Chapter 206: Catacombs (II)

“Is this the giant steel-spear spider that is called a deadly weapon?”

Chen Yiming sized up the underground creature.

Not only were the eight legs like steel spears, but they were also covered in sharp barbs. If they pierced into a creature’s body, they could cause a huge amount of damage.

In addition, one could vaguely see green venom on its two fangs that were glowing with a metallic luster. They could inject the venom into the enemy’s body the moment the eight legs restrained them.

Physical damage coupled with poison damage was indeed something that ordinary people did not dare to provoke.

“There was once a city near the catacombs. Because they were afraid that the giant steel-spear spiders would suddenly attack the city one day, the population gradually decreased as the people drifted to other cities until finally, no one dared to stay behind,” Ye Yisha whispered a piece of history.

“Is that true?” Chen Yiming asked curiously.

He was skeptical about this. The giant steel-spear spiders lived in a dark underground environment all year round, so why would they climb out of the ground in large numbers to attack human cities?

“I was born in a small city in the south of Jiangnan province. My ancestors were from that city,” Ye Yisha explained.

Chen Yiming’s expression froze. He was standing in a different position, so he could see differently.

The giant steel-spear spiders in the cave could force humans to abandon the city and retreat. Clearly, it was not as simple as it seemed. There must be a deeper reason that Ye Yisha did not know about.

He looked at the other three tunnels in the cave.

“Which direction should we go in?” Chen Yiming asked.

After this, more underground passages would appear. He could only rely on Ye Yisha to find the way for them.

Ye Yisha listened carefully again and pointed at one of the passages. “This way.”

Chen Yiming had no objections and took the lead to enter the passage. Ye Yisha quickly followed.

The terrain in the catacombs was complicated, like a maze.

For adventurers, they needed to leave marks along the way. Otherwise, once they got lost, they would definitely be surrounded by the sea of spiders.

After walking for nearly 10 minutes, Chen Yiming could sense the movement of the giant steel-spear spiders in the tunnel. The two intruders who had entered the cave had clearly been noticed.

“This is bad. We are blocked from the front and back this time. We can’t avoid them,” Ye Yisha explained.

Chen Yiming stopped in his tracks. Two streams of internal force of the cutting attribute turned into silver threads that shot out in both directions.

“Hss! Hss! Hss!”

Many giant steel-spear spiders were pierced by the threads.

No matter what form of protection the steel-like legs provided to the spiders, even if it was covered in internal force, it was still as fragile as paper when faced with Chen Yiming’s silver threads.

In just a few seconds, the corridor fell silent.

Facing an expert who could instantly kill their own kind, the giant steel-spear spiders behind did not continue to move forward. Instead, they retreated to the surrounding passages and went into hiding.

“These are the giant steel-spear spiders!”

Ye Yisha, who was following behind Chen Yiming, shouted in her heart as she watched the giant steel-spear spiders die along the way.

These giant steel-spear spiders were of various sizes. The corpses of the big ones could block the entire passage. At this moment, they were all like deflated balloons, and they had died on the spot.

She counted silently in her heart and multiplied the number she got by two. In just a few seconds, nearly 100 giant steel-spear spiders had been killed.

What did that mean?

If these nearly 100 giant steel-spear spiders broke out of the ground and started a massacre in the city, ordinary small cities might be in danger of being destroyed.

Chen Yiming naturally saw the danger hidden within the catacombs.

Although humans could build steel walls to withstand the attacks from the mutant beasts, it was completely impossible to defend against an attack from underground. These catacombs were indeed worthy of being called the most dangerous area in Jiangnan province.

At the same time, he had the thought of destroying the entire catacombs after killing the spider emperors.

With his speed of replenishing his energy, he could use continuous attacks to kill the giant steel-spear spiders at the disciple realm with the shockwaves.

However, on second thought, it was unrealistic. Wasn’t this just like creating an earthquake?

It was completely like killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of his own troops at the same time.

After that, they did not encounter much resistance along the way.

Ye Yisha listened carefully every few turns to determine the spider emperors’ locations.

For some reason, the spider emperors remained indifferent even though Chen Yiming had killed many of the giant steel-spear spiders.

Another suspicious point was that there were a large number of remains of creatures living on the surface that had appeared deep underground. Compared to the remains of the passage near the surface in the first half of the journey, the creatures here were completely different.

“There seem to be… nine spider emperors, and they aren’t far from each other,” Ye Yisha suddenly stopped in front of a passage and stammered.

Although Chen Yiming had just killed two bloodthirsty wolves in the sea of flowers, the numbers of two and nine were not on the same level. Ye Yisha was so frightened that her legs went weak.

Nine of them?

Chen Yiming’s expression remained the same, not caring about the difference in numbers.

Strong was strong, weak was weak. Chen Yiming could vaguely sense that his current combat strength was above the peak of the warrior realm, and was at the middle level below the master realm.

With the difference of half a level, the nine spider emperors could not break through his defense at all, and he could kill each of them with just one strike.

Seeing that the person beside her had no intention of retreating, Ye Yisha asked weakly, “We agreed that you would send me out to the surface first.”

“Don’t panic. Just follow me. There won’t be any problems.”

Faced with the suspicious situation that they only encountered after entering the catacombs, Chen Yiming still needed Ye Yisha, his human radar, to determine the direction. Of course, he couldn’t let her leave now.

“…”

So this man was a liar. However, in terms of strength, the two of them were as different as giants and ants, so how could Ye Yisha dare to object?

…

Just as Chen Yiming and Ye Yisha approached the spider emperor’s caves, the half-asleep spider emperors woke up.

One of the spider emperor’s caves

was a huge underground space. It was about 100 meters in height, length and width. The ground was covered by the remains of countless creatures, and it was just like a land of bones.

Each of its eight limbs were just long enough to reach the edges of the cave, and the giant steel-spear spider was lying on the bones in the cave.

Its body emitted a green glow that dyed the entire cave in a green light. The remains on the ground instantly became smaller, and finally turned into a liquid that seeped into the soil.

In addition, the edge of the cave expanded a little, and even a portion of the soil had melted away.

This was the poison-attribute internal force that had been enhanced by the fusion of the spider emperor’s internal force.

Suddenly, the green light shone brightly as the spider emperor crawled into the underground passage from the cave. It headed in Chen Yiming’s direction, and the tunnel along the way was constantly melting, becoming a size that its huge body could pass through.

The other eight spider emperors nearby fell back into a half-asleep state after sensing the commotion.

The spider emperors did not think that anyone who entered the catacombs could defeat the giant steel-spear spiders of the same level.

In the underground passage,

“It’s here… one of the spider emperors is here.”

Ye Yisha’s voice trembled.

This was different from the situation in the sea of flowers. Back then, Chen Yiming had placed her outside the range of the battle, but she was right next to him now.

Her small body would be destroyed just like that if there was a small accident.

Chen Yiming glanced at the end of the tunnel.

He didn’t expect a spider emperor to foolishly charge over. Wasn’t it just sending itself to its death?

Although the underground passage was suitable for escape, if he rushed forward, the passage would become a restraint. If Chen Yiming stabbed out with his sword, the Spider Emperor would not even have a place to hide.

And the situation turned out exactly like that.

“…”

10 seconds later, Ye Yisha was dumbfounded.

The green light on the spider emperor’s body quickly extinguished. It did not even manage to put up a decent resistance and had died just like that.

From the beginning to the end, it was not much different from when he encountered the giant steel-spear spider that was much smaller than the spider emperor. It was all over with a single strike.

Ye Yisha looked at the melted underground passage and subconsciously pressed herself even closer to Chen Yiming.