Chapter 50 Hunting and being hunted
The rustling sound soon sounded again, and a faint smell of blood floated from the direction of the entrance of the crack. The giant horse and Lu twisted their body, waved nearly a hundred steps, and were very satisfied to return to their nest. It was lucky today. Although the noisy ancestors of the terrifying beasts had quickly escaped when they heard the rustling sound, they encountered a medium-sized monster that had been passing by as soon as they came out of the cave. The giant horse and Lu bit the prey in half a minute, and soon ate it clean. After eating, the insects danced their tentacles and searched in the air for a while, then turned around and drilled back into the crack.
Not long after, Ma Lu returned to the position where he had just discovered his prey, and shook his tentacles again unwillingly. For these large insects, after eating, they could live normally for more than ten days without eating, so they did not need to hunt now, but the naturally vicious giant Ma Lu still followed his instinct and wanted to hunt every creature that appeared in front of him. However, he could only be disappointed again, with no trace of prey around him. After all, with its ability to understand, it was impossible to know what magic is and magic circles are. The futile Ma Lu didn't know if he was a little irritable. He patted the ground with his forked tail, and twisted his body again and began to move. After being full, he naturally returned to the nest to have a good sleep. Everything else had to give way for this.
However, just as it started to move again, a black shadow suddenly fell from the sky and landed on it. I don’t know when it started. The black shadow had already ambushed directly above the Malu, lurking waiting for the opportunity to attack. Seeing the black shadow, Lina and Freya made a short scream at the same time. They immediately covered their mouths with their hands. Fortunately, there was a hidden magic circle, and the sound was not transmitted to the discovery of two entangled monsters outside.
The raided black shadow is also a giant insect, which is a giant gray-black spider. The spider is huge in size. Just counting the round body part, the diameter reaches two meters. If eight terrifying long legs are included, it can basically be said that its crawling posture exceeds six meters. The giant spider's whole body is covered by short and hard burrs, and its whole body is gray-black. Only the tail end of the abdomen is a little dark red color. On both sides of the spider's body, eight powerful long legs are neatly arranged, outside the legs
The edges are covered with sharp barbs, like a long saw with serrated teeth. On the relatively small head and chest of the giant spider. Eight red eyes are scattered in various parts. At the head, two sharp fangs are under the upper jaw, and even the fangs are covered with gray-black burrs. Its abdomen is much larger than the head and chest, and looks round. A white filament is dragged at the tail and hanging from the top of the tunnel. Only under the light of the crystal can you barely see clearly. If it is in the dark, no one can find the existence of spider silk.
"Such a big spider?" Lina whispered in surprise: "Denia. The largest spider outside is considered the legendary forest spider in the Death Forest. It is said that it can hunt wild sheep and deer, but even that. It is said that they are only less than two meters in size, and the width of the legs spreading. If it is only considered to be the body, it should be only more than half a meter. But this is too big, it is directly larger than several times."
"That horse land can be four times larger than a sand land land." Panis said: "Of course the spider can also be enlarged."
"There is a monster nearby that you just mentioned. It means it." Catherine looked up at the top of her head with a little fear. Because the existence of the one-way hidden barrier was invisible, the light inside the barrier could not be revealed to illuminate the top of the tunnel, so it looked dark. This invisible effect is the easiest to make people feel uneasy, especially after just hanging such a large spider from the top of the cave, it expanded the anxiety to the extreme: "This kind of spider will not be very poisonous, it will be even more dangerous. It seems that when we move here in the future, we must be careful to pay attention to the top of our heads."
"This kind of spider with two teeth growing vertically is most likely to be highly poisonous." Panis explained: "Spiders are one of the most terrifying hunters in the world. They are silent, fast and accurate. Moreover, their teeth are naturally breached. Unless you unfold the shield, even a golden-level spider can easily pierce the skin of a legendary profession, not to mention that the one in front of you is a legendary predator. If you are attacked, the best way is to kill it as fast as possible."
"Can you hear them moving?" Catherine asked tentatively: "Although we can't hear, you should be fine with your hearing."
"No, it's a pity." Panis shook his head and said, "Spiders are one of the few creatures that I can't hear them moving. The sound they crawl is so weak. Such a big spider makes no louder when crawling than when a small petal falls. It's really hard to tell the sound mixed around them."
"Isn't that there's no way?" Catherine suddenly thought of something and suddenly realized: "No, I understand. Although there is no sound when they crawl, once the large spiders start attacking, they will cause a lot of wind. So when they act here, it seems that when they hear a strange wind, they must immediately unfold their shield."
"That's right, that's that simple." Panis looked at Catherine with appreciation, then turned back to stare at the giant spider and said: "They use fangs to attack very consistently. First, raise their upper body, accumulate strength, and then pierce the fangs and penetrate the prey's skin to inject venom. The bigger the spider, the louder the wind caused by this action, so for those with keen perception, the big spider is not as terrible as the little spider. Well, maybe such a big one is an exception."
"Is the threat that a big spider is not as high as a little spider?" Catherine repeated Panis's words in a low voice, remembering them deeply in her heart. She would remember every serious word that Panis said in the adventures in the world, because these words may be saved in the future and at any time.
"Yes." Panis nodded and said, "I heard a story before. Many years ago, there was a very strong legendary profession who had half his foot had stepped into the threshold of a demigod. If nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely be able to step into the realm of half his body in the first year. However, he followed several demigods to explore in the forest of death, and accidentally passed by a small spider. The very small spider was probably the size of a thumb."
"What then?" Lina asked curiously: "He was attacked by the spider?"
"Then? Then he died." Panis shrugged and said innocently: "I die without any clarity, not to worry about defense."
"Not you tell a story like this?" Lina said dissatisfiedly: "At least you have to explain clearly how he died."
"I was poisoned, but the problem is that no one knows how he died." Panis spread his hands: "Some people suspected that he was attacked by a spider, but none of the demigods around him noticed when the spider launched an attack. However, some people think that he encountered a spider silk floating in the air when he passed by, but this kind of conjecture is even more terrifying, because just one spider silk can poison a legend, and no one has ever heard of this kind of creature."
"Forget it, you'd better stop talking." Freya rubbed her arms and felt chill all over: "If possible, I definitely don't want to deal with them. I hate spiders the most."
"I don't want to do it either, who would want to deal with such predators," said Panis. "But there is no way, this is our profession. Even if we hate it, we have to face them."
While several people were talking, the war between Spider and Malu had entered the most intense stage. The spider fell from the sky and landed directly on the front half of Malu, who had no defense at all. Eight long legs curled into a ball and locked Malu's body tightly. The tilted head and chest suddenly fell, aiming at Malu's relatively fragile head and bit it hard. Malu itself is also a predator. Although part of its body was suddenly blocked by the spider, it still turned its head flexibly and used its poisonous fangs to bite the spider. Then it bit back. A pair of big jaws were strong and powerful, and it tended to crush the head of the giant spider. However, the giant spider twisted his body and avoided Malu's jaws. Then he lay tightly on Malu's back to lock it, allowing it to twist and struggle wildly, constantly consuming its own strength.
For a moment, the tunnel was like a storm, and there were crushed stones everywhere. Although Ma Lu was at a disadvantage, except for the head and relatively fragile abdomen, the spider's fangs could not break through any of its exoskeletons. Although the spider did not have a hard defense, it was much more flexible than Ma Lu, and it was lying on the back that Ma Lu could not attack, occupying a considerable game. Two giant insects rolled around in the tunnel, but neither could cause fatal damage to the other party. The war was in a stalemate. Ma Lu desperately wanted to twist his body and bite the spider, but the spider desperately wanted to attack Ma Lu's head or abdomen. Neither of both sides could turn a few ideas into reality.
"Who do you think can win?" Lina asked secretly.
"Spiders can win." Panis said with certainty: "I think the one who survived in the end must be the spider."
"Why?" Lina asked, "It doesn't seem that there is such a big gap between the two sides."
"But spider silk has not been used yet," Panis explained: "Don't forget that spiders can spit silk."
Sure enough, the battle situation quickly moved from the stalemate to the final stage. Ma Lu's twisting finally threw the spider off his back. But the spider immediately spurted a large amount of silk thread from his abdomen, tied Ma Lu's back half into a ball, and restricted Ma Lu's movement in his eyes. But at this time, Ma Lu did the most surprising thing. It bit its body with its sharp teeth, and directly bit off the trapped back half, but it fled into the depths of the tunnel without stopping.
The victorious giant spider did not chase after him, wrapping the tail of the rod, which occupied a third of Ma Lu's body, tightened tighter and tighter. Finally, he dragged it behind his body and slowly drilled back into the tunnel and disappeared.
Chapter completed!