The Great Merchant in the Cataclysm

should be the scent of those thousands upon thousands of little spiders.
But the scent only made you worried, with no rotten odor from that big monster, right?”

“No.” The Obsidian Beetle answered Zhang Mu with certainty, telling him that it already confirmed this fact.

Then the matter would be harder to deal now.
If it was worried, then it implies that the strength of those bunch of little spiders could threaten the existence of the Obsidian Beetle already.
And without the rotten odor, there was only one possibility for this to happen.

The human resentment on the Catastrophe Matrix was gone now after it was devoured once again.

The nature of the mutated animal in her body, had enabled her to breed its offspring.
Under pressure from Zhang Mu and the Obsidian Beetle, it was forced into labor in advance, which drove her to a weakened state.
However, she was a fool as she never did a proper job to cultivate her future generation and prepared some rations for them.

Furthermore, the newly-born spiders did not have any feelings for this mother, who was half monster and half human.
When the only living being, Zhang Mu, had left their attacking range, they turned their attention to their mother, the Catastrophe Matrix, who was weak and rooted to the spot.

In the end, she could only watch her own children scrambled to her body and used it as their nourishment for their first evolution after they were born.
They devoured everything until there was nothing left of her.

After Zhang Mu saw the scene inside, he could felt his scalp tingling instantly.
Formerly, tens of thousands of small spiders with the size of a nail was pretty terrifying already.
But now that he looked at it, he saw that these individual being had turned into the size of a fist.
The abandoned factory was going to be crammed with spiders by now.

Moreover, it appears that the meat of the Catastrophe Matrix that was shared between them, was finished completely.

Sure enough, the black tide had stopped flowing.
While Zhang Mu was stunned and speechless watching them, they had moved towards the hole.
Seems like they had found food outside to be their ration now.

Compared to the Catastrophe Matrix, Zhang Mu was more afraid of these spiders.
Although the Catastrophe Matrix had a strong mutated power, it was easier to look for loopholes because she was not in her right mind while fighting.
Furthermore, there was only one target.

But these pure mutated spiders that were just born would have the most primitive and sharpest combat ability.
Furthermore, their number had reached five figures, and that was far from what Zhang Mu could handle.

The most crucial factor was that Zhang Mu was unsure if these little spiders had retained their mother’s ability.

If so, then the scene of those corrosive spider webs smashing all over him would be a disaster even if his psychic ability had recovered into its full state.

At this moment, he thought of retreating and quickly called the Obsidian to fly and took away Yuan Rui plus the mutated wolfdog.

For some reason, the tide of spiders that were flowing towards Zhang Mu’s direction did not come out from the hole all at once.
There was only a small group of them.

So where was the rest?

Zhang Mu did not care about them anymore, as the whereabouts of these little monsters had nothing to do with him now.

However, the moment he wanted to run, there was nothing under his foot all of a sudden.

The ground below him, had collapsed!

This ground had turned hollow abruptly.

Zhang Mu’s mind flashed a horrifying thought.

In a few seconds, the remaining little spider was now beside him.
Furthermore, they could make the ground collapse?