Divine Artifact

The glacier meanders at the foot of the mountain, with the outflowing area being relatively completely eroded, while the journey towards its source is marked by various types of erosion holes.

These holes are corroded to varying degrees, some long and some short.

There are tunnels that are three to five meters long, some are more than ten meters long, and some are even more than a hundred meters long.

Ice water occasionally overflows from the numerous holes, eventually converging into a stream.

Following the overflow hole identified by Badun, the glacial water ahead became increasingly shallow.

The water, which is several meters deep, is only ankle-deep by the time it reaches the source; it is so shallow that it is almost negligible.

This is it!

Badun, who was leading the group, stopped and pointed to the remaining spider corpses ahead.

"I followed the glacier and found spider carcasses at its source, which led me to a gap. By digging a bit, I reached the top!"

"Is the Spider God's Cave at the top?"

"You still have a hundred or two hundred meters to walk, but once you get out of the passage, you'll definitely see everything at the end!"

"Badun, do you want me to break your leg right now?"

"I'm perfectly sober now, and I haven't run away. Wait a minute before you hit me!"

After a few murmurs, the group slowly made their way through the hole, which was only about half a person's height.

The narrow terrain made Zhang Hao and the others frown repeatedly, feeling that such terrain would make it impossible to escape quickly if they encountered risks, making it completely unsuitable for a team, and only suitable for individual concealment and hiding.

Of course, this terrain has one advantage: it can prevent Badun from being drawn away by evil intentions and fleeing.

In front of Badun were Zhang Xuezhou and Zhou Rihui, and behind them was Zhou Xin, with Naggus crammed behind Zhou Xin.

Naggs was negligible; Badun was sandwiched between passages and blocked from both the front and back, making escape impossible.

"Back off! Back off!"

A harsh slicing sound rang out, followed by Zhou Rihui's repeated urging to retreat.

The force of being pushed backwards from the front caused many people to collide with each other.

"Damn it, I was planning to ambush them, but they ambushed me instead. This passage was discovered a long time ago. Badun is unreliable, fine, but this passage is unreliable too!"

Nagos swayed, couldn't help but curse, and then quickly asked a question.

How is Professor Zhang doing?

The sound of the collision came extremely quickly, as if a long sword had sliced through metal, and then the sound faded away as the sword was swept back.

The collision, in which everyone stumbled backward, proved the immense power of the impact. If this power were combined with a sharp strike, the resulting force would undoubtedly be deadly.

Several voices rang out in succession, clearly indicating that everyone was paying attention to Zhang Xuezhou's situation at the forefront.

"Difficult to handle!"

Zhang Xuezhou's brief warning came through, and while many people felt relieved, they also realized how formidable their opponent was, and they quickly gripped their genetic weapons tightly.

"It's really tough!"

When Sunday Hui called out, Badun's pained cry was heard again.

"It must be the power released by that divine artifact. Every time we fight, we get injured; our bodies feel like they're being pricked with needles!"

"What kind of power is that?"

Badun made a swift judgment, which made everyone gasp.

"If you encounter a spider attack, you either have to kill it with one blow or avoid it; otherwise, you'll definitely be the one who suffers!"

Badun's warning had barely faded when he inevitably let out another cry of pain.

Clearly, knowing is one thing, doing is another, and Badun was not immune to making mistakes in his actions.

The light from the flares began to appear in the cave, their dazzling glow far exceeding the brightness of the searchlights.

For more than ten seconds, the blinding light illuminated every part of the dark cave, even the underground caverns were bathed in light.

The piercing and sharp cries were incessant.

As Zhang Xuezhou's gaze swept across the space of over a hundred square meters, he saw Montesbingo appear fifty meters away. The man, holding a short, silvery-white cone with two pointed ends, crawled down, and then his body quickly split open, revealing a human-faced spider with a purple glow.

Just like the spider-like creatures they encountered in Brampeda, they now had a second encounter in this cave.

Moreover, this human-faced spider's ability to mimic is even closer to reality. The face it presents is extremely realistic, unlike the strange woman Zhang Xuezhou and the others had seen before. It is even wearing Montessinger's clothes.

If Badun hadn't repeatedly changed his team, and hadn't always been a hit-and-run operation, the probability of his entire group being wiped out if the enemy had infiltrated them would have been extremely high.

Touching his still throbbing head, Zhang Xuezhou felt as if his head had been cracked open by the other person.

He glanced at the large spider that was tearing and clawing at him, then quickly scanned his surroundings, grabbing another flare in his hand.

"Get lost, ouch!"

When Zhou Rihui crushed the spider that had crawled onto his head with one hand, his face showed pain, and he couldn't help but cry out in pain, bending over.

"Brother Zhou, I feel like these things are exactly the same as you, they hurt terribly when you hit them," Zhou Rihui exclaimed.

"These little creatures won't kill us, let's leave them alone for now. An Ran and the professor will come out and control them in a bit!"

In the blinding light that illuminated him once again, Zhang Xuezhou stared intently at the human-faced spider, and at the short, silvery-white cone he had tried to snatch during the attack.

"That's the magical artifact you were talking about?"

Zhang Xuezhou glanced at Badun, which prompted Badun to nod repeatedly.

"Is it a descendant?" Zhang Xuezhou asked again.

"I don't know. Perhaps it's a descendant, or perhaps it's merely a guard of the Spider God!"

Seeing Montes Bingo's image transform into a spider sent a chill down Montes Badun's spine.

The individual strengths of the ferocious spider beasts and the Spider God Guardians are similar, but the latter possesses a higher status and authority. For example, they can use divine artifacts when faced with an insurmountable crisis, or command spider swarms, or even order the ferocious spider beasts to fight regardless of their own lives.

"I didn't see the Spider God ritual here. Be careful, and you'd better try to find the source of the evil as soon as possible!"

Zhang Xuezhou gave a warning and began to move slowly, constantly adjusting the position of the poisonous tree staff in his hand.

Although he didn't know how to control the artifact, he had personally grasped the silver-white short cone and knew that there was no problem with him handling it.

If this artifact, which creates an area of influence, is thrown far away, then this place becomes a dilemma: whether to fight or not.

"Cut!"

A sensation of needles pricking his feet surged through Zhang Xuezhou's mind. He saw that a spider the size of a fingernail had been crushed into a lump of mud by him.

Spiders occasionally tried to crawl onto Zhang Xuezhou, only to be brushed away by layers of flowing light.

In such areas, avoiding the deaths and injuries of spiders is more difficult than killing ferocious beasts.

Zhang Xuezhou's body also has the ability to avoid spiders from getting on it. For example, Zhou Rihui's invisibility cloak was torn and his body was covered with spiders. Even if he sprayed insect repellent perfume, it would not have any effect. Badun also quietly activated his domain ability, coating his body with a layer of iron membrane to avoid them.

Zhou Xin, who was behind him, groaned repeatedly, clearly feeling extremely uncomfortable from being bitten.

"This is truly a blood feud!"

Naggus muttered to himself, and could only pull the invisibility cloak covering his entire body tighter.

We don't have much time left!

Naggs let out a shout.

Invisibility cloaks aren't made of metal; such materials would inevitably be bitten through.

Even if these cave spiders didn't break through the cloak of invisibility, their bites still caused a stinging pain to the skin.

He squeezed the switch, and when it was turned on, he saw the spider jumping down and then leaping onto Zhou Xin in front of him. He knew that the invisibility cloak was still useful, and he couldn't help but give him a few more instructions.

But things were indeed as Naggs said. The group didn't have much time. The invisibility cloaks had a time limit and would be bitten off by the spiders. And the spiders facing them weren't stupid; they would definitely attack the group.

When Zhang Xuezhou threw the third flare, a sharp, piercing sound rang out again.