Chapter 501
They had taken advantage of the chaos to ambush the Xenomorphs. Though they had killed many, even more had escaped. Most Players had hurriedly logged off, leaving fewer than twenty extracted Cards.
But this was Paradise, after all. The Players here were stronger on average, so high-tier Cards made up nearly half of those confiscated.
Feng Ling was fairly satisfied with the haul. At Li Qing's suggestion, she chose four Cards for Nest Building.
Of them, the Wreath Fairy was Feng Ling's favorite, because Li Qing said it was a healing-type Card. The life-form it hatched would possess healing abilities.
Feng Ling herself had formidable self-healing abilities, but the little ones she kept did not. Once the Wreath Fairy hatched, it could supplement the Nest Body and heal the Cat Spider, Third Child, and Kite.
Together with the Great Earthworm and two Armadillos from before, Feng Ling now had seven "eggs" waiting to hatch.
Perhaps because their number had increased, their structure had changed as well. Instead of two hanging side by side in a row, they now hung individually. Seven silver rings dangled one after another from Feng Ling's wrist. At first glance, they looked as light as a ribbon, but sometimes they felt as heavy as chains.
She felt like a mother spider.
—In nature, some spiders used their own bodies as nests for their young, carrying the spiderlings on their backs until they matured and left their mother.
Meanwhile, Li Qing picked a Porcupine for Xiao Shu.
The Player who had placed spikes in the Palm Grove earlier had been the holder of the Porcupine Card.
Xiao Shu possessed the Intermediate Card Baboon, so there was little point in digesting a high-tier Card. The Porcupine could increase his attack power, and Li Qing thought it