On the fifth day after Barak proposed to cross the Dibia Mountains, heavy snow was still falling in the sky. A mountaineering team composed of more than 700 refugees and more than 100 hunters came out of this mountainous village in a mighty manner.

Go deeper into the mountains.

Originally, Barak planned to set off immediately the next day and cross the mountains. However, contrary to expectations, a blizzard suddenly occurred on the mountains, and it lasted for four days at a time, so the plan had to be postponed.

In the past four days, the number of refugees who fled to Orion Village in the mountains for various reasons increased by more than 300 people. Such a large number of people has exceeded the tolerance limit of the surrounding villages, and has also affected the peace and safety of the villages. This

There have been more than a dozen disputes in the past few days. If they continue, more serious armed conflicts will inevitably break out between the refugees and the hunters in the village.

If there had been an armed conflict with these refugees in the past, Barak would not be afraid, because the vast majority of these refugees were ordinary people, and they were no match for the hunters in the mountains. But these three hundred people who suddenly poured into the village in the past few days

There are many people, most of them are strong and powerful men. Judging from their expressions and the weapons they wear, they must be gangsters with blood on their hands. Once a conflict occurs, even if they win in the end because of the favorable geographical location,

, I'm afraid it's also a miserable victory.

However, these are not what Barak is worried about. What really worries Barak is the great plague in Miria City that people who have taken refuge in the mountains in the past few days have said.

Through the information provided by the refugees, Barak knew that the plague was first caused by the French Imperial Army. In just a few days, it quickly spread to various refugee camps in the city of Domelia. Although it has not yet spread to Dibi

Sub-mountain area, but according to the spread speed of the plague, it will be a matter of time before it spreads to this area.

Feeling the crisis coming, Barak decided not to wait for the snowstorm to stop completely. After discovering that the snowstorm began to weaken, he decided to take people out of the village, climbed over to the other side of the mountains, found a suitable settlement there, and then came back to take over the village.

All the people inside took it over to avoid this great plague.

Although crossing the mountains in the wind and snow is an extremely difficult task for those refugees who have lived in the city for many years, no one proposed to stay. All those who were able to move arrived early after being notified.

We packed our bags and were waiting to set off.

If the plague had not appeared, in the face of such a wind and snow, some people might still be worried about the dangers of climbing and choose to stay. But when the news of a great plague in Miria City spread among the crowd, the people who had almost

The legendary horrific incident immediately appeared in everyone's mind, causing everyone to fall into unprecedented panic. Now there is a chance to leave this place of death. For these people who are extremely afraid, even if they encounter unimaginable encounters on the way out,

It's dangerous, but it's much better than staying here and waiting to die.

However, among these refugees, at least more than a hundred people fled to mountain villages only in the last one or two days. The tools and materials needed to cross the mountains were not fully prepared, especially the items used to keep out the cold.

Before they came here, they had been given out by other refugees. This left more than a hundred people with insufficient thermal insulation and cold-proofing items. Most of them could only buy a few finished animal skins from some hunters at high prices.

It was casually knitted into a coat to withstand the cold wind and snow outside.

However, the clothing of a few of these refugees stood out. They did not wear animal skin clothing to keep out the cold. Instead, they always wore inappropriate urban clothes. Even after they hit the road, they even wore clothes specially designed for walking in the snow.

He didn't even wear any snowshoes on the ground, so he just walked slowly behind the large group.

At first, some people paid attention to these weird people who looked like they were seeking death. But as they moved away from the village road and entered the deep mountains, everyone no longer dared to be distracted by other things, but focused on paying attention to their feet.

road, because just now a few unlucky guys who didn't pay attention to the road under their feet rolled directly up the mountain and fell to the foot of a small cliff. Without looking, they knew that they would not survive.

However, compared to the others, the few weirdos walking at the back looked at each other with great interest, and their attitudes were more guarded against each other.

Leo was among these weirdos, but compared to those weirdos who wore stiff suits as if they were attending a funeral, his old trench coat dressed as a scavenger looked much more normal.

As early as two days ago, Leo had already arrived at Balak's village. Originally, he did not plan to walk with these refugees on the secret mountain road found by Balak's ancestors, but planned to cross Dibia alone.

Mountains, after all, for him, even without psychic powers, it is not difficult to climb over the Dibia Mountains.

But what made him change his mind was the weird people in uniforms he was sizing up now, because the moment these weird people in uniforms appeared, he felt a strong divine power covering the entire village and all the people in the village.

people.

When the spiritual power disappeared, under his spiritual vision, the appearance of most of the people in the village, whether they were refugees or residents of the village, completely changed and turned into a corpse.

Living corpses with various fatal injuries.

At the same time, the images of these weirdos in uniforms also completely changed in the spiritual vision. The originally clear facial features became blurred, like melted oil paintings, and their hands and feet also became several times longer, looking a bit like

Humanoid spider.

Just when Leo discovered the abnormality of these people, those people also discovered the abnormality of Leo. Although they were a little surprised that the divine power and spiritual energy falling on Leo was dispelled, they did not pay too much attention to it, and even more

He didn't show any strong hostility towards Leo, he just regarded Leo as an accident worthy of vigilance.

The obvious features of these weirdos revealed under spiritual vision made Leo quickly think of a legendary existence called the Web Weaver.

The belief in the God of Death has always existed in the world of Velen, but it has never developed into a very formal religion. Most of them only exist as a kind of folk belief in cities and villages around the world. The Gods of Death they believe in are different, such as Moissan

There are many tribes in the primeval forests of the mainland who regard the giant pythons and crocodiles that live there as the incarnation of the God of Death. For example, some villages in the Kingdom of Yinge believe in a huge stone. It is said that this huge stone fell from the sky one day and took away countless gods.

However, no matter how different the beliefs of the God of Death are across the world, the servants and family members who help the God of Death harvest life are all the same, and they all have a common name: Web Weavers.

Whether the Web Weaver really exists has always been a question. Even the Orthodox Church, which is most familiar with various gods and gods, cannot fully confirm it. However, all those who claim to have seen the Web Weaver use the same image without exception.

Describe the web-weaver, the ridiculously long limbs, the spider-like shape, etc.

In all the legends about the web spinners, their appearance represents the arrival of death, so there are some legends that as long as the web spinners can be imprisoned, death can be avoided.

Leo didn't completely believe those legends, but now after seeing these strange men in uniforms who were suspected of being web weavers, Leo felt that the statement that the appearance of web weavers would bring death might be true, and this

In other words, these refugees and the residents of those villages will die.

Although Leo is not a bad person, with the change of his character, he has also been affected by the body's original kindness. If he encounters those who are about to die, he has the ability to rescue without endangering his own safety.

He might also lend a hand.

But now, although so many people may die in front of his eyes, he can do nothing but be an observer from the side, because those web weavers are very mysterious in his eyes, and he instinctively follows them.

These web weavers felt a strong sense of danger.

Except for the huge spiritual energy that descended from the sky and covered the mountains and forests for more than ten miles in the first place, Leo never felt any kind of spiritual energy from these people. His spiritual network didn't even feel anything.

Seeing the existence of these web weavers, it seems as if these web weavers are the air.

In this way, Leo and these weird men in uniforms who were suspected of being web weavers followed the entire mountain climbing team. It took almost two hours to climb over the high mountain where the Orion village was located. After climbing over the high mountain, there was

A valley full of gravel. Judging from the surrounding terrain, the gravel in the valley should come from the surrounding peaks.

However, the moment he entered the gravel valley, Leo felt a slight vibration on the ground. This vibration was so weak that normal people could not feel it at all, but Leo, who was always focused, felt the first vibration when it appeared.

I noticed it for a while, and even found out through the trend of the shock wave that the shock came from the mountain peak I had climbed behind me.

"There's an avalanche!" Leo looked back. Although there was nothing unusual about the snow on the mountain peak in his eyes, through the far-sighted effect of his spiritual vision skill, he saw layers of flying snow on the other side of the mountain.

Like waves rising into the sky, this situation quickly reminded him of natural disasters such as avalanches.

Moreover, the scale of the avalanche is probably very large, affecting all the slopes of the opposite mountain. In this way, the snow from the avalanche is likely to push into the Orion villages on the mountainside, and the people living in those villages will be affected by this natural disaster.

If it goes down, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive.

Almost at the same time that Leo judged that a huge avalanche disaster had occurred on the other side of the mountain, the divine power and spiritual energy he had felt before emerged from the web weavers again, making Leo couldn't help but look at those people.

Looked over.

In the spiritual vision, I saw that not only did the bodies of the web weavers change this time, but there were even traces of spider webs that could be seen by the spiritual vision emerging from their bodies, and these spider webs, without exception, all reached

Underground, it was then pulled out like a fisherman, and the other end of the spider silk was dragging a vague figure. Along with the spider silk, it sank into the black hole on the back of the web weaver that even spiritual vision could not penetrate.

middle.

Leo did not hide his observation behavior. The web weavers easily noticed Leo's actions, and at the same time they were slightly surprised on their faces, but they also did not show rejection or hostility. One of the eldest

After retracting all the nets, the web weaver walked towards Leo. Under Leo's slightly surprised gaze, he took out a black glass ball-shaped object from his pocket and handed it to Leo.

With one hand, he put his fingers to his lips, making a silent gesture.

Leo looked at the black glass ball handed over by the web weaver, and then at the expressionless web weaver. He knew very clearly that his decision represented the dangers he might encounter next, as well as the consequences that would follow.

The relationship between these web spinners and their friends and foes during the journey.

Faced with the choice, Leo just thought about it and took the black glass ball in the hand of the web weaver. The other party was obviously very satisfied with Leo's choice and had a smile on his face, but this

This smile, reflected by the sharp teeth in his mouth, looked particularly ferocious.

Although Leo had reached an agreement with these mysterious web weavers of unknown strength and would not interfere in the deaths of these people, he did not leave just yet, but continued to stay with these web weavers through spiritual vision and

Spiritual Network observes their situation.

As for those web weavers, it seems that as long as Leo does not interfere with their work of collecting the souls of the dead, they will not care about each other's observation actions. Even if the spiritual web falls on them and penetrates into their bodies, they do not take it seriously.

thing, because they knew very well that Leo couldn't find anything from them.

"There is no divine power, no trace of evolution, just like ordinary people..." After receiving various feedback information from the spiritual network, Leo quickly made an analysis, and the more data he got from the analysis, the better he became.

Make him confused.

He could clearly feel the soul-replenishing network formed by divine power and spiritual energy, and he could also clearly see the black shadows that should be souls disappearing into the black holes on his back, but he felt that everything he saw was an illusion.

It was an illusion, and the only reality was the black glass ball that the web weaver just handed to him.

Through the touch of the skin on his fingers, Leo could easily tell that this was a glass ball. His mental network could also analyze the composition of this glass ball, but his spiritual perception that had been integrated into his mental instinct felt that it was a glass ball.

An insect egg, or more accurately a spider egg.

Leo held the glass ball in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, then squeezed it hard and felt its hardness, but found nothing unusual. After that, he tried to inject spiritual energy into the glass ball.

, also no changes occurred.

Until Leo began to use the power of nightmares and began to imitate the divine power he felt, the black color on the surface of the glass ball began to fade quickly, and a black spider appeared in the glass ball. Then the glass ball shattered instantly, and the spider

It fell on the palm of Leo's right hand and penetrated into the twin gloves before Leo could react. When Leo took off the gloves, he found that the black spider had been integrated into the back of his right hand and turned into a tattoo-like pattern.
Chapter completed!