After Mr. Limestone had been following the canyon for two hours, the distribution of the forests on the gentle slopes on both sides of the Red Cliff began to show significant changes; The cedar and ash forests that used to be common in the valley area have gradually disappeared and have been replaced by darker pine and cypress fields.

There was a layer of mist between the dark woodlands, and from a distance, the dark green canopy seemed to be shrouded in a vast white smoke and dust.

However, when you get closer, you can see that it is not a fog at all, but a series of cobwebs wrapped in the branches, and the endless white spider silk overlaps each other, forming such a spectacular scene.

They even completely envelop the trunks, giving the trees the appearance of 'wax trees', and the rows of such dead trees, juxtaposed on both sides of the valley, are a bit shocking.

Of course, in the eyes of the ladies, this is not spectacular at all, but rather makes the scalp tingle.

Fang Yu rarely saw that Alyssa's face was not very good. She shivered at the dense spider eggs that were nestled under the trees, and then turned around and told Ai Xiaoxiao and Kita to shut the windows around the platform tightly.

The two little girls also ran fast, and for a while, the platform was full of the sound of ping-pong windows closing.

Even Tang Xin was not exempt from vulgarity, first checked the doors and windows of her living room, then nervously checked again, cleaned the infirmary again, and then refused to come out behind the door.

Fang Yu looked at her a little speechlessly: "Tangtang, you are a healer." ”

Tang Xin hid behind the door and replied confidently: "I'm only level three." ”

"Then you'll have to come with us, too."

"No," Tang Xin's tone softened a lot, and begged: "Brother, it's okay if I don't go." ”

She's most afraid of these furry things.

And Luo Hao was carrying a pair of armor and walked out from under the bottom warehouse, and when he heard Tang Xin's words, he raised his shield with an upright face and said, "Don't be afraid, sister, I will protect you." ”

"You get out." Tang Xin gritted her teeth.

However, Fang Yu thought that the third-level healer really couldn't help much, it was not easy to protect, and it was better to stay on the platform to help the possible wounded, so he nodded.

Tang Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Ai Xiaoxiao stayed for the same reason, although the latter looked indifferent to the cobwebs all over the mountains. Only Kita was left holding her magic guide book and looking isolated, looking at the gloating sick Tianlan on the side, and her heart was very envious.

Sylvid was still as calm as ever, only touched the other party's soft short hair, and said, "You'll stand behind me later." ”

Kita pushed her glasses and looked at Miss Ship Officer gratefully.

At this time, Attila parked Mr. Limestone outside the canyon, and everyone quickly got ready and stepped onto the platform one by one.

Because Miss Naturalist had introduced the habits of the silver-maned giant spider before, Fang Yu took the initiative to divide the team into two.

The silver-maned giant spider is a group of web-weavers that usually nest around a single mother, one of which can be large or small, and the largest can have thousands of adult animals.

Since this giant spider lives almost exclusively in this red mountain range, it is also called the Panier cunning, and of course large spider colonies are rarely seen on the outskirts of the Panier Mountains, and almost all of the nests in this canyon are small spider colonies.

It is said to be a small spider colony, but there are still thirty or fifty heads.

However, Fang Yu didn't plan to go toe-to-toe with these big guys.

The main purpose of their trip was to obtain the cobwebs, which had been treated with alchemy, and the webs were tough and lightweight, with a certain affinity for the wind element, which was the most suitable raw material for making the sails of the floating ships.

But that doesn't mean that in this cobweb-strewn forest, such raw materials are at your fingertips.

These webs ejected from the giant spider's glands will produce an astonishing viscosity once they come into contact with the air, and these webs are not to mention collected, and once they are glued, how to come down is still a problem. So their main target is actually the glands that weave the web.

The Panier cunning spider is also a typical matriarchal society, the nest is guarded by the male, but the male spider does not weave webs and is the guard on the periphery of the nest.

Females hunt and nurse their offspring, weaving special webs around the periphery of their nests to catch large prey, so only females have glands for weaving webs.

However, females do not leave their nests easily, and spring and summer are the egg-laying season for giant spiders, and females usually stay in the egg room at this time. The egg chamber of giant spiders is usually located in the most central area of the nest, which is easy to access.

At the same time, although the giant spider is huge, the glands themselves are not large, and it is not enough to kill one or two to build a set of sails. Ten or eight heads may be a little less, and a swarm of spiders may be just right.

Coupled with spare sails, they would have to deal with two or three swarms of spiders.

However, the adult body of the Panir Cunning Spider can generally reach level eighteen, and the mother spider is a level twenty-two leader-level creature, and even if the latter fights alone, the intensity of the battle is no less than the gray spotted lizard they encountered a few days ago.

Not to mention that giant spiders have never had the habit of fighting alone, and once they are dispatched, they will come to the nest.

It is obviously not an easy task to 'pull teeth' from these big guys.

Luckily, adventurers always find a way.

The giant spider that lives in the Panir Red Mountain is a typical carnivorous spider, and its carnivorous habits give them strong aggression; Their food list is not only home to large creatures such as bighorn deer and rock sheep, but also to the hill giants, another local overlord.

Since hill giants tend to have much smaller colonies than cunning societies, the descendants of these giants have to retreat when faced with giant spiders ten times their size.

But hill giants are much smarter than these insect creatures, and they often choose to attack the nest of cunning spiders and kill their larvae in order to curb the expansion of giant spiders. And this is one of the biggest threats that the Panir cunning, a creature at the top of the food chain, faces in the Crimson Mountains.

In response to this threat, giant spiders have evolved over a long period of time to become sensitive and irritable, and when someone attacks their nest, they will fall into a mass rage and hunt down their attackers, almost to the death.

But this kind of non-dying is often exploited by adventurers.

That's exactly what Fang Yu intended.

The first team is Baggins, Red, and Shesta, plus a Luo Yu who can modify the terrain to a certain extent with magic, and they are not going to the spider den, but to a nearby hill giant settlement that has been found out by a clockwork elf with a clockwork elf.

It was an ancient creature of up to twenty-seven levels, the remnants of the battle between dragons and giants, adult hill giants were seven meters high, and their strides could reach more than three meters, and they were often accompanied by mountain ogres who were good at throwing stones.

Without the quicksand technique, it would be difficult for even the big cat people and Shesta to escape.

The forest is not only home to giant spiders, but also a large number of common spiders, and in fact most of the webs seen outside the valley are not the work of Panier's cunning spiders.

Everyone watched as the four of them stepped on the ordinary cobwebs piled up in the forest and entered the canyon.

As the lion-man disappeared into the woodland for the last time, the four were nowhere to be seen.

And the rest of the people, the task is not easy, they must stay and face the trolls with teeth and claws, the cunning spider Panil.

And their task may be to go deep into two or three nests, which may be more difficult than the former, in all seriousness.

In this team, there must be someone who knows more about giant spiders, Tata and Miss Naturalist can both be competent, plus an Atila who is a druid, and if necessary, the team can be divided into three.

Each of these three teams needs to have a Dexterity Master class, and Parker, Alyssa, and Sylvid are just the right ones.

Chests are also used as the main magic support.

Fang Yu himself is responsible for using the clockwork fairy to take care of a series of tasks such as reconnaissance, terrain surveying, and guiding the way, as well as communication and support matters. And Luo Hao, who is new to the team, is responsible for protecting him closely.

Fang Plover roughly assigned the task, and used the clockwork elf to mark four or five spider nests and the closest route to the center of his nest - not every nest needed to be visited, but a record and a back path had to be left.

And then he pushed Kita out—

The latter had previously introduced the habits of the silver-maned giant spider to everyone, and at this moment, holding his magic guide book, he had to repeat it tremblingly:

"The silver-maned giant spider, also known as the Panir cunning, belongs to a class of giant spiders endemic to Aitalia. Weaving webs in groups, the juvenile body is thirty centimeters, and the adult body can reach a maximum length of about four meters, and the chelicerae are poisonous, and the toxin can destroy the balance system of the human body, attacking agility and perception two attributes. ”

Fang Yu was afraid to pat the three glass bottles on the strap of his upper arm, which were filled with green liquid, and said to everyone: "This is a neutralizing agent, once poisoned, it must be used immediately, if the antidote is used up and then poisoned, you must return to the platform to seek treatment." ”

Seeing that everyone nodded, he said again:

"Adult Panier Cunning Spiders are generally at level sixteen to eighteen, and juvenile bodies are at least level five or above, and they can also deal effective damage to us, so they should not be easily ignored. The main attributes of the giant spider are strength and agility, and the secondary attribute is constitution, and the mental level is stronger than that of most insects, but it is still immune to mental spells and effects. ”

"They have three main weaknesses," he pointed to his head, "one is the brain, which is located on the front of the chest and abdomen, above the mouthparts and esophagus. ”

"The second is the heart, which is located in the back of the abdomen, but is generally protected by a strong chitin shell."

"The third is the book lung at the back of the ventral-thoracic junction, which is below the abdomen and lacks effective protection, making it the most suitable position for attack. Agility classes can consider attacking from below, but be careful not to get stabbed by bristles or claws. ”

Finally, Miss Tata concluded:

"The typical social structure of a giant spider is a pyramidal structure consisting of a mother, several females, and a large number of spider guards, where the spider guards are all males, and the females are breeders and cunning hunters. A small number of spider colonies will also have a spider queen, but a spider colony with a spider queen is often a large collection of several spider colonies. ”

"The physical fur of the adult giant spider is black, and the female is grayish, but only the giant spider of a certain age will have a silver mane, and the reason why the silver-maned giant spider got its name is precisely because of the existence of its queen."

"So what are we going to do when we encounter a spider?" The Paparal thought for a moment and asked a rather crow-beaked question.

"Of course, it's as far as you can escape."

"Can you escape?"

"Parker, if you talk nonsense, I'll leave you to feed the spiders." Alyssa couldn't bear it.

"Uh......"

The rest of the journey was probably the most unpleasant since they arrived in Aitalia.

The canyon forest is stacked with towering white spires, which are actually cocoons of spiders together, and the lower layers of which are densely covered by a layer of cotton wool-like spider silk on the forest floor. These creatures hidden in the shadows are extremely sensitive to vibrations, and as soon as everyone walks by, there are immediately large and small gray insects on the ground scattered from under the nets, which is spectacular.

Some of them panicked, and even climbed into the boots of the crowd, causing the ladies to scream and throw out these little things that were actually harmless to humans and animals.

Of course.

Among them are mainly Alyssa and Kita.

It's just that even Fang Yu couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp when he saw this scene.

However, this is not the most excessive, the most troublesome thing is that from time to time bugs of different sizes will fall from the canopy layer above the head, and the cold will land on the shoulders, hair, and even inside the collar.

Although everyone is coated with a layer of insect repellent before setting off, so that those large and small spiders that accidentally fall into the collar will not burrow into the collar, nor will they bite people coldly.

But that furry feeling is still unforgettable.

Only Miss Tata was indifferent, and only watched a big-bellied garden spider land on Fang Yuan's shoulder, not far from her, struggling for a long time, but finally rolled down.

On the other side, Nini curiously grabbed the hind legs of a white-fronted stilted spider, and no matter how much the latter struggled, he couldn't move—

"Nini, release it."

Fang Yu said helplessly.

He wasn't concerned about the freedom of the little thing, but Nini was sitting by his collar, watching it fall into his collar by her.

Nini then obediently let go of her hand, and the poor spider was relieved, and hurried away, rolling all the way to the ground.

"Papa, Nini is obedient."

"Yes," Fang Yu sighed, "Don't mess with them." ”

He and Sylvid protected Kita on the left and right, and Luo Hao also held a shield on top of Kita's head, so that Miss Naturalist would not fall into a collapse situation at any time.

In fact, she was so frightened that she couldn't even walk.

Fortunately, in the team, Luo Hao, a newcomer to the team, as well as Sylved and the box are all indifferent to these spiders. Luo Hao turned a blind eye, the ship's officer's face was commonplace, as the daughter of a great explorer, what kind of scene had she never seen?

As for the box, he was picking up two fist-sized tube-nest spiders on the ground, carefully comparing who was bigger, so that he could raise one as a magic pet.

It wasn't until Alyssa couldn't bear to give him an ultimatum that he reluctantly let the two spiders go.

However, after people's nerves are stretched to the limit, they gradually become numb.

At first, when going deeper into this canyon forest, even Fang Plover felt a strong discomfort, but after walking for a while, although it was still occasionally startled by the spider that descended from the top of its head with hanging silk. But more often than not, he gradually began to turn a blind eye to the spider that landed on his shoulder.

After all, these little things don't actually pose any threat to them-

Of course, the other big guy here is different.

After about twenty minutes of advancement, Fang Yu stopped.

For he saw that between the fallen trunks on both sides, some cobwebs of the thickness of wool began to appear—these were by no means the webs that ordinary spiders could weave, and the identity of their owners was clearly revealed—the cunning spider Panil.

The Panir Lynx only weaves webs around the periphery of their nests, and the presence of these webs indicates that they have at least entered the territory of at least one spider colony.

After he stopped, he released the clockwork elf first.

Although it was just an ordinary reconnaissance mission, he still released as many as seven at a time to be on the safe side, because whether or not a clockwork goblin would be stuck in the net in this place was sometimes a matter of probability. In fact, he had lost a third of his clockwork goblins in his first location.

However, not long after releasing the goblin, Fang Yu was stunned:

Because the first thing he saw after letting the Clockwork Elf go deep into the lair wasn't Panier Cunning.

It's a group of people.

To be exact, these people are still old acquaintances. Probably because in this sparsely populated wilderness, far away from civilization, even adventurers are difficult to meet, and the other party did not deliberately hide his identity. It was only then that Fang Yu recognized the other party at the first time - it was a person from the Dragon Fire Guild.

He had a deep memory of the guild's guild robe, so naturally it was impossible to admit his mistake easily.

What's more, at the moment when this Stargate Port is openly wanted for the Dragon Fire Guild, it must be unlikely that someone will deliberately pretend to be a member of this guild?

And what made him further confirm his opinion was that it didn't take long for him to see the eldest sister who had been 'absent for a long time' from among those people.

It's just that the latter also seems to be alert to open the magic barrier, so much so that as soon as his clockwork fairy enters, it arouses the alarm of the other party. A man in a wizard costume turned his head and looked in this direction, but fortunately, Fang Yu collected it quickly, so that the other party did not find his clockwork goblin.

The eldest sister noticed the abnormality and immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing." The sorcerer shook his head.

"There's a giant spider in the back?"

"Probably not."

"Be careful," said the eldest sister, "it should be hiding in this area, it is very cunning, be careful not to let it outflank it." ”

The sorcerer nodded.

And Fang Yu listened to this conversation from a distance, and only then did a suspicion arise in his heart, and he said in his heart that these guys didn't go to Nicol Bolas, what are they doing here? Or is the 'it' in their mouths the dragon witch who fled all the way from Van Rik to this place?

But how could the dragon witch come and huddle with these spiders?

……