Chapter 1104 – Death Beckons

After taking a closer look, Ling Mo discovered that the reason this underground storage room had remained intact without any sign of collapse was precisely because that Human-headed Spider had woven a thick Spiderweb on the Ceiling… And hanging beneath this pale web were these female corpses, suspended like prey…

Ling Mo carefully observed the condition of these corpses while slowly moving forward along the gap. But just then, out of the corner of his eye, a hand suddenly appeared…

Through the gap between two corpses, that hand swayed back and forth stiffly in the darkness, then vanished from Ling Mo’s sight…

Ling Mo’s movements instantly froze. He tried his best to look back while adjusting his breathing…

“Alright… Stay put and don’t move, let’s take it slow…”

Ling Mo muttered, his body beginning to turn back bit by bit. But just as he turned a third of the way, Xiao Hei below suddenly raised his hand, and Ling Mo shot forward like a cannonball, instantly “smashing” right in front of those two corpses.

“Got you!”

Ling Mo reached out and grabbed at the air, Tentacles immediately swirling out. In the next moment, that hand was yanked out. But along with it came a nearly naked female corpse… One second later, Ling Mo’s slightly embarrassed expression suddenly changed. He frowned slightly, a flash of alertness appearing in his eyes as he abruptly turned his head.

He saw that the previously motionless corpse suddenly opened her eyes, a pair of dark red, lifeless eyes staring dead at Ling Mo. At the same time, her mouth opened, revealing sharp teeth, and her arms shot up, lunging directly at Ling Mo.

“What the hell!”

Ling Mo reacted instantly. Having already been prepared, although his face showed surprise, his movements were not sluggish at all.

Xiao Hei’s fingers moved rapidly, Ling Mo threw out Tentacles, retreating and attacking almost simultaneously. When Ling Mo stood several meters away, fist clenched in a virtual grip, looking at the thoroughly restrained corpse, the whole process had taken less than a second. Xia Na, who was observing the situation above, keenly sensed the anomaly and shouted down.

“I’m fine!” Ling Mo replied, but his gaze remained locked on the corpse. “But… what’s going on here?”

He stared intently at the corpse, then suddenly froze. This corpse… seemed to have returned to its normal dead state?

Her eyes were closed again, her mouth shut, only her arms still twisted and stiff… Ling Mo stood there, silently reconstructing her posture. In the end, he arrived at a rather bizarre conclusion… The pose the female corpse was in when discovered was most likely… waving…

And the reason she looked like this now was probably because her posture had been forcibly changed… However, given the special nature of Zombie bodies, even after death and rigor mortis, her arms wouldn’t be so easily twisted off, but would instead contort into another, more terrifying, octopus-like shape…

But regardless…

“A corpse in a pile, posed as if waving? Are you kidding me! This isn’t some themed restaurant! No matter how bored that big Spider is, it wouldn’t go this far! Besides, even putting aside the ‘posing’ issue, how did this corpse just move?”

“Could it be… she was wound up inside, and when I saw her waving and approached, it triggered some mysterious switch? But for a trap, relying on luck like that is way too risky! Unless it somehow knew someone would approach its Ceiling so carefully, search so thoroughly, and then, upon noticing the corpse, would come up to check without hesitation…”

Ling Mo stared at the corpse, thoughts swirling, then suddenly raised his eyebrows: “Hmm?” He leaned in and reached straight for the corpse’s eyes… During this, the corpse’s neck and limbs were completely locked down by invisible blood-red Tentacles… To ensure Ling Mo’s safety, at the moment he acted, the Tentacles instantly thickened more than twice, forming chains that wrapped tightly…

“Just as I thought!”

Ling Mo lifted a strand of extremely fine Spider Silk to his eyes for inspection, then touched several more strands at the corpse’s limbs and mouth. These threads were so fine they were almost invisible to the naked eye, yet their strength was astonishing. The series of creepy movements from the corpse were clearly caused by these Spider Silk threads…

“Left by the big Spider? No…” Ling Mo looked up… The Spiderweb above was obviously different from these threads… Just by appearance, the thickness and color of the web were completely unlike these Spider Silk strands. Moreover, these threads emitted a faint, fresh scent, which instantly made Ling Mo think of one word: fresh…

“So, these Spider Silk threads were only just spun recently… Combining that with the corpse’s movements just now…” Ling Mo calmly swept his gaze around. Clearly, among this pile of corpses, there was a living creature hiding in the shadows, secretly looking for a chance to ambush him…

“The only one who’d do this… must be that… Finished Product!”

Ling Mo snorted coldly. He hadn’t found the opponent yet, but unexpectedly, it had come looking for him… Fortunately, even before meeting, Ling Mo had already figured out some of its tricks… A creature that knows how to disguise itself, is cunning, and can spin silk… Considering its appearance probably isn’t anything special, this Finished Product is basically a Zombie version of the Human-headed Spider…

“Ye Lian was right, that Zombie and that Spider really are working on making a whole nest of Fusion creatures…”