Mystery: The Stars Returner

When Bas closed his eyes and waited for death, a rustling sound sounded.

His body trembled, his legs could no longer stand firm, and he fell to the ground. However, the expected scene of being eaten by a swarm of spiders did not come.

I quietly opened my eyes and glanced around. It turned out that the rustling sound just now was the sound of spiders evacuating the cabin.

There were a lot of questions in his mind. He sat on the ground and rested for a long time before he had the courage to come to the window, slightly opened the corner of the window, and looked out the window.

Under the crimson moonlight, the spiders all over the ground seemed to have encountered some kind of natural enemy. They hid in the soil again like the tide poured back. Gradually, only layers of white spider silk were left on the ground. world.

In such a fantastic scene, he saw a figure standing on the farmland in the distance, with his back turned to him. The light on that person was particularly conspicuous, not only the light of the crimson moon, but also the brilliance of the stars.

Those spiders fled in panic because they were afraid of his presence.

When all the spiders on the ground fled, the figure also left.

Bass hid in the cabin, his eyes wide open, and his whole body seemed to be on fire. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep. What happened tonight was enough to become a lifelong conversation topic for him.

……

On the hill, the cave opened again to the crimson moon.

This time, Hastur did not choose to watch from the outside. His eyes were like a torch, piercing through the layers of darkness and the obstruction of spider silk, and seeing everything inside clearly.

He took one step forward, and his body fell straight down. Before the spider threads around him could wrap around him, they turned into black threads and then shattered.

After reaching the bottom, following the path opened by the spiders, Hastur gradually went deep into the world made of white spider silk. The dome above his head was filled with white cocoons, at least thousands in number.

These are the town's annual sacrifices to the so-called goddess of the breath of spring, including some unlucky ones like the mayor.

Taking into account the aura on Hastur's body at this moment, although the cocoons shook slightly, no spider dared to break out of the cocoon.

Passing through the cocoon room, Hastur saw the real owner of the night, a three-story-tall spider with a human face.

The upper body is a bloated man, and the lower body is a spider's abdomen and long legs covered with black hair.

The facial features on its face were smoothed, and it looked like it had been soaked in some kind of strong acidic liquid.

Faced with Hastur's arrival, the human-faced spider was not afraid at all. Instead, it kept turning around the surrounding spider webs, looking back and forth at Hastur, as if to confirm something.

Finally it stopped, and a familiar voice came from its abdomen, "I said I had a hunch that we would meet soon."

This was the sound Hastur heard when he entered the dream of Old Jeff's daughter that night.

At that time, he wondered why the girl was not affected by the nightmare ability.

Only now did he realize that the person he was talking to at that time was the human-faced spider in front of him.

"Madam, your premonition is very accurate, but what makes me curious is why you can still stay awake, shouldn't you fall into chaos and madness?"

Hastur already understood most of the causes and consequences. The owner of this voice was the girl who was sacrificed first, and the object of the sacrifice was this big spider.

In the eyes of many people, spiders spinning silk and giving birth to babies are a symbol of fertility, especially people in small places, who are more superstitious about these beliefs.

But what people didn't expect was that the girl was not completely swallowed by the spider, but became entangled and fused with the spider, and finally became such a terrifying appearance.

Not only did he not die, he was still sane, and he even used his own abilities to change the tradition of sacrificing priestesses and instead sacrifice those lovers.

"If you want to know the answer to everything, you can enter my dream. I know you have this ability, and I have always been eager to share my story with others."

There was a hint of temptation in the soft female voice.

There was a trace of ridicule on the corner of Hastur's mouth, "Wait until I enter your dream, and then I will be swallowed up by you, chewing until there is no bone left, right?"

They have been foxes for thousands of years, but they still play innocently with him.

He didn't believe that the fat figure in front of him was the result of drinking dew for a long time.

After a moment of silence, the voice continued: "Are you also a person who judges people by their appearance? I thought you would be different from them."

"It's really different. I judge people by their appearance more than they do."

"..."

The human-faced spider was finally angry. It quickly walked through the spider web with its eight legs, came to the dome and hung upside down, overlooking Hastur. Then it spurted out a mouthful of spider silk, like a white waterfall.

"confusion!"

"doom!"

"fear!"

"Dirty talk!"

Hastur easily dodged this level of attack, and with one word and one word, the completely different extraordinary abilities were mixed, directly smashing the human-faced spider into a sieve, and the body was broken into more than a dozen pieces.

In the face of absolute strength, the human-faced spider is just a slightly larger spider. If it can't be crushed with your fingers, just crush it with your feet.

In the middle of the broken abdomen of the human-faced spider, there is a slightly beating red cocoon, which is like a heart.

A chain of order stretched out from behind Hastur and pulled it out. The red cocoon cracked and thick red liquid flowed all over the floor.

A complete human face appeared there, with a slightly delicate face, in sharp contrast to the ugly body.

"Stranger, thank you for saving me." A relieved smile appeared on that face, and then it disappeared like a puff of smoke.

In the drifting smoke, Hastur saw the life of this girl.

She really had a fearless spirit of sacrifice and took the initiative to sacrifice herself to the so-called gods in place of the other chosen girls.

During the entanglement and fusion, her humanity remained unchanged, but instead she gradually transformed this man-eating spider into the appearance of a spider with a human face.

Moreover, she sincerely protects the harvest of this land.

It's just that human nature will eventually be affected by chaos and madness. The sacrifices at the Grain Sacrifice Festival every year are to satisfy the greed of wild cannibals.

As this greed gradually increased, the number of sacrifices required each year also continued to increase.

This turning point occurred because an external force seriously affected her, eroding her humanity and nourishing her animalistic greed.

The source of this external force is a gaze coming from the starry sky.

As that gaze reappeared, the flesh and blood of the originally disintegrated human-faced spider body suddenly gathered together and became distorted.

Nearby, densely packed little spiders came out in full force, and they all volunteered to be a part of it.

This is an indescribably huge creature. Its bloated body can accommodate more than a hundred Hasturs. Spider legs poke out from its back at will. A wide mouth is split in the fat of its body, and a large mouth grows out of its lower abdomen. There are tentacles with mouthparts, and there are also desperate patterns printed on them that many people are afraid of death.

Nausea, wanting to vomit.

This was the first thought that came to Hastur's mind.

"Fallen Mother Goddess."

Hastur's expression was much more solemn, and the gaze that affected the distortion of the human-faced spider came from the fallen mother goddess beyond the starry sky.