To Escape, He Could Only Kill the Giant Spider

Pei Chao was ultimately rescued by Feng Buzhi.

Perhaps Feng Buzhi looked very weak, or perhaps it was because he had regained his freedom, but Pei Chao's mindset quietly changed once again.

Pei Chao suddenly felt that Feng Buzhi did not seem quite so frightening.

He was not as powerfully built as Pei Chao, and he looked sickly besides.

When all was said and done, although Feng Buzhi's act of sharpening his fingers was very Weird—something an ordinary person could never do—that Weird behavior did not mean he was strong. Pei Chao felt he could easily knock Feng Buzhi flat.

Having escaped his restraints, Pei Chao regained his strength, and his fear naturally lessened as well.

Pei Chao stretched his body and said to Feng Buzhi, "Though you do look... strange, no matter what, I should thank you for saving me. If you run into any trouble in the future, come find me."

Having been tightly bound in spider silk for several hours, his body could not yet move freely. His upper body was all right, but his lower body—especially his right leg—had gone numb from the silk. It would probably take a while to recover.

But as Pei Chao rubbed his right leg, that Weird whispering sounded through the cave again.

Pei Chao felt irritated and began cursing again.

Feng Buzhi looked toward the cave entrance. "There's only one?"

The whisper had come from Shadow. Just then, Shadow had passed Feng Buzhi some information—the Giant Spider had returned.

Through sonar feedback, Feng Buzhi quickly sensed the spider as well.

Shadow replied, "Yes, only one. Please tell Pei Chao to stay quiet, and then stay still where you are. These spider Monsters are not very intelligent, and their eyesight is poor.

"As long as you stay quiet, it probably won't discover that you have escaped. Bad, I'm running out of time."

Feng Buzhi looked at Shadow in confusion and saw Shadow's body gradually fading.

Shadow said, "Do as I say. You two must survive, and then..."

Before he could finish, Shadow's body suddenly dispersed like smoke, returning to a space beneath Initial Town.

"I wonder whether they can make it back. Right, I still don't know that man's name."

Shadow sighed. He could do nothing now; everything would have to wait until tomorrow.

Shadow clearly did not know that he had already met Feng Buzhi many times by accident.

In the end, Feng Buzhi had sat quietly for seven days with too low a profile, so Shadow had never discovered that there was such a person in Initial Town.

"It seems the time this Shadow can appear each day is limited."

Feng Buzhi spoke softly.

"What is this kid muttering to himself about now?" Pei Chao frowned. "Come help me up. In a while, I'll take you back to town. Stay close behind me on the way. I'm not afraid of those Green-skinned Dwarves, but I might not be able to look after you properly. After all, they're very good at disguises and sneak attacks."

Feng Buzhi did not answer. His gaze remained fixed on the cave entrance.

Pei Chao seemed to notice something. He turned toward the entrance in confusion and saw the three-meter-long spider entering the cave, making him suck in a sharp breath.

"Hiss, damn it! Why has this beast come back again?!"

Pei Chao looked frustrated and irritated.

As a Caribbean pirate, he did not lack courage. Even against such a huge spider, he would dare to fight it.

But first, he had no weapon—his machete had been lost. Second, he had only just escaped, and both his legs were sore and numb. Let alone fighting the spider, even standing up and taking two steps was extremely difficult.

Thinking of this, Pei Chao took a deep breath and looked at Feng Buzhi. "Kid, my legs are numb, and I can't move right now. Looks like I won't be able to escape.

"You saved my life, so I'll return it to you now. When that spider beast comes over, I'll find a way to hold it back. You take the chance to run and head for the town!

"Oh, and if you get the chance, burn some paper money for me during the holidays!"

Pei Chao could not be called a good person, but in some respects, he had his own kindness.

Since he could not survive anyway, he might as well save someone else.

As Pei Chao spoke, he moved his arms. They were somewhat sore and numb from being bound too, but not seriously so. He could still exert force normally and should be able to stall it for a while.

When the time came, he would grab the spider's body with both hands, and then...

"Fuck!! What are you doing? Are you crazy? Damn it, I'm giving up my life for you! I even told you to burn paper money for me, you—!"

Pei Chao cried out loudly.

Before his eyes, the sickly Feng Buzhi walked toward the spider, practically delivering himself to its jaws.

Feng Buzhi did not explain Pei Chao's shout. His attention was focused on the Giant Spider, observing every minute movement it made.

He clearly would not choose Pei Chao's proposal to sacrifice his life for him.

After all, in his view, the chance of Pei Chao successfully stopping the giant spider long enough for him to flee was low, and it would leave endless trouble behind. Once the spider broke free of Pei Chao, it might still pursue him.

As for staying perfectly still as Shadow had suggested, that was not impossible, but it also carried risks.

The area around the cave was this spider's territory. There was a high chance that other spider-silk traps lay nearby. If he and Pei Chao became trapped in one while leaving, and the spider appeared then, he would have no ability to resist while caught in the silk.

Compared to that, killing the spider himself was clearly the wiser choice.

Then, even if they got caught in another spider-silk trap, they could slowly free themselves.

Feng Buzhi walked more than ten steps toward the spider, then stopped and quietly watched it approach.

He understood spiders' habits very well. Spiders generally did not attack things that remained still.

Behind him, Pei Chao was deeply confused. He could not understand why Feng Buzhi had stopped halfway through walking to his death.

He did not know what Feng Buzhi was trying to do—or rather, he had never understood what Feng Buzhi wanted to do.

In fact, Pei Chao was not the only one confused. The Giant Spider was puzzled as well.

The Giant Spider tilted its head and studied the food in front of it in confusion.

This food seemed to have been moving not long ago.

But now, this food was completely still. Perhaps... it seemed to have already been bound by it. Only, it was in the wrong place. It should have been placed farther inside.

Had it put it in the wrong place earlier?

The Giant Spider moved to carry Feng Buzhi deeper into the cave, but just as one of its legs was about to touch Feng Buzhi's body, Feng Buzhi moved.

The shackles on his body broke once more. Feng Buzhi suddenly struck, driving the bone blade fashioned from his right hand toward the spider's mouthparts—more precisely, the inner area between its pair of fangs.

It was roughly the upper palate of its mouth, and also a relatively vulnerable part of the spider's head.

The bone blade might have no problem cutting spider silk, but it was not very sturdy, so he could only strike at the weakest point.

Accompanied by a cracking sound, Feng Buzhi's bone blade struck true. One of his fingers broke, but his remaining fingers successfully thrust into the spider's head, piercing its brain. Then he viciously stirred with the fingers buried inside.

If it had been an ordinary mammal, Feng Buzhi's strike would have been enough to kill it instantly. But spiders were arthropods.

Although its brain was damaged, the Giant Spider still retaliated.

Its venomous fangs bit directly into the arm Feng Buzhi had thrust into its head. Several legs worked together to pin Feng Buzhi down, while its abdomen twisted and began madly wrapping him in silk.

This was a spider's instinctive action. This was how spiders treated prey caught in their webs—furiously winding them up with silk from their abdomens.

Feng Buzhi did not sit still and await death.

The instant he realized the spider's fangs had bitten his right arm, he grabbed his right elbow with his left hand, then erupted with immense strength and violently twisted and tore.

He forcibly snapped off and ripped away his own right arm!

Blood sprayed everywhere!

Before the venom could spread from his right arm through his entire body, Feng Buzhi used the explosive force granted by Breaking the Shackles to tear off his right arm at the elbow, preventing the venom from flooding into his body through it!

Because its brain had been damaged, the Giant Spider's movements gradually slowed. The silk from its abdomen slowly stopped winding, and its legs loosened their hold on Feng Buzhi. Its brain had suffered a fatal injury; the Giant Spider was effectively already dead.

Feng Buzhi freed himself from the Giant Spider's legs. He pulled silk from the spider's abdomen and tightly wrapped the stump of his right arm, finally using his teeth to tie a knot and prevent excessive blood loss.

As for the remaining half of his arm, it had been injected with venom by the fangs and had already turned blackish purple. Poison-filled blood and flesh dripped down, hissing as they fell.

Clearly, the Giant Spider's venom was extremely potent. Had he not abandoned his right arm, he would very likely have become a corpse by now.

Feng Buzhi released the Breaking the Shackles state.

His body began convulsing uncontrollably once more. He collapsed as blood flowed from his mouth, nostrils, and eyes. The backlash from this use of Breaking the Shackles was even more severe than when he had faced the Goblin not long ago.

With my current body, I can break the shackles at most two more times in a short period. And the burden of those two times will grow heavier and heavier. The second time I break the shackles, I may very well die from the backlash, Feng Buzhi thought...