Volume 1 The Storm of the Northern Plains Chapter 36
After this news was sent, there was a queue around Zhou Zhe, what kind of information was available, Yuan Yuan and Fang Fang became advisers and secretaries, sorting out all this seemingly useless information, and some people found a huge sheep's head, which was hung in a hole dug by the orcs, which was twice as large as the sheep raised and had three horns. Some tribes have found that they use giant snakes as totems, and they have sorted out a lot of them.
"Brother Zhou, I didn't know that there were so many specialties in Beiyuan, just take this dragon spider as an example, counting the meat and the more valuable spider silk fangs and venom, it is much more cost-effective than raising a sheep. Yuan Yuan sighed, the half-orc sat on the golden mountain but could not use it.
"At least this is good news, it's almost dawn, this forest is not big, and then take back the baggage, and taste what it tastes like to roast dragon spiders. The gloom in Zhou Zhe's heart dissipated, he laughed, and from time to time the chatter and laughter of several officers came out, rebuilding morale.
The sky gradually brightened in the chatting of everyone, and there was no news of Ma Dabao gathering orcs to move here, Zhou Zhe ordered everyone to search the entire forest in a team, and not let go of any detail.
In a scorched earth, Zhou Zhe kicked away a charred spider corpse, and it was pitch black outside, but when he stepped down, the smell of roasted chicken immediately came, and Zhou Zhe couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Can this thing be eaten?" Zhou Zhe asked Yuan Yuan, pointing to the white and steaming spider legs on the pitch-black appearance. Yuan Yuan was not hypocritical, picked up a piece and smelled it, put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"It smells like grilled chicken and tastes like crab meat. After saying that, he pulled another piece and threw it into his mouth. Fang Fang didn't hesitate, broke a piece with his hand and threw it into his mouth,
"There is a record in the ancient remnants of our Tianshumen that there are such dishes in the ancient court feasts, desserts made by the brains of dragon spiders, and dishes made by the claws of dragon balls. I thought it was nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be true. After eating the mouth and pulling the spider's brain open, don't look at the whole Dragon Ball's body is very big, but the brain is only the size of a child's fist, Fang Fang is bold enough to put some in his mouth, and then his eyes light up, and he eats the Dragon Ball's brain cleanly, and there is no rune master's bearing left, which is comparable to Bei Ye's jungle. Zhou Zhe saw that there was no danger, so he gave the order for all the staff to eat breakfast, and Xin Chai also tried to eat some, but complained that there was no vinegar, and this killer was raising his mouth in Longquan Pass.
"Well, this brain is really good, adding a little sugar should be better than Li Jiuyang's palace gadgets. After speaking, he covered his mouth, and Zhou Zhe looked at it with a smile
"I said where did you get so many delicious snacks!" Brother Yuan Fang was at least sympathetic and close to Xin Chai in his heart, and he didn't have any emotion for Zhou Zhe and Xin Chai walking very close, and when he heard this, Fang Fang almost laughed.
"You don't know! The junior sister is talking about which cat stole her snacks every day, Yang Jue is not good at this bite, so he thinks I took it, but there is no evidence, I didn't expect the main owner to be here, you don't know, it's so relieved. "Fang Fang was squeezed miserably by Li Jiuyang, and she would rather take the blame than see her angry.
"Well, one thing for one thing. Yuan Yuan said.
"There is a situation here!" Several sergeants immediately surrounded him, and Zhou Zhe and the others also hurriedly ran to the front, and when they looked closely, a hidden hole appeared under the roots of the tree, which was enough to accommodate a person to enter and exit. This is a hole in the ground that has been exposed after the fire has burned some dead branches and leaves, and from the surrounding traces, it is clear that some spiders have escaped from here. A cadre of people and others are waiting for Zhou Zhe to come up with an idea.
"Wait, there should be other entrances. Liu Dabeard, you find a few good hands, go to explore the road first, and come back directly when you encounter a situation. ”
"Okay!" Liu Dabeard then beckoned a few people to go down and explore. After a while, Zhou Zhe's judgment was right, and sure enough, the entrance to the spider cave was also found from several other different directions. After a while, Liu Dabeard led a group of people out of the cave again, and dragged out a few people who were tied up like zongzi.
"What's the situation?" Zhou Zhe originally thought that these people were dead.
"Oh my god! almost scared me to death, I thought I stepped on a spider's leg, but I didn't expect it to be these two boys, people are still alive, not dead. I dragged him up. Yuan Yuan went over to check, and the faces of the two of them were pale, obviously frightened, and they were hungry all night. There were abrasions all over the body, apparently from being dragged by spiders, and there were more than one on the neck from the spider's fangs.
"This spider doesn't eat people?" Yuan Yuan also wondered, and then the sergeants who went down to the hole dragged people up one after another, confirming this, they were all trapped into zongzi and thrown to the entrance of the cave after being dizzy, only one of the necks was broken and was considered dead, and the others were at most skin injuries, but they were not lightly frightened. It was only after pouring water on a few people and getting some tender spider meat that they regained their popularity, but they couldn't see anything but dark shadows in the dark.
It seems that it is, such a huge swarm of spiders, a spider is the size of a sheep, if they don't need to eat people or live creatures, the entire northern plains will be occupied by spiders. But what do so many spiders eat? What is there below? Zhou Zhe looked at the general orientation of the woods and the location of the spider cave, one in the south, east, and one in the northwest, and one was symmetrical, and ordered the two holes in the east and west to be blocked, ready to start exploring the cave.
Others may not be able to see it, but Zhou Zhe knows that such a valuable species is more important than annihilating one or two half-orc tribes. Zhou Zhe asked Wang Rui to be on guard on it, and let go of the defense of the north cave entrance, and a spider cave was made into a circle of three missing one.
Everyone took torches and went down from the cave, since the spider can survive below, it means that there is no shortage of oxygen below, a team of sergeants armed to the teeth went down to the cave, and unfolded the formation only to find that this cave is more huge than imagined, and the roots of the tree even hang down on the top of the cave, and the wall is trimmed very strong, which is obviously the masterpiece of the spider, and the light of the torch obviously also attracted the attention of the spider, squeaking constantly, as if passing the message, and then the spider in the entire spider cave was surrounded by a fan.
The first part of the sergeants to enter the bottom of the cave had already set up a position, knowing that this group of spiders did not eat people, and everyone was bold, at most they felt a little depressed in the darker cave. Not long after Zhou Zhe confronted the human spider, he also went down to the cave and observed the surroundings.
They occupied only the southern corner of the cavern, where the spiders had almost hollowed out the ground, and the roots and dirt at the top of the cave formed a stable dome worthy of concrete. I can't help but feel the power of nature and the wisdom of living things.
"Shoot rockets, drive the spiders out, we occupy this place. With an order, the bow and crossbow fired a salvo, and the flames suddenly caused a lot of panic in the spider group, as if recalling the fire last night, the spider was almost holding his head, Zhou Zhe even saw the horse-sized spider taking the lead in charging to the other side, pouting, I thought you were the king, but I didn't think that you were even bronze.
The spiders in the entire cave fled from here except for a few unlucky eggs with heavy arrows that were burned under the rocket, the whole cave was empty, and even the words were echoed, Zhou Zhe observed the cave again, the ground was full of strong spider webs that could not be lit by fire, and there were many spider eggs in the center of the cave that were wrapped in spider webs, and the spiders all fled. Seeing the spider egg, Yuan Yuan's eyes lit up and ran over, picking up a spider egg the size of a crystal clear goose egg
"This is the dragon spider egg. Baby!"
"Is this a treasure?" Zhou Zhe still asked curiously what Yuan Yuan and he had popularized before, although it was also information from the book, but many of the previous contents have been verified, and it is estimated that it cannot be faked.
"Try it!" Then Yuan Yuan used his nine-section battle to carve the Dao pattern on the ground, Fang Fang carved the rune on the Dao pattern, and finally broke the spider egg, the liquid inside seemed to be like an egg white, and it also revealed a burst of fragrance, Yuan Yuan poured the liquid on the rune in order, and suddenly a dazzling light lit up.
"The spiritual power contained in an egg is so strong that it is comparable to a concentrated spiritual liquid. Yuan Yuan looked at the illuminated entire spider cave as if it was daytime and sighed.
"Nearly 10,000 taels of concentrated spiritual liquid?" Zhou Zhe's saliva is about to fall, it's all silver!
"Well, the eggs of the dragon balls recorded in the book can be used as medicinal herbs, and a few other herbs can be used to make pills, but the other herbs have only been heard of and never seen, and they are really treasures, and I want to bring some back to the master." ”
"No!" Xin Chai stood up, still holding the Red Moon Holy Slaughter in his hand, "This is Zhou Zhe's trophy, you just did a little favor, if you want to take it, at most two or three will be given to you." Although Yuan Fang and the others didn't have any other opinions when they heard this, Xin Chai's attitude aroused their arrogance, and Fang Fang opened the Yin Yang Umbrella Road
"Meng Ge may not dare to deceive people like you here!" Zhou Zhe knew Xin Chai's kindness, and stopped the three of them
"What's all the noise? Don't look at what's going on, can we take so many eggs? Besides, there's something else to see, the spiders haven't fought you, they're all full. As soon as the words came out, Yuan Yuan's face was a little red, Fang Fang was also a little unnatural, Xin Chai put away the knife, like no one else. Lin Xiaoer saw that he couldn't take it away, so he asked
"Can I try this?" This thing has just eaten a lot of spider legs and brains.
"Eat, eat, eat! Good stuff anyway. Zhou Zhe left Lin Xiaoer and continued to discover everything in the spider cave, now that the light is bright, there are more things to see. At the mouth of a stone, Zhou Zhe clearly saw some traces of spider webs blown by the wind, and there was nothing else around except spider eggs.
"Then who is going to see what's under that cobweb?" Zhou Zhe did not risk his life, but instructed the sergeants to go over to investigate, the sergeant hurriedly trotted over, carefully probed, at first he was still on guard with his weapon, and then saw that there was no danger, put away his weapon and observed it carefully, and probed with his hand on saliva and replied
"There seems to be room down there!Who's going to do you a favor and move the rocks away!" Several sergeants worked together to move away the stones, and it was another road leading to the underground, and they did not rush forward, but waited for Zhou Zhe's instructions.
"Go down and take a look, be careful, bring torches, there is moving air, it must not be a dead end. ”
Lin Xiaoer heard that he was going to visit the door, but it was not his turn to do this job just now, and after eating the spider eggs worth 10,000 gold, he took a torch and took a shield and entered the cave leading to the underground.