Chapter 240: The Webweaver

On the fifth day after Barak proposed to cross the Didbia Mountains, it was still snowing heavily, and a mountaineering of more than 700 refuges and more than 100 hunters made their way out of the deep mountain village and into the depths of the mountains.

Originally, Barak planned to set off immediately the next day and cross the mountains, but it backfired when a snowstorm suddenly fell on the mountains, and it was four days at a time, so the plan had to be postponed.

In the past four days, the number of evacuees who have fled to the Orion Village in the mountains for various reasons has increased by more than 300 people, and the number of people has exceeded the tolerance limit of the surrounding villages, and has also affected the peace and security of the villages.

If there had been an armed conflict with these refugees before, Barak would not have been afraid, because the vast majority of these refugees were ordinary people, and they were no match for the Orion in the mountains. But in the past few days, the vast majority of the more than 300 people who have suddenly poured into the village are strong men with strong martial arts, and judging from their expressions and the weapons they wear, they must all be gangsters with blood on their hands.

However, these are not what Barak is worried about, what really worries Barak is the great plague of Miria City that has been said by the people who have taken refuge in the mountains in the past few days.

Through the information provided by the evacuees, Barak knew that the plague first occurred by the army of the French Empire, and in just a few days, it quickly spread to various refugee camps in Miria City, and although it has not yet spread to the area of the Dibia Mountains, according to the speed of the spread of the plague, it is only a matter of time before it spreads to this area.

Sensing the danger coming, Barak decided not to wait for the snowstorm to stop completely, and after finding that the wind and snow were starting to weaken, he decided to leave the village with his people, climb across the mountains, find a suitable settlement there, and then come back to take all the people in the village to avoid the plague.

Although braving the wind and snow to climb over the mountains was an extremely difficult task for those who had lived in the city for many years, no one offered to stay, and all those who were able to move packed up early and waited for departure after being notified.

If there is no plague, in the face of such a wind and snow, some people may choose to stay because they are worried about the dangers of mountain climbing. But when the news of the great plague in Miria City spread among the crowd, the terrifying event that was already almost a legend immediately came to everyone's minds, causing everyone to fall into an unprecedented panic. Now there is a chance to leave this place of death, and for these terrified people, even if they encounter unimaginable dangers on the way out, it is much better than staying here and waiting for death.

However, among these evacuees, at least more than 100 people fled to the mountain village in the last day or two, and the tools and supplies needed to cross the mountain range were not well prepared, especially the items for keeping out the cold had been distributed by the other evacuees almost before they arrived. As a result, the more than 100 people had insufficient thermal insulation items, and most of them could only buy a few finished animal skins from some hunters at a high price, and casually knit them into a coat to resist the cold of the wind and snow outside.

However, some of the evacuees were dressed in such a way that they did not wear the kind of animal skins to keep them warm, but always wore unfashionable urban clothes, and even after they were on the road, they did not even wear snowshoes for walking in the snow, and they followed the large group slowly.

At first, some people paid attention to these strange people who looked like they were going to kill themselves, but as they moved away from the village road and began to enter the deep mountains, everyone no longer dared to be distracted by other things, but concentrated on the road under their feet, because just now there were a few unlucky people who didn't pay attention to the road under their feet and rolled directly down the mountain to a small cliff, and they knew that it was impossible to survive without looking.

It's just that, compared to the others, the weirdos who walked at the back looked at each other with interest, and their attitudes were more about guarding against each other.

Leo was among the weirdos, but compared to the neat suits that looked like they were attending a funeral, his old trench coat dressed as a scavenger was much more normal.

As early as two days ago, Leo had already arrived in Barak's village, originally he did not plan to go with these refugees to walk the secret passage over the mountain found by Barak's ancestors, but planned to climb the Dibia Mountains alone, after all, for him, even if he did not have psychic powers, it would not be difficult to cross the Dibia Mountains.

But what made him change his mind was the few dress weirdos who were being looked at by him now, because the moment these dress weirdos appeared, he felt a strong divine power envelop the entire village and all the people in the village.

When the psionic energy disappeared, under the gaze of his spiritual vision, the appearance of all the people in the village, whether they were evacuees or residents of the village, completely changed, turning into a living corpse with various fatal injuries.

At the same time, the images of these dressed weirdos also completely changed in their vision, their originally clear facial features became blurred, like melted oil paintings, and their hands and feet became several times longer, looking a little like humanoid spiders.

At the same time that Leo discovered the anomaly of these people, those people also discovered Leo's anomaly, although they were a little surprised that the divine power and spiritual energy that fell on Leo were dispelled, but they didn't pay too much attention to it, and they didn't show strong hostility towards Leo, they just regarded Leo as an accident worthy of vigilance.

The obvious features of these strange people under the vision of the spirit made Leo quickly think of a kind of legendary being, a webweaver.

The belief in the god of death has always existed in the world of Velon, but it has never developed into a very formal religion, and most of them exist as a folk belief in cities and villages around the world. For example, in the primeval forests of the Moisan Continent, there are many tribes who regard the pythons and crocodiles that inhabit them as the embodiment of death, and for example, some villages in the Kingdom of England believe in a boulder, which is said to have fallen from the sky one day to carry away countless gods.

It's just that, no matter how different the beliefs of the Grim Reaper are around the world, the servants who help the Grim Reaper harvest life are all the same, and they share a common name, the Webweavers.

The existence of the webweaver has always been questionable, and even the Orthodox Church, which knows the most about the various gods and goddesses, cannot be fully confirmed, but all those who claim to have seen the webweaver without exception use the same image to describe the webweaver, with outrageous limbs, spider-like form, and so on.

In all the legends about the weavers, their appearance represents the arrival of death, so there are some legends that say that death can be avoided if the weavers can be imprisoned.

Leo didn't fully believe in the legends, but now that he saw the dressed weirdos who were suspected of being webweavers, Leo felt that the idea that the presence of webweavers would bring death might be true, which meant that the evacuees and the inhabitants of the villages would die.

Although Leo is not the kind of bad person, as his heart changes, he is also affected by the original kindness of his body. If he encounters those who are about to die, and he has the ability to help without endangering his own safety, he may also help.

But now, although so many people could die before his eyes, he could do nothing but be an observer on the sidelines, because the webweavers were very mysterious in his eyes, and he instinctively felt a strong danger from them.

Except for the huge divine power spiritual energy that fell from the sky and covered a radius of more than ten miles of mountains and forests at the beginning, Leo had never felt any kind of spiritual energy from these people, and his spiritual network could not even feel the existence of these webweavers, as if these webweavers were air.

In this way, Leo and the dressed weirdos who seemed to be weavers followed the entire procession, and in about two hours, they climbed over the high mountain where the Orion village was located, and after climbing the high mountain, there was a valley covered with gravel, and judging from the surrounding terrain, the gravel in the valley should have come from the surrounding peaks.

It's just that, the moment he entered the gravel valley, Leo felt the ground shake slightly. This tremor was very weak, and normal people couldn't feel it at all, but Leo, who was always concentrated, noticed it as soon as the vibration appeared, and even through the movement of the shock wave, he found that the vibration came from the mountain peaks that he had turned over before.

"It's an avalanche!" Leo looked back, although the snow on the mountain peak in his eyes did not appear abnormal, but through the farsighted effect of his vision skill, he saw layers of snow on the other side of the mountain rushing into the sky like ocean waves, which made him quickly think of avalanches, a natural disaster.

Moreover, the scale of the avalanche is likely to be very large, affecting all the slopes of the opposite peak, so that the snow from the avalanche is likely to advance to the Orion villages in the mountainside, and the people living in those villages may not survive the impact of such a natural disaster.

Almost at the same time that a huge avalanche disaster occurred on the other side of Leo Judging Mountain, the divine power and spiritual energy that he had felt before resurfaced from those webweavers, causing Leo to look at them.

I saw that in the spiritual vision, this time the webweavers not only changed their bodies, but even a trace of cobwebs that could be seen by the spiritual vision poured out of their bodies, and these cobwebs all stretched out to the ground without exception, and then they were dragged out like fishing, and the other end of the spider silk dragged a vague figure, which sank into the black hole on the back of the webweaver that even the spiritual vision could not see.

Leo did not hide his observations, and the webweavers easily spotted Leo's actions, and at the same time their faces were slightly surprised, but they also showed no repulsion or hostility. One of the eldest, weavers of the nets, after recovering all the nets, walked over to Leo, and then, under Leo's slightly surprised gaze, took out a black glass ball from his pocket and handed it to Leo, while with his other hand, he put his finger against his lips and made a silent gesture.

Leo looked at the black glass ball handed over by the webweaver, and then at the expressionless webweaver, knowing that his decision represented the danger he might encounter next, and the relationship between the webweavers and his friends and foes on the rest of the journey.

Faced with a choice, Leo just thought about it, and took the black glass ball in the hand of the weaver, and the other party was obviously very satisfied with Leo's choice, and a smile appeared on his face, but this smile looked extremely hideous under the reflection of his sharp teeth.

Although Leo had made an agreement with these mysterious webweavers of unknown strength that he would not interfere in their deaths, he did not leave there, but continued to stay with these webweavers and observe their situation through the psionic and spiritual webs.

As for the webweavers, it seemed that as long as Leo didn't interfere with their work of collecting the souls of the dead, they wouldn't care about the other party's observations, and even if the spiritual net fell on them and penetrated into them, they didn't take it seriously, because they knew very well that Leo couldn't find anything from them at all.

"There is no divine power, there is no trace of evolution, and it is completely the same as ordinary people......" Leo quickly made an analysis after receiving various feedback information from the spirit network, and the more data he obtained, the more puzzled he became.

He could clearly feel the soul-replenishing net composed of divine power and spiritual energy, and he could clearly see that the black shadows that should be souls disappeared into the black hole on his back, but he had the illusion that everything he saw was an illusion, and the only truth was the black glass ball that the webweaver handed him just now.

Through the touch of the skin of his fingers, Leo could easily tell that it was a glass ball, and the spirit net could also analyze the composition of this glass ball, but the psionic perception that had been integrated into his mental instinct felt that it was a worm egg, or more accurately, a spider egg.

Leo took the glass ball in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and pinched it hard, feeling its hardness, and did not find anything abnormal in it. After that, he tried to inject psionic energy into the glass ball, and nothing changed.

Until, when Leo began to use the power of nightmares and began to imitate the divine power and spiritual energy he felt, the black on the surface of the glass ball began to fade rapidly, and a black spider appeared in the glass ball, and then the glass ball shattered instantly, and the spider fell on Leo's right palm, and before Leo could react, it penetrated into the twin gloves. When Leo removed the glove, he found that the black spider had melted into the back of his right hand, turning into a tattoo-like pattern, and at this moment, the vision in his eyes also changed.