Feng Ling looked up at the enormous thing before her and said nothing for a long time.
She tried to figure out what it was. Where was its head? Did it have a heart? Could it move?
She and Ye Zheng slowly walked along the edge of the "mountain," observing it cautiously. For the moment, they could not tell whether Rat Monsters had grown into the mountain or rat limbs had grown out of it. Every part was skin against skin, flesh connected to flesh, making its internal structure impossible to discern.
"Did this thing swallow every living creature in the entire Maze and grow into this?" Ye Zheng muttered disgustedly. "It's definitely a menace. We have to get rid of it."
Feng Ling glanced at her, then looked back at the mountain of flesh.
It was too large.
It was roughly seven stories tall, with countless hands, feet, mouths, and eyes. In this form, clearing it out completely would be difficult with just her and Ye Zheng.
Still, she had brought quite a lot of explosives into the Maze this time. If she used them all, it was not impossible...
"Look here!" Ye Zheng suddenly leaped forward and stared fixedly at a half-human body growing from the base of Meat Mountain.
The countless Rat Monster limbs around it made the half-human body especially conspicuous.
Because it wore a grayish-green jacket.
Ye Zheng tugged at the jacket collar and sneered. "It's a Xenomorph. That Crow lied to us. Xenomorphs entered this Maze long ago, yet it pretended not to know where the entrance was and deliberately toyed with us!"
Feng Ling frowned as she examined it. Then she drew the dagger she carried, used its tip to lift the dangling head of the half-body slightly, and got a clear look