Chapter 111 Security Patches
Feng Ling opened his eyes, looking dazed.

Everyone looked at her face with concern and asked, "How is it? Where is the Master of the Labyrinth now?"

Feng Ling recalled the scene he had just seen, with a somewhat depressed expression.

"It went back to the tower and ate the purple fruit. Now it has turned back into a clay sculpture..." She paused, then continued, "The Minotaur has also been resurrected."

"The Minotaur is resurrected?!" Pei Xianjue raised his voice in a daze, "We almost chopped it into pieces, and it's actually alive?!"

This news hit Pei Xianjue hard.

Killing a large monster like the Minotaur could be counted as an achievement, giving her the opportunity to attend a commendation ceremony and have something to share when facing interviews with reporters in the future. But now all her efforts have been in vain.

"It was almost chopped into pieces. If it had been chopped into pieces, I guess this wouldn't have happened." Feng Ling sighed.

She was not in a good mood either.

At that time, in order to slaughter the cow, she put all her strength into the axe, but she still couldn't chop off the cow's head even though the blade of the axe was bent.

Looking back now, if the white-haired old woman had come out of the tower slower and given enough time, she would definitely have been able to separate the Minotaur's head and body.

By the way, after her pollution value decreased, the hardness and sharpness of the bone blade seemed to have weakened a little bit...

It's not obvious, but subtle, and so subtle that she minds it a little.

“We still have to find a chance to burn the tree,” Pei Xianjue paced back and forth anxiously in the hall, “Only by destroying the tree and then waiting for the fruit to expire, the monsters in the maze will not be resurrected, and then we can kill them however we want!... Damn it, I had clearly already lit the branches, but the fire didn’t start because of the rush of those skeleton spiders. I should have added more fuel! Damn it..."

Feng Ling glanced at her and said, "Those spiders are raised by the maze boss. Their nest is on the tree. If you set fire to the tree, it will definitely alarm them, and if they are alarmed, they will alarm the maze boss... In my opinion, the maze master may have deliberately let the spiders build their nests on that tree."

"Won't this put us in a dead end..." Pei Xianjue pressed his forehead with both hands and rubbed it hard, wishing his fingers could press directly into his brain to clear up his messy thoughts. "Burning the tree will alert the spiders, and the spiders will alert the Boss, who will release mental pressure. We have no chance of winning. But if we don't burn the tree... the Boss can recover no matter how much damage he suffers, so we still have no chance of winning."

Pei Xianjue became more and more frustrated as he spoke. He looked up at Feng Ling and said, "How about we..."

She bit her lower lip, as if she couldn't speak, "I don't want to back down. The current situation is too unfavorable for us. I was wondering if we can leave the maze first, and then call in heavy firepower equipment from outside to reinforce..."

Feng Ling looked at Pei Xianjue calmly, "If you want to leave the maze, you'd better take a look outside first."

Pei Xianjue frowned slightly and looked outside the door suspiciously.

She didn't see anything unusual, but she believed that Feng Ling would not do anything without a purpose, so she stood up and walked out of the palace door and came to the open space outside.

There were many corpses of skeleton spiders on the floor tiles. Those that were chopped into pieces were killed by Feng Ling, and those that were burnt were killed by her.

Continuing forward is the archway of Sanqing Palace. Standing here, you can smell the gunpowder smoke left over from the explosion in the corridor.

Pei Xianjue also saw a lot of spider silk.

It was not a star-shaped spider web, but cotton-like spider silk, with strands crisscrossing on the road, irregularly distributed on the corridor, and extending continuously into the distance.

The maze boss left, but left behind some spider silk...

Pei Xianjue would not be so naive as to think that these spider silks were just decorations.

Her face darkened slightly, and she returned to the front hall with a frown. After several attempts to speak, she finally spoke: "The maze boss left a lot of spider silk outside the corridor. I suspect the purpose of the spider silk is to monitor us. Maybe if we accidentally touch a little bit of it, it will alert the monsters or the maze boss in the maze. However, this is also our opportunity..."

Feng Ling listened and nodded slightly, "Yeah, I think so too. It would be best if we can attract the maze boss. We can take the opportunity to burn the tree."

Baozi couldn't help but ask, "Will this method work? What if there are spider silk under the tree? Wouldn't the boss still notice when the tree is burned? In this case, the person responsible for burning the tree will face too much danger." "Baozi, I want to try." Pei Xianjue frowned and said, "No matter what, the tree must be burned."

"Let's first verify whether the function of spider silk is as we guessed." Feng Ling stood up and said to Pei Xianjue, "Come out with me."

The two men walked out of the hall one after the other and came to the archway.

Baozi, Huangfu Miaomiao and Li Qing also followed them silently.

"Now you burn the spider silk on the corridor. I will use my marking ability to observe the changes of the Boss. If the Boss can really sense our whereabouts through the spider silk, I will call you back immediately." Feng Ling said.

Pei Xianjue nodded, drew out his scimitar, and slowed down his breathing, "I'm ready."

"Burn it." Feng Ling closed his eyes.

Pei Xianjue leaned forward slightly, crossed the two scimitars in a cross in front of him, and slashed with force!
The metal made a harsh sound when it rubbed against each other. At the same time, a cross of flame flew forward like the wings of a butterfly, and all the grass and dead leaves in its path were ignited, including the spider webs covering the corridor.

After burning for a few seconds, there was no more flammable material in the corridor and the flame went out naturally.

She turned her head to look at Feng Ling.

Feng Ling closed his eyes, frowned, and did not give any instructions.

Pei Xianjue gritted his teeth, walked down the stairs, left the protection of the safe zone, and released flames again to burn the spider silk farther away.

Feng Ling still didn't respond.

Pei Xianjue continued to move forward.

Baozi became nervous. Seeing that Pei Xianjue was almost at the end of the corridor, he ignored the danger and ran over to stay with Pei Xianjue.

Pei Xianjue has arrived at the intersection of the corridor and the mountain trail.

Just as she emitted a ball of fire, she heard Feng Ling calling her from a distance: "Come back."

Pei Xianjue and Baozi immediately returned to the safe zone upon hearing the sound.

"How is it? What did you see?" Pei Xianjue asked.

Before Feng Ling could open his mouth, the roar of wild beasts was heard from the distant mountains.

The voice sounded very familiar. Pei Xianjue recognized it immediately and asked in surprise, "Minotaur?"

"When you burned near the mountain path, the maze boss didn't react, but many spiders crawled down from the trees, and then the Minotaur woke up." Feng Ling explained, "I tend to think that the spider silk is a security patch made by the maze boss, because the mountain path needs the Minotaur and the Horse-Faced Monster to patrol day and night. Now that the Horse-Faced Monster is dead, there are no monsters patrolling the mountain path during the day, so the boss let the spiders weave webs on the mountain path. Once the alarm is triggered, the Minotaur will wake up."

As if to prove her point, the Minotaur's roar grew closer.

The rustling sound of insects crawling could be clearly heard. Everyone looked to the end of the corridor and saw at least a hundred skeleton spiders crawling over to repair the burnt spider silk.

They were busy for a few minutes, and the spider silk they made was layered on top of each other, even thicker than before.

Not long afterward, the Minotaur came heavy-footed nearby, growling and alert, and began to wander around.

Forgive me, my early mornings are long...