Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 156 Not everything that spins silk is a spider

At this moment, Geng Miaowan also spoke up, "Why did you hit my head? I already said I didn't hit you." This was clearly directed at Xu Ruwen.

"Which hand can I use to hit you?" Xu Ruwen said, tightening his grip slightly as a hint. Geng Miaowan then remembered that she had almost fallen, grabbed his arm, and he, afraid she would fall, also put his other hand on her arm.

But there was clearly a hand patting her head intermittently. "I...I'm on my head..."

Geng Miaowan instinctively released her grip on Xu Ruwen's hand, swept it over her head, and grabbed something. Pulling it down, she belatedly realized it was a cold and stiff hand.

She cried out "Ah~" and let go of the hand. Before she could dodge, the hand slapped her head again, this time harder than before.

Xu Ruwen, puzzled, asked her, "What's wrong?"

"A hand... I just grabbed a hand..." Geng Miaowan said as she dodged to the side. This time she wasn't photographed again, but she wasn't sure if a foot or something else would appear next.

"What?" Xu Ruwen was also taken aback. "It's so dark, are you sure?"

"How could I possibly be wrong about this?"

At this moment, Xiaobai spoke up to remind them, "Up there."

Geng Miaowan and Xu Ruwen looked up simultaneously, and saw that the once pitch-black mountaintop had begun to glow with points of light. Like stars twinkling in the night sky, they were quite beautiful. However, they knew that behind this beauty lay untold dangers.

"Be careful," Geng Miaowan warned. This should be the same thing Zheng Xiuxiu saw back then, but she didn't know how it attacked people.

There were many bright spots, clustered at the top of the cave, densely packed. They flickered, sometimes bright, sometimes dim. Strangely, although there were many bright spots above, none of their light reached the ground below.

Geng Miaowan said that this is really a strange place.

But without light, it was so dark that there was no way to see what was inside the cave.

"That's right. I've got an idea." Geng Miaowan suddenly remembered her special skill; how could she have forgotten about it?

She focused her mind. A glimmer of light appeared at her fingertips. This light, generated by spiritual energy, was only influenced by her own spiritual power and unrelated to other factors. So, after flickering a few times in the cave, it slowly began to glow. Although it wasn't very bright, it was enough to illuminate a not-so-small area in the darkness of the cave.

"Could this be the thing that patted our heads earlier...?"

Xu Ruwen's voice sounded very different from usual. It was very strange. Geng Miaowan's gaze shifted from the light at her fingertips to the direction Xu Ruwen was pointing.

"Eek..." Geng Miaowan took several steps back.

A person was hanging upside down in the air, with a pair of pale and stiff hands dangling beside her head. Perhaps because she had pulled on them earlier, they were now swaying back and forth, as if being blown by the wind.

Looking up, one could see a milky-white, silk-like thing hanging down from the cave ceiling, about the thickness of a finger. At short intervals along this silk, there was a milky-white sphere the size of an egg. The whole silk looked like a string of pearls, only an extra-large one.

The egg-shaped object was translucent and seemed to emit its own light; the star-like brilliance I had just heard came from it.

One end of the silk thread was attached to the ceiling of the cave, and the other end was attached to the person's feet. The person hanging upside down, or rather, the corpse, was completely wrapped in the silk-like substance, with only her hands exposed.

Looking around the cave, in all the light-filled areas, there were more than a dozen of these filamentous things hanging down, each with a corpse, a person, or some other small animal attached to it.

At the top of the cave, countless threads like these were densely packed. The group was stunned by the sight before them, speechless for a long time. The scene truly resembled a hell on earth.

Geng Miaowan was extremely grateful that she hadn't eaten anything since arriving in this space, otherwise she probably would have thrown it all up by now.

"What...what are these things?" she asked, reaching out to the thread, stopping just before her fingers touched it. Remembering what Zheng Xiuxiu had said, she picked up a stone from the ground and gently touched the milky-white substance.

The thread-like thing sank inward as it was touched by the stone. When she took the stone back, a thin thread had been stretched quite a distance out of the stone. No matter how hard she pulled, it wouldn't break. It was extremely sticky and tough.

"Be careful of these things..." In the end, she had no choice but to let go, letting the stone stick to the thread and swing back and forth. Luckily, she hadn't used her hands, or she would be swaying on the thread herself now.

“This is the first time I’ve ever seen something so strange,” Xu Ruwen replied.

Geng Miaowan then asked Xiaobai, "Have you seen this before?"

“Never…” it wanted to say something more, but Xu Ruwen interrupted, “These things look like the silk of something.”

“I think so too, but what kind of silk could it be? Could it be spider silk?” Geng Miaowan thought for a moment, then frowned and rejected the idea. “Spiders shouldn’t eat these things, and spider webs don’t look much like this… Could it be… a mutation?”

Thinking about it, she suddenly felt unwell. How big must that spider be to eat such a large living person?

"I don't think it looks like it either," Xiaobai said, expressing her opinion.

"What could it be?" Geng Miaowan racked her brains. "Could it be a silkworm?"

As far as she knew, among the creatures that could spin silk, besides spiders, only silkworms and some small insects could spin silk when they grew into adults.

None of them associated these things with demons or monsters because they themselves belonged to that category. They knew that demons and monsters would never go through such trouble to eat; they would usually catch and eat, rather than storing food like this.

"Wait, look, there seems to be something in here," Xu Ruwen said, pointing to the thread next to Geng Miaowan. (To be continued.)