Renior’s matter Da Fei decided to put aside for now, just consider the Japanese players helping me train the Female Demon King. Since Moon God Night has already made preparations to take down the Woodcutter, Da Fei decided to head home, bringing all his deputies out.

However, returning from scouting empty-handed somehow still makes Da Fei uncomfortable all over. After all, this batch of wood is something Da Fei exchanged for in Cold Jade City’s trading post at a ratio of 15:1 using sulfur. One hundred units of rich mineral wood require 1500 units of sulfur—this is even with Da Fei’s high reputation getting a discount. For ordinary players, this kind of exchange would be unimaginable.

It’s better to let the Blood Eagle scout a little longer. If not finding the main boss, there at least has to be some gain.

However, Da Fei realized that he was too absorbed in watching videos and talking to Moon God Night, and didn’t notice where the Blood Eagle flew to, damn it, got lost!

Of course, it’s not a big deal for the Blood Eagle to be lost; just use the recall function of the Blood Eagle Flute. What Da Fei is considering is how players, if launching a full-scale attack underground, can find the target in this maze? Even a swift flying unit like the Blood Eagle got lost; switching to two-legged players exploring the road, this is simply unimaginable!

No, there must be clues I’ve overlooked! But in the whole passage network, apart from the insect nests, it’s all Little Fei insects, completely uniform scenes everywhere, where are the clues?

Little Fei insects!? Suddenly, Da Fei realized he had been focused on looking for the boss initially, neglecting the swarms of flying insects coming and going in the passage.

Take bees or ants for example, there are always large groups of worker bees or worker ants specifically responsible for transporting food or feeding the queen bee or ant queen; just follow them, either finding the food warehouse or discovering the queen bee. When Da Fei first reached the Pool of Radiance, his first impression was the overwhelming number of beetles, sucking tree sap not for themselves but to transport back to the insect nest.

Oh hell, such a simple principle, and I never thought of it!

With a clue found, Da Fei began focusing on those passing flying insects along the way, then Da Fei found a pile of wood transported by the woodcutters ahead in the passage, the wood riddled with holes gnawed by hundreds of beetles.

Da Fei’s heart stirred, deciding to hide near this pile of wood, letting the Blood Eagle land to take a rest and restore stamina.

About two minutes later, the pile of wood silently collapsed into ash, and these beetles having eaten their fill took flight, a dark swarm surging straight towards the depths of the passage.

There’s action! The Blood Eagle immediately followed the trail.

After following the insect swarm through twists and turns for quite a distance, there was finally a new discovery: ahead on the wall, a wriggling insect nest silently opened like a gaping mouth, and swarms of beetles swarmed inside! Meanwhile, the Blood Eagle radar flashed yellow!

Oh yeah! Da Fei was suddenly overjoyed, found the passage, I am so clever!

Yellow point is the marker for hidden passages, back when Da Fei discovered the sewer manhole cover, the radar also had a yellow point.

So, would the Blood Eagle entering alone be dangerous? Should I follow in?

This question swirled in Da Fei’s mind for just two seconds, seeing the swarm about to all pass through before the passage closes, Da Fei gritted his teeth and made a decision, follow in! We’ve come this far, is there any room for retreat? To be precise, the current tense situation doesn’t allow Da Fei time to hesitate and ponder gains and losses.

Then in the next moment, the Blood Eagle’s vision cleared brightly, a wriggling hall akin to the walls of biological organs appeared in front of him, and right in the middle of the hall, lay a giant beetle in a pool of white sticky sap!

Da Fei’s eyes shrank with surprise, this is the Demon Worm Boss forcefully killed by Japanese players making its way back to town! It was also then that the system prompt chimed:

——System Prompt: You have triggered the special time-limited side mission for the campaign task "Defeat the invading army at Wall No. 3" with the side task to "Kill the Demon Worm No. 3 Vanguard." Time limit: 2 hours, 16 minutes, 57 seconds.

——Task Hint: The Demon Worm No. 3 Vanguard, previously defeated and captured by our army, escaped by dying heroically, for which they paid the heavy price of temporarily losing hero status; currently, the opponent is in the extremely weakened state of dead resuscitation. Please seize the time and opportunity to kill them before they succeed in regaining hero status.

Da Fei was shaken to the core! The opponent isn’t a hero right now!

That’s right, no matter how a player or player’s vice hero dies, they remain heroes, never losing hero status. But when NPC heroes get severely injured, they appear in a non-hero state. Back during the Pool of Radiance showdown, Siriel and Renior, who turned into ghosts, were weak enough to lose hero identity, if you finished them off in that state, they’d truly die!

So, does the Blood Eagle have the chance to strike?

Suppressing his excitement, joy, and tension, Da Fei checked that chamber again, apart from those beetles adding more sap to the pool, there were no other guards, and the Boss was so weak it couldn’t move!

Da Fei checked the current attributes of the Blood Eagle:

——Reconnaissance Spirit Eagle (Little Fei): Medium-sized leader creature, Attack 75, Defense 32, Damage 39-40, Life 514, Mana 435, Attack Speed 20, Magic Resistance 63%, Stamina 243. 4 space slots. 0 growth skill points.

Special skills: Flying Creature, God-level Reconnaissance Technique (Phantom March), Stealth Master, Aura Shield, Plane Surveillance, High-altitude Flight, Long Sky Eagle Strike, Gliding, Enhanced Dive, Enhanced Fierce Bird Suppression, Enhanced Petrification Aura, Enhanced Rapid Bite, Shared Hero Glory.

This is the current attribute of Little Fei, totally at the level of elite 7th-level troops, plus the Shared Hero Glory skill grants him one-tenth of my attributes and skill bonuses, along with his stunning attack speed and enhanced rapid bite skill, defeating an immobile Boss is completely feasible!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to finish off! This is a randomly appearing sought-after time-limited task, if not kill now, what to wait for? Plus, the Blood Eagle hasn’t finished off a Boss in so long! How many times do we get to fight in life? This time, it’s for the sake of independently nurturing Little Fei.

No more hesitating from Da Fei, Blood Eagle Petrification Aura activated, Enhanced Dive activated, Rapid Bite activated!

In the next moment, the Blood Eagle shot out from the Void Plane like lightning, swooping towards the wound on the head-neck junction of the beetle Boss, and with the Petrification Aura activating at that moment, the room full of beetles instantly turned to small rocks and fell heavily.

——Bang!!! A series of damage numbers "-51!" "-49!" "-207 Weakness Attack Damage!" lined up explosively! The beetle Boss barely let out a muffled groan, lacking even the energy to scream.

Could it be settled just like this? Facing such a smooth start, Da Fei couldn’t quite believe it. (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome at Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation tickets, monthly tickets; your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)