Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 220 - 204: You Might Die Even If You Do Nothing_2

Chapter 220: Chapter 204: You Might Die Even If You Do Nothing_2

Elijah Hastings, Lincoln Harrington, and the others took advantage of this opportunity to set up a circle of fire, enclosing everyone within it.

Ultimately, the number of flammable materials was too low, and the fire wasn’t very big. Surprisingly, the spiders marched forward a considerable distance, whether due to intelligence or some other reason!

Sean had some gasoline in his spatial realm and he decided not to hide it anymore. He took out a glass bottle of gasoline that he’d originally planned to make into a molotov cocktail, poured half of it onto the fire, and then stuffed a strip of cloth torn from his clothes into the remaining half, set it on fire, and threw it out.

The homemade incendiary grenade proved effective, and the screeching spiders were burnt to a crisp, their charred smell wafting over shortly after.

Sean had taken out all his gasoline from his "backpack"; hence, no one was suspicious in the spur of the moment.

However, they wondered why Sean was carrying this item around!

"I have three more bottles!" Sean handed them to Elijah, Lincoln, and Jason respectively. As combatants, they would likely be more effective in using them.

Indeed, the three of them utilized the gasoline gradually instead of all at once.

The spiders were continuously driven to the perimeter, unable to penetrate the defensive circle for the time being.

Hans Hunter sighed:

"Sean, you’ve saved our lives once again!"

What he meant was, if they went hunting for the treasure overnight, they would surely be served as dinner to this enormous swarm of spiders in such an open area.

Just at that moment, Mila Ward suddenly screamed:

"They’re spinning webs!"

As expected, upon Sean’s observation, the spiders behind them had already started weaving their webs around the trees.

Did they plan to jump over from the trees?

"Throw torches!" Sean quickly thought of a countermeasure, cutting down branches from a nearby tree, dipping them in gasoline and throwing them over. Not only did they set the spiders’ webs on fire, but they also ignited some trees in the process.

Although the trees were put out quickly, it gave the others an idea!

"Burn it!" Elijah and Lincoln were in sync. The two bottles of gasoline were used as fuel, dipping short branches in it and throwing them under the nearby trees outside the fire circle.

The burning trees drove away the spiders.

Lacking the nearest trees as launch pads, the spiders were momentarily barred from springing in from the air.

However, the gasoline was bound to run out eventually!

At that moment, a spider suddenly semi-rose to its feet, aiming at the fireplace and spitting out its spider silk!

This spider silk was sticker and wetter than ordinary silk!

When sprayed onto the fire, it actually suppressed the flames a bit!

More spiders immediately sprinted towards the fire circle, collectively rearing their abdomens and started spraying spider silk at the fire circle!

The fire instantly weakened!

"Shoot! Pour the gasoline fast!"

Before Sean could shout, the others already noticed, and poured in the remaining gasoline!

This time, the spider silk that the spiders sprayed out caught fire, burning even more fiercely!

After the spiders sprayed for a while, not only had they failed to suppress the flames, but it seemed as if they had added fuel to the fire. Hence, they stopped producing silk.

Just then, a rolled-tail monkey suddenly fell from the tree in front of them, whether out of fright or due to smoke inhalation.

Upon landing, it immediately tried to bounce towards the nearest tree to climb up!

However, the spiders were incredibly quick to react. Several spiders instantly sprayed spider silk that tangled up the monkey, which was about the size of a pet dog. Within a few moments, they enveloped it into a bundle, then the larger spiders stretched out their orifices to inject their venom.

By the time the spiders dispersed from the silk bundle, the rolled-tail monkey was left with just a bit of hair.

Sean threw a wooden stick and broke open that silk bundle, only to find it was virtually empty!

Everyone present shivered slightly!

If they were to be entangled by these spiders, death would be...

Utterly unbearable!

A few people hurriedly took advantage of the still-burning fire to add branches into it. The roaring flames dried and burned the damp branches, maintaining the fire circle, essentially.

However, the spiders just stayed put, staring with their eight eyes. They were obviously patient!

Sean suspected that the spiders’ persistence in not leaving must mean that there’s a leading spider present!

He activated his Sky Eye, sweeping over the mass of spiders!

Fist-sized, disregard!

Plate-sized, disregard!

Washbasin-sized - there were several ones, but none of them should be it!

A sink-sized one!

This could be it... huh? There’s another one!

Sure enough, Sean finally noticed a group of large spiders on the left side, in the direction they had come from.

About thirty meters away from the ring of fire, was the peripheral of the spider swarm.

There were seven or eight around the size of a washbasin, one the size of a washbasin, and a colossal one, almost the size of a water bucket, tall and large, and covered in a pile of little spiders, which could make anyone with a fear of dense objects faint at sight!

Perhaps the spider could sense Sean Knight’s Sky Eye gaze, as once it was swept by it, the spider squealed a few times and was immediately surrounded by other large spiders, concealed out of sight!

Sean Knight chuckled: it’s like burying one’s head in the sand!

He pulled out a hand grenade from his backpack--it was illegal merchandise and he only managed to obtain five pieces.

"No good! The spiders are coming again!"

For some unknown reason, the nearest spiders suddenly grew braver. They were already close to the front of the fire circle, and one spider suddenly jumped up!

It had actually suppressed its fear of fire!

Lincoln Harrington was closer, and instantly smashed the spider to pieces with the stick in his hand.

Bodily fluids splashed everywhere.

"Quick! They are all about to jump!" Lincoln saw the spiders outside the fire circle and exclaimed in shock!

Sean drew out his grenade, popped off the fuse, and threw it viciously towards the swarm of giant spiders!

He believed that the swarm of large spiders, and the Mother Spider carrying many small spiders, was undoubtedly the head of these spiders!

As long as it was eradicated, this swarm of spiders would naturally disperse!

The grenade fell to the ground, and with a boom, caused a cloud of smoke and dust.

A look of embarrassment appeared on Sean’s face.

He had overestimated the accuracy of his grenade-throwing. It exploded about seven or eight meters away from the spiders!

Although several large spiders were affected, in this jungle, the explosive power was impacted and it didn’t reach the Mother Spider at all!

Sean was stubborn, and threw another one, just like the last time, missing by several meters!

His eyes and hands didn’t coordinate well!

He was down to two grenades, and Sean did not dare to throw them anymore!

Meanwhile, Elijah Hastings and the others swung sticks in their hands, hitting one spider after another that had jumped up, just like playing whack-a-mole!

Luckily not all the spiders could jump over, some jumped into the fire circle and were burnt to a crisp.

However, even so, the situation was still very critical!

The spiders charged forward one after another, fearlessly jumping into the fire circle, as if there was something incredibly delicious here!

Several spiders slipped through, jumping directly into the circle and biting the moment they encountered anyone!

Green, who had difficulty moving, was bitten first!

Although he stepped on the spider immediately, he clearly felt numbness spreading in his body!

Mila and Hans Hunter were also jumping around constantly, and Septimius Coleman was hitting incessantly with his stick, but they couldn’t keep up!

Spiders were jumping into the circle from all directions, it would be impossible for Elijah Hastings and the others to beat them all back!

While fighting, Jason was urging Sean Knight:

"Sean, you join quickly! We can’t cope with this anymore!"

Sean, however, pulled out another grenade and asked Elijah,

"Who’s more accurate at throwing bombs, you or Lincoln Harrington?"

"Lincoln, he’s got a Godlike pitching arm!" Elijah answered, while swiping a spider away.

Sean stomped a spider to death, not caring about the green bodily fluid splashing over his pants, and said to Lincoln

"You come over here. Wherever I shoot with my gun later, you throw the grenade there. Be quick!"

"What are you guys doing?" Jason didn’t understand what Sean was doing, which would cause the situation to get even more dangerous!

He couldn’t even keep up with the workload, stepping and hitting at the same time!

"There’s the leader of the spiders over there!" Sean pointed, then drew his pistol and handed the grenade to Lincoln:

"There may only be one chance, you need to make it count."

"Ok!" Lincoln took a deep breath, took over the grenade, and waited for Sean to shoot.

Upon hearing about taking down the Spider leader, Jason stopped talking, Elijah, even more so, began to take three roles at once, acting like a captain of a firefighting team.

Hans managed to stand and joined them at the outer circle, helping to kill the spiders!

Sean aimed his gun towards the large spiders and fired!

The distance was over thirty meters, and his shooting score was much better than grenade throwing. Although he did not hit the Mother Spider, he did shoot through a guard spider the size of a washbasin!

The spider deflated in an instant, just like a water bag leaking liquid!

Lincoln promptly threw out the hand grenade!