Zombie King Babysits the Reborn Empress

Chapter 496: Chapter 507: Venomous Zombies!

Blue Water City District.

After a brief agitation, peace returned once more.

One by one, the adult Human-faced Spiders returned to the center of their webs, lying quietly.

However, some newly born Human-faced Demon Spider hatchlings were crawling around on the webs, making their way to the hanging spider cocoons, devouring the liquified prey bodies inside.

The streets, as if aged for a hundred years, were incomparably quiet.

Hiss hiss hiss～

Suddenly, the cement slab at the corner drainage vent began to stir, as if something was pushing from below.

Then, the cement slab slowly moved aside, revealing a thin and mud-covered human face.

It was a frail young man, his eyes filled with endless terror.

He shakily crawled out from the sewer, cautiously stepping onto the street.

Leaning against a wall, he glanced at the threads above fearfully and quietly crept forward.

He dared not make too much noise, for if these horrifying spiders noticed him, he would become another cocoon on their webs.

Soon, the disheveled young man skillfully made his way to a nearby small supermarket.

Once inside, the starved and thirsty young man quickly grabbed a bottle of mineral water, and guzzled it down feverishly.

It took a full ten seconds for him to finish the bottle’s contents, after which he exhaled deeply with relief.

To evade the giant spiders that had overrun the entire city, he could only hide in the lightless sewers.

He wouldn’t come out unless his food supplies were completely exhausted.

Grabbing a few expired cream cookies from a nearby shelf to fill his stomach, he opened his backpack and packed bottled water, cookies, and other supplies inside.

Once his backpack was fully stocked, he stepped out of the supermarket, content.

He was just about to head back the way he came.

Whoosh!

A sound of something slicing through the air reached from above.

“Ah!”

The young man paused, and before he could react, a thread of spider silk snatched him up into the sky, and the terrified young man screamed in horror.

In a matter of seconds, the spider silk had lifted him between two buildings, beneath the enormous web stretching across them.

At the center of this massive web lay a sixth-order Human-faced Demon Spider, its size comparable to an off-road vehicle.

Clearly, the young man had unwittingly drawn the attention of this sixth-order Human-faced Demon Spider Commander.

Unlike other webs, beneath the web of this sixth-order Demon Spider lay a scattering of grim human bones, indicating this spider had a peculiar appetite for humans.

The spider silk tightened rapidly, drawing the struggling young man closer and closer to the web.

The sixth-order Demon Spider Commander in the center slowly moved to the edge of the web, eyes fixed greedily on its approaching prey.

“Ah～～ Don’t eat me, don’t eat me!”

The young man let out a helpless scream, his body trembling with fear.

Just then.

BOOM～

The ground shook as if a thousand horses were charging, and the whole city echoed with a booming noise.

The Demon Spider swarms, extremely sensitive to such vibrations, immediately became restless, their black spider eyes turning towards the western sky filled with dust.

A dark mass like a black tide, a Corpse Tide surged into the Blue Water City District, dividing into streams as it advanced swiftly along the streets, engulfing the Demon Spiders along the way.

“Hiss～”

Witnessing the scene, the sixth-order Human-faced Demon Spider perched at the highest point of the city flashed a murderous glint in its eight eyes before letting out an ear-piercing screech that resonated throughout the spider group.

Immediately, the Human-faced Demon Spiders in various parts of the city seemed to have received an order, all emitting sharp cries and then charging towards the direction of the zombies.

Soon, swarms of thousands of Human-faced Demon Spiders turned into another dark tide themselves, surging towards the Corpse Tide.

Whether on the streets or buildings, everywhere was crawling with Human-faced Demon Spiders of all sizes.

BOOM!

The next moment, the unstoppable Corpse Tide collided directly with the Human-faced Spider tide.

As the battle commenced, Lu Chuan’s side displayed overwhelming superiority.

A large number of Human-faced Spiders spewed webs and silk, attempting to entangle these advancing zombies.

Unexpectedly, the sheer number of zombies simply tore through the dense webs.

Moreover, although many zombies were pulled into the sky by the webs of Human-faced Spiders from the buildings, Lu Chuan’s Flame Corpse Puppets immediately took action.

Fiery long blades condensed in mid-air, sweeping across and severing all the silk threads and causing the airborne zombies to plunge back into the Corpse Tide.

Then, sheets of fire spread out, engulfing the surrounding spider swarms, causing the heat-intolerant Human-faced Spiders to explode one after another.

The potent venom that these spiders once relied upon failed them entirely, and the Human-faced Spider swarm crumbled at the mere touch, getting overrun instantly by the Corpse Tide.

Soon, the swarm of Human-faced Spiders that had overrun the entire Blue Water City District was completely wiped out under Lu Chuan’s heavy assault.

As the battle drew to a close, even the sixth-order Demon Spider Commander, still smoldering, tried to flee but was riddled with holes by Flyer One’s Flying Heaven Scale Armor.

Moments later, the Corpse Tide halted its advance, as Lu Chuan and Ji Ruxue flew in from the rear, avoiding any poison.

“Dad, these Human-faced Spiders met their nemesis when they met you.”

Seeing the ground littered with spider carcasses, Ji Ruxue’s eyes gleamed as she recalled how the Human-faced Spiders were soundly defeated, and she couldn’t help but smile.

The most formidable aspect of the Human-faced Spiders was their venom, yet against the Corpse Tide, it amounted to nothing.

Lu Chuan chuckled, then commanded the zombies to dig out all the Demon Pills for Little Qiqi.

“Dad, I’ll go process these Demon Pills first.”

Clutching a bag full of Demon Pills, Ji Ruxue happily turned and ran towards the convoy.

Meanwhile, Lu Chuan’s gaze shifted to the Human-faced Spider bodies on the ground.

Venom?

It might be useful in the future…

Then, Lu Chuan commanded ten fifth-order Corpse Puppets to begin devouring the Human-faced Spiders’ corpses, enacting “Devouring Evolution”.

As time passed, the blood glow around the ten fifth-order Corpse Puppets grew increasingly brilliant, and they began undergoing significant transformations.

“Roar!”

Within the blood glow, the ten Corpse Puppets’ agonized howls continuously resounded.

Half a moment later, the Devouring Evolution finally concluded, and the transformation of the ten Corpse Puppets was complete.

As the blood glow dissipated, the ten fused Human-faced Spider-bodied Corpse Puppets revealed their form.

It was evident that the original bodies of the ten Corpse Puppets had vanished, transformed instead into the form of Demon Spiders.

However, compared to the Human-faced Demon Spiders, the Corpse Puppets were overall slimmer, their surface pale, and their ability to spit silk was much less.

Lu Chuan smiled.

Not bad, through Devouring Evolution, all ten Corpse Puppets gained the venomous trait!