World-Ending Demon Emperor-Chapter 57 - 54 The Wise Storm Overcomes the Spider Queen
57: Chapter 54: The Wise Storm Overcomes the Spider Queen
57 -54: The Wise Storm Overcomes the Spider Queen
At this moment, Lanling truly felt immensely grateful for the transmigrator from thousands of years ago, Your Majesty the Dragon Emperor.
If it weren’t for his arrival in this world and his unification of the lands, standardizing Chinese characters as the universal script across the world, Lanling would have died here today.
The Shadow Spider Queen was taken aback, her blood-red eyes flickering with a bloodthirsty gleam before she chuckled softly, “Wow, so our handsome man possesses such an outstanding brain.
The brain matter I love to devour the most is precisely this kind.”
Then, the Shadow Spider Queen licked her mouthparts and revealed a cruel smile to Lanling, “Handsome boy, when dinner time comes, I will be back for you.
I’ve said before, I love to suck out the brains of the intelligent.”
Upon hearing this, Lanling was completely chilled to the bone.
After saying this, the massive body of the Shadow Spider Queen burrowed into one of the numerous passages in the cave and instantly disappeared from view.
However, even with her gone, everyone present was still entirely unable to move or make any sound; all they could do was watch.
Ye Jingyu remained unconscious at this time.
According to the ominous beast’s statement, every mealtime, Lanling would become the Shadow Spider Queen’s primary target.
Of course, she would still feign the act of asking questions, and if Lanling couldn’t answer, his brain matter would be sucked out.
But what if he could answer?
Surely the Shadow Spider Queen couldn’t just go hungry, so Lanling figured that even if he answered every question correctly, he could only survive for a day or two tops.
The creature was not likely to really play by the rules and starve herself.
He had to find a way to save himself.
“Yao Xing, at this moment, do we have any means of saving ourselves?” Lanling asked inwardly.
“None,” Yao Xing said bluntly, offering a straightforward answer.
“Aren’t you incredibly defying the heavens, extremely powerful?” Lanling asked.
Yao Xing replied, “Correct, however, I have absorbed too little energy at this point.
This Shadow Spider Queen is an immensely powerful psychic beast, with cultivation thousands of times greater than ours.
What can I do?”
At this time, all hope from Yao Xing was lost, as once the Shadow Spider Queen sank her fangs into his brain to suck out his brain matter, even with Yao Xing, he would definitely be doomed.
Over the next few hours, Lanling racked his brain for a way to save himself but came up with nothing.
In the face of a strength disparity millions of times over, nothing could bridge that gap.
Or perhaps, could he rely on his own wit?
Or eloquence?
In these tense moments, time felt like years as much as it seemed to fly by. freewebnoveℓ.com
Unbeknownst to him, six hours had passed.
“Hahahaha!” The terrible Shadow Spider Queen once again appeared before everyone, bringing the nightmare once more.
“Time flies, doesn’t it?
Here we meet again, my dinnertime has arrived,” the Shadow Spider Queen said sweetly, then crawled directly in front of Lanling, and with her furry, horrifying claws, gently traced Lanling’s face.
Instinctively, his scalp felt like exploding.
“Handsome boy, I’ve really missed you these past hours, you’re so good-looking, I’m truly looking forward to how delicious your brain matter will be,” the Shadow Spider Queen said up close to Lanling’s face, the rot in her breath nearly causing Lanling to wish for death.
Next, the Shadow Spider Queen drew even closer to Lanling, pressing her massive belly against his face, nearly causing Lanling to faint from the sensation.
“Listen, my stomach is so hungry, it’s growling,” the Shadow Spider Queen said, “So, shall we begin our riddle game once again?”
Lanling immediately perked up his ears, fearing missing even a single word.
“This time it’s another riddle.
Not in the top, not in the bottom, name one character,” the Shadow Spider Queen proudly stated.
This riddle was very similar to the one at noon, and the Shadow Spider Queen took pride in her own intellect.
“I’m starting the countdown, ten, nine, eight, seven…”
Putting aside his nervousness, Lanling quickly thought, and in just two seconds, he had the answer.
“One!” Lanling cried out loudly, “The answer is one!”
Indeed, it was the character that is neither at the top nor the bottom, which is “one.”
The color drained from the Shadow Spider Queen’s face, and her eyes showed a fierce light, her fangs itching to strike.
This beautiful human had actually figured it out again.
Was she actually going to starve herself?
Suddenly, she was overwhelmed with an intense urge to plunge her fangs into the eyes of this pretty young face and suck his brain dry before dicing his body into pieces.
Yet, she managed to hold back.
After all, these were the rules she had set herself, to toy with human intelligence for her own mental pleasure.
“Since you’re so smart, how about I add an extra question for you?” the Shadow Spider Queen suggested coyly.
Lanling knew it, that creature was bound to cheat.
If he answered one question correctly, she would keep adding more, and he would undoubtedly die sooner or later—there would always be a question he couldn’t answer.
No, he had to block this possibility.
So, Lanling countered with an advance of retreat, “An extra question?
No problem at all.
You can add one question this meal, two for the next, and three for the one after that.”
This too was a kind of reverse psychology.
It would prevent the Shadow Spider Queen from adding unlimited questions now until he couldn’t answer any longer.
What the Shadow Spider Queen couldn’t stand the most was that air of superiority humans had, as if the whole world only they were the intelligent race, and all others were ignorant beasts.
Lanling was right; the Shadow Spider Queen indeed intended to keep presenting riddles until Lanling could no longer answer them, at which point she would have sucked his brains dry and then torn his body into tens of thousands of pieces, piece by piece eating him, or perhaps forcing the other humans present to do so.
But now, Lanling’s display of intellectual superiority had irritated her, and she said bluntly, “Fine, we’ll do it your way, two riddles this meal, and three the next.
I want to see just how long you can stay alive.”
Then, the Shadow Spider Queen racked her brains, recalling memories she had consumed, trying to come up with an even more difficult question.
“Green one piece, purple one piece, what character is it?” the Shadow Spider Queen asked.
“Plain!” Lanling answered directly, without waiting for her countdown.
These riddles were truly child’s play.
“Ah…” The Shadow Spider Queen suddenly shrieked furiously, baring her fangs, about to feast on Lanling until death.
Lanling chuckled coldly, “Of course, you can suck my brains out right now.
But by doing that, you’d be breaking your own rules, creating a mental block within your heart and mind, constantly reminding you that you’re not smart at all.
Then your mental cultivation will be stuck forever, making no progress whatsoever.”
The Shadow Spider Queen paused; Lanling’s words made a lot of sense to her.
In the endless years, the reason she had been so happy, finding time easy to endure, was because of her wisdom and her confidence.
If she broke the rules today and ate the pretty boy in front of her, it meant that she was not intelligent, and all her previous pride and confidence were false.
With that, this shadow would become her eternal mental block, from which she would never be able to escape.
No, she couldn’t break the rules; she had to defeat humans using the method humans were best at, only this way could she prove herself to be wiser, smarter, and superior to humans.
Taking a deep breath and suppressing the hunger in her stomach, the Shadow Spider Queen smiled seductively and said, “Very well, it seems I will go hungry tonight.
But that doesn’t matter.
In eight hours, it will be my breakfast time, and three more difficult riddles will be waiting for you.
My pretty boy, you have another eight hours to live.”
With that, the terrifying Shadow Spider Queen vanished without a trace.
Immediately, all the prey hanging in the cave took a long sigh of relief.
This was the first time nobody died during the monster’s mealtime.
Then, everyone looked at Lanling with eyes filled with admiration and gratitude.
Because Lanling had not only saved himself but all of them as well.
At this moment, Lanling closed his eyes and began to sleep, conserving his energy.
After all, being anxious and scared was useless now; it was better to recharge and prepare for the storm of wisdom to come in eight hours.
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The eight hours passed swiftly.
Soon, the terrifying Shadow Spider Queen rushed up to Lanling again, with blood-red eyes.
Moreover, the rumbling noise from her stomach was clearly audible.
She didn’t even bother to put on a forced smile anymore.
“You have three riddles to solve today,” the Shadow Spider Queen said.
“Tell me, on what day do the sun and the moon appear together?”
As soon as this question was asked, everyone present racked their brains, but no matter how long they thought, there was simply no such day.
On Earth, sometimes the sun and the moon did appear at the same time, although the moon seemed very faint and was almost invisible.
But in this world, the sun and the moon never, ever appeared together.
Immediately, everyone looked at Lanling with pity, thinking that he was certainly doomed.
The Shadow Spider Queen immediately showed a smug smile, certain of the pretty boy’s death, finally able to taste the delicious brains.
“Tomorrow,” Lanling answered directly.
In this world, there would never be a day when the sun and moon were together, but the character for “day” combined with “moon” makes “bright,” which means tomorrow.
The Shadow Spider Queen’s expression changed, while everyone present suddenly understood and looked at Lanling with even greater astonishment.
“Indeed very clever, but now I’ll ask the second question,” the Shadow Spider Queen said, almost losing her sanity, grinding her teeth.
“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?”
Lanling was speechless; this riddle was truly cliché, and he answered straight away, “It’s a human, crawling as a child, walking on two legs as an adult, and using a walking stick in old age.”
“Ah…
Ah…” The Shadow Spider Queen completely lost her temper, her previously seductive face contorting with ferocity.
Gradually calming down, she spoke slowly, “Now, there is a new question.
If you can answer it, I will let you go; if you cannot, you will die, and I will suck your brains out.”
“How many hairs are on my body?” the Shadow Spider Queen asked.
Lanling frowned, as expected, the Shadow Spider Queen was resorting to foul play; it was a question that could not possibly be answered.
“Hahaha…” The Shadow Spider Queen suddenly laughed gleefully.
“Can’t answer, can you?
Then you shall die!”
Saying that, she violently tore off the spider silk from Lanling’s body and lifted him high into the air with her terrifying claws.
“Clever boy, I can’t wait to see how delicious your brain is,” the Shadow Spider Queen’s terrifying fangs prepared to plunge into Lanling’s skull.
Lanling was about to die a gruesome death!
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