Death Train: SSS-level talent right from the start!

Zhao Hai wasn't slow, but he was too close to the area covered by the spider web.

He had barely taken a step to the left when the spider web descended upon him.

White silk threads wrapped around his right arm and left waist. He struggled, and the threads tightened for a moment, but did not break.

He stopped struggling and instead grabbed the silk threads wrapped around his right arm with both hands. With a burst of strength, he tore the threads in half.

The silk thread was extremely resilient, but it was eventually torn apart by Zhao Hai's brute force, which was three times stronger than his own.

The broken thread tried to regenerate, but Zhao Hai had already torn the entire clump of thread off his body and thrown it on the ground.

Wang Shuo was completely caught in the spider web; from his shoulders to his knees, most of his body was entangled in white silk threads.

His left arm was firmly fixed to his side with silk threads, and although his right arm could move, it could only move within a small range, and he couldn't even lift the axe.

He struggled a few times, but the thread didn't budge; instead, it tightened around him.

Li Zheng's right leg and left hand were also entangled in the silk threads. He squatted down and tried to pull them with his right hand, but the silk threads were far more resilient than he could muster. After pulling for a long time, he only managed to break a few threads, and new threads grew out from the broken ends.

Zhou Yating was standing the furthest away, but a spider web still got tangled around her arm, so she quickly retreated back into the passage.

In a single encounter, two members of the group were trapped in a spider web.

Chen Ye circled back from the right and stood to the side and front of the giant spider, forming a pincer formation with Zhao Hai.

Their eyes met for a moment in the air, and then they nodded simultaneously.

Qin Zhaoyang peeked out from behind the rock, his crossbow already raised.

"Shoot it in the belly! Stop it from spraying the net!"

Chen Ye's voice came from ahead.

Qin Zhaoyang pulled the trigger.

A short arrow, enveloped in a pale red halo, shot through the air, tracing a striking path amidst the blue-green fluorescence, and precisely struck the spinneret at the end of the giant spider's abdomen.

"boom--!"

The explosion resounded beneath the giant spider's body.

The spinning machine was blasted open, and silvery-white fragments and deep red liquid splattered in all directions.

The giant spider's body trembled violently, its eight legs digging eight deep furrows in the ground, emitting a sharp hiss.

"Well done!"

Zhao Hai roared and charged towards the giant spider.

Chen Ye also rushed up from the right, his short knife already in his hand.

The giant spider's spinnerets were destroyed, but it still had eight legs and two pairs of chelicerae.

Its right foreleg swept across with astonishing speed, its claws tearing through the air with a sharp hiss.

Zhao Hai didn't dodge. He pulled his right fist back and slammed it, with three times the force, onto the giant spider's right foreleg joint.

"Bang--!"

A crack appeared in the carapace at the joint of the giant spider's right foreleg, and the entire leg bounced backward, but Zhao Hai was also thrown back two steps by the recoil.

Chen Ye approached from the other side. He didn't use any skills; instead, he punched the giant spider's head with a punch that dealt 30 points of base strength. The punch landed on the left side of the spider's carapace.

The fist embedded itself in the carapace, leaving a deep dent, from which dark red liquid seeped out.

The giant spider suddenly turned its head towards Chen Ye, its eight compound eyes staring intently at him, its chelicerae outstretched, and its fangs thrusting towards his neck.

Chen Ye dodged to the side, grabbed one of the giant spider's pincers with his left hand, and slammed his right fist out again, to the same spot.

"A devastating cannon!"

On Chen Ye's fist, the pale golden aura of the Thousand-Pound Cannon burned to its extreme.

He unleashed his full power in this punch, combining 30 points of base strength with the triple burst of his skill, resulting in a total of 90 points of strength damage.

He slammed his fist into the dent on the left side of the giant spider's head, a dent he had already created.

"boom--!"

The giant spider's carapace on the left side of its head shattered completely under the punch, sending fragments flying in all directions and revealing grayish-white muscle tissue and dark red bodily fluids underneath.

The giant spider's body suddenly stiffened, all eight legs straightened at the same time, and then it convulsed violently. Its massive body crashed to the ground, scattering a cloud of gravel and dust.

[Defeat the Cave Spider (Elite), score +200]

The system notification flashed before Chen Ye's eyes.

The battle was over. In less than three minutes, the elite monster with a strength of one and a half stars could not withstand his full-force, devastating attack.

Chen Ye withdrew his fist, shook off the dirt, and turned to walk towards his trapped teammates.

Wang Shuo was still wrapped up like a cocoon, squatting on the ground, with most of his body tightly wrapped in white silk threads, only half of his face and one foot showing.

He saw Chen Ye approaching, and a muffled voice came from under the silk thread: "Strategist, get me out of here quickly, this thing is strangling me."

Chen Ye squatted down and tore the spider web apart with his bare hands. The cave spider was dead, and the spider silk lost its ability to regenerate.

Wang Shuo finally crawled out of the pile of silk threads, panting heavily, with several red marks on his face from the threads.

He stretched his numb arm, bent down to pick up the axe from the ground, and cursed, "This damn web, I thought it was just a regular spider web, but it's stronger than steel wire."

Li Zheng was in a better situation than Wang Shuo; only his right leg and left hand were entangled, and Zhao Hai was helping him pull the spider webs off his hands and feet.

Zhou Yating walked out of the passage. She didn't have much silk thread left, so she cut it herself with a short knife.

"Is everything alright?"

Zhao Hai glanced at the people in the group.

"It's okay, it just hurts a little from being strangled."

Wang Shuo stretched his shoulders.

Li Zheng and Zhou Yating also said that it was no problem.

Qin Zhaoyang ran over from behind the rock, walked to the giant spider's corpse, circled it, and scanned the ground around the corpse before stopping at a spot.

"Something dropped! Something dropped!"

His voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

Chen Ye walked over and looked in the direction Qin Zhaoyang was pointing.

Beside the abdomen of the giant spider's corpse, a hemispherical transparent light shield was placed on the ground.

Inside the light shield, a black bracelet lay quietly, its surface gleaming with a faint green glow.

Chen Ye squatted down, touched the light shield with his fingertips, and picked up the bracelet. The black bracelet was cold to the touch, and there were fine patterns on the inside of the bracelet.

He summoned the item attribute panel, and a blue light screen unfolded before his eyes.

【Black Jade Dharma Ring (Green Quality)】

[Type: Magic Weapon]

[Effect: Spirit +3]

[Note: Increases the user's Spirit attribute by 3 points. Equipment-added attributes do not benefit from talent and skill amplification.]

"A mental weapon." Chen Ye weighed the bracelet in his hand, then turned to Zhou Yating at the back of the group: "Squad leader, this is suitable for you."

Zhou Yating walked over, took the bracelet, and examined it in her palm.

The black ring stood out prominently on her fair palm, and the faint green sheen reflected on her fingers, like a thin layer of fluorescence.

Without hesitation, she put the bracelet on her left wrist. The bracelet fit her wrist perfectly, neither too big nor too small.

"Thanks."

Zhou Yating moved her wrist, and the bracelet did not hinder her movements at all.

Zhao Hai glanced at the black jade ring on Zhou Yating's wrist, then at the giant spider's corpse on the ground: "Keep searching. It shouldn't be difficult for everyone to get a green-quality weapon after this trial."

Chen Ye nodded, turning his gaze away from the giant spider's corpse and sweeping it across the other directions of this underground space.

The space was much larger than they had expected. In addition to the passageway they had come from, there were three other passageways in three other directions.

The three passages are roughly the same size, about five meters wide and three meters high. The fluorescent plants on the cave walls are very dense, and the light is abundant, making it impossible to tell which one is more likely to be the main passage.

Just as he was about to suggest continuing, the system panel in front of him suddenly popped up automatically.

[Su Jin has requested to add you to a group chat. Do you accept?]