Brett Reese.
In Dark Elf language, it means "City of a Thousand Spiders".
This city located deep in the Underdark is far more gloomy and terrifying than its name suggests. Standing outside the large cave and looking inside, the most dazzling thing you can see is the bright red obsidian pillar on top. It emits a faint dark red glow, barely illuminating the city.
In the city, you can vaguely see dots of dark purple flames. That is the demon fire of the dark elves, and it is also a symbol used to prove their status and sphere of influence.
"Okay, everyone get ready and put on your cloaks."
"Hey? Do we need to do this?"
Xiao Hei was obviously not happy about it. She never liked wearing too many clothes, especially clothes that covered her whole body.
"In the underground world, your weapons are strength and mystery. Only in this way can you effectively curb those malicious eyes. If you walk into the city like this, no one knows what will happen."
Fang Zheng explained calmly, and the gray dwarf next to him took over the conversation.
"Your Excellency's words make sense, and you should also be careful. The dark elves in this city are very greedy. If they notice you, you might be captured."
"Captured?"
Hearing this, Walnut looked at the gray dwarf curiously.
"What for?"
"Be a waiter."
"Uh...waitress???"
"The dark elves are a matriarchal society."
Fang Zheng also sighed helplessly, and then explained in detail to the girls.
"In the world of dark elves, women have the most powerful strength and occupy the highest status. To them, other males and races are inferior creatures, including their own dark elf men. Well... to put it simply, it's similar to the routine of those cruel lords who forcibly seize women in many stories, except that the genders are reversed."
"Huh? There's such a thing?"
Hearing this, Hu Tao was also stunned. When she was a mercenary, she had seen similar situations many times and would help others when she saw injustice. But it was basically men robbing women, and this woman robbing men... This was the first time she had heard of it.
"Hehehe, big brother, you are so happy now."
However, Xiao Hei came to Fang Zheng with a weird smile, stretched out his arm to nudge him, and then blinked.
"With your looks, wouldn't those dark elf women go crazy fighting over you? You might as well stop fighting and just rely on your looks to get in. You're really being offered a chance, aren't you happy?"
"hehe……"
Facing Xiao Hei's teasing, Fang Zheng sneered. Then, without saying anything, he silently took out his cloak and wrapped himself up.
Next, the group dressed up as caravan guards and came to the gate of the dark elf city again. This gate looked extremely beautiful and disgusting. A huge, terrifying spider was carved on its door frame. Its eight legs were spread out, supporting the ground as a door frame. The spider-like gate blocked everyone's way. Above their heads, the spider's eyes and mouthparts were vividly displayed, as if the spider could come alive at any time.
"This spider is the guardian of this city. Legend has it that it is a gift from the god to these dark elves. It is also a symbol that this city is favored by the god."
Looking up at the huge spider statue in front of him, the gray dwarf lowered his voice and introduced it to everyone.
"Don't say anything disrespectful to this statue, and don't do anything disrespectful, or any dark elf can use this as an excuse to kill you."
"Of course, I can understand that."
Fang Zheng tapped his fingers as he spoke. The next moment, the aliens hiding in the darkness behind them quickly dispersed as if they had received some order and disappeared into the shadows.
"The rest is up to you."
"Yes, sir."
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the gray dwarf nodded hurriedly, then he walked to the front of the gate with his short legs, took out a badge from his arms, and waved it vigorously. The badge flashed, and then a window next to the gate was opened, and then a dark elf stuck his head out and looked over here.
After seeing the gray dwarf, he frowned.
"It's you? Why are you back again?"
"Hahaha, there's something wrong with my goods. My employer wants to buy more Dark Grass..."
Facing the ridicule of the dark elf guard, the gray dwarf showed an awkward smile, and upon hearing his answer, the dark elf guard frowned.
"Okay, come in, but I can't guarantee that you can get out alive."
"Of course, I understand, I understand..."
“Boom boom boom…”
Soon, the stone door opened a crack, and then the gray dwarf, his caravan, Fang Zheng and others walked in.
It was obvious that this was not the first time the gray dwarf had come to the city. He just whispered a few words to the dark elf guard, and then paid a small "toll", and the other party allowed them to enter the city. However, the dark elf guard was obviously not in a good mood towards Fang Zheng and others.
"You only have one day, outsider."
The dark elf guard stared fiercely at the gray dwarf in front of him and Fang Zheng next to him. He was only about 1.5 meters tall, wearing black armor, with a long sword and a crossbow on his waist. Although it was not pleasant to say this, the dark elf men looked like the African refugees Fang Zheng had seen on TV before, with limbs and dark skin. Their faces also looked more like those of jackals, which were long and thin, and with their long silver-white hair, they looked quite ugly - at least that was the case from the aesthetic point of view of the surface world.
"You can stay in the exemption zone temporarily, but you cannot leave. If you have not left when the next obsidian light rises to the top one day later, you will become our slaves! Do you understand?!"
"Yes, I understand, I understand..."
Hearing the warning from the dark elf guard, the gray dwarf nodded hurriedly, then pulled the earth beast to leave, but at this moment, suddenly, a low trembling sound was heard.
“Boom! Boom!”
It sounded like the sound of an elephant or something walking, and upon hearing this sound, the gray dwarf and dark elf guards' faces suddenly changed.
"That's it, hurry up and go to the free service area!"
After saying this hurriedly, the dark elf guard returned to the tower again and closed the door forcefully.
"What's going on?"
Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the gray dwarf, while the gray dwarf smiled awkwardly.
"My Lord, please be careful. Let's hide here and don't move..."
As he spoke, the gray dwarf led the ground beasts to an alley not far away and hid them. Then he looked out quietly. After a moment, the gray dwarf's expression changed slightly, and he made a gesture to someone else.
"Here you come, be careful and hide well!"
Coming? What's coming?
Just when Fang Zheng and his group were puzzled, they soon saw a huge shadow walking towards them from the other side of the street.
It was a huge spider.
It is more than two meters tall, and the front half is shaped like an ordinary spider, but the back half, which should be a bulging abdomen, is actually a person.
A human woman.
To be exact, it was a fat human woman.
She looked like a mountain of flesh. Below the waist she was connected to the front half of the spider's body, while above the waist was layers of fat. At this moment, the surface of this human flesh mountain woman was covered with the appearance of a spider. She opened her eyes wide, looking around like a hound, while letting out a low, indistinct roar.
After a while, this strange thing gradually disappeared at the end of the street.
"Huh...what the hell is that? It's so disgusting..."
Only then did Kurumi heave a sigh of relief, patted his chest, and looked as if he couldn't bear to look at it.
"I heard that he was a human who was once captured from the surface by the dark elves."
The gray dwarf also wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke in a low voice.
"Rumor has it that she offended the Spider Goddess and became like this. This guy is a psychopath and kills anyone she sees. It's better not to have any contact with her."
"yes……"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng nodded.
And this kind of thing - it's better to stay away from it.