"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Four rockets successfully struck the Giant Spider's body, emitting countless electric arcs and dazzling light.
"Go! My rockets can't inflict much damage on an A-rank Mutated Beast, but the attached current should be enough to paralyze it for a moment."
After shouting at Lin, Yui deactivated the Quad-Barrel Rocket Launcher device, then turned and ran.
Seeing this, Lin made the same move as Yui.
But something they hadn't anticipated happened.
A mass of white substance rapidly shot out from the smoke, heading straight for Lin.
"What's going on?"
Feeling the danger approaching from behind, Lin instinctively turned and swung her blade behind her.
Fortunately, the blade successfully struck the white substance, but the blade didn't cut through it upon contact, and the substance stuck to the blade.
The powerful inertia caused Lin to stumble, and the blade embedded itself in the ground.
When Yui, who was running away, saw this scene, a look of astonishment flashed in her eyes, and she quickly stopped and looked toward Lin.
"Lin! Are you okay!"
Hearing Yui's shout, Lin shook her head, then tried to pull her weapon out of the ground.
But when she reached out and pulled, she found she couldn't extract the weapon. She looked down and finally realized why this was happening.
The blade was currently coated in a mass of white Spider Silk, which was now firmly stuck to the ground, preventing her from pulling out the weapon.
Inside the smoke, the Giant Spider raised its foreleg and lightly swiped forward. The thick smoke from the explosion was immediately cut open, revealing the Black Robed Man still standing on the spider's back, watching the two people below with mockery.
"Heheheh, heheh, use—use—useless!"
A harsh laugh erupted from the Black Robed Man's mouth, but for some reason, the Black Robed Man seemed to stutter while speaking.
Hearing this laugh, the expressions of the two women subtly changed. Yui re-manifested a Sniper Rifle, while Lin used sheer force to wrench her weapon out of the ground.
However, the blade was now coated in various kinds of mud and broken grass. Rather than a blade, it now looked more like a lump of metal.
After all, she hadn't yet dealt with the Spider Silk wrapped around it.
"What's going on? Why did the paralysis have no effect?"
Seeing the extremely oppressive Giant Spider completely unharmed, Yui found it hard to believe.
Logically, the total current released just now should have paralyzed even an A-rank Mutated Beast for five or six seconds.
But why was it that this Giant Spider in front of her didn't seem to be paralyzed for even a second, let alone five or six seconds?
At this moment, the Black Robed Man seemed to sense what Yui was thinking and immediately revealed why the current failed:
"Under, under my cultivation, it has, has already, been cultivated by me to have Dual Resistance to Lightning and Fire Attributes. With strength like yours, don't even think about using electricity to restrict its movement!"
Although he stuttered initially, the Black Robed Man slowly recovered, and his speech became much smoother.
"So that's it." After learning about this situation, Yui could only inwardly curse her bad luck.
But soon, she looked toward the Black Robed Man on the spider's back.
"If it's immune to Lightning and Fire, what about you? If I can't deal with it, does that mean I can't deal with you either!"
Before her voice faded, Yui raised her hand, and blue-purple light converged, instantly forming a Sniper Rifle.
Immediately afterward, a blue bullet shot out from the barrel, flying toward the man at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.
"Whoosh."
The bullet successfully passed through the Black Robed Man's head—so successfully that Yui felt something was off.
But soon she understood that her worry was indeed justified.
Because the man, whose head the bullet had passed through, was completely unharmed, as if the bullet had severely deviated from its original trajectory and merely grazed his head.
"Heh heh, it's useless."
Seeing this, the Black Robed Man smiled again. "The me currently on the spider's back is a Holographic Projection! It's impossible for you to hurt me!"
"Tch."
After learning the reason, Yui felt annoyed.
So the reason he stuttered earlier was that the strong current had messed up the Holographic Projection. She had thought the stray currents that scattered when she shocked the spider had caused him to suffer slight paralysis.
"Alright, I won't waste any more time talking. Come on, little fellow, kill them for me!"
After finishing his explanation, he pointed toward Yui and the others, then calmly issued his command.
As soon as he spoke, the previously quiet Giant Spider seemed to have taken drugs, charging madly toward the two people in front of it.
"Yui! Run quickly! I should be able to stop this guy for a few seconds!"
After speaking, she tightly gripped the weapon in her hands, and a faint blue light began to emanate from her body.
"No! Why did you activate Overclocking immediately?! If you keep this up, you'll die!"
Seeing this, Yui looked at Lin nearby, her face full of disbelief, and shouted anxiously.
But Lin did not heed her advice, because she knew that if things continued like this, not only she, but even Yui would find it difficult to escape.
"Go!"
After shouting this, Lin pushed off the ground with both feet and fiercely charged toward the Giant Spider.
"Hoh hoh hoh, you choose not to run, but actively approach me? What splendid courage."
Seeing this scene, the man on the spider's back spread his hands and spoke these words in a tone full of mockery.
"But unfortunately, this is use—"
"Boom!"
Before the Black Robed Man could finish speaking, a fierce flash of fire suddenly rushed out from the side of the forest. Accompanied by a loud bang, this flash of fire directly slammed into the center between Lin and the Giant Spider.
Then, before he and Lin could even react to what had happened, a mechanical electronic voice sounded from within the thick smoke.
"May I ask, where exactly is this place?"