Chapter 104: Born to Devour Her Mother! The Secret of the Twelve Demon King Pearls!

“Zzzzzt, zzzzzt…”

The scene opens with a human-faced spider eating. It’s still very small, just born, only the size of a bee.

The food it consumes is highly nutritious, enough to help it grow rapidly and gain the strength to protect itself.

Around it, many rustling sounds can be heard. There are numerous human-faced spiders nearby, most about the same size as this one—bee-sized. Some are even only about half its length.

Of course, there are both small and large. Some human-faced spiders are born fist-sized.

All are feasting on a most exquisite meal of flesh and blood.

In front of this tiny spider lies a colossal human-faced spider, tens of thousands of times its size.

This giant spider is already dead.

Yet, before death, the human face on its abdomen looked filled with bliss.

However, amid that bliss, the face was contorted slightly, as if enduring immense agony.

Upon closer inspection, one realizes the suffering comes from relentless biting.

Its entire body is shrinking, as all the flesh and bones on it are being devoured by countless small human-faced spiders.

This is the standard way the human-faced spiders pass on their legacy.

Every human-faced spider is hermaphroditic. When sensing the end of its life approaching, it stores food and then gives birth to many offspring.

Once born, these children treat their mother as food.

Their birthing method is unique. While humans now favor cesarean sections, human-faced spiders explode their bodies open—their abdomen bursts, and the offspring crawl out one by one.

Some even begin gnawing on their mother’s body from within her womb.

This is the cruel and bloody way human-faced spiders bear their young.

Though small, the spider seems innately intelligent.

This wisdom tells it that it must eat well and eat enough.

Before it lie more food—not only the corpse of its mother but also stores she had accumulated.

But this food will eventually run out, because she bore too many children.

Nearby siblings are fierce. This small intelligence warns that if it isn't strong, and if food is scarce, these siblings will… simply eat it!

Its wisdom commands it to eat constantly, to consume as much as possible. Only by growing strong can it prevent these siblings from devouring it.

Moreover, it can even… eat those siblings!

Thus…

“Chomp, chomp, chomp…”

The little human-faced spider plunges into the chaotic feast upon its mother’s body.

Inevitably, sibling rivalry erupts.

When their mother’s corpse collapses and all flesh is consumed, the surviving siblings begin to fight viciously.

At first, the tiny spider hides and evades stronger siblings inside the cavern, playing hide and seek.

Constantly hiding, it grows stronger. Whenever it meets a weaker sibling, it swallows it whole.

Gradually, it becomes powerful. One by one, siblings become a gluttonous banquet swallowed into its mouth.

In the blink of an eye, the home is barren—nothing left to eat. The human-faced spider is starving and anxious.

It has finally won.

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