Chapter 158: Spider Humanoid

Caven stared fixedly at the screen at Emily, whose body completely violated human anatomy, limbs bent backward, propping herself up like a giant spider.

——More accurately speaking, it was Emily's corpse.

At this moment, this corpse no longer belonged to her, but had completely become the mobile 'vehicle' of the ghost infant that had burst out of its abdomen.

The ghost infant was like a most vicious rider, mounting its own 'steed', its pair of ink-black eyes scanning the prison that had confined its 'mother'.

"My heavens......"

"What kind of monster is this......"

After the initial shock, panic began to spread among the researchers in the Main Control Room.

"Don't panic!"

Caven sprang to his feet, his face showing no fear, but rather a morbid excitement.

"It's merely a biological specimen with a deviant evolutionary path!"

His eyes burned with mad fire, and he waved a large hand.

"Security team, enter the isolation room immediately; the objective is to capture a live specimen, and if that's truly impossible......"

Caven licked his dry lips:

"I need as intact a corpse as possible!"

He still believed that, no matter how weird this thing was, it was ultimately flesh and blood.

As long as it's flesh and blood, it will be shredded by alloy warheads!

The order was given.

A tactical squad of six fully armed security elites quickly assembled outside the heavy alloy door.

They held specialized rifles aimed at large biological targets, with red laser dots on the muzzles swaying inside the door, finally all locking onto the distorted creature on the ground.

Its abdomen huge, moving like an arthropod...... Let's tentatively call it a Spider Humanoid.

The door of the isolation room was blown open, the passage clear.

"Go! Go! Go!"

At the captain's order, the six advanced in standard tactical formation, providing alternating cover as they rushed in.

What they saw was a scene like a hellish painting.

The Spider Humanoid lay on the ground, its body still twitching slightly, while the ghost infant in its abdomen emitted a 'hee-hee' laugh that made the scalp tingle.

"Target locked!"

"Ready to fire!"

The captain raised his hand, about to issue the firing order.

At that very moment.

The Spider Humanoid on the ground kicked off violently!

Its four reverse-jointed human limbs burst with unimaginable force, its massive body utterly disregarding gravity's constraints, shooting up like a shell!

"Boom!"

A muffled thud.

It actually clung like a true giant spider to the ten-meter-high alloy ceiling, limbs spread, inverted and overlooking the tiny intruders below.

On the cold metal floor, the scrapes left by its limbs emitted a piercing screech.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

They instinctively raised their gun barrels.

"Fire! Shoot it down for me!"

The captain was the first to react, roaring hysterically.

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!

Dense tongues of fire spewed out instantly, a metal storm of bullets violently sweeping toward the ceiling.

However, it was too fast!

The Spider Humanoid's movement speed completely exceeded the limits of their dynamic visual tracking, appearing as a ghostly afterimage on the ceiling, nimbly dodging the hail of bullets.

Countless bullets could only produce a long string of dazzling yet futile sparks on the hard alloy ceiling.

In just a few seconds.

The security team instantly went from hunters to helpless prey!

"Damn it! It's coming down!"

One team member shouted in terror.

The Spider Humanoid swooped down from the shadows of the ceiling, its massive body bringing a howling wind, slamming heavily into the center of the security team's formation.

It used neither claws nor teeth.

But rather its four human-like limbs, which had become harder than steel!

"Splurt!"

A soldier nearest to it had no time to react before being brutally slapped by one of its arms.

The tactical bulletproof armor, under this blow, instantly twisted and deformed like papier-mâché, along with the soldier inside, being smashed into a bloody pulp that flew out like a torn sack, slamming hard against the wall and leaving a shocking bloodstain.

A one-sided massacre began.

Each swing of the Spider Humanoid's limbs carried immense force that tore the air.

One soldier was swept by its leg and snapped in half at the waist.

Another soldier attempted to counter with his rifle butt, but was directly pierced through the chest.

Heavy armor was fragile as paper before it.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, while screams and the sound of breaking bones never ceased.

In the Main Control Room, everyone was terrified by this bloody, brutal scene, their faces drained of color.

What kind of biological sample is this?

This is nothing but a killing machine crawled out of hell!

The ghost infant in the abdomen, amid the bloody slaughter, let out a more excited, sharp laugh; its pure black eyes greedily gazed at everything before it.

In the blink of an eye, the six-person team was reduced to the sole surviving captain.

He looked at the severed limbs of his comrades strewn across the ground, his mental defenses completely collapsed, and he screamed as he turned to flee.

However.

The ghost infant's blurry mouth suddenly opened wide.

A scarlet tongue covered in barbs shot out like lightning, precisely wrapping around the captain's neck!

"Ugh......"

The captain was jerked backward by a tremendous force, dragged alive to the ghost infant's face.

He turned his head in horror and saw that terrifying, featureless face inches away.

The next second.

The ghost infant opened its mouth and bit down on his neck.

"Crack!"

A crisp breaking sound rang out.

The captain's skull was bitten clean off, and the blood spurting from his carotid artery sprayed like a fountain onto the ghost infant's face, making its already eerie visage even more terrifying.

All threats were eliminated.

The ghost infant flung away the bloody head still dripping from its mouth, and the Spider Humanoid slowly turned its direction.

Its eyes, which belonged to Emily and were now nothing but pure pallor, fixed on the door to the outside that it had itself knocked flying.

No, its target was the Main Control Room!

It raised its blood-soaked body high, powered its hind limbs, and then slammed with all its might into the Main Control Room's observation window ahead!

There, it was made of special alloy capable of blocking rocket shells and explosion-proof glass!

"Boom!"

A deafening roar.

The entire underground research institute seemed to shudder violently.

That exceedingly heavy alloy observation window was struck, bulging outward into a terrifying humanoid dent, its surface covered in fine cracks like a spiderweb.

In the Main Control Room, Caven was shaken by the tremendous impact and fell from his chair.

He finally realized what kind of demon he had unleashed.

Fear, belatedly, seized his heart.

"Rumble!"

The Spider Humanoid launched a second impact.

This time, the alloy window representing humanity's highest industrial level could no longer hold, and was completely blown away!

【Warning! Warning!】

【Containment breach! Containment breach!】

The piercing alarm echoed throughout the research institute, red lights flashing wildly, casting everyone's terrified faces like ghosts.

But everything was already too late.

Just as the Spider Humanoid trudged forward with heavy steps and charged out of the isolation zone,

Mutation regenerated.

In the seven isolation rooms beside it,

the infected researchers, at the same moment, also completed their "birthing".

One by one, their swollen bellies exploded!

Seven identical Spider Humanoids roared, smashed the fragile glass, and scrambled out of their respective cages!

Pair after pair of pallid eyes, in unison, turned toward the Main Control Room.

They gazed at the research institute director, collapsed on the ground and trembling.

——Caven.