Chapter 10: Black Storm (Newbie seeking collection and recommendation)
Lao Liu, after a series of high-difficulty flights and multiple close calls with death, now felt a dull ache all over his body, as if he had been drained of all energy. He was too exhausted to care about anything else, including the Blood Mosquito Queen. Without leaving behind even a single word, he flew directly to an altitude where not even the Ghost-Faced Spider could attack him, becoming a tiny speck that was barely visible. However, the spider queen had already developed a deep-seated hatred for Lao Liu, her eight beady eyes fixed intently on his flight path, no matter how hard he tried to hide or use his spatial manipulation abilities to evade her gaze. It seemed that the old saying was true: despite being low-key, a man as awesome as him would always stand out like a firefly in the dark night. If there really were people who could kill with just one glance, Lao Liu had no doubt that he had already been shot through and through by the enraged spider queen's hateful gaze, his body riddled with wounds, before being dragged to the spider's lair to be brutally flogged and humiliated, torn limb from limb, until he was nothing but a pile of dust.
"It's just a little fall, got poisoned a bit. Do you need to pay so much attention to me? I said I was just here to stir-fry...” Old Liu looked at the spider in front of him, which was staring at him without blinking, and felt annoyed. He didn't understand the feelings of a mother who had lost thousands of children. His voice trailed off as he stared with wide eyes and an open mouth, looking like a frog whose body had been pinched shut.
In the distance, a boundless green ocean suddenly emerged a layer of black fog. At first, it was just a faint point, but almost in the blink of an eye, the black fog turned into a black torrent like a mountain collapse and tsunami, with a thunderous howl, rushing towards this side crazily. The momentum was simply overwhelming, sweeping across the land. In the face of this vast power, everything seemed illusory, making it hard for people to muster up even a glimmer of hope in their hearts, as if no matter what, they could not escape the fate of being engulfed.
"My god, this is the massive army that Queen Blood Mosquito was talking about!? There are actually so many of them! Are you kidding me?! There must be at least hundreds of millions of them here!!!!" Old Liu's eyes were wide with shock, he had never seen a bug tide before and was immediately overwhelmed by the sheer scale of what was in front of him. His mind was filled with nothing but shock and for a moment, he couldn't even speak.
The spider queen finally woke up from her hatred and didn't forget her original intention, suddenly letting out a anxious scream. The tens of thousands of spiders who had taken the opportunity to go on strike had no choice but to return to their posts, each one risking their lives to spit out silk threads, reinforcing the web, as if they still wanted to complete their heavenly net before the arrival of the original blood mosquito army!
The spider queen captures the blood mosquito queen alive, rather than killing her. This is to lure out the entire native blood mosquito tribe. Billions of blood mosquitoes, you can imagine the enormity of this number. If they can emerge victorious in this battle, such a vast food source would allow the spider queen to never worry about her children killing each other due to lack of food again. In fact, even if she only leaves behind half of the corpses from this great army of blood mosquitoes, it would be enough for her children to survive their perilous youth and grow into strong and powerful magic spiders! This is the true purpose behind the spider queen's decision to use the summoning order, gathering a large number of her kin to fight to the death. A crazy, suffocatingly bold plan. No, perhaps it can no longer be described as bold, but rather an utterly reckless madness! Letting her kin go forth one after another, willingly marching towards their deaths with this madness! Failure would mean that the spider army gathered here would be on the brink of extinction, while success would bring about a complete reversal in the balance of power among the poisonous spiders in this region. As long as they can stand firm, it's not impossible for them to further develop into higher-level intermediate magic spiders in the future!
A hundred percent profit is enough to make people take risks. Moreover, victory is so close to oneself that it seems like one can reach out and pluck the fruit with a stretch of the hand. Under such an astonishing temptation, who can resist not letting go and taking a chance!
Under the command of the spider queen, a vast number of spiders continuously spit out silk to weave webs, not only on the treetops and among the leaves, but also in the empty space, hiding an astonishing number of webs. It's as if they've turned this entire tree canopy into a solid fortress of webs. Now everything is clear: the spider queen did all this to rely on it, to defeat the crazy swarming blood mosquito army!
However, the bloodthirsty mosquito army arrived too quickly, and with Old Liu's previous delay, it caused a large-scale chaos. This massive spider web fortress was put into use without being fully built. A black torrent with infinite power surged forward like a tsunami, violently impacting one side of the spider web fortress. Suddenly, a deafening roar was heard, and in an instant, the blood and sweat of countless spiders were torn to shreds on that side. Even the leaves and branches wrapped in the spider web were blown down by this ferocious force, turning into a flurry of debris!
The impact that was gathered by the massive army of blood mosquitoes, with a momentum like thunder, was indeed fierce and violent, exceeding the previous crazy blow from Goma Beast before its death. However, it was only enough to tear apart part of the Spider Web Fortress's defenses, but not enough to damage its foundation. Moreover, this impact was made by the blood mosquito army using their own bodies as weapons, with the accumulated force from their journey being the core. As a result, even if they managed to rip apart some of the fortress's defenses, they would have lost tens of thousands of their own kind in the process. The current situation is like when a beehive falls on someone's head, and as the hive hits the unfortunate person, the bees inside become agitated and disperse around the person's body, wrapping them up before launching a frenzied attack. Only now, instead of a single beehive, it's an army of billions of blood mosquitoes, and the person being attacked is replaced by a giant tree crown wrapped in spider webs.
Lao Liu had already run far away during the fight, afraid of being implicated at that time. However, he also had his own plans in mind. Just now, he almost got into big trouble with Spider and turned into a pile of dung. Now, no matter what, he couldn't give up this opportunity to turn the tables and get back on track. Besides, he wanted to rescue Blood Mosquito Queen and ask her many questions about this seemingly intelligent insect. So, he had to take advantage of the situation to make an appearance. Anyway, it was already chaotic over there, so what's the harm in adding more fuel to the fire?
"Alright, you start." Old Liu sneaked in and out of the crowded mosquito army with a sinister look, quickly locking onto a target - a ghost-faced spider spraying black venom into the air. Its appearance was still as ugly as ever, pitiful to behold. But its combat power was astonishing, almost every spray bringing down hundreds of mosquitoes, truly a trump card in the spider queen's hand! However, Old Liu couldn't bear the thought of this ugly creature continuing to harm people and itself, scaring flowers and grasses, and had long prepared his club, waiting for the perfect moment to send it and its brothers to the afterlife.
But at this time, the situation on the front line changed again. The speed of the billions of blood mosquitoes flying around the tree crown doubled and continued to accelerate. They had unknowingly formed another formation, and under the stunned gaze of people, a terrifying storm formed by the convergence of black torrents gradually unfolded on the ground!
