The flaming skull drilled into the human-faced spider's still-unclosed, fat abdomen, then exploded with a bang, sending colorful goo flying everywhere.
It was like that feeling when a big bug bursts, really disgusting.
Luckily, Roy had run a good distance away early on and wasn't splattered by the strange, colorful goo.
"Mother... won't... let you... get away with this!"
With its abdomen blown open, the human-faced spider was obviously not going to survive, but it was still using its last bit of strength to issue a venomous curse at Roy.
So Roy finished it off with another shot from his Hell shotgun, directly blasting the babbling human face.
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"Done!"
The human-faced spider was killed, but the giant spiders didn't retreat, making Roy a little worried.
Could it be that these guys just abandoned their male mom?
That's cold-blooded!
But thinking about it, spiders are arthropods and don't even seem to have blood, so this behavior doesn't seem that strange.
The only question was whether these giant spiders would run to town after losing the human-faced spider's control.
"Elrêsa, let's go back!"
"Daddy, my tummy's rumbling! I want a baby milkshake!"
Elrêsa lifted her white dress to show her flat stomach. She just liked the natural feel, so she wasn't wearing anything underneath.
Roy slapped Elrêsa's hand down. That gesture was really indecent, and her old dad couldn't stand to see that.
"We'll talk about it later. I don't have time right now. How about you have some of our stash to tide you over?"
Elrêsa pouted and took a baby bottle from Roy, sucking on it.
Time in the inventory was constant, so these baby milkshakes were always fresh.
But Elrêsa just loved freshly squeezed baby milkshakes, and Roy didn't understand why.
Back in the mining town, the out-of-control giant spiders were indeed attacking.
Fortunately, Roy had already warned Samantha. Using her authority as sheriff, she successfully gathered the town residents in the spacious supermarket, relying on the firearms brought from the police station for defense.
The effect was decent, barely holding them off.
Actually, Roy thought these spiders would have been more dangerous if they had stayed the size of basketballs instead of evolving to be as big as people.
Being large meant they were easier to hit, but their defense hadn't increased much, and they could still be killed by firearms.
They would have been better off being smaller. At least bullets would have been harder to hit, and they would have been more agile, able to crawl into inconspicuous pipes and corners.
Like this, as long as you have weapons, a defensive position, and a competent commander (Samantha), it's difficult for the giant spiders to break through.
"Sheriff, we're running low on ammo!"
Samantha held a Remington M870, the same model Roy had, and was single-handedly taking down giant spiders like a female warrior, one shot per spider.
Suddenly hearing Pete's voice, Samantha was both angry and anxious.
"How could we have used up the ammo so quickly?"
Pete explained a bit awkwardly.
"Uh, nothing's really happened in town for years, so some of the ammo has been sitting around too long and isn't usable anymore..."
Samantha glared at Pete, suspecting that this guy had secretly taken the ammo out and sold it, which was why this happened.
But with the situation being critical, Samantha didn't have time to worry about that now.
"We'll settle the score later! Everyone, tighten the defense line!"
There weren't many residents in the mining town, only a few hundred in total. Samantha had barely managed to find a dozen or so adults who knew how to use guns to form a defensive line with the town's police.
They were defending well, but then the deputy sheriff suddenly said they were out of ammo.
Fortunately, Samantha had a lot of battlefield experience and had already prepared multiple lines of defense. She had also made some traps using whatever materials she could find, so they should be able to hold out until dawn.
Most spiders are nocturnal, so they would probably retreat when it got light.
"As long as we can hold out until dawn!"
Samantha gritted her teeth. The current situation was even more difficult than some of the missions she had carried out in the Marine Corps.
That mission... why can't I suddenly remember it?
Samantha shook her head, trying to clear her mind of distractions, and then shot a giant spider trying to sneak up on them.
"Report your ammo count!"
"I have 5 magazines left!"
"I have 4!"
"Last 2 magazines!"
"30 rounds of 12-gauge slugs!"
...
The ammo situation was quite grim, and Pete was sweating profusely with anxiety.
The giant spiders outside seemed endless. At this rate, they definitely wouldn't last until dawn.
"Sheriff, what do we do?"
Samantha thought for a moment and came up with an idea.
"Actually, we still have one option. If someone could drive to the gun store in town and bring back some weapons and ammo, it might change the tide of the battle!"
But who would go?
Giant spiders were everywhere outside. Charging out there was a death sentence, while staying here might offer a slim chance of survival.
Samantha looked around, but no one volunteered. Everyone was just an ordinary person after all.
"Then I'll go! Pete, I'm putting you in charge!"
"Huh? Me in charge?"
Pete looked dumbfounded.
Samantha had no choice. Pete was the only one with any command experience; everyone else was a civilian.
At this moment, Moke, whose hair was inexplicably a bit green, saw the goddess preparing to risk her life, gritted his teeth, and stood up.
"Samantha, I'll go with you!"
Samantha was a little surprised by Moke's courage, but having someone go with her was definitely a good thing. Just as she was about to leave, she heard screams coming from the warehouse.
"Ahhh—"
"What happened!"
Samantha immediately became anxious. Her daughter and son were both in the warehouse!
It turned out that the warehouse was quite enclosed, with only two doors, front and back, so Samantha had used it as the last line of defense. Hundreds of elderly people, women, and children were hiding inside. The front door was where Samantha's line of defense was, and the back door was also guarded.
In theory, nothing should have gone wrong.
Who knew that although these giant spiders couldn't talk, they weren't unintelligent. Otherwise, they wouldn't have fallen for Roy's fear aura.
These guys were actually continuously spraying corrosive acid on top of the warehouse. Their acid was a bit weaker than the human-faced spider's acid, which could directly corrode steel, but they made up for it in quantity!
After more than a dozen giant spiders took turns spraying acid, they successfully corroded a large hole in the warehouse ceiling. As a result, a large number of giant spiders entered the warehouse and began hunting humans.
Hearing the screams of their families, some of the men on the front line couldn't help but run back to save them, and the defense line instantly collapsed.
"Get back here! Hold the line!"
Samantha could barely remain calm. At this point, she didn't even need to think about going to the gun store anymore. Just surviving this wave was the priority.
In the end, Pete also chose to abandon the defense line to save his son, leaving only Samantha and Moke facing the siege of dozens of giant spiders.
"Damn it! Looks like this is the end of the line?"
Samantha lowered her gun, seemingly giving up. She only regretted not being with her daughter and son. If the whole family could be together, maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
Oh, and that little man who disappeared...
Moke beside her also mustered up his courage, preparing to confess at the last moment.
"Samantha, actually..."
Just at that moment, a series of gunshots came from outside the supermarket, and then Samantha saw the giant spiders start to flee, as if they had encountered their natural enemy.
"What's going on?"
The gunshots got closer and closer, and Samantha quickly saw who was firing them. It was that little man Roy she had just been thinking about.
Roy was holding two revolvers, firing with both hands, and every bullet took down a giant spider. He wasn't missing a single shot.
When the pistol bullets ran out, Roy handed the two guns to Elrêsa beside him to reload, and then continued firing with the Remington M870.
The giant spiders around them all acted like they had seen a ghost when they saw Roy. Not only did they completely dare not attack him, but they all wished they could grow another eight legs to run faster.
Soon, Roy arrived in front of Samantha.
"Samantha, are you all right?"
Samantha, having narrowly escaped death, was a bit teary-eyed and hugged Roy tightly.
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"Roy, it's so good that you came!"
At this moment, Moke, standing beside them, looked constipated and even a bit like a Namekian.
"By the way, Samantha, how are Ashley and the others?"
Only then did Samantha remember that her daughter and son were still in danger.
"They're in the warehouse! We have to go save them!"
The giant spiders in the supermarket had either been killed or scared away by Roy, so it wasn't dangerous here anymore.
Samantha quickly led Roy into the warehouse to rescue people.
At this time, the warehouse was a complete mess. Many shelves had been knocked over, and some people were even trapped under them.
The people who had just rushed into the warehouse were fighting the giant spiders, while the survivors were huddled in the corners, trembling.
"Ashley, Mike!"
Samantha called out her daughter's and son's names and quickly got a response.
"Mom, we're here!"
Hearing that her daughter and son were okay, Samantha breathed a slight sigh of relief. The next thing to do was to drive out these giant spiders.
However, the shelves inside the warehouse severely obstructed their view, and this complex environment was perfect for the spiders to fight in.
"Let me handle this."
This is when the curved bullets come in handy.
Roy had said before that curved bullets wouldn't be of much use, but he didn't expect to be proven wrong so quickly.
With a flick of his wrists, the two revolvers fired two bullets, which curved around the shelves and hit the two giant spiders behind them.
Samantha watched this scene in astonishment.
"Roy, how did you do that?"
"It's simple. Just at the moment of pulling the trigger, you need to flick your wrist just right to apply a force in a different direction when the bullet leaves the barrel, thus causing the bullet's trajectory to become a curve."
Samantha: ???
Are you even speaking English?
With Roy, this new force, joining the fight, the giant spiders in the warehouse were quickly repelled.
But during that time, quite a few residents were still caught in the giant spiders' webs and taken away.
So although the battle was won, the atmosphere in the warehouse was still very low. Some residents who had lost family members began to sob quietly.
At this moment, Mike stood up.
"I think those giant spiders seem to be a mutation of the local wolf spiders. They like to use their webs to catch prey and then take them back to their nests alive to eat. Maybe we can still save them in time!"
Mike's reminder made Roy recall that he did seem to see some things wrapped in spider silk balls in that spiderweb nest. That should be the prey the giant spiders had captured.
"Oh, I see. Then let's act immediately!"
Samantha immediately stood up. As the sheriff, she had a responsibility to protect the safety of the residents.
But Roy held Samantha back.
"I should still go. It's very dangerous in the swamp."
Saying that, Roy prepared to move.
However, an accident happened again. Just as Roy walked out the back door of the warehouse, which was also the direction the giant spiders had fled, he heard a series of rapid gunshots.
This is...
Such rapid gunfire definitely couldn't be from civilian weapons. Roy squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, seeing a convoy of vehicles driving over.
The lead vehicle in the convoy was actually an armored car, and the gunshots from just now were from the heavy machine gun on the armored car.
"Great, have the reinforcements arrived?"
Samantha's face was full of surprise, but Roy wasn't so happy. He quickly pulled Samantha back into the warehouse.
"Something's wrong. That's not reinforcements!"
If Roy remembered correctly, the mining town was at least four or five hours away from Las Vegas by car. There was no way the FEA could have arrived so quickly.
"If it's not reinforcements, then who could it be?"
The convoy got closer and closer, and Roy finally saw the three letters "MMC" painted on the vehicles.
Montenegro Military Company!
This military company was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Chemical Company, specializing in doing dirty work for Amalgamated Chemical, and their methods were extremely ruthless.
Back during the Hills Have Eyes incident, the Montenegro Military Company acted without any scruples, killing anyone they saw, clearly intending to silence everyone.
Presumably, the Montenegro Military Company's goal this time was the same.
Damn it, this is trouble!
In the Hills Have Eyes incident, the Montenegro Military Company only used individual weapons, but this time they even brought armored cars.
After hearing Roy's explanation, Samantha's expression also turned grim.
"There's actually a mercenary company like this, and the federal government doesn't even care?"
Not only would the federal government not care, but they might even be helping Montenegro clean up their messes!
However, Roy didn't say this out loud, but instead spoke to comfort the others.
"Don't worry, I've already contacted the FEA. They should be here within an hour or two at the latest. All we have to do is hold out for that long!"
Although he said that, when dozens of fully armed mercenaries got out of the convoy, some of them even carrying individual rockets, the survivors still felt a sense of despair.
"Listen up, people inside! We are Montenegro mercenaries hired by Amalgamated Chemical Company. Please lay down your weapons and come out of the building immediately."
A man who looked like a captain used a megaphone to urge Roy and the others to come out of the supermarket.
If Roy hadn't warned them, everyone might have actually walked out of the warehouse.
But now, the people in the warehouse found the Montenegro mercenaries very strange. Why would they make such a big show of force if they were here to rescue people? This was clearly a setup for a fight.
"Roy, what should we do?"
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