"Another one!"
The moment Jiang Ruoyun finished speaking, she flung several more flying needles from her hand, pinning another identical bug that had crawled down from a different tree to the trunk.
Seeing the bug's ugly, bizarre appearance, Jiang Ruoyun felt a chill run through her heart.
It was called a centipede, yet it clearly had the upper body of a spider. It was called a spider, yet it had a tail like that of a centipede.
Viewed from the front, aside from being merely palm-sized, it did not look too different from a Netherworld String Spider. It likewise had firewood-like spider spears, but only its forebody resembled one;
Yet viewed from the side or behind, its hind abdomen bore no resemblance whatsoever to a Netherworld String Spider—not even to an ordinary spider. It was practically as though a centipede had been forcibly grafted onto a spider's rear abdomen.
The two strange creatures pinned to the trunks by short needles were frantically twisting their creepy centipede "tails." From the heads of their spider-like upper bodies came continuous, piercing hissing sounds.
Suddenly.
Amid the shrill commotion, one of the bugs thrust its long centipede tail fiercely into the tree trunk.
After a series of pulsations like someone drinking water, at the instant it pulled free, a savage cross-shaped blade-mouth abruptly opened and closed at the end of its tail, like a bloody maw.
Then several intermittent white jets of water shot from that mouth, incredibly swift and impossible to guard against.
Lu Feng reacted with lightning speed, pulling Jiang Ruoyun into his arms and evading the jets. At the same instant, he raised his hand and pointed at the trunk, returning fire with a fierce Sword Light.
The bizarre bug that had sprayed the water arrows was immediately severed at the