Chapter 401: 401: Myth Stage

Chapter 401: Myth Stage

“The Mythical Phase has arrived, please draw an omen card from the pouch and make a judgement.

The total time for drawing and judging should not exceed [one minute], otherwise a ‘Despair Moment’ will be forcibly triggered, resulting in the drawing of two omen cards and triggering them directly.”

The omen pouch hanging at his waist reacted.

Inaccessible.

The opening of the pouch was covered with a thick black mist. Han Dong took a quick glance, and even had the illusion of peering into an abyss.

It always felt like countless eyes were staring at Han Dong from inside the pouch.

Time is short.

Han Dong decisively extends his hand into the pouch.

There was a sense of delving into slick flesh, with cold tentacles clinging to Han Dong’s arm.

The pouch was much deeper than it appeared on the surface, requiring Han Dong to extend his entire arm to touch the omen cards stored at the bottom.

The cards seemed to be stuck in the walls of the pouch, only a part of them exposed, requiring Han Dong to forcibly pull them out.

Squelch….

The card was coated with sticky pus.

A black card was retrieved by Han Dong.

Click~ At the same time, a metal dice also slid into Han Dong’s hand through the pouch opening.

The six-sided dice corresponded to six numbers.

The content of the black card was temporarily invisible, with only a smooth white octopus mark imprinted on the surface, representing an ‘omen value’.

“One point…the challenge is low.”

Han Dong tossed the dice in his hand. His luck wasn’t so good… four points.

“Unequal numbers, the omen appears.

Please read the contents on the corresponding omen card carefully and handle it flexibly. If mishandled, you will not obtain the corresponding omen value.”

“That’s fine.”

Actually, because of the ‘Despair Moment’ setting, Han Dong ironically hoped his luck wouldn’t be so good.

Under such multi-setting fate events, it was necessary for Han Dong to experience the [Mythical Phase] in advance.

At the same time, he also needed to accumulate ‘omen values’, for future needs.

[Omen – Cold Spider’s Eggs]

Area: Town – General Supermarket

Misfortune: Select four common people randomly, they will be invisibly implanted with cold spider eggs.

Special Traits: The cold spider, whether in adult or juvenile form, has an incredibly rapid reproduction rate. If not dealt with promptly, the people in the supermarket will be fully parasitized by the eggs in a short period of time.

(Note: The mature cold spider variant is extremely dangerous, capable of killing all the townsfolk in the supermarket in a short amount of time)

Requirement: When more than ten civilians are dead, you will be unable to obtain the corresponding ‘omen value.’

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“Cold spider? The kind of spider from the movies that can lay eggs super fast in a human body, and whose protruding silk threads corrode flesh quickly?

Just by looking at the requirement on the Omen Card, I could skip this omen just by leaving the supermarket, with the only penalty being unable to get an ‘omen value’.

However, there are few loopholes in fate events.

If I choose to avoid omens as much as possible in the early stages, as the events unfold, more and more unknown dangers will emerge… if I do not have an omen value and my own ability doesn’t significantly impact such life forms, I will be cornered.

Take the current Omen encountered for example,

If I choose to flee, the supermarket will surely be overcome as a nest of the cold spiders and a large number of mature cold spider variants will come into existence, causing me significant trouble later in this event.

It’s necessary to clean them up beforehand.”

Han Dong decisively put away the omen card and returned to the interior of the supermarket.

Thanks to the foreknowledge that ‘the mist hides monsters,’

Under the guidance of the male protagonist, everyone is piling up bags of rice around the edges of the supermarket windows.

At the same time, some people are starting to make temporary weapons, torches, and make-shift Molotov cocktails to deal with the monsters.

Han Dong’s face was gloomy as he walked as closely as possible to each person, closely observing the facial expressions and attitude changes of each of the residents… those parasitized by the spider eggs would certainly display some physiological changes.

“An old man, a teenager, and a middle-aged woman…bloodshot eyes, fear of cold, and mild abdominal pain. I can more or less confirm that they are the carriers of the spider eggs.

Let’s first see if I can get rid of them directly.”

Han Dong placed his arm on a trembling young man. As he was not an important character, no related dialogue prompts were triggered.

The moment of contact, the plague fungus immediately invaded the young man’s body.

It soon discovered the eggs parasitizing the young man’s intestines… Due to the effects of the G-virus, Han Dong was able to grow eyeballs capable of sight on the surface of the fungus.

Resembling an endoscope, it spied within the young man’s intestinal region a kind of whitish filamentous shell, a spider egg floating with microscopic tentacles.

Every second, the spider eggs multiplied.

Just as the plague moved along the intestines and was about to reach the spider eggs.

The surface of the spiders’ eggs slightly shivered, immediately demonstrating its alertness and powerful life characteristics… Han Dong decisively stopped the plague.

Otherwise, the spiders inside this young man might hatch prematurely due to stimulation.

If a single spider juvenile isn’t killed, this young man will mutate in a short amount of time.

The plague retreated, this method of dealing was too dangerous, Han Dong dismissed it.

“My apologies…”

Han Dong pretended to mistake the person and continued to walk.

“I need to gather the four parasited individuals and deal with them together…Speaking of, the fourth person doesn’t seem to be in the lobby area, where did they go?”

Han Dong searched and only found three villagers showing symptoms of discomfort. A sense of unease begins to spread through Han Dong’s heart.

…

Supermarket Restroom (Men).

A large-bellied black security guard was relieving himself here.

“I was fine when I woke up today, but I get an upset stomach just at a time like this. Ouch, it hurts. Speaking of which, did they turn on the air conditioning in the supermarket? Why do I feel so cold?”

This security guard, Murray, was a professional boxer. Later, due to injuries and sickness, he couldn’t continue boxing and had to return to his hometown to work as a security guard.

He thought that after relieving himself, he would purge the physical discomfort, but instead he felt worse.

“Maybe I’m sick. There’s medicine in the supermarket…”

Murray had just pulled up his trousers when he felt something uncomfortable in his crotch… Looking down, he saw several pale spiders crawling in his pants.

The spiders’ bodies were covered with compound eyes, making them look several times more terrifying than regular spiders.

Arachnophobia.

Because his pants slipped to his knees, Murray was startled and failed to stand firm. His body tipped backward…his head hit hard against the metal flushing apparatus.

Murray’s weight of more than three hundred pounds caused him to bleed when his head hit the apparatus, dying instantly.

The host’s life signs disappeared and were no longer suitable for egg parasitisation.

Although it will take some time for the eggs to fully hatch, the change in environment triggered them to hatch prematurely… Murray’s body slowly split open from the middle.

First, several small spiders crawled out.

Then, several giant white spider legs swept out from between Murray’s body….borrowing the body of the security guard, transforming it into a spider variant.