Chapter 113: Spiders
Sensing the vibrations caused by the protagonist's collision with the cobwebs again, the spider immediately stops and turns its head in the direction where the protagonist is trapped by the cobweb.
This slight movement made it wonder if a new prey had touched the net.
But it can't see the protagonist in the distance.
With the exception of a few cave species of eyeless spiders, the vast majority of spiders have only enough eyesight to sense the intensity of light and the movement of prey within a certain range.
Only members of the family Jumping Spider and Demon Face Spider have better eyesight and can observe prey up to 30 cm away.
And this spider obviously belongs to the kind of poor eyesight, and it relies more on the vibrations transmitted from the spider silk to judge the position and size of the prey.
The protagonist has noticed the spider's movements, and for a while he does not dare to come out, feeling a deadly threat.
Although the protagonist has a huge strength, but now his back and abdomen are stuck with spider silk, and his six limbs are unable to exert his strength, and he cannot exert his strength.
And in the spider web, the spiders fighting at home have a way to train the prey that dares to resist.
As long as the spider runs over and spins the silk far away and entangles the protagonist in a circle, it will be difficult for the protagonist to resist. Unable to move, he simply can't attack spiders with longer hands.
The spider looks in the direction of the protagonist with a puzzled face, but does not make any further movements. It was puzzled as to why there was no more movement.
Ordinary insects that land on spider webs will keep struggling until they are exhausted. Then the vibrational waves on the spider web should be one after another, from continuous to occasional, and gradually weakened.
But now, there was only one vibration in that direction, and it stopped.
The spider hesitated for a moment and crawled towards Xiaoqing again. It attributes the vibrations coming from the protagonist's direction to something being blown into a cobweb. After all, this is not in line with the law of insects falling into nets.
The protagonist is relieved to see that the spider is not coming towards him.
Now he needs to find a way to break free from the cobwebs and then go to rescue Xiaoqing. But how do you escape these cobwebs of sticky silk everywhere?
The protagonist observes the spider's movements closely.
The spider carefully followed the vertical lines of the webs, avoiding the horizontal lines of the swarms. It moves freely on the spider web and is not stuck at all.
The protagonist looks down and notices that the spider silk sticking to his abdomen and back is horizontal lines.
The protagonist's heart moves, and he extends his left forelimb to a longitudinal line next to him.
Sure enough, the longitudinal line is not sticky!
Yes, spider webs are actually woven from two different kinds of spider silk, some sticky and some not.
The radial cobwebs like the one where the protagonist is trapped are all longitudinal lines that are not sticky and horizontal lines that are there. Since spiders themselves are also affected by their own slime, they will also avoid stepping on slime-laden silk threads as they move around the web.
The protagonist hurriedly hooks the longitudinal line with two arthropods, and then uses his palate to cut off the spider silk that sticks to his back.
Since the protagonist already has a point of focus, this time he is not thrown to another part of the cobwebs like a pendulum.
Then, the protagonist cleans the spider silk that sticks to his stomach a little. At this point, the other spider silk on the back of the protagonist's palate cannot reach, and the protagonist simply lifts his hind limbs up, and with a hard tug, the spider silk is torn off.
It's not just the spider silk that sticks to the protagonist's back that breaks, but the longitudinal line that the protagonist's forelimbs hook is also broken due to the force.
Fortunately, the protagonist is in the lower layer of the cobweb, and he is lucky not to run into the cobweb again and land on the trunk of the bush.
When a longitudinal line connecting the cobwebs to the bushes broke, a small piece of cobwebs in the vicinity lost their support and floated limply in the wind.
Fortunately, there are twenty-one longitudinal lines in this spider web, and the absence of one does not jeopardize the safety of the entire web.
However, this time there was quite a lot of movement, and the spider that had already run to Xiaoqing's side was alarmed, and it felt the vibration signal of the broken spider web.
It saw that Xiaoqing was exhausted and couldn't struggle, so it gave up on it first, and quickly ran to the place where the protagonist was trapped first, and checked the situation of the cobwebs.
After turning around and finding no prey or any situation, it didn't bother to repair the broken cobwebs and crawled to Xiaoqing's side again.
At this time, the protagonist is already rubbing around on the trunk of the tree, cleaning all the spider silk on his body.
He climbed back to one of the longitudinal lines where the cobwebs connected the bushes and began to crawl along the longitudinal lines towards the cobwebs.
Now he needs to defeat the spider and save Xiaoqing.
Along the way, the protagonist carefully follows this non-sticky longitudinal line, avoiding the sticky spider silk, and climbs directly to the very center of the spider web.
He looked up at the location of the spider and Xiaoqing, and crawled along the other spider silk.
At this time, the spider was already spinning silk, and at the same time quickly rolled Xiaoqing, and used the silk to wrap Xiaoqing firmly, tying it like a mummy.
As long as after a few more moments, the prey is completely encased, it can inject the digestive juice into it, and then it can suck to its heart's content.
At that moment, it felt a dense vibration from the longitudinal line beneath its feet - something was approaching!
The spider looked back, and although it had poor eyesight, it could see a blurry shadow approaching rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already in front of it.
The protagonist walks forward quickly, and in an instant he is in front of the spider. At this moment, the spider just turned back, and before he could dodge, he was hit by a punch from the protagonist and flew to the web next to him.
The spider was instantly stuck to several of its own silk. It was terrified, but it didn't lose its bearings, and after eating a few of the spider silk that was sticking to it, it came out.
The spider crawls in front of the protagonist again, and when it sees that the enemy in front of it is very small, it immediately forgets how terrifying the force of knocking itself away is and pounces on it fiercely.
Although the protagonist has great strength, his body is too small, and he suffers from far fighting. So the protagonist does not retreat but advances, forcing forward to prepare for melee combat.
As soon as the protagonist rushed forward, a sense of danger suddenly rushed to his heart, and he hurriedly stopped his body.
With a "click", I saw a white silk thread with a slimy liquid ball attached to the front end, which smashed on the longitudinal line in front of the protagonist, firmly sticking the longitudinal line.
The protagonist looks up and sees a long silk thread extending from a gland in the spider's abdomen, and at the top is the slime meteor hammer that almost smashed the protagonist on.
"Damn, you can still play ranged attacks!"
The protagonist sighs at the wonder of nature while looking at the opponent in front of him with extra care.
With a missed hit, the spider had already grabbed the silk thread of the Meteor Hammer with its claws and dragged it back.
The glands in the spider's abdomen sucked in and out, like a tape measure being recycled, and the spider silk connected to the meteor hammer was withdrawn into the abdomen.
The protagonist begins to be cautious, and brute force alone is not enough to achieve victory against such an opponent with special skills.
An ant and a spider confronted each other at a distance of one decimeter.
The next round is a touch-and-go.