LRAB Chapter 7 He fled! It chased!
Chapter 7 He fled! It chased!
Barely recovering from the sudden, violent shock, Luo Lan struggled to turn the single eye on the back of his hand upwards.
However, the enormous object right in front of him was far too large for Luo Lan's current insect-like body. It was so large that even the [Crawling Stitched Corpse One-Eyed Eye], which was wider than a human's field of vision, could not capture its entire outline.
Even though he could only see parts of the body, Luo Lan immediately understood the situation the moment their eyes met:
[Hiss, this is the older brother coming for revenge after killing the younger one.]
The ferocious figure that filled the entire field of vision was probably a fully grown giant armored spider.
The thick limbs are a full circle thicker than an adult's arm, and are covered with tiny bristles like steel brushes.
Its thick, grayish-white carapace gleamed with a cold, menacing light, and its swollen belly bulged high, more than two meters in diameter.
Despite its enormous size, it somehow evaded Luo Lan's sight, silently climbing up the cave wall and all the way from the ceiling to the underground palace corridor, completing this unexpected fall.
If it were any normal beetle monster, its shell would have been crushed in an instant, and it would have been splattered into a puddle of mush and died long ago.
Fortunately, the larval body that Luo Lan is currently piecing together is mostly hollow, with only the bone hand, which serves as the core, inserted in the very center.
The giant armored spider lowered its head, which was filled with compound eyes, and stared intently at the strange creature beneath it that looked remarkably like its own offspring.
I thought the prey would have been torn to shreds under the pressure, but not a single drop of normal life-giving fluid or fragments flowed from the broken shell fragments.
Then, the giant armored spider's ferocious mandibles suddenly split open to both sides, revealing a row of terrifying, fine, sharp teeth.
It was ready to tear apart the obstructive shell of the strange thing below and explore the secrets hidden beneath.
Their lives hung by a thread.
Without hesitation, Luo Lan activated [Terror Lv.2] on the massive arthropod that was within arm's reach, forcibly seizing this only chance of survival.
A powerful wave of mental attack arrived in an instant.
The giant armored spider's dark purple compound eyes flashed rapidly, and the luster deep within its pupils visibly began to dissipate. Its mandibles, which were preparing to tear at the target, also froze in mid-air.
Just minutes ago, Luo Lan had used a skill to hunt down three young armored spiders. Now, using the skill again, an overwhelming fatigue surged to his head.
But Luo Lan had no time to alleviate any discomfort, and struggled to focus all her attention on the remaining right limb.
Dragging his battered left side, he forcefully used the four remaining intact legs on his right side, rubbing his joints against the rocky ground for leverage.
He scrambled out from under the giant armored spider, stumbling and fleeing madly into the passage deep within the underground palace.
"Da da da..."
Before Luo Lan could run far, a series of dense, clanging sounds erupted from the gravel floor of the corridor behind her.
The giant armored spider caught up!
[No, it hasn't even been a minute, has it?]
【Terrification lv.2】Can cause a continuous hard crowd control effect of about five minutes on those young armored spiders.
But against this enormous giant armored spider, it couldn't even last a minute.
The whistling sound of the limbs cutting through the air behind him grew increasingly piercing; the giant armored spider had once again closed in on Luo Lan. Several pairs of dark purple compound eyes, gleaming with ferocity, were now no more than half a meter away from Luo Lan.
Faced with the ever-approaching deadly threat, Luo Lan, despite extreme dizziness, recklessly exhausted her mental energy. For the third and final time in a short period, she unleashed [Terror Lv.2].
The sounds of pursuit abruptly ceased. The enormous spider-like figure froze once more in the middle of the corridor.
But Luo Lan was well aware that this was his limit of struggle, and his mental strength had already run out.
The scene before his eyes was severely fragmented and doubled, and the surrounding stone walls were distorted into large patches of mixed colors in his perception.
The underground palace corridor was so empty it was despairing; all around were cold, hard stone walls, and there was nowhere to find a truly safe place to hide.
Luo Lan could only continue fleeing into the depths of the dimly lit corridor.
"Da da da..."
The agonizing sound of limbs pounding against the floor tiles drew ever closer from behind.
The giant armored spider had developed a clear mental resistance to the same attack, and this time its awakening was ridiculously fast. After only being stunned for about half a minute, it resumed its pursuit of Luo Lan.
"Da da da..."
"Da da da da—"
"Tap! Tap! Tap!"
The threat of death is drawing ever closer, it's practically upon us.
"Sizzle—"
A chilling glint flashed in the corridor. The giant armored spider extended its thick, long left forelimb, like a rapidly thrusting heavy spear, and viciously stabbed towards Luo Lan.
This precise and ferocious thrust shattered Luo Lan's already precarious left side of the armor.
"Bang!"
The assembled shell of the young spider exploded in mid-air, the powerful recoil cascading onto the remaining body.
Luo Lan's remaining half of his right side was like a broken baseball hit by a bat, instantly leaving the ground and flying backwards through the air.
"clang--"
Luo Lan crashed into a tightly closed iron gate at the end of the corridor.
Sliding down the iron fence, Luo Lan's right leg clawed wildly at the ground, barely managing to steady itself against the iron gate.
The despairing giant armored spider had already reached him, its two thick, long, and sharp forelimbs raised high with the power to pierce through anything, about to deliver a fatal blow to Luo Lan, whose prey only had half a body left.
Seeing the "butcher's knife" about to fall heavily in front of him, Luo Lan retreated and used his limbs to pry open the iron fence behind him.
[Iron bars...]
With her mind foggy, Luo Lan forced herself to continue thinking.
The left-hand bone claw inside the carapace quickly reversed the direction of the entire arm, and the pale bone hand emerged directly from the gap in the carapace that had been completely shattered on the left side.
With all his might, he pushed against the rough stone floor beneath him, using his five finger bones!
Using this lateral reverse thrust, Luo Lan flipped his entire half of his broken torso, along with his bone hand, ninety degrees on the ground.
It aligned itself with the widest gap between a row of rusty iron fences in a twisted, vertically angled posture.
With the four remaining appendages on Luo Lan's right side still bearing the carapace, he gripped the iron bars together and pulled himself inward, squeezing through the blade of death into the world behind the iron gate.
"Bang—!"
The giant armored spider's thick, long forelimbs slashed fiercely at the junction of the stone ground and the iron gate, smashing out a large amount of debris.
"Squeak!!"
The final blow missed completely, and the behemoth blocked by the iron gate instantly went into extreme rage, emitting a series of chilling, piercing screechs.
From the perspective of the giant armored spider, the prey that had clearly killed many of its offspring was right there.
It can be seen and can be rubbed to the edge with its arthropods.
But I just can't get past it.
A rusty iron gate, like an insurmountable chasm, separates the boundary between life and death.
"Crunch—crunch—"
The giant armored spider, defiant of its fate, repeatedly rammed the iron bar. Its mouthparts, covered with sharp teeth, gripped a rusty iron bar and contracted forcefully, its barbed teeth scraping a series of deep and shallow scratches on the iron surface, causing large pieces of rust to fall off.
Rage, resentment, but helplessness.