Chapter 183: Peers Are Enemies
"What are they doing?"
On a ridge, the box was huddled in a bush with his knees crossed, and his eyes looked through the gap between the stand-up collars as the members of the Dragonfire Guild below the valley were forming a semicircle at the entrance of a hole covered with white silk.
Confused, he turned back and asked Alyssa beside him.
But Alyssa shook her head, she didn't know anything about these big spiders, and only looked at the square plover on the side.
Beside Fang Yuan, it was a huge monster with eight pitch-black eyes, teeth and claws, and still retained the ferocious form of his life; It was more than three meters long and at least two meters tall, covered with gray-black manes, but eight long hairy legs hung weakly on the ground at the moment, and a huge opening opened in its bulging abdomen, emitting bursts of foul odor.
It's apparently been dead for quite some time.
If everyone looks back, there are many such huge corpses on the road behind the mountain. They lay on the ground, some of them charred and black, curled up in a ball, still struggling as if they were dead in the flames.
However, the wound in the abdomen of each giant spider was not fatal.
Because everyone had unanimously elected Parker, the owner of the title of 'First-Class Material Collector', to check it, the inside of the abdomen was empty, and the gland that produced the silk had already been taken away.
It was apparently just a wound left by the removal of the material after the spider died.
Kita also quietly looked down, and then whispered, "That's the entrance to a cunning spider's lair, and they're going to lure the spider guards inside." β
As for the latter words, there is no need to speak again, because the people of the Dragon Fire Union have already proved this with their actions.
People light the pine torch in the back, which in turn passes to the melee class in front. One of the Iron Guards at the front took a few steps towards the entrance of the cunning spider's lair with a torch, and then threw the torch in his hand towards the entrance.
It didn't take long for puffs of white smoke to emerge from the hole.
"They're crazy?"
"Light a fire in this forest, which is full of flammable cobwebs and dead trees, and they don't worry that they won't be able to get out?"
"Now the spider swarm is going to riot."
Luo Hao couldn't help but whisper.
This view was unanimously agreed.
Parker was wiping his hands vigorously on a handkerchief, then looked at the colorful handkerchief with disgust and tossed it aside.
"Stay away from me," Alyssa looked at the fellow very seriously, "how did you come up with the idea of digging it with your hands?" I'm telling you, Parker, you can't come within three meters of me until you go back and wash up. β
The Paparals had no choice but to step aside honestly, muttering and complaining about how troublesome women were.
At this moment, there was a terrible scream from the valley below.
That's the voice of the spider swarmβ
Soon there were dense giant spiders in the forest, not just rushing out of the entrance, but more out of the cracks in the crimson mountain wall on one side, swarming, like a black tide.
A sea of spiders spread across the forest, and the people of the Dragonfire Guild were in a bit of a commotion, probably because the number of spiders was a little more than they expected.
Not only the people of the Dragon Fire Guild, but even the people of the Seven Seas Brigade who were watching this scene on the ridge couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Although they were also mentally prepared for the number of spider colonies, when this scene really appeared in front of them, the impact was very different from what they imagined.
They are not the first to bear the brunt, and the psychological pressure on the front row of the Dragon Fire Guild below can be imagined.
"These people are fools, aren't they?" Luo Hao complained again.
Fang Yu didn't think so in his heart.
Decisively, the people of the Dragon Fire Guild calmed down again after a short riot-
Fang Yuan quietly watched as the Iron Guards and Guards Knights in front of them raised their large shields to block the tide of spiders. In the front row of the Dragon Fire Guild, the Iron Guards accounted for the vast majority, and the line in front looked like a gray line from a distance.
It seemed to be weak, but when the swarm of spiders like the Black Tide collided with this line, I saw the huge giant spider guards crashing into the shield array, and the rows of giant shields retreated one after another, but the iron guards behind the shields just took a step back and immediately stabilized again.
Looking down from the top of the ridge, it is as if the line bends slightly inward and then tenaciously rebounds.
The gray-robed priests and monks in the back row stepped forward and chanted incantations in their mouths, descending gray light on the heads of the giant spiders. As soon as these rays of light shrouded the giant spider's head, the monsters with fangs and claws weakened almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their attacks were stalled.
Fang Yu looked at it interestingly, among the gods of Orin, only Angela, who was in charge of knowledge, history, mystery, and self-improvement, and Trireel, the god of dreams, and Elaine, the blind goddess who revealed fate, were good at spells.
But the followers of Angina were most familiar to him, and his attire was anything but like that.
And Tririel is the subordinate god of Ameya, and the artifacts of the natural system do not accept the Chosen Believers. As for the priest of the blind goddess Elaine, there are only women, and at the moment, none of these monks in the Dragon Fire Guild can match it.
In addition to the gods of Orin, there are so many cursed spells, then there are only those evil beings who lurk in the darkness and ordinary people don't even know their names, evil gods and demons, dark saints.
In Aitalia, only cultists believe in these 'false gods'.
It seems that the Dragonfire Guild has really completely defected to the side of the cultists, or rather, with so many cult priests, they have become cultists themselves.
Fang Yu was a little incredulous in his heart, because the Dragon Fire Guild was different from the Rain Listeners, the Rain Listeners were high-level missing, but the Dragon Fire Guild seemed to have thrown themselves into the arms of the Dragon Worship Sect from top to bottom.
Listening to the high-ranking of the Rain Collector acting like this, it can be said that they have blinded their minds for the sake of profit, but for the ordinary members of the Dragonfire Guild, what is the reason for their choice? Don't they know that they will eventually face legal sanctions?
When the Dragonfire Guild blocked the attack of the spider swarm head-on, they immediately divided into two teams, the Ranger and the Nightingale, and ignited more ignition points from the left and right flanks of the Panir Cunning.
At this moment, Fang Yu finally understood how the cunning spiders had died beforeβno matter how terrifying the giant spiders were, they were just beasts after all, driven by the flames, they were also in a panic - they panicked, screaming and rushing left and right, some of them died in the sea of fire, while others could not break through the defense line of the Dragon Fire Guild, and were slaughtered by the archers, magicians, and elementals in the back row.
Only a few giant spiders fled back to the depths of the forest in panic.
However, the Dragon Fire Guild also suffered heavy casualties, and after a battle, there were not a few people left in the front row, and the rest were all injured. And a spider guard smashed into the formation of mages and archers at the last moment, causing the largest casualties in the back row of the Dragonfire Guild since the beginning of the war.
After the battle was over, Fang Yu saw the people of the Dragon Fire Guild move the bodies of the deceased together one by one, causing the latter to turn into a little black light, rise into the sky, and gradually disappear into invisibility.
The process was almost identical to the deaths of the dragon worshippers he had seen.
However, the other party's move is not a mysterious ceremony, but just a convenient collection of equipment for the other party to disappear.
After a battle, although the people of the Dragon Fire Guild were scattered, the rest of them did not panic, and first arranged for the elemental envoy and the magician to extinguish the fire to prevent the mountain fire from spreading.
Although the fire spread quickly, the members of the Dragonfire Guild acted in a very orderly manner, and the elemental spells went down with a few spells, and it didn't take long to completely extinguish it.
Seeing this, Fang Yu and Sylvid couldn't help but exchange a look, and they both saw that it was obviously not the first time that the members of the Dragon Fire Guild below had done such a thing. Or rather, they are very skilled at it.
After the fire was extinguished, the members of the Dragon Fire Guild began to dispose of the giant spider's corpse in a unified manner, and the process was similar to what Fang Yu had expected - only to cut open the abdomen and remove the glands.
As for the rest of the spider, including the chitinous carapace, they were ignored and thrown aside.
And not long after, another large army appeared under the valley, and the other party was also a member of the Dragon Fire Guild. They have come together with the previous 'Big Sister' team and reunited into a larger team.
Fang Yu took a closer look, judging from the quantity, it should not be the batch that was resurrected before.
This shows that the other party's manpower in this canyon seems to be far more than what they see in front of them.
Fang Plover also realized almost immediately that the Dragonfire Guild's purpose for coming to this place might be the same as that of their partyβthat is, to collect the silk of the cunning Panir.
The only use of Panil's cunning spider silk is to make sails for floating ships. So what are the people of the Dragonfire Guild collecting so much spider silk to make floating ships and sailboats?
Are they going to build ships?
And such a large-scale operation, it is obvious that the other party is not the first time to do such a thing, what are the Dragon Fire Guild's people doing with so many ships?
In addition, the construction of such a ship, apparently, could not be carried out in a small place. However, there are only so many anchorages and excellent ports suitable for shipbuilding in Kaulin-Ishurian, which is not a second world after all, and finding a random place is also an unknown place that has not been explored and developed before.
Fang Yu faintly felt that he seemed to smell the smell of conspiracy - where did the Dragon Fire Guild hide from the world?
And will the other party's shipbuilding move be related to the so-called big plan?
Only the Paparals looked at the huge scene of the two regiments of the Dragon Fire Guild disposing of the giant spider corpse together in the valley below, and suddenly mentioned with infinite melancholy: "Oh my God, there are a lot of materials, if only it were ours, we don't need to stay in this annoying ghost place anymore." β
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.
Fang Yu couldn't help but move slightly in his heart when he heard this.
And Luo Hao, who was new to the team, was obviously unusually interested in this, his eyes lit up after listening to it, and he asked others tentatively: "People are not rich without windfalls, horses are not rich at night, and grass is not fat, I like this proposal, why don't we try it?" β
But Alyssa glanced at the two of them: "You're still fat, Luo Hao, you're fat enough, and you're crazy?" β
She pointed to the bottom and lowered her voice: "Count to see how many people are on the other side, ten times more than us?" And Luo Hao, can you withstand the cunning spider of an adult body? β
Luo Hao thought for a moment and shook his head.
He is only level nine, and with the level of experience potions, the actual combat power needs to be consolidated for a long time, and in the face of the cunning spider of the adult body, three of them are not enough to fight.
Alyssa then said: "So the average level of the other party is also higher than ours, I said you should think less." β
However, she was talking to the two of them speechless, but she heard Fang Yu on the side say:
"It's not that there's no chance."
"Mr. Eddard, even you ......" Alyssa suddenly felt that the team was finished, and even Ed was infected by these unreliable guys. Of course, I don't know how she came to the conclusion that Fang Yu is very reliable-
Fang Yu shook his head: "I didn't mean to go up so recklessly, you have also seen that although the other party has a lot of manpower, it is impossible to protect himself in such an environment." They replenish their losses in the battle by constantly replenishing their manpower, but what if they miss? β
"We are in the dark, the enemy is in the light, there is always a chance," he looked at the others, a little confident: "Even if there is no chance, it's a big deal that we don't make a move, and we won't lose anything." β
Alyssa was still a little worried: "That's what I said. β
Fang Yu was about to say something more, but at this moment, his communication crystal suddenly lit up, and when he looked down, it showed Luo Yu's communication emblem.
Looks like the big cat man and Baggins have news again.
He motioned for everyone to be calm, then turned on the communicator and asked, "How are you doing over there?" β
Red's voice came from the communication channel: "Ed, we've got some minor problems here. β
"Oh?" Fang Yu had a hidden feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, the big cat man continued: "When we arrived at our intended destination, we found that there were other people hiding in the valley here, and they also seemed to have a plot against the settlement of the hill giants. β
"That's someone from the Dragonfire Guild." Fang Yu was almost certain of this: "We've met them on our side, and I guess they may have other plans." β
"People from the Dragonfire Guild?"
A few people over there looked a little surprised. The big cat man asked again, "Ed, what should we do now, if it is someone from the Dragonfire Guild, they will definitely not let us lead away the hill giants." β
"Wait a minute," Fang Yu thought for a moment, and an idea gradually took shape in his heart: "I guess they stay there, and sooner or later they will do it, and when the time comes, you follow them, we have to see what they want to do first." β
"Ed, what do you mean?"
In Fang Yuan's opinion, the Dragon Fire Guild should be different from their adventure group's plan in this regard.
Their plan was to lure the hill giants into battle with the Panir Cunning, and then hide on the side and reap the benefits of the fisherman. But judging from the previous battle, it was not impossible for the people of the Dragon Fire Guild to directly exterminate a small or even medium-sized spider colony.
Judging from the results of the other party's battle, the way they lured the giants to fight the cunning spiders seemed redundant and inefficient.
But the other party ambushed people in the valley over there, and it was definitely not in a daze in the past.
Referring to the conversation between the 'eldest sister' of the Dragon Fire Guild and the magician that he had overheard earlier, a bold idea couldn't help but come to his mind - he had thought that 'it' was the Dragon Witch.
But now it seems that some miscalculations were expected. The 'it' in the other party's mouth should refer to the mother of Paniel's cunning spider.
Even the spider queen.
Fang Yu took a deep breath, feeling that the other party seemed to be playing a little big.
However, he was not worried at all that the Dragon Fire Guild would play too big, and even vaguely hoped that the other party would play as big as possible, only the more the other party's fire burned, the more likely it was to set himself on fire. As for those opportunities that were not originally available, didn't this also come out of nowhere?
Fang Yu extinguished the communication crystal before he glanced at everyone: "The people of the Dragon Fire Guild should still have a plan, I think we can follow up and take a look first." β
Everyone listened to the whole process of his conversation with the big cat man on the sidelines, and naturally there was no objection.
And Luo Hao was even more excited: "I'm starting to like your team a little, much better than Yuwenyu's guy." β
"Of course," Fang Yu suddenly swelled a little when he heard this, "Our adventure group will be one of the best adventure groups in Aitalia in the future, and you will gradually discover this in the future." β
The Paparal only rolled his eyes.
However, before everyone left, they had to report their safety to the three ladies who remained on the platform. And tell them that their plans have changed, and that they may have to stay in the canyon for a longer time, so they don't have to worry about this side for a while.
It was only when Fang Yu opened the communication crystal, and there were bursts of terrifying screams from the other end of the communication channel, which startled him a lot, and he hurriedly asked Tianlan what happened.
But in the azure communicator, there was Ai's small voice: "A spider has come in, big cousin." β
"Huh?" Fang Yu hurriedly asked, "Is it an adult or a juvenile?" β
"No," Ai Xiaoxiao shook her head, "It's just an ordinary big spider." β
"Normal spiders?" Fang Yu was a little speechless for a moment: "Tangtang, let her come over, I have something to tell you." β
Ai Xiaoxiao glanced back and replied, "Sugar Candy and Sky Blue are being chased all over the house, I'm afraid I won't have time to reply to your words for the time being, big cousin." β
Fang Yu listened to the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping from behind, and couldn't say a word for a long time.
In the end, he sighed, compared the situation with Ai a little, and asked her to help relay it when it was empty. Although judging from the level of horror in the background sound, I am afraid that for a while, his cousin and Tianlan will not be able to stop.
Fang Yu turned around and saw that everyone was snickering.
"What are you laughing at," Fang Yu said angrily, "You're not afraid of spiders. β
"I'm not afraid."
The box replied honestly.
"Shut up."
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