Chapter 9
Mia pursed her lips tightly to prevent herself from accidentally screaming out in surprise.
She saw that the fat man with a round belly raised his left hand and held a palm-sized kettle in his right hand. The kettle was tilted and a stream of slightly turbid water poured onto the ground. The precious water was wasted in vain. This was a crime more intolerable than murder on Prison Star. However, Fatty No. 1 was unaware of it and still looked at the "something" in his hand impatiently with a somewhat fierce expression.
But he had nothing in his hands.
Mia watched for a long time before she roughly guessed that Fatty No. 1 thought he was feeding water to a child, but in fact, his vision, hearing, and touch were all controlled by some force.
What kind of method is this?
Mia looked at the man sitting on the black beetle and reading a book he had taken out from somewhere. He was so leisurely, as if he was not in a dark and gloomy underground mine, but at a sunny afternoon tea party. She felt that his methods were really unpredictable.
After traveling for more than ten days, the three fat men had not noticed that one of their prey had changed. As they went deeper and deeper into the mine, the three men looked more and more relaxed. From their conversation, Mia could tell that they seemed to be about to reach the base.
Mia, on the other hand, was getting weaker and weaker, because Fatty No. 1 only gave her a small amount of food and water every day, and she was tied to the back of the insect all day, and her limbs were so stiff that they didn't even look like her own. In fact, because she was a young and beautiful woman, she had received considerable preferential treatment from Fatty No. 1. The young and middle-aged captives only had the minimum supplies to survive, and most of them were already starving to death.
Waking up from her coma once again, Mia felt that her condition had worsened. She was groggy, her lips were chapped, and her breaths were burning hot. Although she had worked hard to train in the past six months, her physique was still no match for those who had lived on Prison Star for years. She was sick.
After a few whistles, the insect team slowly stopped, and Fatty No. 1 came over to give Mia some water. The girl licked her lips, as if gathering strength, then opened her eyes and said weakly: "Save...save me..."
Fatty No. 1 turned around subconsciously following her line of sight and saw a skinny little boy lying on the back of a bug groaning and no other movement. He felt relieved and laughed at himself for actually thinking that someone would respond to the girl's request. He turned around and patted Mia's face, saying, "No one will come to save you. But don't worry, the place I'm going to send you to is ten thousand times better than your past."
Before she finished her words, the girl had already closed her eyes, and even the pain between her brows faded a little, as if what she just said was just an unconscious groan in illness, and as if... she had really let go.
Fatty No. 1 frowned. He was deeply impressed by this girl, not only because she was a rare and high-quality "goods", but also because the look in her eyes was different from others. There was always an inexplicable certainty in her eyes, and that certainty always made him feel a little flustered.
He couldn't help but check the surroundings again, but found nothing, so he left with an inexplicable feeling of uneasiness.
Fatty No. 1 didn't hear him. While he was talking, another cold voice came into Mia's ears: "Be patient. They will be back to the base in half a day. By then, I will catch them all in one fell swoop."
A slightly cool hand touched Mia's head, and when it left, it took away her high fever and uneasiness, and the girl fell into a deep sleep.
Half a day later, the insect team arrived at the base.
This is an underground mine that has been excavated and expanded. It has a very large space and many large and small caves have been dug on the walls on both sides. Various insects are moving around in them, making noisy sounds.
On the walls around the cave, there were many thumb-sized red beetles lying on their heads, with a small light emitter on their heads, emitting pale yellow light. Suddenly, countless tiny fluorescent lights were captured in the small cave like stars in the sky. There was also a veil-like white silk fabric hanging from the top of the cave, with strings of fluorescent lights the size of a fingernail, like a golden pearl curtain, like a dream.
However, if you look closely, let alone the hideous giant insects, the "veil" is actually just a white spider web with hundreds of khaki spiders crawling around. When the three fat men's insect team arrived, several spiders immediately hung down from above and climbed onto the "prey" on the back of the insects. Many people watched the spider's fangs pierce into their bodies, injecting venom, and then the slender legs moved around their bodies with extremely gentle force. In just a moment, the human body was wrapped into a white pupa, and then pulled to the top of the cave.
In order to protect the deliciousness of their food, the venom of this spider does not kill people, but slows down their breathing, heartbeat, blood circulation, metabolism, etc. to extremely slow speeds, so that even if the prey does not eat or drink for a long time, it will not die. However, as predators, spiders are certainly not considerate enough to anesthetize the consciousness of their food. Therefore, the prey they capture is conscious and waiting for death. Sometimes, the female spider even lays eggs in their bodies, and they have to endure long pains until they watch countless small spiders break out of their bodies.
Outside the Prison Planet, the effects of this spider venom were discovered and studied long ago, and great breakthroughs have been made in medicine. In addition to being used in surgical anesthesia and delaying aging, it is also the main source of liquid in the nutrition chamber. Therefore, people on many planets breed this spider in large quantities. But here, their venom obviously plays the most primitive role.
After arriving here, the three fat men no longer worried about their prey. After they gave the order to let the insects return to the cave, they walked towards the largest and cleanest cave with their big bellies. There were seven or eight other fat men with different faces and similar , who were talking about their hunting gains. Some were very proud, while others were very sad.
Rong Yuan raised his head and saw about one or two hundred pupae above his head. Through the white spider silk, he could vaguely see some people's terrified and desperate eyes.
A translucent spider silk hung down, and a spider as big as a human head pounced on Mia from above. Rong Yuan waved his hand, and the spider was suddenly evenly split into two halves along with the thin silk thread as it fell. The brown liquid was blown onto the wall by the sudden strong wind, and at the same time, a foul smell suddenly emanated.
The spiders that were leisurely sorting out their prey suddenly stopped all movements as if the freeze button was pressed. After a second or two, all the spiders looked at Rong Yuan together, with sinister green light flashing in their marble-sized eyes, and their hairy thin legs moved forward alternately, crawling towards him quickly.
The unusual movements of the spiders attracted the attention of all people and insects. The rustling sounds in the cave suddenly stopped. Countless pairs of eyes looked over, either openly or secretly. The fat men also walked out of the cave, but they looked very relaxed.
"Another ignorant bastard." The fattest guy smiled and said to the others, "Why don't we make a bet to see how long he can last?"
"How many minutes?" A fat black man next to him shook his head and said, "No, no, no, I don't think he can survive even a minute. Look at those weak arms and legs... In my opinion, it will only take thirty seconds."
"Ten seconds." Another short and fat man said concisely .
"Three minutes." Another fat man said, "He's quite capable to be able to find this place. I'm optimistic about him."
Everyone laughed. In their opinion, the longer they persisted, the more torture they would endure. These little guys they carefully raised were born with the ingenious method of knowing how to make people suffer the most.
Before the laughter died down, a strong stench burst out and filled the entire mine, making people want to vomit.
The fat guys' faces changed.
In an instant, insects of all sizes showed all kinds of postures. Some of them made sharp and piercing cries when frightened, some raised their six legs to the sky and pretended to be dead, some huddled up and hid in the deepest part of the cave, and some raised their legs and spread their wings in an attacking posture, trying to scare off the attackers with the most ferocious appearance.
With a "pop", half of the spider's body fell to the ground, its long legs still bouncing, its green eyes staring in the direction of the young man, and brown body fluids flowing all over the ground.
Around this corpse, the entire ground was covered with spider corpses in the same posture. At a glance, there were about three or four hundred of them, all of which were split in half in the same way. Their deaths were extremely quick and clean, and extremely horrifying.
The young man who caused all this looked unusually calm and composed, and his body was spotless, without a speck of spider blood. He raised his head, his eyes seemed a little tired, and said, "What other tricks do you have? Use them together."
The fat guys had many other means of attack, of course. The spiders were only responsible for the defense of the base camp. The main attackers included the gold-eating beasts that could eat gold and wear rocks, the extremely poisonous killer bees, the army ants that ignored any shell defense, etc. However, now, they could not find any insect that could effectively deal with the man in front of them. The abilities that they used to be proud of in front of anyone, at this moment, were like using a piece of thin paper as armor, unable to give them the slightest sense of security.
Rong Yuan waited for a while, but when he received no response, he took a step forward. His action seemed to turn on a switch. The fat men suddenly woke up from their shock and whistled rapidly. All the insects in the mine became agitated. As a ghost wasp flapped its wings and flew out, all the insects rushed to attack Rong Yuan in a black mass.
Rong Yuan sighed, lowered his eyes, and waved his right index and middle fingers together.
Suddenly a line appeared in the air.
It has no color, no length, no thickness, and there is no visible evidence of its existence in the world, but all living things can feel this line.
【Danger!】
In an instant, the same feeling arose in their hearts, and the vibrating wings of the ghost bee suddenly stopped.
Then, one line became two lines, three lines, ten lines...
A net appeared in the air.
The net extended further and turned into an ingeniously woven cage.
Snap… Snap… Snap… Snap…
All the insects that flew towards Rong Yuan were cut into centimeter-sized cubes and fell all over the ground like cherry blossoms. The bright red color and shiny shells spread out like a piece of brocade. It did not look tragic, but rather gorgeous and magnificent.
Those who were still alive, whether human or insect, lost all their voices at this moment.
Hanging in a cocoon on the top of the cave by a spider web, a pair of eyes that were originally as dull as death suddenly burst into bright light and stared at Rong Yuan below.
Rong Yuan walked slowly to the largest cave, looking at the group of fat people who were either frightened by his arrival and fell to the ground in panic or whose legs were shaking like sieves, and said, "Although the situation here shows that what you did is obvious and beyond doubt, I still want to ask one more question just in case."
He met the eyes that were looking at him with fear, hatred, or resentment, and said slowly:
"Does anyone among you have a reason why he absolutely cannot be killed?"
