Chapter 158 She's Bored
The forest was silent, the sky was gray and hazy, and the branches overhead were crisscrossed, making it impossible to tell whether they were trees or pollutants.

The hunters whispered:
"Will this method work?"

“I didn’t feel them moving…”

"Should we move back a bit? Did they see us all standing here and sense danger so they didn't dare to come down?"

“…I even doubt whether this thing has eyes.”

"puff!"

"Who's laughing? Hey, everyone, be serious..."

Xu Yiming whispered to Feng Ling: "How about we move further away?"

Feng Ling frowned and looked up at the motionless branches. "With this body structure, even if they have eyes, their vision won't be very good. How do they find food? Smell? Sound? Or can they detect red temperature like snakes?"

She thought about it, asked Huangfu Miaomiao for a dagger, strode towards the wolf's body, stabbed it into the throat, and then cut it cleanly, cutting open the chest and abdomen.

A large amount of blood gushed out, dyeing the snow red with the remaining warmth of life.

There were rustling sounds all around and fine snow was falling.

"Is it snowing?" a hunter asked softly.

However, they soon discovered that it was not snowing, but the pollutants on the trees were shaking off the snow on the branches as they moved.

Everyone was on edge.

The polluted body above their heads was moving towards the wolf's body.

Countless slender branches came one after another, intertwining each other, so densely packed that it seemed as if the entire forest had come alive.

When they were motionless, the hunters were confused because they couldn't find their target. Now they all moved, and the hunters only felt their scalps tingling...

They couldn’t imagine what would happen if such a large number of polluted bodies attacked them.

Feng Ling quickly stepped back, very satisfied with the effect of the bloody smell, and said with a smile: "It's really interesting, they seem to be particularly sensitive to smells, why don't they attack us? Is it because humans have less body odor?"

Su Yuqing guessed: "Perhaps their natural enemies are in human form, so after discovering humans, they prefer to hide rather than attack."

Feng Ling smiled and said, "No matter what their natural enemies look like, they should be afraid of humans. The aliens earn points by killing them, and the expedition team will kill them too. They are all in human form. I think they should engrave the fear of humans into their genes!"

With a "swish" sound, a thin "branch" pierced the wolf's body!
There were a few more sounds that followed, and more "branches" pierced into the corpse, causing it to hang slightly in the air during the pulling. If Feng Ling had not tied up the dead wolf in advance, it would have been pulled onto the tree by them.

More and more polluted bodies moved towards the tree, stretching out their branch-like forelimbs, trying to get a piece of the pie.

Feng Ling couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many..."

Xu Yiming looked at Feng Ling expectantly.

——Isn't it time to take action now? Number one on the Hunter List! Please show us your strength and let us all see it!

Feng Ling noticed Xu Yiming's gaze and smiled at him, "Don't worry, I will kill them all~"

What's so hard about this?
Feng Ling took out a grenade, pulled the ring with skillful movements, and threw it—

boom! ! ! ! !
The explosion resounded in the forest! With the wolf's body as the center, all the polluted bodies around it were blown to pieces!

The contaminated objects that were closer to the tree were also affected, with some of their legs or half of their bodies broken off and falling down.

Feng Ling walked over to take a look, picked up a piece of contaminated body stump that was almost the same size as a tree stick, tapped it gently, and made sure that it couldn't be more dead, and the corner of his mouth curled up.

She waved towards Xu Yiming and said, "This method is quite effective. Let's find some more dead animals and set traps for them one by one. Blow them all up."

Xu Yiming stood still, with an unnatural expression on his face. Other hunters came over to check the scene after the explosion, and they also thought this method was good and were eager to try it.

The atmosphere began to relax.

The hunters spontaneously divided into several groups and went to set traps in other places in the forest.

Huangfu Miaomiao was a little envious when she saw this.

For humans, killing pollutants is as simple as killing them, but for her, killing pollutants will earn points.

Huangfu Miaomiao's greatest reliance is to turn into a ghost, and the essence of the ghost ability is to make the body liquid, like a black shadow, which can adapt to various terrains or drill into extremely tiny gaps.

But it's too cold here, and she would easily be frozen once she uses her ability.

So she followed Feng Ling closely and did not take any action the whole time.

But if you use grenades...

She's OK again.

Feng Ling saw Huangfu Miaomiao staring at the hunters carrying the wolf corpse and guessed what she was thinking.

"Although this polluting entity called Night Spirit dares not attack humans, it might dare to attack children. You'd better be careful." Feng Ling said.

This means no objection.

Huangfu Miaomiao's eyes lit up, and she immediately replied, "I won't go far."

Feng Ling summoned the cat spider and the cat owl and said to Huangfu Miaomiao, "Take them with you."

Huangfu Miaomiao nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, rubbed her hands, and ran to drag the dead wolf's body.

The bait was obviously not enough, and Xu Yiming had no time to feel sorry for himself. He continued to work as an errand boy and ran to carry the corpses of the wolves that had been killed earlier.

Everyone is busy with their own things.

Feng Ling started a fire on the spot and threw the contaminated body that had just been blown into pieces into the fire.

Not only do they look like wood, but they also smell like wood when burned, with a pine smell and a slight aroma of roasted grasshoppers.

Feng Ling roasted the fire and muttered softly, "So weak."

Li Qing stayed by her side silently.

"I wonder what the boss of this maze looks like..." Feng Ling murmured, "He has been killed by Ye Zheng, so we should not be able to see him anymore. Do you think the boss will be a giant tree branch?"

Li Qing: “…………”

He finally realized that she was bored.

When she first discovered Ye Ling, Feng Ling showed a little excitement, but now, her face was full of boredom.

"The system will construct the maze based on the culture of each area. The maze boss should be close to the image in the local legends. It may not be 100% the same, but there will definitely be similarities in characteristics." Li Qing answered verbatim.

Feng Ling glanced at him and said, "I have never heard of any myths or legends about tree branches in the Daling Forest."

"Eidolons come from Slavic mythology, which is very close to here." Li Qing said, "When the system uses cultural elements, it is vague and not as clear-cut as national borders."

He paused, and then said, "But I don't know much about Slavic mythology. You can search for information online after you get out of the maze, if... you are interested."

"Forget it." Feng Ling's eyes moved to the campfire. The flames danced in her eyes. She murmured, "Please help me think about what's going on with the Mother Nest card."

Li Qing was slightly startled, "...You, don't you already understand?"