Chapter 4 Restless Night (2)

The thousands of small palm-sized red eyes surrounded Fang's body while leaving an open path for their leader to walk on as it approached Fang's unconscious body that lay face flat on the ground and open its mouth that had pincers protruding from the sides of its hard black exoskeleton. The creature had eight hairy legs and resembled a spider back on earth except for its mouth that constantly kept oozing a green liquid that has corrosive effects. The green liquid had a repulsive stench that filled the entire room, the black hairy spider shot out a sticky white tread and wrapped Fang in a cocoon.

The giant hairy spider commanded its minions to carry Fang and place him in a pit filled with webs, corpses and was crawling with thousands of tiny spiders that seem to have hatched very recently. The spiders that flooded the entrance of the cave were about the size of a 10-year-old child and weighed 45 pounds each with an exoskeleton that was as hard as iron. The spiders tossed Fang's body into the pit without any regard for his well being, Fang's body crashed against the wall of the pit and landed on a mountain of corpses with some of them have already turned into skeletons. The mountain of corpses reeked of rotten flesh and all manner of weird insects were crawling and feeding on the rotten corpses, the revolting stench that filled the air made Fang's nostrils sting causing his body to constantly twitch.

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Fang stood in a pitch-black area that resembled the void itself with his right hand grabbing his face tightly until vanes appeared on his handsome face as intense pain was surging throughout his body but every time he examined it to find the source of his torment he came up with nothing because his skin was smooth without even a single scarlet alone injury Fang's skin was naturally smoother than most women thanks to his introvert tendencies. The pain coursing through his body lasted only a few minutes before dissipating completely without leaving a trace, the pain was replaced by a warm and comfy feeling that made him feel as though he was wrapped in a blanket making his mind feel at ease.

The moment Fang's mind relaxed the endless darkness that shrouded the entire area vanished and was replaced by a large bustling city that look very majestic to the point of being able to make one's heart skip a beat just by gazing upon it. In front of Fang's eyes was a humble noodle shop that he used to always visit whenever he was out of his room, Fang entered the humble-looking noodle shop with an extremely warm smile "boss Huang give me the usual" Fang said to the elderly man who looked to be around his 50s before even taking a sit causing the man who seemed to be the boss of this establishment to tilt his head to see who was making the order.

The elderly man saw who it was a released a light chuckle before replying "so it's you brat, I was wondering how long it takes for you to leave your room and get some real food I mean look at yourself you're all skin and bones" when Fang heard Mr Huang he revealed a helpless expression cause he, himself knew that Mr Huang was right.

"Hehehe it can't be helped since that's the price to pay for being a shut-in" Fang tried to justify his introvert tendencies in the best way that he could but that only made Mr Huang mad as he scolded him "why... you... little...brat!! how dare you spout bullshit straight to my face do I look that old to you!! you're just too lazy to bother yourself with anything besides what appears on the screen of that computer of yours frankly if you ask me your looks are wasted on you! from dawn to dusk you stay cooped up in your room glued to your computer when you should be going out there and finding yourself a nice girlfriend! when I was your age..." Mr Huang kept shouting none stop to the point that Fang's ears felt like they were going to bleed.

When the sound of shouting spread across the entire shop a small fragile-looking figure burst through the kitchen doors carrying a large metal spoon, when Fang saw the small figure he greeted her with a soft voice that was immensely different from the one he used when he spoke with Mr Huang "good morning Xiao Ling, lovely weather we're having isn't it" when the little Xiao Ling heard the sweet voice that seemed to pierce deep into her soul causing her heartbeat to rise drastically and her small cute face to become as red as a tomato.

Xiao Ling gathered what little courage she could and muttered softly "Big brother F-Fang y-you're here!?" Xiao Ling's small frame made her look as though she was 14 or 15 even though she was sixteen years old when Mr Huang saw his daughter's flustered expression he released a helpless sigh before walking to her and patting her head "the brat I mean Fang would like to have his usual dish so I'm trusting you to prepare it for him after all a good wife must be able to cook for her husband" Mr Huang teased his daughter and took a secret glance at Fang only to find out that he was blushing as well, seeing the sight of these two love birds Mr Huang released yet another helpless sigh. Fang who was originally blushing like a school girl felt his body knocking against something hard and intense pain on his rib cage as well as a stinging sensation in his nostrils made him instantly regain his consciousness.

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In the dark cave inside the pit full of corpses, a hand tore through one of the many cocoons that littered inside the cave and shredded the sticky cocoon that hasn't fully dried to piece and slowly stood up to its feet as it Annalised it's surroundings only to find itself standing on a mountain of corpses with thousands of small spiders with staring at him with their red eyes and their small mouths oozing small poisonous droplets. The figure who stood on top of the mountain of corpses was Fang whose expression was incredibly cold after being awoken from his wonderful dream with the only people he truly cared for 'Mr Huang, Xiao Ling both of you wait for me I'll return to your shop someday I promise' after making his heartfelt promise Fang stared coldly at the spiders as he reached into his pocket grabbing something within and pulling it out. Unlike before where he'd run or hide at the first sight of a beast this time things were different cause this time he had a secret weapon that's highly effective against these spiders.

When the spiders were still deciding whether to keep observing or attack Fang stared at his clenched right hand that was holding his secret weapon within, Fang slowly opened his clenched right hand revealing a small lighter that was laying peaceful in his palm and his cold expression changed into a twisted grin that contained all his suffering and rage displaying it on his face for all to see. Fang lowered his legs into a squatting position and lit a nearby cocoon and kicked it towards the area with the densest number of spiders before the flames on the cocoon spread to his cocoon which would be equal to committing suicide.

The flames spread throughout the pit in a short amount and caused the spiders to flee from the pit while a large number of them died and fell to the ground, even though the spiders had a strong exoskeleton but their internal organs were highly fragile so when Fang set them on fire the flames did no damage to their bodies but the same could not be said for their internal organs cause the strong heat from the flames fried them into a crisp. Fang was not immune to fire and also suffered a few burn marks and his lungs were filled with toxic gas that came from the burning corpses when he climbed out of the pit which now looked like the fiery hot pits of hell.

The small spiders that managed to escape ran around in a frenzy hoping to run away from the fire but alas how can someone run away from something that was on their body and one after another die while some spread the fire on the surface of the cave before eventually dying as well. The thousands of larger spiders panicked at the sight of fire as if they were staring at their natural predator, Fang saw the panicked spiders that were gathered in a large crowd around the fire and saw a chance to escape through the narrow entrance that he came through and subconsciously wondered if there was another exit inside this because nothing else could explain how the leader of the spiders got inside the cave.

Fang retreated to the narrow entrance and heard a loud shriek coming from behind him and turned his head on instinct to check for any kind of danger but saw the large group of spiders that were gathered around the fire shootout their venom Hoping to put out the fire but unfortunately for them, the venom instead acted as gasoline and with so much of it the flames burst out from the pit like a large explosive and swept the spiders away with its powerful force directly slamming them against the wall before swallowing them back up as it rapidly advanced in all directions. Fang saw the scene from beginning to end as cold sweat formed of his head as he tried desperately to squeeze through the narrow entrance which only took him only a couple of seconds at the expense of his tracksuit which had already suffered damage from this whole ordeal got torn an on its chest area which was leaking blood as it seems that the sharp rock tore through his skin as well.

The cave that was originally black was not bright red and if one looked inside all they would see are a pile of burnt corpses that were ingulphed in a sea of flames, Fang bared with the pain and walked towards the tree that he swung on earlier with much struggle and played against the tree and stared at the sky which had turned brighter as the lustrous light slowly rose from the horizon marking the end of Fang's second night in the wilderness.