Chapter 124 [0122] Reason

Lux's situation is very dangerous.

At this time, she only relied on her rich combat experience to prevent Iris from realizing that she was already at the end of her strength.

But no matter how dangerous it is, Lux is still conscious and calm.

In the simulation training, she has experienced enough "deaths", which allows her to remain calm even in extremely dangerous situations and look for opportunities to turn the tables.

So, where is the opportunity?

Silently estimating her own state, Lux's judgment is: if she wants to win, the only chance is to seriously injure Iris's body.

There are too many spiders around, and there are also self-destructing spiders among them. Iris is still hiding behind...

It's too difficult.

Raising the shield again, she knocked a spider that pounced on her away, and shook off the sticky liquid on it. Lux took a deep breath while sweeping the sword.

There is still a chance, there must be a chance!

Regardless of her physical exhaustion, she swept continuously on the spot, temporarily forcing the surrounding spiders to retreat. Taking advantage of this critical gap, she tried hard to recall Iris's every move and every word, trying to find the flaws she accidentally revealed from the details.

What Iris had said and done, Lux quickly went through her mind.

From the obscene words when she appeared, to her cautious attack method, to the self-destructing spider, and the spider silk thrown after the self-destructing spider hit her...

Wait, spider silk!

Why did she suddenly turn back to human form and throw out a ball of spider silk mixed with shadow energy when she was hit by the venom splashed by the self-destructing spider for the first time?

Why did this vicious woman who had been hiding at the end from the beginning suddenly change her tactics and take the initiative?

Why did she suddenly retreat behind the spider group again after taking the initiative?

In the blink of an eye, an unclear clue quickly formed in Lux's mind. She swung her sword again, sweeping away a group of spiders rushing towards her - and then, she finally made up her mind.

The next moment, two self-destructing spiders jumped out of the spider group again, one after the other, and rushed towards Lux. This time, she successfully avoided the feint attack of the one in front, but was pounced on by the one behind.

"Ah--"

With a low cry of pain, the self-destructing spider exploded on her back.

The smelly venom splashed out with amazing shadow energy. This time, even if Lux fell forward quickly, she still couldn't avoid it.

The coat outside the rune steel armor was eroded, and Lux's back neck was a bloody mess.

Lux, who fell in the spider group, barely turned over and tried to stand up, but failed several times.

In this situation, she could only wave her weapon like a madman and wail in pain.

Under the protection of the rune steel armor, her small body twitched from time to time, and white foam finally overflowed from the corners of her tightly pursed mouth.

In her hand, the light of the sword and shield was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this scene, Elise finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This difficult little girl was finally poisoned.

The manifestation of spider poison is like this - twitching, breathing difficulties, drooling at the corners of the mouth, many people have fallen in front of Elise like this, and Elise will give them different endings according to the value of the other party.

The insignificant guys will become the food of ordinary spiders.

The valuable guys will become the hatchery of self-destructing spiders.

And like Lux... Elise will use spider silk to tie her into a cocoon and bring her back to the Despicable Throat - the rhythmic spider silk will squeeze Lux's front heart, allowing her to maintain the most basic breathing, so as not to suffocate to death under the effect of neurotoxins.

Cautiously, Elise threw out a ball of spider silk. Lux on the ground seemed to want to dodge, but failed to do so after all. In Elise's satisfied eyes, she was tightly wrapped by the ball of spider silk.

It's done.

Waving her hand to repel the pets who wanted to eat, Elise stepped on high heels and came to Lux.

"What a lovely girl." She leaned down and made more spider silk. "Unfortunately, you chose the wrong opponent-"

Before she finished speaking, a dazzling strong light suddenly lit up from the spider silk cocoon. The amazing light pierced the tough spider silk and hit Elise herself without warning.

This beam of light seemed to be a physical spear, piercing through Elise's human body and completely piercing her entire lower left abdomen.

Under this amazing blow, Elise was picked up and thrown horizontally for several meters, and fell directly into the spider group.

At the same time, the unfinished spider silk cocoon on the ground was broken into pieces, and Lux ​​gritted her teeth and flapped her pure light-forged wings, emerging from the cocoon as a butterfly!

After landing, Elise quickly transformed into a spider form, with eight eyes looking at Elise viciously.

"You deceived me!" In the spider form, her voice was sharp and piercing, "You are not poisoned at all!"

"I have never been poisoned by spider poison." Lux leaned over and picked up her "sword and shield", waved her hand to sweep away the spiders around, and strode towards Elise, "But I have seen a lot of other poisons - it seems that I guessed right, these toxins have similar manifestations!"

Elise made a harsh neighing sound from her mouthparts, seemingly cursing Lux for her cunning, but at the same time, her eight legs were retreating involuntarily.

She... was scared.

Being hit by Lux's light-forged spear would definitely cause serious injury even to Elise.

In addition, Lux, who spread a pair of light wings, did not look tired at all. After assessing the enemy's situation, she thought she should retreat.

There is no point in continuing to fight. I am just here to help Cassiopeia, there is no need to fight hard!

As a chosen one of the Spider God, the Vile Maw, Elise has a long lifespan. She is not willing to put herself here for someone else's mission!

Therefore, as Lux pressed closer and closer, she simply retreated quickly, quickly retreating into the spider web she had laid out before, then hoisted herself up in a coil of silk, and her figure quickly disappeared into the shadows.

Lux, on the other hand, was chasing after her like crazy. After destroying a large number of cannon fodder spiders that were blocking her, she finally leaned slumped against an abandoned wall.

After a moment, the blue bird hovering in the sky landed back on her shoulder.

"Is she dead?"

"Let's go - she had already prepared the spider web for escape, and quickly left Za'an hanging on the spider web. Even though her movements were not very agile, Ino did not keep her."

"What a shame, you said she was a chosen one from the Maw of Despicability?"

"Yes, he must be the chosen one of that big spider."

"Despicable Throat..." Lux nodded, "I have recorded this account."

"Compared to the Despicable Maw, you should think more about yourself." Janna sighed, "Ino and the others are coming soon. I heard that you are injured, and Ino is about to die."

"Ah, this..." Lux struggled to get up, but finally sat there helplessly, "This is embarrassing. It's time for Kalya to say I'm embarrassed again."

"No, it's not shameful at all." Janna gently summoned a breeze, "How did you know that after you were poisoned, she would wrap her web around you and take the initiative to get close to you?"

"Because that's what she did when the poisonous spider self-destructed for the first time." A pale smile appeared on Lux's face, "She seemed to have made up her mind to control me as long as I was poisoned - Spider Silk It is the best cover for me to hide my light-forged spear, and it also allows her to take the initiative to get closer to me."

"So you are not actually poisoned." Janna, who has little combat experience, does not know much about this kind of intrigue between people. "But I clearly saw a spider behind you exploding..."

"That was the light's trick. There were two spiders that exploded, and the venom was only sprinkled on the armor on the back, not my neck." Lux twitched the corner of her mouth, "Thanks to her attacking from the front and back, she gave me The space to pull.”

"You really acted like one." Janna flapped her wings twice, "That twitching look, and the biting lip but couldn't help drooling, and the look of being out of breath."

"Thank you for the ordinary poisonous spider that was used as a cover. Its body fluids are also toxic to a certain extent. I just exaggerated the performance a little." Lux twisted her neck slightly, opened her mouth, and breathed hard for two seconds. He said, "Things like poisoning become stereotyped after you have experienced them too much... This is what Kalya taught you."

The green bird flapped its wings twice and finally stopped asking any more.

However, she decided to ask Kalya later and ask what he had taught Lux - obviously your previous teaching was not like this!

……………………

When Ino and others arrived at the scene, everything had settled.

The blue bird flew onto Ino's shoulder and briefly told her about the battle just now.

And when Ino looked at Lux who was in a very embarrassed state, with patches of white and black armor in front of her, Ino almost ran away on the spot - the temperature around her began to drop rapidly. If it hadn't been for Kalya's reminder, she even had a faint tendency to lose control of her magic power. .

"My fault, it's all my fault." Ino held Lux ​​in his arms and put the sword into her hand. "If I couldn't figure it out and needed Kalya's help, you could No need to face such danger..."

"What are you talking about?" Lux shook her head weakly, "It's the same with Kalya here - and it's my choice to stay here and fight."

"My mission is to protect you." Ino obviously disagreed with this statement and shook his head stubbornly, "Promise me that you will leave as soon as possible next time you encounter this kind of situation, okay?"

"That's right." Hilko, whose face looked much better, nodded, "You are very important..."

Behind Hilko, Fandel also nodded.

"No, I won't leave." Lux said weakly but firmly, "Even if it happens again, I won't leave."

"Don't be brave!" Ino was a little anxious, "You were almost in danger!"

"I am indeed a little scared, but it's not because of the danger." Lux seemed to have regained some strength and struggled to stand up. "Come on, come with me and you will understand."

Ino really wanted Lux ​​to return to the tavern to recuperate immediately, but Lux insisted on her own opinion. In this case, she could only follow Lux back to the place where she met Talon.

Here, Lux ignored the stacked spider corpses and followed the traces of spider silk into a remote alley.

This is a residential area.

In other words, a slum - according to Zaun's standards, it can be considered a slum.

However, although it is dilapidated and deserted, each house at least still looks like a home, with the fence-like doors and windows tightly closed.

Counting the time, it should be time for everyone to get up, but there was silence in this alley, as quiet as a ghost.

Even though she had been mentally prepared, Lux's face was still as heavy as water when she saw this scene.

And behind her, whether it was Ino or others, their hearts were also in silence, sinking to the bottom little by little.

"Do you remember this place?" Lux whispered, "Ever since we started cleaning the mine, we have passed by the entrance of the alley every day."

Ino said nothing.

No one else spoke.

"This place is close to the mining area, and it is also the most fringe place in Zaun." Walking in the deserted, cramped alley, Lux continued, "Don't talk about the Picheng people, even the Zaun people are actually not Understand and don’t care here.”

"Actually, I don't know much. I only know that when I pass by from Fulgan's Tavern to the mine every day, I say hello to them, and they also say hello to me." Standing in a place that was obviously specially leveled out In the open space, Lux pointed to the target painted with unknown paint on the wall next to her, "Milo loves to brag with them. They believe whatever Milo says."

"..."

"The head of the family is a bachelor uncle. He is missing an eye and said that the tool I used to carry water was unreasonable."

"The guy said he had a better way, but he wanted me to have a gold hex - but then he changed his mind and said it wouldn't take that much."

"..."

"The owner of this small house works in a dark alley at night. When we finish work every day, she just goes out. I don't like the look of heavy makeup."

"But to be honest, she is the most enthusiastic one here, and she is the one who makes those balls that the kids play with."

"..."

"A few days ago, the lame aunt here asked me if she could help me leave some clean water under the bucket when she came back every day. She said she wanted to grow flowers. In return, she could teach me a few things. trick."

"She said her man was a great magician, but I had never met him. I only knew that she and his silly son depended on each other."

"..."

"There is also this one. The man is a drunkard. He used to be an apprentice in a workshop in a dark alley..."

"This family..."

"This family..."

"..."

"..."

In the silence of others, Lux opened simple doors one after another, telling inconspicuous stories one after another.

Behind these doors, there are no more people struggling to live - instead, there are sticky spider webs, cracked spider eggs, and spiders that have not yet fully grown up.

Lux stopped in front of a graffiti wall at the end of the alley.

"That's why I didn't leave."

Finally, no one in the team spoke.

Only on the graffiti wall behind Lux, the sun painted on the top, which had never been bathed in real sunlight, was grinning heartlessly.

Kalya’s Little Classroom·God’s Choice:

As the name suggests, it is the choice of the gods, and to a certain extent, it is the spokesperson of the gods.

P.S. The writing is a bit heavy, so the update is a bit late, sorry.