"Whoosh! Whoosh!...!"
Black spiders, their bodies pitch-black, kept leaping down into the plaza from above and from the upper side walls of the cave, illuminated by the lights and Glow Sticks.
In an instant, countless black spiders filled the entire plaza. The largest were the size of calves, while even the smallest were as big as medium-sized dogs. They surged toward everyone in the plaza.
Gunfire rang out without end. For a time, the entire cave was filled with gunshots and shouts.
Moreover, because the Ability Users had pushed farther ahead, many of them were surrounded by spiders. All kinds of abilities flashed through the cave, and together with the spiders' shrieks, not a single rat dared approach the cave entrance anymore.
Even when the occasional rat ran over, it would quickly turn and flee back into its burrow upon hearing the sounds, especially the spiders' shrieks.
"Ah! Poisoned! The spiders are poisonous!"
A mercenary had been firing at the spiders swarming him when one attacked from behind. Its fangs pierced through his shoulder blade from the back and came out through the front.
The mercenary immediately drew his pistol with his other hand and kept pulling the trigger at the spider. Driven by pain and at such close range, every bullet struck the spider's head. After dragging the mercenary a few steps, it died.
The mercenary struggled free and pulled out the fangs. But soon, the place where he had been bitten turned black. His body also went limp and beyond his control, while dizziness, nausea, and other symptoms appeared.
As a veteran mercenary, he naturally knew what those symptoms meant. He had clearly been poisoned. The spider's fangs carried venom, and it had injected the venom into his body when it pierced his shoulder blade.
He collapsed weakly