Chapter 118 Spider 5
Xu Zhao has seen Zhao Wenqing’s circle of friends.
One of the updates was a photo of them together.
Zhao Wenqing and his friends organized a graduation trip. Heishui Town was not part of their plan. They ended up here simply because the tour guide got lost. The group temporarily settled in Heishui Town, which is close to the mountains and forests, so they decided to spend a few days there.
The last update was about several people setting up tents in the mountains.
The police reported that Mrs. Zhao had disappeared in a remote area, and after searching the area for several times without finding any trace, they could only conclude that she was dead.
It now seems that the rescuers may not have found the true location of Heishui Town at all, otherwise they would have been trapped here like Xu Zhao.
I don’t know whether to feel lucky or unlucky.
Recalling the photos of tour groups I had seen before, the tour guide was a young girl, and most of the people in the group were young and energetic students, with occasionally a few middle-aged couples and young couples with children.
The mayor and the town's residents firmly believed that spiders were a disaster brought on by the tour group, which led them to hate outsiders and even ignore Xu Zhao's life or death... This made Xu Zhao think more, were the tour group really eaten by spiders?
With information asymmetry, Xu Zhao felt a constant sense of unease, as if his life was in someone else's hands. Furthermore, the town's residents harbored hostility towards outsiders. Regardless of the others, the couple across the street seemed to want to devour Xu Zhao whenever they saw her.
She couldn't sit still any longer.
After much thought, the target was set on the thatched hut.
Xu Zhao found a tattered book in the corner of the hotel. It was about the habits of insects. She was bored and flipped through a few pages. The chapter on spiders was very short, with only a few lines of introduction. But at least she knew that spiders were afraid of light and preferred dark environments.
No wonder the spiders in town only feed at night.
Taking advantage of the scorching midday sun, Xu Zhao came to the outside of the thatched hut. She didn't dare to get close. The cold and hard tentacles left purple marks on her waist, which still hadn't faded. Although she was curious about the relationship between the spider boy and Lin Yue, this curiosity was not enough to eliminate her fear.
Assume that the spider boy is indeed Lin Yue.
Will the members of the missing tour group also become half-human, half-spider?
Outside the thatched hut was a wasteland, and the grass and trees covered with cobwebs had become dry, yellow and withered due to lack of sunlight.
Nothing was found. Only the spider's corpse. Xu Zhao squinted, unable to make out clearly. Suppressing his nausea, he approached and confirmed it was the same corpse the spider had devoured that night. The spider's internal organs had been transformed into nutrients, devoured completely, leaving only the stiff outer shell.
…There are no human bodies nearby.
Xu Zhao was thinking about returning to the hotel when he heard faint moans and groans coming from the thatched hut.
The low voice was like a small stone thrown into the lake of her heart. Although it caused ripples, the tiny fluctuations were not enough to make her do something that disregarded her life. She turned and left.
The next moment, he pushed open the wooden door of the hut.
The moment she met the boy's gaze, she knew she had made the right bet. The boy huddled in the corner, pained, his neck and wrists bound with spider silk as thick as hemp rope, the other end clinging to the wooden beam. His wet hair half-hid his brow, his dark eyes revealing a deep sense of sorrow and grief.
It's a human emotion.
His eyes fell on his bare chest. Blisters formed where the sun shone on his chest. Something had pierced his thin shoulder blade, leaving a huge hole that was bleeding.
The scene was tragic and eerie.
Xu Zhao deliberately avoided the boy's lower limbs and did not find any human corpses or body parts in the house. Looking at the bright side, the boy should not have eaten humans.
The familiar bitter aroma of herbs that almost accompanied her to sleep penetrated her nostrils.
Xu Zhao asked tentatively, "...Are you Lin Yue?"
The moment he heard the voice, the young man, who seemed to be dead, raised his eyelids to look at her, and the two black eyes on his forehead also stared at her. He didn't say anything, then lowered his eyes, his white and slender neck drooped slightly, and he swallowed twice with his Adam's apple hidden.
The burning sensation of hunger almost overwhelmed his sanity. He turned his bound wrists a few times, and one, two, three strands of spider silk broke... He stopped moving and stared at the messy and dirty ground, where the dirty and terrifying spider legs were connected to his upper limbs.
"...Well," the boy groaned unconsciously, tears falling to the ground.
The thatched house had been abandoned for a long time, the ground was covered with dust, and the thatched roof had fallen in through the holes. It must have rained a few days ago. When I observed the structure of the house during the day, I only felt that it was dilapidated and dirty.
Xu Zhao stood in the sunlight, the warm sunlight brushing through his pores, making him feel comfortable all over. However, for the young man curled up in the corner, the sunlight was as painful as a raging fire.
Her clothes had a bitter herbal scent that couldn't be washed off with soap and water. She arrived in Heishui Town and stayed in a hotel, wearing clothes that Zhao Chunhong considered trash. She smelled this smell every day.
Gradually I got used to it.
She recalled a cold winter day in middle school. While her classmates wore warm down jackets, she was the only one wearing a thin school uniform. Even in the classroom, she couldn't keep warm. When handing in homework, she accidentally touched a classmate's hand, and the warmth almost warmed her heart.
She longed to stay longer.
But the classmate's hand quickly left, and the warmth she longed for did not belong to her after all.
The boy's chest was swollen and blistered.
Xu Zhao could almost see herself shivering in the cold on a winter night, biting her lip to keep from crying out in pain or cold. The boy's lip was also bitten by him, breaking the skin and drawing blood, but he couldn't suppress the torment brought by the pain, and a kitten-like cry escaped.
Xu Zhao didn't hesitate any longer and walked into the wooden house.
The young man turned his head, his dark eyes fixed on her: "...Hmm," his lips parted, and the first thing that came out was a weak moan, followed by a stiff, slightly stuttering coldness: "...Don't come over here, get out."
"I really should leave..."
"But you look terrible. The spider silk can't bind you. If you want to kill me, I won't even have a chance to escape..." Xu Zhao sighed helplessly: "Just treat it as if I'm not willing to die. I'll give you my clothes back..."
She stood in the middle, took off the long-sleeved clothes she was wearing outside, and threw it towards Lin Yue, accurately covering his chest exposed to the sun.
Lin Yue groaned in pain again.
There was mist in his eyes, which slowly fell on her as if frozen.
When his clothes touched his wounded chest, Lin Yue curled up in pain, his protruding bones pressed against the wall, his neck tilted back, sticky spider silk bound his slender and fragile neck, and light blue veins appeared on his pale face.
He bit his lip, but still moaned.
A shadow loomed overhead.
The aroma of food permeated my nostrils, and my quietly drooping legs began to stir, making a teeth-grinding sound as they collided with the ground. Spider silk was incredibly resilient, far exceeding even steel of the same weight. Clothes, bearing a familiar scent, failed to calm my chaotic thoughts, like pouring hot oil on a raging fire.
The boy's neck was bruised by the spider silk. He just frowned slightly, blood oozed out, the spider silk broke, and his back left the wall.
If Xu Zhao looked closely, he would have discovered that the boy's eyeballs were a chaotic, dark black like rust, as if they were mixed with dirty impurities, and a strange desire appeared on his beautiful and delicate face... His lips were open, revealing two sharp teeth, with black liquid gathering at the bottom, which could drip at any time.
The neurotoxins stored in it can instantly paralyze the nervous system.
No matter how strong a person is, he will become fish on the chopping board under the influence of this toxin.
Falling prey to a spider means not only having to endure the pain of its toxins invading the nervous system, but also the torture of its fangs gnawing at your flesh.
He watched helplessly as his love for his beloved perished, unable to do anything about it.
The spider slowly stood up, its four pairs of strong legs supporting the weak human limbs. The broken spider silk suddenly bounced upwards, and the beams pulled by the spider silk made a creaking sound. The muscles of the back legs tightened, in order to be able to lock onto the prey and hit it with one blow. Its four eyes stared at her firmly.
"Hey...what's going on?"
The wood tied with spider silk broke in the middle and was about to fall.
Xu Zhao relied entirely on instinct. At this moment, she had already forgotten that the person in front of her was a scary monster. Perhaps Lin Wang's narration played a big role. That gentle and kind-hearted young man who would rather sacrifice himself to help everyone, even though he was now in a weird and terrifying half-human, half-spider form, still evoked the softest part of Xu Zhao's heart.
Lying on the small bed in the hotel, she thought more than once: if Lin Yue were still alive, would he have disregarded her life and death like the townspeople did on her first day in Blackwater Town? Would he also think that she deserved to die?
There is no answer.
But at the moment when the beam broke and fell, she relied on her instinct to put her arms around the boy's shoulders and took him away from where the beam fell. The two fell to the ground, splashing dust all over the room.
Lin Yue was protected in her arms, and Xu Zhao's back ached. In addition to the touch of the boy's warm arms, there was also the cold and hard touch of the spider. The spider's legs pressed against her legs were glowing with faint blue spots, and the bristles all over them pierced her thin trousers.
Xu Zhao felt a chill down her spine. Her arms and legs were still healthy, so falling to the ground was no big deal. But Lin Yue was covered in wounds and was dying. If he was hit by the beam, he would probably die.
...Strange, so what if Lin Yue died?
Xu Zhao pushed Lin Yue: "The house is not solid. Fortunately, we found it in time and didn't get hit. Get up..."
The boy maintained his body steadily, and no matter how hard Xu Zhao pushed, he couldn't move him away. Alarm bells rang in his head. He raised his eyes hesitantly and met the boy's inhuman eyes that were obviously full of greed.
Oops.
Forget that he is not a normal person at this moment.
In truth, Xu Zhao still hadn't figured out whether the boy before him was human or a spider. If he was a spider, he could have easily killed her that night, but he didn't. Instead, he shed scalding tears, as if Xu Zhao had done something unforgivable to him. If he was human, his state was far from normal, devoid of any human emotion, only the hunger for prey.
"Lin Yue."
Xu Zhao called his name.
Lin Yue turned a deaf ear.
The walking legs clamped Xu Zhao tightly. At the front of the lower limbs, there was a pair of inconspicuous black tentacles. Normally, they acted as walking legs. When catching prey, the two tentacles were more like hands, grabbing her waist, and the human arms clamped her shoulders.
Xu Zhao was pinned to the ground in humiliation.
She did not regret saving him. After all, she could not bear to watch Lin Yue being crushed to death. But at this moment, Lin Yue was full of oppression. His four black eyes approached her. The moment his thick eyelashes blinked, no more tears fell. Instead, a stream of crystal clear liquid dripped, wrapped in a rich bitter fragrance and fell on the corner of her mouth.
It was Xu Zhao who saw this and turned his head away.
The spider's lips moved, and the unfamiliar words still uttered: "Hungry, I'm so hungry..."
She pressed her hands hard against his chest, his sharp fangs only half a fist away from her neck. It had to be said that Lin Yue's appearance was truly superior. The moment Xu Zhao looked into his eyes, he felt bewitched. He said he was hungry, and deep down, he thought, "Why not offer myself to him and fill his stomach?" Xu Zhao cursed softly. The lethality of beauty was truly too strong...
When a person is not fully conscious, talking about his past experiences is very likely to bring his confused thoughts back to normal.
What is the most important experience for Lin Yue?
He is kind and sincere, so saving the townspeople must be very important to him.
Xu Zhao tilted his head to avoid the increasing amount of birth fluid: "...Lin Yue, I don't know what's going on with you now, but at least you're still alive. If you hadn't stood up, the townspeople would have become food for the spiders. You are their hero..."
Why is it different from what I imagined?
Lin Yue did have some emotional fluctuations because of her words, but the direction of this fluctuation did not seem to be good.
Xu Zhao paused for a moment: "...The residents of Blackwater Town are grateful to you. Your father and brother miss you very much. If you still retain your human consciousness, even if... your physical form changes, they will understand..."
Lin Yue's fangs suddenly pierced into her shoulder.
Break the skin and flesh.
A sharp pain came.
Xu Zhao swallowed his compliments and cursed softly.
She finally knew what was wrong.
When she mentioned Blackwater Town, the tentacles around his waist suddenly tightened, as if they wanted to crush her to death. This strong emotion came out when she mentioned the townspeople, no, when she mentioned that he was a hero, a tide of resentment surged out, and it was reflected in Lin Yue's actions, which were his venomous fangs that pierced into his flesh and blood.
The thatched hut where Lin Yue was hiding was less than ten minutes away from the town. From what Xu Zhao had observed so far, he was able to maintain his sanity most of the time, otherwise he wouldn't have tied himself up with spider silk.
This is the kindness he keeps deep in his heart.
Even if you become a monster, you should try your best to stop yourself from hurting others.
It was precisely because of this conclusion that Xu Zhao dared to rush into the thatched hut and pushed him away without any hesitation when the beam fell.
But she overlooked one thing, a crucial thing -
Lin Yue has the ability to kill giant spiders.
Those giant spiders that seemed terrifying and bloody to Xu Zhao and the townspeople were food that could fill Lin Yue's stomach. Perhaps, he didn't even take them seriously. The spider silk with Lin Yue's scent made the giant spiders afraid.
Perhaps it can be understood that the half-human, half-spider Lin Yue is more terrifying than a spider.
Then according to common sense, if Lin Yue becomes so powerful that he can scare away the giant spider, when the giant spider is foraging at night, and when the townspeople are screaming in panic, the dilapidated thatched huts cannot stop the townspeople's helpless cries for help... Lin Yue can completely scare away the giant spider and save the townspeople from danger.
But he didn't do that.
He tied himself up in the house just to make sure he didn't hurt anyone.
But he chose to ignore the townspeople's pleas for help.
Why?
Xu Zhao's thoughts gradually became heavy, as if he had been injected with anesthetic, his whole body felt light and he could not feel the existence of his body.
She remembered what was said in the popular science book she picked up. The spider's neurotoxin paralyzes the nervous system, making the prey unable to respond to crises. At the same time, it will inject a liquid that can liquefy the internal organs into the prey's body, and wait until the prey's internal organs are converted, and then it will eat.
Will she be like that too?
The sharp teeth that stung his neck left, and in Xu Zhao's vague and dazed sight, Lin Yue's crazy eyes were filled with mist, and his soft and warm tongue like jelly licked the bloody wound bitten by the fangs. At the same time, tears as warm as pearls fell from his eyes.
Xu Zhao blinked.
I tasted tears. They were sour and astringent.
She heard Lin Yue's unfamiliar, apologetic voice: "...I'm sorry, I can't control myself, I'm very hungry...you taste so good."
The corners of Lin Yue's eyes were red, and his face was filled with pitiful guilt and self-blame. For some reason, his eyes returned to normal, no longer as dark as rust, but distinct black and white, half covered by his eyelashes, and crystal clear tears framed by his eye sockets.
Xu Zhao, who had temporarily lost control of her body, was picked up by him and placed on the relatively clean and soft pile of grass in the hut. Lin Yue put her down, never daring to look her in the eye. He picked up more straw to cover her to cover up the aroma that made him salivate.
After doing all this, more blood flowed out of the broken shoulder blade. He gasped a few times, returned to the corner where he had been staying, picked up the clothes that fell on the ground, covered Xu Zhao with them, and then returned to the corner quietly and silently.
Xu Zhao wanted to ask him what was going on and how he had suddenly regained consciousness, but her language system was also invaded. She was like a piece of wood, unable to move or speak, and could only stare at him.
Perhaps sensing Xu Zhao's burning gaze, Lin Yue raised his hand to ruffle his hair, covering his two black eyeballs. He spoke with a guilty and sad tone, "...I'm sorry, your body won't be hurt, you just can't move for the time being."
Tears fell and he apologized again: "I'm sorry."
Xu Zhao opened his mouth silently.
What else could she do?
Beat someone up to get revenge?
She couldn't bring herself to do it because of her tearful look.
The thatched hut is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.
Lin Yue's shoulders slumped, his frail body curled up, as if he were about to snowball and disappear. Xu Zhao lay in the thatched straw, his only comfortable position, limited by the angle at which his eyes could move, was to stare straight ahead—at the corner where Lin Yue was.
Unable to speak, unable to move.
Fortunately, just as Lin Yue said, Xu Zhao felt that his thoughts were running faster, and he subconsciously recalled what had happened before.
How did Lin Yue hold back?
Or did something happen to bring him back to his senses?
When Xu Zhao pushed open the wooden door, Lin Yue was still normal. When the roof beam collapsed and knocked him to the ground, he was also normal... Then, because the distance between the two was too close, she noticed Lin Yue sniffing, and then Xu Zhao was clamped.
Up to this point, he was still relatively normal.
Yes. In Xu Zhao's view, Lin Yue had always been suppressing the spider's predatory instincts, until she, in a vain attempt to bring back his consciousness by mentioning Lin Yue's past feats, revealed a deep hatred and resentment, and even deeper despair.
Xu Zhao thought he was going to die under the poisonous fangs.
But no.
She seemed... seemed to cry out in pain?
But just a cry of pain can bring him back to his senses?
How is that possible!
Xu Zhao didn't believe it.
She strained to recall.
If she knew what it was, she would no longer have to worry about Lin Yue going crazy when they were together.
Compared to the people in the town, the inhuman spider boy actually gave her a sense of security.
He is clearly the biggest threat.
...How strange.
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