Silk Shroud and the Twisted "Good Neighbor" Entity
The "Untargetable" patch written by Grey Matter is designed to prevent physical damage and the laws of causality in reality. However, the web spun by this mutated spider is not a physical protein thread at all, but a "Fate Causal Lines" that directly connects the Soul Stone and the subconscious.
It was like invisible mental cables forcibly trying to download Jiang Li's consciousness into the other party's local area network.
"You actively invited me to your server?"
Jiang Li not only did not dodge, but also released his right hand from the watch face.
"I was just worried about where your main console is. Now that you've sent me an invitation, I'm going to wreak havoc in your dreams."
Pfft!
Hundreds of translucent spider Silk entered Jiang Li's brain without any hindrance.
There was no pain, and no bleeding.
Jiang Li's body froze instantly on the streets of Queens, his eyes losing focus. His Soul Stone, under an extremely terrifying dimensional pull, was forcibly dragged into a bottomless Subconscious Abyss.
come down.
An endless fall.
When Jiang Li opened his eyes again, the scenery around him had undergone a complete transformation.
The sky was no longer a ghastly green, but a deathly gray-white. There was no sun, no clouds; the sky was completely sealed off by a huge white spiderweb large enough to cover the entire earth.
He was standing on a twisted, upside-down street. Gravity was chaotic here; some buildings were suspended in mid-air, while others hung upside down overhead.
"Woof!"
A low growl came. Jiang Li his head and found that the Mechanical Hound had also followed him in. Moreover, in the Nightmare Dimension, the Mechanical Hound's metal shell had turned into a translucent, ghostly blue.
"This is... Queens in the Spiritual Dimension."
Jiang Li looked around, raising an eyebrow slightly.
The place is no longer empty. Countless huge white cocoons are hanging densely on the streets, on the upside-down buildings, and even on the spider webs in mid-air.
Millions!
These white cocoons are not for hatching spiders. Their surfaces shimmer with extremely faint brainwave-like light.
Jiang Li walked to the nearest white cocoon and looked inside through the translucent silk threads.
Inside was the Soul Stone of a human. It was a middle-aged man, his eyes closed, his face contorted in extreme pain, and blood tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.
Above his head floated a constantly looping, unreal image: a scene of despair as he watched his daughter die in his arms after a car accident when he was young.
"Silk Shroud"
Jiang Li instantly saw through the rules of this dimension.
These white cocoons are "Fate Cage" woven from humanity's most painful memories and deepest fears. The mutated spider entity has dragged the subconscious of the entire Queens into this place, subjecting them to the most desperate moments of their lives in an endless cycle.
And that monster feeds on these painful emotions.
"With great power comes great appetite... right, sir?"
A dull, distorted voice, seemingly composed of thousands of voices, suddenly exploded across the entire gray, upside-down city.
Rumble!
The enormous spiderweb covering the sky above them began to tremble violently.
A terrifying entity, so enormous it defies description, slowly descended along the spiderweb.
Jiang Li raised her head.
It was a giant spider pieced together entirely from glowing nerve plexuses, broken vertebrae, and a human brain! Each of its legs was a thick, pale spine, and its abdomen was a huge, pulsating, translucent brain.
And on its back, hundreds and thousands of human eyeballs are densely embedded, spinning wildly.
At the very front of the monster was an extremely pale face belonging to a human youth.
Peter Parker.
But this was no longer the sunny high school student. His mouth was forcibly torn to his ears, revealing a dense array of venomous fangs.
Welcome to my Nightmare Web. Every prey that falls into it will face its most wretched fate.
The mutated Peter's dead face didn't open its mouth, but its voice echoed directly in Jiang Li's mind.
Let me see... what fears are hidden in your destiny line? Is it the death of family members? The loss of power? Or...?
Swish!
Several thick, glowing neural spider Silk descended from the sky and wrapped directly around Jiang Li's wrists and ankles.
The mutated Peter attempts to read Jiang Li's subconscious and use Jiang Li's most feared memories to weave a unique "Silk Shroud" for him.
However.
One second passed. Five seconds passed.
The hundreds of eyeballs on the back of the giant neural spider suddenly stopped rotating, revealing an extremely human-like "confusion".
No fear. No regrets. No despair.
[How is this possible... Your destiny is broken! You have no past, you have no fear?!]
The mutated Peter let out a piercing scream, and its pale face convulsed violently.
It had never seen a creature with such a pure yet ferocious subconscious.
"Find my weaknesses?"
Jiang Li was suspended in mid-air by Silk. Instead of struggling, he looked at the giant neurotic spider above him as if he were an idiot.
Jiang Li suddenly pulled with both hands.
Collapse!
Those supposedly indestructible spider Silk of fate were forcibly torn off by Jiang Li using his Soul Stone power!
He landed steadily on the roof of an upside-down building, looked up at the mutated Peter was in chaos, and sneered.
"You insect who relies on sucking up other people's pitiful memories to act like a ghost, do you even deserve to be called a Nightmare Entity?"
Jiang Li slowly raised his left arm.
In the spiritual dimension, the [Multiversal Energy Core] remains firmly attached to his Soul Stone wrist.
"Since you enjoy manipulating dreams so much, today I'll show you what I'm capable of."
Jiang Li slammed his finger heavily on the center of the watch face.
The dazzling green light instantly dispelled the gloom in this gray-white dimension!
"What truly means for a dream to come true!"
[Gene bank unlocking in progress...]
[Search current dimension: Pure Spirit/Dream Realm.]
[Loading Form: Pesky Dust!]
Buzz--!
Accompanied by an extremely crisp and ethereal system notification sound.
The green light dissipated.
Jiang Li's figure disappeared. In his place appeared a petite, elf-like alien with blue skin, long light purple hair, and a pair of transparent wings like stained glass on its back.
It floated in mid-air, looking extremely fragile, even somewhat cute, completely out of place in this bloody and terrifying spider Nightmare Dimension dimension.
The Nemuina, the most terrifying dream rulers in the entire universe.
[A... fairy?]
The mutated Peter stared at the tiny blue figure, less than half a meter tall, and let out an incredulous roar.
[You think you can defy my Web of Fate by conjuring up a doll?! Become my food!]
Boom!
The giant neural spider went berserk. Tens of thousands of glowing spider Silk cascaded down like a waterfall, attempting to instantly shred the fragile blue sprite.
However.
Jiang Li, transformed into the [Pesky Dust], merely fluttered her colorful wings on her back.
He raised his small, blue right hand and snapped his the Snap crisply.
Smack
"Shh. Time to sleep, Spider-Man."
A wisp of pink dust, as dazzling as the aurora borealis, drifted from the Pesky Dust's fingertips, instantly meeting the sky full of neural spider Silk.