227. It Seems They Don't Welcome Me

The spiders had mottled patterns, some deep purple, some scarlet, and some greenish-blue, creating a colorful and unusual beauty.

Each spider is about the size of a palm. Some have distinct leg segments and are hairy, while others have long, thin legs and an abdomen that looks like a human face. Still others have sharp angles, resembling some kind of crustacean.

Seeing just one spider is enough to startle anyone, let alone hundreds of spiders falling from the sky.

Perhaps while the three of them were eating, these spiders were perched on their heads, quietly observing their every move.

Or perhaps, the food itself was made from spiders.

Trist glanced at the food subconsciously; thankfully, it was all normal.

"Is this a scene from a novel?"

Lu Ban, began to seriously study these spiders.

The spider that was on his shoulder had crawled up to his arm. You could see eight small eyes and a pair of sharp teeth. The eight legs crawling on his arm felt itchy. Fine hairs were left behind where the spider had crawled, making his skin red and swollen.

"Something's wrong with this hotel. That priest seems to be trying to harm us."

Trist pulled out his usual revolver and fired a shot at the ceiling, blasting one of the spiders to pieces. Green sap splattered onto the wall, leaving deep stains.

More spiders fell down, their legs twitching.

Xiya seemed to be used to such monsters. She snapped her fingers silently with her steel-gloved hand, and a Gale swept through the room.

The spider located in the very center of the ceiling suddenly exploded, as if an invisible ball had been hit inside, disintegrating and shattering everything it touched.

Mystra's Void Burst Technique!

Even Lu Ban remembered the name. At this moment, this slow-moving but extremely powerful spell was just right for dealing with this situation.

In an instant, a third of the spider turned into the cheese inside a bursting cheese chicken cutlet. Thick fluids flowed everywhere, but not a single drop landed on Xiya. The various colored fluids were blocked by an invisible wall, forming a visible arc.

Lu Ban was covered in a lot of juice. He shook off the spider in his hand, sniffed the juice, and smelled a fishy, foul odor, like Mass of Flesh that had been rotting for many days.

"Let's go quickly."

When Trist ran out of ammo, compared to Xiya, it was like a tickle to him. Arriving at the hotel entrance, he ignored the darkness outside and rushed out.

Lu Ban and Xiya followed closely behind. They saw the spider crawling around on the ground, densely packed, with more crawling onto the hotel owner's body. However, he remained unmoved, and even when the spider covered his face, he did not resist.

The three left the hotel. The night was deep outside, but the streetlights in the town were on.

Lu Ban looked up and carefully examined the streetlights.

"What, did you find something?"

Trist followed Lu Ban and looked up. Apart from noticing that the streetlights were lit by some kind of animal fat, there was nothing else unusual about them.

"I think this is a good place for capitalists who exploit workers."

Lu Ban withdrew his gaze.

"Capitalist?"

Trist heard words he didn't understand again.

"We should go back to the church; I feel the Gudu is still there."

Xiya glanced at the church, which was still brightly lit.

As they prepared to go to the church, they saw a crowd gathered in the street.

The men in black suits stood in a circle, seemingly observing something.

"I'll go take a look."

Lu Ban was curious.

Don't go.

Trist couldn't stop Lu Ban, and saw Lu Ban sneakily approaching without even attracting the attention of the others.

He had become exactly like these weirdos, even better.

Lu Ban leaned forward, looking towards the center just like the men in suits.

Then he saw that in the middle, a man in a suit was struggling in Affliction.

The man's expression remained numb and indifferent, but his movements were extremely strange, convulsing and writhing on the ground as if he were having an epileptic seizure.

Then, with a silent scream, his mouth opened to the limit that would have dislocated it, and then there was a cracking sound as his jaw dislocated.

His mouth remained wide open, his tongue and throat sticking out as if something was pulling and dragging them to dig out what was inside.

The next moment.

With a hissing sound, the man's throat was ripped out.

No, that's not a throat.

Lu Ban saw that a gray, rough, and sturdy tentacle protruded from his mouth.

The tentacles caused the man's entire body to lose its momentum, and he quickly burrowed out, like a newly hatched snake.

As the tentacles appeared, the man's body gradually shrank and twisted. Finally, when all the tentacles were revealed to Lu Ban, the man in the suit was gone, replaced by a twisted monster with tentacles as its head, limbs, and body.

The monster seemed to have no eyes or mouth; its main body was a tentacle that was wriggling on the ground, as if it were a parasite searching for a host.

"So, these people are actually monsters that have turned into this kind of thing?"

Faced with such a frenzied and irrational scene, Lu Ban thought to himself.

At this moment, Lu Ban suddenly felt much quieter.

He looked around, and all the people in suits suddenly turned their heads and stared at Lu Ban.

The heads that were turning normally and those that weren't turning normally had no expression, only unreadable gazes fixed on Lu Ban.

In the silent and still night, even the streetlights dimmed.

"Sorry to bother you guys."

Lu Ban stealthily tried to leave the group.

But a man in a suit reached out and grabbed Lu Ban.

One, two, three, and more people reached out and grabbed Lu Ban.

In the silent night, under the watchful gaze of the lights, they opened their mouths.

Without any unusual sound, slippery tentacles emerged from deep within its throat.

Like the convulsing man, these people in suits had contorted, shriveled faces, and from their mouths, the tentacles that formed their true forms were gradually revealing their original shapes.

Seeing this, Lu Ban did not panic, but opened his mouth.

In Shana, a kind of manic, incessant, tormenting muttering arose.

It's like scratching a blackboard with your fingernails, like rubbing Stone against a smooth hole, like a sharp, piercing buzzing sound.

In an instant, all the tentacles began to twitch wildly, and the men in suits collapsed to the ground as if they had lost all reason. At the same time, Trist instinctively covered his ears in the distance, and when Xiya heard the murmur, her eyes widened suddenly, bloodshot, and she immediately used a spell to temporarily block her hearing.

Lu Ban stopped muttering and walked past the tentacle monsters writhing on the ground to reach Trist and Xiya.

"It seems they don't really welcome me."

He said.

Ignoring the convulsing monsters, the three went straight to the church entrance in the center of town.

Pushing open the church door, Lu Ban saw the priest standing in front of the pulpit, reading a book.

"Perhaps you'd like to see this."

He pointed to the original manuscript placed on the last row of benches.

Trist pulled out his revolver and picked up the stack of manuscript papers as Lu Ban closed the door.

"Spiders, spiders everywhere, spiders falling from the sky."

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