Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Ghost Back Spider
Damn, why didn't any weapons drop?
Always using the soles of your shoes to fight monsters is too shabby, isn't it? Noble players want the Dragon Blade! The Xuanyuan Sword! The Italian Cannon! The blue-glowing Gatling gun!
Yun Miao stuffed the two glands into the bag in disappointment. But as soon as she lowered her head, she felt some warm liquid flowing down her chin to her chin.
Puzzled, she wiped it with her hand and looked closely: What is this red thing?
The dark-faced man exclaimed, "Nosebleed, why is this kid bleeding?"
Oh, it’s a nosebleed.
Yun Miao, whose poison resistance was as high as 12.7, calmly wiped the blood from his nose, and raised his arm to reveal scars corroded by the venom.
"It's okay, the hem of my skirt is just a little dirty."
The tall and thin man also exclaimed: "Your mouth is purple!"
Yun Miao continued to wipe the blood from his nose calmly, "It's okay, just a little bit of wind and frost."
She glanced at her health bar which had only 36 points left and realized that she was losing blood at a rate of '-0.1, -0.1, -0.1'. She immediately picked up a steamed bun from her bag with her bloody hands and started to eat it.
As the player's health bar decreases, their satiety level will automatically be deducted, restoring a point of health per second. If the satiety level drops below 70%, no more health will be restored. Furthermore, food with health-boosting properties will also directly restore health.
Although the steamed buns and pancakes in her hands do not provide any benefits themselves, they can still be used as a temporary solution.
The dark-faced big man and the tall and thin man stood there stupidly. They obviously didn't expect that someone's first reaction after being poisoned would be to eat steamed buns.
Huo Xin quickly stepped forward to check her pulse.
"Oh no, the poison is attacking my heart. Mother-in-law, do you have any antidote pills? Give them to me quickly."
Grandma Hua quickly came to her senses, took out a small bottle from her storage bag and threw it to Huo Xin. Huo Xin caught it with one hand, poured out a detoxification pill and handed it to him.
"Stop eating the steamed buns and take this detoxification pill."
[Detoxification Pill]: Contains a small amount of spiritual energy, can detoxify and increase health slightly
NPC gives free medicine?
Yun Miao's eyes lit up, and he quickly took the detoxification pill and stuffed it into his small bag.
"Thank you. Anything else?"
Seeing this, Huo Xin didn't know what he was thinking of, and directly handed the small porcelain bottle over. Yun Miao took it and continued to stuff it into the small bag. He also took out a pancake from the bag and chewed it with the steamed bun in one hand and the pancake in the other.
If a problem can be solved with ordinary food, there is naturally no need to use precious medicines.
Huo Xin frowned: "This is a real detoxification pill, I didn't lie to you. If you are worried, I can take one first..."
"I know it's a real detoxification pill."
Yun Miao stuffed the whole steamed bun into his mouth, covered his bag with one hand, and said stingily, "If you give it to me, it's mine. You're not poisoned, so why should you eat my detoxification pill? I won't give it to you!"
Huo Xin: "...Since you know it's true, why don't you eat it?"
Yun Miao: "Oh, I'll keep it for my collection."
Huo Xin obviously couldn't understand this weird player's thinking. She frowned even tighter and her tone became colder.
"But I gave you the detoxification pill so you could eat it, not keep it. Don't you see how ugly you look now? You're so reluctant to use it. Are you planning to go to the underworld and bribe the ghost messenger?"
Yun Miao was shocked: "Huh? This detoxification pill can be used to bribe the ghost messenger?"
Huo Xin raised his voice: "Is there something wrong with your ears or your brain? I'm asking you to take medicine, do you understand?!"
Yun Miao quickly stuffed the pancake into his mouth, hugged his small bag tightly with both hands, and said loudly with puffed cheeks: "I don't understand!"
"How can you..."
Huo Xin was so angry that his eyebrows raised. He rolled up his sleeves and prepared to talk reason with this strange kid.
"Xin'er, don't be impatient." Grandma Hua suddenly stopped Huo Xin, who was angry and anxious, and signaled her to look carefully at the girl's face.
Huo Xin took a closer look and realized that the girl's nosebleed had stopped at some point. Her lips were gradually turning from dark purple to light purple, and her pale face had regained a hint of color. Even the dark purple marks on her arms and ankles were rapidly fading.
What a strong self-healing ability!
There was a flash of shock in Huo Xin's eyes. He opened his mouth but didn't ask anything. He just silently took the basket of food that Grandma Hua had just taken out of the storage bag and placed it in front of the girl.
The dark-faced man and the tall and thin man also opened their bags, gathered all their dry food together and handed them over.
Yun Miao looked up in surprise: "For me?"
"Well, it's all for you."
Huo Xin bowed to her, a hint of admiration in his eyes: "I thank you for what happened just now, and I also apologize for my rudeness just now. You are very strong."
The tall and thin man also bowed and saluted: "Although we don't know what happened, but from what we just heard from the old man, it seems that you, little kid, saved us. Thank you so much."
The black-faced man then bowed and said, "Thank you very much."
Granny Hua: "Thank you indeed. Child, I will remember this favor. If you have any difficulties in the future, you can go to West Street in Luohua Town, fifty miles west, to find Granny Hua. I will definitely not refuse you."
Yun Miao nodded and understood. This must be part of a mission in the future.
Seeing the girl busy eating again, Huo Xin turned to look at the corpse of the little spider on the ground.
"Grandma, what on earth happened? Were the ruined temple and the mountain spider just now all illusions created by it?"
"That's right. Just follow me."
Granny Hua pulled out a burning stick from the campfire and walked towards the back of the crowd, where there was an old tree with lush branches and leaves, so thick that two people could hug it together.
Seeing this, the tall and thin man hurriedly pulled out two burning sticks, handed one to the black-faced man, and took the other one himself and followed quickly.
Yun Miao sat on the grass, eating while watching the NPCs continue with the plot.
The four of them walked under the tree, and Huo Xin was the first to notice that there was a pitch-black tree hole at the root of the old tree. The hole was half a person's height, just enough for a person to bend over and crawl in.
"Grandma, this cave seems a little strange."
She tilted her head, bringing her left ear closer to the cave entrance: "There's a sound inside..."
The tall and thin man's pupils shrank, and he immediately pointed at the man lying unconscious on the ground not far away and said in doubt.
"This location...isn't this the dog hole he kept telling us to get out of?"
The dark-faced man gestured with his big hands in panic: "Yes, the location of the dog hole in the ruined temple just now corresponds to this hole."
"Don't panic, calm down." Grandma Hua's hoarse voice sounded, and these four simple words instantly suppressed the panic in the hearts of the black-faced man and the tall and thin man.
The black-faced man mustered up his courage, took two steps forward, and extended the torch toward the cave entrance.
"I want to see what's inside this cave."
I saw that it was a cave entrance that led diagonally downwards to the ground. The entrance was not big, but the cave inside was large and deep, so dark that I couldn't see my hand in front of me.
The firelight could only illuminate one corner, and everyone could vaguely see that the cave was filled with white spider webs with a green tint, one layer upon another, densely packed and layered. Except for the relatively clean entrance of the cave, there was almost no place to step inside!
The black-faced man pushed the torch a little further inside, wanting to see more clearly, but the spider webs closest to the torch suddenly began to tremble as if they were alive!
It was at this time that Huo Xin and the other two noticed that the spider webs were actually densely packed with a group of translucent milky white spiderlings the size of rice grains. They were startled by the fire and were retreating towards the deeper darkness like a tide. There were so many of them that people instantly got goosebumps.
The black-faced man took a breath and quickly took a step back.
"There are so many spiders in this cave. Luckily we didn't listen to that person and go through the dog hole. Otherwise, if we had gone in, we would have been eaten to the bone."
Granny Hua shook her head. "Although the venom of the Ghostback Spider is fatal to ordinary people, they don't eat humans themselves."
"These are the young of the Ghostback Spider. Juvenile Ghostback Spiders look just like ordinary spiders, but once they safely reach adulthood, they transform into Qi Refining Stage demonic beasts and master illusion techniques. The ruined temple and mountain spiders we just saw were probably illusions created by the Ghostback Spider."
"Generally speaking, due to their small size, they require less food. Even adult ghost spiders usually only eat poisonous insects and rarely take large prey."
"If an adult spider were to start hunting large prey, or even humans, there's only one possibility... it's a female preparing to lay eggs."
As Granny Hua spoke, she raised her torch upwards. Huo Xin and the other two followed suit, looking up from beneath the tree. They discovered that the crown of the old tree was also covered in dense spider webs. Deep within the canopy lay several cocoons, each as tall as a man, woven from spider silk.
The three people's expressions gradually turned ugly, obviously thinking of something bad. At this moment, a voice interrupted the strange atmosphere.
"I see. So the Ghostback Spider wants to use the human corpse as a breeding ground for its young spiderlings? No wonder this person was so strange just now."
Everyone turned their heads and saw that the strange girl had squatted beside the unconscious man, chewing on a pancake with one hand and poking the man's arm with a branch with the other.
Several holes had been poked in the back of the man's hand, but no blood flowed out. Instead, countless milky white "streams" continued to flow out from the wounds.
As the "water flow" dispersed, Huo Xin and the other two noticed that the "water flow" was actually a group of sesame-sized spiderlings. As they flowed out, the man's body visibly deflated.
Yun Miao raised his foot and stomped on countless baby spiders to death. Unfortunately, these baby spiders were not red-named monsters that attacked actively, and they did not drop anything after death.
The dark-faced man covered his mouth and retched: "This person...this person couldn't be..."
Granny Hua looked at Yun Miao and said, "Since you can see through the Ghost Back Spider's illusion, you must have known that this person was already a corpse from the beginning."
"Well, that's just a guess."
Yun Miao nodded profoundly and continued to poke with the branch. As another hole appeared on the corpse's arm, more baby spiders crawled out, bringing out some fluffy spider silk.
She examined it carefully and commented, "Aside from the little spider, there's just the spider silk used for stuffing. There's not a drop of blood. This corpse should only be left with human skin and a skeleton."
Huo Xin's throat moved when he heard this, trying to suppress the nausea.
The dark-faced man and the tall, thin man looked even uglier. They had been in the ruined temple with this man for a full half hour before the others arrived. And now someone told them that this man was actually a moving corpse?
Doesn't that mean they had spent half an hour in the ruined temple with a corpse?!
No, the ruined temple is also fake!
That is to say, they sat facing each other in the wasteland with a corpse filled with spiders for half an hour. Behind them was a demon tree that was also full of spiders. There were also several corpses wrapped in spider silk hanging on the tree. The spider demon that liked to lay eggs on human corpses was probably staring at them not far away!
If it weren't for that weird kid...they would have ended up like this corpse!
For a moment, the dark-faced man and the tall, thin man looked at the girl with eyes full of admiration and gratitude. A few steamed buns and cakes were too little compared to the life-saving grace, but it was a pity that they couldn't offer anything valuable at the moment.
Grandma Hua also looked at the girl. The biggest difference between a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage and a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage is their spiritual consciousness. A cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage cannot cultivate their spiritual consciousness, but a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage can cultivate their spiritual consciousness and use their spiritual consciousness to control magical instruments and detect the surroundings.
If she had divine consciousness, she would have discovered earlier that the man was not alive. Unfortunately, she did not.
So...how did this girl discover the problem?
Judging from her pulse, she seemed to be just a mortal, but an ordinary mortal child would not have such sharp eyesight, strong resistance to poison, and such a calm and strange temperament.
The author has something to say:
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Granny Hua: This boy has an extraordinary mind and character, he is truly a hero in his youth!
Yun Miao: This game is really fun. Four little spiders for one dollar, hehe!
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