Chapter 250 The way out
"You said so much just to tell me not to be complacent too soon..." Feng Ling sighed, "I understand. Before digesting the Eye of Horus, I will find a way to reduce the pollution value."

Huangfu Miaomiao felt sorry for Feng Ling and said with a pout, "Every remaining card is useful. It would be a pity to delete it."

Feng Ling counted on his fingers, "First of all, the Queen Mother of the West must not be deleted. Then the Mantis's Bone Blade is very useful and cannot be deleted. The Killer Bee's Mark is very useful and cannot be deleted. The Bat's Night Vision is also very useful and cannot be deleted. There are also six Red Devil Centipedes, each with 1 point of pollution value. Four can be deleted, and two of the Tooth Claws are enough for me... But in order to reduce the pollution value by 4 points, I have to run four mazes. Is this worthwhile?"

A statue can only draw a card once, and she has to draw four times, so naturally she has to run four different mazes.

Feng Ling felt that the price-performance ratio was too low to bear.

But she certainly couldn't give up the Eye of Horus, so she could only take one step at a time and see how it went.

Xu Yiming, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up: "The rat is coming."

Everyone's nerves suddenly tensed up. Looking up, they saw a few dark shadows appearing in the fog in the distance, running towards them quickly.

Feng Ling frowned slightly, and the cat-owl and cat-spider immediately pounced towards the rat monster!
There were not many rats coming, so Feng Ling didn't need to take any action, the Cat Owl and the Cat Spider could handle it.

"It must have been attracted by the tribute." Li Qing said.

There were too many corpses on the ground and they had not had time to clean them up. Now there were a few more mice killed by owls and cat spiders, and there were even more corpses.

Feng Ling sighed, "There's no end to this. We're not street sweepers."

"That's right," Huangfu Miaomiao also agreed, "Even if we clean up this place, when we go somewhere else, there is no way to guarantee that the rats won't send tribute here. It's basically a waste of time."

Li Qing pondered and said, "It is indeed difficult to deal with. The material of the maze statue is special and cannot be destroyed. Unless we stay here all the time, we will inevitably have to wait for the rats to offer sacrifices to the Lord of the Maze."

"Since we can't avoid it, how about not stopping him and just killing him?" Feng Ling suddenly had an idea.

Everyone looked at her.

Feng Ling curled his lips and said, "Our purpose in entering the maze is to find the statue and reduce the pollution value, so killing the maze master has always been the last priority. The plan to destroy the altar is just to weaken the maze master and facilitate our own activities inside the maze. But now, we have achieved our goal, so why not just kill him?"

Simply put—

Don't be in a hurry to kill it before, plan to weaken it slowly and explore it slowly.

No need to explore now, just kill them quickly and be done with it.

Ye Zheng said: "Then let's make a plan."

When Li Qing heard the word "plan", he couldn't help but complain in his heart: She can't have a plan.

"Continue to load explosives into the gap we blew up before, and then detonate it. If the explosion fails to kill the maze boss, we will finish it off manually." Feng Ling said naturally and fluently, "If we still can't kill it after finishing it off, we will run away, leave the maze, and get another batch of explosives to blow it up."

In Feng Ling's opinion, running away can solve most of the troubles, unless one encounters a speed-type opponent and cannot escape.

However, she suspected that Ye Zheng, who was once the captain of the inspection team, would despise her for considering escape as part of her plan.

It doesn’t matter. Feng Ling has already prepared herself mentally. She plans to wait for Ye Zheng to refute her and then tell Ye Zheng that she did this for the sake of safety!
As the saying goes, if you keep the green mountains, you will never worry about firewood. The truth is all on her side.

Feng Ling crossed his arms over his chest, raised his chin slightly, and looked at Ye Zheng confidently. After listening to him, Ye Zheng replied coldly: "What you said is not a plan."

Feng Ling: “…………”

That's great, she is directly rejected by definition.

"If you are acting alone, having such a rough idea is enough, but if you need others to cooperate with you, you must make it as detailed and clear as possible, so that everyone in the team knows what they need to do, at what time, what to do after success, what to do after failure, what are the remedial measures and evacuation routes..." Ye Zheng looked at her expressionlessly, "These parts that are determined after discussion are called action plans."

Feng Ling's expression changed from full of confidence to something indescribable.

"Or... I'd better go alone." Feng Ling felt it was so troublesome, and felt annoyed that something that was obviously very simple had been complicated.

Ye Zheng looked at her deeply, "It is indeed easier to be alone, but you can't be alone forever. You have to learn these things sooner or later."

Not far away, a cat-owl flapped its wings and a cat-spider hissed in warning.

Another rat monster is coming this way.

Xu Yiming mustered up the courage to interrupt their conversation: "Should we find a safe place and discuss it slowly?"

"Let's go to the safe zone." Feng Ling frowned. "Eight altars correspond to eight safe zones. If the layout is the same, turn left from here and walk forward a little further and you should be able to see the safe zone."

No one objected.

The group followed Feng Ling's guidance, turned into another street, and successfully found a new safe zone.

The safe zone on this street is a cafe, which is also divided into two floors. The downstairs has a bar, soft seats, and wooden tables and chairs full of literary atmosphere. The upstairs space is designed as a book cafe, with bookshelves covering the entire wall.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng went upstairs almost as soon as they entered the door, because Ye Zheng said he had something he wanted to talk to Feng Ling about alone.

Huangfu Miaomiao, who was used to sticking to Feng Ling, was also left behind and could only stare at the ceiling on the first floor.

"Why do we have to talk alone?" Huangfu Miaomiao sat at the table with her chin in her hand and sighed softly, "...But her changes are really obvious. After the pollution value dropped, she became much more sober all of a sudden."

"I am indeed much more sober now." Li Qing whispered, "It is precisely because I am sober now that I am paving a way out for myself."

"Pave a retreat?" Huangfu Miaomiao turned her head to look at him, and asked in confusion, "Pave a retreat for what?"

Li Qing glanced up the stairs and lowered his voice even more: "She just said that Feng Ling will learn it sooner or later."

"Is there anything wrong with what you said?" Huangfu Miaomiao frowned, "Can you please stop keeping me in suspense? Otherwise, you might as well just stop talking."

Li Qing pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Hurry up and tell me." Huangfu Miaomiao stood up and came over to ask him, "What's going on with them? We have signed a devil's contract. Don't hide it from me, or you'll die suddenly."

Li Qing looked at her helplessly and spoke again: "Humans are different from us. Some people live for a certain belief. Once they find that they can't accomplish what they want to do, they will find a way to pass this belief to another person. Don't you think their situations are somewhat similar? I guess she wants to teach Feng Ling something while she is awake."

My whole family has been infected by me. The virus is really powerful.