"I want to know too!"
Roy's expression wasn't great. He originally wanted to call Gerald for help, since there were quite a few giant spiders in the movie "Eight Legged Freaks," and he didn't know how many he could kill alone.
However, Roy didn't expect the giant spiders to appear so quickly. Although the spider in front of him was only the size of a basketball, it shouldn't be long before there would be spiders bigger than people.
"Ashley, what's in that direction?"
Roy pointed in the direction the spider came from.
"You mean there? It looks like the swamp near the mine."
So it really is related to Amalgamated Chemical Company?
Roy decided not to think about it too much. He wasn't an official FEA agent, and investigations weren't his responsibility. He should just call Gerald.
But there was no cell service in the wilderness, so he had to go back to town first.
"Ashley, it looks like we won't be able to watch any drag races tonight."
Ashley didn't seem unhappy at all.
"It's okay! As long as I can be with you, I'm happy to do anything!"
Wow, typical American girl. This young version of Black Widow is way too forward, right?
I just did a basic move, and Ashley immediately went all-in.
"Uh, let's take the spider corpse and this guy back to town first."
Roy tossed the passed-out Terry into the back seat. Luckily, the guy just fainted and didn't wet his pants.
Otherwise, Roy was going to put him in the trunk with the spider corpse.
On the way back to town, Roy was intercepted by a police car.
The drag racing kids from before must have run back to town and called the cops.
"Get out of the car, now!"
Deputy Sheriff Pete got out of the police car with a shotgun and pointed it at Roy.
"Your son isn't dead! He's lying down in the back seat!"
"Yeah, Uncle Pete, Terry really isn't dead!"
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But Pete didn't listen. He thought Roy was just trying to get away with something.
"Get out of the car right now, let me see your hands! If you make any other move, I'll shoot!"
Roy rolled his eyes.
How are this father and son both like this? Is this kind of personality even hereditary?
"I told you, your son isn't dead! Just take a look!"
"Last warning! Get out of the car now!"
Helpless, Roy had no choice but to open the car door and get out.
Just as Pete was about to search Roy, he suddenly turned around and punched Pete in the nose, then snatched the shotgun from his hands.
"Ah!"
Pete screamed and fell backward, his nose bleeding profusely.
This was after Roy held back; otherwise, the punch could have caved in Pete's face.
"I freaking told you your son wasn't dead! Can't you understand plain English?"
"Y-you, you actually assaulted a police officer!"
Pete held his nose and tried to draw his handgun, but then remembered his son Terry had stolen it.
Roy stepped on Pete's stomach and showed him his FEA badge.
"Sorry, I'm with the FEA. Your actions just now were also assaulting a federal agent."
The sudden turn of events left Ashley stunned.
First assaulting a police officer, then assaulting a federal agent—these were all things Ashley had never encountered before.
At that moment, another police car drove over from a distance. This time, it was Samantha.
"Roy, Pete, what are you doing!"
Samantha immediately saw Roy standing on Pete.
"Samantha, take this guy down! He killed my son!"
Samantha looked at Roy doubtfully. She had indeed received a report about a shooting in the wilderness, but she didn't know Roy was the one who fired the shots.
Based on the good impression from dinner, Samantha instinctively didn't want to believe Pete.
"Roy, is this true?"
"Samantha, it's all a misunderstanding."
Ashley quickly got out of the car to help Roy explain.
"Mom, Uncle Pete misunderstood Roy. Terry isn't dead, he just passed out."
"Huh?"
This made Samantha's head spin.
Just at that moment, the passed-out Terry rubbed his eyes and woke up.
"What's going on? Why is it so noisy?"
The scene instantly fell silent.
What followed was the deputy sheriff beating his son. They still hit their kids in rural America, and who could blame Pete since he was the police himself?
Pete seemed to blame Terry for everything that had happened to him, and he was really laying into him. The three onlookers couldn't bear to watch.
In the end, Pete sincerely apologized to Roy, and Roy forgave him.
"Samantha, you got here just in time. Come take a look at this."
Roy opened the trunk of the car and showed the female police chief the corpse of the giant spider.
Although Roy was going to call Gerald, it would take some time for the FEA to arrive, so they needed the local police to help out until reinforcements arrived.
"This is... a spider? How can a spider be this big?"
Like mother, like daughter. Samantha's reaction was exactly the same as Ashley's.
"I suspect something happened in the mine that caused these giant spiders to appear in the swamp. This is very dangerous, and you should probably warn the town residents to be prepared!"
Ashley looked at Roy in surprise.
"Roy, isn't this a bit of an exaggeration?"
"Not at all. If there are hundreds or thousands of these spiders, they'll quickly eat all the animals in the swamp. After that, what will their target be?"
Of course, the living people in the mining town!
Samantha and Ashley both understood what Roy meant.
"Then shouldn't we quickly notify the residents to evacuate?"
"You can try, but I'm afraid it might be too late."
Samantha frowned and nodded.
"True, it's already late at night. Instead of trying to wake everyone up to evacuate, it might be better to gather everyone together to defend against the spiders and wait for rescue!"
"Samantha, I can help with the rescue. I'm an FEA agent and can contact FEA support."
"The Federal Emergency Agency?"
Roy was a little surprised that Samantha knew about the FEA.
After all, even the police in Los Angeles didn't know about this government agency, but Samantha, a police officer from a remote small town, actually knew about it.
"You know about this agency?"
Samantha nodded.
"When I was still in the Marine Corps, I worked with the FEA once, so I know about it."
Roy then realized that Samantha was a veteran. No wonder she was so tough in the movie.
"Alright then, Samantha, you go into town and notify the residents. I'll call the FEA now."
"It's settled then!"
Samantha grabbed Ashley, wanting to take her away, but Ashley wanted to stay with Roy.
Annoyed, Samantha twisted Ashley's ear.
"Ashley! I haven't even mentioned you sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night! Come with me!"
"Ah! Ouch! What do you think you're doing, you old woman!"
Ashley tried to resist, but there was no way she could fight against her Marine Corps veteran mother, unless she went to the Red Room in Siberia for training.
Roy shook his head, then took out his phone, found a spot with a signal, and dialed Gerald's number.
"Mr. Black, weren't you heading back to Texas? Why are you calling me all of a sudden?"
"Hehe! Mr. Olin, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Gerald on the other end of the phone was clearly a bit speechless, probably not expecting Roy to suddenly pull this kind of trick.
"Mr. Black, what are you playing at?"
"Just tell me which one you want to hear!"
Helpless, Gerald just picked one.
"The bad news then."
"I found a giant carnivorous spider in a remote small town in Nevada. It's as big as a basketball!"
Hearing this, Gerald was a bit puzzled.
"What's so bad about that? Nevada isn't even my jurisdiction! Mr. Black, are you asking me to contact the FEA in Nevada?"
"The good news is that this giant spider was probably created by the Amalgamated Chemical Company."
Gerald fell silent instantly.
After a while, Gerald's somewhat sinister laughter came from the phone receiver.
"Hahaha! Mr. Black, I think both of those are good news! You wait there, I have a pretty good relationship with the FEA director in Las Vegas. I'll be there before dawn! You absolutely have to wait for me!"
After saying that, Gerald hung up the phone impatiently.
Because of the Cosmic Demon incident, Gerald had suffered quite a bit at the hands of Amalgamated Chemical Company. Although he had locked up Bartholomew for a week, Gerald would definitely not refuse an opportunity to mess with Amalgamated Chemical Company.
Now that the rescue issue was resolved, Roy should go back and check on Elrêsa.
But when he returned downstairs to the motel, Roy felt something was wrong. The window of the room he was staying in was open.
Roy clearly remembered not opening the window!
Could it be...?
Roy quickly ran upstairs and opened the room. Sure enough, Elrêsa was gone.
"Damn it, she must have jumped out of the second-floor window and left!"
Roy's expression was grim.
Fortunately, Roy had previously drawn a subjugation magic circle on Elrêsa to prevent her from getting lost and causing trouble.
With this magic circle, Roy could sense Elrêsa's location at any time.
He closed his eyes and sensed her location... That direction... could it be the swamp?
At this time, Elrêsa had already walked deep into the swamp. It used to be full of animals, but now it was eerily silent, like a dead land.
Elrêsa looked around at everything with curiosity. She had never seen a place like this since she started remembering things.
The very curious Elrêsa, like a little girl, touched this and that, having long forgotten Roy's instructions.
Soon, Elrêsa came to an area full of spiderwebs. There were many giant spiders here, as big as humans.
But when these giant spiders saw Elrêsa, they didn't attack her. They just surrounded her and even led the way.
Unfortunately, Elrêsa's current intelligence hadn't reached the point where she could understand the giant spiders' behavior. She thought they were playing with her.
"Hehehe... Hahaha..."
After playing around for a while, Elrêsa remembered why she came here. Some mysterious call had brought her here.
So, Elrêsa followed the spiders into a spiderweb-covered lair.
"Oh, my sister, it's so good to see you again!"
A spider even bigger than a large truck crawled out of the lair. The most surprising thing was that this spider had a human face on its head.
The face was exceptionally delicate, and it was impossible to tell if it was male or female.
At the same time, the giant human-faced spider's voice was also androgynous, making it impossible to determine its gender.
This was probably because the human-faced spider was a fusion of a female spider's and a male succubus's cells, and the male succubus's soul had just been resurrected in the human-faced spider.
That's why it seemed neither masculine nor feminine.
"Who are you? Why are you calling me sister?"
The human-faced spider's face showed a lifelike frown.
"My sister Elrêsa, have you forgotten the mission our mother gave us?"
Elrêsa looked puzzled, put her finger in her mouth, and started thinking with her not-so-bright little brain.
"My name is indeed Elrêsa, but I don't know you!"
The human-faced spider fell silent for a while before continuing to speak.
"No wonder I've been waiting for you to resurrect me, forcing me to revive in this spider body! Has someone erased your memory? Who did this!"
The human-faced spider looked very angry, its voice becoming sharp and piercing, scaring the surrounding giant spiders into trembling.
Only Elrêsa wasn't afraid at all. She probably didn't even have a concept of fear and just looked at the human-faced spider cursing with great curiosity.
"Excuse me, is there something you need from me? If not, I'm going back to find Daddy!"
Elrêsa had walked all this way and only saw a human-faced spider, so she was inevitably a bit disappointed. Now, she just wanted to go home and find Roy to have some baby milkshake.
"Don't rush off, Elrêsa! Even though you've lost your memory, your body is still here! I can completely use your body to give birth to a new physical form! I don't want to stay in this disgusting spider body forever!"
Elrêsa didn't understand the human-faced spider at all. These words were too complicated for someone with the intelligence of a five or six-year-old.
However, Elrêsa could still somewhat sense the malice from the human-faced spider, so she turned around and ran.
"Grab her! Don't let her get away!"
The surrounding giant spiders immediately spat webs at Elrêsa, but Elrêsa was very agile, dodging the webs like she was dancing, with a series of silver bell-like laughter coming from her mouth.
It was as if she was playing a game.
However, after more and more giant spiders appeared, Elrêsa didn't dare to play anymore and sped up her run back.
Giant spiders appeared from all directions in the swamp. These were the giant spiders that had gone out hunting before, and now they were controlled by the human-faced spider to come back and surround Elrêsa.
Finally, Elrêsa was surrounded by giant spiders, and at this point, she finally started to feel a little uneasy.
The human-faced spider slowly crawled over from a distance. After its body had grown to this size, part of its body had mutated into reproductive organs, causing its abdomen to become abnormally large, so its relatively slender spider legs were no longer enough to support its rapid movement.
"Elrêsa, my sister, give birth to a new body for me! It will be quick, and there won't be any pain! Hehehe..."
Just as the words fell, a gunshot pierced the night sky of the swamp.
"Eight Legged Freaks" movie still (Mike on the left, Ashley on the right)