Chapter 44: Furious Rotten Corpse Spider Queen

Hiss——!!!!!!!!

A shrill scream brimming with endless fury and venom erupted from the other side of the ruins without any warning!

The Night Blade squad's side instantly descended into chaos.

Apart from Gui Ying, the other members' painful wails rose and fell; they curled up on the ground, claws digging into their heads as if trying to gouge out the demonic sound drilling into their minds, blood seeping from between their fingers—a horrifying sight.

"Hold steady! All of you, hold steady! This is a mental attack!"

Gui Ying's eyes turned blood‑red, and veins like earthworms bulged on his forehead and neck.

He roared with all his might, trying to wake his teammates, but the wave‑like surge of intense pain also began to cloud his consciousness.

This Spider Queen's strength...... is absolutely far beyond what the intelligence described—more than a notch stronger!

Meanwhile, inside Xuanwu City, everyone was unharmed.

An invisible barrier completely blocked that terrifying mental shock from the outside.

Lin Yue and the others also heard that shrill scream, but aside from finding the sound a bit grating, they suffered no substantive effect.

"What…… what is going on?"

Wang Gongtou stared bewilderedly at the frenzied Night Blade squad outside the city, then at the unharmed crowd, his face full of confusion.

"It's Black Tortoise."

Han Ya's gaze fell upon that invisible energy shield; although she didn't know the principle, her clever mind could guess it was Black Tortoise's power protecting them.

Especially A Qiang and Xiao Hui, still shaken from the shock, watched everything; their sense of belonging to Xuanwu City peaked at an unprecedented height.

Safety……

In the apocalypse, nothing is more precious than these two words.

Lin Yue ignored the crowd's reaction, his gaze locked on the direction from which the scream came not far away.

"Boom—!"

With a tremendous roar, the direction from which the scream came—the small hill of piled steel‑reinforced concrete—blew apart explosively!

A huge, hideous figure slowly crawled out of the choking smoke and dust.

Its size, though not as exaggerated as Black Tortoise's, was still about the size of a double‑decker bus, supported by eight limbs like iron spears holding up its bloated, ugly black body.

On its abdomen, a huge visible sac pulsed faintly, indicating it was at a critical stage of evolution.

Escaping the ruins alongside it were hundreds of rotten‑corpse spiders much smaller than those outside, yet far more vicious in aura.

"Hiss……"

The Spider Queen's scarlet compound eyes were locked firmly on Black Tortoise, and from those eyes everyone saw its bone‑deep hatred and brutal killing intent toward him.

Its nest was destroyed, its offspring devoured, and even the granary it had painstakingly stocked was looted clean!

Most importantly, Black Tortoise's sudden intrusion very likely doomed this evolution to failure.

All these things piled up, driving it completely into madness!

"I can't believe so many managed to escape……"

Lin Yue gazed at the black‑blanketed mass of spiders, a flicker of surprise crossing his eyes.

Through Old Wang's account, he gained a clearer understanding of just how terrifying the power of the shopping center's total collapse was.

That the Spider Queen could survive thanks to her formidable physique was no surprise to him.

But that so many rotten‑corpse spiders could escape together forced him to reassess the strength of this clan.

It seems these creatures that have lived underground year‑round have evolved an extremely strong survival ability.

Of course, Lin Yue didn't dwell on it too much.

For him, the more rotten‑corpse spiders that escaped, the better—it would save him the later trouble of digging up their corpses, after all Black Tortoise still needed to continue evolving.

The brief standoff made the air seem to freeze.

No matter how high the Spider Queen's intelligence, it was ultimately driven by its brutal instinct.

Within ten minutes, the Spider Queen could no longer suppress the killing intent in its chest.

It suddenly raised its head and let out a sharp hiss!

"Hiss——!!!"

Hundreds of rotten‑corpse spiders instantly turned into a black tide, surging madly from all directions toward Black Tortoise.

But now, on the open ground, Lin Yue had no more reservations.

"Black Tortoise, suck!"

"Roar——!"

Black Tortoise's abyssal maw opened once more, and a terrifying suction capable of devouring everything sprang forth from nowhere!

{Absorbing scattered energy, gaining 1 energy point. }

{Absorbing scattered energy, gaining 1 energy point. }

{Detected 1‑tier Energy Crystal, gaining 10 energy points. }

……

In Lin Yue's mind, the system's alerts flooded the screen madly.

However, this time the effect was greatly diminished!

Those rotten‑corpse spiders actually drove their scythe‑sharp limbs hard into the hard cement ground beneath their feet!

"Screech! Screech! Screech!"

Countless earsplitting scraping sounds rang out!

Under Black Tortoise's terrifying suction pulling at them, their bodies were stretched nearly to deformation, yet more than half of the rotten‑corpse spiders remained nailed in place like nails.

Although half of them weren't sucked in, they still provided Lin Yue with hundreds of energy points.

"Kind of interesting."

Lin Yue's eyebrow twitched slightly.

These guys actually found a way to counter Black Tortoise's power in such a short time!

However, it was merely "somewhat interesting".

"Black Tortoise, crush it!"

"Thud!"

Black Tortoise slowly raised its massive forelimb, and instantly a huge shadow completely covered the dozens of corpse spiders below.

Those spiders also seemed to sense the impending death, letting out terrified screeches, trying to pull their limbs out of the concrete ground to escape.

But, it was too late.

"Boom——!!!!!"

The massive foot came down!

The earth violently shuddered for a moment, as if a minor earthquake had occurred!

When Black Tortoise's massive foot lifted again, the ground was left with only a huge footprint half a meter deep, and a puddle of viscous matter mixed with shell fragments, green liquid, and flesh pulp.

"Thud!"

"Boom!"

"Thud!"

"Boom!"

Next came an utterly one-sided slaughter with no suspense.

Black Tortoise simply lifted its limbs in turn, one foot, another foot, yet another foot, crushing each surviving corpse spider on the ground into meat paste.

Each time it came down, dozens of corpse spiders died.

Han Ya stood on the city wall, watching this bloody and shocking scene, her grip on the dagger unconsciously tightening a bit.

The way of battle before her eyes made her feel a chill.

It's too strong...

In less than five minutes, those hundreds of ferocious corpse spiders were completely cleaned up.

The air was filled with a rich, inseparable stench of blood and fishiness.

Just when everyone thought that spider queen would fight to the death, it instead did something no one expected.

It suddenly turned, its eight long legs as fast as lightning, turning into a black blur, and without looking back, it madly fled deep into the city ruins.

It, it actually chose to flee!