve Huangfu Miaomiao's body, it chose to avoid vital points and attack her arms.

This part corresponds exactly to the arm of the dwarf sheep.

Meteor and Drunkard tied the dwarf sheep with ropes, fixing it in a chair-like position, and then covered it with several layers of animal skins, thus concealing Windfeather's Eye of Horus.

When the meteor sits on the humanoid chair, the red dots in the third-person perspective overlap.

When Fengling, guided by the meteor, took action and stabbed the Mother Nest Maze Administrator, a program warning was triggered, and Fengling entered a frozen state.

This is Meteor's only chance to kill Wind Feather.

It's just an opportunity.

Meteor understands better than anyone that opportunities are always fleeting.

She untied the ropes binding the dwarf sheep and forcibly fed it a bag of jelly. The dwarf sheep looked dazed and only began to swallow on its own after a while.

Meteor was covered in sweat from exhaustion.

She propped herself up with her hands, rolled over, sat down to rest for a moment, and then turned on the virtual screen.

In her friends list, the name of the drunkard had turned gray. She was slightly lost in thought, and then found the name of Cangwu in the list.

Although they added each other as friends, Meteor was unable to send any messages because she was muted.

Meteor gazed at Cangwu, displaying his currently online game nickname, thinking: Now, only the final step remains. A gust of wind suddenly rushed into the remains—

The wind passed through the gaps of different shapes, and the sound rose and fell. At first it was gentle, like a flute or birdsong, but then it grew louder and louder, turning into an almost savage roar.

Rain fell and hit the meteor's forehead.

The meteor looked up at the sky, which was fragmented into pieces by layers of bones, and guessed that the sudden change in weather was a sign that the labyrinth was about to disappear.

She found it strange that the labyrinth reacted to Feng Ling's death even though Feng Ling hadn't advanced to become the Abyss. Could it be that regardless of whether Feng Ling advanced or not, as long as she possessed the Mother Nest card, she would be considered the labyrinth's master by default?
There are too many illogical things about this game, but for Meteor, those things don't matter anymore. She's done everything she could. Now, it's up to Cangwu to see if things go smoothly...

The wind outside changed again, howling and howling like a monster.

Meteor's heart skipped a beat; she sensed something was wrong.

Dragging her unusable legs, she moved to the side of a few branches and looked out through the gaps in the skeleton. She saw the lake surface churning violently, and the pollutants that had been dormant at the bottom of the lake were now crawling out one after another.

“How could this be…” Meteor was slightly taken aback. “The amniotic fluid clearly doesn’t have enough energy.”

The pollutants surged toward the lake shore, their massive bodies creating huge waves.

Looking at the blood-stained lake, Meteor suddenly understood.

“It’s Feng Ling’s corpse…” Meteor turned her head and looked at the bloodstains left on the ground, muttering to herself, “The amniotic fluid still contains the energy of the Mother Nest, and as the holder of the Mother Nest, Feng Ling’s flesh and blood also contain energy, which is why these Mother Nest creations were able to awaken…”

pat.

The short-legged sheep behind him slumped to one side.

Meteor quickly tightened the rope in his hand, worried that the short-legged sheep would fall.

The dwarf sheep had its eyes closed and remained motionless.

Meteor frowned, shifted his body closer, and found that the dwarf sheep had stopped breathing.

Her face turned pale instantly, in disbelief. She hurriedly reached out and pressed her hand against the dwarf sheep's chest, then checked its pulse, but there was no sign of life!

A card slowly emerged from the body of the dwarf sheep.

Meteor was stunned by what she saw. She finally had to accept the fact that the dwarf sheep was dead.

There is no reincarnation.

He is dead.

For the first time, a look of panic appeared on Meteor's face.

She wasn't afraid of death or failure; her only fear was that the man from the upper town in front of her would escape!

She clearly injected the dwarf sheep with a powerful recovery potion just now, there's no reason for the dwarf sheep to suddenly die! The only possibility is... the dwarf sheep logged off?
The system determines that I can log off because the maze I'm responsible for has been breached? But isn't the short-legged sheep insane? Can someone who's insane still log off?
Was all that feigned madness just a charade?
No, that's not right... That child couldn't possibly have that kind of acting skill, let alone that kind of patience!

Moreover, when the administrator goes offline, the cards are automatically recycled by the system. The fact that the cards have been extracted means that the short-legged sheep did not go offline, or at least not in the conventional sense!
The short-legged sheep must not log off! Absolutely must not log off!

She could only accept his death!
Otherwise, she would truly be trapped in eternal despair!
Rumble rumble rumble—

A rumble of thunder overhead startled the lost-in-the-moment shooting star from its reverie.

She forced herself to calm her chaotic emotions and decided to find a way out of the maze first, and then consider the potential danger of the dwarf sheep going offline once she reached a safe place.

Her heart was pounding and trembling, and she was enveloped by intense unease.

Outside, thunder and rain raged, and the pollutants were all howling and running wildly!

Everything was so wrong.

The awakening of the Mother Nest's creations, the sudden death of the dwarf sheep—Meteor sensed something was spiraling out of control…

(End of this chapter)