bookbashuk Chapter 10 Achieving Great Success with Small Investments
Chapter 10 Achieving Great Success with Small Investments
In the dim and quiet corridor, Luo Lan silently recovered her mental strength while "patrolling" back and forth along the corridor.
Luo Lan had lost count of how many times she had gone back and forth between the iron gate and the corner of the corridor.
Each time he passed an iron gate or a corner, Luo Lan activated [Heat Vision] to scan the surrounding environment, planning to figure out the habits of the giant armored spiders and the stitched corpses:
The giant armored spider, which had been struggling with the iron gate for most of the day, had disappeared sometime after realizing that the gate could not be broken.
At first, Luo Lan thought it had slunk back to its lair after realizing its efforts were in vain, but upon closer inspection, she realized something was wrong. This was a cunning monster that would ambush her; would it give up so easily?
Sure enough, after scanning carefully, [Thermal Vision] discovered a heat source outlined on the rock surface at the ceiling. It was shaped like a flattened spider with its eight legs tucked in, its abdomen being the hottest and its head the next hottest.
It has only a very slight temperature difference with the surrounding cold rock walls, and you can't find it at all unless you look for it deliberately.
This cunning spider monster, through some unknown means, lowered and altered its body temperature, like a cold-blooded hunter blending into the darkness, patiently waiting for its prey to walk into its trap.
It may have ambushed Luo Lan in the same way it did near the stone bridge.
[They really are a persistent ghost.]
Conversely, the situation around the corner of the corridor is equally unfavorable.
Using the perspective effect of [thermal vision], Luo Lan spent some time getting a general idea of what was behind the wall. There was indeed more than one stitched corpse. Judging from the body temperature and body shape, it could be divided into at least three types.
A short, stocky, and broad-shouldered animal with heat concentrated in the center of its head, low leg heat value, and a slow gait.
A type of animal that is slender and tall, with cold limbs, a heat source concentrated in the heart area, and whose walking movements are never interrupted;
The third type has a uniform calorific value distribution, but its overall calorific value is a level higher than the first two, and its heat radiation slightly diffuses outward when walking.
[A brawl is raging around the corner of the corridor, while on this side of the iron gate, ambush is underway.]
Luo Lan was faced with two options, neither of which was better.
However, the outcome of a group battle is more unpredictable than waiting for an enemy to run into a trap, and he hadn't even figured out the attack methods of those stitched-together corpses yet. The worst thing he could do by launching a rash attack was to lack information.
[A one-on-one fight is always better than getting ganged up on, right?]
After some thought, Luo Lan finally decided to return to the iron gate.
There's at least one giant armored spider, so even if we can't defeat it, we can always retreat back to this side of the corridor.
If those stitched-up corpses attacked in groups, and Luo Lan then ducked to the other side of the iron gate, he would be attacked from both sides.
Slowly climbing towards the iron gate, Luo Lan straightened her body, trying to squeeze through the gap in the fence again.
The gap was still the same gap, but the newly cast rusted iron carapace was much wider than the previous larval carapace, so it could only be squeezed through. The iron bar made a shallow mark at the joint of the new limb, but it still made it through.
Luo Lan had barely squeezed half her body out of the crack in the door when a dark shadow crashed down on her head.
The giant armored spider gave its prey no chance to react, plummeting from the ceiling, its eight long legs spreading out in mid-air, the sharp spikes at the tips of its appendages thrusting straight at it. It started with the same forelimb stab that had nearly killed Luo Lan earlier.
But this time, the prey was prepared.
As the colossal object plummeted through the air, the single eye on the back of Luo Lan's hand suddenly burst forth with a dense burst of blood-red light.
【Terrification lv.3】!
The invisible mental spikes shot out along the line of sight, piercing into the giant armored spider's several pairs of dark purple compound eyes.
The long-awaited finishing move was instantly interrupted.
The giant armored spider froze in mid-air, its attack interrupted, its eight legs kicking wildly, only the momentum of its descent remaining.
"clang--!"
The tip of a giant armored spider's thick, long appendage, carrying the force of its fall, struck Luo Lan's newly plated [Rusty Iron Shell].
Luo Lan reached out and took a look. There was only a shallow scratch on the new carapace, but the giant armored spider's appendage had a series of fine cracks spreading from the point of impact to the end.
The injured and aching giant armored spider, even under the powerful control of [Fear Level 3], began to tremble violently instinctively, on the verge of breaking free from the hard control of the mental attack.
Luo Lan didn't dare to delay. With his eight arthropods, he climbed onto the iron gate behind him, using the gate to reach a height of more than two meters. With a mighty leap, his entire body bounced towards the head of the giant armored spider.
In the instant it flew toward the giant armored spider's brain, its segmented limbs pried open, the pointed tips of which embedded themselves into the spider's chitinous crevices and got stuck.
Luo Lan hung on the spider monster's head.
Raising its two thick, rust-iron-forged limbs high, like two merciless warhammers, it slammed them down on the dark purple compound eyes of the spider below, which were huddled together!
"Pfft—"
Thick, green liquid gushed out like a burst water pipe. Luo Lan smashed the two enormous compound eyes into a bloody pulp.
"roar!"
In excruciating pain, the giant armored spider finally broke free from the effects of [Terror Lv.3], letting out a ferocious roar that tore through the air. Its eight legs frantically pawed at the ground, its head shaking violently, trying to shake off whatever was on its head.
Luo Lan clung on tightly, using several segments of her limbs to lock onto the gaps in the carapace of the other's neck, and found the intact compound eye that had not yet been smashed to pieces.
The stitched-up corpse's single eye, covered in scarlet blood vessels on the back of its skeletal hand, refocused.
【Terrification lv.3】!
A full-blown mental shock right before my eyes!
The giant armored spider's frenzied body froze once again.
Seizing this brief window of opportunity, Luo Lan inserted her two forelegs into the punctured eye sockets and dug a hole.
Green fluid gushed from the wound, covering Luo Lan's body. The giant armored spider began to tremble again under the fatal wound.
Upon seeing this, Luo Lan immediately extended her bone hand from her carapace and, together with her two appendages, probed into the sticky, warm hole, beginning to frantically stir it up.
Flesh and blood were churned up, and brain matter was shattered.
A few seconds later, the violently trembling giant armored spider twitched violently as if electrocuted, and then its eight thick, long legs completely lost their strength, lying limply outwards.
The spider demon's body, which was enormous compared to Luo Lan, crashed to the ground and fell into silence.
[Resolved...]
Luo Lan lay on the lifeless spider corpse, the dizziness from activating the skill twice in a row surging up.
His one eye rolled upwards uncontrollably, and his vision began to blur. Everything around him was spinning and detaching violently.
After a while, suppressing the nausea and dizziness, Luo Lan began the next step.
Without any mercy, he gouged out the remaining few intact compound eyes from the giant armored spider's head, personally carving out a huge hole in its flesh.
Following the large hole, Luo Lan squeezed himself little by little into the massive insect corpse cavity of the giant armored spider.
Just like when I dealt with the first young spiderling, I did it in the same way.
It emptied out all the soft tissue and internal organs, then devoured them with its bony claws, leaving only a huge hollow shell.
[Chaos Essence +20]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 50]
A small investment yields a huge return, avenging past grievances!