CHAPTER 107: CHAPTER 107: I’M NOT THE HOLY MOTHER IN THE APOCALYPSE 13

Behind Lin Shuangshuang stood a giant swallow over two meters tall, wearing a perfectly fitted tailcoat! It was the swallow’s sharp beak that had just poked her back, but evidently, the bird hadn’t used force, otherwise Lin Shuangshuang would have been pierced through by the beak.

Lin Shuangshuang suddenly saw such a large bird standing so close behind her that her heart reflexively clenched in fear, and adrenaline surged! But after realizing it was just a swallow, Lin Shuangshuang relaxed.

After evolution, plants and animals still adhered to their previous habits — herbivores didn’t eat meat, and those who ate specific prey didn’t switch. For instance, swallows, which lived alongside humans peacefully and only ate insects before mutating, would still not harm people after mutating.

Upon seeing her enemy, Lin Shuangshuang was so agitated that she neglected her surroundings. Luckily, the creature behind her was a swallow. Had it been a mutated mantis or spider, she’d be doomed.

Her peripheral vision swept across a few human-head-sized, fleshy aphids crawling on the huge stalk of a mutated rose not far away. Clearly, this swallow was here for the insects, and Lin Shuangshuang had simply been in its way, prompting the poke to make her move.

Casually, Lin Shuangshuang grabbed the aphids one by one and fed them to the friendly mutated giant swallow in front of her. The bird happily accepted the aphids in its mouth, nudged Lin Shuangshuang’s palm with its head, flapped its wings, and flew away. It looked like this was a swallow with chicks to feed, which explained why it was catching such small aphids that weren’t enough to fill its teeth.

The diversion from the swallow quelled Lin Shuangshuang’s overwhelming hatred. Since she couldn’t kill her enemy right now, she had to suppress it. But seeing Li Man here, it seemed she also knew about Li Wenbo’s cold weapons store and likely came to find some weapons.

In the previous life, when Lin Shuangshuang encountered Li Man, she didn’t have any good cold weapons with her, indicating she hadn’t been able to breach the insect line and enter Li Wenbo’s store. Suddenly an idea struck Lin Shuangshuang; maybe she could use the insects here.

Lin Shuangshuang turned around and returned to the jungle, searching for a spider web. Of course, it wasn’t the spider she sought, or rather her goal was the spider, but it was the spider eggs she needed. Spiders are fascinating creatures, with many having quite ruthless methods of raising their young.

Most female spiders devour the male to replenish nutrients for their bodies after pregnancy, ensuring they have enough energy to bear young. Some spiders are more aloof, leaving their offspring after a short nurturing period.

However, some spider species care for their young until they are capable of hunting, and some even go to the extreme of giving birth to only one brood during their lifetime, allowing the hatchlings to consume them to replenish nutrients and stimulate their predatory instincts.

No matter how, spiders are one of the few nurturing creatures in the insect world. They value their eggs greatly, and the mutated spiders are even more so! If a mutant female spider’s eggs are taken by an enemy, the female spider will pursue relentlessly. Lin Shuangshuang sought precisely the eggs of a protective mutant female spider.

In a place lush with plants, spiders are naturally abundant, and Lin Shuangshuang was lucky to soon find a white, pouch-shaped web filled with fist-sized spider eggs.

Lin Shuangshuang casually broke off a branch from a mutated flower, then carefully lifted the web containing the spider eggs. The web’s movement instantly alerted the female spider, who quickly crawled over.

The sight of this spider gave Lin Shuangshuang quite a scare because the spider was insanely large! By rough estimate, it stood a full meter and a half tall! Its eight legs spread out could span the size of a room! Moreover, both its back and belly were covered with hard scale armor!

This was a type of spider that Lin Shuangshuang, who had survived in the apocalyptic world for a long time, had never seen before! She even thought such a spider couldn’t possibly exist before the apocalypse!

When mutations had just begun, Lin Shuangshuang thought a spider the size of a football was already pushing it. Spiders, with their many legs, evolved to become incredibly fast, and they’d spray silk that could entangle a person’s limbs, making them exceedingly troublesome.

Originally, Lin Shuangshuang intended to use the female spider’s eggs to lure it over to give Li Man some trouble. If Li Man became too occupied dealing with the spider to protect Zhao Yan, that would be ideal!

But now, Lin Shuangshuang’s face looked grim. Had the plague god possessed her? Such a bizarre spider should be deep in the mountains or old forests, yet why did she stumble upon it so casually?

Whether Li Man would encounter trouble was uncertain, but judging by the female spider’s aggressive stance towards her, she was bound for trouble!

Anyway, the beehive...

Wrong! The spider web had been poked, and now Lin Shuangshuang could only carry out her original plan. She maximized her inner strength down to her feet and took off, leaving afterimages, sprinting towards Li Man and others!

The spider’s eight legs spun like wheels of wind and fire, with speed matching Lin Shuangshuang’s as it chased after her. In just a few hundred meters, Lin Shuangshuang frantically dashed for her life, achieving incredible speed!

Seeing she was only separated from Li Man by a layer of dense, giant grass and flowers, Lin Shuangshuang didn’t want Li Man’s people to spot her silhouette. Swiftly, she hurled the spider eggs towards Li Man’s group, twisted her feet, and darted into the nearby underbrush, betting the spider would chase after her for its eggs!

Lin Shuangshuang’s gamble paid off. Despite feeling the spider’s eight large eyes, half of them angry at her retreating figure, the spider still pursued Li Man’s group with unabating speed! Apparently, for the spider, recovering its stolen eggs was far more important than the thief, although it surely held a grudge against Lin Shuangshuang.

Hiding beneath a mutated flower of unknown species, finally catching her breath evenly, Lin Shuangshuang suddenly realized she needn’t have been so scared. In her previous life, she could even slaughter mountain-sized mutated wild oxen and boars! Why fear a newly mutated spider!

Blame it on the spider’s hideousness and overwhelming impact. Plus, Lin Shuangshuang’s physical state had reverted to an ordinary human’s, with even her inner strength almost entirely unusable, leading to a reflex of feeling weak and triggering flight! But in fact, this spider might not have even been her match!

As Lin Shuangshuang lamented having been frightened into a fleeing frenzy by a spider she could once crush with ease, on the other side, Li Man fell into enormous trouble, just as Lin Shuangshuang had hoped!