PNB Chapter 240 Doctor Lei
Chapter 240 Doctor Lei
"Dr. Lei..."
Lin Fan held the stiff middle-aged man in silence for a long time.
Perhaps because it is early winter and the cave is quite cold, the bodies have not decomposed much.
A slight smile appeared on Dr. Lei's lips. The middle-aged man's usually furrowed features conveyed a sense of relief and liberation.
"Dr. Lei, what exactly happened?" Lin Fan held the middle-aged man's hand, but only silence answered him.
"We were already so close to Kunlun. Didn't you say you didn't want revenge, that you just wanted to escape all of this? Why did you still... why did you still die here?"
Lin Fan sat on the ground, feeling utterly helpless. The doctor who had promised to return to the mortal world with him was also dead.
"Let's go, Old Niu, we'll leave here after we find Miss Sun."
Lin Fan temporarily set aside Doctor Lei's body; rescuing the survivors was more important at the moment.
"Brother Fan, why did that commander-in-chief also die? Why didn't these dead people turn into Gu corpses?"
"I don't know, I don't know anything, but I have a feeling things aren't that simple. Once we rescue Miss Sun, we'll take Doctor Lei back. I'm tired. I don't want to know what happened here at all!" Lin Fan rubbed his hair, his blood-stained white hair matted together and impossible to untangle.
Swish swish.
A series of hurried footsteps could be heard on the way Lin Fan and his group arrived.
It sounds like a group of people or...
A giant spider, drooling foul-smelling saliva, appeared behind them. And Chen Ergou was nowhere to be seen.
Lin Fan and Niu Dadan turned and ran without hesitation.
The giant spider paused for a moment in front of the pile of corpses, but seemed uninterested in the dead flesh, and quickly chased after Lin Fan and the others.
Lin Fan's idea was simple: he could sense the location of the Living Curse, and if he kept running like this, he would definitely run into it.
No, actually, the Living Curse itself is also moving closer to him.
This giant spider also appears to be in a Gu corpse state, and it should be unreasonable. Having such a variable when dealing with the Living Curse is actually a good thing.
After running past an intersection, the road ahead was covered with red silk ribbons, and the walls were decorated with burning and extinguished incense sticks and candles.
"Is this a place where they worship some evil god? Could it really be like Er Gou said, that they worshipped an evil god and then attracted a curse, ultimately bringing about their own destruction?"
A loud bang answered Lin Fan.
The sound came from behind him. Lin Fan turned around and saw that the giant spider's head had been smashed to pieces, and a tall figure stood on the blackish-purple fluid, wielding a long-handled weapon that looked like a spiked club.
Lin Fan's pupils dilated in shock. Wasn't he dead?
Standing atop the spider's head was the commander of Crab Mountain, holding in his hand the infamous "Armor Shatter."
A hearty voice came from the commander: "Brother, have you returned from a mission outside? You look unfamiliar."
"I..." Lin Fan had so much to say that he didn't know what to say.
The Gu Corpse Spider twitched its body backward, and a stream of purple blood spurted from the severed neck. A new head emerged, with thousands of pale compound eyes staring at everyone present.
"Brother, this spider demon has become a Gu corpse, yet its regenerative ability is still so strong," the Grand Commander said to Lin Fan. "Come and lend a hand, let's take care of it first."
Before Lin Fan could answer, the Grand Commander charged toward the Gu Corpse Spider with the "Shattered Armor".
Peng!
The huge spiked club knocked the spider's head to the side, revealing the "oyster" under its neck.
How did he get here? How did he know he was here? He must have broken his head and injured his neck before, so why is he alright?
No one answered his question.
"Brother, we've found her weak point. This 'Painted Skin Spider' is hard to kill without striking her vital spot. I'll help you grab her, hurry up and stab her in!"
Lin Fan: ?
Even so, Lin Fan still drew his ink sword and prepared himself.
It seems this commander-in-chief considers him a fellow member of the "righteous alliance." Lin Fan had also considered launching a sneak attack, but judging from the commander-in-chief's displayed strength, a sneak attack wouldn't be able to seriously injure him.
Lin Fan still has many things to figure out, and right now there is also the threat of the Living Curse.
The commander-in-chief turned the spider's head around. The huge spider struggled desperately, but the strong man's hands were like a pair of iron clamps, firmly gripping her head.
"Damn it, this beast is harder to catch than a pig during the New Year. Brother, see the pink flesh under her neck? Stab it in there hard!"
The spider curled one of its blade-like legs back and plunged it directly into the commander's back.
The burly man was also wearing soft armor, and the blade only penetrated an inch into his leg.
Lin Fan raised his ink sword and stabbed it fiercely at the pink oyster.
The Gu Corpse Spider struggled violently, its blade-like legs carving deep grooves into the ground, turning the stone slab into a chaotic impressionist painting.
The blade on the commander's back pierced another inch, and the burly man let out a muffled cry, but his grip tightened even more. Bright red blood seeped from his back, soaking his magnificent robe.
Lin Fan exerted force and pushed it inward. Purple blood gushed from the wound, and the Gu Corpse Spider gradually went limp, turning into a human skin. The human skin bore many marks left by pustules.
It can be roughly seen that it was a tall adult woman, but only skin remains, and it is impossible to tell what she looked like or what her figure was like before she was born.
There were only some bone fragments inside the human skin, no spider eggs.
"Damn it, this thing is strange. Once it dies, its huge body can just disappear into thin air."
The president stroked his smooth chin and asked in confusion.
The burly man with a shaved chin walked over and cupped his hands to Lin Fan, saying, "Brother, you look unfamiliar. You shouldn't be from Crab Mountain, right?"
Lin Fan's heart tightened as he heard him continue, "However, so many things have happened so soon after the Heroes' Banquet started, and many of the new brothers didn't even have time to get to know each other. Sigh, speaking of which, this Painted Skin Spider was originally one of our companions. If she hadn't perished here, she would have been a great fighting force."
So that's how it is. Lin Fan had heard before that Crab Mountain was going to hold some kind of Three Rivers Heroes Banquet, so many of the people gathered here were not actually the bandits of Crab Mountain.
Lin Fan cupped his hands and asked, "Commander, I've heard of this Painted Skin Spider before. Her weakness is extremely well hidden and very difficult to find. I wonder how you discovered it so easily, Commander?"
Moreover, during the previous battle against Shen Meng, the spider only revealed a weakness on its forehead for a short period of time when it was eating people.
The Grand Commander chuckled and patted Lin Fan on the shoulder, “Brother, you may be old, but you haven’t reached the Celestial Realm yet? Don’t worry, as long as you’re with me now to conquer the world, you’ll advance one level in less than three months!”
The "Realm of Heaven and Man" refers to the Heaven-Man Sensing ability of a fourth-level martial artist, right? Lin Fan thought to himself, "Is this Heaven-Man Sensing ability really that useful?" The Painted Skin Spider's death wasn't unjust. Oh, she was already dead.
The Grand Commander stroked his smooth chin and chuckled, "Brother, why do you keep staring at my chin? Is there something wrong with it?"
"Wow, is the connection between heaven and man really that powerful?" Lin Fan had, of course, looked at the chin many times. The commander he saw eating noodles had a beard, as did the one who died outside earlier. Even the commander the knight mentioned who killed Zhan Peng had a beard.
But the one in front of him was not like that, how could he not be suspicious?
As if seeing through Lin Fan's doubts, the Grand Commander said, "Brother, you must have been on guard duty on the outer perimeter and are unaware of what has happened these past few days. My brother liked to keep a beard, and I always grew one too. Now that he's gone, I've shaved it off."
The commander-in-chief looked sad, but Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
Moreover, this situation allowed him to ask the question he most wanted to know: "Indeed, I'm completely baffled. Could the President please tell me what happened?"
"What's inconvenient about it?" The Grand Commander forced a smile. "Even if you hadn't asked, I would have told you anyway. Do you remember the doctor my brother brought with him from the Path of Fate? Let's start with him."