Chapter 196 Crow
The buildings on the pedestrian street adopt a unified antique style, and rainwater falls down along the eaves and corners like a string of beads.

Feng Ling watched the rain while waiting for Li Qing to contact the maze administrator.

After a while, she saw a dark shadow passing by in the rainy night.

Then a crow flapped its wings and flew over, landing steadily on the sign hanging in front of the shop, shaking the rain off its feathers.

No way……

Feng Ling stared at the black crow and thought: Could this be the administrator?

"He is the maze manager here." Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief. He finally got in touch with him.

Feng Ling asked in confusion: "...How can I communicate with it in this situation?"

Li Qing said: "The administrator cannot speak in animal form, but we administrators have a dedicated communication channel, which you can think of as a local area network. I can answer any question you want to ask on his behalf. The main purpose of letting you meet this time is to increase trust between the two parties and reach cooperation."

"Okay..." Feng Ling frowned, "Then you ask it where the aliens that are chasing it are. I'll go kill those aliens first."

Li Qing looked at the crow on the sign and said, "As administrators, we really shouldn't interfere with the game, but the situation is special now. If you want to go offline and go home normally, you must take action. Hiding the boss is an unexpected product beyond the system's calculations. Maybe this is our only chance."

The crow stood on the light board, flapped one wing, twisted its neck and used its beak to tidy up its feathers.

To be honest, no matter how Feng Ling looked at it, he felt that the crow in front of him was unremarkable. It might also be because it acted too well, acting just like a real crow.

At this time, Li Qing turned his head and said to her, "He said that he just checked your card information and that you are indeed capable of dealing with those players, so he agreed to cooperate. However, the aliens that were chasing him did not show up today. It should be because of the wanted order. Today, the entire Guangshan City is under martial law. We need to find another opportunity."

Feng Ling frowned, looking unhappy.

Huangfu Miaomiao asked Li Qing: "Why doesn't this administrator have an exclamation mark above his head? I can't trigger the maze mission."

Li Qing sighed, "We don't have a riddle. We must be at a designated location and time to trigger the maze mission. Otherwise, it's useless to just find the administrator."

Feng Ling's expression became even uglier.

Li Qing said hurriedly: "However, we can analyze the player's movement path to infer the location of the maze entrance. The player must have found this place through the riddle. We just need to ask the administrator about the few places where the player appeared recently, and we should be able to locate the range."

The crow on the signboard suddenly cackled, flapped its wings, and flew out, all the way to the roof of the building opposite.

It flew a quick circle like this, then flew back to the light board, shook off the rain on its body again, and tidied its feathers.

"He said that when he first met the players, he was on the roof of that building, which was probably the entrance to the maze," Li Qing said. "At the time, he was about to cooperate with the players to accept the maze mission, but one of the players suddenly attacked him. His wings were injured and he fell downstairs. He took the opportunity to hide in a drainage ditch on the side of the road and escaped. After that, the players looked for him nearby every day."

After Li Qing finished speaking, he was silent for a while, and then continued translating as if he had received new information:

"Some of the players hold the Gu Master card. By feeding Gu worms, they can control nearby animals. The Gu Master controls snakes and mice to get into drainage ditches and various pipes. We almost found him. He has a hard time hiding every day. If we don't come, he doesn't know how long he can hold on..."

Feng Ling frowned and asked, "This is a city, not a wilderness. Where did the snake come from?"

"Guangshan people like to eat snakes, and there are many restaurants here that raise snakes." Li Qing pointed at the sign and said, "Look, there happens to be one here, She's Snake Restaurant."

Feng Ling: “…………” The signboard was not on. She had been taking shelter from the rain here for so long that she didn’t pay attention to the words on it.

"Okay," Feng Ling exhaled, "We know that one of the alien species holds the card Gu Insect Master, but what about the other two? What cards do they hold?"

Li Qing replied on behalf of the Crow Administrator: "You have to be close to check the information. He always hides far away, so he doesn't know clearly. But because the snake and the mouse were very close to him, he knows that they have the Guworm Master."

Feng Ling asked helplessly: "What is its plan now? We don't know where the alien species is going, so we can only wait and see on the pedestrian street. Where does the administrator plan to hide next? If there is no suitable place, it can temporarily live in our truck."

Li Qing and Crow communicated for a long time.

Feng Ling controlled his temper and waited quietly.

After waiting for a while, Li Qing said, "Although Guangshan people eat everything, they don't eat crows. He now lives on the balcony of a bird breeder, pretending to be a starling. He is safe for the time being, but the old man always tries to train him to speak human language, which gives him a headache. Corvids do have the ability to imitate human speech, but he is not a real crow, nor a real human... I hope we can break through the maze as soon as possible so that he can go home without having to worry and pretend to be any creature anymore."

Feng Ling thought to himself what a mess this was.

"Let's leave it at that for tonight. Let the administrator hide himself and wait for our news tomorrow." Feng Ling said with a frown, pulled up his raincoat, and pulled Ye Zheng out of the eaves.

There was obvious disappointment on Feng Ling's face.

She felt that at this time, it might be more useful to find Han Xu than to find an administrator. At least the surveillance cameras in the city must have captured something.

Huangfu Miaomiao saw Feng Ling leaving and hurriedly followed him. At the same time, she turned back and taunted Li Qing: "We came all the way here in such heavy rain, and your administrator only provided such a few clues. Tsk~ You have no sincerity to cooperate at all!"

Crow: "Cack!——"

Li Qing looked at the backs of Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao, and then looked at Wu Ya, and said: "The city is under martial law today, and the players are busy with their own affairs, so they didn't come out to find you. You must hide well in the next few days. Wait for me to notify you, and then you can come out. Do you understand?"

The crow nodded.

Li Qing comforted him: "We will all go home."

After saying that, he put on his raincoat and hood and walked quickly into the rain.

…………

Feng Ling was away for quite some time. When she came back, Cao Hongyi and Xu Yiming asked her with concern whether she had found the maze.

Feng Ling took off his wet and cumbersome raincoat and said calmly, "It's more troublesome than I thought, but it's not a big problem. It's clear that the aliens will appear on this pedestrian street. Because of the martial law, they are hiding temporarily. Next, we just need to find the aliens and follow them to find the entrance to the maze."

Cao Hongyi immediately said: "Then we will stay here from now on!"

Xu Yiming also nodded, "Yes! We will take turns guarding it. I believe we won't be able to find any alien species!"

"No need. You two are tired after driving all day. Let's go to a hotel and have a good sleep." Feng Ling thought for a while. "Tomorrow... well, I have another idea for tomorrow."

When I write, he, she, it, it always makes my brain confused. Every time I change my stance, the pronouns also change, haha...