A Clever Woman

While the wizard's followers were still gripped by fear of the Little spider, Yu Xing tore off another piece of spider silk and twisted it into sections of rope.

While others were filled with fear, he was doing his craft. After a short while, he walked over with several sturdy spider silk ropes and, taking advantage of the woman's momentary distraction, put one of them around her neck.

The moment the woman regained consciousness, Yu Xing's lips curled into a smile. He suddenly pulled the rope back, and the woman instantly let out a sound of bones breaking. Her eyes were fixed on Yu Xing, no longer blinking.

She doesn't seem to be dead, but she's not exactly alive either. Perhaps she triggered another form of the ghost's existence, or maybe the Ghost spider gathered enough fear to devour the woman in reality?

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow and tried to probe the woman's body with the power of the curse.

Strange, I feel like my body is still that withered shell, but my soul has vanished.

Could it be that he deliberately broke free from the hallucination?

Yu Xing paused. He didn't deny that when a wizard's follower realized they were in a hallucination, they had the ability to forcibly leave.

But wouldn't that put his physical body in great danger? For example, what if he was ambushed while he was immobilized...?

How annoying. He might as well go back to reality and take care of these guys. He wonders when Yu Fengchen will finish what he has to do.

The illusions of the Ghost spider were less interesting than Yu Xing had imagined; the illusions were not much different from reality and lacked any creativity.

However, he also understood that the Ghost spider had been roaming underground for so many years, so of course it didn't know what strange and wonderful things existed in the imaginations of humans on the surface.

Take, for example, the faces and corpses hidden in those spider webs. Ten years ago, they might have given people a heart attack, but now they're just little scenes from horror Yugi or movies.

However, even if they didn't achieve anything, they still put in the effort. Yu Xing decided to leave some food for the Ghost spider. He no longer wasted time and used the power of the curse to cover the minds of the remaining believers who were still trapped in the illusion.

With the power of the curse as their foundation, they have no chance of escaping the terror of the Ghost spider.

Then, he looked around at the void, randomly found a node in the air, and shattered it. Instantly, the surrounding environment shattered like glass, gradually disappearing into nothingness.

See, it's that simple for him to get out of the illusion.

When he came out, he was still in the same position he had been in when he entered the illusion, which was right behind the original Ghost spider's buttocks.

The spiderwebs did indeed extend outwards, but not as dramatically as in the hallucinations. Most of the dining room remained untouched, with spider silk connecting in all directions. Yu Xing looked towards the location of the wizard's followers.

The believers had already been wrapped in silk spun by the Ghost spider and turned into half a spider pupa.

Their bodies were covered and bound by white spider silk, which was connected to the spider web. Presumably, in a little while, the Ghost spider would completely control the fear within.

It wouldn't have been so easy originally; the curse that Yu Xing left in the minds of the believers at the end truly played a crucial role.

One, two, three, four.

One is missing.

Yu Xing first checked whether her body was entangled in spider silk or dirty before calmly leaving the area of the spider web.

The Ghost spider was hanging upside down on its web, happily spinning silk, looking forward to a feast enough for four people. It naturally sensed Yu Xing's help and immediately became much friendlier towards Yu Xing.

It seems that it doesn't mind Yu Xing poking its butt.

"One escaped, where could it have gone?" Yu Xing muttered to himself, looking around. It seemed that he had lost his way, after all, Ghost spider wouldn't really communicate with him.

But a subtle cunning glint gradually formed in his eyes.

"Let me think. Under normal circumstances, when faced with such a troublesome monster, and with all my companions trapped, the only smart girl should take this opportunity to quickly subdue me."

"But if I wake up before you can control me, then a smart girl should try to distance herself from me and Ghost spider, who is with me, and use the time difference to leave the dining room to inform a stronger follower."

"But... did you really do that?" Yu Xing turned her head and looked in one direction. "Or are you more adept at taking risks, hiding in the kitchen by yourself, thinking I wouldn't think of the concept of 'the darkest place is under the lamp,' and then waiting for the other believers to come, so you could strike unexpectedly and become the knife I couldn't see."

"Should I go to the kitchen and drag you out, clever lady?"

His tone was playful, with a rising intonation at the end, clearly demonstrating his utmost composure and exceptional confidence in his guess.

There was a moment of silence from the kitchen not far away, followed by footsteps a few seconds later.

The woman, maintaining her human form, emerged from behind the kitchen stove. Without glancing at her companion, who was now wrapped up even more tightly, she stared at Yu Xing, her somewhat disheveled figure shrouded in a wrinkled black robe.

After a long pause, the woman spoke, "Roy, is this your true nature?"

Yu Xing- naturedly. "How so?"

"Playful, wicked, and enjoys toying with others," the woman listed several adjectives in one breath. "I've already figured out how this spider kills, so in the hallucination, you deliberately threw Little spider at us."

"That's right, you are indeed a clever young lady." Yu Xing nodded politely, revealing a proper smile, as if he wasn't the one who threatened others just seconds before.

"Even though you're the one being hunted by everyone, you don't seem worried, so I can assume that something gives you that confidence, right?" the woman asked.

Yu Xing's answer was perfectly flawless, "You can understand it that way too."

"You intend to stop me from delivering the message, so you'll kill me." The woman sneered. "While my fighting skills aren't great, my escape skills are pretty good. Do you really think that by telling you this now, I'm giving up, or just buying me time to escape?"

"The fact that you're asking this question means either you've already prepared a way to escape, or you're just giving up. I think you're the former." Yu Xing shrugged and casually spread her hands. "Since you're already prepared, what else can I say? Anyway, I probably can't stop you."

"..." This time, the woman's probing gaze was even more pronounced.

Undeniably, Roy was right; she had a way to leave this place.

But knowing this, where did Roy get his confidence to be so calm? Wasn't he afraid that after she left, she would gather a large force of followers to surround and kill him?

There will be no more surprises; he will definitely die a horrible death.

Therefore, Roy believed he would be fine.

Why is that?

The more the woman thought about it, the more she felt things weren't so simple, unless there was another very important person in the group, Roy's companion.

Could it be...?