Xu Yi picked up a few thick tree branches from the ground, tore off some pieces of cloth from his clothes to wrap one end, and handed it to Lu Sheng, raising his eyebrows slightly.
Lu Sheng understood immediately and transformed into a human lighter, lighting the torches one by one.
With torches and fog lights, the group quickly made their way through layers of spider webs, with Zhuangzhuang leading the way based on the combat power index, and finally stopped at a dark cave entrance.
"There are two index information inside, one is 12, and the other is 8.5."
Zhuangzhuang sniffed hard and let out a resounding howl.
"Han Rui? Are you inside?"
Zhang Xiaojuan carefully probed the torch a little into the cave entrance and tentatively called out.
Glug.
A muffled thud came from inside the cave.
"Let's go in and take a look."
This time, Zhang Xiaojuan was more experienced. She first erected an earthen shield and walked in front, while Lu Sheng and his group followed behind into the cave.
The cave was pitch black with no light. After walking around the dense spider webs for five minutes, the group finally reached the bottom of the cave.
Upon reaching the bottom of the cave, the group breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Thankfully, the person is still alive.
In the direction illuminated by the fog lights, a pink spider, about the same size as Zhuangzhuang, lay quietly at the bottom of the hole.
It has a chubby, round body, a soft pink color, and a pair of big, watery red eyes.
Unlike any spider Lu Sheng had ever seen before, this one was not only not ugly, but even rather handsome and quite cute.
Han Rui was wrapped up like a dumpling in spider silk and was being lifted and manipulated by a pink spider.
Although the person didn't die, their eyes were swollen from crying, and only their right eyelid could still move.
Upon hearing Lu Sheng and the others' voices, Han Rui blinked her right eye with difficulty, as if sending out a distress signal.
"It seems to be treating Han Rui like a toy," Sun Tiantian whispered.
Hearing the sound, the pink spider slowly raised its head, its clear eyes curiously observing Lu Sheng and the others.
Zhang Xiaojuan: "..."
"It feels like they're bullying a little girl..."
Suddenly, a sharp, creaking sound rang out from outside the cave.
The goose, using delaying tactics, let out its final, pitiful cry.
"There's no time, let's take Han Rui with us first."
Before Lu Sheng could finish speaking, he had already rushed to Han Rui's side, picked her up, and threw her towards Xiao Yu.
The pink spider, having suddenly lost its beloved toy, began to make a pitiful, whimpering sound.
Seeing that the spider was about to catch up, Zhang Xiaojuan hurriedly summoned the earthen wall.
The earthen wall completely blocked the only passage inside the cave, trapping the pink spider behind it, its eyes brimming with tears of anxiety.
"The spiders are all back!"
Zhuangzhuang reminded him as he ran.
The overwhelming spider web trembled violently, as if a thousand troops were rushing madly towards Lu Sheng and his companions along the web.
Keep running, and don't look back!
Xiao Yu and Zhang Xiaojuan carried Han Rui on their backs, while Sun Tiantian and Xu Yi provided light for them in front, and Lu Sheng stayed behind to cover the rear.
In the midst of the emergency, Lu Sheng even managed to use his mind to remove all the spider silk from the cave.
This thing is quite tough; it might come in handy later.
The sound of spiders crawling grew closer, and strands of spider silk shot through the air toward the backs of the group.
Lu Sheng glanced back out of the corner of his eye, then took out two motionless dummies from his spatial storage and threw them out.
[Event Dummy: When deployed to a fixed area, it will attract the attacks of all nearby enemies for three minutes.]
The reward I got from fighting zombies on the highway last time came in handy.
The two mannequins fell into the spider army and immediately attracted the hatred of all the spiders.
The vast army of spiders abandoned their pursuit of Lu Sheng and instead launched a frenzied attack on the moving dummy.
Three minutes later, a deafening explosion echoed from the depths of the jungle.
[Item Obtained: Spider Silk Armor]
[Item Obtained: 5x Nerve Paralysis Potions]
[Item obtained: 5 catties of fresh mare]
[Items Obtained: 80 Basic Crystal Cores, 25 Intermediate Crystal Cores]
Several new supplies of various kinds.
A series of system notifications exploded in Lu Sheng's mind. A large pile of fresh supplies once again appeared in the space.
Good grief, so the event dummy actually self-destructs after three minutes? It wiped out the spider army that had been chasing us.
The group dared not linger and ran wildly out of the dense forest.
Finally seeing the bright sky and the free air, Zhang Xiaojuan and Xiao Yu collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.
Lu Sheng used fire to melt the spider silk on Han Rui's body, and then called Xiao Yu to create a small stream of water to wash her face.
Are you feeling better?
After filling two bottles with water, Lu Sheng tossed two bags of beef jerky to Han Rui.
Han Rui hadn't eaten for three days and was so hungry that her eyes were turning blue. She picked up the bag and tried to tear open the packaging with her teeth.
But after being paralyzed by the spider silk for too long, she only managed to leave a row of teeth marks after biting for a while.
Zhang Xiaojuan couldn't stand it and helped her tear open the bag.
"Thanks……"
Han Rui stuffed her mouth with beef jerky and mumbled out two indistinct words.
"The sun is about to set, we need to get back to the RV first."
Xu Yi was the first to stand up.
They escaped from the jungle in a direction that was some distance from where they had parked; it would take at least half an hour to walk back to the car.
"I can't walk anymore... Could you please drive back and pick me up?"
"I can pay more!"
The group packed up the fog lights and other equipment, while Han Rui remained seated on the ground, unwilling to stand up.
Lu Sheng turned his head and glanced at her expressionlessly. "Miss Han, we are a combat team, not your driver and maid."
“You know very well how dangerous it is after sunset. If you sit here and get dragged away by spiders again, we won’t save you a second time.”
"I'll go with you, okay? Why are you being so fierce?"
Han Rui's face turned bright red after being rebuked by Lu Sheng. She forced herself to stand up and limped behind the group.
The road became even more difficult to travel after sunset.
The cold wind was as hard as a knife; after taking just a few steps against it, the chill seeped into your very bones.
Han Rui's face was frozen from crying, and she tripped and fell twice in just a few meters.
"Alright, get on, I'll carry you."
Seeing how pitiful she was, Zhang Xiaojuan sighed and squatted down.
Han Rui hesitated for a while, but finally carefully climbed onto Zhang Xiaojuan's back.
"Hey sis, I need to talk to you about something." After taking a few steps, Zhang Xiaojuan said helplessly, "Can we stop crying? All your tears are dripping onto my neck, and it's making my stinging wound hurt."
"If you're really bored, I have some sunflower seeds in my pocket, have some."
Han Rui finally stopped crying and smiled. When she caught up with Lu Sheng and the others, she also apologized to Lu Sheng.
After finding the RV, the group drove back to the Yunshan base.
Lu Sheng was about to take Han Rui back to hand in the mission when Han Rui stopped him just as he was about to get out of the car.
"Could you let me stay for the night?" Han Rui asked Lu Sheng cautiously. "I want to take a shower and change my clothes before I go back."
Sun Tiantian looked surprised. "Don't you want to go home and see your family?"
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