Chapter 167 - 166: The Chicken-Leg Cabin

Chapter 167: Chapter 166: The Chicken-Leg Cabin

"We’re heading that way." Feng Ling decisively led the team up the mountainside.

Xu Yiming was completely lost.

He stared at Feng Ling’s back, his mouth opening and closing. "Wh... Why?"

However, leading a team often doesn’t require reasons. As long as you project enough confidence, others will blindly trust and rely on you.

So even though Feng Ling didn’t offer a single word of explanation, everyone couldn’t help but follow in her footsteps up the mountain.

Xu Yiming trailed behind the group in a daze.

Reason told him that the wind would be stronger and the temperature colder on the mountain, making it completely unsuitable for camping overnight.

But he didn’t have the courage to speak up and stop her.

Because he knew, in his heart, that if he stopped Feng Ling, he would have to propose an alternative. But was heading to the forest at the foot of the mountain the right choice either?

’What if we run into the terrifying Snow Woman?’

’What if there are casualties?’

’Could he bear that responsibility?’ ℴℴ𝘮

But if something went wrong now, the person who would be questioned was Feng Ling, not him.

—Human nature is often like this. People don’t offer opinions simply because they don’t want to be held responsible.

Xu Yiming felt ashamed of this dark, petty thought.

He felt that he shouldn’t entrust the entire team’s safety to a young girl nearly ten years his junior. That was shirking responsibility, and it wasn’t fair to Feng Ling either.

He was deeply conflicted.

Just as Xu Yiming was hesitating, wondering if he should go up and warn Feng Ling, Wen Xiuyan called out excitedly from the group, "There’s a light ahead! It looks like a cabin!"

Wen Xiuyan happily praised Feng Ling, "Your eyesight is amazing! You could see it from so far away."

Another young man named Wu Wei also breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Great, we finally have a place to spend the night."

Everyone picked up their pace.

Xu Yiming looked at their expressions—joyful, happy, relieved... But when he looked at Feng Ling’s side, their expressions were all calm, including Su Yuqing’s. It was as if they weren’t surprised at all.

Xu Yiming couldn’t hold back any longer. He sidled up to Su Yuqing and asked in a low voice, "How did she know there was a cabin on the mountain?"

Even if she had clairvoyant eyes, there was no way she could have seen a cabin on the mountain through such a heavy, dense snowstorm.

Su Yuqing, struggling to keep moving, replied breathlessly, "I told you before, you can trust any information she provides. Some of it is even more accurate than official sources."

The suspense was clawing at Xu Yiming. "Old Su, just give me the bottom line! What’s her deal?"

Su Yuqing gave him a tired look. "...I can tell you, but you’d better not let anyone else know, or it won’t do you any good."

Xu Yiming immediately swore, "I definitely won’t tell a third person!"

Su Yuqing fell silent for a moment, then looked up at the backs of the people at the front of the group and said in a low voice, "That little girl with Feng Ling is an Alien Species."

Xu Yiming sucked in a sharp breath, his eyes wide. "Wh-What?!..."

Su Yuqing added, "And the man with her is a Maze Administrator."

Xu Yiming held his breath, unable to exhale for a long moment. His face, already blue from the cold, was forced into a deep red.

"Sh-She... How could she..."

Xu Yiming’s mind was in turmoil, his worldview completely shattered!

How could a human team up with an Alien Species?! A-And why would an Alien Species listen to her?!!

Frankly, aside from seeing Feng Ling throw a grenade once, Xu Yiming really couldn’t see what was so impressive about her!

"I’m not too clear on the details, but it seems to be related to her Card," Su Yuqing said. "Maybe Feng Ling’s Card Ability allows her to make Alien Species obey her..."

He breathed with difficulty, pulling his foot out of the deep snow and forcing himself forward. "I don’t care about any of that right now... Whether she’s human or an Alien Species, as long as she can help me find Ye Zheng, I don’t care what methods she uses."

The group up ahead came to a halt.

Su Yuqing frowned, quickened his pace again, and called out, "Why have we stopped?"

Liang Jiaqin shouted back to Su Yuqing and Xu Yiming, "There are a lot of snowmen up ahead! No idea what they are!"

Seeing snowmen by the roadside in winter is a very common sight.

But in a Maze, with no living people around, who could have built them?

Su Yuqing and Xu Yiming caught up to the group and saw that the mountainside ahead was indeed dotted with a dozen or so snowmen. The higher they looked, the denser the snowmen became.

As for the cabin at the top of the slope, it was surrounded by snowmen of all sizes.

Even eerier, two chicken legs were growing out from beneath the cabin’s foundation.

"This cabin looks way too creepy..." Wen Xiuyan couldn’t help but ask Feng Ling, "Could it be a monster’s home? If we just go over there, aren’t we walking right into a trap?"

Wu Wei also asked Feng Ling, "Why don’t we find another place to camp? This place really is too creepy."

The two of them voiced the exact thoughts on Xu Yiming’s mind.

But after hearing Su Yuqing’s explanation, Xu Yiming was still in a daze and didn’t know what to say.

At the same time, he was also very curious. How would Feng Ling handle a situation like this?

He had teamed up with friends to fight Alien Species before and knew all too well that when operating as a team, the danger didn’t just come from the enemy.

If the leader couldn’t promptly soothe everyone’s emotions and rally their spirits, the team would face all sorts of disasters.

Feng Ling said, "It’s getting dark. We don’t have time to find another spot. Running into a Snow Woman on the way would be even worse. We’ll stay here. Even if there’s a monster inside, it’s fine. We’ll just kill it, right?"

Everyone nodded. "That’s right. Let’s hurry up and go in."

Xu Yiming: "..."

He was even more dazed.

’The crisis of confidence was resolved just like that???’

Ignoring the bizarrely shaped snowmen along the path, the group walked straight toward the cabin.

Perhaps because Feng Ling acted so confidently and calmly, her attitude was infectious. Without even trying to mask the sound of their footsteps, they arrived brazenly before the cabin.

The chicken legs beneath the cabin stood like two pillars, holding it steadily in mid-air.

Feng Ling saw a rope ladder tied to the cabin’s doorknob. It was currently pulled up, which meant there was definitely someone inside.

She called over the Cat Owl, had it lower the rope ladder, and then climbed up alone.

The cabin door was shut tight and wouldn’t budge.

Of course, with her strength, it wasn’t like she couldn’t force the door open if she had to.

But she didn’t sense any danger, so she decided to try a gentler approach. Hugging the narrow ledge outside the door, she slowly made her way to the window.

She had wanted to see what was inside the cabin, but the glass window was covered in a thick layer of frost, obscuring the view completely.

Feng Ling lost her patience and simply raised her hand to knock twice on the window.

THUMP, THUMP—

"AHHHHHHH!!!"

"Don’t kill me! I’m begging you, don’t kill me!"

"Help! Help, I don’t want to die!"

"SOB SOB SOB... M-Mommy..."

Feng Ling: "..."

’What is all this nonsense?’

She looked down at her teammates below and said, "Seems like there’s someone in the cabin."