Derek, whose face was so swollen that he was almost inhuman, tugged at the corner of his mouth and forced a smile: "Mike, I never thought I would see you again, but my current appearance is scary, right?"
Mike glanced at Sherron, and when he saw Sherron nodded, he hesitantly took two steps forward, came to Cocoon, raised his head and said, "Derek, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, Mike. I'm fine now. I've never been this good." Derek said quietly, "It's a pity that my research was not completely successful. Otherwise, I wouldn't be trapped here now, but should stand by you." I’m talking to you in front of you.”
Sherron stepped forward, stood side by side with Mike, and raised his voice: "Dr. Derek, tell me, what is going on?"
Derek sighed and said: "Actually, I have been conducting a secret research here for so many years, which is to study the relationship between humans and spiders to see if humans can directly command the actions of spiders."
"After my unremitting efforts, I finally extracted a certain ingredient from the spider's body and made a potion. As long as I take it with a specific spider at the same time, over time, a special telepathy will be established between me and those spiders."
"But this will take a long, long time. Maybe I will never see the day of success in my life. But in the past two days, the effect of the medicine has suddenly been greatly enhanced. I can vaguely feel that they are Emotions. For example, on the night of the accident, I could feel that the spiders I raised became very irritable and restless for some reason."
At this point, Derek couldn't help but sigh: "I was negligent. I thought they were not adaptable to this change, so they became a little excited and didn't take it to heart. Now that I think about it, they should It's warning me."
Xie Lun frowned and said: "Early warning?"
"Yes, early warning. I originally planned to wait until dawn to investigate the matter in detail. But in the middle of the night, my residence was attacked by another wave of spiders."
Mike couldn't help but said: "Another wave?"
"Yes, I suspect they may be local spiders that came from the swamp. There are not many varieties, but they are very ferocious and huge." Derek said with a bitter smile, "Thanks to the spiders I raised who fought to save me, they saved me I took it back from the mouths of those spiders and has been hiding here since then."
"During the battle that night, I was bitten by those spiders. The wounds festered and could not be healed. In addition, my body also began to gradually expand. In desperation, the spiders could only wrap me in a cocoon. They regularly use their toxins to neutralize the mutations in my body, but even so, I still became like this."
Derek paused and looked down at Mike: "Are you afraid that I'm like this, Mike?"
Mike shook his head: "I know you would never hurt me because we are friends, right, Derek?"
Derek laughed out loud when he heard this, and as he laughed, the nearby spiders also made "尜尜" sounds, seeming to be happy with Derek.
"I'm happy, I'm really happy. I still have friends now." Derek shook his head a few times and smiled, "But there's no need to be sad for me, my friend, don't look at me like this. My ability to sense spiders has been greatly improved. Now I can not only sense their thoughts, but I can even chat with them."
"So you can stop them from attacking us and lead us here, right?"
Sherron spoke.
Derek nodded: "You're right."
Xie Lun continued to ask: "What's the purpose?"
"I'm dying. The wounds cannot heal. Although the spider venom is neutralizing it, it is also eroding my body. I already feel that I don't have much time left."
Derek sighed and said: "But I don't want my research to be wasted and in vain, so I want to pass on my research results."
Xie Lun was startled, but he immediately reacted and looked down at Mike beside him: "You mean Mike?"
"Yes, only Mike will not waste my efforts, and only Mike is qualified to inherit my inheritance." Derek stretched his neck with some effort, "Let me have a few words with Mike alone. Really? By the way, they also captured two other people and locked them up over there. You can go and see them during this period."
Sherron looked at Derek deeply for a long time, finally nodded, patted Mike on the shoulder, and took the lead in turning around and walking aside.
After the others also left, Derek forced a smile: "Mike, come closer and let me take a good look at you."
Mike nodded, took a few steps forward, and walked under the cocoon. Seeing that Derek still couldn't see him clearly, he was so brave that he even used the big spider next to him as a ladder and climbed to the top of the opponent's head, so that he was at eye level with Derek.
"..."
Looking at the obedient spider at Mike's feet, Derek looked a little stunned, but then he laughed: "Okay, I really saw the right person. Mike, you are born with an affinity with spiders that you have never done before."
Mike looked at Derek worriedly: "Are you in pain now?"
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts very much, but when I see you, my friend, I don't feel the pain." Derek forced a smile, "Mike, you know? Before I met you, I thought I would Just like before, spending my life alone with those spiders."
"But after meeting you, I suddenly had a goal in life. I wanted to complete my research and then pass it on to you. But I originally wanted to wait until the thorough research was completed before giving it to you, but now it seems, I have to advance."
As Derek said, the cocoon on his body suddenly made a "clicking" sound, and cracks appeared. The cracks expanded rapidly, and eventually the entire cocoon shattered.
Just as Derek said, his whole body was swollen and swollen out of shape. Under Mike's shocked eyes, Derek tried his best to raise his hand, only to see a small glass bottle in his swollen hand.
Mike took the glass bottle and saw that there was a whole bottle of translucent pale white liquid in the glass bottle with the cork tightly plugged.
On the other side, Sherron, David and others came to the corner and looked at the two cocoons lying side by side on the ground. These two cocoons are different from other cocoons. Others are guarded by spiders, or are simply having a meal, but these two are just left in the corner, unattended... No, no spiders are guarding them.
Sherron and David looked at each other and took action at the same time, each responsible for a cocoon, tearing it open, and then revealing two pale and swollen faces.
"..."
Sherron and David looked at each other again, then lowered their heads at the same time to look at the two people carefully. After a while, they looked at each other again: "Well... you didn't recognize who the other person was?"
"Who is it? I haven't recognized it after looking at it for a long time. Why bother so much? Let me take a look."
Laput walked up to David, glanced down, and sneered: "Isn't this the son of that bastard mayor?"
"Bander?"
David's eyes widened, and he didn't expect that this kid was still alive.
Lapt walked over to Sherron again, and also only glanced at him. His whole body was shaken, he pushed Sherron away, threw himself on the cocoon and howled: "Corliss, my good nephew, why are you like this?" Let's go... It's pitiful that at my age, I have to give birth to people with white hair and give gifts to people with black hair. How will I live in the future..."
"Ahem..." Perhaps because Laput's scream was so unpleasant, Coris slowly opened his eyes and glanced at his aunt lying on him. He groaned in pain, "Okay, shut up. , Old woman, if you keep pressing me like this, I will really die..."