The red moon returns

Chapter 34 The Web Weaver (I couldn’t divide it into two chapters, which would ruin the atmosphere, so I posted them together, one update today)
  This is a long underground tunnel with obvious artificial traces in the natural cave.

The gravel embedded in the rock wall emits a faint green fluorescence, and cold water drops drip from the top of the head. The ticking sound spreads farther and farther in the deep tunnel.

It was surrounded by white flowers, and dense spider webs were piled up in layers, forming a thick layer on the walls of the tunnel. From time to time, small shadows flashed through the spider webs, and disappeared into the white ocean in the blink of an eye.

Click click click click.

In the darkness above the head, the sound of carapace hitting the rock wall occasionally sounded, huge black shadows drifted out of sight, and rustling sounds came and went.

Go deeper along the dark tunnel, and at the end is an underground cave. The cave is wide and flat, with dense mushrooms growing above your head. The mushrooms glow with a faint green light, shrouding the entire cave in a strange and evil green light.

Under the strange light, a tall figure strode into the cave. No matter how strange the environment was, her steps were always steady and she never flinched.

As if they were disturbed, thousands of little spiders emerged from the mushrooms and spider webs on the ground and swarmed towards the intruder.

"Power, protection, ability, closure."

The lady police officer tapped the ground lightly with her sword, and a circle of light appeared under her feet, surrounding her. A tidal wave of little spiders swarmed towards her. However, as soon as she approached the circle of light, they immediately retreated as if they were a natural enemy.

"Jeremy, I know you're here, come out."

The police officer's back was as straight as an unsheathed sword, her hand pressed on the hilt of the sword, and her eyes were pointed straight into the darkness in the center of the cave like a sharp blade.

"Long time no see, Officer Angel."

A figure walked into the green light. He was quite tall, but extremely fat, with a round waist and abdomen, and his whole figure looked like a huge water tank. The obese man wears aristocratic clothing common hundreds of years ago, with a curly wig on his head. He seemed to be just an ordinary person, but in such a strange environment, he still remained calm and calm. He walked out slowly with his hands behind his back and nodded to Officer Natalie.

"As expected, it's you, Jeremy. The case of Martha's family two years ago should have made me realize that you, the Thorn Flowers, are actually the stronghold of the cultists who believe in the Abyss Webweavers, and you are the leader of that group of lunatics."

"Haha, that little girl is a rare coming body. I feel very sorry that she could not be the vessel for our Lord's coming." There was a real sigh on the round face, as if we were not talking about such an evil thing. The behavior is the same, "But fortunately, police officer, you are willing to believe my explanation and do not make things difficult for us. We can continue to serve our Lord. I am really grateful."

As he spoke, his fat body bowed gracefully.

"Huh, it's not too late to embarrass you now. I won't be fooled by you again this time and send people to bring strange objects to cause chaos in Crown Plaza. This crime alone is enough to execute you. More than a hundred innocent lives, Is this what your spider master wants?”

"Haha, of course, more than a hundred delicious souls are the best distraction for my Lord's busy schedule."

Fat Jeremy clapped his hands. The darkness behind him surged, and two giant spiders emerged. They dragged out a gorgeous chair and placed it behind Jeremy. He sat on it with his huge body and smiled. Kind face:
  "Someone offers them to our Lord, why should we refuse?"

"Who asked you to do it, tell me."

"Haha, of course it's the Railway Workers' Union. Who else can plan this tempting sacrifice more conveniently than themselves? It's what you humans did for your own benefit. Officer, why do you count us among them? ?”

Jeremy spread his hands, showed an innocent expression, and said distressedly:

"In order to advance their railway project and penetrate the Carlos Mountains to realize their plans, they not only organized this protest to attack the opposition forces, but also planned this vicious incident to create a large-scale artificial disaster. They made arrangements in advance , and made a contract with my lord, using the lives of all those who died at the meeting as sacrifices in exchange for my lord’s help.”

"You actually offered sacrifices to the souls of the web-spinners..." Officer Natalie's face turned pale. "Not only did you kill them, you didn't even spare their souls."

"Otherwise? We have to recycle waste, hehehe."

"You..." The understatement made the police officer grit her teeth and suppress her anger and said, "What do they want the Abyss Web Weaver to do for them? Find those four rare objects?"

"Four wonders? Oh, you can say that, but in fact, they were done by us servants. They cannot be counted as my Lord's help, they can only be counted as a necessary part of them."

Jeremy waved to the side, and several pincer branches stretched out from the darkness behind him, with three packages hanging on them. Jeremy took off the package, threw it directly next to Officer Natalie, and said with a sneer:

"That's them. The other one should have been obtained by you, police officer. Now I would like to congratulate you, haha, you have successfully found four murder weapons, and also found the real culprit who caused the tragedy and sacrificed it to the evil god. You are simply a role model for watchers. Ah, why are you still standing there, celebrating."

As he spoke, he clapped his hands, and in the darkness behind him, there was the sound of countless claws clashing, as if countless spiders were clapping and celebrating with him.

Officer Natalie's face became increasingly gloomy, she stared at Jeremy warily, and said in a deep voice: "If it's not to find these strange objects, then what's the help of the web spinner? Will you admit everything so easily?"

"My lord's help? Of course you have to keep this secret." Jeremy said with a smile, "For the sake of safety, they want to use my lord's power to help them keep the secret and ensure that no one can find them in the square. Everything we have done is not difficult for my lord, it is just a little extra work in weaving the web, and it should be treated as a reward for offering sacrifices to them."

"Keeping the secret? Like you are keeping it now?"

"Haha, if I don't let you know more clearly, how can I keep the secret?"

Jeremy spread his hands and said leisurely:

"Weaving webs is the characteristic of my Lord, weaving the secrets of the world into the web of dreams. Anyone who peeks into the corner of this secret will be stared at by my Lord immediately like an insect touching a spider web. Drag him into the abyss of darkness. The few railway workers who carried out the execution sought death to spy on this secret. They should be dead now. A few days ago, a mountain man peeked at these strange objects. He had too little exposure to the secret. He should not be completely dead yet, but he will soon. Now it is your turn, police officer. Congratulations to you for discovering this secret. Congratulations to you, your soul has become the prey of my lord."

Officer Natalie pursed her lips and pressed her palm on the hilt of her sword. An extremely unsettling sense of fear enveloped her body from the very beginning. In the deep darkness, there seemed to be countless desperate and strange sights, staring at her every move, as if the most terrifying hunter was silently approaching her, already showing its deadly fangs. .

His body began to feel uncomfortable, and there was a faint itching on his body surface. Jeremy's hideous smile was filled with joy and madness, but Officer Natalie did not panic, but instead showed a cold smile.

"For the sake of little Martha and her family, I have been studying your spider master for the past two years, and of course I have learned about its powers and characteristics. Although its power is not well known to the public, it is not a secret to me. Its power There is a loophole. You have to find out the truth yourself before you become the prey of the web weaver. And if it is through an indirect channel, such as the person who found out the truth announces the truth and then makes it known to people, then the person who knows the truth indirectly will No one is affected by the Web-spinner."

Jeremy's smile froze, but he quickly regained his smile: "So that was your plan. No wonder you have been stimulating soul power since you knew the truth."

"As long as I can persist until I reveal the truth before I die, your actions will all be exposed." The police officer closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, a huge golden scale was already suspended behind her. , "Then, Natalie Angel, on behalf of the Catcher in the Rye, declares war on you."

Qiang, the sword was unsheathed and pointed directly at Jeremy on the seat. At the same time, countless giant spiders walked out of the corners of the cave. They had blue-purple bodies and black chelicerae covered with bristles. They were taller than an adult, waving eight long legs and opening their blood-red human shapes. Eyes clicked around the police officer.

"I hope you can struggle as much as you want. Haha, every insect that falls into the net will struggle to the death, but unfortunately, you can't escape." Jeremy clapped his hands again, and the terrifying sound of rustling came from again. Appearing in the shadows around the cave, approaching secretly from all directions, "We like to watch the prey struggle to the end until it is tightly wrapped by us. I hope you can give us a wonderful show, Officer Angel."

"Sigh~~"

Countless giant spiders raised their upper bodies and raised their pincers, and sharp breathing sounds erupted from the pores in their abdomens. Together, they sounded like the most terrifying opening bell. The next moment, the spider swarm suddenly moved, rushing toward Na like a tide. Officer Tully.

Facing the sea of ​​spiders, the police officer looked as usual. She knelt down on one knee with her sword on the ground and whispered softly with her forehead against the hilt of the sword. The huge scale in mid-air became more solid, and the majestic power came from the invisible scale. Through it, three light balls representing power surrounding the scales lit up at the same time.

"I will transform into a shield and protect the weak with my life. My weapons will definitely be directed at the strong enemy."

The shield-shaped ball of light shone brightly, turning into an arrow of light and sinking into the middle of the police officer's eyebrows. At the same time, all the spiders running towards her seemed to have hit an invisible wall, causing their carapace to shatter and roll into a ball.

"I will practice the law, use my life to maintain order, and vow to fight evil to the end."

The ball of light with the book pattern suddenly enlarged continuously, and the pages of the book turned over quickly without any wind. Every time it was turned, countless words seemed to penetrate into Officer Natalie's body, making every move of her body seem to contain... With majestic power, there is endless coercion all over his body.

"I will transform into a sharp sword and use my life to fight against chaos. Wherever order is within reach, I will be invincible."

The gavel fell from the sky and hit the ground through the body of the police officer. Then it shrank smaller and smaller, and gradually merged into the sword in her hand. Until the mallet disappeared, the sword began to flicker, and there were waves of cold air on the blade.

With a gentle breath of air, Officer Natalie stood up, calmly stared at the countless ferocious spiders, and slowly raised the edge of her sword.

"Then, let you see the power of the soul-shifters when they try their best, monsters."

As he spoke, the golden scales behind him exploded into pieces, and the light rain in the sky seemed to be pulled by an inexplicable force. All of it sank into Officer Natalie's body, causing her body to emit billions of radiance for a moment.

The lady police officer under the light showed a cold smile, and under Jeremy's nervous and surprised eyes, she took a gentle step forward.

boom.

The action is light, but the effect is heavy.

The violent vibrations took the foothold as the center of the circle and quickly spread outward.

It's not the ground that's shaking, it's the entire space that's shaking.

An invisible shock wave swept around in an instant, making all the spiders around him unstable. The spiders on the roof of the cave fell one after another. For a while, the cave was in chaos.

Humph.

With a sarcastic smile on her lips, the police officer took advantage of the spider's chaos to hold the hilt of the sword with both hands, and stabbed the radiant sword into the ground.

"Only order is the cornerstone of maintaining the world, and only order can bring the light of hope to the world."

As the sword edge entered the ground, the man and the sword glowed brightly. With the man and the sword as the center, a strong light filled the entire cave in just one breath. For a time, every corner of the cave was illuminated to every detail. The terrifying spider of Qing Dynasty twisted its huge and twisted limbs desperately under the erosion of the light, as if trying to escape from the light.

But there is no escape from light.

Pure, sacred, and hot, it seems to be the natural enemy of all evil.

Facing their natural enemies, the spiders gathered their last strength, tightly gathered around the fat Jeremy, and wrapped him in the middle. Under the radiance of order, more and more spiders emitted billowing red mist, and their bodies grew larger and larger. The memories fade away and eventually return to the dreamland. The remaining spiders surrounded Jeremy even more tightly, leaving no gaps.

Five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds.

The look of the police officer suddenly changed, and she pulled out her sword from the ground. With the afterglow of order, the spiders had no time to think about anything else. The police officer pointed her sword, and her body turned into a stream of light, and she galloped away towards the tunnel from which she came.

"Sigh~~"

The spiders behind them, who were relieved of their pressure, screamed wildly, ignoring the red mist still covering their bodies, and chased after the police officer's back.

However, after being baptized by Symmetra just now, there was no longer a spider blocking the road in front of him, and there was only a smooth road left.

Even though her skin felt more and more uncomfortable, as if something was about to swell out from below, the police officer still gritted her teeth, endured the excruciating itching, and hurried towards the exit.

Just hold on for a few more minutes, as long as I spread the news, I'll be willing to die, hold on, Natalie, this is the last step to success.

However, just before the final step was taken, the running and hissing sounds of the spider behind him suddenly disappeared at the same time.

Officer Natalie felt her heart sink, and a strange and huge pressure appeared out of thin air from behind.

It was a strange pressure that was difficult for mortals to understand. The moment she felt it, the police officer's body went limp and she fell forward helplessly.

The moment she fell, she seemed to have hallucinated that she was above an endless abyss, with eight blood-red eyes slowly rising from the bottom of the abyss. Behind the blood-colored eyes, a black shadow as huge as a mountain loomed, getting closer and closer to her.

It's just a feeling, nothing seen by the eyes, nothing heard by the ears, but it is strange and terrifying. It makes people feel endless despair. The power of mortals is as small as flying insects. In the face of this fear that comes from the soul, they can only be powerless. into sinking.

The web-spinner of the abyss has found its prey.

(End of this chapter)