Even though their mouths were sealed, the people hanging on the spider web should have been able to make muffled sounds. However, they could only stare at Law and his companions, unable to utter a single noise.
Clearly, the venom injected into their bodies had paralyzed their mouths, leaving them completely mute.
As their gazes met in the air, Tonpa shuddered slightly. Suppressing the urge to turn around and run, he quickly said to Law: "We need to leave, this place is..."
"Do you think they'll let us go?"
Law interrupted Tonpa and tilted his head to look around. Five spiders the size of calves slowly emerged from the forest and had surrounded them.
The five spiders crouched low to the ground, their bodies were as black as ink, their slightly twitching legs looked like steel, and their three rows of crimson compound eyes locked onto the trio coldly.
Instead of ambushing them, the spiders appeared openly from the ground, forming an encirclement as if confident in their victory.
When Tonpa saw the five spiders appear, his first reaction was not fear, but rather calculating how to protect himself in this predicament.
For those trapped in the spider web, Law's group represented their only hope. They could only silently pray in their hearts.
"Mr. Tonpa, do you know what species of spiders these are?" Law asked curiously at this time.
Hearing this, Tonpa was stunned, his mouth wide open and he was unable to respond. In such a dire situation, even the usually carefree glutton Buhara sensed the danger. But how could Law remain so relaxed, with enough leisure to ask about the spider's species?
"I thought you'd know."
Seeing Tonpa's silence, Law remarked with a shrug.
Around them, the five spiders slowly closed the encirclement, as if looking for the suitable distance to pounce at them.
Buhara had already braced himself, prepared to act. Although he could not use Nen, his physical strength was formidable.
At this moment, Law suddenly stretched out his hand and flicked his fingers five times in the air toward the approaching spiders. In an instant, five Nen Spheres shot forth, striking the spiders silently.
As the Nen Spheres hit their targets, the power of Law's God Hand activated immediately. The five spiders disintegrated without warning, as if invisible blades had sliced them into over twenty pieces, and then the parts scattered on the ground. But even so, the spiders were still alive.
Seeing this scene, everyone's eyes widened in shock. They could not see the Nen Spheres formed by the condensed Aura. All they saw was Law flicking his fingers, followed by the spiders inexplicably falling apart. They really couldn't understand what had happened.
Buhara, who had seen Law prepare the drift clams before, knew this was an ability called Nen. However, he didn't know that Law could execute it so silently and effortlessly. Seeing this now, even he couldn't hide his astonishment.
Even though Law was three or four years younger than him, Buhara could not suppress his admiration for Law.
Such a powerful individual... He was determined to stick with him!
"What... did you just do?" Tonpa looked at Law with a horrified look. The inexplicable scene filled him with unprecedented fear and apprehension.
Law did not say anything. Instead, he calmly glanced at Tonpa, and suddenly flicked his fingers at Dongba.
"Ah!"
Tonpa instinctively screamed and subconsciously raised his arms to shield his face. He quickly took a step back, but in his panic, he tripped over his own feet and fell to the ground, looking utterly pathetic.
When Law made the flicking gesture, Tonpa thought he would end up like the spiders, silently sliced into dozens of pieces, and his heart almost missed a beat.
Had it not been for his guilty conscience, his reaction might not have been so exaggerated.
After realizing that he was fine, Tonpa's chest heaved as he struggled to calm himself, as he was still in shock.
The self-proclaimed 'Rookie Crusher' had completely fallen into the hands of this newcomer. If Tonpa knew Law would participate in Hunter Exam every year from now on, one could only imagine his reaction.
"Oh, it seems there was a mosquito. Are you alright, Mr. Tonpa?"
Law chuckled softly and paid no attention to Tonpa's dazed reaction. Instead, he walked toward the spider web and instructed Buhara to finish off the five spiders.
Tonpa stared at Law's back with a distraught look on his face.
Although the trapped individuals didn't fully understand what had just happened, they were ecstatic upon seeing all the spiders had been dealt with.
After they were captured by the spiders, they were not killed immediately. Instead, they were preserved like rations, hanging in a state of despair as death loomed ever closer. That kind of imminent doom could drive an average person to madness.
Having experienced utter despair, the sudden appearance of hope reignited a light in their eyes, filled with a genuine and profound gratitude.
This kind of look... Law had seen it before on Kenda.
Law rescued all the people hanging on the spider web, a total of thirty-two people.
After cutting them free from the web's bindings, six of them were unresponsive, while the remaining 26 were in a vegetative state, unable to speak or move anything but their eyes.
It was not until this moment that the group realized that even if they were rescued, their situation would still be very bad.
Unable to speak, the twenty-six people present could only stare at Law with pleading eyes. Apart from that, they could do nothing else.
"Venom, huh?"
Law suddenly turned around and walked quickly towards the spiders' corpses, as Buhara had already finished them off.
"What's wrong?" Buhara, who had just killed all the spiders, asked when he saw Law was approaching.
"Nothing. Go watch over those survivors." Law replied.
"Got it." Buhara nodded and walked towards the group of survivors obediently.
Meanwhile, Tonpa's emotions were very complicated at this time. He stood up slowly with an ugly look on his face. No one knew what he was thinking.
After Buhara left, Law crouched down and touched one of the spider's corpses. Immediately, the white smoke font, like a system index, immediately displayed the information about the spiders. From this, Law discerned the nature of the venom that had been injected into the survivors.
However, there was no antidote listed.
Law frowned slightly. If there wasn't a cure, he would have to test whether his ability could resolve it. Since he could extract viruses, he reasoned he might also be able to remove venoms.
With that thought, Law squatted down and used his ability on one of the spider's corpses.
With a slight movement of his mind, God Hand was activated. Following his will, it gathered all the venoms in the corpse into one place, and then extracted them entirely, condensing them into a pale green liquid the size of a ping-pong ball on the palm of his hand.
"It really works… but this is...?"
Law threw the venom in his palm onto the ground, and then looked at the information displayed in white smoke font again.
This time, it displayed the method to neutralize the venom.
'What exactly is this thing attached to my body? Is it omnipotent?' Law took a deep breath, his eyes filled with wonder.
The white smoke font gave him the feeling that it was an all-encompassing encyclopedia, and it could even analyze information about venoms. He wondered if it had other incredible features.
If the white smoke font could really analyze anything, Law thought, he might even be able to compile a travelogue detailing all the creatures he encountered on his journey.
Law rose slowly, his thoughts racing. After seeing the information about the spiders and successfully extracting the venom, a strange idea came to his mind.
This is a wonderful world, and the scope of biological life is by no means comparable to the framework of the Earth.
From Known World to Dark Continent, the world was teeming with sea beasts, rare beasts, mythical creatures, and even intelligent monsters... all of them form a vast ecosystem.
Among them, some are ingredients sought after by humans, while others were pure poisons.
Law thought of venomous creatures and dangerous delicacies, like the white liver of the Spiny Sea Pork. Ingredients of that level would still be wanted by people even if the processing failed, because as long as the antidote was prepared first, they could taste the flavor of the delicacy.
Plenty of people existed who were willing to take such risks, like the gourmets on Earth, who braved the dangers of eating fugu every year.
The thoughts that came into Law's mind were related to venoms and also to food ingredients.
This world was unimaginably vast, with an incomprehensible diversity of species. There were countless poisonous creatures deemed inedible.
By using the power of God Hand to remove the poison, Law could transform untouchable ingredients into treasures.
This is... a domain that no Gourmet Hunter has been able to enter from ancient times to the present.
It was a domain no one had ever dared approach before, a realm of specialized poisonous cuisine!