Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 50: The Deadly Soul Eater (2)
The more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are! This is especially important in the land of the dead, where the undead are rampant!
This forest is obviously located deep in the Bone Land, near the gathering place of evil emissaries and corpse witches, but there is not a single undead creature in sight, not even a skeleton that has just been resurrected!
The only explanation is that there is an even more terrifying existence living here!
Yu Bin deftly climbed a grimace tree, and the branches like ghost claws continued to shake with Yu Bin's stepping, causing the surrounding grimace trees to let out an unconscious low roar, this kind of existence between animals and plants has an extremely primitive level of wisdom, or it is more appropriate to call it a conditioned reflex. They locate their prey through scattered branches, then extend their barbed, flexible roots from the ground to bind the prey firmly, and slowly wait for the prey to assimilate into the soil and the soul to dissipate into nourishment for them.
Climbing up the canopy, Yu Bin condescendingly looked at the meadow formed by the ghost grass, and could see that a plant similar to an orchid grew sporadically in the middle of the dense ghost grass, with serrated leaves slender and hard, and a blue bead wrapped around the center of the leaf with a dark green vein.
This is an extremely rare plant, called Soul Orchid, which only grows in areas with abundant soul energy, and shows different postures according to the elemental energy absorbed during the growth process. This extremely rare undead plant is the favorite of spirit-like undead creatures, and the blue orb at the core is condensed from the purest soul energy, and only one needs to be swallowed, so that even a newborn ghost can reach enough soul strength to give birth to independent consciousness.
And Yu Bin just took a cursory look, and he had already found nearly ten Death Soul Orchids, especially the ones located in the center of the grass, even the leaves had become illusory, and it was obvious that the entire plant was about to be completely transformed into a spirit form. To put it bluntly, the value of these Death Soul Orchids is even comparable to an entire city!
If you change someone, I'm afraid that you can't wait to rush into the grass to pick at this time, even if you don't sell these Death Soul Orchids, just by absorbing them yourself, Yu Bin can ensure that your soul strength can be increased by at least several times.
But he still endured it and didn't get carried away by the temptation in front of him!
"Spirit-sucking monsters? The Soul Revener? No, no, these things can't be hidden in such a place, and that old lich of Vic would never let such an abyssal monster live in the Buried Bones! Yu Bin shook his head, just like the real world, the world of Entagri also has a complete food chain system, even the undead are no exception, these Death Soul Orchids can grow so strongly, obviously there is a large amount of soul power to feed them, considering those evil spirit messengers and corpse witches outside the woods, I am afraid that these powerful undead creatures are the food source of the Death Soul Orchid.
Obviously, no matter how stupid the undead creatures are, they can't die voluntarily with a noble heart, and there must be something that captures them and uses them to water these high-level undead plants.
"Mind Eater or Spirit Temptation? No, no, considering this is a place where bones are buried, these two things can't be here! In other words, there is only one answer! Yu Bin's brows furrowed, because that thing was really not something he was willing to face.
Yu Bin tiptoed to the ground from the canopy, ready to leave, but he subconsciously looked at the forest with his soul vision.
The sight that greeted him made him gasp, and dense soul threads hung all over the forest, as if the threads were bound to him, some of which were already stuck to his body.
"Soul Eater!" Yu Bin whispered a name, this is an extremely dangerous spider creature, they feed on their souls, and they like to hunt those powerful spirit creatures the most, for the undead, this spider is especially terrifying, in order to prepare enough food for their offspring, soul eating spiders will often store the hunted undead, and use their soul fire as food for their newborn offspring.
Without hesitation, Yu Bin drew his dagger, poured his soul power into it, and quickly cut off the soul thread connected to his body, and at the same time ordered the gargoyle to move closer to him.
However, Yu Bin's response obviously made the predator in the darkness realize that the prey wanted to escape, and the soul silk threads that looked dense in the soul vision instantly began to tremble, and as the amplitude of the tremor increased, more and more soul silk threads wrapped around Yu Bin's body.
Although these soul threads could not restrict Yu Bin's movements, Yu Bin knew that it was more difficult than those flexible spider silks, and the soul eater spiders could accurately grasp the location of their prey through these soul threads, and then launch a sneak attack, and almost no one could escape from the hands of such low-level predators.
Yu Bin immediately gave up his efforts to continue cutting the silk thread, and instead ran towards the woods at maximum speed, he had to meet the gargoyle in the shortest possible time, and then leave here, otherwise, what awaited him would be the miserable end of becoming a spare food for the soul eater.
A voice from a short distance indicated that the gargoyle was no longer a few meters away from him, the constructed creature did not move fast on the ground, the gargoyle had the advantage of flying low and being strong enough to defend, and the forest in front of him clearly limited his movements.
However, at the moment when the gargoyle appeared in Yu Bin's field of vision, a huge figure suddenly jumped out from under the gargoyle's feet, and the slender and sharp spider legs pierced into the gargoyle's wing roots like sharp swords, almost uprooting the pair of bat wings.
What appeared in front of Yu Bin was a huge spider, with a huge body almost the same as an elephant, eight spider legs supporting a bloated abdomen, judging from the constantly wriggling concave and convex abdominal membrane, it was obvious that this soul eating spider was in a state of waiting to give birth. No wonder there is not a single undead creature in the forest in front of him, I am afraid that he has already been captured by him as a reserve food for his heirs.
The gargoyle composed of stones is obviously not the hunting target of the soul eater spider, and the reason why the gargoyle's wings were abolished in the first place is obviously to prevent Yu Bin from escaping, and it can be seen from this point that the wisdom of this soul eater spider is definitely not low.
Four pairs of scarlet compound eyes looked at Yu Bin, making him subconsciously dodge to the side, and there was a tingling pain in the soul fire, letting Yu Bin know that he had eaten a soul impact, and the short-term dizziness made him subconsciously take a few steps back, holding the trunk with his hand and gasping for breath.
Seeing that his soul impact did not work, the soul eater spider lowered its body slightly, bent four pairs of slender spider legs, jumped towards Yu Bin suddenly, and immediately inserted a pair of forelimbs into Yu Bin after landing.
After jumping back two times in a row, and then rolling sideways one after another, after dodging the puncture of the soul eater spider, Yu Bin hid behind a grimace tree with his hands and feet, and immediately lay his body on the ground.
At the same time, a sharp knife light slashed, and the thick and thin grimace tree that the two of them hugged together was swept by the forelimbs of the soul eater spider like a dead grass, and if Yu Bin did not lie on the ground, but stood up, then now he had become two sections like the grimace tree.
"Squeak!" The Soul Eater Spider let out an angry voice, expressing dissatisfaction with the weak prey in front of her for consuming so much of her strength, and the Soul Eater Spider, who was already restless because of the imminent delivery period, became more and more irritable, and the scarlet light in the four pairs of compound eyes was like a warning. The lights kept flickering.
Kicking the stump, Yu Bin slid away with his strength, dodging the spider leg piercing of the soul eater spider again, and before he had time to get up, he rolled several times in a row, allowing Yu Bin to quickly approach another grimace tree.
The short sword in his hand was inserted into the trunk of the tree, and with both hands, Yu Bin twisted his body in one direction, coiling around the trunk like a centipede, and then kicked his legs, his waist was forced, and he rolled over in a reversal, so that Yu Bin finally stood up again.
At this moment, a pair of chelicera pierced his waist, and the soul eater spider had an astonishing speed of movement with the help of four pairs of long legs, and even if Yu Bin tried so hard to escape, she caught up, trying to inject venom into the body of the prey with the pair of chelica that were as long as Yu Bin's arms.
The venom of the Soul Eater Spider is extremely toxic, not only in the effect on the body, but also in the soul, once the venom of the Soul Eater is injected into the body, the soul of the prey will gradually dissolve, and eventually only pure soul power will be left for the Soul Eater to absorb.
This venom was the favorite of those top assassins and killers in previous lives, due to the special nature of the player in the world of Entagre, any change in the soul will affect reality, so many assassins and killers have tried to complete the task by killing targets in the world of Entagre, especially those poisons that can directly affect the soul, which is the item that these assassins dream of.
A miserable green undead shield blocked the pair of chelica out, and after two strengthened undead shields, it finally lived up to expectations and won a glimmer of life for Yu Bin. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yu Bin raised his hand to shoot a crossbow arrow, and then threw away the handle in his hand. A crossbow that charges out of the Soul Eater's attack range.
This handle. The crossbow is the trophy that Yu Bin got after his victory in the arena two days ago, and a soul hunter who was captured by Rodriguez is this hand. The previous owner of the crossbow, a soul hunter who was good at long-distance combat, was defeated by Yu Bin with a brainless close attack in the cramped environment of the arena, and finally died of hatred, leaving behind a bow and a hand. Crossbow. Yu Bin's bow and arrow level is very average, and compared to bows that require two-handed control, only one hand can be fired. The crossbow is obviously more in line with Yu Bin's requirements.
The sharp crossbow bolt pierced into one of the compound eyes of the soul eater spider at lightning speed, and the crossbow arrow forged by the metal master Maude Caesar himself was not at all something that this soul eater spider could defend against, not to mention that it was the vital part of the eye that was attacked. The crossbow bolt pierced deep into the compound eye, and the shot eye splattered with scarlet liquid, which was the pith of the soul eater spider.
"Squeak!" The intense pain made the Soul Eater Spider roar, she never thought that she would one day be hurt by her prey, which made her almost go crazy, and at the same time, the pain made her endurance decrease, and the squirming of the massive surface of her abdomen became more and more violent.
Seeing this, Yu Bin immediately realized that this soul eating spider was in a state of labor, thinking that if he hadn't suddenly broken into here, this soul eating spider would have successfully given birth to a large number of offspring in the past few days, and regained its strength again after a few days of weakness.
Just as the Soul Eater Spider was furious and ready to pursue again, a figure slammed into her back, and the oppressed abdomen suddenly contracted and expanded, and from the Soul Eater's fat tail, a large mass of small spiders wrapped in slime was squeezed out of her body, mixed with light blue slime and flowing to the ground.
It was the gargoyle whose wings were torn apart by the soul eater spider that collided, and although Yu Bin was not his master, Rodriguez still gave him the most basic control power in order to ride. Even in the dangerous escape just now, Yu Bin still did not give up control of the gargoyle.
"Whew!" After the eye was shot, Chrysanthemum was turned around by the attacking Soul Eater Spider, and pinned the gargoyle to the ground with two pairs of chelicerae, and then pulled it to the side, and the gargoyle was torn in half by the Soul Eater spider like a rag doll.
But this Soul Eater Spider obviously has no experience in fighting creatures like gargoyles, and it is almost impossible for a naturally born gargoyle to appear in the Bone Burial Land, even if there are one or two, this kind of undead creature is not on the recipe of the Soul Eater, and it is obviously impossible for the Soul Eater to waste energy to communicate with these stones.
The gargoyle that was torn in half still maintained its combat effectiveness, and its sharp front claws ignored the attack of the soul eater spider and slapped it the fat abdomen, causing the already squirming abdomen to spit out a large mass of small spiders again.
Most of these small spiders that were expelled from their bodies died due to leaving the soul eater's sac early, and only some of the little spiders that grew up to be particularly strong would survive, and even then, if they were not allowed to ingest enough soul power as soon as possible, these surviving little spiders would turn into a corpse over time.
In fact, the scarcity of the Soul Eater spider population is also related to their reproductive mode, adult Soul Eater spiders will hardly come into contact with their own kind except for reproduction, in the eyes of this creature, there is only a difference between food and non-food, so the Soul Eater spider that is about to be produced will often become food for other species because of the decline in strength. In addition, in order to ensure the survival rate of the offspring as much as possible, the female spider will raise the offspring in the spider sac as much as possible until the offspring has enough ability to suck the soul by itself, which means that the female spider has to store a large amount of food for this, once the food is insufficient, the young spider that cannot get enough nutrition from the female spider will subconsciously suck the soul of the female spider, which eventually leads to the death of the female spider, and the young spider is also killed by other creatures because of the loss of its protector.
The soul eater spider in front of him was obviously at the point of labor, on the one hand, the growing young spider's need for nutrition, and on the other hand, the need to store food, which made the female spider still choose to attack Bin in this situation, to increase the stock of food as much as possible.
Seeing that the Soul Eater Spider was injured again, Yu Bin went against the norm and chose to face it head-on. He controlled the gargoyle's remnants and continued to attack, forcing the Soul Eater to focus on defense to avoid another attack on his fragile abdomen, while he quickly approached the Soul Eater with erratic movements under the cover of the Grimace Tree.
But this simple disguise can't hide the soul eater spider, although the four pairs of compound eyes were shot by Yu Bin, but it did not affect her vision, this soul eater spider swept away the gargoyle's body with its forelimbs, and the two long legs that were retracted cut horizontally like scissors.
Yu Bin flew past the attack of the Soul Eater Spider, and at the same time threw out a bottle of potion, which was the only bottle of explosive potion he purchased before entering the burial place, the potion mixed with the fire element was full of instability, even just an ordinary bump could trigger an explosion, so it was stored in the space bag by Yu Bin.
As soon as the potion was shot, it was pierced by a black shadow, and one of the forelimbs of the soul eater spider pierced into the potion bottle like a spike, and in the next second, a violent fire broke out, and the huge force generated by the explosion pushed the upper body of the soul eater spider backwards, in order to avoid falling, she subconsciously stretched her fat abdomen forward to keep her center of gravity stable.
And Yu Bin took advantage of the thrust of the explosion to pierce the short sword in his hand into the abdomen that was facing him, and with a bang, the sharp black wing blade tore a big hole in the bulging abdomen like cutting through a wrinkle.
Small spiders the size of fists gushed out from the torn gaps with large clumps of pale blue slime, and Yu Bin, who was splitting his head and covering his face, drowned him.