Chapter 140: Spidary Queen

Sunny could also feel the irritated gazes from everyone, and for a moment, he fell silent, not daring to say anything.

Selina let out a sigh and continued, “I think we should investigate the surroundings first. If we do not discover anything, then we can move on to the room containing the lighthouse lamp.”

At that moment, everyone’s eyes focused on the notebook on the table.

Rover frowned. His shadow stretched out, turning into a thread as it crawled across the ground, then climbed up the table leg and moved onto the tabletop.

Although the notebook was less than two meters away from him, for safety reasons, doing it this way was still better.

The moment the shadow touched the notebook, Rover sensed a stream of information, then the shadow vanished. He nodded and said, “Safe!”

Rover stepped forward, picked up the notebook, then began opening it from the first page.

Although the notebook was old and worn, the handwriting and the pages were still in good enough condition for all the information on it to be seen clearly.

[Day xx month xx year xxx: Failed, all of them are dead, why am I still alive? Is this punishment for me?]

Everyone frowned. Although it was indeed hard to understand, no one said anything and they continued reading.

[Day xx…: This place is truly quiet, there is nothing at all, only the sound of waves crashing, but there really is nothing at all. So quiet…]

[Day xx…: Truly boring, there is nothing here, a few birds crashed into the lighthouse glass shield and died, what a bunch of idiots.]

[Day xx…: More people died again. How many more have to die before they stop? We simply cannot win.]

[Day xx…: Damn it! What are those idiots trying to do? Do they think that pile of warships can destroy them? Ridiculous, they are not ordinary creatures, they are monsters.]

[Day xx…: Just as I thought, all of them died. But those idiots only made the tear even wider. Everyone will die anyway, hahaha…]

[Day xx…: I saw it. Even though it is more than a thousand miles away from here, I can still see it, that tear…]

After that were many blank pages, as if the writer of this diary had died and could no longer continue writing.

Even so, Rover still flipped through all the remaining pages to check, and he discovered that the final page had content, but the handwriting was completely different, as if it had been written by someone else.

[Day xx…: This world has not ended yet, we still have a chance. The System has descended, our hope has been lit once more. The government is about to successfully develop a supernatural drug, we can fight back.]

[Day xx…: We failed. The government has collapsed. Their research has become the greatest joke in this world. The fog has begun to engulf this world, and they have arrived as well.]

[Day xx…: I saw it! It is… it really looks like something from mythology, an Evil God? No, Cthulhu, no, it is something similar.]

[Day xx…: I cannot endure it anymore. Farewell.]

That was the end of the entire content. Everyone fell into silence, especially Rover. He seemed able to connect this information with what he had heard from the Dark Lord and what he had learned from the mission at the mental hospital.

He had also begun to imagine why this world had become what it was now.

But… did that matter?

So what if he understood everything clearly? If he did not have enough strength, then no matter how much he knew, it would still be meaningless.

Only when he was strong enough, unafraid of any existence, would he think about investigating this world.

Because of that, he shook his head and softly said, “Sunny, keep this notebook.”

“Heh?! Why?” Sunny asked in confusion.

“I do not want to know too much about this world, but you are different. You are a Lamp-bearer. You move through the fog, so the more you know about this world, the more it will help with your missions.”

Hearing Rover’s words, Sunny nodded lightly. He picked up the notebook, then put it into his backpack.

“You do not want to know the reason why this world became like this? Or the reason why we are here?” Sunny asked.

Rover shook his head and said, “I do not want to know, and I am also afraid that if I learn too much, I will get dragged into unnecessary trouble. To me, becoming stronger is the prerequisite.”

“If I want to investigate this world, I will wait until I have enough ability to protect myself against those unknown existences in this world. At that time, perhaps I will think about uncovering some of those secrets.”

Sunny nodded in response. “You’re right. Then… if I get any information in the future, I’ll send it to you. Even if I become a Lamp-bearer, I can still message and trade with you.”

Rover nodded, and their gazes lifted upward.

That was where the lighthouse lamp was supposed to be placed. However, none of them wanted to go up there, and instead, they focused on the steel door leading outside.

Sunny frowned and hurriedly said, “I… I have a very uneasy feeling, as if my intuition is telling me that we absolutely should not open that door.”

Rover nodded. “I have that feeling too.”

He was not lying. His [Intuition] skill was also telling him that he could not open that door.

Rover glanced at Elith and frowned as he asked, “Is there anywhere else you have not explored?”

Elith pressed her lips together and said, “Actually, I have explored quite a few rooms, and I felt there was nothing strange about this place. It’s just… if you want, I can take you to see those rooms.”

To avoid missing any hidden secret, he let Sunny decide. After all, with that terrifying luck, Sunny would definitely discover something Elith had failed to notice.

Sunny agreed, but afterward, everyone was disappointed because there truly was nothing left here.

After spending a long time, with not much to show for it, Sunny shook his head and said, “Good! That’s enough! I’m leaving first, I still have things to do.”

Rover waved his hand and said, “Alright! If there are any missions that need cooperation, just tell me.”

Sunny did not say much. He opened his information panel, then directly chose to leave this mission.

Rover, Selina, and Elith remained behind.

Although there was nothing valuable in this place, those corpses were an enormous treasure to him.

He returned to the great hall from before and began using the [Reclaim] function on those corpses.

[Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully reclaimed the corpse of a Spidary and received 5,500 Omni Points.]

[Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully reclaimed the corpse of a Spidary and received 6,700 Omni Points.]

[Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully reclaimed the corpse of a Spidary and received 9,000 Omni Points.]

…

The System notification kept ringing nonstop. Although the sound was grating, it was like the bank message notification sound on payday.

Even though it was grating, it was still the most wonderful sound he wanted to hear.

It took nearly 2 hours before Rover finished reclaiming all nearly 1,000 corpses in this place. Happily, he looked at his current amount of Omni Points.

[Omni Points: 6,257,600 points.]

Rover felt as if he had just won the lottery. Even if he had not received the two supply crates after completing this mission, just harvesting more than 1.2 million Omni Points alone was enough to make him grin in satisfaction even in his sleep.

Even winning the lottery might not have made him this happy.

6.2 million Omni Points, how many days would it have taken him to gather such a gigantic amount of Omni Points?

“With this amount of points, I can comprehensively upgrade my room.” Rover thought to himself.

At that moment, his gaze landed on the Spidary Queen’s corpse.

He had [Reclaimed] all the corpses of those Spidary, leaving only the Spidary Queen’s corpse behind.

Rover frowned. Two choices now appeared in his mind, either continue and reclaim the Spidary Queen’s corpse as well, or not.

He was only worried that reclaiming the Spidary Queen’s corpse might cause some kind of trouble afterward.

After all, the Spidary Queen was still a Queen. There was definitely some secret inside, or something that could make anyone disrespecting her corpse suffer a heavy price.

Rover thought for a moment, then gave the order: “Reclaim!”

After all, once reclaimed, even the magic existing within the corpse would be broken down by the System, so he did not need to worry too much.

Immediately afterward, the Spidary Queen’s corpse instantly crumbled into ashes.

[Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully reclaimed the corpse of the Spidary Queen and received 270,000 Omni Points. Current Omni Points: 6,527,000.]

Rover took a deep breath, a sense of unease rising in his heart. It was not because he had just reclaimed the Spidary Queen’s corpse, but because the amount of Omni Points was too much.

One had to know that even when he reclaimed Zombie Tankers or Hunters, it only gave a few hundred points at most.

Then… just how powerful was the Spidary Queen for her to be worth 270k points?

Even for an ordinary Spidary, the lowest amount he had gotten was still 5.5k points.

Could it be that this race was truly that overwhelmingly superior? Or was it because he had only just entered the second game round, so he had not yet fully experienced the terror of the monsters in this world?

But no matter which case it was, he needed to become stronger as quickly as possible.

A sense of unease swept through his heart, urging him to develop faster.

Otherwise, by the time he encountered monsters as powerful as the Spidary or the Spidary Queen, then even if he possessed an SSS Rank Class, his death would still be a normal outcome.

“Watch out!” Suddenly, Selina’s voice rang out, pulling Rover out of his thoughts.

A powerful force shoved him to the side, allowing him to narrowly avoid a cold gust that swept past his body.

Selina hugged him and rolled across the ground several times before they could stop. Rover hurriedly steadied himself, his gaze landing on the white shadow that had just brushed past him.

“That is…” Rover was shocked when he saw that white shadow, and he stammered, “The… the Spidary Queen!!”

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