Chapter XVII: Killing Relatives

In this barren desert, supplies are extremely scarce, and it is even more difficult for a "desert tarantula" like this to capture its prey. Feeding problems have plagued them, and most of them are in a state of hunger all day long. As a murderous monster modeled after the earth's biological spider, the "desert tarantula" largely inherits the characteristics of the original spider. In spider species, many species of females are much larger than males, and individual differences can be more than double the size difference. Moreover, female spiders take on the responsibility of producing offspring, and many times in order to have more physical strength to give birth to offspring, they will hunt male spiders after mating. This phenomenon is more likely to occur when the size of the female individual is more likely to differ from the size of the male individual.

Today, the desert tarantula that was blinded by Ma Kai happened to be a male, and the big man who devoured it was a female. Originally, they were just a dewy couple who had sex to breed the next generation, but given that the male desert tarantula was still very strong, the female tarantula was not sure that she could hunt it without harm, so they have been safe and sound. Who knew that today, the male tarantula stole chickens and rice, but was pecked blind by the duck in Ma Kai's hand. But it didn't know how to die, and found an "old friend" who wanted revenge, but he didn't know that this female tarantula had coveted its little life for a long time, and today he finally seized this opportunity to eat it clean.

It's ridiculous to say that this male desert tarantula made such a low-level fatal mistake because its intelligence was boosted by alien cells. If you live carefully by instinct all your life, you may not die. But it has similar feelings to human beings, knows how to be afraid, knows how to hold grudges, knows how to retaliate, and still believes that its dewy "wife" will share the same hatred with it, but I don't know that people have long been worried about its flesh and blood.

Ma Kai didn't know the secret, he thought that this female desert tarantula would also transform into a cocoon like the succubus in Base 1108. The sea of corpses and blood in Observatory 1108 is still vivid, and that scene is simply a human blood prison, and the stacking of countless flesh and blood has achieved the new life of the succubus. Born in such an apocalyptic scene, the cocoon seemed to be summoned from hell in Makai's mind, and no one knew when a murderous and terrifying devil would emerge from the cocoon.

This fear had always been engraved in Ma Kai's heart, so when he saw the female desert tarantula eat her companion, the irresistible terror struck again. This feeling of fear from the bottom of his heart is not something that can be easily defeated by his efforts, and the female tarantula who is still unsatisfied after eating her "husband" obviously doesn't want to let go of this little piece of fresh meat in front of her.

The terrifying threat approached again, and the she-tarantula's red eyes stared straight at Ma Kai, unlike the male tarantula just now, there was no trace of emotion in her eyes. Obviously, this monster is more primitive, without any superfluous feelings, and is a hunter who really kills by wild instincts, and from this point of view, she is much stronger than her "husband".

Ma Kai couldn't suppress his fear, and retreated step by step, he didn't dare to retreat too fast, let alone turn around and run away. The only thing left to do was to hold the dagger in his hand and try to keep the confrontation as good as possible. But time was not in his favor, the scorching sun was shining overhead, the tear in his throat was still bleeding, and his weak body was getting more and more tired, and if he dragged on like this, he was afraid that he would fall first without the help of this she-tarantula.

In fact, for humans who do not have thermal weapons, unless they are masters with special tactical training, most of them will not be spared when they encounter this kind of alien monster. Although the desert tarantula is not a monster that is stronger than fighting head-on, its physical ability and combat potential are higher than that of humans after all. As for Ma Kai being able to confront them for so long, in addition to being as timid and greedy as the male tarantula before, there is also a reason why the female tarantula is willing to wait a little longer, and when Ma Kai's energy is exhausted with time, to ensure that he is unable to fight back and can hunt without injury.

It's a pity that Lady Luck seems to have a special favor for Ma Kai, an immortal man, and when it was clear that the balance of victory was about to favor the female desert tarantula, the unexpected happened again. I saw that the female tarantula, which was still menacing, suddenly became languishing like a wilting eggplant, and not only that, but after a while, the eight-legged monster was crawling on the ground, sometimes curled up in a ball, sometimes convulsive.

Ma Kai was confused by this situation, and when he calmed down and observed carefully, he found the clue, and it turned out that the female tarantula's belly had grown unusually large. The female tarantula's spindle-shaped abdomen was already pot-bellied, as if it had something wrapped in it. Ever since it swallowed the male desert tarantula, its belly had grown even longer, and in a short time it had grown disproportionately large, and seemed to be larger than the entire body of the female tarantula.

The she-tarantula was also in pain, and kept rolling on the ground, her huge mouthparts gnawing at the sand on the ground, as if to relieve the pain. But it was all in vain, and it didn't take long to see that its huge belly seemed to be no longer able to withstand the pressure of constant expansion, and a "snort" cracked open, and black juice splattered out, so frightened that Ma Kai hurriedly took three steps back, so as not to be affected.

The torn abdomen was punctured and the she-tarantula died in agony, but her doom was much more than that, the cracks in her stomach grew bigger and bigger, and from the wounds came more than black fluid, but something else. Gradually, a little tarantula poked out its head and feet from the cracks, this newborn little tarantula was as clear as white jade, only the size of a palm, but unfortunately it was born with a ferocity far superior to that of its parents, and it was not long after it came out of its mother's belly, and it turned around and tore the flesh and blood on its mother's wound. Not only it, but more and more baby tarantulas crawled out of the belly of the female tarantula, and after a while, they secretly crawled all over the pile, and this disgusting scene made Ma Kai's scalp tingle when he saw it, and he almost wanted to vomit.

On the other hand, the female tarantula, like a deflated ball, crawled out of its body with countless little tarantulas, as if its vitality had been taken away, and she was dying after a while. Unfortunately, its death was not so easy, and its children, like evil spirits, tore apart their bodies before they were born; Not only that, in order to satisfy their appetite, those little tarantulas pounced on their mother's body and devoured them one after another, without any concern for family affection, and after a while, the huge female tarantula was eaten to only a shriveled skeleton, and even the original face could not be seen clearly.