A huge dark shadow smashed down.
Carrying a pungent, bloody stench.
Jiang Wangzhi's brain spun at lightning speed.
Her left leg pushed off the ground.
Shifted her center of gravity to the right.
Using the slope of the ground, she rolled outward by thirty centimeters.
Perfectly dodging it.
This was her instinctive judgment as a professional analyst.
Her brain issued the command.
Then, her body went on strike.
Just as she wanted to push off, her left ankle suddenly went limp.
Her whole body collapsed directly into the thick mud.
Crap.
She forgot that this body's physical fitness rating was E+.
Her brain was a King, but her body wasn't even as good as Bronze.
The rushing wind above her head had already pressed down to the root of her neck.
It was over.
She hadn't even spent her twenty-odd billion yet.
"What are you daydreaming for!"
A furious shout exploded from beside her.
Jiang Wangzhi only felt her back collar tighten.
A great force grabbed her clothes, forcibly dragging her back two meters.
The collar choked her until she rolled her eyes.
"Boom!"
The Spike-armored Spider's massive body smashed heavily into the spot where she had just been lying.
Mudwater splashed everywhere.
Splashing all over Jiang Wangzhi's face.
The one who saved her was none other than Tang Li.
Tang Li was holding that two-meter-long alloy heavy blade, panting heavily.
She lowered her head and glanced at Jiang Wangzhi.
Her gaze was filled with speechlessness.
"Your brain reacts quite fast, knowing to dodge to the right."
"Why are your legs like noodles?"
Jiang Wangzhi coughed violently twice.
Her throat was full of the fishy smell of mud.
"I... I have a calcium deficiency."
"Get lost to the side!"
Tang Li had no time to listen to her nonsense.
Missing its strike, the Spike-armored Spider had already turned around.
Its six sharp arthropod limbs scraped frantically against the ground.
Its compound eyes stared dead at Tang Li.
It recognized the person who had slashed its carapace earlier.
"Hisss!"
The Spike-armored Spider sprang up abruptly, pouncing straight at Tang Li.
Tang Li clenched her teeth and gripped the hilt with both hands.
Instead of retreating, she advanced.
Meeting it head-on!
"Clang!"
The heavy blade struck the spider's leg.
Sparks flew in all directions.
Tang Li was jolted back three steps, the web of her thumb splitting open directly.
Fresh blood flowed down along the hilt.
Sitting in the mud, Jiang Wangzhi's first reaction was to run.
She couldn't afford to provoke it.
But she could afford to hide.
Crawling up on all fours, she turned and bolted toward the depths of the woods.
One step.
Two steps.
Ten steps.
Jiang Wangzhi stopped.
She panted heavily, feeling as if her lungs were going to explode.
Her throat was filled with the taste of blood.
This body was truly useless.
Running less than twenty meters, her two legs already felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.
A huge crashing sound came from behind.
Trees collapsed.
Tang Li's muffled groans were clearly audible.
Jiang Wangzhi looked back.
Tang Li had already been forced into a dead end.
The edge of the heavy blade was full of nicks.
The Spike-armored Spider was like a maddened tank, constantly ramming into her.
Jiang Wangzhi understood clearly.
She couldn't run away.
At her current speed, as long as Tang Li died, it would only take this spider ten seconds to catch up to her.
When the lips are gone, the teeth are cold.
She had to help.
Forcing herself to endure the sore pain in her thighs, Jiang Wangzhi walked back a few steps.
And hid behind a large tree.
She didn't understand Star Beasts.
Nor did she understand any ancient martial arts mechas.
But she understood combat trajectories.
Her gaze locked firmly onto the Spike-armored Spider.
Movement.
Lifting leg.
Pressing down.
Attack interval.
Something was wrong.
Every time this spider turned left, its body's tilt angle would be fifteen degrees greater than when it turned right.
Moreover, the sound of its second leg on the left hitting the ground was noticeably duller than the other legs.
It was injured.
That spot couldn't bear weight!
"Hey!"
Jiang Wangzhi suddenly shouted out loud.
Tang Li was being suppressed and beaten, and upon hearing the sound, she didn't even turn her head.
"Why haven't you gotten lost yet!"
"Chop the joint of its second leg on the left!"
Jiang Wangzhi spoke at an extremely fast pace.
"That leg of its is lame!"
Tang Li's gaze condensed.
Lame?
She had been fighting too fiercely just now and hadn't noticed at all.
Since someone was calling out coordinates, she would give it a try!
Tang Li dropped her body low, dodging the spider leg that swept across horizontally.
Dragging the blade with both hands.
Utilizing the momentum of her turn, she chopped down fiercely at the Spike-armored Spider's second left leg!
According to Jiang Wangzhi's calculations, with this single slash, the Star Beast would definitely fall.
However.
This was reality.
Not a game.
Although the Spike-armored Spider was going crazy, it was a living creature.
It sensed danger.
Just at the moment when the blade was about to touch the joint.
The Spike-armored Spider abruptly pulled back its leg.
Its body actually forcefully twisted at an angle mid-air.
"Clang!"
The heavy blade missed its mark.
And struck an intact, heavy piece of carapace.
The massive recoil directly sent Tang Li flying.
Tang Li crashed heavily onto the ground.
"Pfft!"
She spat out a mouthful of blood.
She abruptly raised her head and cursed fiercely at Jiang Wangzhi.
"Are you blind!"
"Didn't you see it pull back its leg just now!"
Jiang Wangzhi was also stunned.
She gritted her teeth.
Damn it.
She was too used to the monsters with fixed data in games.
And ignored the fact that living creatures could feel pain, feel fear, and change their movements temporarily.
This was her mistake.
"My fault!"
Jiang Wangzhi didn't shirk responsibility and immediately admitted it.
"Do it again!"
Tang Li spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
"Do it my ass! My blade is almost notched to pieces!"
The Spike-armored Spider closed in once more.
This time, it didn't plan to give Tang Li any more chances.
It directly opened its large mouth, green venom dripping from its fangs.
Jiang Wangzhi took a deep breath.
Forcing herself to calm down.
Observation.
Calculation.
Variables.
Environment.
She glanced at the surrounding terrain.
On the right was flat ground.
On the left was a slope with an angle of about thirty degrees, covered in slippery moss.
"Hey!"
Jiang Wangzhi spoke up once more.
Her voice was as cold as ice.
"Don't take it head-on!"
"Retreat to the left! Lead it up that moss-covered slope!"
Tang Li cursed and swore, but her body was honest.
Since she couldn't beat it right now, she could only follow instructions.
She grabbed her knife and scrambled clumsily toward the slope on the left.
The Spike-armored Spider immediately gave chase.
"Up the slope! Fast!"
Jiang Wangzhi stared at the Spike-armored Spider's footsteps.
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
"Right now! Stop! Lower your head!"
Tang Li abruptly stopped in the middle of the slope, instantly dropping flat to the ground.
The Spike-armored Spider was in the middle of a charge.
Its speed was too fast.
It wanted to stop along with her.
But the moss on the slope was too slippery.
Most fatally of all.
Its second leg on the left was already injured, making it completely unable to provide enough traction on the slope.
"Screee—ch—"
Its six legs plowed long marks through the mud.
Its massive body instantly lost balance.
And tumbled directly down the slope!
The massive momentum left its belly facing up, paws in the air.
Its hard carapace smashed into a stone, producing a dull thud.
"Kill!"
Jiang Wangzhi roared.
Without her needing to shout, Tang Li had already moved.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.