Chapter 35: Come and See Your New Home

“Hmm? You’re awake? How do you feel?”

Hopper was not surprised by the voice of Venus on his back.

Because he had only used spider webs and spider silk to restrict her movements.

Venus had not made a sound during the previous battle.

She was only unconscious due to the excessive loss of blood and the pain from stitching up the wound.

“It hurts so much. Am I going to die? I don’t want to die…”

Even through spiritual communication, Hopper could feel her weakness from the voice in her mind.

“Don’t worry, you won’t die.”

“The wound has been stitched up long ago, and the blood has stopped.”

“Next, we just need to eat and sleep well, and we’ll be able to recover.”

As Hopper spoke, he stretched out a forefoot.

He touched the trembling spider silk on his back.

He seemed to have felt the forefoot outside the spider silk.

Venus inside gradually stopped trembling.

Seeing that the other party’s emotions had gradually calmed down, Hopper asked, “do you have a name?”

“Alice…”

After subconsciously saying her name, Alice suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Hopper also felt that the ball of spider silk on her back began to shake violently.

Then, a scream came from her mind.

“You’re that big spider! Did you save me?”

Alice only reacted after being comforted by Hopper a few times.

She had been chatting with the spider that had tied her up with spider webs and spider silk.

“Huh? I thought you already knew.”

Hearing the other party’s question, Hopper was a little confused.

In that situation just now, other than himself, who else could save her?

“What about Yisis and the others? Did you kill them all?”

Hearing that unfamiliar name, Hopper realized that Alice was asking about his four dead stone-scaled lizards.

Thus, he answered somewhat helplessly, “let’s not talk about why I killed them first. Do you think that they, who chose to cover for you at that time, could survive that group of blue-spotted frog monsters?”

After hearing Hopper’s answer, Alice fell into silence, and the ball of spider silk slowly stopped shaking.

Hopper could vaguely feel the sobbing coming from the other party.

“Hey, hey, be careful when you cry! If it’s soaked in spider silk, it will flow onto my back!”

After saying that, Hopper even poked the spider silk on his back with his front foot.

Alice seemed to have realized that the current situation was disadvantageous to her.

She quickly stopped crying and asked Hopper, “then, when you took me away from the group of blue-spotted frogs, did they not chase after you? How did you escape?”

“Why did I escape? They didn’t chase after me.”

Hopper asked back, somewhat puzzled.

“Then, did they just watch you take me away?”

Alice, who was stumped by Hopper’s question, immediately came to a realization.

“I know! It’s because Yisis and the others used their lives to stall for time that you were able to take me away in the chaos!”

Saying this, Alice’s heart suddenly felt desolate.

“Stop! Stop!”

Feeling the spider silk on her back begin to tremble, Hopper guessed that this crybaby was about to act up again, so he quickly explained.

“Did you get something wrong? They didn’t chase me, it’s just because I killed them all before I left, that’s all.”

“Killed them all? How is that possible? Ah!”

Alice obviously did not believe this spider that was about the same size as her.

It could actually kill the blue-spotted frog monster that was chasing them all by itself.

Wrapped in spider silk, she jumped up from Hopper’s back. She accidentally tore a few wounds that had not healed yet.

“You know I can suture wounds, that’s why you’re doing this, right?”

Upon hearing Alice’s exclamation, Hopper knew what had happened. He could already feel Alice’s blood through the spider silk behind his back.

“Behave yourself, we’ve already returned to my nest.”

“Don’t move when I’m sewing up your wounds later.”

Alice was currently unable to observe the outside world through the spider silk.

So after hearing Hopper’s words, she could only endure the pain and her stomach full of questions.

Hopper, who was floating on the surface of the water, stopped in front of a patch of reeds and calamus. He found a bunch of spider silk hanging on the reeds.

As Hopper pulled down the bunch of spider silk, the reeds fell to the sides like curtains.

A winding path appeared between the reeds and calamus.

Hope went ashore and walked towards this path. Spider webs were placed on the reeds along the way.

At this moment, insect-type monsters of all sizes were hanging on the spider web.

They were crickets, grasshoppers, moths, dragonflies, ladybugs, and so on.

Hopper, who had transformed into a fisherman, looked at the monsters on the fishing web and sighed.

“Looks like today’s harvest is pretty good. I can have a good meal again tonight.”

Then, he stabbed the insect monsters with his spiked forelegs one by one, then wrapped them up with spider silk and took them away.

After walking to the end of the path, Hopper removed the ball of spider silk on his back.

While untying the spider silk that blocked Alice’s vision, he said,

“Come and see your new home.”