Chapter 064: Life and Death (II)

The female spider opened her eight eyes tiredly, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she found that there was only a thick white mist around her, and when she saw the newborn little eight-eyed giant spider next to her, she laboriously stretched out her chelicera and gently stroked the little one's head.

In order for all the eggs to hatch successfully, it has been guarding here since birth, so that the children do not become food for other predators before they are born, for which it does not dare to go out to hunt, its husband devotes his life to help it survive, but now it has also reached the point of running out of oil, all its energy and body have been exhausted, and its life will come to an end today, it must become food for the children, so that they can have the strength to struggle to survive in this forbidden forest.

"Poof!" A slight sound sounded in the web, and the female turned her head with difficulty, and saw that another child had been born, and she was looking around curiously; "Poof!" "Poof!" Two more soft sounds, two spider eggs broke, and two eight-eyed giant spiders were born; "Poof!" "Poof!" "Poof!" …… The white spider eggs broke one by one, and the newborn eight-eyed giant spiders crawled out one by one, and the soft sound of "click" became louder and louder, and after the last child was born, the female spider finally let go of the heart that had been hanging, and it completely closed its eight eyes and left this world.

When the female spider's chelicera "clicked" and fell to the ground, the first eight-eyed giant spider blinked in bewilderment, it gently pushed its mother, but there was no response, it pushed harder, still no response, it boldly climbed on the mother's head, lifted one of the big eyes, but it had already lost all its brilliance, it stayed for a while, and suddenly stretched out its chelicera to rub the big eyeball, as if this would make it shine again, but its efforts obviously had no effect.

"Click, click, click......" The little eight-eyed spiders crawled over one after another, surrounding the female spider and climbing up her body, hunger drove them to obey their instincts, they began to enjoy their first meal after birth, they had to replenish their energy so that they could survive in the Forbidden Forest, only the first eight-eyed spider did not do this, it was still wiping that eyeball.

When the newborn eight-eyed giant spider was eating the corpse of its mother, the white mist had spread to all the territory of the eight-eyed giant spider, except for the most central depression, because the eight-eyed giant spider was cultivated by wizards, and they were very sensitive to the magic of wizards, but the average eight-eyed giant spider would not live very long in order to breed offspring, but their leader Aragog had survived for fifty years, and it had enough survival experience.

In order not to startle the snakes, Catherine had to restrain the fog and prevent it from spreading to the center, but she was only a twelve-year-old child, and it was not easy to control the direction of the fog spread, so she could still make them like an arm! So when she raised the concentration of the surrounding fog to less than fifty meters of visibility, some of the white fog spread uncontrollably towards Aragog's territory.

"Full force, Alagog is going to be awakened!" With Catherine's shout, the merfolk immediately burst out with their strongest magic, and a thick milkshake-like mist rose from the surface of the lake, crossed the sky above the Forbidden Forest, and landed into the territory of the eight-eyed giant spider.

"The magic of a merfolk?" In a misty, hemispherical web in the center of the hollow, Aragog slowly raised his head, blankly gazing blankly above him.

"Maybe they're doing some kind of again!" Mosag turned his eight big feet, closed his eyes and complained, "Every time the Forbidden Forest is wet, and the prey is hidden, it seems that the children will be hungry for another day today." ”

"No, it's a little different this time." Aragog slowly lifted his massive body, "I sense the magic of the wizard. ”

"Wizard?" Mosag opened one eye and looked at her husband, "Why can't I feel it?" All I found was the mermaids, I knew them by name. ”

"They should be very good Slytherins," Aragog said after a moment of contemplation, "only their magic fluctuations can be so similar to merfolk, and I wouldn't have been able to tell if I hadn't spent some time in the cellars of the castle." ”

"Are you a little worried?" Mosag opened all his eyes, "Didn't Hagrid always hide our existence?" Every time a cub slipped into the Forbidden Forest, he would immediately run over and ask! ”

"Have you forgotten those centaurs!" Aragog swung his chelicera quickly, "They've always hated us for taking over this place, but they don't like wizards either, otherwise the two sides would have teamed up to clean us up." ”

"Since you're so worried!" Mosag propped himself up, "I'm going to wake up the children right now and get them to be vigilant." ”

"Tell those little ones who don't know what to do to hide!" Aragog danced his two big claws, "I'm afraid it won't be peaceful today!" ”

"Got it!" Mosag replied impatiently, climbed up the hollow slope, and then exclaimed, "What a thick morning mist! "The visibility around the hollow is already less than thirty meters.

But Mosag didn't doubt it, after all, it had seen a fog thicker than this, and it was a well-known thing that the mermaid was good at water magic, so after sighing, it began to inform the other eight-eyed giant spiders.

It jumped up and slammed it to the ground, and the strong vibration immediately spread through the earth, and the entire Forbidden Forest suddenly fell silent, and Mosag swung two more claws, striking the ground with all his might, conveying Aragog's order.

The eight-eyed spiders took action, the adults began to patrol around, the minors all found a place to hide, and finally only the newborn spiders were still eating in oblivion.

The dense white mist slowly enveloped the newly dead female, and the limbs and torsos of the young spiders began to become wetter and heavier, and their movements became slower and slower until they stopped completely, turning into a crystal clear ice sculpture.

The little spiders that hid in their burrows soon suffered the same fate due to space constraints; And those who hid in open terrain such as branches and shrubs made Catherine exhausted her mind, after all, the fog was too ethereal.

In order not to alarm any adult eight-eyed spider, Catherine was very careful with each containment, and each frozen spider was covered with a layer of snowflakes, so her operation took a long time, and she did not complete her task until almost sunrise.

"Okay?" As soon as the white fog lifted, Dumbledore immediately asked.

"Yes." Catherine replied wearily, and Snape immediately leaned in to check on her.

"Good!" Dumbledore crouched down and let out a series of screams at the merfolk, and then all the merfolk cheered loudly, and the merfolk leader even held his hand and made a raspy sound.

"Catherine, after you are well rested, then take Severus to solve those troubles, and I will contact the centaurs first." Dumbledore pulled a gold watch out of his pocket and looked at it seriously. It looked strange, with twelve hands but no numerals, and a few small stars turning along the edge of the dial, "At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, we meet at the door of Hagrid's hut. Then we'll go back together. ”

"Understood!" Catherine sat down on the floor, and Snape nodded.

"See you then!" Dumbledore looked up and smiled goodbye to them, then put away the gold watch and walked briskly towards the Forbidden Forest.

Before Dumbledore's figure disappeared, Catherine closed her eyes and fell into a meditative state, and after the mermaid leader turned back to discuss softly with his people, a white mist appeared on the surface of the lake again, and they slowly moved to the lake, enveloping the red-haired girl again, until the sun jumped out of the east, and they were forced to leave.

"How?" Seeing Catherine reopen her eyes, Snape asked hurriedly, his tone full of nervousness.

"It's much better." Catherine looked at the mermaid and smiled gratefully, "Thank you! ”

"You're welcome! Good bye! The merfolk leader uttered a few harsh words and led his people back into the lake, leaving behind a golden spray.

"Let's go!" Catherine stood up with Snape's left hand, and the castle gates rang with a commotion.

Snape took out his wand and applied a phantom charm to his Catherine, and Hagrid and Filch, along with several other professors who had not returned home, led a group of students who had stayed in the school into a noisy carriage and left the school for Hogsmeade, where the Forbidden Forest had become very uneasy.

The earth is fair, and while it helps Mosag to pass on the message to its people, it also transmits this message to all the creatures that inhabit it, and as soon as it detects the actions of the eight-eyed spider, the weak creatures immediately retreat into their nests, and the powerful ones are all on guard, and the large tribes have sent sentinels, such as centaurs and unicorns.

As soon as the sentinels reached the vicinity of the eight-eyed spider's territory, they found a dense white mist that only shrouded it, and they hurriedly passed the anomaly back, and the chiefs who learned of the situation made the same decision - to strengthen their vigilance, and all the tribes immediately took action, and the sound of dense footsteps immediately spread through the land.

The eight-eyed spiders who received the message became even more nervous, the cold paralyzed their movements, the white mist blocked their vision, the dense noise confused their hearing, they didn't know who the attacker was, where they came from, and they didn't understand why they were launched today, which made them very irritable.

When Dumbledore entered the Forbidden Forest, the leader of the centaurs and unicorns had already brought some of their clansmen to the vicinity of the territory of the eight-eyed giant spider, and sent several elites to find out the situation, so when he arrived, the eight-eyed giant spider had already captured most of the elites who went in to investigate, and in order to save people, the centaurs and unicorns could only decide to attack together.

Seeing this, Dumbledore didn't explain, and threw a flame to dispel the still dense white fog and open up the vision of centaurs and unicorns. Old hatreds add new hatreds, and centaurs and unicorns don't bother to ask why Dumbledore is so coincidental and attack at the same time.

Dumbledore's flames were so fierce that plants and animals were scorched brown everywhere he passed; The centaurs on the left are natural cavalrymen, who can aim at the eyeballs from a hundred meters away in a fast run, and can cut off four spider legs with a single sword; The unicorn's best skill is lightning magic, a power grid at the head of the row, and the white fog that has not yet been dispersed is the best conductor.