Pei Xianjue and Huangfu Miaomiao looked at each other in silence.
Li Qing closed his eyes helplessly.
Feng Ling stared at the lake in disbelief, completely dumbfounded.
She looked at Huangfu Miaomiao and Li Qing and asked, unable to hold back any longer, "How was this game designed? What was the point of special items? Were they seriously just feed? Once you fed them, that was it—no plot triggered at all?"
Huangfu Miaomiao and Li Qing both remained silent.
Feng Ling unwillingly asked Huangfu Miaomiao, "Did you see any system notifications just now?"
Huangfu Miaomiao shook her head. "There weren't any notifications... There wasn't a Labyrinth Boss mark on that giant python either."
"No?" Feng Ling turned to Li Qing. "If the Giant Python wasn't the Labyrinth Boss, what other monster on Sanqing Mountain could be the boss?"
Li Qing sighed. "I really don't know. I'm only responsible for guarding the maze. I know nothing about how it evolves."
Feng Ling's expression turned extremely grim. She felt as though she had been played for a fool!
Seeing this, Pei Xianjue softly consoled her, "Look on the bright side... at least we don't have to worry about how to kill a giant python now, right?"
"Yeah, yeah." Huangfu Miaomiao hurriedly nodded, afraid that Feng Ling would lose her temper.
Feng Ling was still unwilling to accept it. She stared darkly at the lake and said in a low voice, "The Giant Python's existence can't be meaningless. Ox-Head and Horse-Face patrol the mountain, Fox Demons confuse travelers climbing it, and every demon we've encountered so far has been trying to stop us from going up. The Giant Python must have some purpose we don't know about yet."
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly turned to Huangfu Miaomiao and asked, "What's your