Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 314 Spider Swarm
The moment the door opened, the sound of countless sharp limbs scratching the ground reached the ears of the three people. Before Ling Xiao could react, Lilith had already grabbed him by the collar and teleported him away from the door.

Just as the two of them teleported out, countless small spiders emitting milky white fluorescence poured out from inside the factory!

“Fuck, spider!” Lilith cursed in a low voice, teleporting back four or five times in a row. “Damn it, I hate spiders the most!”

None of the three had participated in the first encirclement and suppression operation against Chimera No. 17, otherwise they would have recognized at a glance that these fluorescent spiders were almost indistinguishable from the Chimera offspring that attacked the outer sniper team in that operation.

Jiang Yu immediately raised her shortbow and fired three arrows in a row, nailing the three little spiders in the front to the ground. But when she was about to shoot the fourth arrow, her hand that was reaching for the arrow froze.

She only had two arrows left, but the number of little spiders pouring out of Factory No. 5 was at least in the thousands. Even if the number of arrows Jiang Yu carried was doubled... no, even if it was doubled tenfold, it still would not be enough.

After realizing this, Jiang Yu simply put away his short bow, turned around and ran.

"Disgusting, so disgusting! Why does this thing with eight legs... exist in the world?" Lilith put Ling Xiao down and cursed.

Although she was cursing, her hands were not idle at all - two orange-yellow fireballs the size of basketballs quickly formed in her hands, and then she threw them towards the swarm of spiders that were rushing over.

Two fireballs landed accurately on the densest area of ​​the spider swarm, and then exploded with a loud bang - the fireballs looked small, but the actual power of the explosion was far greater than that of a defensive grenade weighing several kilograms. Jiang Yu, who was closest to the spider swarm, only felt a blast of burning air hitting her back hard. When she turned her head to look, she could only see flames rising into the sky and the spider remains scattering everywhere, emitting a burnt smell.

"Go to hell! All of you, go to hell!" Lilith, who was standing nearly a hundred meters away, kept throwing out fireballs one after another, and explosions sounded one after another... In just a few tens of seconds, the thousands of small spiders that poured out of Factory No. 5 were all blown up into the sky - the remaining few that escaped the net were also accurately killed by the spikes that emerged from the ground without warning. Only the spider that pounced close to Jiang Yu escaped Lilith's bombardment.

Although these spiders are called "small spiders", that is in comparison with the size of their "mother", Chimera 17. In fact, the trunks of these spiders are already the size of an adult's palm, and the distance of their eight slender limbs fully extended is more than half a meter. For creatures like spiders, their size is enough to be called "giant".

The fluorescent spider jumped up directly from the ground, and its eight limbs spread out like a claw, and pounced on Jiang Yu's face. For a moment, Jiang Yu remembered an alien monster called "facehugger" in a movie he had seen.

However, Jiang Yu did not sit there and wait for death like those extras in the movies. When the fluorescent spider was less than half a meter away from her face, she had already pulled out the last two arrows tied to her legs. She used the two arrows as short spears, one cross and one right, to pierce the fluorescent spider's torso!
The fluorescent spider immediately let out a shrill wail, and its long and sharp limbs moved wildly, immediately cutting Jiang Yu's outstretched arms into pieces - but for Jiang Yu, who possessed the Tai Sui meme, wounds of this magnitude would heal in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Yu heaved a sigh of relief only after the fluorescent spider had completely stopped moving. He placed the spider's body on the ground, stepped on it with one foot, and pulled the two arrows out of it.

These were Jiang Yu's last two arrows. The three arrows shot previously had already been blown to pieces by Lilith's fireball magic, and there was no possibility of recovering them.

However, when Jiang Yu took the two arrows in front of him, he found that the arrow tips and arrow shafts had been corroded and riddled with holes... The special alloy that was originally extremely strong was now as brittle as a piece of crispy food just taken out of a frying pan.

"Be careful, the blood of these spiders is highly corrosive!" Jiang Yu immediately warned.

When the fluorescent spider was struggling in its death throes just now, a few drops of corrosive blood landed on Jiang Yu's arm - but compared with the physical attack of the spider's limbs, the damage caused by this corrosive blood was almost negligible.

After making sure that all the spiders had been killed, Jiang Yu suddenly felt her legs go soft and she sat down on the ground. Then, her perfectly intact arms began to feel an indescribable pain and itchiness, causing her to moan.

"Even if the wound can be healed instantly, the pain you have to experience will not be reduced at all... In fact, because the wound heals quickly enough, the damaged nerves can also recover immediately, and the pain you need to endure will be more than that of a normal person." Lilith walked to Jiang Yu and said, "This is also one of the negative effects of the ability."

"Then... why didn't I feel... pain just now?" Jiang Yu asked puzzledly.

"Just now you were in a state of adrenaline rush, so of course the pain was not obvious... But now that the adrenaline has faded, the accumulated pain has burst out all at once - even if the wound has healed." Lilith said, "You have to learn to adapt to the pain... Or you can do what I did and find a way to make yourself enjoy the pain, then this negative effect will no longer be a negative effect, but will become a reward instead."

As Lilith spoke, she revealed a psychopathic smile, which made Jiang Yu's heart skip a beat. Even the pain, itchiness and numbness in his arms seemed to have subsided a lot.

"Actually, there is another way." Lilith put away her perverted smile and said seriously, "Most of this pain comes from nerve reactions. In fact, your arm doesn't hurt at all, but your pain nerves are still sending signals to your brain... Well, this feeling is a bit like 'phantom limb pain'. Do you know what 'phantom limb' is?"

Jiang Yu nodded.

Phantom limb pain often occurs in patients who have undergone amputation recently. Patients often feel a dull pain in their amputated limbs, or a tingling sensation like an electric shock, but in fact the limb they "feel" does not exist at all.

This is a neuropathic pain condition that also has a considerable psychological component.

"When I first became a woman, I often felt 'phantom limb pain'... I always felt that the thing that was cut off was hurting... That feeling was so painful." Lilith said, "Try to rub your arms and tell yourself that your arms are not injured... Don't look anywhere else, just stare at your arms, it should help."

After Jiang Yu did as he was told, the unbearable pain and itchiness he felt was relieved a lot.

"Thank...thank you." Jiang Yu looked up at Lilith - although this "red-haired witch" behaved a little "crazy" and seemed to have big mental problems, she didn't seem to be a bad person by nature...at least among the hunters Jiang Yu had come into contact with, Lilith should be ranked among the "good people".

To be honest, after becoming a hunter, except for Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, Zhulong and Song Yarong, the hunters Jiang Yu came into contact with all made her more or less uncomfortable - they either stared at every woman passing by with lustful eyes and licked their lips, or acted crazy like a drug addict in withdrawal... Some time ago, she even met a hunter with a highly violent tendency: a soldier accidentally blocked his way when he was on patrol, and the hunter broke the soldier's neck without hesitation.

Jiang Yu didn't know whether the hunter was punished later... She didn't dare to ask, for fear of attracting revenge from the hunter. "Don't thank me, it's just some experience." Lilith held Jiang Yu's hand and pulled her up from the ground.

"Another strange creature came out of Factory No. 5." Ling Xiao's voice suddenly sounded not far away.

"Could it be another spider?!" Lilith turned her head quickly, only to see a ragged man limping out of the factory.

"People?" Lilith was stunned. "Are they the people in the factory? I thought they had all been eaten by the monsters!"

"It's not a person, it's a monster." Ling Xiao corrected.

This was a tall man, wearing the factory uniform No. 105, which was torn into pieces, with only rags left hanging on his body. His body was covered with blood and bruises, and there were traces of stitches everywhere on his skin. This man looked as if he had been cut into dozens of pieces and then stitched back together. With every step he took, a lot of foamy blood and pus would squeeze out of the stitches and flow down along the stitches.

"It may be a strange creature or a strange corpse..." Lilith muttered, "But this is the first missing person I have encountered. I will not kill him yet. Let's see how much human sanity he still has..."

"This guy... he... he seems..." Jiang Yu suddenly murmured, "He seems to be the deputy director of Factory No. 105! His name... his name should be..."

"Wang Cheng." Lilith glanced at the PAD in her hand. "This guy is indeed the deputy director of Factory 105... Although his face was cut into six pieces and sewn back together, the big black mole on his left cheek and the birthmark on his forehead are still there. Oh, one more thing, this guy is left-handed."

Following Lilith's line of sight, Jiang Yu saw that "Wang Cheng" was holding a multi-function wrench in his left hand. The front end of the wrench was wrapped with a lot of pink minced meat, and even some white stuff that looked like brain matter.

"Did this guy just use a wrench to break someone's head?" Lilith narrowed her eyes. "Could he have killed his immediate superior?"

"He...he is dead, right?" Jiang Yu asked in a low voice.

"Theoretically, transformation into a weird thing doesn't count as death." Lilith shook her head, "But turning into a weird thing is worse than death. At least it's a clean death."

At this time, Ling Xiao suddenly said, "I just searched the channel 888.8 again, and it's still playing classical music."

"Oh?" Lilith took a deep breath. "So it seems that the boss of this layer of the inner world is still in the No. 5 factory? The guy who ran out now can only be regarded as an elite monster?"

"Didn't you just say that you should ask him first..." Jiang Yu asked nervously, holding the hunting knife tightly - after losing the last two arrows, this hunting knife had become her only weapon.

"I changed my mind." Lilith said, "I don't think we can get anything out of this guy... If we want to ask, we might as well ask the 'boss' hiding inside and listening to classical music... Since it still retains its hobbies from its 'previous life', maybe it has retained a lot of its memories as well."

"How can you be sure that the factory manager is the boss... Isn't it said that the monster that created the other world will leave a projection in each layer of the other world? The projection should be that..."

"Projections also need to be attached to 'entities'." Lilith interrupted Jiang Yu, "I suspect that the director of Factory 105 is the projection of the weird creature in this world."

"Okay, let's get rid of this guy first." Lilith clapped her hands, and three ice cones condensed above her head, and then shot towards the "deputy factory director" who stumbled towards them like lightning.

With the sound of a knife cutting rotten cotton wool, three ice spikes pierced through the "deputy factory director's" left eye, heart and right lung respectively, and came out from behind him.

The "deputy factory director"'s body shook a little, but he did not fall down. Instead, he continued to stagger towards the three people.

"I originally wanted to leave his body intact for research, but now it seems that he won't be so lucky." Lilith said, throwing a fireball that had been used to blow up the spider swarm at the "deputy factory director".

The fireball hit the "deputy factory director" but did not explode violently like before. Instead, it went out with a "puff", leaving only an inconspicuous burn mark on the rags.

"Wow, this guy... actually has a high 'magic resistance'?" The corners of Lilith's eyes twitched twice.

"Magic resistance?"

"My magic comes from memes, which are the same abilities granted by the weird memes... Some weird meme fragments can neutralize my magic. Specifically, my magic has a very weak effect on them, or even completely ineffective. I call this 'magic resistance'."

"What about the ice cone just now...?"

"The ice cone is a purely physical attack. I just froze the water molecules in the air and gave it a force to shoot out... After it's shot out, it has nothing to do with my ability." Lilith said, "But the fireball is different. This thing requires my magic power to maintain it. Once the magic power supply is cut off, it will immediately go out."

(End of this chapter)