"You all find yourselves a place to hide,"
Qin Shilei said, before charging towards the swarm of giant spiders.
There were forty to fifty of them, with three at the Silver realm and the rest at Bronze.
Illusion!
Qin Shilei first summoned his illusory clone, then his two Shadow Leopards and Tank.
He had his pets deal with the Bronze realm spiders, while he and his illusion would handle the three Silver realm ones.
Teleport!
Qin Shilei instantly appeared beside the largest spider and thrust his sword towards it.
"Stay put for me!"
The speeding giant spider suddenly became stiff all over. Its body, however, continued to charge forward due to inertia, and it lost its balance, falling to the ground.
The spider, afflicted by the Divine Ability of Stiffness, immediately became a sitting duck.
Within a mere two seconds, Qin Shilei decapitated it with Seven Stars Falling from the Sky.
Another Silver realm giant spider, seeing its companion instantly slain by Qin Shilei, was terrified and turned to flee towards a large tree, attempting to return to its original world.
"Don't run when you've come here."
Qin Shilei flashed and pursued.
The giant spider, fleeing at full speed, suddenly turned and shot a web, four to five meters wide, at Qin Shilei.
"It can even play dirty."
Qin Shilei remained unfazed and slashed forward with his sword.
The sharp sword qi struck the enveloping spider web.
To his surprise, the spider was incredibly resilient. The strike failed to cleave it in two, only blasting it back.
"Screech!"
The giant spider let out a roar.
The surrounding Bronze realm spiders all shot their webs at Qin Shilei.
Qin Shilei was instantly enveloped in a net. As he was about to be trapped by his subordinates, the giant spider revealed a human-like grin.
Many powerful prey had met their end under its area-of-effect control ability.
Their webs were not only resilient but also contained neurotoxins. Once entangled, it was difficult to break free, leaving them like lambs to the slaughter.
But this time, it had encountered an enemy who could teleport.
In the blink of an eye, the enemy suddenly vanished from its sight.
"Stupid spider, what are you looking for?"
Qin Shilei asked, as he gently poked the spider with his sword.
The giant spider was horrified to find itself unable to move. Then, it felt a sharp pain in its neck, and saw itself getting further and further from the ground.
Thump!
The giant spider's massive head fell heavily to the ground.
By then, his illusion had already killed the last Silver realm giant spider and was now pursuing the smaller ones, hacking at them.
Before Jie Mingchen’s astonished eyes, Qin Shilei, all by himself, had slain the terrifying spider beasts in less than three minutes.
"Big brother, are you still taking in subordinates?" Jie Mingchen walked up, shamelessly asking.
"The city I live in is over a thousand kilometers from here. Even if I took you in, I doubt you could make it."
Qin Shilei paused, then asked, "Do I just need to cut down this tree?"
Jie Mingchen nodded and replied, "That's what the professor said. We couldn't verify its authenticity ourselves."
Hearing this, Qin Shilei raised Blood Soul and swung it at the tree.
Clang!
It sounded like striking metal. A shallow white mark was all that appeared on the surface.
Seven Stars Falling from the Sky!
Qin Shilei channeled his full Yuan Qi and struck again at the sword mark.
The mark deepened slightly, but still hadn't even broken through the bark.
"I refuse to believe I can't deal with you."
Qin Shilei first activated his One-Punch Man state, then unleashed a combat skill, striking the tree.
Blood Soul instantly became a blur, like a rapidly spinning propeller, slashing at the tree.
Clang clang clang!
With a series of crisp sounds, the sword mark on the tree's trunk continued to widen and deepen.
Ten seconds later, the two-meter-diameter tree was only connected by a few centimeters but still stood firm.
At this moment, the tree flickered and became indistinct again.
"Run!"
Jie Mingchen shouted in alarm and immediately turned to flee into the distance.
Over a dozen more giant spiders abruptly appeared around the tree.
Just as he was about to cut down the tree, they were interrupted. Qin Shilei roared and flashed towards the giant spiders.
The giant spiders had just arrived on Blue Star and hadn't even seen their surroundings when a red light flashed. Then they felt a sharp pain in their necks and lost consciousness.
After Qin Shilei and his illusion had jointly killed the dozen or so giant spiders, he turned to see that the tree, which had been on the verge of being cut down, had returned to its original state.
There was no trace of any cuts on its trunk.
"Group Leader Jie, what's going on?" Qin Shilei asked, turning to Jie Mingchen, who had run back.
"Mr. Qin, this is the troublesome part of these singularities. Once they flicker, they restore themselves," Jie Mingchen explained.
He paused and continued, "The professor thus speculated that only by simultaneously destroying these singularities within a very short time can they be completely obliterated, allowing us to leave here."
Qin Shilei frowned and asked, "Are the other three singularities also these kinds of large trees?"
If all three singularities were these large trees, there would be no hope of destroying them simultaneously.
He could barely destroy one tree, but all the survivors in the city combined probably couldn't cut down such a tree.
The illusion's current duration was eight minutes. Riding on Little Strong, he could barely reach the next singularity, but its strength was only 80% of Qin Shilei's, and it couldn't cut down this tree either.
Qin Shilei's most powerful pet had been left in the insect valley in the other world when he left Hope City, and it couldn't help him now.
Jie Mingchen shook his head. "The three singularities are all different. I'll take you to see them."
Qin Shilei nodded in agreement. "Alright, lead the way."
Half an hour later, they arrived on the roof of a building not far from a large plaza.
On the plaza below, a group of three to four-meter-tall gorillas were roaming.
Jie Mingchen pointed to a stone monument, over two meters tall, in the center of the plaza. "This stone monument appeared here only after the other world began to merge with Tokugawa City. Like the large tree, once it flickers, beasts like King Kong will come from the other world."
Qin Shilei looked around but didn't see the Golden realm King Kong he had fought before.
He asked, "Have you tried this stone monument? How does its hardness compare to the tree?"
Jie Mingchen replied, "We also tested the hardness of the stone monument when the beasts were lured away by the zombies in the city. It's comparable to the tree."
Thump thump thump!
At this moment, heavy footsteps echoed from afar.
"It's probably King Kong returning. Let's go to the next location," Qin Shilei said, having lost interest in testing the stone monument in the plaza.