noffsinger Chapter 737 Searching for Second Sister
Chapter 737 Searching for Second Sister
Finding a constantly moving underground palace is extremely difficult unless you have superior tracking skills. Otherwise, locating the monster rats' stronghold in this intricate forest will be very challenging.
Of course, it's not that you can't find them at all. Just recently, monsters and humans went to war.
Unlike before, the rats, who had never cooperated before, have now joined the war. They are no longer carrion thieves, but have become true fanatical monsters.
They began to appear more actively in the forest, in greater numbers than ever before, and the rat swarms they unleashed destroyed countless human strongholds, becoming the second largest force in the monster army, almost on par with the kobolds.
Of course, as the scale of the war expands, the duration of the war will naturally increase accordingly, and at least in the short term, this war will not end.
Both humans and monsters need rest after a high-intensity battle, and Junkrat is no exception. However, unlike humans, they do not have a mature healing system and mostly rely on their own self-healing. Therefore, after conquering human strongholds, they often rest on the spot, since there are ready-made camps and they do not need to trouble the humans to build them.
Since they need to rest, they naturally need to eat, which is also a way to speed up recovery. Rats rarely carry food and usually eat the corpses of their enemies directly.
However, the number of corpses in a stronghold is always limited, and rat swarms are a fairly large group of organisms.
Therefore, when a stronghold gathers too many monster rats, some of the weaker monster rats will be driven away to find their own food. When it is time to fight, they will be summoned to fight.
To put it simply, they don't provide food but expect you to fight; they're undoubtedly heartless capitalists.
Although it seems cruel, almost all the rats accept this: the strong prey on the weak, and if they are unwilling to leave, they will be eaten by other powerful monster rats.
Therefore, once the rats start to settle down and rest, a large number of strange rat squads will start to leave. After all, the stronghold does not provide food for these weak rats. Whether they gnaw on trees or eat the ground, they have to find something to eat.
Compared to large, stationary swarms of rats, these lone individuals are clearly easier to catch.
The bright moon shone high, and the dense forest could block the moonlight, but it could not block the stench of blood.
Tick-tock~
A drop of blood fell from the spider silk. Watching the tall figure slowly emerge from the forest, the remaining strange rats trembled uncontrollably.
massacre!
A massacre!
From the start to the end of the battle, it only lasted a few dozen seconds. Before they could even figure out what was going on, their small team of dozens of strange rats was slaughtered down to only five.
These five were clearly left behind by the other side. Looking at that figure who resembled a god of death, the remaining strange rats trembled, their fighting spirit long gone, and their legs shaking so badly that they wished they could run away immediately.
However, they did not take any action, because the spider silk had already laid a net around them, and if they made the slightest mistake, they would turn from rats into rat pieces.
Therefore, even though their fear has reached its peak, they still dare not make any rash moves.
Now, all they can do is pray that the human on the other side will have mercy and spare them.
However, before they could even beg for mercy, the aloof woman who emerged from the darkness spoke first:
Have you seen this person before?
She held a portrait in her hand. The painter's skill was excellent, and it looked exactly like a real photograph. The portrait depicted a beautiful woman.
"N-no... I've never seen it before..."
The strange rat wasn't very smart to begin with. After staring at the portrait for a long time, it couldn't recall ever seeing this person before. Therefore, under the other party's pressure, it could only slowly give a disappointing answer.
"Are you sure?"
The aloof woman patiently asked again, clearly showing that this person was very important to her.
"Indeed...no, sir, please spare us! We've never been on the battlefield, nor have we killed any humans. If you spare us, we absolutely will not..."
The strange rats tried to recall again, but unfortunately, their brain capacity was limited, and they couldn't remember anything other than eating, sleeping, and whoring.
Compared to that, they were more concerned about their own lives. Seeing that the aloof woman did not kill them immediately, a glimmer of hope rose in their hearts, and they hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.
However, their kneeling and begging for mercy, and their incessant chatter, only made the aloof woman's brow furrow more and more.
"Please, we..."
Whoosh!!!
Before the strange rats could finish speaking, the aloof woman flicked her finger, and with a whoosh, a sharp spider silk thread twisted towards the necks of the remaining strange rats. Without any hesitation, as if cutting tofu, in the blink of an eye, the necks of those strange rats were severed.
Boom! ! !
Several bloody heads fell to the ground at the same time. Judging from their wide, desperate eyes, these guys must have died with their eyes wide open in disbelief.
However, the aloof woman didn't care; she was more concerned about the whereabouts of her sisters.
Yes, sisters.
call!!!!
A gentle breeze suddenly blew, the dense forest rustled softly, and a ray of moonlight shone through the gaps onto the cool and aloof woman, highlighting her beautiful face.
With her tall figure and aloof face, her beautiful hair was tied up with a hairpin, and her black makeup added a touch of allure. She simply stood there, exuding an indescribable charm.
Keep out of reach of strangers, that's obvious! This is a goddess of asceticism.
And her identity is naturally the fourth sister among the Spider Sisters, who has not yet appeared or been introduced. She is an extremely independent woman. Although she is not as lively as her younger sisters, nor as composed as her older sisters, she is strong in action and has a free and easy personality.
Simply put, she is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. It is precisely because of this personality that when she learned that her second sister was missing, she was the first to suggest going out to look for her.
Her tone was unquestionable, and she did not yield an inch, even when facing her eldest sister.
The eldest sister needs to think about it. The main reason she doesn't let her other sisters go out is that the forest environment is too complicated right now, with battles breaking out everywhere. Although the Spider Cave is hidden, it still needs high-level combat power to guard it.
Moreover, there was no news from my second sister at all, so if everyone rushed out to search, the efficiency wouldn't be improved much.
Therefore, the Spider Cave specially sent out several representatives to search, while the other sisters stayed at the base to oversee the situation. This was not because they did not care about their second sister's safety, but because it was the wisest choice given the current circumstances.
Fourth Sister was the first representative sent out, and she had been searching in this vast forest for some time, but...
The results were minimal...