My eyes never left the shaking leaves in front of me, a light film of sweat covering my face and hands as I stared into the shadows.
A single leg appeared first... just one.
Then another.
Then another until there were several more.
The thing that crawled out from under the leaf was roughly the size of a dinner plate, with a flat brown body, long legs, and jaws that clicked together loudly enough for me to hear from the porch.
I stared at it.
Then I stared harder.
Nope. Absolutely not. I would not, could not accept that... thing... being in my front yard.
Give me the Butcher, give me the Devourer... but do not, under any circumstances... give me that... that... thing.
A camel spider perched on the underside of the leaf for one second before it launched itself forward, covering what I would swear to this day to be half a football field in length to get to its prey.
Unfortunately for Guo Renwang, he saw it too late.
