Waiting for Meteor

Chapter 713: Waiting for Meteor

Meteor could have killed the Short-legged Sheep and logged off, but not only did she spare it, she even took it into the Hive Labyrinth and hid there for an entire month.

After thinking it over, Feng Ling felt that Meteor was probably doing this to deal with her.

After all, the Short-legged Sheep was Feng Ling's only weakness.

Feng Ling lay on the ground, gazing up at the sky as she murmured, "When I was little, I watched a fantasy movie about the protagonist killing a giant dragon. That dragon was enormous, breathed fire, and had scales so hard that ordinary swords couldn't hurt it. As for the protagonist, he was just an ordinary human. With that setup, the chances of the protagonist killing the dragon should have been zero. But that giant dragon happened to have a fatal weakness—a single reverse scale growing on its body. As long as that reverse scale was pierced, the dragon would die... When I was little, I really hated that setting. I couldn't understand why an invincible, powerful dragon would die because of one tiny scale. It was too strange."

At that, Feng Ling let out a faint sigh. "Now, I think I can more or less understand it."

Ye Zheng said, "That kind of setup exists to drive the story forward. If evil could only be destroyed by something even stronger, the story wouldn't be as legendary, and it wouldn't be able to showcase humanity's wisdom and courage."

"What I mean is... everything feels designed. The dragon's reverse scale and the Hive's Administrator are the same." Feng Ling looked somewhat wistful. "Their purpose is to make it easier to kill another existence."

Ye Zheng added a few sticks of wood to the campfire and shot Feng