This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 67 - The Mysteriously Disappeared Anomaly_1
67: Chapter 67: The Mysteriously Disappeared Anomaly_1
67 -67: The Mysteriously Disappeared Anomaly_1
After reading the description of this spider egg, Mu You could only feel envy and jealousy.
This big-stomached spider grew stronger by eating and drinking.
Anyone who saw this could be green with envy.
[The Gluttonous Demon Spider Egg is defenseless during its incubation period.
Do you wish to try and persuade it to become your familiar?]
“Persuade!” There was no hesitation about it.
[You cut your finger, dropping a few droplets of blood onto the egg.
The contract spell automatically completes its inscription.]
[Contract successful!]
Mu You checked his interface.
Under the Familiars section, besides the original ‘Pocket Toad’ and ‘Battle Eagle,’ a new ‘Gluttonous Demon Spider’ appeared.
[Gluttonous Demon Spider]
[Level: 0.]
[Status: Incubating.]
[Ability: Devour; once activated, it can automatically absorb the flesh and blood of unclaimed demons around it, converting it into its own energy.]
“It already has abilities before it hatches?”
Mu You was taken aback as he clicked on the ‘Devour’ text for a try.
The pink spider egg started to tremble, slipping from Mu You’s hand, and landing on the layer of sticky fluid below.
Immediately, Mu You saw the tiny spider inside the egg seemingly open its mouth in its slumber.
It was like a well that could never be filled, feverishly absorbing the surrounding flesh and energy.
The whole layer of sticky fluid visibly deflated.
Along with the just-dead spiders and the remains of the mother spider nearby, they were all enveloped into the sticky layer and eventually all converted into energy, flowing into the spider egg.
This all happened extremely quickly.
By the time Mu You could react, all spider corpses and flesh walls on the ground had been completely absorbed.
The surrounding dirt turned back into the original grassland state.
If not for the spider webs still hanging on the branches above, and the scattered animal bones around, it would be hard to believe that this place was just a massive spider’s nest.
Coming back to himself, Mu You rushed to check the spider’s attributes again.
[Gluttonous Demon Spider, Level: 1.]
[Status: Incubating…]
“Damn!”
Mu You was speechless, this thing was such a glutton!
So much stuff got devoured, and it only leveled up by one.
Moreover, there were no signs of it hatching anytime soon…
He started to worry about whether he could afford to keep this little creature.
If it continued to eat like this in the future, it seemed like it could actually eat him out of house and home…
Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind.
Mu You picked up the spider egg and wiped off the stains around it while watching the peacefully sleeping little spider inside.
He sighed helplessly and silently put it in his backpack, hung a piece of spider web in a corner of the small hut, and stuck the egg to it.
What else could he say?
This was his own contracted creature.
Even if he had to struggle, he must raise it!
Out from the backpack, he looked around the now empty forest and sighed.
Regardless, he had finally managed to get through this round relatively safely.
Of course, the task wasn’t over yet!
He hadn’t forgotten that the thing which had clouded his and Cola’s minds and almost killed them was still at large.
Something that nearly killed him twice could not be let off easily!
Moreover, this thing needed to influence their minds to make them enter the spider’s nest and die.
This meant that its power was definitely not strong, otherwise there would be no need for such roundabout tactics.
And according to general experience, usually the controller of mental power couldn’t be too far away from the controlled.
Like the two cloaked law enforcers before, they were likely to have been controlled when they came nearby and then walked into the spider’s nest to die.
In that case, that thing might still be in this forest, and not too far from them.
Thinking of this, Mu You took out the detector and turned it back on.
After solving all of the spiders here, the screen has returned to its normal black background.
Against this background, the surrounding hidden light points have become clearly visible.
Due north, nine hundred meters away from the two, a red dot flickering between brightness and darkness stood out on the screen.
The only thing that could hide itself within the range of the spider’s nest without being devoured is ‘that thing’ that could manipulate minds.
There can be no other possibility.
Mu You made a sign to Cola, and the man and cat quietly crept towards the north.
…
At this moment, on the periphery of the Spider Forest…
A line of fully armed soldiers and a few Cloak Men were gathered, each wearing gas masks, carrying assault rifles, and flamethrowers.
Standing in the front of the line was Zhang Yang, the former chief of the K Municipal Bureau and recent transfer to the Anomaly Bureau.
The unique revolver he was toying with in his hands clearly hinted that he was no longer an ordinary person, but a player.
After officially joining the Anomaly Bureau, he finally delved into the world of the players.
Thanks to the higher-ups, he was appointed as the chief of the newly established K Municipal Anomaly Bureau, commanding more than a dozen players.
“Remember, after we storm in, do not act recklessly.
You must first completely clean the meat barriers under your feet before advancing.
Do not step directly on the meat barriers!
According to the intelligence from the higher-ups, these spider eggs hidden in the meat barriers can hatch at any time.
A single bite can result in poisoning and slowing down, followed by being devoured by even more spiders.”
Zhang Yang looked at the members assigned under him, “And once our flesh is consumed by the spiders, it will transform into their energy, creating more spiders and forming a vicious cycle!
So if you don’t want to become food for the spiders, be careful.
If you find something amiss, retreat immediately!
Within this unknown anomaly creature’s base, the most important thing is self-preservation…”
The information that Zhang Yang conveyed had just been sent by the Anomaly Bureau.
After discovering this class A anomaly point, the advisory group appointed by the Anomaly Bureau immediately launched an investigation and rapidly confirmed the name and details of this anomaly creature: Mother Brood Spider, which could lay eggs by absorbing any form of energy, rapidly expanding its territory.
Earth’s ecosystem is not as fraught with danger as that of the Star Spirit World.
This creature in Earth has virtually no natural enemies.
If left unchecked, within a month, the surrounding cities might be engulfed by spider webs.
Therefore, the higher-ups were explicit in their commands: This creature, possessing terrifying expansion capabilities, must be strangled in its cradle!
Yet, to avoid damaging the research value of this anomaly point, the higher-ups disallowed the use of large-scale lethal weapons like cannons.
Thus, they could only rely on manually wielding ordinary weapons, charging into the spider’s nest and manually uprooting it.
The danger of such a mission is self-evident.
“The forest surrounding area has been cleared of a firebreak, and the rest is up to us.
All we have to do is charge in, burn all the spiders, and it will all be over…”
“Commander!”
Zhang Yang was giving a passionate pre-battle mobilization to his squadron, but a scout on the top of a tree trunk holding a telescope suddenly spoke.
“What is it?” Zhang Yang frowned.
“The spider’s nest…
seems to have…
shrunk back…” The scout sounded uncertain.
Given that they were in a dense forest and surrounded by peculiar magnetic field interferences, unmanned aerial vehicle detection devices and other such modern technology could not be utilized.
They had to resort to a more primitive method of scouting, combining telescopic and naked-eye observation.
“Shrunk back?”
Zhang Yang frowned and hurriedly climbed up the tree trunk, taking the telescope to look for himself.
Indeed, the meat barrier composed of spider mucus deep in the forest was visibly shrinking and withering, contracting from the outside in at a rapid pace until it completely disappeared deep within the forest.
“What’s happening inside?”
Zhang Yang looked rather solemn.
This sudden development did not ease his worries.
On the contrary, it intensified the tension — the information provided by the higher-ups did not mention anything about the spider’s nest shrinking!
He didn’t dare to order the team to march straight into the forest.
Instead, he sent a few reconnaissance players to scout ahead first.
The news came back quickly.
“Captain Zhang, there’s nothing inside!”
“What do you mean by ‘nothing’?
Be clear!” Zhang Yang frowned.
“There’s no spider eggs, no spider nest, all demons are dead!”
“This anomaly has been conquered!!”
