Trickster Hunter

Chapter 314 Spider Swarm

The moment the gate opened, the sound of countless sharp limbs scratching the ground reached the ears of the three people. Before Ling Xiao could react, Lilith had already grabbed his collar and teleported him away from the gate.

As the two teleported out, countless small spiders emitting milky white fluorescence poured out from the factory!

"Fuck, spiders!" Lilith cursed in a low voice, and teleported back four or five distances in a row, "Damn, I hate spiders the most!"

None of the three participated in the first encirclement and suppression of Chimera No. 17, otherwise they would have recognized at a glance that these fluorescent spiders were almost no different from the Chimera offspring that attacked the outer sniper team in that operation.

Jiang Yu immediately raised her short bow and shot three consecutive shots, nailing the three small spiders in the front to the ground, but when she was about to shoot the fourth arrow, her hand that was touching the arrow froze.

She still had two arrows left, but the number of small spiders pouring out of the No. 5 plant was at least in the thousands. Even if the number of arrows Jiang Yu carried was doubled... no, even if it was ten times, it would still not be enough.

After figuring this out, Jiang Yu simply put away his short bow and turned around and ran.

"Disgusting, really disgusting! This kind of thing with eight legs... why does it exist in the world?" Lilith put Ling Xiao down and cursed.

Although she cursed, her hands were not idle at all - two orange-yellow fireballs the size of basketballs quickly formed in her hands, and then she threw them towards the swarm of spiders.

Two fireballs landed precisely where the spiders were most densely packed, and then exploded with a bang. The fireballs looked small, but the actual explosion power was far greater than that of a defensive grenade weighing several kilograms. Jiang Yu, who was closest to the spiders, only felt a scorching wave of air hitting her back. When she turned her head to look, she could only see the flames rising into the sky and the spider remains scattering and emitting a burnt smell.

"Go to hell! Go to hell!" Lilith, who was standing nearly a hundred meters away, kept throwing fireballs one after another, and explosions sounded one after another... In just a few dozen seconds, the thousands of small spiders that emerged from the No. 5 factory were all blown up to the sky. The remaining few that slipped through the net were also accurately killed by the spikes that emerged from the ground without warning. Only the spider that pounced on Jiang Yu escaped Lilith's bombardment.

Although these spiders are called "small spiders", that is compared with the size of their "mother" Chimera No. 17. In fact, the trunks of these spiders are already the size of an adult's palm, and the eight slender limbs are fully extended to a distance of more than half a meter. For creatures like spiders, their size is enough to be called "giant".

This fluorescent spider bounced directly from the ground, and its eight limbs opened like a claw, and pounced on Jiang Yu's face. For a moment, Jiang Yu remembered an alien monster called "face hugger" in a movie she had seen.

However, Jiang Yu did not sit and wait for death like those extras in the movie. When the fluorescent spider was less than half a meter away from her face, she had already pulled out the last two arrows tied to her legs, and used these two arrows as short spears, crossing the trunk of the fluorescent spider from left to right!

The fluorescent spider immediately let out a piercing wail. Its long and sharp limbs slashed wildly, and immediately cut Jiang Yu's arms that were stretched forward into pieces. However, for Jiang Yu, who had the Tai Sui meme, it would only take a blink of an eye to recover from such injuries.

After the fluorescent spider was completely silent, Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief. The spider's body was on the ground, and he stepped on the body with one foot and pulled out two arrows from the body.

These were Jiang Yu's last two arrows. The three arrows shot earlier had long been blown to pieces by Lilith's fireball magic, and there was no possibility of recycling them.

However, when Jiang Yu brought the two arrows to his eyes, he found that the arrowheads and shafts had been corroded and riddled with holes... The special alloy that was originally extremely strong was now as brittle as a thin piece of crispy material just taken out of a frying pan.

"Be careful, the blood of these spiders is still highly corrosive!" Jiang Yu immediately warned.

When the fluorescent spider was struggling to death just now, a few drops of corrosive blood also fell on Jiang Yu's arm - but compared with the physical attack of the spider's limbs, the damage caused by this corrosive blood was almost negligible.

After confirming that all the spiders were killed, Jiang Yu suddenly felt her legs soften and sat down on the ground. Then, her arms, which were perfectly intact, actually felt waves of indescribable pain and itchiness, which made her groan.

"Even if the wound can be healed instantly, the pain you have to experience will not be reduced at all... In fact, because the wound heals quickly enough, the damaged nerves can also recover immediately, and you will have to endure more pain than normal people." Lilith walked to Jiang Yu and said, "This is also one of the negative effects of the ability."

"Then why didn't I feel... pain just now?" Jiang Yu asked in confusion.

"Just now you were in a state of adrenaline rush, so the pain was not obvious... But now, after the adrenaline fades, the accumulated pain will burst out all at once - even if the wound has healed." Lilith said, "You have to learn to adapt to the pain... Or you can also do what I did and find a way to make yourself enjoy the pain, then this negative effect will no longer be a negative effect, but will become a reward."

As Lilith spoke, she showed a psychopathic smile, which made Jiang Yu's heart skip a beat, and even the pain, itching and numbness in his arms seemed to have subsided a lot.

"In fact, there is another way." Lilith put away her perverted smile and said seriously, "Most of this pain comes from nerve reactions - in fact, your arm doesn't hurt at all, but your pain nerves are still sending signals to your brain... Well, this feeling is a bit like 'phantom limb pain', you know what 'phantom limb' is?"

Jiang Yu nodded.

Phantom limb pain often occurs in patients who have just undergone amputation - patients often feel a dull pain in their amputated limbs, or a tingling sensation like an electric shock, but in fact the limbs they "feel" do not exist at all.

This is a neuropathic pain, and it also has a considerable degree of psychological factors.

"When I just became a woman, I often felt 'phantom limb pain'... I always felt that the thing that was cut off was hurting... That feeling, don't mention how sour and refreshing it is." Lilith said, "Try to rub your arms, and at the same time suggest to your mind that your arms are not injured... Don't look at other places, just stare at your arms, it should be relieved."

After Jiang Yu did so, the unbearable pain and itching just now were relieved a lot.

"Thank... Thank you." Jiang Yu looked up at Lilith - although this "red-haired witch" behaved a little "crazy" and her mental state seemed to have big problems, she didn't seem to be bad in nature... At least among the hunters Jiang Yu had contacted, Lilith should be ranked among the "good people".

To be honest, after becoming a hunter, Jiang Yu came into contact with hunters, except for Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, Zhulong and Song Yarong, the remaining hunters made her uncomfortable more or less - either staring at every woman passing by in her field of vision and licking her lips, or acting crazy like a drug addict in withdrawal... Some time ago, she even met a hunter with a highly violent tendency: a soldier just accidentally blocked his way when he was on patrol, and the hunter broke the soldier's neck without hesitation.

Jiang Yu didn't know whether the hunter was punished later... She didn't dare to ask, for fear of attracting revenge from the hunter.

"Don't thank me, it's just a little experience." Lilith held Jiang Yu's hand and pulled her up from the ground.

"Another weird thing came out of Factory No. 5." Ling Xiao's voice suddenly sounded not far away.

"Is it another spider?!" Lilith turned her head quickly, only to see a ragged man limping out of the factory.

"People?" Lilith was stunned, "People in the factory? I thought they had all been eaten by the monsters!"

"Not people, but monsters." Ling Xiao corrected.

This was a tall man, and the No. 105 factory uniform he was wearing had been torn into pieces, leaving only strips of rags hanging on his body. His body was covered with blood and bruises, and traces of sutures could be seen everywhere on the surface of his skin - this man looked as if he had been cut into dozens of pieces and then sewn together again. With every step he took, a lot of foamy blood and pus would squeeze out of the suture gaps and flow down along the suture line.

"It may be a strange object or a strange body..." Lilith muttered, "But this is the first missing person I have encountered. I will not kill him first. Let's see how much human sanity he still has..."

"This man... he... he seems..." Jiang Yu suddenly muttered, "He seems to be the deputy director of Factory No. 105! His name... his name should be..."

"Wang Cheng." Lilith glanced at the PAD in her hand, "This guy is indeed the deputy director of Factory No. 105... Although his face was cut into six pieces and sewn together again, the big black mole on his left face and the birthmark on his forehead are still there. Oh, one more thing, this guy is left-handed."

Following Lilith's line of sight, Jiang Yu saw that "Wang Cheng" was holding a multi-function wrench in his left hand. The front end of the wrench was wrapped with a lot of pink minced meat, and even some white things that looked like brain matter.

"Did this guy just use a wrench to break someone's head?" Lilith narrowed her eyes, "Could he have killed his immediate superior?"

"He...he's dead, right?" Jiang Yu asked in a low voice.

"Theoretically, transformation into a weird thing doesn't count as death." Lilith shook her head, "But turning into a weird thing is really not as good as death, at least it's a clean death."

At this time, Ling Xiao suddenly said, "I just searched the 888.8 channel again, and it's still playing classical music."

"Oh?" Lilith took a deep breath, "So it seems that the boss of this layer of the world is still in the No. 5 factory? The guy who ran out now can only be regarded as an elite monster?"

"Did you just say that you should ask him first..." Jiang Yu asked nervously, holding the hunting knife tightly - after losing the last two arrows, the hunting knife has become her only weapon.

"I changed my mind." Lilith said, "I guess this guy can't get anything out of him... If you want to ask, why not ask the 'BOSS' hiding inside and listening to classical music directly... Since it still retains its hobbies in its 'pre-life' state, it may have retained a lot of memories."

"How can you be sure that the factory director must be the BOSS... Isn't it said that the weird creature that created the other world will leave a projection on each layer of the other world? The projection should be that..."

"The projection also needs to be attached to the 'entity'." Lilith interrupted Jiang Yu, "I suspect that the factory director of Factory No. 105 is the projection of the weird creature in this layer of the other world."

"Okay, let's get rid of this guy first." Lilith clapped her hands, and three ice cones condensed and formed above her head, and then shot at the "deputy factory director" who stumbled towards them like lightning.

With a sound like a knife cutting through rotten cotton wool, three ice cones pierced the "deputy director's" left eye, heart, and right lung, and came out from behind.

The "deputy director's" body shook, but he did not fall down, and continued to stagger towards the three people.

"I originally wanted to leave him a whole body for research, but now it seems that he will not have this blessing." Lilith said, throwing a fireball that was used to blow up the spider swarm at the "deputy director".

The fireball hit the "deputy director" and did not explode violently like before, but went out with a "puff", leaving only an inconspicuous burn mark on the rotten cloth strips.

"Wow, this guy... actually has a high 'magic resistance'?" Lilith's eyes twitched twice.

"Magic resistance?"

"My magic comes from memes, and it is the same as the ability given by the weird memes... Some weird meme fragments can neutralize my magic, which means that my magic has a very weak effect on them, or even completely ineffective. I call this 'magic resistance'."

"What about the ice cone just now...?"

"The ice cone is a pure physical attack. I just froze the water molecules in the air and gave it a force to shoot out... After it is shot out, it has nothing to do with my ability." Lilith said, "But the fireball is different. This thing requires my magic power to maintain it. Once the magic power supply is interrupted, it will immediately go out."