605 Kokoon

"Hmm?"

A hissing, discordant hum exploded in all of their heads, momentarily making them dizzy and causing the more feeble-minded to faint. The inhuman droning sound was enough to make one break out in a cold sweat, instilling in the few survivors a primal fear.

Struggling to hold the creature's gaze as it oppressed them indiscriminately, Jake managed to squint and put a name to the overpowering alien levitating like an indifferent god above them.

It was an insect. More precisely, a kind of spider, but with more legs.

The thing had a span of less than two meters and twelve hairy legs, but its shiny black abdomen was completely hairless. From the mandibles, to the multiple pairs of eyes, this thing looked like some kind of alien spider, although genetically speaking it most likely had no common DNA with its Earth counterparts.