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Chapter 428

That ray of light greatly encouraged Zhu Yu, instantly igniting hope in her heart and strengthening her resolve to walk step by step toward that direction.

The feeling of more and more spiders crawling all over her body made her want to run away immediately and rush to a place with light.

Fortunately, she still had her senses. She suppressed all her impulses and instincts and continued to move forward stiffly and slowly, which allowed her to ignore the strange feeling of something crawling on her body.

As she approached the well-lit area, the situation finally improved—the spiders seemed to dislike bright light. The more Zhu Yu walked, the more the spiders on her body fled. Within her sight, all the visible spiders were crawling deeper into the dark and damp tunnel behind her.

The further she walked, the less intense the sensation of countless thin legs crawling on her body became. Finally, when she reached the tunnel entrance, she felt as if she were bathed in warm sunlight, and the crawling sensation completely disappeared. She looked down and saw that a few legs that hadn't managed to escape were being exposed to the intense sunlight. Their slender legs quickly curled up under their bodies, and their once round and swollen bodies were rapidly dried out, becoming shriveled.

Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, carefully pulled off the veil covering her head and shook it, revealing several dead spiders.

She looked down to check herself and was surprised to find at least five or six spiders hanging on the thickly bandaged section of her skirt near her leg wound. The spiders had been killed by the intense sunlight, but they hadn't fallen to the ground; they were still hanging on the fabric. Zhu Yu pulled out an iron needle from her waist and carefully poked at it, discovering that their mouthparts were embedded in the fabric. Although they hadn't pierced through, they hadn't been pulled out in time and had simply been roasted to death, still hanging there, swaying precariously.

Zhu Yu reached into her bosom and pulled out a small porcelain bottle. She poured out two pills that Yan Daoxin had given her earlier, carefully tucked them into her belt, and used the empty bottle to transfer the dead spiders hanging on her legs into the porcelain bottle. She then tightly sealed the bottle opening before putting it back into her bosom.

Whether the spider was truly venomous, as I suspected, was hard to say. At least judging from the position where the spiders were biting so tightly, they were probably attracted by the smell of blood emanating from the wound.

So if she could get out of here alive, she wanted to show it to Yan Daoxin to see what it was.

After putting the dead spider away, Zhu Yu felt something moving on her neck. The fear of being covered in spiders hadn't faded, so she quickly reached up and wiped her neck.

As a result, when he wiped his hand, he ended up with a wet, sweaty mess.

She then realized that she had unknowingly worked up a sweat while observing the dead spiders and carefully collecting them.

The warmth and comfort of being bathed in light after emerging from the cold tunnel had vanished, and the heat was even making me feel uncomfortable.

She quickly looked around and realized that she was in a very open area, surrounded by bare rock walls, which were dozens of feet high and sloped slightly towards the center. At the very top, the rock wall narrowed into a circular opening about the size of a water vat.

That opening should have led to the outside, and sunlight used to shine through it, but now a huge crystal stone is embedded in the hole that originally led to the outside.

The crystal was clearly meticulously polished; it was not only crystal clear without any turbidity, but also seemed to have been deliberately made with many different edges and corners.

Zhu Yuguang glanced up at those spots, but the glare from the bright lights stung her eyes. She quickly lowered her head, afraid to look any longer and lest she burn her eyes. After a moment, she looked around and noticed strange reflective spots in what appeared to be a large, open area.

Clearly, the seemingly empty space in front of her, which appeared to stretch endlessly, was not actually empty.

Like the crystal on her head, there should also be many crystal bricks in front of her.

However, these crystal bricks are very different from the one on top of your head. They are not carved with any protrusions or edges, but are polished to be extremely smooth. If it weren't for the occasional glimpse of reflected light, it would be impossible to tell at first glance how those large crystal bricks were arranged.

Zhu Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and strode forward.

Although the light here is bright, it is extremely dazzling and makes people sweat profusely from the heat.

Zhu Yu had already analyzed her situation clearly in his mind.

From the very beginning, it was destined to be a "dead end".

First, quicksand forces people into a tunnel with iron needles. Unlucky people may die on the spot, just like the female corpse she saw. If they are lucky enough to survive, they will be frozen on the strange and extremely cold stone slab and will have no choice but to walk into the dark tunnel full of spiders.

At this point, either you've been injured at the iron needle point, which will attract those strange spiders drawn by the scent of blood, or you might be bitten by those spiders, which are likely to carry deadly venom. Even if you weren't injured before, being bitten by those spiders could still be fatal.

Of course, there's also the possibility of her current situation, but putting aside the scorching temperature and sunlight here, even if she had safely reached this point, there would be two obvious choices—one is that she would be thirsty and hot, and eventually die here from the heat.

Secondly, she held out here until it got dark, when the light was no longer glaring and the high temperature that relied on sunlight would inevitably decrease.

However, once it gets dark and the high temperature and sunlight here are gone, the spiders that had just hidden away are likely to come back.

Even then, it will still be a dead end.

In short, every step was fraught with danger, and every attempt was designed to kill.

Zhu Yu took a few more steps forward and almost bumped into a crystal brick. She quickly perked up, reached out her hand, and carefully felt around as she continued walking, wondering to herself – such a large crystal brick is truly rare, and she never expected there to be so many of them here.

It seems this little mountain building really has some powerful backer; they're incredibly generous!