I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 663, Section 2.5, Chapter 8: The House of Silk and the Dollhouse

A rustling sound came from all around.

Ling Tong frowned slightly, glanced around warily, and said slowly, "Go through the door first, the stairs are just ahead."

The view is an extremely spacious and large circular area. The staircase spirals upwards continuously, and each floor has a passageway with railings. You can stand in the passageway and look down or up to see the structure of the building clearly. It is almost a hollowed-out shape in the middle.

Although the central circular space is very spacious, there are many white spider silks connecting each floor, and spider egg sacs in the corners are constantly swaying.

The palace bell hanging at Ling Tong's waist rang loudly, breaking the surrounding silence.

Before they could even think, they sensed danger coming from above.

The two people and the cat instinctively dodged to the side.

A thick spider silk shot straight up from where they had just been standing. Looking up along the silk, they saw a giant spider, about five or six meters long, coiled in the fifth-floor corridor, rapidly crawling towards them along the silk.

“Spider Mother,” Ling Tong whispered.

Xin Bai stretched out his claws and cut the spider silk without hesitation. The spider mother stopped moving after losing the silk.

"The spider silk is so tough," Xin Bai said softly, looking at her fingernails with a pained expression.

Even though it was cut off, my nail still hurts so much; it feels like it's about to fall off.

The spider mother kept spinning silk at the two people and the cat, trying to bind them together with the spider silk.

While dodging, Ling Tong used her sword to cut the spider silk.

Each time he cut a spider silk thread, he could feel his hand trembling. The spider silk was so hard that he had to use all his strength to cut it, just like cutting steel.

The palace bell at her waist rang loudly incessantly, seemingly warning its owner of the danger at that moment.

The empty, circular high-rise building was filled with the intense and anxious ringing of palace bells.

"Make it stop! It's hurting my ears!" Xin Bai's furry ears drooped, as if he wanted to shut off his hearing. For a creature as sensitive to sound as him, the ringing was driving his head crazy.

Ling Tong extended two fingers and flicked hard at the palace bell hanging at her waist.

A piercing yet slightly heavy sound suddenly echoed throughout the entire central area of ​​the dollhouse, reverberating and swaying.

After the sound appeared, Xin Bai felt all his agitation disappear, and he couldn't even muster any desire to resist or kill the spider.

He moved his thin lips, wanting to be angry but unable to utter a sound. He looked up and saw that the Spider Queen had also stopped what she was doing and seemed to have become kind and amiable.

Xin Bai: "..." Fine, we're all in the same boat.

Ling Tong sheathed his weapon and walked towards Fei and Xin Bai, explaining, "This is my Crown Prince's prop. Because it doesn't distinguish between friend and foe, I wasn't planning on using it at first. But the best way to stop it from making noise is to put it on cooldown. It won't make noise for 12 hours." Actually, this was the first time he had actively used this prop. He had always simply treated it as an accessory for his clothes and to listen to its passive effect.
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[23] The Bell to Avert Misfortune

Rank: Crown Prince

Description: A treasure hanging atop the tower of Chomeiji Temple in the Kingdom of Gourmet Food. Passive: When a potential or ongoing danger is foreseen, it emits a sound as a warning, becoming more intense the sound as the danger increases, until the danger disappears.

Active: Actively make it speak to eliminate potential or ongoing dangers. All creatures that hear the bell will not have any negative thoughts. This lasts for 10 minutes.

Cooldown: 12 hours (during which no effects will be triggered, including passives)

Comment: Sometimes, the sounds it makes when it warns of danger are more likely to alert the enemy than the actual danger itself. What's the point of this indiscriminate tool that can't distinguish friend from foe? Are you trying to build a better world together?

Owner: Seraphim
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Ling Tong added, "A creature that hears the sound will not have any negative thoughts for 10 minutes."

Xin Bai lifted his eyelids and said helplessly, "So, in these 10 minutes, if we leave the central area and walk in the corridor, we can't fight back even if we are attacked by other spiders, right?"

“Yes, creatures that don’t hear the item are not within the effective range of the item, so they will still attack if they are not meant to, but creatures that do hear the item will remain absolutely docile for the next 10 minutes,” Ling Tong nodded and said.

Xin Bai pointed a finger at the Spider Mother and said, "So even with such a good opportunity, we can't do anything to it. We can only watch helplessly as the 10 minutes end, or ask someone who didn't hear us to help us. How can this prop be so useless!"

In the end, he couldn't help but scratch his cat ears, looking like he wanted to go crazy but couldn't utter a sound, feeling very uncomfortable.

"Can I find Mu Yegui?" Fei asked.

Xin Bai shrugged. "That's unlikely. Her hearing is far superior to mine. Even if she weren't in this area, she probably would have heard the ringtone perfectly. So she's probably in the same situation as us right now." He paused for three seconds to mourn for Mu Yegui, who had been shot innocently.

Ling Tong was silent for a few seconds, then said, "Let's check each floor of the central area first. We can get a lot done in ten minutes."

Just moments ago, Xin Bai was proclaiming that Mu Yegui was the king he believed in, but now he's acting all gloating. It's like this cat is living like a hater.

Xin Bai wagged her fluffy long tail, raised her head to look at the two people's expressions, and snorted coldly, "Are you thinking that I treat Mu Yegui as a queen but don't respect her? That's one thing at a time. After all, I've been bullied by her for so long, can't I just make a simple laugh? I'll help when there's danger, but that doesn't mean I have to be respectful all the time. That's too tiring, I don't want to do that."

So a big cat is still a big cat, and it won't change for anyone else.

Fei looked up at the Spider Mother, who had become incredibly docile, and jumped down from the third-floor corridor, landing on her back.

He examined the spider mother thoroughly and suddenly froze. There was a square emerald embedded in the spider mother's back, which looked like something he had seen somewhere before.

However, because the gem was buried too deep, and Fei is currently under the influence of the ['23' Bell of Misfortune], he cannot do anything that could cause harm, including reaching in to dig out the gem.

Fei remained silent, pondering where he had seen this square emerald before, when Xin Bai's voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"Why are there so many bipeds here? Their bellies are all ripped open. Have they been used as nests by spiders?"

Xin Bai looked down at a large, broken white egg sac in the corner of the second floor, inside which were several incomplete, already dead corpses. Their bodies were covered with spider eggs, some of which were even fused to their flesh, making them look particularly gruesome.

"This is disgusting. I don't think I can eat my special cat food tonight."

Fei staggered slightly, looked up at Xin Bai in surprise, his expression seeming to say: So you did think about what to eat tonight?

Xin Bai looked bewildered. Couldn't he think about it?
(End of this chapter)