Chapter 3: Fierce Battle Against Mutant Spider

  Put away the food and utensils at home, because there are only 8 grids to collect mainly indispensable items. Wear the thickest and safest full set of armor that you think is safe at home.

  Bo An black labor insurance shoes with a sole thickness of two centimeters, light blue jeans and a long-sleeved denim jacket that is very thick, holding a short knife to go out.

  Liang Jing is not a homebody who stays at home all day, and he usually eats out for meals. There's little food stored at home, so if he doesn't go out for the day, he'll starve to death. Therefore, he must set off now to find some food.

  Liang Jing stood very carefully behind the door and waited quietly for half a day, seemingly without any movement. To be on the safe side, he used the tip of his short knife to make a hole in the door and observed for half a day. There were no mosquitoes, no spiders, it was very quiet... wait, that's wrong, there were no mutated mosquitoes and spiders.

  In fact, although mosquitoes, spiders and even cockroaches seem to have a lot of variations, compared to their total number, the variation rate is less than one tenth, which is not many. Of course, it's still much higher than humans.

  "Creak..."

  "Hiss..."

  "Ah, no! Damn monster, get out of here! Boom!"

  Just as Liang Jing was about to take a closer look at the situation outside, thinking it was safe, and preparing to open the door to go out, there came the sound of opening doors from outside, followed by a burst of screeching sounds and Xiao Gao's loud shouting from next door.

  Xiao Gao is Liang Jing's roommate, living on the second floor. However, he lives with his girlfriend Xiao Fang. He is tall and big, about 1.8 meters in height, slightly taller than Liang Jing. They get along well and have similar personalities, making him one of Liang Jing's few close friends here.

  "No good! It's a variant spider, Xiao Gao is in danger!"

  "Xiao Gao, hold on, I'm coming to help you!"

  Through the hole in the door, Liang Jing saw Xiao Gao fighting with a mutated spider. Without thinking, she rushed out to help, but as soon as she took two steps out of the room, she was caught off guard. She hadn't noticed the nearly invisible spider web on the ground right at her own doorstep.

  What a close call! If Xiao Gao hadn't appeared, I might have fallen into the trap myself. These variant spiders are really sinister, perhaps they set up their web just now when I made that noise. I couldn't help but feel grateful that Xiao Gao had lured away the variant spider.

  The second floor has a large hall with four rooms on both sides. The kitchen and bathroom are on one side, along with Liang Jing's room, while Xiao Gao's couple's room and Jinghui's room are on the other side.

  The mutated spider attracted by the sound of Xiaogao's door opening is rushing towards Xiaogao's room, but Xiaogao is holding it firmly inside. At this time, he sees Liang Jing being stuck to the spider web and immediately gives up hitting the room door. The mutated spider quickly turns around and crawls towards Liang Jing.

  "Hiss..."

  All that was seen was a mutated spider the size of a washbasin rapidly crawling over, its dark eyes in front shining with bloodthirsty light, its limbs waving excitedly, accompanied by two long fangs constantly opening and closing, the tip of the teeth showing a yellowish white glow that seemed to be highly toxic at first glance.

  Looking at the large spider in front of him, its entire body was grayish-yellow with straight hair-like protrusions, and it moved quickly with an excited and bloodthirsty killing intent. Liang Jing felt a huge sense of danger for no reason, and even his spine felt chilled.

  He's still a young and inexperienced bird, just now he saw someone fall into the spider web outside, in front of the mutant spider, he was completely powerless to resist, the power of the mutant spider is terrifying, it's not something that ordinary people can compare with.

  Liang Jing retreated back to her room after the sudden attack. Fighting on someone else's turf wasn't asking for trouble? But both feet were stuck in a spider web, extremely sticky, using all her strength to pull, the more she pulled, the longer it got, and the harder it was to pull back, making it difficult to break free. Using a short knife to slash at it was already too late.

  As the mutated spider sprinted towards him at a speed of 100 meters per second, Liang Jing's angular face was grave with determination. His eyes flashed with a hint of resolve, and he gritted his teeth as he plunged into the room with all his might.

  Watching Liang Jing's movements, the variant spider in front of him flashed a dark green light in his eyes, and his momentum did not decrease. His abdomen contracted, and his eight limbs rushed forward, his legs quickly intersecting as if to capture Liang Jing.

  "Boom!"

  Under the effect of Liang Jing's legs' enormous strength, her body shot out like a rocket, and in mid-air, she used her hands to close the door. She entered the room and fell to the ground, not having time to think about the spider silk still stuck to her feet. With her body propped against the door, she was just about to use the elastic force of the spider silk to pull the door shut.

  "Hiss! Hsss..."

  Just as the door was about to close, a mutated spider rushed in at high speed, its head and thorax barely squeezing into the room. In less than one-tenth of a second, the half-closed door trapped the spider between its head-thorax and abdomen.

  "Brother Liang, don't worry, I'll help you!" Xiao Gao, who was originally holding the door in the room, immediately rushed towards the mutated spider that was stuck with a kitchen knife.

  Liang Jing didn't have time to speak, the mutated spider's legs were stuck in the door but its body had already entered the room and was preparing to pounce on Liang Jing. The right leg seemed unable to bend to the right to attack, while the left leg appeared to be attacking, he must counterattack to resist.

  Liang Jing grasped the knife in his right hand, with bulging blue veins, and suddenly exerted force. The short knife in his hand drew a white light, and struck down at the attacking tentacle like thunder.

  "Rustle...... mournful sigh..."

  What a sharp dagger!

  The pedipalps of the spider are like human hands, used to grasp and fix food. After mutation, the spider's pedipalps have become as hard as steel, and ordinary kitchen knives can't break through its shell. But when it encountered Liang Jing's short knife, it directly broke through the hard outer shell, cutting into the flesh by more than half, and snapped off with Liang Jing's movement.

  Accompanied by the eerie screams of the mutant spider, its mouth and fangs dripped with a thick yellowish-white liquid that fell to the ground, bubbling up and corroding the earth into holes, causing immense pain that made the entire body of the mutant spider pause for a moment.

  Just now, one knife used all its strength and couldn't even thoroughly cut off the relatively weak limbs on the spider's body. The hand holding the short knife was shaken so much that the tiger's mouth was in severe pain, and it was estimated that it had already cracked open and bled. Even the short knife almost couldn't be held tightly, but Liang Jing didn't stop to check at all. He took advantage of the situation to kill him, and with another full-strength slash, he struck towards the right limb closer to himself.

  At this time, Xiao Gao rushed over from outside, holding a wooden-handled vegetable knife made by a private blacksmith. The back of the knife was thick and sturdy, and the blade was sharpened to a snowy brightness, looking extremely sharp. He hacked at the mutated spider's hind legs with one swing of the knife.

  "Ka! Kua kua!"

  "Waaaah... Waaaah!" The mutated spider let out a sharp, piercing shriek.

  Liang Jing's short knife once again chopped off the mutated spider's legs, and the wound on his right hand's tiger mouth grew larger, with blood gushing out. Meanwhile, outside the door, Xiao Gao, who was even taller than Liang Jing, hacked at the mutated spider's hind leg with a cleaver, but only managed to crack open its hard shell before the spider kicked back, almost causing him to lose his grip on the cleaver. His tiger mouth also split open and bled, and his arm was scraped raw because he dodged too slowly.

  Ignoring the spider's painful and savage shriek, he also ignored his injured right hand, continuing to grip the short knife tightly as it was about to swing out again with a light grayish-yellow liquid.

  At this time.

  "Bang bang bang..." accompanied by a loud slamming sound, a powerful force made the door vibrate more and more violently.

  "It's no good, if this continues, either the door will be kicked in by the mutated spider's hind legs or it won't be able to withstand the pressure."

  The door's vibration grew stronger and stronger, the stuck spider's head and thorax moved further and further towards the outside of the door. The enormous force caused Liang Jing's shoulders to ache and swell red, but he didn't care, his teeth clenched tightly as his entire body leaned against the door, stubbornly propping it up.

  His eyes remained steadfast, his right hand gripped the short sword tightly, with bulging veins, and slashed at the mutated spider's head, without any spare attention to the situation outside.

  "Ah..."

  Liang Jing's eyes narrowed, seeing the short knife aimed at the mutated spider's head, just blocked by the spider's upturned fangs, leaving only a white mark. Although it was just an exploratory slash, the hardness of the fangs still made Liang Jing's eyes shrink. The blade of the short knife had become uneven due to some of the yellowish-white sticky substance from the fangs, this was a system-made product, extremely sharp, yet also powerless against this monster. How could ordinary people deal with such a creature?

  Maybe it can only be solved with guns.

  Thinking in his heart, but his hands didn't stop, he swung his knife again, avoiding the two ferocious pincers and stabbing towards the two huge dark eyes in front of him.

  The little high outside seemed to be afraid that Liang Jing inside couldn't hold on, and grasped the kitchen knife in his hand, regardless of the mutated spider's hind legs, and chopped towards the mutated spider's back.

  At this time, Liang Jing, who had killed a few years of pigs, had a short knife with liquid and screaming flying splashes, and the short knife stabbed accurately into the front of a giant black eye of the mutant spider!

  "Waa... waa..."

  The mutated spider suffered a fatal attack, and its intense struggle almost made Liang Jing unable to hold onto the short knife. The door on his shoulder kept opening and closing, forming a tug-of-war with the mutated spider. At this time, Liang Jing's shoulder was severely battered and bruised, even though he was wearing thick clothing that resisted the impact, it still broke through and bled.

  "Bang!"

  The small Gao on the outside just chopped onto the back of the mutant spider, but didn't even cut through it, only leaving a deep indentation. Instead, his wrist was unable to hold the knife due to the intense recoil force and dropped it to the ground. In the end, he was even knocked back several steps by the fiercely struggling mutant spider.

  In the room, Liang Jing released the knife handle, his shoulder pressed tightly against the door, his teeth clenched and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth. With a loud slap, he struck the back of the knife handle with his palm, causing the short blade to deeply penetrate the mutated spider's head and chest. Immediately afterwards, his right hand grasped the knife handle again and twisted it forcefully, crushing the spider's brain and internal organs.

  "Hiss... Bang......!"

  The door was kicked in by a mutated spider that had been suffering from mortal wounds, and a hairy leg stretched in, scraping off a piece of flesh from Liang Jing's thigh.

  Liang Jing, however, seemed to be hurt not himself, but saw that the mutated spider had not yet thoroughly died, his hand did not stop pulling out a short knife and stabbing it into another eye in front of him.

  The old trick is used again!

  "Sob... wheeze....." As Liang Jing inserted the knife handle into the variant spider's other eye in front of him, rotating it, the variant spider's struggling force was getting smaller and smaller, slowly shaking a few times before stopping.

  "Hmm..."

  When the larger spiritual light poured into his body, five copper coins appeared next to the mutated spider. Liang Jing was already weak and sat on the ground, panting violently, not caring about the yellowish-white corrosive liquid dripping from the mutated spider's mouth onto the floorboards. Although it seemed like a long time had passed, in reality, only ten or so seconds had elapsed. Suddenly relaxing made him feel quite exhausted, after all, his spirit and body had been tense and fully exerted.

  At this time, a large group of white spiritual light entered Liang Jing's body, turning into a faint warm current that spread and permeated throughout his entire body. Every muscle and every cell in his bones were cheering and jumping for joy, swallowing the continuous flow of warmth. Moreover, Liang Jing felt that he was no longer as tired as before, and the wound on his tiger's mouth was rapidly recovering and growing new flesh, which could even be seen with the naked eye. In just a moment, the wound would be almost healed.

  The warm and comfortable feeling disappeared, Liang Jing clenched his fists, power! At least half more powerful than before, this is too scary? If it can keep growing like this, it's still possible!