Chapter 246 Eight
When the sound of drums and music came, Feng Ling and Ye Zheng stopped at the same time and looked in the direction of the sound at the same time, and their mental strength was also restrained.

Li Qing heaved a sigh of relief, grateful that the parade team showed up just in time, and immediately said, "There's something strange about this parade team!"

Feng Ling frowned and looked over, asking him, "What's strange?"

Li Qing: “…………”

How could he know what was strange? He just wanted to divert the attention of these two women, otherwise when would it be over!

"Something's wrong. The sound is coming towards us." Ye Zheng suddenly stood up and climbed up a few steps to a three-story building next to him.

Feng Ling curled his lips, walked to the door of the building with an unhappy expression, kicked it open with a bang, and then walked up the stairs from inside.

Xu Yiming looked up and estimated the height of the building. He felt that he could jump up in one breath, but looking at Feng Ling's angrily back in front of him, he inexplicably felt that now was not the time for him to show his abilities.

He thought to himself: I'll take the stairs too.

Everyone came to the rooftop.

The sound of the parade's drums and music became clearer, and was definitely coming this way, but not on the street where the safe zone was located, but on the next street.

The two streets are separated by a row of low-rise buildings.

Feng Ling stood on the rooftop, looking at the procession vaguely visible in the mist in the distance, and thought for a moment before saying, "The purpose of the procession is to send the fake gods to enjoy the tributes. In other words, if we keep going forward in this direction, we will see the altar."

"We can't let the Lord of the Maze use this method to recover his strength." Ye Zheng said coldly, "We must be the first to destroy the altar."

Feng Ling glanced at her and said, "We have to be fast. Once the parade team gets close to us, we will be affected by the drums and music and easily hypnotized."

"What are you waiting for? Let's go now!" Ye Zheng frowned and turned to go forward. At this moment, the squirrel suddenly entered her field of vision. She tensed up and stopped where she was, motionless!
Feng Ling curled his lips mischievously and asked, "Do you need a sedative?"

Ye Zheng gritted his teeth, turned around and glared at her fiercely, then spread his furry moth wings, jumped out from the roof, and glided quickly downstairs.

Feng Ling leaned against the railing and laughed, "You're pretty tough."

The other three looked at each other silently, feeling speechless.

"Let's go to the front as soon as possible." Feng Ling said, grabbing the handrail and jumping down. His claws bit the outer window sill in mid-air to reduce the impact of landing, and then he leaned over to the ground.

She stood up and chased after Ye Zheng in front of her with a relaxed look, while the Cat Owl and the Cat Spider followed behind her one on the ground.

After walking out for only three or five minutes, I saw a similar T-junction.

Feng Ling was stunned.

She didn't expect that the T-junction and the safe zone were so close. The last time she tracked the rat monster, she clearly took a long detour.

At the end of the intersection there was a table with some unknown parts of meat on it.

Ye Zheng turned around and asked her: "This is the altar, right?"

Feng Ling frowned and said nothing.

"Hey, speak up." Ye Zheng said impatiently, "If it's an altar, I'll smash it to pieces and throw away the offerings!"

Feng Ling glanced at her and said, "It is an altar table, but the altar table I saw is not this one."

"What do you mean? Are you saying there is more than one altar in the maze?" Ye Zheng asked.

Feng Ling thought and said, "The Lord of the Maze is located in the center of the entire city. The square is connected to many streets, so it is normal to have more than one altar." At this time, Huangfu Miaomiao, Li Qing and Xu Yiming also arrived. They were all surprised to see the altar not far ahead.

"It was so close to the safe zone and we didn't even notice it!" Huangfu Miaomiao was surprised.

Ye Zheng didn't want to wait any longer, so he went forward and split the altar in half with one claw!
She felt that the destruction was not thorough enough, so she raised her black tiger claws and slapped twice. Several pieces of flesh and limbs fell to the ground and were torn into pieces by the sharp legs.

Cat spiders and owls took advantage of every opportunity to pick up the meat and eat it. The dead mouse meat was a free meal for them.

Feng Ling looked at Ye Zheng going crazy, thoughtfully.

She turned her head and asked Huangfu Miaomiao: "You said before that eight safe zones were activated, right?"

"Yes!" Huangfu Miaomiao nodded vigorously. "The system message says, 'The eight statues have awakened to protect you from the threat of evil spirits'. Isn't this what the eight safe zones mean?"

"From this point of view, there may be eight altars..." Feng Ling thought for a moment, "Only by destroying all the altars can we completely cut off the energy source of the Lord of the Maze."

She looked up at the others, "What do you think?"

"Let's do as you say," Xu Yiming wondered, "but where are we going to find the remaining seven tables?"

Feng Ling pondered for a while, then bent down to pick up a small stone and drew a few lines on the ground. "The destination of the rat monster I marked for the first time, carrying the corpse, is probably here... The rat monster I marked for the second time probably went to this area."

Everybody come over to have a look.

The picture Feng Ling drew was very abstract, like a cake cut into several triangular pieces, with three dots drawn on three of the pieces.

"It seems like they are all on the edge of the maze." Xu Yiming said.

Huangfu Miaomiao looked up and asked Feng Ling: "Can we find it by following this road?"

Feng Ling didn't say anything. He took a small stone and drew a few lines on the ground. He asked in confusion, "Does it look like a spider web? The Lord of the Labyrinth is in the middle, and on the web are the offerings made by the rat monsters."

Li Qing frowned and looked at it, "...It should be the Bagua formation, right?"

How can you see it as a spider web?

Feng Ling nodded upon hearing this, "Yes, it is also like the Bagua formation. If we divide the entire maze into eight equal parts according to this rule, then there will be eight corresponding safe areas and eight altars."

"How strange," Huangfu Miaomiao muttered, "I always thought that in a maze, there would only be one safe zone."

Feng Ling thought for a moment and said, "I guess the number of safe zones is set according to the routes. When we were in Sanqing Mountain, although it was very large and had forks, there was actually only one road that connected the bottom of the mountain, the middle of the mountain, and the top of the mountain. So as long as a safe zone was set up halfway up the mountain, it would be very convenient for players to go up or down the mountain when exploring. But this maze is different. There are too many streets and alleys, and the middle is occupied by the maze master. If we only set up one safe zone, it would obviously not be enough."

The sound of drums and music was getting closer, and the procession would arrive here in a few minutes.

Ye Zheng said anxiously: "What are we waiting for? We can analyze it on the way. Now we should destroy all the altars as soon as possible!"

Feng Ling gently threw the stone in his hand, and said in a cold tone: "Don't you always complain that I am too impulsive and aggressive? Now I analyze the situation, and you rush me again."

Ye Zheng pointed to the depths of the fog and said angrily: "The parade team will be here soon!"

Feng Ling said: "Don't you want to see how the fake immortal will react when he finds out that the tribute is gone?"

"What kind of excitement are you looking for at a time like this?!" Ye Zheng was so angry that he stepped on the broken table leg on the ground until it broke even further.

Seeing the two quarreling again, Xu Yiming raised his hand weakly, "I... have an idea."

　Actually, I started to have a low-grade fever the day before yesterday, but I didn't take it seriously. Then yesterday I just felt terrible. My nose was blocked and my forehead hurt. I don't know if it was a common cold or Yang. So please bear with me these few days. I will only post as much as I can. When I recover, we will resume updating at around 11:58 p.m. as usual.
　　(End of this chapter)