Digimon: I really didn't want to be the Digimon Emperor!

Blue Spider remained silent for a long time. She looked at Red Spider, then at the figures standing in the bamboo shadows. She sheathed her arthropod blades and nodded.

"Okay. I'll go with you."

Over the next two days, Red Spider led her team to find her sisters one by one.

The Vengeful Queen Green Spider, the Golden Thread Queen Golden Spider, and the Thousand Illusions Queen Pink Spider, after persuasion and battle... all agreed to join the ranks.

They were all persuaded by Red Spider and the sisters who joined later.

However, things didn't go so smoothly when facing his second sister, Steel Spider Queen Steel Spider.

Chapter 648 Green Parasitic Tentacles

Steel Spider is a mechanical Acrew beast whose exterior is covered in alloy armor and whose body is full of mechanical structures, much like a giant, moving tank.

Red Spider looked up at her and repeated what she had just said to Blue Spider.

After listening, the steel spider paused for a moment, then stood up.

"I'm going to tell Big Sister and Parasite Lord," she said, without anger or hesitation, "that they'll destroy your Shadow Frame!"

Hongzhu'er was stunned for a moment. She had anticipated her second sister's reaction, which might be hesitation or suspicion, but she did not expect her to betray her.

"Second Sister?"

What you said might be true.

Steel Spider looked down at her, “But I don’t need it. I don’t want any Weaver form. I chose my own body and changed it step by step to be the way it is now. I installed every piece of alloy armor and mechanical structure myself. I know what I want.”

Although Arculimon prefers its human form, there are always exceptions.

Steel Spider transformed itself into a mechanical form, gradually replacing its muscles, bones, and energy circuits with machinery, because it was more obsessed with its six-legged mechanical form.

Long ago, she had hoped that Parasyte would choose her as its vessel, and that she would eventually give birth to a body like a mechanical fortress for Parasyte.

“Second sister, have you ever thought about this,” Red Spider said, “that once you’re parasitized by a parasite, you’ll no longer be yourself?”

“I know… that was my choice.”

Blue Spider, who had been holding her breath the whole time, finally couldn't hold back any longer. Her six segments shot out simultaneously, blades clashing, and she took a step towards Steel Spider: "Second Sister! Are you out of your mind?! You want to become its puppet?"

“My affairs are none of your business.” Steel Spider did not get up, but she raised her limbs, which were connected to an alloy hammer. “It’s your business if you want to rebel. I will not follow you to my death.”

As she spoke, all six mechanical limbs unfolded, and energy shone through the gaps between the alloy shells: "I'll go tell my older sister now and let her deal with you."

"Stop her," Cheng Yuan said.

As a result, the spider sisters worked together to dismantle its armor and limbs, leaving only its mechanical body and head.

"Second sister, you lost," said Lan Zhu'er.

It was greeted by Steel Spider's tirade of condemnation against the rebels.

Six spiders... now there are five and a half. Onward!

The eldest sister, Zi Zhu'er, resides in the underground city, above which lies the Dark Tower.

Looking into the distance at the Spider Tower piercing the clouds, I heard a strange, murmured sound.

It was a black spire piercing through the gray-white clouds. The tower was thick and its surface was covered with dense white spiderweb patterns, which looked like a huge net in the dim light, enveloping the entire tower.

The base of the tower extends outwards with a large number of black tree root structures, which penetrate deep into the ground, forming a ring-shaped ridge.

The entrance to the Pansi Dungeon is located on the north side of the tower base.

Without Red Spider and the past grievances with Weaver Girl, it would have been impossible to break through layers of defenses, avoid most of the fully evolved spiders, turn most of the spider lords against their will, and arrive at the foot of the Spider Tower.

As they approached, Cheng Yuan noticed something was amiss.

It's too quiet.

The underground city of Pansidong is unusually quiet tonight, with none of the guards on duty.

There should have been two teams of insect-type Digimon guarding the entrance, but there wasn't a single person in sight.

The entire underground city seemed to be asleep, with only the occasional sound of wind passing through the cracks in the tower base, emitting a low whistling sound.

A faint, melodious flute tune drifted through the air.

Upon hearing the flute music, Vilemon's expression changed slightly: "It's my eldest sister's flute. My eldest sister's flute music can control all insect-type Digimon in the city that are at or below the adult stage." Vilemon said.

"All these Digimon are either asleep or off duty. The entire dungeon is asleep. What's going on?" Cheng Yuan asked.

Li Xiaochun stood in front of the tower, looked up at the black spire piercing the clouds, and said calmly, "I'm afraid she already knows everything you've done."

The words of Li Xiaochun, the Rabbit God General, startled Xing Song Nan.

"A ruler with powerful mental data?" Li Xiaochun murmured.

While they were still thinking, a voice rang in their minds.

"Guests from afar, what are you doing standing outside the city? Why don't you come in and sit down? And my sisters, you're not treating your guests well, it's disrespectful." A mature voice rang in their minds.

The spider sisters were all startled and a little guilty, after all, they had come to rebel, but now it seemed that their eldest sister had known all along.

"There is also someone from Shangjiqian, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I cannot personally go out to greet them."

Cheng Yuan said, "It's alright, since we're already here, let's meet them."

They passed through the entrance and walked into the Spider Cave underground city through a downward-sloping tunnel.

Cheng Yuan originally thought he would see a carpet of fungi, slime, and insect eggs on the ground, since that's roughly what a spider's nest looks like.

But after he went inside, he paused for a moment.

This underground city is very large, with the foundation of the Dark Tower at its center, and thick pillars extending upwards to support the entire dome.

Surrounding the base of the tower are layers upon layers of arched buildings, carved with intricate patterns, with silk curtains hanging on the walls and polished stone slabs on the ground.

It doesn't look like an insect nest; it looks more like some kind of ancient underground town.

The strangest thing is that there are sleeping insect-shaped Digimon lying everywhere on the streets, in caves, and in the center of squares, all curled up and fast asleep.

The weaver and the spider sisters walked at the front, passing through the sleeping figures, until they reached the gate of the city lord's mansion near the tower.

It was a magnificent cave built against the foundation of the tower, its entrance covered by a layer of pale purple silk curtains, through which the lights inside could be faintly seen.

Purple Spider sat on the main stage.

She wore a gorgeous deep purple gown, the hem of which spread out on the stone platform, embroidered with intricate patterns.

Her upper body remained in the form of a human woman, with a dignified face, a gentle expression, and long, dark purple hair that reached her waist.

Her lower body—the spider's abdomen—was a huge, semi-transparent sac, inside which a complex neural network could be vaguely seen, like an exposed, enormous brain, connected to countless spider silk threads as thick as arms, extending to all parts of the city lord's mansion's walls and floors.

The threads, like cables, were embedded in the external sockets of the stone crevices, gleaming with a dim yet rhythmic light under the lamp.

"Big...Big Sister," the spider sisters murmured.

Purple Spider recognized Weaver Girl at a glance and said, "Red Spider, it seems you have found that history."

Hongzhu'er took a step forward: "Big sister...you know?"

“I know all this. In fact, I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.”

It looked at the Weaver Girl: "It's just that we haven't found a way to help our sisters recover, and we haven't found a way to restore the Zerg holy land of the Spider Tower, so we've been enduring it."

"Then why did you force Red Spider to choose a husband?" Blue Spider Queen Blade Queen asked impulsively.

Zi Zhu'er pointed to the dome of the underground city. Cheng Yuan looked in the direction she was pointing, but there was a thick layer of rock above the base of the tower, and he couldn't see anything.

“Red Spider, if you don’t leave the Spider Tower, you’ll always be under ‘that’s’ watchful eye,” she said. “Under its nose, you might be executed on the spot any day. Only by leaving the tower’s perimeter can you escape its surveillance.”

Red Spider stood there, stunned.

"You think escaping the Spider Tower is so easy? A molting Argirium is powerless against you, and even a few mature BladeGuggamon could chase you all over the place. The lords couldn't stop you, the guards couldn't stop you, and the only way you could get there just happened to be unpatrolled..." Purple Spider withdrew her hand, "Isn't that obvious enough?"

Red Spider opened her mouth, but no words came out.

As Cheng Yuan listened, he pieced together a complete picture in his mind.

Zi Zhu'er did it on purpose.

She used a coercive marriage contest to allow Red Spider to escape, secretly letting her go, and then waiting for her to find a way out and escape the parasites' surveillance.

Looking at Zi Zhu'er's composed face and then at the massive spider core behind her, he roughly understood that this ruler's plan was probably not so simple.

"Where's the second one?" Zi Zhu'er suddenly asked.

Blue Spider stepped aside.

Behind them, Steel Spider's remains were carried in by Green Spider and Golden Spider, with her severed limbs on the sisters' backs.

Steel Spider shouted:

"Big sister, what are you saying? They're rebelling!" the second sister, Steel Spider, struggled. "Quick, catch them!"

Purple Spider looked at Steel Spider and sighed.

"Second brother, when are you going to grow up and use your brain?"

Steel Spider: "???"

"Big sister, you too...?"

Purple Spider said, "How can you really believe the propaganda materials? That's all for brainwashing low-level Digimon. Didn't you hear the information passed down from generation to generation by Arquemon?"

"What word-of-mouth... I've been in seclusion studying mechanical modification..."

Purple Spider ignored it, turned around, and looked at the grotesque creature. "Thinking back, the technology to modify the dark environment of the digital world was born in human hands, and it can even help us Arculi beasts regress to our ancestral evolution. Only after obtaining this information from the message my second sister transmitted to me did I make up my mind."

It obtained the conversation between Steel Spider and the Spider Sisters through mental means.

Li Xiaochun didn't delve into these matters; since they shared a common enemy, they could become friends.

Li Xiaochun: "Now that you mention it, it seems the city lord has been planning this for quite some time. We're in the same boat, which makes things easier. Tell me your plan, city lord."

Purple Spider said, "I used the sound of my flute to put all the Digimon in the dungeon to sleep and linked their mental data to me. I plan to use the combined mental impact of 100,000 Digimon to destroy that Evil Eye." It pointed to the dungeon sky.

"Evil eye?" Cheng Yuan asked.

“That’s the parasitic beast’s eye,” said Purple Spider. “It’s also the core of its spiritual residency. If we use the combined spiritual power of all 100,000 digital beasts in the city to strike that evil eye, it will suffer severe damage.”

The Parasite's Ultimate level power largely comes from the parasitic amplification it provides to its host. If its mental core is impacted, it will briefly break free from its parasitic state, revealing a weakness. At that point, all of our Ultimate levels working together can completely defeat it.

The feasibility of the Purple Spider City Lord's plan was assessed.

Purple Spider gazed at each of their faces, finally fixing her gaze on Li Xiaochun.

Li Xiaochun met her gaze without flinching: "Then let's proceed according to your plan."

Purple Spider nodded.

She sat up straight, and the silk threads connecting her to her spider abdomen tightened simultaneously. The ground of the entire city lord's mansion began to tremble with a low tremor, and the entire underground city was slowly awakening.

The dome of the underground city opened directly, and the entire city lord's mansion, including its foundation, rose up, bringing Zi Zhu'er and the Bloodstained Beast to the surface.

Purple Spider's body was covered in thick spider silk, and below it were all spider silk cables.

Looking at these white, tangled spiderweb cables, Cheng Yuan suddenly thought of the cables beneath the inverted pyramid in the desert of the Molecular Beast.

Both are vast networks connecting to the depths of the earth, and both are sophisticated data transmission structures. The only difference is that the molecular beast uses machinery and data, while this one uses spider silk and spirit.

Besides the white, spiderweb-like cable, Cheng Yuan also saw a green cable hidden inside the spiderweb.

Looking out at the towering Dark Tower that seems to pierce the sky, near its spire, there is a huge spherical protrusion. Purple Spider says that is the evil eye of the parasitic beast.

Purple Spider raised her head, looked at the closed evil eye, and then closed her own eyes.

Purple Spider said, "Let's get started."

After saying that, it began to concentrate and cast a spell, inserting spider silk into the ground to connect with each Digimon and absorb their spiritual power.

The spider silk threads that stretched deep underground began to glow.

White light travels upwards from the ends of the silk threads, converging along each strand of the spider silk into the abdomen of the purple spider.

Purple Spider absorbs the mental data transmitted from the spider silk and condenses it into its own body, causing its body to emit rings of light.

Originally, the evil eye was too high and was obscured by the clouds, so Cheng Yuan could not see it clearly.

Once Zi Zhu'er had fully charged, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and finally the evil eye could be seen.

Cheng Yuan casually tossed him a scan:

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