LWGP - Chapter 33
Chapter 33: HP Bar
Outside the window, having jumped from a height of seven meters on the second floor, Wang Jiu heard a massive commotion behind her. She turned her head just in time to see the Black Widow plunge its two front lances directly into the wall and tear it apart…
Boom! The section of wall was ripped out and crashed down toward Wang Jiu. She dodged to the side. Bang!!
The huge wall landed less than a meter away from her.
Amidst the billowing smoke, Wang Jiu sensed danger and slid further to the left.
Swish! The Black Widow, having leaped down with the wall, thrust a lance tip that barely grazed her cheek…
With a tap of her boot, Wang Jiu executed an aerial somersault, evading the second lance that swept toward her lower body. Upon landing, she sprang back four or five meters and fired a bullet mid-air.
Bang!!
It struck the Black Widow's eye.
The Black Widow closed its eye, the bullet hitting its protective casing. When it opened its eye again, it saw that Wang Jiu had fled further away and had jumped back up to the second floor!
This damn thing!!
What was she, a skyrocket?
The Black Widow was utterly enraged. It charged up again, spraying spider silk wildly!
Bang, bang, bang!
The vast factory building echoed with the sounds of impacts, cutting, and the stickiness of spider silk.
It was said before that the creature had some intelligence, meaning it wasn't stupid. It was far smarter than the Goblin Mini-Boss because, imperceptibly, it had already sealed many of the doors and windows on the first floor with its silk.
This Ms. Black Widow was like a diligent laborer, patching up a drafty, dilapidated house. Was the house warmer now?
Not at all. A thick, fishy stench filled the entire space, forcing Wang Jiu to flee upwards.
My god, this spider demon is ferocious!
Thankfully, her attributes had increased significantly. Otherwise, with the strength she had on the plane, she would have been killed in a single encounter.
The roof!
The Black Widow sensed her intention and gave chase, scurrying swiftly up the ubiquitous strands of spider silk.
Many people with no knowledge of biology often wonder—a spider's prey is frequently entangled in its terrifyingly sticky silk, so why doesn't the spider itself get stuck?
That's because spiders secrete a special fluid to coat their bodies and legs. This substance is incompatible with the stickiness of the silk, allowing them to move freely upon it.
Just like now.
Wang Jiu had to avoid the silk, but the Black Widow could approach at high speed. Just as Wang Jiu reached the dilapidated roof above and grabbed a beam, the Black Widow was less than three meters away. All it needed was one thrust of its lance…
The System felt it was about time for Wang Jiu to use the recall authority. After all, the power gap was too obvious; surviving this long was already impressive.
This was also one of the precious aspects of a Mystic Realm Fragment—a controllable risk couldn't truly be called a risk.
But then Wang Jiu, holding the sniper rifle in one hand, flipped her other hand over, revealing the Chieftain's Bane.
This was the first time she had used this sword. At the current stage, such a weapon was already quite remarkable. After all, players who could obtain a Bronze-grade weapon were exceedingly rare. Look at how many people still didn't even have a Rookie's Dagger.
Anyone else would have probably taken it out long ago to wield with impressive power, cutting down enemies left and right.
But this woman had incredible patience, only bringing it out at this very moment—to slice the ceiling.
With a cutting sound, Wang Jiu slashed open the ceiling. She swiftly scrambled onto the roof, turned, and faced the ferocious Black Widow that was scurrying up after her.
It was furious. As it climbed, it shot a stream of spider silk at her. But Wang Jiu just smiled, took a lighter from her pocket, flicked it with her finger—click—and tossed the lit flame down onto the dense web of silk below.
The burning lighter landed on the spider silk.
A bit of chemistry knowledge: spider webs are made of protein and are flammable. However, rapid combustion generally requires two conditions: 1. High enough temperature. 2. High web density.
As it happened, this was an old factory from thirty or forty years ago, and the roof was still made of sheet metal. The sun was bright and hot today, making for excellent heat absorption, so the temperature inside the factory was not low.
Even more coincidentally, because its hatred had been maxed out by the pain from her cowardly hit-and-run shooting, the Black Widow had been spraying silk with abandon. The entire factory now resembled a spider demon's lair.
So, when Wang Jiu lit that spark… there were no surprises.
Whoosh! The fire spread instantly, burning wildly.
The Black Widow charging up from below was met with a sea of flames. And because the connecting strands of silk were burned away, the load-bearing balance of the web was destroyed, and it fell…
Watching the Black Widow shriek as it plunged into the inferno.
System: "…"
It suddenly understood why Wang Jiu, knowing full well her attacks couldn't cause substantial damage, had still been jumping around and drawing aggro. It was all to make the Black Widow frantically create the perfect environment for a massive fire.
Truly devious.
Thick smoke billowed from the hole in the roof, and the temperature under her boots grew scorching. Listening to the howls from below, Wang Jiu glanced down and asked the System, "There's a level gap between us, so I can't see its HP bar. But it's a Mystic Realm BOSS, so you should be able to see it for me, right? Is that against the rules?"
"No, it's a normal privilege. I just thought you wouldn't ask."
"I was too busy trying to escape with my life. What was there to ask?"
Wang Jiu said irritably, and received the System's answer.
70%.
Still that much!
This was too difficult!
Wang Jiu frowned, but then she heard the commotion below subside. She narrowed her eyes, her expression suddenly changing slightly. With a tap of her foot, she leaped from the fifteen-meter-high factory roof.
Thud! Before she had even fully absorbed the force of the landing, she shot forward frantically. Behind her came the sound of a wall being smashed down.
After running a dozen meters, Wang Jiu looked back at the Black Widow, which was struggling to crawl out of the factory flames, its form menacing.
Its roars sounded like a pig being slaughtered.
Recall it or not?
"If I recall the Mystic Realm now, will it start to recover from its injuries?"
System: "It will recover a portion over a long period, but its level and grade are low, so it won't be very significant. It usually becomes noticeable after more than three days."
But for a player, how much could their strength increase in just three days?
If too much time passed, today's damage would be for nothing, and she would have to start all over again.
But at least she had managed to kill Yang Yu today, so it was still a gain.
"Will the continuous damage I inflicted on it worsen? Like burns getting infected?"
"No, it will actually weaken."
Wang Jiu frowned, still not using the recall authority. She watched as it burst from the sea of flames and charged madly toward her.
Wang Jiu raised her sniper rifle and aimed.
Bang, bang, bang!!
She fired seven or eight consecutive shots until the magazine was empty…
Seven meters, five meters, three meters!
The frantically charging Black Widow's abdomen suddenly began to convulse violently, and it continuously expelled a yellowish-green liquid.
It also started foaming at the mouth. Its climbing speed slowed, and its reaction time dulled.
Thump!
It collapsed.
Wang Jiu raised an eyebrow. It finally took effect, but it was certainly slow enough.
System: "How did you know the Black Widow's digestive system was controllable? When it eats poisoned food and realizes the energy and nutrients it's absorbing are causing discomfort, it will stop digesting and eventually expel it. But you deliberately kept attacking its abdomen, making it feel pain and weakness, forcing it to digest the food in its body to replenish its strength. This accelerated the poison's effect."
Wang Jiu recalled her earlier observation. When Yang Yu had attacked the Black Widow and damaged its lances, its abdomen had contracted as it repaired them. That was a sign of digestion. So, she guessed that it healed by digesting food.
Therefore, to speed up its digestion and the onset of the poison, the best way was to attack its abdomen and make it feel threatened.
But it was still much slower than she had expected, which meant the physical resistance of a Bronze-grade boss was terrifying. It had licked up all those drugs, yet it took this long for them to take effect. And it seemed…
It's not dead? Still not dead?!
Is this thing a true spider demon?
"What's its HP bar now?"
"55%."
"Too slow. This won't work. I don't have much time."
If it weren't for the three-hour delivery, it would have been fine to just kite it to death like before. She could already see the light at the end of the tunnel, and getting the final reward was what mattered!
But not now. If that necklace fell into the hands of Yang Dong, or especially Zheng Yu, Wang Jiu's situation would become very dangerous.
At that moment, Wang Jiu tossed aside the empty sniper rifle, drew her sword, and charged.
The Black Widow was still in a state of extreme agony, the acrid smell of burnt flesh clinging to it. Seeing Wang Jiu charge over, it struggled feebly. As Wang Jiu approached with her sword raised… suddenly, its eight spider lances stabbed out with ferocious speed!
Wang Jiu's pupils dilated, truly not expecting the beast to be capable of such deception. But her own neural responses were extremely fast. In that split second, she dodged to the side… Clang!! The sword blocked one lance, but another stabbed in from the left.
Swish! Wang Jiu slid low, letting it graze past her arm. Just that one touch carved a wound an inch deep into her flesh.
But despite the injury, Wang Jiu had already leaped onto its back. Before it could try to rise and throw her off, she had jumped onto its abdomen, plunging her sword into the gaps between the overlapping plates of its carapace.
Beneath the carapace was soft flesh. Unfortunately, the Black Widow's long-range silk attacks had made it difficult to get close before, but now was the perfect opportunity… She thrust the sword in, felt it hit soft flesh, and then viciously pried upwards before stabbing down again.
11 points of Strength was enough.
Splurt!! A hole was pierced in its inner sac, and foul-smelling green blood gushed out. The Black Widow shrieked in agony and thrashed its body wildly. Wang Jiu, who was pulling her sword out, was flung seven or eight meters away, nearly smashing into a rock. The impact would have been enough to shatter her organs and skull.
But thankfully, she managed to slice her sword into the ground, flipping over and grabbing the earth to stabilize herself.
The wound on her arm was now bleeding even more heavily.
"What's the HP bar now?"
"40%."
"That'll do."
Wang Jiu immediately activated her authority and recalled the Mystic Realm BOSS. The miserable Black Widow vanished from the ground.
At the same moment, boom!
The factory burned down and collapsed.
It had made a huge commotion, mainly because of the fire. Fortunately, there was nothing flammable nearby, so it wouldn't spread. Otherwise, her sin would have been great.
Time to go.
After the factory collapsed, the camera equipment also shut down.
Wang Jiu checked the several video files that had stopped recording on her phone, then recalled the Mystic Realm Fragment. After getting in the car, she was about to leave directly, but she noticed a small decorative accessory hanging in the car. The Old Lady had hung it there for her when she last rode in her car, saying it had been blessed at a temple.
A medical magnate who had spent her life bathed in the aura of science, yet she insisted on following this superstitious path. Wang Jiu had mocked her for it at the time, but in private, she often wiped it carefully, treating it like a treasure.
It was a small doll for safety.
In reality, how could she, a person like her, not be safe?
It was the Old Lady who wasn't safe.
"When you're driving out and about, you need to be safe, and others need to be safe too. Everyone be safe."
The Old Lady had chanted it with quite a rhythm back then.
It was like rap. She heard she'd been brainwashed by the young people at the institute.
Wang Jiu reached out and stroked it, then used a burner phone to call the fire department before driving away.
However, she activated the autopilot function, freeing her hands to take out a first-aid kit. She took off her jacket to simply medicate and bandage the wound.
Fortunately, this area was deserted, so no one saw a woman having a wardrobe malfunction in the car.
"As expected, the power gap is too large. I can't force it."
"And I can't underestimate the cunning of these bosses."
Wang Jiu sighed. After treating the wound, she applied medicine and bandaged it. As a professional in her field, she was very fast. Then she took a set of clothes she had prepared from the back seat, changed into them, sprayed perfume to cover the smell of blood, and then got on her computer and phone.
System: "What are you fiddling with now?"
Wang Jiu: "The film is shot. Whether it's an art film or not depends on the editing, right? I wasn't shooting a documentary."
First, she had to cut out the scene with the delivery right before Yang Yu's death.
System: "…"
Truly a multi-talented, perfect young madam.
In his room, Chen Jun watched the video, his expression a picture. But he knew the other party wouldn't just send him this for fun; they would definitely contact him again.
Sure enough.
A second private message arrived.
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