Spider Monster

The stone projectile flew through the air with a whistling sound, striking the giant spider's body, but with a 'pop,' it was repelled.

Zhou Xu's heart clenched as he witnessed this.

In his impression, spiders had always been fragile.

It made sense, after all. Compared to a normal spider, humans had an overwhelming advantage in size, allowing them to easily crush a spider.

But they had never considered: when a spider's size became larger than an off-road vehicle, would it still be so fragile?

The specialized ranged weapons had lost most of their meaning at this moment.

The giant spider, having been attacked, undoubtedly noticed Dashan's presence. It lifted its rear, and a strand of white silk was sprayed directly from its spinneret.

Facing this sudden attack, Dashan, remembering the words their leader had just spoken to them, reacted quickly. With a sidestep, he directly hid behind a nearby Black Forest tree.

Dashan's evasion caused the sprayed spider silk to stick directly to the main trunk of that Black Forest tree.

The giant spider, thinking its attack had missed, should have temporarily ceased its assault.

Unexpectedly, the giant spider's reaction was not slow at all.

Since the spider silk was stuck to the main trunk of the Black Forest tree, it simply used its legs to hook onto the silk and pulled with all its might.

Its intention wasn't to uproot the Black Forest tree, but to use the force of dragging the silk to close the distance faster!

"Dashan! Get out of there!!"

Zhou Xu, who had seen the entire scene clearly from the side, urgently shouted a warning.

At the same time, he spun his sling, launching an attack at the giant spider with all his might.

After personally witnessing Dashan's stone projectile being repelled by the spider's carapace, he no longer held much hope for the destructive power of the sling.

He just wanted to distract the giant spider with this attack.

Otherwise, given the speed the giant spider was currently displaying, if Dashan were to be targeted, it would be dire.

The flying stone projectile successfully hit its target. After all, the giant spider was indeed huge, and the distance wasn't far, making the hit difficulty very low.

However, Zhou Xu's attack did not manage to draw the giant spider's 'aggro.'

The giant spider, which had endured the attack, completely ignored it. After closing the distance, its ferocious forelegs reached past the Black Forest tree blocking its path and plunged forward.

Having received Zhou Xu's warning in advance, Dashan scrambled away towards another Black Forest tree, his movements slightly clumsy.

During this time, Zhou Xu's offensive actions naturally did not stop. The second stone projectile was already spinning rapidly on the sling.

"Everyone scatter and attack the giant spider simultaneously!"

If it couldn't draw 'aggro,' then they wouldn't stop attacking until the giant spider paid attention to them.

At this moment, Zhou Xu even had a thought: Could they use their numbers to keep kiting it and wear the giant spider down until it died?

But he quickly realized that this idea was not realistic.

In order to conduct tactical drills in this Black Forest, they had brought some stone projectiles, but honestly, the quantity was not large. Each person only brought about four or five stone projectiles.

Given this premise, how much damage could a single stone projectile inflict on the giant spider?

Furthermore, in the relatively complex environment of the Black Forest, they couldn't guarantee that every stone projectile would hit. It would be a miracle if they could wear the opponent down.

For now, the best course of action was to find a way to escape the giant spider's pursuit.

As Zhou Xu thought, he organized the remaining slingers to attack the giant spider from different directions.

Unlike the previous single attacks, with the increased attack density, the giant spider undoubtedly could no longer ignore them.

It immediately abandoned its pursuit of Dashan, turning its attention to try and pinpoint their locations.

"Don't stop, keep attacking!"

While observing the entire situation, Zhou Xu quickly organized a new round of attacks.

However, almost as this new round of attacks began, the giant spider suddenly spun around violently, as if locking onto him!

This situation sent chills down Zhou Xu's spine.

What's going on? Why did it lock onto me so decisively? Does it know I'm commanding the attack? Is it that intelligent?

No, no! If it truly had this level of intelligence, it would have attacked me from the beginning, not now!

Calm down, there must be a reason it's targeting me. Did it detect my presence? How did it detect me?

By forcing himself to calm down, Zhou Xu's mind gradually cleared.

Spiders have many eyes, but their eyesight is generally poor, and they have no hearing. How do they distinguish targets? Touch. Vibration! It's vibration!

I get it. All this time, I've been shouting. The air vibrations generated when I shouted allowed it to sense my presence.

With this realization, Zhou Xu, who had hastily hidden behind a Black Forest tree to evade the giant spider's attack, quickly shouted again...

"Everyone shout together while running! Quickly!!!"

Receiving Zhou Xu's command, the tribe members, including Dashan, didn't doubt him and quickly followed suit.

In that instant, the sound waves coming from all directions indeed confused the giant spider. For a moment, it hesitated in place, unsure where to go.

Seizing the opportunity, they spun their slings and launched their attacks.

In the process, it's unknown if they had pushed the giant spider too far.

The giant spider suddenly lifted its rear and shot webs in one direction.

This came on very suddenly, and one of the tribe members couldn't dodge in time, immediately getting caught!

The tip of the web seemed to open into a small spider web, tightly binding his waist.

Facing this sudden situation, the tribe member was instantly terrified, struggling to reach out and pull at the spider web wrapped around him.

As a result, with this one grab, he only felt a sticky sensation in his hands; his palms were actually stuck to the spider web.

At the same time, the giant spider, having successfully hit its target, wasn't going to waste any time. While its strength couldn't move the rooted black tree, dragging a person was hardly difficult?

A force that he couldn't resist at all was transmitted directly through the spider web.

The tribe member's feet desperately pushed against the ground, but it couldn't change this reality.

At the critical moment, the two tribe members closest to him rushed forward to hold him back. One of them seized an opportunity and directly used the stone axe in his hand to chop at the spider web.

However, the toughness of the spider web was completely beyond their imagination. The edge of the stone axe couldn't sever the flexible web, and at the same time, the combined strength of the three of them couldn't contend with the spider monster.

At this moment, watching the spider monster steadily closing the distance, a deep sense of powerlessness almost completely engulfed him.

"Go, you guys hurry and leave!!!"

Looking at the two tribe brothers still holding onto him, the tribe member showed a hint of determination amidst his grief.

If they didn't leave now, all three of them would be dragged over!

In the blink of an eye, a ball of fire suddenly shot down from their field of vision, striking the giant spider that was dragging them from a distance.

A torch! It was a torch!!

The torch fell after hitting the giant spider and didn't ignite it, but the invisible burning sensation it caused clearly made the giant spider panic.

At the same time, Zhou Xu, with the fastest speed possible, tied another torch to the tip of a bone spear. Holding this hastily made 'fire spear,' he charged forward with a roar!