Chapter 1 The Tremor

Thump!

The iron door slammed heavily against the spider-shaped creature, sending out a trembling vibration.

The immense force directly caused its body to begin to fall apart.

"Nice hit, Brother Dà Pào!" Wang Tiezhu cheered.

However, Qiao Yu shook his head, "It's not that simple."

He hadn't received any notification from the Otherworld System, which could only mean that the disgusting spider covered in human faces in front of him wasn't dead yet.

Sure enough.

To everyone's horrified gazes, the spider's fractured body began to slowly heal.

Then, a protruding human face on the spider's body slowly disappeared.

[Epic Wild Monster: Human-faced Spider] (Remaining Revivals: 998)

[Level: lv22]

[Health Points: 4000/4000]

[Strength: 351]

[Defense: 122]

[Agility: 233]

[Skills: Soul Devour, Web Entanglement, Resurrection]

[Friendly Reminder: A terrifying spider monster that lives by devouring the souls of living people. Each time it devours a living person, it gains an additional chance to revive and craves beautiful faces.]

"wQnmd!"

Qiao Yu cursed instantly.

Although the attributes of this human-faced spider weren't considered too strong, those nine hundred-plus lives were outrageous.

Besides Captain America, who likes to play with people all day, who would be willing to provoke such a monster?

"Yang... Yang Guo! Can't you use that Retreat, Retreat, Retreat move?" Qiao Yu asked Yang Xiangdi.

Yang Xiangdi was stunned for a moment, then, after glancing at Wang Tiezhu and the others, he reacted instantly.

"It doesn't work, Dà Pào, this ground is too hard, it won't crack!"

"Then you guys go first! I'll hold this spider back for a while!"

Qiao Yu held his Yanyue Blade in front of the human-faced spider.

"No, let's go together! This thing is too bizarre!" Yang Xiangdi shook his head. "If you get touched by this spider, your soul will be sucked away directly! Otherwise, we wouldn't have run!"

Qiao Yu was immediately surprised to hear this. No wonder Yang Xiangdi, plus Ma Fei, and even with a healer like Zhao Ziyue, couldn't deal with this spider.

"It's okay, you guys go! I have a way!"

A glint flashed in Qiao Yu's eyes, but when he looked back, where was Yang Xiangdi's figure?

Qiao Yu couldn't help but feel a little exasperated. Yang Xiangdi's skill of selling out his teammates was a long-standing tradition.

It must have been because his mother told him when he was little that he couldn't play with shady people, which is why all the sly dogs around him were like Yang Xiangdi.

Then, Qiao Yu's eyes narrowed. The human-faced spider had already caught up again.

It raised its two front claws and stabbed towards Qiao Yu. The two front claws were covered with densely packed human faces, a true boon for sufferers of trypophobia.

"Brother Wang, you guys go first too."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Yu's deep blue eyes instantly locked onto the human-faced spider.

Under the lock of the Ghost Eye, Qiao Yu could predict every step of the human-faced spider with perfect clarity.

Swish, swish!

Qiao Yu unleashed two slashes in quick succession. All eight legs of the human-faced spider were severed at the roots, the severed ends neat and smooth, like a mirror.

Thud!

The legless body of the human-faced spider fell to the ground like a large millstone. It roared silently but could not move.

"Done!"

Qiao Yu clapped his hands and turned to chase after Yang Xiangdi and the others. Soon, he reached the end of the long corridor.

At the end was a tall stone pillar. Yang Xiangdi and his two companions stood in front of the stone pillar, as if they had been frozen in place, staring blankly at the stone pillar.

"Dà Pào, come over here! Come and look at the things on this stone pillar!" Yang Xiangdi called out to Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu walked forward. Only when he got closer did he realize that there were words carved on the stone pillar. The writing was extremely red, as if someone had carved it with their own blood.

"My name is Wang Teng... As long as you cross this stone pillar, you will enter the real Silent Town."

"If any living person sees what I left behind, please be sure to turn around and leave immediately! Ahead is true hell!"

"If you really have a reason to enter Silent Town, please remember this incantation."

"Miǎo fó yàn niǎn, xīn ǎn dù kōng."

"Please be sure to remember this incantation and recite it once before entering Silent Town. You can also recite it silently in your heart."

"It can protect you from harm when facing those bizarre and supernatural phenomena."

"Remember! Remember!"

Qiao Yu fell silent after reading it. He silently looked at Yang Xiangdi.

"Do you guys think this record is credible?"

"I believe it... this incantation seems to be related to the Five Elements." Yang Xiangdi scratched his head. "But there are eight characters in this incantation, and I don't recognize six of them!"

"Me too... Ma Fei, what about you?" Qiao Yu asked Ma Fei.

"Hmph! You don't understand the principle of regretting a lack of knowledge when you need it."

Ma Fei curled his lips into a contemptuous smile.

"It's not me bragging, but I recognize five of these eight characters! That's much better than you and Yang Xiangdi!"

Qiao Yu: "..."

Then, the three of them placed their hopes on Zhao Ziyue.

"Why are you looking at me? We all graduated from the same high school. Do you think my education is much higher than yours? I don't recognize them either!" Zhao Ziyue spread her hands.

Qiao Yu was speechless. "What about Wang Tiezhu? Did they already go in?"

"Yeah." Yang Xiangdi nodded, "They joined up with their previous teammates just now. That Qiu Xin girl pulled Wang Tiezhu and the others in first. They seem to know how to recite it."

"Forget it, since we don't recognize it, we won't recite it. What's there to be afraid of!"

Qiao Yu also mentally cursed the person who wrote this incantation from head to toe.

Writing an incantation with so many rare characters that no one can even understand it.

At this time, the people watching the live broadcast in the Otherworld were bursting with laughter.

"Holy crap, four illiterate people snuck in. These four have never read a book in their lives!"

"That's right, miǎo fó yàn niǎn, xīn ǎn dù kōng. Is it that hard to type out? Anyone with hands can do it, right?"

"Just wait and see, they don't know this incantation. Something bad is definitely going to happen!"

"I'm going to quickly recite the incantation a few times. It's said that this incantation protects against ghosts."

Unfortunately, Qiao Yu and the others couldn't see the comments they were sending.

Qiao Yu and his three companions brazenly charged in.

As soon as he crossed the stone pillar, Qiao Yu felt a cold aura rush from his tailbone all the way up to the crown of his head.

He was very familiar with this feeling.

When he first stepped onto Ghost Mountain, he had the exact same cold aura.

Clearly, the dirty things in Silent Town wouldn't be any less than those on Ghost Mountain.

"Can you guys feel it? I feel so cold!" Yang Xiangdi couldn't help but shiver.

After crossing the stone pillar, what came into view was a somewhat dilapidated and desolate town.

The sky was a hazy gray, stretching all the way to the edge of the town, making the entire town gray and gloomy, with rubble and broken tiles everywhere.

"Strange, shouldn't it be early morning now?! Why is it still light?"

Qiao Yu was a little surprised. He remembered seeing a clock in the room before he came out.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

Suddenly, a burst of chaotic electronic noise sounded not far away.

"What's that sound?"

Without hesitation, Qiao Yu swung his blade towards the sound.

The Yanyue Blade sent a pile of broken earth flying into the sky, along with an old radio.

Clang.

After the radio hit the ground, it seemed to have unlocked its Ren and Du meridians. The buzzing electrical noise turned into a standard announcer's voice.

"Now, a news flash. Seven days ago, a man picked up a large hunting rifle at home. First, he turned his wife's head into a hornet's nest, and then he went on a rampage in the streets, indiscriminately shooting people."

"On the day of the tragedy, the man slaughtered seven strangers in succession. When the authorities arrived, the man was squatting on the ground listening to the radio."

"And the place where he placed the seven corpses is right beneath your feet."