Chapter 26: Iron Spider (Part 2)

  "A dead person?!"

  Ye Han's heart sank and he suddenly stood up.

  But immediately, he looked at the withered human corpse again and observed the surrounding cliff environment, and a look of realization appeared on his face.

  "No, it's a stone monkey! However, this stone monkey is somehow different from those I've seen before?"

  This rock monkey is a low-level demonic beast that lives in groups, often appearing between cliffs and steep walls to feed on small insects, flying birds, moss, and vegetation. It has a violent temperament and is bloodthirsty. If it encounters a lone human, it will attack in groups, posing some danger.

  In the Wolong Mountains, Ye Han often encounters this animal when he goes out hunting, so he is extremely familiar with it.

  But generally, the stone monkeys are only about a foot or so tall and won't be too big. They're a small type of carnivorous magical beast. But this stone monkey corpse in front of us has protruding bones, a ferocious appearance, and its head is almost as large as that of a human dwarf, looking exceptionally frightening.

  "This place is strange, could it be that some kind of mutation has occurred?"

  Ye Han was deep in thought, unable to come up with a solution, and muttered to himself.

  However, he didn't think about things that he couldn't understand. This place was originally a mysterious and unpredictable one, and he hadn't yet recovered from the shock of his previous battle with the ancient white serpent-like creature in the Undead Lake. For the time being, he didn't have the mind to ponder over such matters.

  But at the moment he was suspended in mid-air, relying only on this strange golden net to support him, but after all, it wasn't a solution, and he couldn't just hang here indefinitely. His space bag had water and food stored in it, which could last for six or seven days, but what would happen after that? He certainly couldn't be left to starve to death here.

  Ye Han thought so, and along the golden net's woven pulse, he crawled towards the cliffs on both sides, wanting to see if there were any other places where he could set foot.

  Since there's a dead stone monkey on this spider web, it means that there must be other entrances. If we can find one, maybe we can still escape!

  It's strange to say, but the golden threads that make up the net are suspended in mid-air on the cliff wall, looking as thin as a strand of hair. It seems like it would break with just a slight tug, but in reality, it is extremely tough. Even Ye Han's heavy body weight couldn't cause any problems for it. This made him even more curious - who could have set up this net?

  Ye Han climbed up along the golden net, just halfway through, and suddenly stopped.

  In the darkness in front of him, a pair of green eyes gradually appeared, emitting a cruel light, and then the second pair of green eyes, the third pair, the fourth pair...

  Innumerable pairs of green eyes lit up in the dark cliff walls, looking extremely eerie.

  Immediately afterwards, the "squeaky" sound of excitement, cruelty and wild beasts seeing their prey came from all around.

  "Not good, is it a group of stone monkeys?"

  Ye Han's heart skipped a beat, his eyesight was extremely good, even in the dark he could see things clearly. In the darkness, the owners of those green pupils gradually revealed their outlines, they were one by one dwarf-sized humanoid beasts. They looked a bit like small monkeys, but with bigger heads, sharper fangs, no nose, and nostrils that flared outwards, revealing two black holes.

  These stone monkeys are much larger than the ones Ye Han saw in the Wolong Mountains, and they also look different. I don't know if it's a unique species or some other reason.

  In normal times, these low-level small magical beasts are not even worth looking at, let alone this many. Even if there were dozens or hundreds more, it would be nothing to him. However, he is currently suspended in mid-air on a cliff, unable to borrow any strength, while these mutated stone monkeys are the regulars here, and the difference between them is clear at a glance.

  This gave Ye Han's battle a great deal of obstruction and danger. If one wasn't careful and fell down, it would be a really unjust death.

  "Rustle..."

  At this time, I saw a stranger named Ye Han. The green eyes of those stone monkeys looked even more bloodthirsty, and they were extremely excited to show their sharp teeth with remaining flesh on them. When they are hungry, these stone monkeys will even kill each other, and they are very cruel by nature. If you are caught by them and have no ability to resist, you will die a terrible death.

  But now it's too late to hide, those mutated stone monkeys, with their fluffy sharp claws, have grabbed the golden net and are slowly closing in.

  Just as the situation was tense and on the verge of erupting, suddenly at this moment, from the dark depths of a distant cliff, came a series of extremely sharp "shattering" sounds.

  In an instant, the entire group of stone monkeys that had been surrounding Ye Han with a playful and cruel intention suddenly let out extremely terrified voices, as if they had heard the sound of a lost soul. They were so frightened that they forgot to surround Ye Han and frantically fled in all directions. In the blink of an eye, most of them flashed into the dark cliff wall and escaped in all directions.

  Some of the monkeys that were too late to hide, just a little slower, saw a flash of golden light, and then they saw the golden light fall on the monkey's body. Immediately, there was a mournful cry of despair, and then there was no more movement.

  However, Ye Han's line of sight was clear, and those golden lights were actually adult fist-sized golden spiders. The speed was incredibly fast, in an instant, they jumped onto the bodies of those stone monkeys, and specifically targeted the back of their heads. From the tail end of those fist-sized golden spiders, a root suddenly popped out, finger-length, red, semi-transparent, hollow long thorn, which instantly pierced into the monkey brain of the stone monkeys.

  It was then visible that the white brain pulp of those stone monkeys, mixed with their blood-red blood, flowed into the spider's body through the golden spider's stinger inserted into the half-empty duct in the brain. In just an instant, the spider had already swollen to a circle, while the stone monkey, at this time, gradually shriveled up, as if all the juice, brain marrow, and even blood inside its body had been sucked dry.

  Ye Han couldn't help but take a deep breath of cool air, and he finally knew how the huge golden net on the cliff wall and the withered stone monkey corpses on the net came to be.

  What looked like a golden net was actually a huge spider's nest.

  At this time, the hunting action of those fist-sized golden spiders had already been carried out for a long time. More than 100 stone monkeys did not escape in time and were killed by the spider's sharp tail spike. At this time, their dry corpses were crawling with one after another fist-sized spiders, just like a golden abscess, looking exceptionally terrifying. However, the rustling sound in the darkness continued, and more and more golden spiders were gathering.

  "This is trouble!" Ye Han's heart was chilled to the bone.

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