Bang!
With the gunshot, another girl spider wailed as flames engulfed her, reducing her to a pile of charcoal.
Holding the Persuader, Li Wei watched the enormous shadow at the end of the corridor.
It was another spider, but this one was much older than the girls. Her hair was white, her face covered in wrinkles. She glared at Li Wei through gritted teeth, her expression brimming with venom and fury.
"If I'm not mistaken, you're the Headmistress?"
Li Wei questioned the Human-Headed Spider before him. Cleaned up a little, she might have passed for a kindly old lady, but now her hideously twisted expression was so cold it sent a chill through him.
"Who sent you?"
The old woman glared at Li Wei and roared.
"How did you find this place?"
"I'm more interested in how you ended up looking like this."
Li Wei stared at the old woman before him and spoke softly.
"If I'm not mistaken, you're the author of Legends and Beliefs-An Investigation into the History of the Great Salt Lake. I never imagined that someone who insisted in her book that legends were nothing but fiction and exaggeration would end up like this herself. What's wrong? Don't you believe in history the way you used to?"
"That book... that book..."
Perhaps hearing the title of her own book had affected her. The venomous, hideous expression on the old woman's face softened a little.
"Hahaha, yes, legends and beliefs... all fiction... that was what I used to think... what I always thought!"
As she spoke, the old woman lowered her head and looked at her hairy, spiderlike body and long, slender limbs.
"But that isn't reality! Reality isn't like that! Deans showed me-showed me the truth hidden behind this world! We humans think we understand this