Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 586: Mutant Spider (2)
The spiders on the ground began to surge and quickly retreated, clearing a path for the newcomer. Then they quietly lay down on the ground, not daring to move.
Standing before the large tent, Xie Wenbin’s previously smiling face instantly stiffened, and his eerie eyes fixed on a spot on the ground, clenching his mouth as he stared at the spiders, taking quite a while before spitting out two words: "Useless trash."
"Master." Another young man walked out of the forest and respectfully greeted Xie Wenbin with a fist salute.
Xie Wenbin snorted coldly, "They’ve escaped, go chase them."
Zhu Si looked up in surprise, seeing the ferocious terror on his master’s face, then quickly bowed his head: "Yes, I will go at once."
Xie Wenbin narrowed his eyes, clutching the flute tightly in his hand, gazing up at the pitch-dark sky where droplets of rain fell upon his face, and murmured to himself, "Son, your father will avenge you sooner or later." Remembering his son’s tragic death, he wanted nothing more than to tear Feng Xuxu to pieces. If it weren’t for her, his son would still be a prince, maybe even the emperor by now. He had spent three years figuring out this strategy, but to his dismay, they still got away.
Xie Wenbin stood in place, looking at the chaotic footprints on the ground, the majority of which were in front of the tent and didn’t extend outward. Besides, his pets surrounded the area, leaving no place for them to set foot. To prove his theory, he reached the perimeter in just a few moments, but found nothing more than the muddy ground—no trace of anyone’s footsteps. He sneered inwardly and returned to the front of the large tent, conducting a thorough search but still found no sign of them.
In the pocket dimension, Xiaobai moved the pulsating egg from Di An’s foot into a vessel. Holding the ancient book from the space, he began researching step by step, from the egg to the spiderling, feeding it the substance Xiaobai had developed, and then witnessed the spider’s instantaneous swelling.
"Xiaobai, this spider looks very much like the ones outside." Feng Xuxu watched the spider for a while, finding it resembled those outside, but something still felt off.
After busying himself for a long while, Xiaobai finally exhaled in relief: "Sister, this spider has undergone mutation. It’s recorded in the ancient scriptures that anyone bitten by this kind of spider would be controlled by it. No one knows why, but the person who developed this eventually disappeared without a trace."
"Disappeared without a trace? Then didn’t he leave any solution to the problem?" Feng Xuxu was most concerned about the problem at hand, not about the creator’s disappearance.
"He did, but it’s not recorded here. However, there is a way to deal with it, which is to kill the lead spider, for they are all born from it."
"So, you’re saying the person playing the flute is controlling the lead spider, and then the lead spider controls the others, right?" Dugu Chen’s eyes seemed to light up after hearing this.
"Yes, brother-in-law, but there’s another method," Xiaobai said with a mysterious smile.
"What method?" Dugu Chen squinted his tiger eyes, smiling along.
Xiaobai stretched out a claw, pointing to the immobile spider: "Hehe, brother-in-law, ’Turn their strategy against them’."
Feng Xuxu frowned as she watched the excited Xiaobai: "Do you mean to have it become the lead spider and then attack the person playing the flute?"
"Yep, yep, hehe, sister, how about that? Isn’t Xiaobai very clever?" Xiaobai nestled on Feng Xuxu’s thigh, arrogantly raising its tiger head to look at her.
Feng Xuxu twitched the corners of her mouth, shaking uncontrollably: "But this spider is the grandchild of that big spider. Are you sure you can control it?" The issue was this was the grandchild, after all, there was still the blood connection. Feng Xuxu looked at the spider on the stand, shook her head, and let out a laugh. The idea of a spider’s grandchild killing its grandfather was indeed amusing.
