Chapter 025: The Spider Mother Explodes and Dies

  That golden giant spider, with a single rotation of its eyeball, shot out four or five thick and large spider silk from its abdomen, wrapping towards Liu Yi.

  Liu Yi would not let it succeed, and instantly waved the black obsidian sword in front of his chest, so densely that the spider silk broke as soon as it touched the sword body, falling to the ground, jumping and leaping, as if it had life.

  That big spider had a lot of goods in its belly, although the attack was not successful, it still made an effort to spit out more spider silk. The spider silk danced and floated in the air, like seaweed floating at the bottom of the sea.

  A huge amount of spider silk gradually formed a huge spider web in this small stone chamber, which was different from the ordinary spider's web. The spider silk on this web seemed to have long eyes, constantly surrounding Liu Yi and trying to establish a connection with him.

  More and more spider silk fills the space, almost nothing else can be seen except for a person dancing with a sword in a white spider web. Wherever the sword passes, the spider silk falls down rustling.

  In just a short while, Liu Yi was covered in a thick layer of broken spider silk all over his body.

  Although he had a sharp sword in his hand, cutting the spider silk was like playing, but at the moment when the spider silk broke, it would spray out a large amount of yellow **. Not only did it have an unpleasant odor and contain toxicity, but it also seemed to have corrosive properties. Although not as powerful as sulfuric acid, Liu Yi occasionally saw that his insulating suit had been corroded with small holes.

  Liu Yi cut through the spider silk with all his might while slowly moving forward step by step.

  He was actually not far from Malacca, just over ten meters away, but the huge spider web blocked his way forward, and this distance of over ten meters seemed to be as far away as the horizon, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach it. Sometimes when he took a step forward, he would be forced back three steps.

  On the territory of this "Spider Mother", as long as you are not careful to be wrapped in spider silk, it is estimated that there will be no time to escape, and you will be directly pulled into the mouth of the big spider, eaten without leaving any bones.

  Anxious and worried, Liu Yi's heart became more and more urgent.

  His line of sight had been blocked by the huge and dense spider web, and he couldn't see what was happening on the other side of the web. It was a mystery whether Malacca was being toyed with in the palm of the spider mother or if she had already gotten bored and swallowed him into her belly.

  Liu Yi was like a furious wolf, howling and cutting through the spider silk with all his might.

  At this time, Professor Zhou Tao also rushed over and was shocked by the situation in the stone room. He wanted to help but didn't know where to start.

  "Fire a flare into the spider's belly!" Kirksey shouted suddenly.

  Lu Zonghan listened and didn't ask why, quickly pulled out his gun, aimed at the giant spider mother's position, and decisively pulled the trigger. With a loud "bang", a flare was released with white light, whizzing through the web and shooting into the belly of the spider mother nailed to the wall.

  Something strange happened, and the flare was released from the spider mother's belly, emitting a white glow. The spider mother's body suddenly cracked open with countless small holes, and the liquid inside flowed out like a burst dam, gushing out with a "whooshing" sound.

  The spider mother let out a strange "Ka, ka" sound, apparently having been seriously injured, and had no strength to control the webs and silk threads that filled the air, falling from the sky.

  Liu Yi finally freed himself, stomped his foot, targeted the bundled-up Malacca, pounced forward, and hugged it in his arms. With a roll on the spot, he left the Spider Mother far behind.

  The spider mother's mournful cry of "Ka, ka" continued to come from strong to weak, gradually becoming a dying wail. Only one of its black eyes was visible, revealing an unwilling expression.

  The flare continued to glow, and the small holes on its body gradually grew larger. Finally, with a loud "bang", the entire spider mother's body burst open, and yellow powder flew everywhere, drifting down like a light yellow rain in the stone room.

  At this time, Liu Yi had already rescued Malacca from the "cocoon", and as soon as Malacca came out, he let out a loud cry and rushed to the corpse of the dead spider mother, trampling on it wildly, and couldn't be stopped.

  "Damn it, dare to tease me!" Ma Liuji shouted while kicking, and yellow mud splashed around him, causing everyone to hastily retreat.

  "Ah yo!" Malacca let out a loud cry, hugging her right foot and spinning around in circles on the spot, clearly having trodden heavily on something.

  Liu Yi saw that Ma Liucao was jumping around energetically and knew he wasn't injured. Seeing his angry expression, Liu Yi laughed and said: "If you don't seek death, you won't die!"

  As soon as the danger was lifted, everyone let out a sigh of relief and looked at Malacca with a mixture of surprise and schadenfreude.

  Malacca cursed and lifted his foot to take a look, only to see a shiny black "convex" shaped object stuck in the sole of his shoe. He picked it off with a puzzled expression: "What is this thing?"

  Liu Yi thought it was a small stone and didn't pay attention to it at all.

  But Ke Kesi suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "This is the key, the legendary key that opens the last door of the sacrificial land, and the legend is actually true!"

  Liu Yi was just about to ask Kexi about the details of the key, when Professor Zhou Tao suddenly coughed "cough, cough, cough......" several times, clearly having been overcome by the foul smell inside the stone chamber.

  "We'll talk about it later!" Liu Yi said, taking down the eagle claw rope from his waist and throwing it to the hole above the stone room. He pulled it with his hand and felt that the grip was very reliable. Without saying another word, he led the way "zip, zip, zip" climbing up the rope and out of the hole.

  As soon as he emerged from the cave, the sunlight enveloped him whole. Having been in a place with weak light for so long, he was momentarily unaccustomed to it and closed his eyes for a while to adjust. When he opened them again, he was stunned by what he saw before him, his mouth agape like an idiot as he stared at everything in front of him.

  "Liu Yi, Mazhu's here! Pull us up!" Ma Liuji yelled loudly in the stone room.

  Liu Yi finally came to his senses, and pulled everyone and the little antelope up one by one. Each time someone was pulled up, they repeated Liu Yi's previous actions, closing their eyes, opening them again, and then staring blankly.

  If someone observes from the side, they can see a row of five people, like idiots, standing on a stone platform, staring blankly into the distance. Behind them can be seen wind-eroded rocks in the shape of devils, and that stone platform is like the devil's tongue. And those five people are like they just crawled out of the devil's mouth.

  White bones, white bones, and still white bones.

  They had seen the piled-up white bones for the third time so far, the first time was when they floated on the underground dark river and encountered a bone-covered river surface, one was in the "Spider Mother" stone chamber where they saw the bones piled up around it, and this time they were faced with an endless ocean of white bones.

  "Through the dense white bones..." Liu Yi muttered: "Where have we arrived? Is this Death Valley?"

  No one answered him because everyone was stunned by what they saw before them.

  In front of us, these white bones don't know how many animals died, in order to be distributed over such a frightening area.

  The surrounding Gobi Desert stands cold and still, the wind-eroded rocks are strangely shaped like demons, the sandy beach is vast and endless with white bones scattered all over, a few withered wild grasses hang their heads listlessly, as if waiting for death.

  Everyone felt the chill of death in the air.

  The sun has hung on the distant mountain peak, as if it had finished a day's work and was ready to return home.

  "It seems that we can't cross this sea of corpses today. Let's find a cave to rest for now and think of another plan!"

  Everyone nodded in agreement, got down from the rock, found a small stone cave with good ventilation and rain shelter, picked up some yak dung in the wilderness, lit a fire, and then took out compressed biscuits and several bottles of mineral water from their backpacks to eat a simple dinner.

  The thrilling journey of the underground dark river exhausted everyone physically and mentally.

  They had originally prepared four backpacks for equipment, but after fleeing through the underground dark river, only two were left. One contained some dry rations, emergency medical supplies and small equipment such as a compass, satellite phone, etc., while the other contained firearms and ammunition, sleeping bags, and two inflatable life rafts.

  The little Tibetan antelope seemed to be hungry too, and it walked out by itself. Not far away, it was nibbling on a few sparse wild grasses. All that could be seen was its stamping feet, seemingly very dissatisfied with the wild grass.

  Liu Yi looked at its angry appearance and smiled: "From now on, we'll rely on Xiaoke to lead the way!"

  "But I don't know what will happen next!" Professor Zhou Tao said: "So far, we haven't finished crossing the forest of white bones... and the underground dark river is like a test on our way to the sacrificial land!"

  Everyone deeply agreed with Professor Zhou's words, and at this time Liu Yi said: "Have you noticed that when we were in the stone room, there were several dead people who seemed to be the ones who caught Kexi's father! Their route seems to be the same as ours!"

  "If the stone that Malacca obtained is the key to the last gate of the altar, why didn't they take it away?" Lu Zonghan asked in puzzlement.

  Kok Si listened and said with a sigh: "This stone key is just a legend, no one takes it seriously. If not for Malacca's discovery, who would have thought that this legend was actually true?"

  Liu Yi asked curiously: "Then what is the origin of this key? It looks exactly like a giant spider in the sun, could it be another solar envoy?"

  Koksei sneered: "What Sun Messenger? That spider is a cursed sinner in disguise!"

  If he had heard this when he first entered Keke Village, he would have definitely looked down on it in his heart, but now, he was filled with reverence for this world.

  Even if he encountered ghosts, monsters or spirits in the dark river, it wouldn't have led him to think this way, because stories of ghosts and monsters, from ancient times to now, are too numerous, whether you believe them or not, they already left an imprint on his mind.

  But the monsters they encountered in the Dark River, born from unknown forces: such as the Old Fish Ancestor, Soul-Devouring Insects, and Golden Yellow Demonic Spiders, were unheard of and extremely terrifying.

  Especially that last golden spider, if Korksi hadn't known how to kill it, I reckon everyone would have had to die there.

  Spiders are generally dioecious, but solitary spiders like the golden orb spider can produce so many small spiders, how can this be explained by science?

  Is it really a religious artifact or is it truly the product of some freakish power of nature?

  Thinking of this, Liu Yi looked at the young Kexi in front of him with a sincere expression, who was more than ten years younger than himself but would soon take on the heavy responsibility of reviving Coco Village.