Chapter 1 Striped Grey Plate Spider (1/2)

(PS: A little note before reading: this book does not reflect reality. Please do not read it with a realistic worldview. The genre of this book is fantasy. Fantasy books are unscientific! Unscientific! Unscientific! I too would like to know how to create fireballs and how to spew lightning).

Carrying a red school bag, Gao Peng fished out a key card. Ding.

There was a creaking sound from a worn metal gate as Gao Peng stepped into the building. The building was a little old, with bits of rubbish piled on the floor. Fortunately, they did not give off any weird smells.

Standing under the dim light, Gao Peng lowered his head and glanced at the ground. A fierce looking black shadow was cast on the ground that made pulling and stretching movements continuously.

Gao Peng frowned and looked up. There was a giant spider the size of a millstone resting by the ceiling light. It had a made a greyish-white web across the entire ceiling of the stairway, and had visible blood-red eyes that twinkled in the light.

Gao Peng sighed. ”Looks like the little spider raised by Granny Chen escaped again. This will be the seventh time this month, I guess.”

Used to the sight of this escapee, Gao Peng carried on as though he saw nothing and went straight up the stairs…

But as he left the scuttling sounds of the spider behind him, Gao Peng suddenly stopped as though he thought of something. A little hesitantly, Gao Peng turned back around and looked at the giant grey spider scuttling around the ceiling.

”This… looks like a Striped Grey Plate Spider? I recall that the teacher said this is a relatively gentle creature?”

Gao Peng blinked and hesitated for a moment. Then he put down his schoolbag, took out a piece of paper, crushed it into a ball, and took out a lighter from his pocket.

Gao Peng pursed his lips and hesitated again. After all, no matter how gentle this Striped Grey Plate Spider was, it was still the pet raised by Granny Chen from upstairs… No! That's not the main point!

No matter how gentle it was, it was still a monster! Before the change in planet Earth, even a normal tier monster could have rivaled lions and tigers as apex predators at the top of the food chain.

If Gao Peng angered this monster, in this stairwell with nowhere to escape, he would be like a lamb waiting for slaughter.

Sighing again, Gao Peng shook his head and turned around, heading back upstairs.

Suddenly, at lightning speed, Gao Peng lit the paper ball with his lighter and threw it towards the ceiling behind him. Then, he fled like a madman up the stairs.

I remember Mr. Zhang saying that these creatures had gentle personalities.

Zhi! A shrill and angry squeaking sound suddenly came from behind. Gao Peng who was running up the stairs stole a glance behind him as he turned around.

The Striped Grey Plate Spider had fallen to the floor of the stairwell. With its eight legs scuttling around in a frenzy, the spider frantically climbed up to another wall. In the opposite direction that the spider fled was the flaming paper ball, gradually burning out.

Gao Peng's eyes lit up and his heart pounded. The Striped Grey Plate Spider really was afraid of fire!

Oh d*mn! The thing that appeared in his mind really wasn't a figment of his imagination!

At this moment, Gao Peng felt he was one with the wind as he sprinted up the stairs. Behind him, the Striped Grey Plate Spider was making extremely angry squeaking sounds.

”Ah, Mr. Zhang lied to me! Who ever said these things were gentle!”

Currently, Gao Peng's mind was racing but he dared not slow down his steps. Having this kind of angry monster chasing him was no joke. If it caught up to him, it could easily crack his skull open or spill his guts if he wasn't careful.

This was a monster from a different dimension! During the beginning of Earth's transformation, many humans died at the hands of these monsters. No matter how gentle they may have seemed now, it did not change the fact that they were monsters.

As the sounds behind him kept getting closer, Gao Peng could clearly hear the impact made by the Striped Grey Plate Spider before it made each leap up the stairwell. It was like steel pipes knocking against the ground.

One more floor till he reached home!

Almost there!

The Striped Grey Plate Spider with blood-red eyes opened and closed its ferocious jaws. Its strong, well-formed spider legs were like springs, bending downwards and then springing upwards with great force! Each of these leaps could cover four or five flights of stairs.

It was getting closer and closer to Gao Peng…