Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 585: Mutant Spider (1)
"How... how can there be so many spiders?" With Xuefei’s cry of alarm, everyone looked over, and Zhu Lengqing said in astonishment.
"Be careful, don’t let them bite you," Feng Xuxu quickly changed her expression. She had originally thought that all Poisonous Insects were juveniles or too small to be seen with the naked eye, but seeing this dense swarm of spiders completely shattered her assumptions.
The spiders were multiplying, and thousands were gathering and approaching faster and faster, and not even the light rain could stop their advance.
Dugu Chen furrowed his brows and stared intensely at the spiders on the ground, scattering the remaining powder in his hand towards them, only to see them pause for a moment before continuing to crawl forward.
Everyone retreated, forming a circle, and saw that they were surrounded by these creatures. At a distance of two meters from them, the spiders stopped and then a significantly larger spider wandered out from the midst; its body and hair on its legs were black and dense, and its eight claws supported its massive body, its small eyes gleaming with a faint blue light.
"What... what are they chasing?" Yingsu asked, puzzled as she watched the spiders come to a halt.
"They’re afraid of the torches in your hands," Feng Xuxu said softly.
"What are spiders afraid of?" Huang Yi turned and asked Xuan Yue next to him.
Xuan Yue thought for a moment, recalling that in the woods, she had seen birds eat spiders and tentatively said, "It should be birds, I guess."
However, Feng Xuxu shook her head: "Not all birds eat spiders; there are also spiders that eat birds."
"What? Such small creatures can eat birds?" Tian Yi exclaimed incredulously.
Feng Xuxu nodded, "Yes, many types of spiders can catch birds, like the bird-eating tarantula, the goliath bird-eater, and the fire rose spider. These all hunt birds. But we don’t know if the ones in front of us are of such kind. If they are bird-eating spiders, then we might be in for a fierce battle tonight." If they weren’t bird-eating spiders, she might still have a glimmer of hope to eradicate them.
"My lady, perhaps we should try something," Dugu Chen suggested.
"All right." She vanished into her space and released the skylarks from within.
Watching the skylarks circling in the sky, stubbornly refusing to leave, chirping loudly, Feng Xuxu’s face suddenly darkened.
"My lady, what’s wrong, could it be...?"
"My lord, these are all bird-eating spiders. It looks like this plan won’t work," Feng Xuxu said with a wry smile. Blocked on this path as well, their current plan had to be retreating into the space.
At that moment, a piercing flute sound from the forest caused the spiders on the ground to become restless and anxious, each moving their eight legs and starting to crawl forward.
Feng Xuxu steeled her heart: "Everyone, hold hands, quick."
Not understanding why, but following the command of their mistress, everyone grabbed hands, and in the blink of an eye, the scene before them changed.
"This... where is this, heaven or hell?" Tian Yi blinked, looking around at everything.
"Does your hell look like this?" Xuan Yue retorted with a twist of her lips.
Mei Lenglei paused for a moment: "This must be the safe place the mistress mentioned where the Crown Prince and Princess were taken to."
"You all rest here for a while. If you get hungry, go find something to eat in the woods."
"Yes, master."
Dugu Chen and Feng Xuxu then went to the Alchemy Room, to see how Xiaobai was getting on with his research.
Outside, the gathering spiders, having lost their prey in an instant, stopped in place. The flute sound slowed down and eventually, a person holding a flute emerged from a dark place in the mountains, looked at the large tent not far away, a nasty smile spreading across his vicious face as he walked towards the big tent.
