MTL - Ask Sword-Chapter 534 swarm of spiders

  Chapter 534 Spider Swarm

  Boom!

  Li Ang woke up from the dream and sat up subconsciously, but his forehead hit the chin of Lu Yunan who was staring at him seriously.

   "Hey!"

  Lu Yunan covered her lips and took a breath, and waved her hands amid Li Ang's apology, "It's okay. Are you having a nightmare?"

"Um"

Li Ang nodded hesitantly. The dream just now was too real, the cloudy and suffocating dark sky, the figures who were either indifferent, desperate or crazy, and the deafening last sentence of the head of the mountain, which still echoed in his ears. The sky is falling."

   There was no need to hide it in the pitch-black tent. Li Ang told Lu Yunan all about the nightmare, and the two discussed it, but in the end they didn't come to any conclusions. They could only blame it on the psychological pressure they had been in Liyuan for the past two days.

  The rain outside the tent has stopped for a long time, and the cliffs are completely dry.

   After eating the last bit of dry food, the two packed up the tent and climbed up again.

  Since they already knew that there were spiders inhabiting the abyss at this height, Li Ang and Lu Yunan were more cautious this time, and prepared crossbow bolts cut from bamboo and wood in advance.

  In addition to killing wild species, these arrows can also ignite clusters of arrows and shoot them into the fog, clearing the field of vision with flames.

  Climbing along the way, more marvels of Liyuan are displayed in front of the two.

   There is a herbaceous plant about one meter high, similar in shape to a dandelion, with a pompom the size of a leather ball on the top. When these pompoms are mature, they will float up and sway with the wind, until they will explode automatically when they touch the rock wall, and the seeds at the end of the pompom will be nailed deep into the cliff like steel nails.

There is an animal that resembles a mixture of crabs and scorpions. It is two meters high and lives in caves. The huge gray chelicerae that occupy most of the volume are integrated with the rock wall. Once it senses the vibration of the outside air or rocks, it will instantly wake up. , pinch prey with chelicerae.

   In addition, there are flying snakes with wing membranes, red ant colonies that are the size of an average thumb and can spit acid three meters away, and even monsters that are suspected of being close to the chest.

Lu Yunan observed every kind of Liyuan creature he saw, and whenever there was a threat approaching, he took off the black silk umbrella cloth from his back and covered the two of them. Li Ang also stopped climbing, stood still, and pretended to be one rock.

  Some mosquitoes tentatively approached the two of them, but their mouthparts could not penetrate the ink silk umbrella cloth. After several attempts, they flew away by themselves.

   Li Ang and Lu Yunan just stopped and went, and came to the thick spider silk layer in the air again.

   "The complexity of Liyuan's ecological environment is no less than that of a hundred thousand barren mountains,"

  Lu Yunan said solemnly, "There is no sunlight in the abyss, and the producers at the bottom of the ecological environment are luminescent bacteria strains, and above that are plants, herbivores, and carnivores.

  After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, these monsters have adapted to the environment where the abyss is isolated from the aura,

  At the same time, spiders should also be a very important part of Li Yuan's entire ecosystem—the diversity of biological species in the spider silk layer has been greatly reduced,

  The spider group is like a cover, covering the entire Liyuan, and will regularly prey on the lower level monsters.

  The superposition of these two factors has resulted in the monsters in Liyuan rarely appearing in the outside world. "

  This also confirmed from the side how difficult it is to escape from the spider silk layer with an unknown height.

   Li Ang and Lu Yunan fell silent. Unlike the bottom of the valley, the ecological environment in the middle layer of Liyuan is lush and diverse, with sufficient food sources.

  With Li Ang's physical fitness and Lu Yunan's predictive ability, it may not be impossible to survive here.

   Mainly feed on moss, lichen, bamboo shoots, etc., occasionally hunt some flying snakes, collect some honey, enough for two people to survive for a long time.

  However, they have reasons to go back.

  Li Ang has teachers, classmates, and disciples waiting for his return in Chang'an.

  Lu Yunan also has tribesmen from the northern Black Mountain.

  “.Let’s go.”

   Li Ang took a deep breath, and his callused fingertips hooked the gap between the rocks.

  He climbed very slowly, not only because of the increased air humidity in the spider silk layer and the slippery rocks,

  It is also because there are often groups of spiders patrolling the canyons—these spiders have a certain degree of sociality. As far as Lu Yunan saw, they have more than one spider nest with a diameter of more than 300 meters.

   Some spiders in the nest are responsible for cultivating luminous fungi on the rock wall and collecting dewy honey

  Some spiders are responsible for hunting animals from the lower layers, wrapping the prey with spider silk and sending it to the nest,

   Then other spiders digest the prey and feed the nutrient solution to the newborn spiderlings.

  In the vast and dense fog, the number of spiders inhabiting may be calculated in units of millions or tens of millions.

  Small spiders are only the size of a palm, which is similar to the wolf spiders outside.

  The largest spider was thirty to forty meters long, comparable to a land chariot. When crawling on the rock wall, the entire cliff trembled.

   "It's almost like an alien creature,"

  Lu Yunan was silent, and with his fingertips swipe on Li Ang's back, he wrote a sentence, "Exposing this power to the outside world may be more than enough to destroy the country."

   Judging from the feeding habits of spiders, if caught by them, committing suicide immediately becomes a less painful choice.

  Lu Yunan opened the ink silk umbrella cloth, covering the figures of the two people, blocking the smell, and observing the direction only through the gap at the front end of the umbrella cloth.

   Li Ang also slowed down his speed, and stopped immediately if there was any disturbance.

   As a result, the climbing speed slowed down significantly, Li Ang's arms were sore, and Lu Yunan's eyes were also extremely sore.

   But it can't stop yet, the most dangerous area is above, densely covered with nets, and spiders walk through it, busy endlessly.

   It took Li Ang two hours to climb the short distance of 800 meters,

   At the most dangerous time, a multicolored flower spider the size of a hunting dog even crawled through their moss camouflage.

so close

   Li Ang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and climbed up according to Lu Yunan's instructions, but accidentally touched a wet and slippery spider thread that had just been woven.

  Even though the right hand firmly grasped a raised rock to stop the fall, the ink silk camouflage on the two of them was pulled by inertia and fell backwards.

  The long-awaited sweltering feeling in the Mosi disguise disappeared instantly, and Li Ang instantly felt countless pairs of eyes looking at him.

   "Woo!"

   Lu Yunan, who was lying on his back, let out a mournful cry. From her perspective, thousands of spiders all over the mountains and plains stopped moving and looked over.

  Countless spiders came rushing along the visible and invisible webs.

  Down!

  She just wanted to remind loudly, but the spider group ignored the two and crawled straight past.

what happened? !

   Lu Yunan's mind was stuck for a moment, these spiders were not paying attention to them at all,

  Spider groups in the entire spider nest scrambled to climb up the largest fortress giant spider, and the giant spider carried them to the distance.

   There, hundreds of fortress giant spiders full of small and similar species emerged from the dense fog, lying neatly and docilely on the rock wall, waiting for something quietly.

  Such a solemn yet strange and inexplicable scene made Lu Yunan subconsciously hold her breath, and even forgot to draw words on Li Ang's back and describe the scene.

  Boom, boom.

  The earth-shattering loud sound came from afar,

  An unimaginably huge giant spider that covered the sky and sun slowly emerged from the dense fog.

  Its brown-gray body surface hairs stand up, like steel pillars,

  The carapace and chest plate showed a tough and thick metallic luster, like a steel city wall that was too wide to see the edge,

  The eight feet that stand up to the sky dig deep into the solid rock, and every time they move, a whole piece of the cliff will be shattered and peeled off.

   Those fortress giant spiders are as small as babies in front of it,

  All the spiders lay down respectfully and obediently, raising their chelicer limbs high, as if.

"bow down."

  Lu Yunan said softly, "They are kneeling down to worship their ancestors."

  (end of this chapter)