Act 1: Broken Hearts Chapter 25: The Nursing Mother's Nest
After Resa fainted, the black shadow not far away slowly crawled over after testing several times. Eight slender legs danced flexibly on the ground, one of which was stained with a faint trace of blood.
, as the black shadow gets closer, its appearance is also revealed in the scattered light.
The body on the slender spines is a huge black spider belly, but when it reaches the position where the spider's head should be, it turns out to be the body of a girl, with lavender skin flowing faintly in the not-so-bright environment.
It has a bright luster, and a few strands of white spider web are wrapped around the chest to cover it. The bloated spider belly makes the originally flexible spider legs look a bit clumsy.
The girl's eyes are different from those of ordinary people. The whites of normal human eyes are completely black in the girl's eyes. However, the black pupils of normal humans appear light golden in the girl's eyes. Her lavender skin looks like
Different from ordinary people, but also revealing a wild temptation. As they walked around, a pair of jade rabbits kept beating, and two faint blushes could be seen faintly through the white spider webs.
This is a mature Arachne, which can be seen from its bloated spider belly, which must be full of spider eggs. Its body looks bloated, but in fact it moves extremely flexibly.
Otherwise, Reza would not have been hit silently by it.
This Arachne came to Resa, and its eyes showed greed. In its view, this human man could not only provide itself with reproductive cells to mature spider eggs, but also give itself a delicious meal.
, at this stage, it already possesses a certain degree of wisdom.
Arachne's tail slowly opened, and streams of milky white mucus spurted out, forming spider silk to wrap Reza layer by layer. Time passed like this, during which Arachne returned the wound to Resa.
Injecting toxin twice ensures that your prey will not wake up within a short period of time. Of course, under normal circumstances, it means that it will never wake up.
Time passed slowly, and finally, Arachne tied Reisa into a huge white spider cocoon. However, with its current size, it was difficult to bring Reisa back to the nest. In the end, Arachne
Nie had to condense several threads of spider silk to tie up the cocoon, and then dragged the cocoon slowly towards the depths of the subway station.
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Resa didn't know how long he had been unconscious, but when he woke up, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. It was pitch black, and there must be something covering his eyes.
Resa struggled slightly, but he felt like he was stepping on the ground. It looked like he was hanging from the ceiling. Resa felt that his whole body was tied tightly, fortunately, his mouth and nose were all tied up.
Exposing it would not suffocate him.
After confirming his situation, even without seeing it, Resa could guess that he was hanging on a certain spider web. This guess made him dare not move rashly. Spiders sense the position of prey on the web through the vibration of the spider web.
Arachne was no exception. He didn't want to attract the attention of these Arachne so quickly. Resa silently mobilized the powers in his body, but unfortunately there were not many powers left in his body. A feeling of weakness came.
It gave Resa a bad feeling.
He tried shaking hands. In addition to the numbness, there was also a sour feeling of weakness. This was the sequelae of the empty energy in the body. He didn't know what happened, but Resa could be sure that the powers in the body were basically drained.
Already.
"Gan..." Silently thinking in his mind, Resa calmed down. Without the power, everything is empty talk. He needs at least 30% of the power to ensure that he will not lose the power to fight back after getting out of trouble.
The pain has disappeared, but the whole left shoulder is still numb and numb, probably a sequelae of toxins.
Resa didn't know that on the ground not far away from him, a scarred Arachne was lying on the ground. As the spider belly squirmed, spider eggs were laid out one after another. But looking at it, the space here was
The largest in the entire subway station.
If you look carefully, you can see that densely packed Arachne larvae are shuttled on the ground, and there are also several mature Arachne. Some are running among the spider eggs, as if they are looking for something; some are weaving their own spider webs.
At the same time, they were looking in Resa's direction from time to time; some were lying on the white spider cocoon sucking something. It might not be that simple for Resa to get out from here.
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When Resa woke up again, he was surprised to find that he was freed from his restraints. He felt the supernatural power in his body, but he had already recovered nearly half of it. To his surprise, he actually escaped from the spider web inexplicably.
He restrained himself and checked his equipment.
The medicines in the personal terminal are still there, but the energy bars on the body are all missing. The protective mask on the face has been opened. However, although the smell here makes people feel fishy and nauseating, they can still breathe.
Looking at the remaining 21% of reserve oxygen, Resa did not put on the breathing mask in the end. Although he was free, it did not mean that he was out of danger.
A squeaking sound came from under his feet, as if he were stepping on a sand shell. This feeling made Reza feel a little weird, but he didn't want to care about these insignificant things. Through the night vision function, he could see that here
It was a quite large hall, surrounded by spider eggs and webs, but Arachne was not found. Resa was a little confused. Looking at the number of spider eggs around, this should be a mother's nest, but why was it?
Arachne was not found? This situation is somewhat abnormal.
Thinking of this, Resa remembered something. He wanted to raise his left hand to look at the information on the personal terminal. However, when he exerted force, his left arm only swayed for a moment and then dropped down again. Resa had no choice but to hold it with his right hand.
He raised his left hand in front of him. And through the information on his personal terminal, Resa learned that the one who attacked him before was indeed Arachne.
Arachne-The Trapper: Number: 00526
Level: Earth Beast Level 4
Category: Mutated humanoids
Energy Category: Neurotoxin, Hallucinogen Toxin
Hunting value: 3700 points
Products: Arachne's core (item number: 001937) Arachne's pointed feet (item number: 002505) Neurotoxin (species number: 002628)
One of Arachne's mature forms. It has agility and is extremely difficult to detect when hiding in the shadows. The spikes on its feet contain deadly neurotoxins that can paralyze the target and cause it to fall into a coma.
Unlike larvae, Arachne Trappers usually act alone.
The Arachne trapper will not kill its prey immediately after capturing it, but
It absorbs the energy from the prey's body to mature the spider eggs in the body. Only after the egg laying is completed, the Arachne trapper will eat the prey. When passing through some dark corners, explorers must be careful. Once they are attacked by surprise,
It is basically impossible to escape the ending of death.
After reading the information, Resa felt a chill all over his body. He finally knew that the disappearance of the supernatural powers in his body was the result of Arachne absorbing energy.
But now in this nest, why didn't even one Arachne see it? Looking at the passage not far ahead, Reza quickened his pace, no matter if he had Arachne now! The only way to escape now is
The most important thing is that otherwise, given his current situation, trying to escape would be nothing more than a dream.
My current state is not suitable for fighting, and it would be better to be here without Arachne's mature body.
With his left arm losing combat effectiveness and the energy bar missing, and considering that he has only recovered 50% of his superpowers now, his most certain way is probably to crush the warp coin now.
After all, if he was attacked by surprise again, Resa was not sure that he would be as lucky as this time.
As Resa's pace quickened, the squeaking sound under his feet became clearer. Resa didn't care so much. He focused all his attention on the passage. After confirming that there was no danger, Resa's figure disappeared from the passage.
Inside.
Reza thought Arachne was not in the mother nest, but he didn't see it. Where he walked, the ground was covered with dry shells that had been trampled into powder. Looking at the entire space, tens of thousands of Arachne could be seen.
The larvae of Kne are all turned into gray-white dry shells.
On the spider webs on the ceiling, several huge corpses of adult Arachne were hanging upside down. Without exception, their bodies were shriveled, even the plump spider bellies and human body parts were no exception. They were all like dehydrated vegetables.
Generally, there is no trace of moisture.
All their heads were missing, and there were explosion-like wounds on their necks, but not a drop of blood flowed out. This is Arachne's mother nest, and the Arachne tribe in this subway station gathers here. But now,
They all turned into corpses hanging upside down from the ceiling, constantly swaying in the air with the breeze blowing in from nowhere.
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It was already 2 hours after Resa walked out of this abandoned subway station. During this period, he did not encounter Arachne again. However, after approaching the ground, the personal terminal reminded him that he needed to put on a respirator.
So now, there is still 16% of spare oxygen. Looking at the prompt information on the tactical display of the personal terminal, the effects of the antidote and nerve paralysis resistance reagent still have some time, but Reza does not want to move anymore.
He failed to achieve the goal of going to the wilderness twice and spent nearly a thousand exploration points in vain. This made Resa quite depressed. He still had about 40% of his supernatural powers in his body, which was only enough for him to carry out a small-scale battle. He leaned against the subway station.
On the wall of the exit, Resa sighed. It seems that this time, that's basically it. Last time it was fine, at least there were two reagents left with no idea of their use, but this time it was literally nothing.
Ah! It’s not even as good as the harvest last time.
Resa leaned against the wall, probably because this was Arachne's lair. Resa sat here for more than ten minutes without seeing any humans or other earth beasts. Finally, Resa sighed helplessly,
Chapter completed!