Updated: 2012-07-25

As creatures one level higher than the Rock Spider, the Spider Lurker has a better ability to hide. Their shells, like some optical materials, act as invisible by diffusing the light around them. Especially in the environment of the underground garage, the skills of the lurkers are more vividly exerted.

This monster was the target of Ben's hunt, but now, the positions of the prey and the hunter seem to be reversed.

The moment Su was pushed away by Zero, he clearly felt that there was a strong wind passing by in the leeward. She quickly rolled on the ground, leaned against an abandoned car, and turned around again, seeing a deep ravine in the ground where she had just been.

Zero's M500 and Ben's Colt fired at the same time, but the bullets seemed to hit the air. Except for smashing the windshield of the car behind him, nothing was accomplished.

Su inhales slightly, then exhales slowly. Her body began to burn, and it was through a special breathing method that maximized her physical energy. After two consecutive breaths, Su suddenly exerted his strength, and his one-handed sword slammed towards Zero.

The one-handed sword slashed head-on, and Zero clearly felt Su's killing intent. But more than that, this killing intent was aimed at the void behind him. Zero immediately flipped in Su's direction, dodging the sword's slashing track and firing a shot forward.

The sound of swords and gunfire rang out almost simultaneously.

Su's sword slashed in the air, but countless sparks flew out of thin air. And the zero bullet shot a blood line in the void. Seeing this scene, Ben didn't hesitate anymore and fired several shots at the empty space.

Colt's brutal gunfire accompanied the smell of gunpowder resounded throughout the underground garage, and in the firelight, a spider the size of a car appeared. It was pitch black, with black burrs on its thick and powerful limbs. Circles of brown lines covered the spider's abdomen, which had spikes at the end of its tail like a bee.

This is the Spider Lurker, Su's longsword leaves a white mark under its hard shell, and Zero's bullet directly cuts several blood holes in the monster's body. The wounded lurker let out a high-pitched chirp that no human ear could catch, and it retracted its left limb and popped out in an instant, slamming it against Su's sword.

The huge kinetic energy immediately bounced Su out of the air.

"Belly!" Ben shouted, a burst of Colt in his hand, attracting the attention of the lurker.

Without hesitation, Zero rushed towards the giant spider. As the lurker was drawn to Ben's fire, he lunged to the ground, and the remaining kinetic energy slid him under the spider's body.

The abdomen of the lurker was close in front of him, and he raised his gun and fired continuously, and under the action of more than 3,000 joules of kinetic energy, the bullet blasted into the body of the giant spider, all the way forward, twisting the tissues in the body of the lurker, and then breaking out of the shell.

Flesh and blood flying!

The giant spider was in pain, and its body kept moving. It tried to nail Zero to death with its powerful feet, but Zero couldn't have been safer to hide under its belly.

When the lurker's feet and limbs were moving, Su pounced on him twice with a long sword. She raised her sword flat, rested her other hand on the hilt, and together her arms unleashed a straight stab into the spider's head. Su shouted, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands and twisting it vigorously, and then swept it with great luck.

The sword burst out, and most of the lurker's head immediately cracked, and the foul liquid sprayed Su on his face, and the giant spider finally lay down weakly, and no longer moved.

Under the spider's abdomen, Zero drilled out, and his face was also sprayed with spider fluid. Looking at Zero-sum Su, the old drunkard shook his head and muttered, "Young people nowadays are crazy. ”

Either way, they managed to bring down the lurker. The plan was to lift the giant spider's shell, but the lurkers had already found them, and there was no guarantee that the larger number of rock spiders would not swarm in. Ben had to dispel this attention, if a large number of rock spiders were encountered in a semi-sealed environment like an underground garage, it would definitely be a lifeless pattern.

Ben walked in front with Colt in his hand, and the three of them left the underground garage with Su who had caused the wound to bleed again due to strenuous exercise.

"Maybe we should retreat. Zero said.

The ammunition of the M500 needs to be customized, and after the battle just now, there are not many bullets left. Other than that, all he had left was a fragmentation grenade and an alloy dagger. With this kind of firepower, it can probably only kill one or two more lurkers. And in the absence of heavy fire suppression like a six-barreled aviation machine gun, Zero did not dare to think about the fate of encountering a large number of spider swarms.

As for Su and Ben, the former's injuries have not healed, and his strength has been greatly reduced. In addition to the high-level agility enhancement of the latter, there is only one Colt in force. Colt is still as powerful as the zero M500, and this long-barreled sniper rifle is comparable to a hand cannon at close range. However, Colt could not exceed the functional limitations of the sniper rifle, and the movement of a single shot, no matter how powerful it was, could not meet the needs of fire suppression.

It can be said that the Zero Three are more than enough for point-to-point strikes, but they lack the firepower or ability to kill in an area, which determines that if the three of them encounter a large number of rock spiders, their situation will be even worse than that of the previous Raf.

Ben is not opposed to Zero's proposal. So the three of them changed their route and sneaked from the old drunkard to the edge of the university town. The trio walked on a broken and rough road, and the route Ben had taken was clearly carefully chosen. The places they passed through were relatively spacious places, and they were accessible in all directions, which greatly reduced the unfavorable situation of being besieged by rock spiders.

After leaving the underground garage, they didn't encounter a single rock spider. It seems that the intense light of the day discourages these shady creatures, but the closer you get to the edge of the ruins, the more the pinprick on Zero's skin becomes more and more noticeable.

It made him feel like he was jumping into a trap.

Ben was aware of the invisible danger signal, but he didn't know where it was coming from. The rock spider that never appeared brought huge pressure to the three of them, and even an experienced hunter like Ben kept a straight face, and Zero and Su were even more silent.

Now retreating into the ruins of a university town, there is a danger of being besieged. So they can only hope for now to leave the ruins and turn a corner, with the school track and field at the end of the road before this dangerous signal becomes a reality. And Zero knew that after climbing over the fence on the other side of the track field, they left the confines of the college town.

The track and field environment is open, and if there is any abnormal movement, the eyes of a few people will be able to detect it first, so there is no danger of being attacked. This was the best retreat point that we could think of, and the three of them walked straight through the gate and strode into the athletic field.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the fireball in the sky was still blazing. The sand and gravel of the track and field exude an astonishing heat, and when you walk on it, the heat is transmitted to the feet through the 5-centimeter-thick rubber soles, and then spreads to the whole body.

Zero quickly took a look around the athletics field, and there was no longer half of the audience in the high stands, and I don't know how many years it would be before a new audience appeared in the stands. Zero sighed silently, and suddenly, something seemed to be shaking in his sight. Zero's golden right eye immediately converged into a circle, and the field of vision was immediately narrowed.

Under this ability, which Zero calls free sight, he clearly saw that in the southwest corner of the stand, a rock spider suddenly rose from under the unmanned seats. Then the second, the third......

More and more rock spiders emerged from the stands, and their dense figures filled the stands. And the lurkers, who no longer hid their figures, squeezed through their relatives with their huge bodies, and jumped from the stands one by one. They dance their strong limbs and make threatening movements, but they don't pounce on them, which makes people wonder.

Soon Zero learns why, and that's because the protagonists aren't them.

The pins and needles on the skin were indescribably intense, but suddenly, the sensation disappeared. However, in the next second, Zero felt that the hair on his whole body stood on end, and his heart beat vigorously as if it had been hit with a heavy hammer.

A feeling of danger was so intense that it hung over his body, and at the same time, Zero looked to the other side of the field.

There was a break room there, and the door to the break room shattered along with the walls at the moment Zero looked past. Wood chips and rubble flew several meters away, creating a cloud of dusty smoke. In this dust and smoke, the shadow of a small mountain slowly appeared. When it came out of the dust, the hideous figure was full of Zero's eyes.

Ben's whole body standing in front of Zero shook slightly, and then the old drunkard cursed: "Damn, this time the jackpot was drawn." There's a Spider Queen here!"