Chapter 240 Marked
"Are desires and wishes different?" Huangfu Miaomiao asked.

Feng Ling looked at her and said with a smile: "For the person who made the wish, it is a wish, but for the gods, it may not be the case."

Ye Zheng was silent for a while after hearing this, and whispered: "Things made up of so many pieces of meat, no matter how you look at them, you can't regard them as normal wishes."

"Let's go back and ask the Taoist priest. He loves to study these things." Feng Ling looked at the road ahead, "Let's go. We'll reach the safe zone after crossing another street."

The three returned to the safe zone.

Perhaps due to the parade, we didn’t see any mice along the way.

After returning, Feng Ling was about to tell Li Qing and Xu Yiming what had just happened, but Li Qing suddenly stood up, rushed to her with a shocked expression, and looked her up and down as if he was looking at something terrifying.

Feng Ling was puzzled by his stare and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Huangfu Miaomiao also asked Li Qing: "Yes, why are you looking at Feng Ling like that?"

Li Qing took a deep breath and said to Feng Ling: "You are marked! There is a skull logo on your head. Who did it?!"

"Ah..." Feng Ling opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Ye Zheng got furious when he heard this: "I told you to leave quickly but you refused! You were so close, the mark must have been made by the Lord of the Maze!"

Li Qing turned his head to look at Ye Zheng again and said in a deep voice: "You have also been marked."

Ye Zheng was stunned, staring at Li Qing in disbelief with his scarlet eyes.

Only Xu Yiming was still confused. He looked at this and that anxiously, "What will happen if they are marked? Will they be found by the Lord of the Maze? But aren't they going to blow up the mountain? How did they meet the Lord of the Maze? Is it true that the Lord of the Maze is hiding in the mountain as we speculated before?"

He looked at Feng Ling again and asked, "But the Taoist priest and I did hear an explosion. With that kind of explosion, it's impossible for the Lord of the Labyrinth to not die in the mountain! Did you fail in blowing up the mountain?"

"If they fail, there will be no marks on their bodies." Li Qing said dimly.

Huangfu Miaomiao hurried to Li Qing and asked, "What about me? Do I have a mark on my body?"

Li Qing looked at her and frowned slightly, "You didn't, maybe you were far away from the Lord of the Labyrinth at that time. The marking ability usually has strict requirements on the distance."

"I don't think it's because she's far away," Ye Zheng glanced at Huangfu Miaomiao, "but because she didn't participate in the mountain bombing."

Whether it was throwing grenades or loading explosives, Feng Ling and Ye Zheng were the only ones doing the work, while Huangfu Miaomiao stayed far away.

Feng Ling was in a good mood and said to Li Qing: "Since it has been marked, don't worry about how it was marked. Tell us what impact this mark will have on us."

Li Qing frowned and looked at it carefully. "...The most direct use of the marking ability is to find the target. However, this mark seems to carry resentment, which may have a negative emotional impact on you."

Feng Ling immediately looked at Ye Zheng when he heard this: "Do you feel any negative emotions?"

Ye Zheng said coldly: "In my current state, it's probably difficult to have positive emotions."

Feng Ling was amused. "I thought you couldn't take a joke. Isn't this quite humorous?"

Ye Zheng: “………………” She has always been used to a serious team and serious teammates. She feels really uncomfortable working with someone like Feng Ling!

"Feng Ling, what happened when you were blasting the mountain?" Li Qing asked seriously.

Feng Ling walked to the snack bag, reached out and took out a piece of beef jerky. While opening the package, he said, "It was just the normal mountain blasting process at the beginning. Then we blew the mountain down, and I wanted to see what was going on. I didn't expect to hear a lot of noises when I got closer. It was chaotic."

"What's that sound?" Li Qing asked.

"The sound of making wishes!" Huangfu Miaomiao interrupted, "The sound of many, many people making wishes came from the flesh!"

"Yes." Feng Ling took a bite of beef jerky and said calmly, "Some people want to get rich, some want to become stronger, and some want to live... I roughly listened and found that the number of wishes for survival was the largest and the desire was the strongest."

Xu Yiming couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "Once you enter the maze, no matter who you are, you definitely want to live..."

Feng Ling nodded. "Well, it's normal to want to live. What's abnormal is why these sounds come from the flesh. You all saw that the mountain is basically made up of the corpses of various creatures, so my current speculation is that those creatures once made a wish and later became part of the mountain. Their consciousness when they made the wish is retained in the flesh."

"But why does the Lord of the Maze collect these wishes?" Xu Yiming was puzzled. "What does the Lord of the Maze look like? Have you seen him?"

Feng Ling shook his head, chewed some beef jerky, and swallowed it. "I only saw a little bit, pure black with scales. The rest was buried in the meat and couldn't be seen."

She turned around and asked Li Qing: "Master, in the folklore here, are there any gods that meet these characteristics?"

Li Qing thought for a moment and replied, "If there are scales, then it can only be a dragon. Guangshan is near the sea, so people believe in the Dragon Mother. But you said it was black... The Dragon Mother can't be black."

Huangfu Miaomiao interrupted quietly: "Could it be that we blew it up?"

Feng Ling laughed, "Impossible, I saw it clearly, the scales were a very shiny black, not a burnt black."

Li Qing paced back and forth in the room for a few steps and whispered, "You blew up the mountain, heard the voice of the wish, and then found the Lord of the Maze, and then you were marked by the Lord of the Maze without realizing it..."

"Yes, that's what happened." Feng Ling nodded. "When we found the Lord of the Labyrinth, the fog around us became even redder, and many live rats crawled out of the flesh to form a parade of gods. At first, those rats chased us, but they didn't chase us far before they went in another direction. We couldn't figure out what was going on with them."

"What about the Lord of the Maze?" Xu Yiming couldn't help asking, "Didn't the Lord of the Maze chase you?"

Feng Ling glanced at him strangely, "The Lord of the Labyrinth is inside the flesh..."

She was stunned as she spoke, her eyes slightly widened, "...Ah, I see! The Lord of the Labyrinth didn't hide in there on purpose, it was trapped in there! That's why it marked me and Zheng Zheng!"

Li Qing frowned and asked, "How do you mean?"

"Didn't you just say that the mark carries resentment?" Feng Ling became excited and actively discussed with Li Qing, "We blew up the mountain and hurt it, it's normal for it to resent us, but it can't get out of the mountain, so we can only mark it first and then take revenge when it regains its freedom! If you think about it this way, it makes sense, right?"

Feng Ling was very proud and said with a smile: "If it could come out of the mountain, it would have taken revenge on the spot. There would be no need to mark us! Its act of marking us actually proves that our situation is very safe, because it can't get out at all!"

Ye Zheng disagreed, "Don't be so sure. It's possible that we can't get out at the beginning, but we have already blown the mountain up like that..."

A humble and short chapter...