“Tsss…” The scalp-numbing sound of excreting saliva resounded.
He could barely make out a great amount of densely packed small eyes — numerous like stars in the vast sky — incessantly approaching him from inside the pitch-black darkness.
He could sense a blood-chilling, gloomy feeling gradually approaching him.
He wasn’t sure what the creature’s intentions were. However, from the intention glittering in its numerous small, glowy-red eyes, friendliness or goodwill was definitely out of the question.
Rather, it was like a predator drawing close to its prey, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
“Ka, ka, ka…” The monster’s intention to attack couldn’t be more obvious from the sound its limbs made against the ground.
Taking a slight step back, Ji Bai unsheathed his fang-shaped longsword and returned the monster’s intention with a chilly gaze radiating out his helmet.
“Hiss, siiiiii…” A sticky silk-like material wrapped itself around the blade.
Ji Bai narrowed his eyes. At the same time, he let go of his sword hilt and rolled to the side.
“Boom! Scree…” As if a massive pressure was pressing downwards, the spot where Ji Bai was a moment ago caved in, forming a large hole. A sound resembling massive pincer-like fangs piercing through soft tissue resounded.
“Tssss?!” Its numerous red eyes swiveled up and down as if baffled about missing its prey. They then swiveled around until they finally locked onto Ji Bai to the side.
‘Threads. Terrifying, densely packed, small eyes…’
Ji Bai imagined the specific form of this massive spider monster in his mind.
His opponent possessed night vision. Judging from the earlier sound of metal colliding, this monster possessed sharp fangs at its front end. It would be extremely worrying if its armor was anywhere similar in toughness as quilted armor.
“Tssss!” Countless small, red eyes shot upwards. Within the pitch-black darkness, Ji Bai seemed to be able to make out a large spider monster brandishing its fangs and claws towards him.
His heels bumped against the soft wall behind him.
He was seemingly caught in a dead-end.
“Tssss!” A bone-chilling screech resembling the mournful wails of a female ghost at midnight resounded outwards at the same time a burst of chilly wind whipped against Ji Bai’s face.
‘Let’s see which of us is more desperate.’
A gaze overflowing with bloodthirstiness shot out from his helmet as his leather boots forcefully stepped onto the soft wall one after the other.
Both opponents charged at each other simultaneously.
“Tsss!” The instant that both sides collided, the massive spider realized that its fangs had pierced nothing but air. At the same time, it felt something weighing down its stomach and scuttling to its back.
“Tsss??!” After some confusion, the large spider was thoroughly whipped into a frenzy. It swayed and swiveled its body around like its life depended on it, intending to throw this reckless human off.
Ji Bai on the other side tightened his hands around the spider’s neck. Its violent rocking caused him both dizziness and lightheadedness as his stomach churned and a wave of nausea hit him. Despite that, he stubbornly refused to let go.
“Tsss!!” The large spider was thoroughly enraged, but all to no avail. Its eight legs and two arms were too short, making it impossible for it to reach its back. In a fit of abrupt anger, it smashed itself against the surrounding soft walls all around.
Both sides were incessantly exhausting the energy and endurance of one another. Though, in this war of attrition, it was clear as daylight that Ji Bai’s fleshly body was inferior to that of the spider monster, whose tendons and bones seemed to be made up of metal.
“Get out of the way.” Suddenly, a cold and clear voice resounded.
His spirit weary and his strength exhausted, Ji Bai raised his head. He felt like countless wooden sticks were stirring his brain, causing his consciousness to turn dull.
Compared to the bizarre cries of monsters, words spoken by humans were still more pleasing to the ears.
A speck of flame incessantly increased in size in his vision as it approached from a distance.
Ji Bai threw himself to the side by flipping his body off the large spider’s back.
“Whoosh!” Intense light enveloped and covered the huge spider, its blazing aura directly assailing Ji Bai’s face.
“Tssss… Gigigi!!” Through the mournful shrieks, Ji Bai was able to clearly make out the appearance of this spider monster in the light of the scorching flames.
Its upper body was that of a woman, with a pair of large pincers extended out from the area where her ears were. It all, together with the spider threads inside its abdomen, was turned to ashes inside the raging fire.
This wasn’t the first time that Ji Bai had met such a creature.
“You understand human language? So, may I know who you are?” Ji Bai had the nagging feeling that he had already heard this cold tone somewhere before.
After the newly arrived blew out the remaining flames between his fingertips, everything returned to silence.
“Clack, clack…” An orderly series of footsteps resounded.
The other party, it seemed, was silently chanting something.
Ji Bai stood up without hurry. Making use of the light of the remaining flame, he kept a close eye at the silhouette that was coming this way.