388: Chapter 0388 Spider’s Lair 388: Chapter 0388 Spider’s Lair Four people entered the valley, where the cobblestone path was halfway overgrown with weeds, showing it had long been deserted.
Long Fei thought that the Alchemy Cauldron Sect must have retreated from here for so reason.
The animals in the forest seed to have stumbled upon this place by chance, gaining so opportunity to develop intelligence.
The most obvious were the monkey that had been following them and that black bear.
Long Fei drew his knife, staying on guard carefully.
Li Zhenni and the other two didn’t need reminding, they loaded their bullets, and Lu Buping drew the soft sword from his waist too.
They had just walked a few steps inside when Fat Wang pointed to a thicket nearby and yelled in horror, “Snake, a python!”
Everyone raised their weapons in a flash, all giving it a wary look.
Even Long Fei couldn’t help shivering.
A twenty-ter-long banded python lay coiled in the bushes, covered in fresh blood.
Flies and bugs crawled all over it, indicating it had been dead for a while.
Long Fei went over and took a closer look, finding that the snake’s belly had been slit open.
Looking around at the state of the underbrush, it appeared to have fought fiercely before dying.
Li Zhenni, who was timid, stood behind him, staring at the creature as thick as a water bucket and exclaid in terror, “Who could have killed it?”
“The wound was made by a knife, of course, it was a person!”
Long Fei frowned tightly, thinking that those Xianggang people had actually found their way here.
It seed they had experts among them.
The python must have swallowed one of them but was cut open from the inside by that person’s knife.
Ordinary people could hardly achieve such a feat.
“There’s a phone here!”
Fat Wang and Lu Buping looked around and soon found sothing.
The latest Apple X, still able to power on, just required face verification to access the main page.
It used to be fingerprints, but now it had switched to face recognition.
Fat Wang glanced at the screensaver and guessed, “I’m sure, this phone is definitely a man’s.
Look at the screensaver, showing off big long legs, and even features such a beautiful woman.”
Li Zhenni took a look and said, “What are you talking about nonsense, isn’t my screensaver also a woman?”
Lu Buping chuckled, “My screensaver is a man!”
“Your sister!”
Fat Wang, not convinced, held up the phone and asked Long Fei, “Brother-in-law, do you see if I’m right?”
Long Fei looked at the screensaver and imdiately knitted his brows.
The photo was of a familiar woman wearing a tank top, denim shorts, and leather boots.
She carried a travel backpack, the image of an active outdoor woman.
Those two long legs, Long Fei couldn’t mistake them.
He handed the phone back to Fat Wang, saying, “This phone belongs to a woman.”
“How can you be so sure?”
Fat Wang was unconvinced, feeling the three of them were just contradicting him on purpose.
Long Fei explained, “I know this woman.
Her na is Zhang Xuan’er, and she’s even an international supermodel!”
Li Zhenni exclaid, “Yes, yes, I knew this screensaver looked familiar; she is Zhang Xuan’er!”
Won at the forefront of fashion mostly recognized Zhang Xuan’er.
Fat Wang said in exasperation, “Co on, could it be soone else using her picture as a screensaver?”
Long Fei taught him, “You have to look closely at the issues.
See the background of this photo, isn’t it taken right here just now?”
“What?”
Fat Wang looked closely, comparing the phone’s background with the nearby scenery.
Although the background was blurred, the corner of an old temple was still very noticeable.
Fat Wang swallowed hard and excitedly asked, “Brother-in-law, how do you know her?”
Li Zhenni was also curious, her face full of surprise.
She didn’t expect Long Fei to be acquainted with this international supermodel.
Reportedly, Zhang Xuan’er was the heir to the Xianggang Zhang Family, and her net worth was even greater than that of the Li Family.
This man really did have a knack for surprising people every now and then.
Long Fei didn’t say much, for if he were to explain, it would probably take until nightfall.
Now, looking back, he finally understood the reason for Zhang Xuan’er’s trip to the mainland.
That elder, He Zhenjiang, had been beaten up badly, yet she showed no sign of leaving and even went to Xianggang to invite over He Zhenjiang’s senior fellow disciple.
Their goal, presumably, was for the Blood Spirit Flower.
The group wandered around, searching every grand hall they ca upon.
They didn’t find the Blood Spirit Flower, nor did they discover anything else of value.
The halls were empty, with not even a statue left behind—everything had been moved out.
Only the dusty footprints on the floor remained as proof that they had been there.
That confird they had visited this place.
After searching until the last grand hall, the group went inside and looked around.
This hall was the largest in scale, about a hundred ters in length and thirty ters in height.
It was like a dwelling built by giants – standing inside such a vast space made one feel a sense of reverence and awe.
In the middle of the great hall, the statue that had been worshipped was also gone, with only a large stone altar left behind.
Fat Wang lit a cigarette and took a puff, then expressed his disappointnt, “Weird, did that international supermodel leave?”
That woman in the photo was damn sexy; he really wanted to see what she looked like in person.
Long Fei, however, was staring at the footprints on the floor with furrowed brows.
In the other halls, the footprints went in and out.
But in this hall, there were only footprints going in and none leaving.
Lu Buping speculated, “Maybe the Blood Spirit Flowers grow in the wild, and they went outside to look for them.”
Li Zhenni agreed, “Yeah, let’s go outside and search, shall we?”
While they were talking, Long Fei suddenly thrust the long knife in his hand behind him.
With a soft puncturing sound, there was a muffled thud.
Black blood poured down from above Fat Wang’s head, scalding him like hot water.
Panicked, Fat Wang yelled, “What the hell is that?”
He wiped his face with his hands and looked up, nearly scared to death by the thing above his head.
It was a ghostly face the size of a truck tire, with eight legs, a pitch-black body, and tufts of hair on its head.
Two fangs protruded from its mouth as it scread in defiance.
“Damn, a spider!”
Fat Wang practically peed himself, having never seen such a huge spider before.
Li Zhenni had the fastest reaction, pulling out a handgun and firing two shots at the spider’s behind.
Foul-slling dirty fluid oozed out, prompting the group to quickly get out of the way in disgust.
Lu Buping instinctively shone his flashlight up into the grand hall, causing a goosebump-inducing mont as he began to question life itself.
The beams were covered in dense white spider webs, as thick as cotton candy.
On the webs, nurous dark heads the size of washbasins erged, all of them bearing their teeth and hissing at them.
Long Fei shouted, “Quick, get out!”
As soon as his voice fell, the spiders above spat out strands of silk, completely sealing off the doorway of the grand hall.
They crawled down from all directions, surrounding the four of them and making muffled, woeful noises.
That sound was unmistakably one of anger.
Having killed one of their number, it would be odd if they were amiable towards them.
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