205: Chapter 205 Macroscopic Anomaly! Symbiotic Reproduction of Ten Thousand Spiders!

Night Crow stared intently at the torn half-sheet of paper,

at the three words written in ink that had almost faded away.

deep sequence!

Young Master Gu Lingfeng's brow furrowed tightly. "Never heard of it. A special project within the Federation?"

Ye Xiao poked his head over, looking completely bewildered. "What the heck is that? Does the Federation have special services too?"

"..."

Su Ming leaned in and took a glance.

He naturally didn't know this term, but his intuition told him it was somewhat related to the "Core Sequence" in his System.

"Keep it for now."

Su Ming patted Night Crow on the shoulder. "Your dad's belongings definitely weren't written for fun. Once we get out, we can look into it slowly."

Night Crow nodded in silence, putting the iron box along with the pocket watch into his inner pocket.

His father's relics were here, and the clues were here too.

Then, the battle must also be here!

He glanced at the fissure in the rock wall behind the camp, without the slightest hesitation.

With a flash of his figure, he was the first to leap into the bottomless, pitch-black fissure.

Young Master Gu Lingfeng and Ye Xiao exchanged a glance, then closely followed.

Su Ming still had his hands in his pockets as he casually followed last, letting his body free-fall as if he were just going down to the supermarket.

The interior of the fissure was far deeper than they had imagined. The walls were wet and slippery, covered in moss and some faintly glowing fungi.

After falling for about a hundred meters, a thick, impenetrable shadow mist rushed at them, reducing visibility to less than half a meter.

The mist was bone-chillingly cold and possessed a bizarre property that could corrode Source Energy.

Lightning flashed across Ye Xiao's body, instantly vaporizing a small area of the mist as he grumbled, "What kind of ghostly place is this? It's so creepy."

"Wait a moment."

Young Master Gu Lingfeng suddenly stopped. Landing on a protruding rock, the sensation beneath his feet felt wrong.

He squatted down and felt it.

It was sticky.

He felt a layer of grayish-white fibrous substance on his fingers. It was extremely resilient and wouldn't break even when pulled hard.

"Spider silk?!"

Ye Xiao subconsciously leaned closer to Su Ming.

Even though he was at Tier 4 Gold Peak, arachnophobia had nothing to do with one's Realm.

Young Master Gu Lingfeng pulled out two military glow sticks and handed one to Night Crow.

Visibility was still low, but they could now see within a one-meter radius.

The group continued to grope their way forward.

Suddenly, the ground beneath their feet abruptly vanished!

The four of them simultaneously felt a strong sensation of weightlessness. It wasn't a cave-in, but rather the entire ground layer had fractured here!

With a thought from Su Ming, an invisible gravitational field instantly supported the four of them, keeping them hovering steadily in mid-air.

"...Fuck, that's terrifying!"

Ye Xiao voiced what everyone was thinking.

As the shadow mist before them slowly dispersed,

the pupils of all four shrunk simultaneously!

They were standing inside a giant underground sinkhole with a diameter of over several kilometers.

There were no loose rocks, no dirt here.

The entire rock wall of the sinkhole, from top to bottom, was completely covered in a thick, sticky, and slightly writhing dark gray spider membrane.

What truly made their scalps tingle was the thing suspended in the middle of the sinkhole!

It was a three-dimensional spider web so massive that words couldn't describe it.

It was woven from countless thick, dark blue spider silks crossing each other,

forming the structure of an inverted giant bowl,

completely sealing off the upper space of the sinkhole.

The surface of those dark blue spider silks flowed with an eerie luster, expanding and contracting like massive biological blood vessels.

This giant web trapped tens of thousands of high-tier Magic Spiders within it,

densely suspended in mid-air like conjoined twins fed by the same umbilical cord.

The outermost layer consisted of thousands of truck-sized Tier 4 Magic Spiders.

The middle layer consisted of hundreds of Tier 5 Magic Spiders the size of heavy tanks.

Close to the center were dozens of massive Tier 6 Elite Magic Spiders, their bodies even surrounded by a faint shadow halo!

Through the translucent fluorescent web, the four could clearly see those thousands of giant Magic Spiders... densely packed and slightly writhing within the grids.

"Holy shit...!"

Ye Xiao's voice was trembling. He had never seen such an absurd scene in his life.

"Is... is this fucking hanging all the spiders in the canyon here like cured meat?"

"No wonder..." Young Master Gu Lingfeng's scalp went numb. "We couldn't even find a single Tier 4 on the outer edges of the canyon... They're all fucking hanging here sleeping!"

Night Crow, who walked with the darkness, also looked extremely grim. He stared at those blood-vessel-like spider silks:

"No, they are not sleeping. Look at the energy flow of those spider silks..."

Following his guidance, the Source Energy and life signs of all the Magic Spiders were continuously flowing in the same direction through these dark blue spider silks...

To the deepest part of the sinkhole!

Could this be a giant living sacrifice Formation?

A biological energy matrix...

using tens of thousands of high-tier Magic Spiders as batteries?

Night Crow's body trembled slightly. Looking at this world-shattering scene before him, he uttered those three words.

"Deep... Sequence...?"

Su Ming's expression didn't change at all.

He just looked up, sizing up this "spider server" with great interest.

He wasn't thinking about anything else.

Only one thought was in his head.

How many mass points... is this worth?

If I devour this entire thing, can I directly rush to ten thousand tons?

And my equipment, Diligent Weaver, come quickly and repair it for me!

This isn't some Coexistence of Ten Thousand Spiders web, this is a fucking Manchu Han Spider Feast!

Of course, self-hype aside.

There was a reason these spiders were strung together, and that reason was highly likely hidden in the black mist at the deepest part.

Before figuring it out, it was best not to make any rash moves.

"Big brother."

Young Master Gu Lingfeng leaned in and whispered, "Are we... still going inside?"

Su Ming withdrew his gaze, his expression returning to his usual nonchalant look.

"Of course we are. Why wouldn't we? Don't tell me you're scared?"

He looked at Night Crow.

"Is the clue your father left in this direction?"

Night Crow nodded.

"Then let's walk along the sinkhole wall. Don't disturb these sleeping beauties."

Su Ming slapped the back of Ye Xiao's head.

"Stop shaking. If a fight really breaks out, it won't even be your turn."

Ye Xiao gritted his teeth, forcefully suppressing his cowardice.

He finally understood what Su Ming meant by "Coiling Silk Cave" yesterday...

The four of them hugged the rock wall along the edge of the sinkhole, moving deeper with extreme caution.

...

Meanwhile.

On the other side of the sinkhole.

At the end of a hidden cavern passage, two figures were walking unhurriedly.

Behind them, the shattered corpses of seven or eight Tier 3 Shadow Demon Spiders littered the ground. Their carapaces were broken, and their limbs twisted, each having died in a different manner.

Some looked as if their entire front half had been smashed to pieces by a single punch, while others were sliced in half by something sharp.

The one leading was a terrifying giant nearly three meters tall.

He looked like a rugged, dark-skinned middle-aged man, but the word "human" was no longer quite accurate for him.

His right arm was completely beastified, a full size thicker than his left arm. Its surface was covered in coarse, dark gray beast fur and layered keratinized armor plating. His knuckles were swollen and bulging, and his claws were like black stone spears.

His left arm retained a human contour, but the veins on it twisted terrifyingly, like a locked monster ready to break free at any moment.

A row of sharp bony spines jutted out along his spine, extending from the back of his neck to his waist.

He casually twisted his neck, his entire skeleton erupting with a muffled sound like geological cracking, and hot steam snorted from his nostrils.

On the back of his left hand, a walnut-sized imprint of a Roaring Giant Ape pulsed in a dark brown color along with his heartbeat.

The First Beast Seal User, Mandrill!

Walking half a step behind him was a young man just over two meters tall, with a slender and agile build.

With narrow shoulders and a slender waist, his muscles were like tightly wound steel wires. He walked close to the shadows, his presence ridiculously low.

The left half of his face was a pale, cold human face, while the right half was covered in silver-white tiger stripes, with two inch-long saber teeth protruding from his cheekbones.

There was not a shred of emotion in that icy blue beast pupil.

His legs had the highest degree of mutation, wrapped in tiger-striped fur, with retractable blade-like claws growing at his ankles.

He walked without making a sound.

Not even a trace.

At the web of his right hand, a coin-sized imprint of a Crouching Tiger flowed with a bright silver, mercury-like light.

The Third Beast Seal User, Tiger Fiend!

Mandrill's fist smashed into the final rock blocking the passage. The half-ton boulder exploded on impact, sending stone fragments flying.

The two strode out of the passage.

Instead of entering the open outer matrix area, they stood directly at the entrance of a hidden, giant cavern.

The entrance was tightly sealed by thick black spider silk and shadow mist. Even if an outsider wandered around the sinkhole for three days, they wouldn't be able to find this place.

"That old fox Grey Falcon actually managed to find a place like this."

Mandrill grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Bypassing directly to the back of the Spider King's nest has saved me a lot of trouble."

No expression could be seen on the human half of Tiger Fiend's face.

"That useless Scorpion King actually got killed by a kid who had just awakened. He really threw away all the Council's face."

Mandrill snorted, not replying.

He didn't care whether Scorpion King lived or died.

A fellow who relied on transplanting a Tier 7 Bloodline to force his way up was never worthy of that position in his eyes.

It's good that he's dead. Now that the position is vacant, we can just recruit another one.

"The The Fifth Speaker's meaning is very clear."

Mandrill stopped, his gaze penetrating the black spider silk to look directly at the dense shadow mist deep within the cavern. "The Shadow Spider King's Origin is about to stabilize, and its original consciousness is on the verge of collapsing. This time window won't exceed two days."

"Big brother, it's just taming a Tier 7 little spider. Do the two of us really need to make a move?"

Tiger Fiend finally turned his head, his icy blue vertical pupil reflecting Mandrill's figure.

"The mission isn't just to recruit it."

Mandrill bared his teeth. The expression could hardly be called a smile; it was more like a wild beast's instinctive reaction before feeding.

"The intel sent back by Grey Falcon—the high schooler who killed Scorpion King has also come to this canyon."

Tiger Fiend's body shuddered.

"Silver-Blooded Body Cultivator..." he muttered under his breath, the tip of his tongue pressing against the saber tooth protruding outside his lips.

"This person carries the complete Silver Blood. If we can capture both him and the Spider King together..."

"The two of us will be able to share a bottle of Chairman-grade Silver Blood as a reward, stepping into Tier 8 in one go!"