What an interesting method. Faced with her natural enemy, she was utterly helpless.
Of course, Fu Qian hadn't done it, though he hadn't come to her aid, either.
The sudden turn of events had taken less than a breath. Fu Qian had simply sat there the whole time, quietly observing.
He was even still turned halfway around. At that moment, Catherine's entire body gave the impression of prey tightly bound by invisible threads.
An odd sheen was even spreading across the surface of her body.
It was as if a greedy devourer would crawl out of her the next moment and swallow her whole, just as she had done to others.
And it seemed one really had.
Fu Qian still said nothing. Instead, he shifted his gaze to a shadow in a corner.
At first glance, there was nothing there. But from a hunter's perspective, Fu Qian thought it was an excellent ambush spot.
Hiss!
The movement had been subtle, but it still drew a response.
In that instant, something spread out from the darkness.
Was that... a web?
Catherine had already lost the ability to move, so Fu Qian knew the newly appeared attack was aimed at him.
Even so, he made no move. He merely watched as the thing unfurled before him.
Unlike the previous attack, this time a visible clump of something was actually flung out.
The grayish-white mass seemed almost weightless. The moment it appeared, it quickly spread, indiscriminately covering the entire area before them.
It really did look like a web. Even its octagonal shape and radiating main strands easily brought to mind a certain animal called a spider.
Though it seemed to exist in another dimension and hadn't actually touched anything, Fu Qian still felt a certain stickiness, as if his movements were slightly