Chapter 3: Giant Spider

And just like that, his feet started moving by themselves.

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"Shit, he's not gonna let me go," Mo Fan said, the sound of tree branches breaking down echoing all over the forest as the giant spider passed through them, slowly reaching the blonde haired boy.

Now only twenty meters separated the predator from its prey.

*Screech*

*Screech*

The horrific spider screechings became only closer to Mo Fan's little ears, terryifing the poor kid "Fuck, i am gonna die, i am gonna die!!"

He ran with all of his might but, despite being the fastest kid of the Black Plum Village, his efforts were useless as he couldn't possibly escape from a 1st Order monster.

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The distance beetwen the predator and its prey became shorter and shorter, so much that Mo Fan was now in the spider's range: the spider rose one of his eight legs and pointed it at the blonde kid's back.

Its leg was about to grab Mo Fan when a huge log fell from the upper trees on four of the spider's legs, including the one that was about to grab the prey. Now, the spider had its movement restricted, meaning that Mo Fan had the time to escape and he didn't certainly waste this precious chance, so he continued to run, thanking the heavens in the meantime. "Thanks heaven for saving me"

He didn't even look back once as he didn't want to slow down even a bit, losing the sight of two monkeys giving him a middle finger: they made the heavy log fall from that height only to save him, whom they thought was one of them, and that ungrateful bastard didn't even thank them.

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"Pant...pant... i should be safe now" Mo Fan said, lying on a tree as he tried to recatch his breath a bit.

"Why don't I rest a bit here..." Mo Fan's eyes were closing due to all of the weariness that he was feeling, but suddendly the kid slapped himself: he couldn't certainly permit himself to sleep in such a dangerous forest.

He had to find a place to pass the night in, after all, he was lost in the middle of the Black Wind Forest and even if he know a way to somehow return back to the Black Plum Village, it would be to dangerous to move at night, so he had to spend the night somewhere anyway.

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He searched for a place and searched for a place nearby for almost an hour and he didn't find anything, until the scent of something burning wasn't caught by Mo Fan's nose "What's this scent? It feels like... chicken, but...also like cod!"

Mo Fan couldn't help himself, but follow that pleasant scent, finding a man grilling some meat on a bonfire. He quickly hid inside some bushes nearby without the man noticing, despite the kid making a lot of noise in the process.

"That meat look so good..." Mo Fan's mouth watered as it had already been quite a while since he last ate and so, he was naturally hungry, but he certainly couldn't just approach a complete stranger and ask him for food. After all, he recently learned that people aren't all good like his mother and his own father was the prime example.

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He continued to observe the man for a bit to see if he was dangerous, but the only things that the man did were eating or talking alone about what gift to give to his daughter.

So, Mo Fan came to conclude that this man wasn't evil and decided to ask to him some food, but just as the gold haired kid was about to come out of his hiding, the man spoke "You can come out, now, boy"

Mo Fan, now exposed, rushed out of his hiding and, as he scratched his head, he said with a smile "A-ah, sorry, i was just-"

But the old man, knowing that the kid was just probably lost or hungry, cut his words, asking the boy "Are you hungry, boy?"

"N-no, i'm not-" Mo Fan tried to say, before his stomach betrayed him by growling, making the blonde haired kid's skin colour turn red from the embarass.

"Take it" the old man threw a piece of meat to Mo Fan, who caught it and, with a smile on his face, thanked him, before sinking his teeth in it.

That meat was the sweetest that he ever ate, its flavour was similar to a chicken or a cod and, since Mo Fan's favourite food just happened to be chicken, he was loving it "So good! Old man, can I ask you what type of meat is this?"

"Oh, i am surprised that someone likes it" the man said, before pointing in a certain direction "I found a giant spider blocked under a huge log on my way to the village, so how could I have let all that food go to waste..."

"A spider locked under a huge log?" Mo Fan asked to the man, finding that situation familiar.

"Yes, it was quite strange. Black Tarantulas as small as those usually stay on the outer part of the forest to not come in contact with stronger beasts..." the old man fell into thoughts, while Mo Fan couldn't help, but be amazed. That fricking spider, which was big nearly as his whole house, was small?

While the old man thought, Mo Fan returned to devour the meat, which now seemed even sweeter to him since it was that fucking spider's.

Mo Fan quickly finished it and to his surprise another one was thrown to him by the old man, who snapped out of his thoughts right in that moment "Boy, you need to eat to grow well"

"T-thanks" Mo Fan thanked him, stuttering and the old man just smiled, before saying something with an absolute serious face "Boy, could I ask you what's that blood doing on your hands?"

At his question, Mo Fan's mouth, which was rapidly devouring the spider meat, quickly paralyzed. He had completely forgot about washing the blood away.

...to be continued

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