People rely on clothes, and horses rely on saddles. In this saying, "clothes" does not refer to clothing, but to dressing up. However, there is a saying now that goes, "Good looks make everything good." If someone is ugly, it doesn't matter how well they dress.

But why is it that I don't find this spider lady beautiful, even though she has perfect dressing and appearance?

I tilted my head back and aligned the glasses that had slid down to the bridge of my nose with my line of sight, and the full view of the monster appeared before my eyes. She was a huge woman, with my feet lifted more than thirty centimeters off the ground, and she was a whole head taller than me. People usually look at a person's face first, and luckily there was enough light for me to quickly glance at the monster in front of me.

The woman had two human arms, and behind her shoulders were four black, hard limbs. If her legs were also two, it would correspond to the characteristic of spiders having eight legs. Her face was actually quite pretty, with a pointed jaw, curved eyebrows, and a small cherry mouth. From the perspective of Eastern aesthetics, she was more beautiful than my wife. However, this lady was missing two things: ears and hair. Her head was tightly wrapped in a huge headgear, completely covering her ears and the entire top of her head.

The shape of the headgear was strange, divided into four diamond-shaped horns on each side, with eight long crystals embedded in the horns, emitting a bright yellow-green light.

Looking at her clothing, there was a plain white dress, different from the golden silk thread of the succubus. This dress was made of the same shell material as the headgear, shiny and black, giving the feeling that the clothes were growing on her body...

I didn't have time to ponder the woman's appearance. I quickly spoke, "Miss, I mean no harm. I came to your cave just to rest for a few days..."

"Why didn't you call for help, human?"

"Huh?"

"You didn't beg for mercy when you were captured."

"Well, let me introduce myself first..."

"Do as you wish, soon you'll be the same as them."

The monster's gaze was very arrogant, as if she couldn't be bothered to talk to me.

"Um... may I ask, are you going to eat me?"

"I'm not going to eat you, why would I capture you?"

"Do you have to eat me?"

"Huh?"

She clearly didn't understand my question. She looked at me, then went to rearrange the spider silk in the cave.

It's a bit tricky. Of all the monsters I've encountered, she's the first one that makes it clear she wants to treat humans as food. What should I do? How can I avoid becoming her prey?

"Let me go, and I can catch some animals for you to eat. How about that?"

"Why should I let the food go?"

Smart. This trick doesn't work on her.

"My wife is Medusa."

"Medusa? What's that?"

"That's a monster!"

"Oh, I haven't tasted the flavor of a monster yet."

Damn it! This woman doesn't even care about Medusa. I've already played my strongest card, and never expected that she wouldn't fall for it. Monsters from Mount Dotch and monsters from Gresham hardly ever meet. Only Wolfrang, who is more knowledgeable, has connections with both sides.

No, I still have one card left. The emblem, the Black Merchant emblem!

"Um... I'm a Black Merchant. I have an emblem on me as proof."

"A Black Merchant?"

"Yes, you must know about the Black Merchants, right?"

"I know."

"And you want to eat... a Black Merchant?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

Damn it, she even eats members of the Black Merchant group?! I'm completely lost now, unable to comprehend the thoughts of this monster. How did Simmon do business with this spider lady? I don't have much time left. I'll say whatever comes to mind.

"Do you know Simmon?"

"I don't know."

"Do you know Grayback?"

"I don't know."

"Do you know the White Queen?"

"Do you just like to talk?"

"No, listen to me, I just became a Black Merchant not long ago. I promise I can get anything you want. Don't eat me, my wife is also a monster, humans and monsters can coexist peacefully, trust me... Ugh!"

Just as I was about to finish speaking, my mouth was covered in a thick web. Spider Sister knew a deep-rooted rule in anime – villains die from talking too much. So she just shut my mouth, not allowing me to spout my nonsense anymore.

Now I'm really screwed...

Oh, dead, kneeling, hanged, doomed, screwed, done for, finished, taken away, bloody ending, chopped with a knife, instant explosion, soloed, focused fire, instantly killed, ruling the other world, killed with a single move!

...

Hey, so many words even at the face of death. I can't believe myself.

I watched the Spider Lady approach, with two long fangs sticking out of her mouth, dripping with glistening droplets. Spiders dissolve their prey from the inside and suck them up, so my fate would probably be a skeleton wrapped in human skin.

Ah, to think that I, Chen Laowu, was once suave and resourceful, but now I'm going to die in the mouth of these spider ladies?

Closing my eyes, I thought of my wife. If I were to die, I had no idea what she would do.

This time, it was ultimately my overconfidence that led to this. I've encountered so many monsters, and I always thought that as long as I could communicate with them, everything would be fine. After narrowly escaping danger so many times, it's finally my turn to be in this situation.

"Husband, where are you?"

My wife's voice echoed in the cave, and my heartstrings tightened instantly. I didn't want my wife to fight this monster, but I also hoped that she could defeat her and save me.

The spider monster clearly heard the call, dropped me, and stretched out all her limbs, making a creepy "crackling" sound. I finally saw the two pairs of tentacles behind her, with hooked scythe-shaped tips, extremely intimidating. Engaging in melee combat would definitely not be good for my wife, honestly speaking, Medusa didn't have a high chance of winning either. We could only hope for petrification magic.

"Today's food is really good~"

Leaving behind these words, the monster disappeared into the darkness, leaving two spiders larger than Tibetan Mastiffs to guard me.

According to reason, the Spider Witch should have kept me here, hiding and waiting for my wife to rescue me unexpectedly. But instead, she chose to confront my wife head-on, presumably because she was very confident. As long as she was in this cave, there was no monster that could defeat her. I couldn't help but worry even more about my wife's safety.

"Husband, answer me!"

Listening to my wife's anxious voice, I wanted to respond but my mouth was sealed shut, and I blamed myself incessantly.

"Ah!"

They're fighting! The sound of metal colliding continuously, mixed with the sound of rustling friction.

The sounds of the fight grew closer and closer, and I stared intently into the darkness in front of me, afraid of missing any slight movement.

I only heard a dull sound, and Medusa flew over, crashing heavily into the skull of the roadside skeleton A on the right, shattering the ancient bones all over the ground. My wife was covered in a white spider web, barely hanging on with one hand on the ground.

Sure enough, she couldn't win. The difference in size was too great, and six arms were hard to match with two fists. It only took less than a minute for her to be defeated.

But my wife still held onto her last move – petrification.

Even with a short axe in Medusa's hand, no matter how skilled it was, it couldn't match the Spider Witch's four sharp claws. Even if this monster were to fight against Urume in an open area, I dare say that Urume wouldn't last more than three minutes. My wife didn't even glance at me, completely focused on the battle. By now, the Spider Witch had returned, and my wife pounced at her again.

Snakes are one of the five poisons, but spiders are not. But in the current battle scene, it looked more like a huge trapdoor spider hunting its prey, while my wife couldn't gain any advantage and was instead being suppressed. The Spider Witch's four claws spun rapidly with her body, creating a whirlwind of blades that Medusa couldn't get close to.

I watched anxiously, unable to help. All I could do was make muffled noises from my sealed mouth.

Medusa was not unable to use a bow and arrows in the cave; it's just that after shooting, there was a long gap. In martial arts, speed is the key – every second counts in battle.

My wife struggled to defend against attacks from multiple angles, barely maintaining her fighting stance. In order to cause substantial damage to the Spider Witch, she had to pay a price. But even if she wanted to pay the price, she needed an opportunity.

To divert attention and create an opportunity for my wife to attack.

I suddenly thought of the gun in my right hand. Previously, my body was wrapped in spider silk, but my right hand still maintained the posture of holding the gun, index finger on the trigger, and the barrel pointing downwards. The only concern was whether the spider silk affected the firing mechanism of the handgun.

As I watched the one-sided battle between the two monsters, I prayed that the gun in my hand would fire.

"Bang!"

A loud gunshot echoed throughout the cave. The cave was already echoey, but the noise caused by this shot was particularly terrifying, even startling myself.

Both the Spider Witch and my wife were taken aback. They stopped their actions and turned to look at me, following the source of the sound.

Although I couldn't speak, there were some secret signals that only my wife and I understood, like closing my eyes and lowering my head...

This gesture meant, "I am ready to use petrification magic."

I didn't know the details of the following battle. I only heard my wife let out a unique scream, and then the entire cave returned to silence.

Opening my eyes, the Spider Witch stood still in her original position, still maintaining the attacking posture before petrification, with her four sharp claws hooked forward, glaring angrily with wide-open eyes, baring her teeth. My wife had seven or eight blood stains on her body, panting heavily.

"Husband..."

"I'll help you."

Ignoring the wounds still bleeding on her body, my wife hurriedly cleared the spider silk from my mouth. I wanted to remind her that there were still two big spiders nearby, but I couldn't speak. As a result, she was bitten on the neck by one of the pouncing spiders.

Perhaps seeing its master defeated, that big spider made a desperate move. My wife's anger surged, tearing the spider pouncing on her neck apart, then swinging her axe to smash the other spider. The flesh-colored juice and fluffy substance splattered on her face.

"Wife, what should we do if you are poisoned?"

This was the first sentence I said after my mouth was unsealed.

"I'm fine, don't worry about me."

"Quick, let me suck out the poison!"

"Huh? Why?"

"Hurry, put the wound near my mouth, I'll help you."

"Okay, okay..."

In fact, Medusa had a very high resistance to toxins. This was a compensation because she no longer had the powerful weapon of venomous fangs like snakes, so she gained resistance to toxins instead. At that time, I didn't know this, so it was still necessary to suck out the poisoned blood to be safe. I had some knowledge in this area, making sure there were no wounds in my mouth.

The spider was large in size, and its fangs were also thick. I didn't know how much poison was injected just now, so I sucked it in with big gulps and spit it out to a distance.

The spider silk wrapped around my body couldn't be removed with an axe, but the gunshot created a hole on the surface of the silk. My wife was clever and started tearing from that small hole, and the effect was good. Just when we were somewhat relieved and celebrating our victory over the powerful enemy, strange noises started again...

The petrified Spider Witch, for some reason, began to move.