Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!

No, it wasn't just excitement, it was even starting to feel a bit sour.

"That Promotion Drive was clearly mine~"

"I was the first one to be caught here by Black Widow~"

"So, such an awesome character should have been mine originally...

"Why did it turn out like this?"

Although Gu Pan actually knew very well that the Promotion Drive was just a tool, what truly determined strength was the Transcendent themselves and the "Curse Seal" they harbored.

So, actually, whether Xu Shu's strength was great or not didn't really have much to do with her.

Does someone driving their own car fast have anything to do with you selling gasoline at the gas station?

But she just couldn't help feeling sour inside.

Oh, if I had harbored that Curse Seal, wouldn't I be the one Slaughtering All Directions right now?!

Sour!

So very sour!

Gu Pan stood there in a daze, the shock and sourness in her heart unable to subside for a long time.

It wasn't until Xu Shu, wearing a thick jacket, came in and stretched out his hand to her, "Where's your spray?"

"Spray? Oh, here." Gu Pan handed the body-temperature medicine spray to Xu Shu from her bosom.

After thinking about it, she still asked with concern, "Are you hurt somewhere? Do you need my help? I can help you apply the medicine, you know."

She had helped with medication before, so Gu Pan was not going to feel shy about it.

Even though this guy was a bit creepy and inexplicably reacted... it must just be because of his young blood, she guessed...

Gu Pan speculated wildly.

However, faced with her goodwill, Xu Shu's attitude suddenly became exceptionally cold: "Heh, you don't need to worry about that, you can go back to your cell now."

"Oh... eh???"

Gu Pan was first shocked, then confused.

Why? What did I do to you?

Xu Shu looked very displeased: "I have things to do, you can't be outside, go back to your 301."

"Ah? Okay, I guess, but I still haven't..." Gu Pan started to say something urgently.

But Xu Shu interrupted, "Delay it until tonight!"

"What? No, that's not what I'm talking about—hey hey, wahhhh—"

Before Gu Pan could finish her sentence, she was tossed into cell 301 like a little chick by Xu Shu, and then with a bang, the door was locked, the movements smooth and unhesitating, leaving no chance for her to explain.

"??? No, what are you doing~"

Gu Pan, who had been inexplicably scolded, was almost jumping with anger.

I was trying to say that I hadn't had a chance to go to the toilet yet!

I was just about to go!

I can hardly hold it anymore!

Hey, you, don't go...

Seeing Xu Shu leaving without looking back, heading to his warehouse area with no intention of further communication, Gu Pan's hands fell helplessly, and she felt like crying.

Clearly, he showed no signs of coming back!

"Why did this happen..."

Another half hour passed, and she clamped her legs, her face turning from pale to blue and shaking slightly.

In the end, she gritted her teeth, turned around, and looked under the bed.

Sorry, soup bowl...

Resigned, she closed her eyes, with crystalline tears streaming down the corners of her eyes.

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Unknown to the others, Xu Shu was also trembling all over!

Right after he walked into the warehouse with an impassive face, he immediately lay on the ground with a fierce expression, his complexion turning to a ghastly shade of blue-green as he convulsed like a person in the throes of epilepsy, curling up like a shrimp.

"Sss—ha!"

"Sss—ha!"

Xu Shu sounded like an asthma patient, the black blood quickly soaking through his thick coat.

After lying there for almost ten minutes, he convulsed like someone with Parkinson's as he removed his coat, revealing the terrible wound on his back.

Large areas of skin on his entire back looked as if they'd been doused in a highly corrosive liquid, leaving the flesh blurry and indistinct.

Tiny blood blisters kept forming as though there were worms crawling inside.

He had evidently been poisoned!

Xu Shu had been pretending to be unharmed just moments ago, not wanting Gu Pan to know he was seriously injured, even less to collapse in front of her, which was why he'd mustered the strength to lock her up before retreating to the warehouse.

In the end, Xu Shu didn't fully trust her, especially when he'd lost the ability to resist.

Human nature cannot withstand such tests.

Xu Shu trembled as he struggled to apply medicine to himself, a hissing spray on his back bringing a hint of coolness.

But this so-called 'miracle medicine' for stopping bleeding and growing flesh had almost no effect; his back was still painfully sizzling, as if a hot iron were continuously being applied, making Xu Shu look as pale as a Dead Man.

He really had run into trouble in the most unexpected place!

Xu Shu's mission had been to exterminate three Black Widow Spiders disguised as humans, and at first, everything went smoothly.

Because he had foreseen the future, when Xu Shu arrived at the abandoned clinic, he charged in like a Prophet, immediately taking down one with a steel spear and using Spit Silk to restrain another while controlling the last one with 'Seductive Eyes like Silk.'

With such preemptive tactics, he managed to eliminate the three bikini-clad Black Widows in the blink of an eye.

They died without realizing what had hit them, unable to comprehend how some greenhorn had barged in and snapped them all off like spiders.

Only some spider saliva was left on Xu Shu, along with bodily fluids from puncturing their abdomens; he didn't even have a scratch on him.

That was the terrifying aspect of a Prophet's killings!

Everything about you has already been known, even down to the exact moment you will take a step!

Adding to that, the gap in strength between them was not significant, and with the prepared taking on the unprepared, they stood no chance against Xu Shu, who effortlessly achieved a triple kill.

And he'd been careful, not lingering after his victory, and once he had taken the Erosion Crystals from them, he hurried back without stopping.

But that's exactly where the problem arose.

About two hundred meters from the prison, under some ruined walls, he unexpectedly encountered another Black Widow Spider, this time a male.

And because Xu Shu hadn't been careful to hide the sound of his footsteps on his way back, it ambushed him early on, spraying a mouthful of venom onto him.

If it weren't for his Warrior's robust body, and Xu Shu's last-ditch effort to dodge a direct hit to the face, he would probably be lying dead outside by now!

The battle revealed that this species' females seem unable to spit poison, only silk;

While the males only spit poison and not silk, and their venom is particularly potent.

Despite being ambushed, Xu Shu eventually cut that male spider down, it too was level five, but in a narrow passage, the braver one wins, and it was outmatched by Xu Shu's valor.

This was also why Xu Shu had returned with not three, but four Erosion Crystals.

The extra one belonged to the male spider.

"So why are there male Black Widows among them? Don't they understand what 'widow' means?"

Xu Shu panted heavily, black poisoned blood starting to ooze from his ears and nostrils.

The spider's venom was terrifying, not just harming the skin but penetrating into the blood, still relentlessly eroding Xu Shu's life.

Ordinarily, any person would not last half an hour before collapsing dead.

"Fortunately, as a Warrior, my physique is extremely strong. What is spider venom to me?"

Xu Shu, with a deathly pale face, curled up on the ground, his eyes resolute: "I can hold on for at least two sessions!"

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