Chapter 127

There were chaotic knocks from the door that had been slammed shut. The five people behind the door remained silent. The knocks lasted for a quarter of an hour, making people worry that the door would be broken down.

Yu Tu pointed at the door and drew a question mark in the air with his hand.

Gu Hongying first pointed at the door, then waved his hands, and then made a gesture of wiping his neck, just as smoothly as he had slammed the door before.

Yu Tu: “…”

Okay, he got it.

After ringing for another quarter of an hour, the damn knocking sound that was almost tormenting to the point of insanity finally disappeared, and several people breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Yin Li slapped the silver mini formation in her hand on the door: "Long time no see."

She was still wearing her familiar black long straight bangs: "Why are you here at Brilliant Building?"

Gu Hongying sighed: "Coming here was an accident, and coming in was even more of an accident."

The two of them were originally planning to rush to the rescue outside the building, but Hao Zhizhi suddenly rushed out, and they were dragged in by the spider silk in a daze.

"The Brilliant Building is a Class C dangerous area, and the Alien Bureau has made special protections." After Yin Li finished the formation, she looked back at them with a look of understanding, "But I don't find it strange that you came in."

Gu Hongying: “…Prohibited connotations.”

The two friends who had only been apart for a few months naturally did not feel too unfamiliar with each other. Yin Li gathered a silver formation in her palm again, but this formation was much dimmer than before, and it seemed that the spiritual power was insufficient:

"To make a long story short, the Brilliant Building is a spider nest formed by the interaction of individual mutations. The cocoon outside the door is the remains left after the spiders digested it. Although the spider-man is a bit tricky, he cannot leave the range of the Brilliant Building, so his danger level is judged to be C. In fact, his strength should be between C and B."

"I don't think it's that powerful." Eric, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly spoke up. "I used fire power to burn spider silk before. Although I couldn't burn all of it, I could still burn it. The most difficult part of spider monsters is the silk."

"That's normal." Yin Li added the dark array to the center of the array she had just placed. "But the monsters here are not dominated by spiders, but by humans."

Yin Li didn't end up here by accident like Gu Hongying and Yu Tu. She came here specifically for training after accepting a mission in Kunlun.

Although the difficulty of the Spider's Nest is far beyond that of C-level, because its range is fixed, if she really cannot solve it, she can use the formation to evacuate at any time. As long as she leaves the building more than 50 meters away, the spider silk will not be able to carry out subsequent pursuit.

Previously, when she was trying to hunt the Spider-Man in the Glory Building, she suddenly sensed a spiritual fluctuation from someone. The situation did not look good, so she drew out half of her spiritual power and urgently used a formation to suppress the weirdness. While the formation suppressed the weirdness, it would also teleport the attacked person to a temporarily safe place, which was the silver light that Gu Hongying and the others saw on the first floor.

Good news: All the people with psychic powers in this building are gathered in one place, but each one is not very powerful.

Bad news: Because of her "arrogance" just now, the Spider Nest was awakened, and now evacuation has become very difficult.

"I have a special contactor in my hand, and there is also a signal here." Yin Li said concisely, "But it is uncertain how long it will take for someone to arrive after we send out the distress signal. Strange things happen frequently in the surface world, and there is a shortage of manpower. The best way is for us to rush out by ourselves and get 50 meters away from the building."

"It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on rescue." Hao Zhizhi finally cleared the spider webs on her original form and changed back to human form from a mirage beast. "There are five of us here. If we are lucky enough to gather the five spiritual attributes of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, we can give it a try."

Yu Tu was the last one to arrive. Before they arrived, Hao Zhizhi, Eric, and Yin Li had simply exchanged names, so Hao Zhizhi asked directly, "Yin Li, what is your attribute?"

Yin Li: "Water."

Hao Zhizhi breathed a sigh of relief: "Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, good luck."

The Five Elements Defense Formation and the Five Elements Attack Formation are one of the basic knowledge points that freshmen must learn when they start school. You don’t need to ask to know that everyone knows it.

Yin Li: "You mean to use the Five Elements Formation to rush out?"

"The Breathing Array can probably hold out for an hour, and the Soundproofing Array can probably hold out for half an hour." Yin Li pointed at the door, "If you decide to use this plan, you have to hurry up and recover."

They were urgently discussing how to get out, and their voices seemed to be getting closer and farther away in Yu Tu's ears.

His consciousness slowly emptied out, and it seemed to spread out of the tightly closed door. Yu Tu "saw" the strange spiders swaying on this floor, and then passed them and spread to other places. On the next floor, there was one in the first office, and on the next floor...

The clear picture in his mind suddenly blurred into colorful blocks. Needle-like pain swept through his brain, and Yu Tu held his head and screamed.

It was a pain he had never felt before, as if someone had split his head in half from the top and then used an iron hook to mix it up in his mind.

Yu Tu was shaking with pain, and it seemed that someone had helped him up. Everything seemed to be wrong, the ground was hot, his breath was cold, something was biting him, something was laughing, harsh, weird, absurd... He seemed to have lost his senses for a moment.

The moment Yu Tu fell, Gu Hongying beside him quickly grabbed his collar, preventing the tragic incident of Yu Tu's back of the head coming into direct contact with the ground.

Yu Tu held his head and screamed in pain. Gu Hongying felt extremely helpless. He forcibly controlled one of Yu Tu's hands:

"Tu Tu? Yu Tu!"

This sudden change startled the other three people. Yin Li stepped forward and grabbed Yu Tu's other hand to prevent him from committing suicide, but it was obvious that Yu Tu's condition was quite abnormal.

Gu Hongying: "Isn't this a relatively safe area?"

"His condition should not have much to do with this." Hao Zhizhi, who had transformed back into human form, said seriously, "He seems to be awakening his [talent] now."

Everyone with spiritual powers has the potential to awaken their own [talents]. Some people awaken in life-or-death situations, some in daily life while eating and drinking, and some when their emotions change drastically... Awakening comes without warning and without any regularity. How exactly one awakens remains a mystery.

"Some people have smooth awakenings, some have rough ones, and some fail." Hao Zhizhi's eyebrows knitted together. "His current situation looks a bit dangerous."

"I'm sending a distress signal now," Yin Li whispered, "In this situation, we can only wait here."

She pressed a few acupuncture points on Yu Tu's arm: "Yu Tu! Focus! Wake up!"

The three of them were distracted by Yu Tu's accident, and suddenly there was a muffled sound from the corner, as if something fell to the ground. When Hao Zhizhi turned around, Eric, who was sitting, had slipped to the ground and fell into a coma.

The Five Elements Formation hadn't even started yet, and two members were eliminated on the spot.

Yin Li asked Hao Zhizhi to take her place and control Yu Tu so that he wouldn't hurt herself. She quickly went to check in Eric's direction: "It's spider venom."

The toxins from the Spider's Nest are everywhere, just like the spores of mushrooms. However, because they all have spiritual powers, they will not be affected in the short term, provided that they are not injured.

Eric's shoulder was covered in blood when he was transferred to a relatively safe area. He had been able to talk normally before, so Yin Li thought he had suppressed the poison himself, but she didn't expect it to break out at this time.

"Eric?" Yin Li called out, "How far has the spider venom penetrated?"

Eric's slate blue eyes opened a little, and his pupils turned red: "The left side of my body is paralyzed and I can't control it."

—The side of his arm where he was injured.

Yin Li frowned, pulled out the dagger she was carrying, and stabbed it downwards, piercing through the small spider that had crawled around Eric's neck at some point.

When the dagger was pulled out, the spider's blood fell to the ground, emitting a foul smell.

The soundproofing array can block out the sounds of their conversations and movements, and the breathing array can block out their breath, but it cannot completely block out the smell of blood that spreads after being injured.

“How long will it take to suppress it?” she asked.

Eric's voice sounded a little hoarse, and sweat soaked his golden hair: "At least two hours."

Yin Li: "My formation won't last that long."

Hao Zhizhi: "Do you want to break out by force?"

"The Spiders are easy to defeat, but hard to kill," Yin Li said. "I've only been here for a short time, and I haven't found the core that can wipe them out yet."

Gu Hongying: "How about letting one in first and trying to kill it?"

"After using the Breathing Array, the carrier of the array cannot be moved." Yin Li looked towards the door. "If you open the door, the soundproofing array can still be used, but the Breathing Array will immediately become ineffective."

This was indeed a very tricky problem. No one spoke. The only sounds in the room were Yu Tu's faint screams and Eric's painful gasps.

Gu Hongying suddenly heard Yu Tu's voice, which was so subtle that it couldn't be any softer—

"I know why Spider-Man was formed."

He was startled and lowered his head to look at Yu Tu who was lying on his legs. Yu Tu's eyes were closed, and his gaze was unfocused. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that Yu Tu's relatively shallow pupils seemed to turn into a very dark green, almost black.

"An employee who stayed behind to work overtime after get off work suffered a sudden heart attack. In his last struggle, he was bitten by a highly poisonous spider. His desire to survive and his resentment of dying prompted him to merge with the spider and become a monster.

The next day, some of the people who entered the building during work were assimilated by him. They were unable to leave the area of ​​​​the Glory Building, so they built a nest here.

Spider-men retain some of their previous habits. When there is no intrusion from outside, they usually stay in the office, occasionally going to the tea room and walking mechanically in the corridor.

Hao Zhizhi's mind worked quickly, and she subconsciously came to a conclusion: "So this relatively safe area... is the boss's office?!"

If Spider-Man still retains some of his previous habits, according to the ethics of ordinary companies, it is estimated that what office workers hate most is going to the boss's office for reporting, so the possibility of going here is the smallest.

Although they have not officially entered the workplace yet, thanks to the Internet, they are also very familiar with 996, 007 and workplace overtime culture.

"Take the spider outside as an example. If it was a hard-working worker, then the place it often stayed in was the office. If it liked to slack off, then the place it most often stayed in was the toilet. If it liked to gossip, then the place it most often stayed in was the tea room..."

"Lily just said that the Spider-Man is 'human' first..." Gu Hongying thought, "Will it be possible to trigger some fear effects if I ask the Spider-Man to write daily, weekly or monthly reports when I am face to face with him? How about performance deductions? How about fines? How about redoing the report PPT? Will the effects be different?"

Hao Zhizhi: "... Gu Hongying, you'd better not be my boss after you graduate, or I'm afraid I'll put you in a sack."

"Although I don't quite understand what you are saying," Yin Li said, "I feel it is a bit immoral."

"Since some of the 'person's' habits have been preserved..." Gu Hongying thought more and more that it was feasible. "Let me give you an example. If his performance is 3.25 and he is encouraged to resign, will he go berserk?"

Hao Zhizhi: "I suggest you be a human being."