Act I: The Broken Heart Chapter 25: The Mother's Nest
After Resa fainted, the black shadow not far away slowly crawled over after a few tests, eight slender foot thorns danced flexibly on the ground, one of which was also stained with a faint bloodstain, as the black shadow approached, its appearance was also revealed in the scattered light.
I saw that the body on the slender foot thorns was a huge black spider belly, but when it reached the position where the spider's head should be, it was the body of a young girl, the lilac skin was flowing with a faint luster in the not bright environment, and a few white cobwebs were wrapped around the chest to cover it. The bloated belly made its legs, which had been flexible, a little clumsy.
The girl's pupils are different from ordinary people, the position of the whites of normal human eyes is pitch black in the girl's pupils, and the black pupils of normal humans are pale gold in the girl's eyes. The lilac skin looks different from ordinary people, but it reveals a wild temptation, walking around, a pair of jade rabbits are constantly beating, and you can vaguely see through the white spider web two points of faint redness trembling slightly.
This is a mature Aracne, which can be seen from its bloated belly, it must be full of spider eggs, its body seems to be bloated, but in fact it is extremely flexible in action, otherwise, Ressa would not have been hit by it silently.
The araknye came to Ressa's side, its eyes tinged with greed, and it seemed to him that the human man could provide himself with both the reproductive cells that would mature the spider's eggs and the feast on his own, and at this stage he had already possessed a certain amount of wisdom.
Arachne's tail slowly opened, and streams of milky white mucus squirted out, forming spider silk to wrap Ressa layer by layer, and time passed like this, during which Arachne also injected toxins into Ressa's wound twice, so as to ensure that his prey would not wake up in a short time, of course, under normal circumstances, it would never wake up.
Time passed slowly, and finally, Arachne tied Ressa into a huge white cocoon, but with its current size, it was difficult to bring Resa back to the brood, and in the end, Arachne had to condense several spider silks to tie up the cocoon, and then dragged the cocoon slowly towards the depths of the subway station.
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Ressa didn't know how long he had been unconscious, but when he woke up, he was stunned by what he saw. It was pitch black in front of him, and something must have covered his eyes.
Ressa struggled slightly, but there was a feeling of stepping into the air, it seemed that he should be hanging from the ceiling, Resa felt that he was tied up and down the body, but fortunately, the position of his mouth and nose were exposed, but it would not suffocate him.
After confirming his situation, even if he didn't see it, Resa could guess that he was now hanging on a spider web, this conjecture made him dare not move, the spider sensed the location of the prey on the spider web through the vibration of the spider web, and Araknye was no exception, he didn't want to attract the attention of these Araknye so soon, Resa silently mobilized the abilities in his body, but unfortunately there was not much left in his body, and a sense of weakness came, which made Resa have a bad premonition.
Tried to shake hands, in addition to the numbness, there was also a sour sense of powerlessness, which was the sequelae of the emptiness of energy in the body, I don't know what happened, but Ressa could be sure that the ability in the body was basically drained.
"Gan .................." silently thought in his heart, Resa quieted down, without the ability everything is equal to empty words, he needs at least 3 percent of the ability to ensure that he will not lose the strength to fight back after getting out of trouble, the pain on his left shoulder has disappeared, but it should be the sequelae left by the toxin, and the whole left shoulder is still numb and unconscious.
Ressa didn't know that on the ground not far from him, a scarred Arakne was lying on the ground, and between the wriggling of the spider's belly, spider eggs were produced, and as far as the eye could see, the space here was the largest in the entire subway station.
If you look closely, you can see that the dense larvae of Arachne are shuttling on the ground, and there are several mature Aracne, some of which are running between the eggs, as if looking for something; Some of them were weaving their own cobwebs while looking in the direction of Ressa from time to time; Others lay on the white cocoons and suck something. Ressa's desire to get out of here is probably not that simple.
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When Resa woke up again, he was surprised to find that he was actually freed from the shackles, and felt the ability in his body, but he had recovered nearly half, but to his surprise, he was inexplicably free from the shackles of the cobwebs and checked the equipment on his body.
The potions in the personal terminal are still there, but the energy bars on the body have lost their traces, and the protective mask on the face has been opened, but although the smell here makes people feel fishy and disgusting, but it can breathe, looking at the remaining 21% of the spare oxygen level, Resa finally did not wear a breathing mask, although he was free, it did not mean that he was out of danger.
The sound came from under his feet, as if he was stepping on the sand shell, this feeling made Resa feel a little weird, but he didn't want to care about these inconsequential things, through the night vision function, you can see that this is a fairly large hall, surrounded by spider eggs and cobwebs, but she didn't find Aracne, Resa was a little puzzled, looking at the number of spider eggs around, this should be the mother nest, why didn't Aracne find it? Something is not normal.
Thinking of this, Resa remembered something, and wanted to raise his left hand to look at the information on the personal terminal, but with force, his left arm only shook for a moment and then hung down again, Resa had no choice but to hold his left hand with his right hand and lift it in front of him. And through the information of the personal terminal, Resa learned that it was indeed Arakne who attacked him before.
Arachne - Trapper: No. 00526
Level: Earth Beast Tier 4
Category: Mutant humanoids
Energy Category: Neurotoxin, Hallucinotoxin
Hunt value: 3700 points
Product: Arcne Core (Item Number: 001937) Aracnye Pointy Foot (Item Number: 002505) Neurotoxin (Species Number: 002628)
One of the mature forms of Arachne, it has an agile skill that is extremely difficult to spot when hiding in the shadows, and the spurs contain deadly neurotoxins that can paralyze the target they stab and fall into a coma, unlike the Arachne larvae, the Arachne Trapper usually acts alone.
The Arachne trapper will not kill the prey as soon as it captures it, but absorbs the energy in the prey to promote the maturation of the spider eggs in the body, and after the egg is laid, the Arachne trapper will eat the prey.
After reading the information, Resa felt a chill all over his body, and he finally knew that the disappearance of the ability in his body was the result of being absorbed by Araknea.
But now in this brood, why didn't he see a single Aracne, looking at the passage not far ahead, Resa quickened his pace, regardless of whether he had Aracne or not! Escaping now is the most important thing, otherwise with your current situation, trying to escape is tantamount to a fool's dream.
His current state is not suitable for fighting, and it is better to be without the mature body of Arachne.
With the loss of his left arm and the loss of his energy bar, he has only now recovered fifty percent of his ability, and his most sure way is to crush the Leap Coin now.
After all, if she was attacked again, Ressa wasn't sure she would be as lucky as this one.
As Ressa's pace increased, the sound of her feet became clearer, Resa didn't care so much, his attention was all on the passage, and after confirming that there was no danger, Ressa's figure disappeared into the passage.
Resa thought that Arachne was not in the brood, but he did not see it, and everywhere he walked, the ground was full of dry shells that had been trampled into powder, and as far as the eye could see, tens of thousands of Arachne hatchlings had become grayish-white dry shells.
On the web of the ceiling, several huge adult Arachne corpses hung upside down, without exception, their torsos were deflated, even the fat spider bellies and human body parts were no exception, all like dehydrated vegetables, without a trace of water.
Their heads were all gone, and there was an explosive wound on their necks, but not a drop of blood flowed, this was the mother nest of Arachne, where the Arakne tribe of the subway station gathered, only now, they were all corpses hanging upside down from the ceiling, swaying in the air with a breeze blowing in from nowhere.
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Ressa walked out of this abandoned subway station, it was already 2 hours after he got out of trouble, during which he did not touch Arachne again, but after approaching the ground, the personal terminal was reminded that he needed to wear a breathing mask, so now, there is still 16% of the backup oxygen, looking at the prompt information on the tactical display of the personal terminal, the effect of the antidote and nerve paralysis resistance reagent still has some time, but Resa does not want to move.
The goal of going to the wilderness twice was not achieved, and nearly a thousand exploration points were consumed, which made Resa quite depressed, and the ability in his body was still about 40%, which was only enough for him to engage in a skirmish, leaning against the wall at the exit of the subway station, Resa sighed. It seems that this time, that's basically it, last time it was okay, at least there were two reagents left in the end who didn't know how to use them, and this time it was a dime in the real sense! Not even the last harvest compared.
Resa leaned against the wall, probably because this was the lair of Arachne, Resa sat here for more than ten minutes and didn't see any human beasts or other earth beasts, and finally Resa sighed helplessly, took out the folding coin, and gently crushed it.