Chapter 7 Desperate Gamble

This second-tier Assassin had very advanced stealth skills. Suren’s current perception wasn’t enough for him to easily detect the assassin.

But he didn’t intend to find the guy at all.

Because the crimson eyes filling the sky were enough to weave a mental net covering the entire cave. No one in the entire crypt could avoid it.

Now, all they could do was see who was lucky enough to survive.

As Suren expected.

The moment the countless red eyes lit up, his status panel showed countless “mental attack” notifications, a tidal wave of area-of-effect attacks, one wave after another. Even without directly looking at the monsters, they would be affected to some extent.

Suren was fine, but the Assassin wasn’t so lucky.

Almost at the same time the spiders blocked the exit of the nest, in the void more than ten meters away from Suren, the hooded man was also affected by the mental shockwave and revealed himself again.

This guy was also extremely vigilant. He seemed to immediately notice the abnormal mental fluctuations around him, and directly took out a potion, stabbing it fiercely into his waist.

Suren watched the guy inject the potion, looking refreshed, and guessed, "Clarity potion? Vigilant enough..."

However, the clarity potion has a short duration. As long as he is trapped in this space, he will die sooner or later.

…

Professionals who can advance to the second tier have some tricks up their sleeves.

Perhaps inspired by Lena’s bait, the Assassin also keenly noticed that the red eyes of those spider monsters couldn’t be looked at directly.

Faced with such a dangerous situation, the Assassin decisively lowered his head, focusing his gaze on his feet.

Suren praised the guy’s actions, impressed.

Professional killers have amazing instincts.

But in doing so, the field of vision would be reduced by more than 90%, which would be difficult for even a second-tier professional.

As the Assassin lowered his head, he flicked his hands, and two short blades flashing with lightning appeared.

The guy ignored the large spider falling from above, and instead rushed towards Lena not far away!

"Tsk, tsk… can't even save your own life, yet you still want to kill the mission target? Seems like a martyr. But, I finally saved her, so I can’t let you kill her so easily..."

Suren was slightly surprised by the Assassin’s choice, but also felt it was perfect.

If the enemy’s target wasn’t himself, then he could free up his hands to counterattack.

Seeing this, Suren grabbed fiercely with one hand, as if grabbing something invisible, and instantly straightened it.

At this moment, above Lena’s head, the large spider falling from the ceiling suddenly disintegrated in mid-air, as if cut into large pieces by some invisible blade in the air.

Looking closely, surrounding Lena were steel wires as thin as hair.

The Ghost-faced Spider’s body was very fragile. Falling from a high place, the inertia caused their bodies to touch the wire, which was no different from touching a blade. In an instant, they were easily cut to pieces, with a string of green blood beads left on the wire.

Seeing this, a hint of suspicion flashed in the Assassin’s eyes, and his surprise attack instinctively stopped.

The dark environment and the inability to raise his gaze too high made it impossible for him to judge what was going on with the wire.

He was still wary of being tricked by that puppet before. His intuition told him that this “guide” dared to face the battle head-on, and must have other tricks hidden.

In fact, Suren was just gambling.

This wire couldn’t stop a second-tier professional at all. He was gambling on the other party’s cautious mentality.

Just as the Assassin hesitated, Suren didn’t hesitate at all.

He controlled the wire with one hand, and with the other hand, he pulled out his firelock, not giving the Assassin a chance to attack, and fired several shots at the guy.

As expected, the Assassin’s nerve reaction speed was extremely fast.

He glanced at the direction of the muzzle and dodged one shot by leaning back, and then performed several backflips in a row, perfectly dodging this round of gunfire. Even the "curved trajectory" hidden in the last shot only brushed past him, without hitting him.

…

Suren didn’t expect to hurt him, as long as he could create distance, his goal would be achieved.

Because at this time, the monsters on the ceiling had already launched an attack.

The "aberration" obviously knew that the second-tier Assassin was the biggest threat among the three, and ordered the large spiders to surround the Assassin.

Faced with the monster tide, the Assassin’s methods were also extremely sharp. He raised his hand and threw a flying knife, which could pierce several spider monsters in a row, stronger than the firelock. With a casual knife, he could easily cut off half of the large spider’s body.

Even though he didn’t dare to look directly at the monster’s red eyes, he relied solely on listening to the sounds and the slightest movements of the spider legs on the ground, and he was able to dodge with ease, like cutting melons and vegetables in the spider swarm, without losing any ground.

But... the Ghost-faced Spider’s attack methods were more than just this.

What’s more, there was an aberration with no small amount of intelligence commanding from the shadows!

At this moment, the large spiders on the ceiling suddenly raised their butts, and a white spider web spurted out.

When the spider silk is thin enough, it looks like a line; but when it is as thick as a thumb, it is a sticky glue!

Although the Assassin relied on his agile movements to dodge the first round of spider silk, after landing, he found that the sticky spider web was all over the ground. He was like stepping into a swamp, and his movements were instantly restricted.

Realizing something was wrong, the Assassin panicked a little, but the first thing he chose to do was to kill Lena, not to escape. At this moment, the cave had been sealed off by spider webs... it would be difficult to leave.

Bombs and incendiary bombs were thrown around without a second thought, but in the monster tide, it was just a drop in the bucket...

…

On the other hand, Suren faced the same situation.

Originally, these spiders would have been more deadly to a first-tier professional like him, who didn’t even have any implants.

But facing the overwhelming spider webs, he didn’t dodge or avoid them. A layer of light blue cold flames suddenly rose from his body.

The spider web touched the cold flame, like catkins touching fire, and before it touched Suren’s clothes, it had already been completely burned away.

This was [Alchemic Arcana · Wu Shi]!

This was also why he wanted Lena to blindfold herself.

One was to prevent her from being controlled by the spiders, and the other was not to let her see his methods.

If he hadn’t stripped this skill from Rosa’s body before, Suren would never have chosen the "three-way deathmatch" tactic.

Because of the existence of the cold flame, Suren didn’t have to worry about the spider web at all.

He also freed up his hands, dual-wielding firelocks, and standing his ground firing at the surrounding spiders.

He alone formed a fire net with two firelocks, making it impossible for those fragile large spiders to get close.

For a time, broken limbs and arms flew everywhere, and green spider blood splattered all over the ground...

…

At the same time, because of the defensive barrier woven by the surrounding steel wires, the large spiders were temporarily unable to approach Lena.

But this didn’t prevent them from spitting spider silk from a distance.

Lena was extremely frightened at the moment.

She could hear the dense gunfire and the sound of grenades by her ears... She could also hear the sound of the monsters’ joints moving at a high frequency, and even without opening her eyes, she could guess that there must be a large number of monsters staring at her.

She stood there alone, helpless.

Just now, she had been drenched in the stinky spider blood, and now she was sprayed with a sticky substance...

However, she couldn’t open her eyes, and she couldn’t move around randomly.

She could only stand there blankly, shivering, letting the spider webs that were constantly spraying on her trap her tightly.

However, fortunately, the spiders seemed to have the habit of storing food. Seeing that Lena didn’t run away and didn’t attack, after being tightly entangled in the spider web, they didn’t attack her again!

Lena, the bait, didn’t know why she had inexplicably avoided danger for the time being...

But she could also hear that the battles in the directions of Rein and the Assassin were extremely fierce.

But suddenly, she heard the movements of one side suddenly disappear.

Lena’s heart instinctively skipped a beat, and she prayed, "The gunfire is still there, Mr. Suren shouldn’t be in danger yet..."

…

At this moment, Suren had gone crazy with killing.

The spider monsters were much bigger than the flying moths before, and they were much clumsier. Moreover, they were just crawling creatures, making them easier to hit.

He almost blew their heads with one shot, and even with the alchemical bullets, he could kill a group with one shot.

The spider’s two major trump cards, mental control and spider webs, were completely useless against him, so Suren was like a god of death, killing and crippling hundreds of monsters in a short period of time.

Around him, the corpses of spider monsters had piled up into mountains, and spider monsters kept climbing over the "corpse mountain" to offer their heads.

There was no panic on Suren’s face, because although there were many spider monsters in this nest, he absolutely didn’t believe there were more than his bullets!

But just as he was killing, suddenly there were no more monsters.

The large spiders seemed to have received some signal and retreated like a tide.

Suren looked into the distance with a puzzled look, only to realize that... the battle on the other side had ended.

The "aberration" hidden in the dark saw too many of its lackeys dead and wounded, and finally showed itself.

At this moment, Suren was watching the second-tier Assassin standing stiffly in place, as if he was in a daze.

A spider spear easily penetrated his skull, piercing straight down, like skewering meat, piercing him thoroughly.

A dignified second-tier professional died so easily under the "aberration’s" spider spear.

…

Suren also looked at the monster, and when the appraisal came out, his face instantly became serious: "This is a big trouble..."

Fortunately, it was a first-tier aberration;

Unfortunately, it was a "lord monster."

If "aberration" is the special term humans use for the Boss among the mutated monsters, then a lord monster is the Boss within the aberrations. It is roughly equivalent to the super high rank between "Gold+" and "Legend-".

The zombie-type aberration that Suren and the others encountered at the subway hub station was only considered a "Bronze level," two or three levels lower than the one in front of him.

This kind of monster is extremely rare, and is usually produced with a small probability in a super-large mutated monster group.

The probability of a Wasteland Hunter team encountering this level of monster in the wild is about the same as winning the lottery.

But once encountered, it almost means the team is wiped out.

"Lord monsters" often awaken special abilities, with the strength to crush peers, and even crush higher-level aberrations.

Just like the first-tier lord in front of him, who easily killed a second-tier professional.

Suren guessed that there was an "aberration" here, and a Bronze or Silver level wouldn’t have surprised him so much.

But he didn’t expect it to be a lord.

…

This big Boss was half-human and half-spider.

Its upper body was the naked body of a woman. Its skin was fair and tender. Although its chest only had the graceful outline of a woman, without the cherry-red nipples, it was still an extremely sexy and alluring sight that people couldn’t take their eyes off of.

Its face was also extremely beautiful, the kind that made people instinctively desire to press it to the ground the moment they saw it.

But the lower body was a bit chilling, the fat and hideous spider body, with eight spider legs gleaming with metallic luster... revealing a fierce appearance.

[Mutated Ghost-faced Spider Queen (Lord)]

Details: Lord-level Ghost-faced Spider, possesses powerful mental control abilities; due to the mutation, its body has undergone extraordinary changes, bloodline reversion, tier upper limit increased by 270%. The spider body’s skin and flesh tissue is extremely tough, possesses high intelligence, a complex mixture of toxins, extremely fast movement speed...

Suren looked at the row of "top-tier attribute" introductions, and didn’t even bother to imagine that he could win.

But he didn’t intend to be captured without a fight, and raised his hand and fired two shots.

"Bang", "Bang"!

The armor-piercing alchemical bullets created two charred dents on the Spider Queen’s skin, and then, there was nothing...

The bullet fell to the ground, making two crisp sounds of "clang" "clang".

"Damn, its skin can block ‘armor-piercing bullets’?"

Seeing this, Suren’s expression changed drastically, and he complained helplessly in his heart, "This is impossible to kill..."

But since he had to face it sooner or later, his expression was as calm as ever. He had already appraised the monster’s attributes, and shooting was just to extinguish the last bit of luck.

In that instant, he made a certain decision and muttered, "I can only try that..."

At this time, these two shots had also successfully attracted the Spider Queen’s attention, and a strong mental wave crashed into Suren like a sea wave, making him feel dazed for a while.

From this distance, he watched the mental strength on his status panel being continuously weakened, and he knew that he could only hold on for a few seconds at most before being completely controlled.

The mental strength of this lord monster had already crushed him.

At this moment, the scenes in his eyes were illusory and alternated, one moment being the dirty monster cave with Ghost-faced Spiders, and the next moment being a paradise that fulfilled all of his fantasies, with seductive beauties everywhere...

His body also quickly became hot, and his lower abdomen was so restless that he couldn’t suppress it with reason. The feeling of desperately needing to vent his primeval power made his will collapse rapidly like a broken dam.

…

Suren felt his mind gradually becoming confused, and the charming curve of his lips became higher and higher: "It’s time to gamble with my life..."

It wasn’t completely unexpected, but he didn’t expect to really use this last resort.

While he still had a little sanity, he didn’t hesitate, and took out a potion with his right hand and stabbed it into his neck.

At the same time, he raised his left hand, bent his fingers and grabbed into the void. The steel wire in the mechanical gauntlet quickly contracted, and with a "whoosh" sound, as if grabbing something from the air, he held an item soaked in sewage in his hand.

Looking closely, it was a dark, large scythe.

At the same time, the last bit of reason in his eyes dissipated, turning completely blood-red. It was also at the moment he lost his reason that the bursting lust was instantly suppressed.

At this moment, with the black scythe in hand, Suren was like the Grim Reaper descending.