The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

An island in the east.

At the entrance of a large supermarket.

Several armed soldiers quickly formed a defensive line.

"Fire! Fire!"

The gun muzzle spat out flames.

A hail of bullets struck the spider that was charging at the front.

Ding ding ding.

The bullet was deflected by the hard shell, leaving only a few white marks.

The soldiers' faces were filled with terror.

"What kind of monster is this?!"

"It can't even be penetrated by bullets!"

"Aim carefully, and fire at the monster's joints and eyes..."

The monster gave them no time to react and quickly approached.

The defense line was breached instantly.

The massive arthropod swept across, slicing several soldiers in two.

Blood gushed out, staining the supermarket's glass door red.

The passersby who were fleeing nearby were completely devastated when they witnessed this scene.

"These monsters can't even be killed by bullets..."

"It's over, it's all over."

On the cross-sea bridge of the island.

Countless vehicles were stuck on the bridge.

People abandoned their cars and fled, running desperately towards the opposite bank.

Spiders are crawling rapidly in dense numbers on the steel cables of the bridge.

They spun out tough white spider silk, sealing off the entire bridge.

A woman holding a child tripped over a spider web.

In desperation, she shielded the child beneath her body.

A giant spider crawled up to her, its sharp mandibles opening and closing.

The woman closed her eyes and awaited death.

But the spider did not bite her. Instead, it spun out a lot of silk and wrapped her and her child in a white cocoon.

It wasn't just her.

On the bridge, hundreds and thousands of people were wrapped in spider silk, turned into cocoons, and hung upside down under the bridge.

The spiders did not kill their prey immediately.

They are storing food for living animals.

The entire island has been transformed into a giant hunting ground.

Armed helicopters of the military circled overhead.

The airborne heavy machine gun fired wildly.

The large-caliber bullets tore several gaps in the swarm of spiders.

But soon, several thick spider silks shot out from the ground and precisely wrapped around the helicopter's rotor.

The helicopter lost its balance, plummeted into a city complex belching black smoke, and caused a violent explosion.

Right in the center of the island.

The former landmark building, a TV tower that stood 100 meters tall.

It was now completely enveloped in layers of thick white spider silk.

Countless spiders gathered at the foot of the tower.

They were piled up densely, forming a surging black ocean.

At the top of the TV tower hangs a giant cocoon.

The surface of the cocoon is covered with dark red patterns, and it trembles continuously in a certain regular rhythm.

With each tremor, thousands of tiny spiderlings squeeze out from the gaps in the cocoon and crawl down the silk to the ground.

From all directions, giant, adult spiders are returning in droves.

They dragged along mutilated human corpses with their arthropods.

The bodies were piled up under the TV tower.

Soon, a mountain of corpses, reeking of blood, was formed.

Several of the largest spiders climbed up the mountain of corpses, spitting out corrosive mucus.

The corpse rapidly dissolved, turning into dark red nutrients, which were drawn little by little along the spider silk towards the giant cocoon at the top.

......

Chi Zhengyang's office.

Even the thick bulletproof glass couldn't block out the gloom outside the window.

Chi Zhengyang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the city shrouded in a gray sky.

The sky seemed to be covered by a dirty cloth that couldn't be washed clean, preventing even a sliver of sunlight from getting in.

It was oppressive, stifling, and suffocating.

Fortunately, there is no immediate danger from the sky.

But this eerie fog, like an invisible hand, has choked modern civilization by the throat.

This makes the communication signal extremely weak.

In some remote areas, the internet connection is intermittent, as if overnight we have regressed to the dial-up internet era of twenty years ago.

hum~ hum~ hum~

My phone vibrated slightly in my pocket.

Chi Zhengyang took out his phone, and there was only one encrypted message on the screen.

[The entire country of Sakura has been attacked by a large number of spider monsters and is currently completely out of contact.]

The short line of words struck Chi Zhengyang's heart like a heavy iron hammer.

His body trembled uncontrollably.

three hours.

From the moment news of the monster's appearance spread, all contact was lost in just three short hours.

The monsters' attacks were incredibly fierce.

And it wasn't an invasion, it was an arrival.

Those spider monsters did not start from a certain landing point and then gradually advance.

They landed directly in every corner of the cherry blossom country in the most ruthless and unreasonable way.

It caught everyone off guard.

Cities, villages, mountains, seaports.

Spider monsters are everywhere.

What's infuriating is that those monsters didn't even give them a chance to escape.

A brutal invasion!

At first, Chi Zhengyang was able to receive some messages about rescuing the Sakura Kingdom.

However, the message spoken a second ago is invalidated the next second.

Because they witnessed the power of those spider monsters; those monsters were impervious to bullets, and some were even immune to artillery shells.

Everyone began to fear the monsters.

They didn't mention the matter of providing support at all.

After all, the Dragon Kingdom is still in their way, so they still have time.

"Idiots! A bunch of idiots who could live in a museum."

Having guessed what those guys were thinking, Chi Zhengyang couldn't help but curse out loud.

Those guys don't know, but Chi Zhengyang does.

The strongest of the monsters that have appeared so far is only elite-level.

Not even a leader-level figure appeared.

Leader-level monsters, those are the ones that truly inspire despair.

But the elites and their servants alone quickly swallowed up a country!

Unlike others, Chi Zhengyang knew the future situation.

The future Earth will be divided between two terrifying forces.

One of them is the Fate Weaver Queen's faction, which was built upon these spider monsters.

They started their nest in the land of cherry blossoms, multiplied wildly, and then spread across the entire continent like cancer cells.

Unfortunately, the Dragon Kingdom is located within the territory planned by the Weaver of Fate in the future.

On the other side was the even more mysterious and bizarre army of the Bone King.

Now that the Queen of Fate has appeared, when will Ainz Ooal Gown's undead army set foot on this land?

The Weaver Queen was by no means a peaceful being.

Devouring a small island with overwhelming force was merely her appetizer.

Her ambition must be the whole world.

And the Dragon Kingdom will definitely be the first to bear the brunt!

"Time really doesn't give us any chance at all..." Chi Zhengyang sighed.

But right now, what the Dragon Kingdom lacks most is time.

Just as Chi Zhengyang was lost in thought, the office door was suddenly kicked open.

"Bang!"

Before anyone could announce his arrival, Old Master An rushed in, his usually gentle and composed face now filled with anxiety and horror.

Following behind him, Elder Qian, Elder Wei, and Elder Wu all wore solemn expressions, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Old Chi! Something terrible has happened!"

Old An's voice trembled slightly. He rushed to Chi Zhengyang and held up the military tablet computer in his hand.

"Something terrible has happened! The children we sent to the Holy Elephant Kingdom are losing their life signs."

Chi Zhengyang's attention was instantly drawn from his worries about the future back to the imminent crisis at hand.

He took the tablet; a chill emanated from its cold, metallic casing.

The screen displayed an electronic map with several small green dots marking the members of their elite team sent to the Holy Elephant Kingdom on a secret mission.

Each green dot is connected to their vital signs monitoring system.

However, at this moment, those green dots representing life are going out one after another at an alarming rate.

One.

again.

It was as if an invisible hand had cruelly erased it from the map.

"You bastard!"

Old Qian had a fiery temper; he slammed his fist on the table next to him, making a dull thud.

"What on earth happened? Among them are elemental awakeners, experts who can't even be harmed by cannonballs! Why did something happen to them?!"