63: Chapter 63 The Spider Nurse

The vine was as thick as a bowl's mouth, covered in pitch-black, sharp barbs. It charged straight at Wang Ting's head with incredible speed, like a bolt of black lightning.

Possessing Vibration Perception, Wang Ting's senses were extremely keen, and the near air-cleaving vibrations instantly put him on high alert.

He swung his blade upward forcefully. The vine skull tyrant blade met the pitch-black vine, and with a flash of cold light, the blade sliced through it in an instant like a hot knife through butter.

A sharp screech rang out as the vine rapidly retracted, and a massive dark shadow instantly appeared at the end of the corridor.

Wang Ting looked up, his pupils contracting sharply as a look of shock washed over his face.

The monster was not on the ceiling of the sixth floor, but on the ceiling of the seventh floor.

The entire ceiling of the sixth-floor corridor had long been blasted to pieces by some unknown force, exposing a massive hole that connected to the seventh floor, offering an unobstructed view of the upper level.

The monster was about three to four meters tall and shaped like a spider. Its six pale white bone spider legs were pegged into the vines of the floor like spears.

Hanging upside down, its chest and abdomen formed a massive humanoid shell made of flesh entangled with vines. Above this shell, dozens of chopsticks-thick vines twined around more than a dozen pale nurses' heads, interconnected and fused together into a hideous collective head.

[Discovered low-tier anomaly: Vine Spider Nurse. Vine Spider Nurse cataloging progress: 20%]

The nurses' heads on the Vine Spider Nurse looked dead at first, but upon spotting prey, their eyes instantly turned eerie and animated.

Glinting with a crimson light, they stared intently at Wang Ting with greed and cruelty, as if looking at an easy prey.

In this bizarre state of vine fusion, these nurses' heads had already become a part of the Vine Spider Nurse's body.

It let out a sharp screech as the vine tentacles behind it launched another attack at Wang Ting. This time, four vines moved together with immense power, like giant pythons taking flight.

The vines charged ferociously, and facing such an attack, Wang Ting did not dare lower his guard.

He swung the vine skull tyrant blade with his right hand. The pitch-black vines and the blade's light clashed in midair.

The vine skull tyrant blade severed two of the vines, which slammed heavily onto the ground, squirming like tentacles. In an instant, they corroded a small pit in the floor with a sizzling sound.

"Such strong corrosiveness! I'm afraid this floor wasn't just smashed through."

Wang Ting felt a chill in his heart. Becoming even more cautious in his movements, he engaged in a tussle with the vines.

One of the vines was truly cunning; it craftily bypassed the vine skull tyrant blade and whipped heavily against his body.

Wang Ting grunted as his body flew backward like a cannonball, slamming hard against the wall. He felt as if he had taken a heavy kick to the chest. If not for the powerful defense provided by the fusion of the sand scorpion armor and Scorpion Skin absorbing the blow, half of his ribs might have broken.

The Vine Spider Nurse let out a shrill howl. Wang Ting felt an acute pain, as if needles were pricking into his brain.

The Vine Spider Nurse advanced rapidly, its bony spider claws tapping rhythmically against the wallboards, sending a chill down one's spine.

Seeing how brazen the Vine Spider Nurse was, Wang Ting's eyes flashed like a tiger's as he leaped forward to charge it.

The Vine Spider Nurse tried to repeat its trick. Over a dozen nurse heads opened their bloody maws, shrieking even more shrilly, while the sprouting vines lunged at Wang Ting from both sides, intending to knock him out of the air.

Wang Ting dodged midair as the massive vines slammed into the ground with dull thuds, sounding as if they would shatter the floorboards.

Wang Ting waved his hand and activated his Plant Control Ability, instantly turning the vines on the upper and lower floors into his soldiers. Countless vines crawled up the Vine Spider Nurse's thick legs, heading straight for its torso.

Seeing its legs ensnared, the Vine Spider Nurse immediately began to struggle. Its raw power was only slightly weaker than that of a Vine Skull, but the sharpness of its spider legs was like alloy blades; with just a slight movement, most of the vines snapped instantly.

Earth Vine Spike!

Vine spikes burst suddenly from the ground, instantly piercing toward the Vine Spider Nurse's abdomen. These spikes were like barbed spears, appearing so abruptly that even though the Vine Spider Nurse possessed lightning-fast reaction speed and arched its body like it was scorched by fire, it ultimately failed to dodge the attack.

With squelching sounds, most of the vine spikes burst upward, their tips piercing through the Vine Spider Nurse's abdomen. Corrosive blood spilled out, sizzling as it dripped onto the floor.

Wang Ting seized the opportunity, swinging his vine skull tyrant blade as he flew toward the Vine Spider Nurse. Sensing the danger instinctively, the Vine Spider Nurse endured the excruciating pain, trying to pull itself free.

Wang Ting snorted coldly, "If I let you escape, wouldn't all my effort be in vain?"

Countless vines shot forth from the ceiling, walls, and ground from all directions, lunging toward the Vine Spider Nurse's body.

Although the Vine Spider Nurse tried to dodge, its chest and abdomen were still impaled by the Earth Vine Spikes, pinning its entire body to the floor like a spider pinned by pushpins and denying it any room to move. In an instant, countless vines bound its body and dragged it violently to the ground, causing even more spikes to pierce through it until it became a lamb to the slaughter pinned to a web.

Without hesitation, Wang Ting swung the vine skull tyrant blade and slashed down decisively.

In a deathbed struggle, the Vine Spider Nurse tried to use the four thick vine tentacles behind its back to block the blow.

Unhurried, Wang Ting swung his blade fiercely, severing the vine tentacles head-on, causing them to fall to the floor with thuds.

Arriving in front of the Vine Spider Nurse, he swept the vine skull tyrant blade across. The Vine Spider Nurse raised a spider leg to block, resulting in a metallic clang that produced a shower of sparks.

"What hard spider legs—these make great materials."

Even though his attack was blocked, Wang Ting was not dismayed; instead, he felt a surge of joy and swung his blade again.

Raising two of its legs high, the Vine Spider Nurse jabbed continuously like spears, attempting to pierce Wang Ting's body.

Wang Ting thrust the tyrant blade forward. The vine skull tyrant blade instantly transformed into its vine-blade state, its edge shooting out like a spearhead. With a single sweep, more than half of the Vine Spider Nurse's head was sliced off, leaving only half of those dozen pale nurse heads behind as blood dripped down.

Seeing the Vine Spider Nurse screaming ceaselessly and unable to break free, Wang Ting closed in and delivered another strike. The vine skull tyrant blade came down from above in an executioner-like flash of blade light, splitting the Vine Spider Nurse in two.

[Vine Spider Nurse cataloging complete. Obtained 400 monster points.]

After killing the Vine Spider Nurse, Wang Ting breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the gained monster points, he felt overjoyed.

The strength of this Vine Spider Nurse was actually a notch higher than that of a Vine Skull. Although its raw strength was slightly lower, its vine tentacles and spider legs were indeed quite troublesome.

Had Wang Ting not redeemed the Earth Vine Spike skill, which alongside the vine skull tyrant blade boosted his combat power by a massive margin, he likely would have suffered quite a bit against a long-ranged enemy like the Vine Spider Nurse.

Controlling the vines, Wang Ting dragged the Vine Spider Nurse over to himself.

The vines acted like hands, beginning to search the Vine Spider Nurse for condensed transcendent materials.

After searching and dissecting it with the vine skull tyrant blade, Wang Ting found a total of 6 units of transcendent materials.

Wang Ting showed a look of regret; this Vine Spider Nurse actually didn't yield a transcendent core.

He packed up the items properly and then turned his gaze to the surroundings of the 6th and 7th floors.

The 6th floor was completely covered in vines and viscous fluid created by the Vine Spider Nurse, with all the wards blocked off by vines as well.

After inspecting them one by one, he found monster remains scattered everywhere—from Vine Parasite Corpses to the carcass of a Vine Skull—and every single remnant showed heavy signs of corrosion.

Clearly, this Vine Spider Nurse anomaly was greedy beyond imagination; even anomalies originating from vines could become its food. Aside from monster carcasses, the entire 6th floor also contained quite a few refreshed supplies, including 3 first-aid kits alone.

Wang Ting narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered, "I wonder if this 6th floor counts as a supply point?"

There were plenty of supplies on the 6th floor, but it didn't exhibit the distinct refresh characteristics of a supply point like the pharmacy or the 4th floor.

The supply items on the 6th floor were scattered everywhere, making it impossible to tell at a glance whether they were random spawns.

Wang Ting looked at the hole between the 6th-floor ceiling and the 7th floor, where he could vaguely see vines coiled together like a spiderweb on the 7th floor.

Wang Ting located the stairwell and walked up the stairs.

Upon entering the 7th floor, he showed a look of slight surprise.

This 7th floor was much cleaner than he had imagined. When his gaze landed on the deepest part of the corridor, the outer walls of several wards there had been smashed open by the Vine Spider Nurse. Cobweb-like vines spread into every corner, forming a massive green net that blocked the corridor passage.

Hanging on this five-to-six-meter-wide net were numerous items arranged like prey. A quick glance revealed no fewer than 20 items. Wang Ting instantly broke into a smile—another supply point acquired! This building had truly been worth the trip.