Chapter 21 - 21. Selfless spiders

"What do we do captain?" Mason came back to reality and watched his surroundings. The spiders seemed satisfied with their reaps and slowly retreated carrying around 40 corpses on their backs. Mason’s eyes became resolute as he ordered. "We stop as many as we can. I don’t know why they are stockpiling food but we cannot allow so many of them to run away like this. Luke, you will follow those that escape and find out where their nest is. Good luck!" He waited no more and went in pursuit...