Act I: The Broken Heart Chapter 24: The Lair of Arachne
Ressa's senses were keen, and when the sound sounded, he didn't hesitate, and turned and ran towards an ascending staircase not far behind him, for he finally knew where he was.
He still wanted to go down the stairs to the first floor, but just now he saw a few signs, what kind of shopping mall is this, this is clearly a subway station, if you choose to go down the stairs, it will become more dangerous.
Just as Ressa turned around, the descending stairs he had been paying attention to before crawled out of a dense crowd of black spots, and if you looked closely, you could see that it was actually a spider covered in pitch black.
Each of these spiders was half the size of a fist, and they climbed up the stairs in a dense group, and Ressa's heart was numb, but the pace of her feet was two points faster again.
It can be seen through the night vision mode that dense cobwebs are all over the area, and occasionally you can see cocoons tied up hanging on the ceiling, Resa has a chill in her heart, is it true that you didn't look at the yellow calendar when you went out today? first jumped to the toilet inexplicably, and after leaving the toilet, I found that it was actually in a spider's nest.
What about the relative safety of the area around the fold area?
Resa laughed at himself, but the sound that followed him didn't give him so much time to think, most of the intersections were densely covered with cobwebs, which made Resa have to take a detour, don't underestimate these cobwebs, if they are entangled, even the top abilities will not be able to break free in a short time.
Going up and down the stairs all the way, Ressa didn't find the exit, although there is a night vision device, but the visual distance here is not high, and the passage extends in all directions, Ressa stopped after making sure that the spider behind him had been thrown off, he didn't want to break into the center of the spider's nest without a head, with his luck today, maybe he would finally break into the center of the spider's nest.
Ressa clicked on the personal terminal to turn on the sound wave detection, so that the terrain around itself about 30 meters will form a holographic simulation map to mark on the personal terminal, although this is very energy-consuming, and the detected area is not large, but this will not run around.
After confirming that there was no danger around, Resa checked the remaining items on her body, there were still 17 energy bars after being depleted, and 67% of the remaining energy of the invisibility cloak, which meant that just the escape cost a quarter of her own supplies, so it was not possible to go on, and the top priority was to find the exit of this subway station as soon as possible, rather than playing a game of chasing me with the spiders here.
The personal terminal on her wrist shook slightly, and Ressa looked at it, and indeed realized that it was the query information she had passed earlier. And looking at the words on the information, Ressa's face became ugly.
Aracne larvae: No. 00525
Level: Earth Beast Tier 1
Category: Mutant creature
Energy category: Neurotoxin
Hunt value: 300 points
Product: Arachne Pointy Foot (Item Number: 002505) Neurotoxin (Item Number: 002628)
Arachne larvae are fragile and deadly, and Arachne larvae look more like black widow spiders in appearance, unlike black widows, Arachne larvae do not have red markings like black widows, but are completely black.
The larvae are very fragile, even if ordinary people only need to step on them with a light kick, but the larvae of Arachne are also very deadly, as long as they are bitten by it, they will fall into a state of nerve paralysis for a certain period of time, and if they are bitten many times, the toxin will cause the target to die suddenly.
The larval stage of the arachne is no different from that of a spider, when it enters the growth stage, the sharp horns of the spider's head will grow rapidly, and finally the human part will be bred in the sharp horn part, so that the arachne has a certain amount of human intelligence, and when the human part is fully grown, it will enter the adult stage.
Adult arachne will give birth to a large number of spider eggs in the belly, and after ingesting a certain amount of nutrients, arachne will hunt to obtain the genes of the organism and its reproductive cells to promote the maturation of the spider eggs in the body. The Arakne is a terrible race, and if you spot it, stay away immediately.
The corners of Ressa's mouth twitched slightly, it was enough to throw herself around a town with a terrifying beast like a white grudge last time, but this time she threw herself directly into Arachne's lair, and then actually reminded herself to stay away from ...... immediately, Resa looked around, it was a problem to go out, let alone stay away.
Ressa's briefing on closing her personal terminal is now out of the trail of the Arachne hatchlings, so she should find a way out before being rediscovered. Ressa checked her equipment, and the best way to do it was to burn it off with fire, so she wouldn't accidentally get stuck to the webs on the walls.
It's just that......
Resa looked at the dragon-shaped wrist armor on her wrist with some embarrassment, in this case, if you don't get the fire right, you will put yourself in it, and this is easy to attract the attention of Araknye here, if there is a mature Araknea, Resa will be a fool's dream if he wants to escape.
The unfamiliarity with the environment has become Ressa's biggest constraint, and Ressa has to consume a lot of energy to turn on the breath isolation ability on the invisibility cloak, but if this continues, the speed of energy consumption is very fast, basically 2-3 minutes will drop by 1% of the energy reserve.
In this case, Resa was very careful and focused to the maximum, which also made him see the surrounding environment much more clearly, the ground here is not easy to put his feet on, because there are all kinds of corpses stacked on the ground, and from the color of the corpses, he also knows that the time he has been piled up here is not short, which makes Resa wonder if if he opens the mask, the air here will not swoon him in the first place.
Lightly came to an upward staircase, Ressa carefully observed the surroundings, and half a metal sign hung down from the broken ceiling, but the brand was very badly corroded, and a D mark on it could be seen vaguely, thinking that it should be one of the entrances and exits here.
Ressa shook her palm, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled, as soon as she got out, she would immediately burn this place, so that it could also attract the attention of other beings in the city.
Under his control, the guiding device slowly turned into a sharp sword shape, and a fluctuating area more than twenty centimeters long slowly took shape, and after a few brushes, the cobwebs blocked on the passage were shredded and scattered all over the ground, Resa listened carefully for a moment before raising his feet and walking towards the top of the stairs.
The cobwebs on the ground were slimy, and it took a lot of strength for Ressa to lift her feet every time she stepped on them, and in the staircase passage, in addition to the scattered cobwebs, there were many spider eggs that were either piled up in the corners of the walls or hung on the ceiling.
These spider eggs are not static, some of the spider eggs are constantly wriggling and deforming, Resa concentrates his mind to the maximum, the staircase passage is not long, it is more than twenty meters, but for Ressa, this distance is tantamount to the separation between the sea and the sky. He didn't believe that the eggs were just moving, and maybe some of the newly hatched spiders broke out of the eggs when he was slackening.
The cobwebs accumulated on the ground are getting thicker and thicker, and the viscosity is becoming larger and larger, and it takes a lot of force to pull the foot up from it, which is a test of human control, and pulling out the foot can not cause too much movement.
Ressa saw that the spider eggs near the middle of the passage were several times denser than the entrance to the passage, and the remaining space was only enough for him to pass through, but he had to make sure that the eggs did not stick to his body. He was afraid that if he didn't notice it, it would be devastating for him to hatch the eggs without his knowledge.
More than 20 meters of passage, Ressa spent more than half an hour to walk it, but fortunately there was no change during the period, out of the staircase passage, Resa breathed a sigh of relief, this is not as dark as the floor below, and you can even see the surrounding layout without the help of night vision equipment, thinking that this should be the ground part of the subway station.
It's just that Resa is a little curious, although he has never taken the subway since he was a child living in the shelter node, but judging from the previous information, shouldn't the exit of the subway station be on the surface of the stairs? So what is the purpose of building such a space in the subway station here?
What Ressa didn't know was that this was not an above-ground area, but a negative floor close to the ground, where the ventilation and translucent building materials allowed some sunlight to make it look bright.
Ressa turned off the night vision device, he saw that there was a row of equipment that had basically become parts about twenty or thirty meters in front of him, thinking that it should be the detection equipment before entering the subway station, then the other side of the equipment should be the exit, Resa sped up his pace, as long as he went out from here, even if he encountered a ground beast or a large group of humans and beasts, he could not limit himself.
Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the exit, a smile appeared on the corner of Ressa's mouth, but in the next moment, the smile turned to stunned, and a sharp foot stab pierced his left shoulder from behind, and a hot tingling sensation spread across his left shoulder.
Ressa's eyes flickered, but there was a slight tingling sensation in the wrist of his left hand, but he thought that the nerve paralysis resistance reagent in the wrist armor had been used, resisting the drowsiness transmitted by his head, Resa turned around suddenly, and the guidance device in his right hand slashed behind him with a wind blade more than 2 meters long.
Unfortunately, when he turned around, his shoulder was light, and his foot stabs detached from his shoulder, and a black shadow fell not far from him, and the sudden turn made his dizziness even heavier. There was a vibration from the personal terminal on his wrist, but it was the black shadow that was scanned and the information was transmitted, but before Ressa could watch it, his eyes were dark, and he fainted.........