Chapter 310: Inescapable Calamity

On the other side, Qi Dongqiang gradually woke up from the hypnotic effect, but at this moment, he didn’t think much, only wanting to escape from this place as soon as possible.

However, as he left the banquet scene, ran to the basement, and just got into his own Rolls-Royce Cullinan, a woman’s voice sounded in his ear: “Didn’t you want me to dance with you? I’ll dance with you now!”

Qi Dongqiang was immediately frightened and tried to undo his seatbelt to escape from the car.

However, the transformed Spider Emperor opened her mouth wide again and bit towards Qi Dongqiang’s head.

The Spider Emperor’s mouth instantly expanded to the size of a basin, and then Qi Dongqiang’s head was directly bitten off from his neck.

The Spider Emperor swallowed Qi Dongqiang’s head directly.

It could be seen that as she swallowed, Qi Dongqiang’s head stretched the Spider Emperor’s neck by a circle, eventually entering the Spider Emperor’s abdomen, causing her belly to bulge.

Qi Dongqiang’s headless body then crazily sprayed blood in all directions, drenching the interior of the Rolls-Royce Cullinan as if it had been painted red, a horrifying sight.

Soon after, the Spider Emperor’s tongue extended, licking a few times in the bloodier areas. Feeling a bit dry from the earlier meal, she needed some liquid to wash it down.

After drinking a bit of blood, the Spider Emperor got out of the car, changed her appearance to look like Qi Dongqiang, and confidently left to find new prey.

Ye Xuan naturally had no idea about what happened to Qi Dongqiang. Without the ability to protect them as they scattered, Ye Xuan couldn’t do much. How could he protect them without the ability to clone himself?

The Spider Emperor definitely took advantage of the chaos to escape, while the others who stayed by Ye Xuan’s side were the safest. The Spider Emperor wouldn’t dare to return. As for those who left in a panic, especially Qi Dongqiang, they were more likely to become the Spider Emperor’s targets.

Although Qi Dongqiang had been hypnotized for a while, once the Thunder and Lightning Barrier was broken, the hypnosis ended as well.

His wisest choice was to honestly return to Ye Xuan’s side, ensuring his safety for the day at least.

Unfortunately, thinking he was clever by leaving the scene to save his life, Qi Dongqiang had actually led himself to a dead end.

Reasoning with a stubborn ghost was futile. Ye Xuan, preoccupied with the Spider Emperor’s escape, paid no attention to Qi Dongqiang’s fate.

At that moment, Su Mengli said, “That guy must have escaped. What do we do now? Shape-shifting beasts like the Spider Emperor are much harder to deal with than others. Why do I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before?”

Ye Xuan chuckled, “You forgot that last time, someone transformed into my appearance to find you and got burned to death on the spot.”

Su Mengli immediately recalled, “Right, after I burned that guy, a black pearl was left behind.”

Ye Xuan nodded, “Exactly, the creature we encountered this time is the result of that black spider egg’s development. Last time, the creature was just a spider egg inhabiting a human body, gradually growing. When it matures, that creature will meet the same fate.”

Spiders are generally not well-liked creatures. Besides their appearance, their behavior is another significant reason.

After mating, female spiders, unable to hunt due to weakened state during egg-laying, often larger than males, resort to eating the males to ensure enough nutrition for egg-laying.

This behavior is why the Black Widow spider is named as such.

The reproduction method of the Spider Emperor is evidently more twisted than ordinary spiders.

For example, the person Su Mengli killed before, the resulting spider egg was laid by the female Spider Emperor.

The Spider Emperor seeks suitable human hosts to lay eggs in their abdomen, using their blood, flesh, and life force as nourishment. The host is also compelled to devour and kill other Awakened individuals to provide nutrition for the eggs, ensuring their growth.

Even if Su Mengli hadn’t killed the host, the inevitable outcome would have been the same. Once the eggs matured and hatched, they would devour the host.

This behavior is inherent to spiders; female spiders consume male spiders. Additionally, spider offspring eliminate their own mother, continuing the cycle of cannibalism within the spider species, making them highly undesirable.

After explaining the spider egg situation to Su Mengli, Ye Xuan suddenly had an inexplicable thought.

The Spider Emperor had been lurking for quite some time, silently killing people. Presumably, its usual temperament was relatively stable, capable of discreetly killing and feeding.

So why did it act so aggressively at the charity banquet, devouring Qi Dongqiang in public? Was there a special reason behind it?

A woman tends to be more irritable during her menstrual cycle, and an animal, a spider, would likely be more aggressive and irritable during its mating season, right? Could it be that this Spider Emperor had entered its mating season?

If that were the case, it would be truly disastrous. The next step after mating season is laying eggs.

Although the previous individual killed by Su Mengli only had one egg in his belly, who knew how many eggs this Spider Emperor could lay at once?

Ordinary spiders can lay between one thousand to three thousand eggs at a time. If this many Spider Emperors were born, how could they be dealt with?

In just a few generations, the number of Spider Emperors might surpass that of humans. They could change their appearance and blend in among humans.

If it developed to that extent, there would be no need for ultimate beasts from the depths of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean to come and destroy the world. Just the Spider Emperors alone could wreak havoc on humanity!

The more Ye Xuan thought about it, the more he realized the severity of the situation. At this moment, he regretted a bit.

If he had known earlier, even if he had to eliminate everyone except himself and Mengli, he should have kept that Spider Emperor!

With these thoughts in mind, Ye Xuan’s expression turned serious as he said, “Mengli, let’s go to the academy. I have a bad feeling about this.”

In the previous life, the Spider Emperor was killed by an SS-class psychic ability user.

But in this life, due to Ye Xuan’s butterfly effect, the Spider Emperor failed to unleash carnage at the charity banquet, and the situation had already been disrupted.

Ye Xuan wasn’t sure if that psychic ability user could kill the Spider Emperor now. He had to do his best to prevent things from taking a turn for the worst!

Soon, Ye Xuan and Su Mengli arrived at the academy and found Chen Ya.

Ye Xuan then informed Chen Ya of everything he knew and speculated.

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