[Name]: Bai Jie
[Title]: Night Goddess Nyx
[Race/Species]: Violet-Electric Man-Eating Demon Spider (High-Tier Awakened Form)
[Vitality]: 36
[Skills]: High-Tier Intimidation Lv.1 (NEW), Invisibility Camouflage Lv.1 (NEW), Mutagenic Venom Lv.3, Egg-Laying Lv.3, Foot Blade Slash Lv.8, Bite Lv.8, Razor Spider Silk Lv.8, Urticating Hair Venom Needle Lv.11, Poison Arrow Barrage Lv.11, Corrosive Deadly Poison Lv.12 (MAX)
[Talents]: Poison-Refining Gu, Spirit-Devouring Body, Thunder Mastery (NEW)
[Satiety]: 70%
[Body Length]: Leg Span 80cm
High-Tier Awakened Form. Man-Eating Demon Spider?
What a domineering name... Was it given to me because I ended Zheng Yueling's life?
Truth be told, Bai Jie was still quite averse to the idea of eating humans.
Both Vitality and skill levels had seen considerable improvement.
What delighted Bai Jie most was: yet another two new skills! It now had a full ten skills!
Granting itself the title "Perfect Ten Spider" wouldn't be out of line, would it?
Ignoring Bai Jie's smug flights of fancy, the panel abruptly surfaced with analyses of the new skills.
[High-Tier Intimidation]: Newly awakened skill. Exerts intimidation over living creatures whose Vitality value is lower than the user's own. The greater the Vitality gap, the more pronounced the intimidating effect. Area of effect expands as skill level increases.
[Invisibility Camouflage]: Newly awakened skill. Can physically cloak the user, including its own body and spider silk. Camouflage duration lengthens as skill level increases.
Good heavens, these two skills are more preposterous one after another.
Especially [Invisibility Camouflage] — wouldn't this massively guarantee its safety while living in human society?
Furthermore, it could also cloak its own spider silk. That way, its ambush capabilities would be dramatically enhanced as well.
Hold on... there seemed to be something it hadn't noticed. Thunder Mastery?!
Because in previous evolutions, the Talents column had largely gone unchanged, Bai Jie hadn't spotted it right away. It nearly overlooked it.
[Thunder Mastery]: Newly awakened talent. Innate command over the power of thunder and lightning. Can convert and condense the power of thunder into various different forms.
Bai Jie was so stunned by delight that it took a full four or five seconds to recover.
This wave... this wave was a direct ticket to soaring!
Bai Jie quickly connected the dots to Zheng Yueling's form wreathed in electric arcs and realized that the awakening of this talent was most likely the result of having devoured her spiritual essence.
With a thought, blue-violet electric arcs instantly spread across its entire body, emitting a hissing, crackling sound.
Having undergone its third evolution, Bai Jie's appearance had also undergone noticeable changes, primarily concentrated in the fact that its original laser-golden patterns had once again reverted to blue-violet.
Compared to its appearance as the Amazonian Blue-Violet Laser Tarantula right after transmigration, the current blue-violet patterns were brighter and more alluring.
Magnificently stunning, while also giving off a perception of mystery and formidable deterrence.
After admiring its beautiful Status Panel to satisfaction, Bai Jie devoured all the venomous creatures left from the previous day and watched with satisfaction as its Vitality rose by 2 points.
Bai Jie had already discovered that with the same quantity of venomous creatures, the later the stage, the more limited the Vitality gains became.
"Alright, the demon woman's matter is finally settled. But how to continue evolving has become the biggest current dilemma. Relying on my own efforts to find venomous creatures is so much slower than having someone feed me like before."
Bai Jie pondered. "All in all, the first step now is to find a way to contact Chen Zhang. Of course, I can't expose my current situation — just thinking about it feels mortifying."
"Especially regarding gender... sigh..."
"After contacting Chen Zhang, then I'll decide how to investigate the meteorite and the other accomplices in the disappearance cases."
"I'm also fairly satisfied with this current 'home,' so I won't move for now. I'll relocate when I find a place suitable for hunting venomous insects en masse."
So, how to get in touch with Chen Zhang?
The most convenient method was naturally to use a cell phone. Though Bai Jie had become a spider, its eight legs were more than sufficient for typing. In fact, with its forelegs now being extremely nimble and fast, it might even type faster than before.
As for how to obtain a phone, Bai Jie first thought of using Zheng Yueling's, but quickly vetoed the idea.
Because Zheng Yueling's death would likely be discovered very soon. If Bai Jie used Zheng Yueling's phone to contact Chen Zhang and someone else found out, the charge of murdering Zheng Yueling would easily fall on its head.
Even though the human youth "Bai Jie" no longer walked the earth, Bai Jie still couldn't bear for "him" to shoulder the suspicion of murder. Otherwise, its parents might live their whole lives under the public scrutiny of "raising a campus murder suspect."
It had to seek out a different phone.
After an entire afternoon of staking things out, Bai Jie targeted a naughty kid in the residential complex.
The child was playing games on his parent's phone, and with its extremely far-reaching eyesight, Bai Jie managed to memorize the lock screen password as he typed it in.
As everyone knows, when a kid wants to use an adult's phone, fingerprint unlocking is out of the question.
Next, it was a matter of awaiting the right moment to seize the phone.
Bai Jie shadowed the child continuously and used the skill Invisibility Camouflage to infiltrate the household. While the family slept soundly at night, it stole the phone without anyone — spirit or human — being the wiser.
During the process, Bai Jie discovered that this skill could only last about 30 minutes at most, and could not be used again for an hour after the camouflage ended.
So it had nearly been discovered, but fortunately managed to hide under the bed in the nick of time.
"Amitabha, amitabha. Your family is so wealthy, living in a detached villa and all. One phone shouldn't be a big deal, right? Truly sorry, truly sorry."
"Aside from apologizing, I truly have nothing else to offer... My identity is sensitive right now, and I can't earn money to pay you back. I'll return it once the battery's dead."
Back in its spider nest, Bai Jie muttered to itself in penitence.
Click — the phone unlocked. Bai Jie began composing a text message:
[Boss Zhang, this is Bai Jie. This is neither a prank nor a ghost looking for you. I'm still alive, but for certain reasons, I can't come back right now. Plus I lost my phone, so I can only contact you with this number.]
[Don't disbelieve me, because I know you sometimes sleep with half your butt exposed, your favorite actresses are Aika Yumeno and Satomi Ishihara, and you've even bragged to me about your size being... More importantly, that day I couldn't save A Xiao and nearly got myself killed in the process!]
The reality, however, was that it had indeed gotten itself killed...
Bai Jie laughed bitterly to itself.
After verifying its identity, Bai Jie then began informing him of what had happened the day it infiltrated Zheng Yueling's home, including the suspicious Agent Yao and the mysterious figure who had knocked it unconscious. Although it had secretly escaped, it had been unable to rescue A Xiao.
Then, it wrote out its speculations about the meteorite and its suspicions that there might be accomplices of Zheng Yueling within the Criminal Investigation Department, hoping he would absolutely remain vigilant about the department.
[By the way, I'd like you to help me look into something — who Zheng Yueling's ex-boyfriend was. As soon as possible, please.]
[Don't call, only text me. Calling would put me in danger. Also, don't try to find me. Don't let anyone else know I'm in contact with you. And most importantly, don't put yourself in danger. Remember this!]
Finally, Bai Jie input Chen Zhang's phone number, hit "Send," and set the phone to silent.
It hoped that before the phone ran out of battery, Chen Zhang could find out about Zheng Yueling's ex-boyfriend. After all, this was one of the few leads remaining now.
Bai Jie raised its head to gaze at the starry night sky. Tonight's moon was very round.
Indeed, time had unknowingly drawn near the Mid-Autumn Festival...
If it were still human, it could have seized the Mid-Autumn holiday to visit home.