Chapter 211 - 210: It’s Really Tough

Chapter 211: Chapter 210: It’s Really Tough

"What the hell are you, daring to inject me with a sedative?!"

Ye Zheng glared at Huangfu Miaomiao with near-hatred. "You don’t want me to go, is it because you want to help that Alien Species? ...Yes, that’s right, that must be it. You’re all Alien Species... All of you! All Alien Species should die! Die! Die! Die!..."

Seeing Ye Zheng on the verge of another rampage, Li Qing panicked. He opened his mouth to try and calm him down, but then remembered his own identity.

’As an Alien Species himself, would Ye Zheng even listen to him? Wouldn’t it just be adding fuel to the fire?’

Xu Yiming’s heart was about to leap out of his throat as his eyes darted to the first-aid kit in the car.

’Maybe I can jab the Pollution Body with a needle when it’s not looking. But am I fast enough? Faster than this Pollution Body? Or will I be run through before the needle even touches its skin?’

The atmosphere in the car grew unprecedentedly tense. Without Feng Ling, it was like a gun with the safety off, ready to go off at any moment.

Huangfu Miaomiao couldn’t take the immense pressure and burst out crying!

Tears streamed from her eyes like water from a spring. She sobbed as she yelled, "The subway station is full of bugs! Feng Ling has scales, so she isn’t afraid of being infested, but you’ll definitely be infested if you go down there! Feng Ling is already having a hard enough time dealing with the Gu Insect Master by herself! Just because she isn’t responding doesn’t mean something has happened to her, but if you get controlled by the Gu Insect Master, then something will definitely happen to Feng Ling!"

Ye Zheng froze for a moment, and his hand clutching Huangfu Miaomiao loosened subconsciously.

Xu Yiming seized the opportunity, grabbing Huangfu Miaomiao’s legs and yanking her away!

They both fell to the floor. One continued to block the door, while the other ran to the first-aid kit to get a sedative.

Li Qing managed to rasp out, "Zheng... Zheng, calm down..."

Ye Zheng stood there, stunned.

Huangfu Miaomiao sobbed uncontrollably. "So you’re strong! You’re amazing! But so what? You’ll still get infested when you run into bugs! The Gu Insect Master’s favorite thing to do is use bugs to control people and make them kill each other! We went through so much trouble to save you and bring you to find the Maze, and all you do is bully me! I’m going to tell Feng Ling you bullied me! You almost choked me to death! Waaaah..."

With trembling hands, Xu Yiming ripped the packaging off a syringe and plunged it into Ye Zheng’s arm!

Ye Zheng didn’t move. An infinite sorrow appeared in his eyes.

This emotion faded as the sedative took effect, gradually replaced by a blank, dull stupor.

Li Qing let out a breath of relief and looked at Huangfu Miaomiao. "Stop crying..."

Huangfu Miaomiao couldn’t stop her tears. She hung her head and whimpered, "Why does everyone bully me... The players bully me, the humans bully me... I just want to live. What did I do wrong..."

Li Qing walked over and handed her a handkerchief.

Huangfu Miaomiao took it to wipe her tears. Sniffling, she felt that Li Qing wasn’t so bad after all. Perhaps it was because they were both outcasts in that moment, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of kinship.

Li Qing didn’t notice the change in Huangfu Miaomiao’s mood. He stared down at his phone, his heart heavy.

Even though he had decided to cooperate with Feng Ling and was determined to help her with all his might, when faced with this scattered and broken team—

a timid, crying Demon, a Pollution Body on the verge of madness, and himself, who could only tell fortunes. On top of that, the team was rife with conflict—human versus player, player versus administrator. Li Qing truly couldn’t see any hope of victory.

’This is so hard...’

...

Feng Ling slipped in the water.

Something wrapped around her foot and quickly dragged her into the deep water.

The water was filthy. The moment she fell in, new black thread-like worms swarmed her from all directions!

Although her skin could grow scales, her mouth, eyes, ears, and nose were all weak points, and they became the worms’ main targets.

Feng Ling wouldn’t let them have their way. She drew her cone spikes, stabbed them forcefully into the concrete ceiling, and used the leverage to leap out of the water! SPLASH—

In the darkness of the tunnel ahead, she saw a gigantic, soft-bodied crawler!

The crawler was pitch-black, with countless slimy tentacles growing from its sides. Its lower body was submerged, its structure unclear, but sprouting distinctly from the black insect’s back was the upper body of a boy.

It was the runaway Gu Insect Master!

Feng Ling hung in mid-air, supported by her two cone spikes, her burning gaze fixed on the Gu Insect Master.

Seeing Feng Ling looking at him, the Gu Insect Master immediately realized his hiding spot had been discovered. He grinned and said, "I didn’t expect you to spot me in such a dark place. As expected of a hidden boss. The System told me to avoid you, and Xing Guang told me to run, but I refuse to believe it. No matter how strong you are, tonight, you’ll be nothing but food for my bugs."

Feng Ling extended her Teeth and Claws from her back, latching them onto a slightly raised edge of the concrete ceiling. Then, like she was on a swing, she forcefully flung her body forward!

"Found a talkative Alien Species." Her lips curled upward as her body soared through the air, her Bone Blade unfolding from her back—

The boy’s face changed drastically. His body suddenly sank down, submerging into the insect’s body! The entire soft-bodied insect also began to move forward quickly, its long, dense legs breaking the surface of the water!

Feng Ling’s body fell, and her Bone Blade swung at empty air.

She looked up, displeased. The boy, who had clearly been at the insect’s head a moment ago, was now at its tail. The creature was crawling backward.

No, that’s not right.

’Perhaps this insect has no head or tail.’

There were thread-worms in the water, so Feng Ling didn’t want to give chase in it. She had no choice but to continue using her cone spikes and Teeth and Claws in alternation to propel herself forward.

The long tunnel seemed to stretch on endlessly.

The boy controlled the Insect King, continuously moving it forward.

He taunted Feng Ling, "Maybe you were impressive before, but in here, you’re no match for the Insect King. Feeling tired? Want to give up? You’d probably run out of energy even if you turned back now, right? Ha, can’t you see this is a trap? Sooner or later, you’ll become food for my bugs. This is the price you should pay!..."

If Feng Ling hadn’t known beforehand that this stretch of tunnel was three kilometers long, she probably would have lost heart.

"So talkative." His taunts only excited her, and she gradually picked up speed.

The boy seemed to realize this too. He shrank back into the insect’s body with a panicked look, and it also sped up.

Feng Ling sensed something was off.

’The boy isn’t as confident as he sounds,’ she thought. ’He seems scared. But if he’s scared, why isn’t he trying to escape as fast as possible? Why is he staying here to spout trash talk at me?’

’Is there some kind of plot?’

’What kind of plot could there be?’

Feng Ling lost her patience. She leaped forward with a powerful burst, her Bone Blade extending to its maximum length behind her! She brought it down in a vertical chop!

The boy screamed as a chunk was sliced off the Insect King’s body!

It felt like cutting through tofu. The thick body didn’t bleed; instead, it dissolved into a black liquid that sank into the water, transforming into countless black thread-worms that swarmed toward Feng Ling, who had just landed in the water!

’Is this the plot?’

Her Teeth and Claws bit into the concrete ceiling above, quickly hoisting her body up. Her Bone Blade swept out from below, easily severing the thread-worms coiling around her legs.

’This isn’t a plot.’

Feng Ling looked toward the fleeing Insect King in the distance and narrowed her eyes.

There was a faint light ahead. That was the next subway station entrance.