Corpses in the Web

Little spider are another attack method of the Ghost spider. Although they may not seem to hurt or itch at first glance, their advantage lies in their sheer number.

Each Little spider enhances the stability of the Ghost spider illusion and is also the source of fear. If bitten by Little spider, something terrible will happen in the illusion, although the Little spider will also dissipate as a result.

Ultimately, it is not a living entity, but a pure energy entity.

The Little spider wasn't very intelligent and didn't know how to distinguish things Ghost spider. After landing on Yu Xing's head, it lightly crawled a few times and then fell next to Yu Xing's neck. Right in front of her was fair flesh. As soon as the Little spider opened its mouthparts, Yu Xing felt a stinging pain.

The neck is a blind spot, but it was covered in spider webs. As soon as Yu Xing felt the pain, she realized that she must have been bitten.

He paused for a moment, not sensing any change, and let it go. In any case, if anything really happened, his curse power could settle everything in the Underground City.

Continuing along these torn holes, Yu Xing finally realized the difference between the illusion and reality.

In the illusion, these spiderwebs covered a much larger area than in reality, almost enveloping the entire dining room.

As he walked, he saw the dining table and chairs in the kitchen. Strands of grayish-white cobwebs were wrapped around the wooden furniture, creating a very old and worn atmosphere.

The table, which had been used just the day before, looked as if it hadn't been touched for thousands of years after being covered in cobwebs; it looked like it would weather away at the slightest touch, mottled and old.

Yu Xing passed the table and continued forward. Here, the signs of entanglement became more obvious. Not only was the spider web violently torn apart, but there were also some Little spider corpses left around.

It also looks like there are hairs on the body of a large spider.

It seems this group of wizard followers is indeed quite capable. Apart from being less resistant to Mental Attack, their ability to confront wizard followers head-on is stronger than Yu Xing has encountered before.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp."

Suddenly, Yu Xing heard some indescribable sounds, like whispers.

He stopped and looked around. The surroundings were covered with sticky spider webs, and spiders that looked unsettling scurried back and forth in the gaps of the webs. It seemed that anyone caught in the webs would be attacked by a swarm of Little spider if they were not careful.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp."

This time, Yu Xing focused his attention and realized that the sound was coming from his left.

To the left was thick spider silk, but the sound gradually changed from animal communication to sound more and more like a human voice. Yu Xing listened carefully and heard a few fragmented words in the faint, murmuring voice.

"Get me out of here..."

"Forever..."

"Stay with me..."

Yu Xing stood there thoughtfully for a while, then, quite obligingly, reached out and began to pluck at the spiderweb.

The sticky spider silk was indeed uncomfortable, but since he knew it was an illusion, he didn't care and continued to tear it deeper and deeper.

Suddenly, his fingertips seemed to touch something hard, quite different from the feel of spider silk.

Yu Xing's lips curled into a smile.

Ah, I see. He understood.

If he wasn't mistaken, he had encountered...

One of his men forcefully tore away the last strand of spider silk blocking their path, revealing the hard object itself.

It was a human head.

The human head stared wide-eyed, its mouth agape. Several Little spider, disturbed by the sight, crawled out of the head's gaping mouth and scurried away, quickly disappearing from sight.

Below the head is the neck, and below that are the shoulders. Yu Xing guessed that this should be a complete human being.

The man's face was pale, his breathing was flat, and his wide eyes were unfocused and devoid of any light. He remained motionless after Yu Xing dug him out of the spider silk.

It was clearly a corpse.

The sound that just came from the spider silk, like a cry for help, was from this corpse.

Yu Xing guessed correctly.

After staring at the corpse for a long time, Yu Xing didn't intend to dig it out. He tugged at the spider silk sticking to his fingertips, clapped his hands, and prepared to leave.

But something didn't want him to leave.

The murmurs I just heard appeared again, but this time they weren't coming from any particular direction; they were coming from all directions.

"They'll never... escape."

"Stay here with us."

"Right here, right here, right here..."

There are people talking from every angle; does that mean there's a corpse in every angle?

Yu Xing smiled.

Suddenly, right above Yu Xing's head, above the head covered in spider webs... a pair of small legs dangled down.

These lower legs seemed to have just broken free from their restraints, swaying rhythmically with gravity. Yu Xing then looked up and saw that the thighs connected to these lower legs were still wrapped in the spider web, and extending further into the spider silk were the upper body and head.

The lifeless lower leg was a bit eerie. Just after the lower leg came down, the spider silk from all directions began to wriggle, as if avoiding something, and the things hidden in the spider silk began to reveal themselves.

So many faces.

Almost countless faces gradually emerged from the spider silk, their faces filled with terror, their ear holes, nostrils, and mouths becoming fertile ground for Little spider.

Those faces almost completely blocked Yu Xing's path, leaving no gaps in the spider silk that could have been torn apart, as if the silk was filled with corpses.

Every face had its eyes open, and the dead bodies twitched their lips, opening and closing like puppets. "Stay with us forever..."

"The Little spider's purpose is to increase fear in the illusion," Yu Xing muttered, completely ignoring the shameless words.

What he's experiencing is very illogical.

Unless he happened to stumble upon the place where the Ghost spider stored its food, where there were corpses everywhere, it would be very difficult to even maintain the internal structure of the spider silk, let alone tear open the hole.

He clearly followed the hole dug by those wizard followers and hadn't seen anyone yet. What? Did the followers just vanish into thin air?

Of course not. Even if the wizard reverts to his spirit form, he might be able to penetrate ordinary walls, but he doesn't believe that a spirit form can directly penetrate the dream woven by the Ghost spider and the spider silk mainly used to confuse its prey.

Therefore, this is a hallucination within a hallucination.

He was seeing what the Ghost spider wanted him to see, and the Ghost spider's way of transmitting these signals must be through the Little spider. He had just been bitten; wasn't this the perfect timing?