Chapter 259: There Are Still 2 More

Chapter 259: Chapter 259: There Are Still 2 More

Ye Zheng rushed to the scene. Standing on a rooftop, she looked down, and her face went deathly pale.

Below was a writhing mass of Mouse Monsters, piled up layer after layer into small hills. She couldn’t see the white-bearded old man, nor could she see Feng Ling. Only the Cat Owl circled overhead, screeching anxiously.

And not far away, the other two Pseudo-Gods were heading in their direction!

Ye Zheng was frantic.

She couldn’t help but prepare for the worst. ’If I can’t save Feng Ling, I’ll use Holy Radiant Flame to burn every last one of these Pseudo-Gods to ash!’

It was her trump card, a Skill she was unwilling to use unless she had absolutely no other choice.

Because Holy Radiant Flame drained every ounce of her energy each time it was used. In that state of extreme weakness, even an ordinary Mouse Monster could kill her.

After becoming a Pollution Body, Ye Zheng often lost the will to live. But to die at the hands of these monsters? She refused to accept it!

She wanted revenge!

She wanted to turn the tables!

And now, all her hope rested on a woman buried alive by a pile of Mouse Monsters!

The thought sent a surge of fury through Ye Zheng!

"Feng Ling!" Ye Zheng roared, leaping into the swarm. Her Spiritual Suppression instantly forced back a ring of Mouse Monsters.

But it was as if the swarm concealed a magnet; despite the terrifying Spiritual Suppression, nearby Mouse Monsters were still irresistibly drawn in.

They stirred restlessly, circling her, ready to pounce at any moment.

Ye Zheng seized the opportunity to try and rescue Feng Ling from under the pile.

The moment she grabbed one of the Mouse Monsters, she knew something was wrong. It wouldn’t budge. She instinctively applied more force, and with a sharp tug, she tore its arm right off!

The rest of its body remained fused to the other mice!

No, to be precise, the flesh of these Mouse Monsters had fused, growing into a single mass!

In that instant, Ye Zheng’s heart sank like a stone.

’No wonder Feng Ling can’t get out. This Pseudo-God has an ability that fuses flesh. It might have already absorbed her body, just like what almost happened to Huangfu Miaomiao with that mountain!’

In her battles against Alien Species and Pollution Bodies, life and death were often decided in an instant. Ye Zheng had lost teammates before. Whenever tragedy struck, she had always been able to immediately compose herself, convincing herself that it was a necessary sacrifice—a sacrifice that would ultimately lead to victory.

Now, however, she began to doubt. ’Will victory ever truly come?’

She had already lost so much! What little she had left to wager, she had bet on Feng Ling. Was fate really going to make her lose again?!

Ye Zheng refused to accept it!

Her blood-red eyes burned with rage. Extending her claws, she began to tear furiously at the fused mass of Mouse Monsters.

At first, she could rip off a leg or an arm, but the mass was more tightly fused deeper in. It was like a roll of frozen, thinly sliced beef—you could see the outline of each individual slice, but you couldn’t separate them whole. The more she pulled, the more it fragmented! The more she tore, the more it broke apart! The more she clawed, the more it shredded!

The flesh and blood blurred into a gory mess of red and white. She could no longer tell which limb belonged to which mouse. All she saw was flesh! All she saw was blood!

’Any second now, I might dig up Feng Ling’s own flesh and blood!’

The Pseudo-Gods’ Spiritual Power Fields were closing in. Her time was running out.

If she couldn’t save Feng Ling, the spiritual power of all three Pseudo-Gods would stack. At that point, even if Ye Zheng transformed into her second form, her own spiritual power might not be enough to withstand it.

’And what if the Pseudo-God has already absorbed Feng Ling? Will it have become even stronger?’

’...Maybe I should just go all out.’

Ye Zheng’s fury subsided, replaced by an unnatural calm.

She began to consider the consequences of using Holy Radiant Flame. ’It would put me in extreme danger, and it might even burn Feng Ling to death along with them... but if I can just eliminate these Pseudo-Gods created by the Maze Master, I can neutralize the biggest threat in this Maze.’

’Besides, Xu Yiming is still out there.’

’Xu Yiming won’t just sit back and do nothing. He knows how to seize an opportunity. He’ll definitely find a way to conquer the Maze and remove this threat to Guangshan City.’

Ye Zheng stopped, no longer tearing at the mass of monsters.

A bitter thought crossed her mind: ’Ah, Feng Ling. Looks like we’ll be sharing a funeral pyre.’

The Pseudo-Gods’ Spiritual Power Fields were growing stronger by the second.

In turn, Ye Zheng felt her own spiritual power being crushed.

’I can’t wait any longer.’

Once their Spiritual Power Fields fully combined, she would be completely immobilized. She had to make a decision, and fast.

She took a quiet breath, preparing to unleash the Blazing Angel’s ultimate Skill—

Suddenly, the ground beneath her feet began to vibrate.

Ye Zheng froze.

As if sensing danger, the Mouse Monsters circling her suddenly scattered in a panic.

At the same time, the fused heap of Mouse Monsters before Ye Zheng’s eyes began to swell and rip apart!

Blood sprayed everywhere amid the sharp CRACKING of bones.

A silvery-white serpent’s body violently burst through the outer layer of gore, and from within the carnage, a human hand reached out!

Feng Ling climbed out—

She took a deep breath and gasped, "I was about to suffocate in there!"

Ye Zheng stared at her, stunned. Shock gave way to elation, which was then immediately consumed by a towering rage!

"You might not have suffocated, but you were seconds away from being burned to death by me!" Ye Zheng roared, unleashing the torrent of her emotions.

Feng Ling shot back angrily, "This thing doesn’t just trap you, it creates illusions! Why don’t you give it a try? You’d be lucky to get out at all!"

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been stuck for so long.

Ye Zheng said, exasperated, "Damn it, this Maze Boss has way too many tricks up its sleeve!"

Feng Ling asked, "Where are the other two?"

Ye Zheng snapped back to reality and glanced behind her. Seeing the empty street, she sneered. "They were just here. They’ve fled."

Hearing this, Feng Ling said, "These Pseudo-Gods have some brains, then. They knew the combined spiritual power of two of them wasn’t enough to hold me down, so they took off."

She thought for another moment. "...No, that’s not right. The Maze Master isn’t dead yet. As long as there are Mouse Monsters to provide it with flesh, it can create more Pseudo-Gods. They didn’t run away—they went to round up more mice!"

Ye Zheng’s brow furrowed. "We have to eradicate them, root and stem, and fast!"

The words had barely left her mouth when the buzzing of a cell phone reached their ears.

Feng Ling searched the ground and finally found her phone, which was pinned under her massive snake tail. She picked it up and answered.

The only person who could make a call from within the Maze was Xu Yiming.

"Feng Ling! A huge swarm of Mouse Monsters just passed me! They’re all heading for the main square!" Xu Yiming’s frantic voice came from the phone.

Feng Ling replied instantly, "Intercept them! Do whatever you have to, stop as many as you can!"

She hung up and immediately took off toward the square.

"The Maze Master must be trying to use the Mouse Monsters to create another god! Two Pseudo-Gods are manageable, but three is a disaster!" Feng Ling cursed. "Absorbing energy, creating illusions, and that constantly stacking spiritual power... Is this Maze deliberately designed to counter me? I swear I’m going to kill that thing!"

In the distance, a few gunshots rang out, followed by the sound of sporadic explosions.

Xu Yiming and Huangfu Miaomiao were already on it.

Feng Ling picked up her pace, hoping to get there before the Maze Master could create another Pseudo-God.

She glanced back to hurry Ye Zheng along, but didn’t see her. Looking forward again, she saw that Ye Zheng was already a good half-mile ahead of her.

Feng Ling started to miss the ocean...

Moving on land was just too difficult in her massive, second-form snake body!