Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 420 - 55: Swarm of Spiders

At the moment the door opened, the sound of countless sharp limbs scraping the floor reached the ears of the three people. Before Ling Xiao could react, Lilith had already grabbed his collar and teleported him away from the door.

As the two teleported out, countless small spiders, emitting a milky white fluorescence, surged out of the factory!

"Damn, spiders!" Lilith cursed under her breath, teleporting back four or five more distances, "Damn it, I hate spiders the most!"

The three of them hadn't participated in the first siege of Chimera 17, otherwise, they would have immediately recognized that these glowing spiders were almost indistinguishable from the Chimera offspring that attacked the sniping team at the periphery during that operation.

Jiang Yu immediately raised her short bow and opened with a triple shot, pinning the first three small spiders to the ground. But when she prepared to shoot a fourth arrow, the hand reaching for the arrow stopped cold.

She only had two arrows left, but the number of small spiders pouring out of Warehouse No. 5 would have to be measured in the thousands. Even if you doubled the number of arrows Jiang Yu carried… no, even if you multiplied it by ten, it still wouldn't be enough.

Realizing this, Jiang Yu simply put away her short bow and turned to run.

"Disgusting, truly disgusting! Why do these eight-legged things... exist in the world?" Lilith released Ling Xiao, grumbling as she spoke.

Even as she grumbled, her hands weren't idle—two orange basketball-sized fireballs quickly formed in her hands and were hurled toward the swarm of spiders.

The two fireballs landed precisely in the densest part of the spider swarm and then exploded with a roar—though the fireballs didn't seem large, the actual explosive force far exceeded that of several kilograms of defensive grenades. Jiang Yu, who was closest to the spider swarm, felt a scorching blast wave slam into her back. When she turned to look, all she could see was the sky-high blaze and scattered burnt spider remains exuding a charred smell.

"Go to hell! All of you, go to hell!" Lilith stood nearly a hundred meters away, continuously throwing one fireball after another, the explosions reverberating incessantly… In just a few dozen seconds, thousands of small spiders that had surged from Warehouse No. 5 were all blasted sky high—the remaining stragglers were precisely speared by spikes emerging unpredictably from the ground, except for one that pounced close to Jiang Yu, which had evaded Lilith's relentless bombardment.

Although these spiders were called "small spiders," that was in comparison to their "mother" Chimera 17 in size. In reality, the bodies of these spiders were already the size of an adult's palm, and the fully extended length of their eight slender limbs exceeded half a meter. In terms of spiders, they could definitely be described as "giants."

This glowing spider bounced directly from the ground, its eight limbs spreading open like a claw, lunging towards Jiang Yu's face—for a moment, Jiang Yu recalled an alien creature called a "facehugger" she had seen in movies.

However, unlike the cannon fodder in movies who froze in fear, Jiang Yu was not about to sit idle. With the glowing spider less than half a meter from her face, she already withdrew the last two arrows strapped to her leg, using them like short spears to crisscross and pierce through the glowing spider's body!

The glowing spider immediately let out a piercing scream, its long slender limbs slashing wildly, leaving Jiang Yu's outstretched arms scratched and bleeding—but for Jiang Yu, who had the Taishui meme, such wound mended in the blink of an eye.

It wasn't until the glowing spider stopped moving altogether that Jiang Yu exhaled deeply, planted the spider's corpse on the ground, and pulled the two arrows out from its body with one foot on the carcass.

These were Jiang Yu's last two arrows; the previous three she fired had been blown to bits by Lilith's fireball magic, leaving no fragments to retrieve.

However, when Jiang Yu brought the two arrows to her eyes, she found both the arrowheads and shafts had been corroded with countless holes… the originally highly durable special alloy was now as brittle as crisp thin sheets just pulled from an oil pan.

"Be careful, these spiders' blood is strongly corrosive!" Jiang Yu immediately warned.

During the glowing spider's dying thrashes, a few droplets of corrosive blood had splattered onto Jiang Yu's arm—yet compared to the physical assault of the spider's limbs, the damage from this bit of corrosive blood was negligible.

After confirming all the spiders were eradicated, Jiang Yu suddenly felt a weakness in her legs, dropping straight to the ground. Next, her perfectly healed arms began to itch and burn indescribably, drawing groans from her.

"Even if wounds can heal instantly, the pain you have to go through isn't reduced… in fact, because the speed of healing is so rapid, even damaged nerves quickly repair, making the pain greater than for normal people." Lilith walked over to Jiang Yu's side and said, "That's one of the side effects of the ability."