After the protagonist returns to "Dongyang Castle", he temporarily leaves behind the mystery of the mysterious disappearance of the inhabitants here.

The next day, the protagonist rides Xiaoqing again and sets off towards the south.

As far as the protagonist knows, the south and east of "Dongyang City" are not part of the territory of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom.

To the east are lakes and dense forests, but the protagonist does not dare to enter the dense forests to explore, for fear of encountering some danger in the depths of the dark forest.

And to the south, the protagonist has been here once before, but the distance he runs is not far.

On that occasion, the protagonist and several of his men formed a makeshift hunting party and successfully captured a caterpillar.

Then the hunting party is attacked by the praying mantis, and the protagonist escapes death, which also makes a deep impression on the place.

This time, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing, in a straight path, and soon passed through the shrub that was once in distress.

Passing through the bushes, continuing south is a different terrain, which is a rolling hill, while the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is basically plain.

Most of the hills are not high, with an average of only a dozen meters, but for ants, it is a towering mountain.

The shrub stops at the foot of the hills, where there are only scattered shrubs and large patches of wild grass.

The protagonist circles over the hills, where the grass is too dense to see clearly.

Although flies are agile, they do not have poor endurance and usually have to rest for a while after flying for five to ten minutes.

Xiaoqing has been flying for more than five minutes now, and the frequency of flapping wings has begun to decrease significantly. So, the protagonist orders it to fall towards a bush at the top of a hill.

In general, there are very few predatory insects on the top of the tree, which is safer than on the ground.

Xiaoqing descended straight towards the top of the bush, and at the same time gradually slowed down.

The Lord tightened the reins, making sure Xiaoqing understood that his order was to land, not simply descend in height.

By this time, it was already very close to the top of the bushes. The protagonist suddenly notices that something seems to be shining in the bushes under the sun.

What is that?

The protagonist's eyes widen and he looks at what appears to be a flash. The suspected flash point is in the vicinity of the projected landing site.

Xiaoqing is faithfully carrying out the protagonist's order to land, it is very tired, after getting the order, it is very cooperative, and even seems to be eager to start landing.

The protagonist's eyesight, which surpasses that of ordinary insects, allows him to find that glimmer of reflection again at the top of the bushes.

It seems like...... Is it a line?

Reflective? Metal wire?

The protagonist is wondering what kind of thread reflects and why it hangs on the bushes. In his sight, a terrifying scene suddenly appeared.

As the height drops, the protagonist gets closer and closer to the location of the flash. And because of the change in angle, he saw more reflective lines in an instant.

Countless lines, arranged in a circle and a circle of approximate circles, one circle on top of the other, layer upon layer. There are also longitudinal lines from the circumference to the center of the circle, which, together with the concentric circles, form an impermeable net.

It's a spider's web!! is in front of the protagonist and Xiaoqing.

Only then does the protagonist realize the danger in front of him, and he jerks the first reins, trying to pull Xiaoqing up.

But it was too late, and in just the next second, Xiaoqing and the knight on its back crashed into this dense spider web.

Before Xiaoqing's landing speed could be completely reduced, it broke several spider silks along the way, but these slimy spider silks were like maggots attached to the bones, and they were also firmly wrapped around it.

By the time Xiaoqing stopped, she had been entangled in multiple spider silks. It vibrated its wings in horror, and its six legs struggled. But this struggle backfired, and instead more spider silk around him was wrapped around his body, and he became more and more unable to move.

Xiaoqing's struggle was futile, and many spider silks were stronger than steel wires of the same weight, and their elasticity was also higher. Even humans have not been able to make materials with such strength and toughness. It's a small fly, and it's impossible to break free on its own.

The protagonist is in a slightly better situation at this time, he was thrown off by Xiaoqing, but his abdomen was glued to a spider silk and hung in the air.

But the protagonist is not optimistic, he can feel that due to Xiaoqing's violent struggle, the whole spider web is driven to shake. This oscillation is irregular, completely different from the vibration when the wind blows.

The protagonist can feel the vibrations, so the owner of this spider web should feel it too.

Spider webs are webs made of silk spun by some species of spiders, which can be used to catch insects and other food.

Once the web is braided, spiders will wait for their prey to fall into the trap on or near the web until they sense the vibrations of the prey when they collide or become trapped in the web......

As expected, the protagonist soon feels another regular vibration coming.

The protagonist looks in the direction from which the vibrations came from, and a gray spider comes into view. It was a spider about the size of Xiaoqing, hiding on a branch of a bush connected to the spider's silk.

At this moment, it felt a strange movement coming from the spider web, which was the vibration of the familiar food falling into the web.

So the spider couldn't wait to climb the longitudinal line connecting the shrub to the center of the spider's web, and crawled in the direction of Xiaoqing.

This cobweb spreads roughly vertically. At this moment, the spider crawls in from the upper left side of the web, while Xiaoqing is entangled on the right side of the center of the web, and the protagonist is thrown to the underside of the web.

If the spider attacks Xiaoqing, then the protagonist will not be noticed by it for the time being. But if Xiaoqing dies, even if the protagonist is safe and sound, it will take a lot of effort to return to "Dongyang City" on foot.

And Xiaoqing is a mount that the protagonist personally trained, so naturally he can't just watch it being eaten by a spider.

Xiaoqing must be rescued, and the protagonist begins to struggle.

He didn't struggle blindly, otherwise it would only make more spider silk wrapped around his body, making it worse and worse.

Thanks to his relatively small size, the protagonist now only has a spider silk stuck to his abdomen and is hanging in mid-air with his belly facing up.

The protagonist carefully avoids the other spider silk and tilts his head to cut it off with the pincer-like claw of the upper jaw.

But the spider silk is so sticky that the protagonist's palate feels stuck as soon as it touches the silk.

The protagonist tries to pull lightly, and the spider silk is deformed and twisted, but it is still firmly attached to the roof of the jaw and cannot be torn apart.

As a result, the protagonist can only increase his strength and shake his head violently. His brute strength, far superior to that of an insect, worked, and the spider silk immediately snapped in response.

But that doesn't get the protagonist out of trouble.

On the contrary, the spider silk is broken, but the protagonist's abdomen is still glued. So the protagonist is like a pendulum pendulum in an arc in the air, "snapping", and is thrown to another position in the cobweb, and his back is also glued.

The spider that was crawling towards Xiaoqing felt a strange movement from the spider web, and it jerked its head in the direction where the protagonist was glued!