Chapter 41: Cannibalism
The sudden change of the ghost-faced spider caught the three of us a little off guard, and we couldn't guess what the ghost-faced spider was going to do this time.
Seeing the ever-expanding Ghost-faced Spider, I had a sense of foreboding that something extremely dangerous was about to happen.
At this moment, there is only one thought in my mind, which is to get out of here.
"Hurry up, it's dangerous!" I shouted to Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue behind me, and without looking back, I avoided the ghost-faced spider and ran towards the front of the tomb.
Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue were obviously stunned when they heard my words, and before they could say anything, they saw me running out, and they ran away together without saying a word.
A moment later, we stopped fifteen meters away from the ghost-faced spider, and Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue were already out of breath.
"Hey, rice cakes, what's the ......danger," Xiao Yue leaned against the stone wall of the tomb, so tired that she couldn't breathe, and said to me in a very dissatisfied tone.
It's just that Xiao Yue's words haven't finished yet, and after inadvertently glancing at the tomb not far behind him, both eyes are about to pop out, and the whole person stays in place for a moment.
I saw that about fifteen meters away from us, the body of the ghost-faced spider had become extremely large in an instant, like a huge inflatable balloon, blocking the entire tomb passage.
At this time, the ghost-faced spider was already ten times larger than before, and its round body had become translucent, but it was incredible that its body had not been exploded.
"That...... Let's go a little further back, I always feel a little weak. ”
Seeing the terrifying appearance of the ghost-faced spider at this time, the ominous premonition in my heart was even stronger, and I said to Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue again.
"Well, the ghost-faced spider may be about to lay eggs and breed offspring, but I didn't expect us to have the honor of witnessing this scene." Li Huiyan nodded and said.
Hearing this, I was a little speechless. I thought that there was nothing to witness about this kind of thing, and it was not a good thing, and the ghost-faced spider might be in great danger when it laid eggs.
With this in mind, we retreated another ten meters or so, and we had reached the end of this graveyard.
The ghost-faced spider's body finally stopped expanding wildly, and it didn't continue to grow, it seems that it should be limited by the size of the space in the tomb, otherwise this strange thing may not be able to get bigger.
"Colonel Flower, are there any records of those murals unearthed in the desert?" Seeing that the ghost-faced spider seemed to have stopped moving, I asked Li Huiyan.
"Concrete, like...... No. Li Huiyan shook her head and continued:
"The ghost-faced spider is extremely rare, even if it is from the ancient kingdom of the Western Regions, there are not many people who have actually seen it. I saw a picture of a mural in my grandfather's photo album, but it only depicted the believers sending the ghost-faced spider into a closed hall and finally welcoming another newborn ghost-faced spider. ”
Li Huiyan's words caught my attention, and I couldn't help but start to guess the reason. The inheritance method of the ghost-faced spider seems too mysterious and anomalous, and people have to pay attention to it.
I thought about it for a while, and I thought that there should be two possibilities that are closest to reality.
The first is the ancient country of the Western Regions that left the mural back then, and was afraid of blaspheming the gods in their hearts, so they put the ghost-faced spider in the hall that no one disturbed, so that it could pass on its own inheritance.
In addition, there is a second possibility that the ghost-faced spider was too dangerous when it underwent inheritance, so that those ancients were also deeply afraid and jealous, so it was locked up alone in a large hall where no one was around.
Speculation is speculation, and even I don't know which one is correct.
The more Li Huiyan looked, the more fascinated she became, and she couldn't help but take a few steps forward.
Seeing this, I hurriedly walked up and pulled her back.
After about six or seven minutes, the ghost-faced spider's body, which had been twisted and deformed by the pressure of the tombway, swelled wildly again.
"Don't look at it, let's go." The bad premonition in my heart became stronger than ever, and as I spoke, I pulled Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue up and ran to the corner at the end of the tomb.
Before the three of us could even stand on our feet, there was a dull loud noise in the grave tunnel where we had been, followed by a gust of wind and a disgusting stench.
It's dangerous! My heart was pounding, and I had a feeling of the aftermath of the disaster.
If I hadn't pulled Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue into another tomb just now, it would have been hard to imagine what kind of danger we would have faced when the ghost-faced spider's body exploded.
After a while, the foul smell of the burial chamber, which was comparable to that of a biological weapon, slowly faded, and although it still made people feel disgusting at first, it was finally much better than before.
Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue squatted on both sides of the tomb and kept retching, but their stomachs were empty, and they couldn't vomit anything.
"Are you alright?" Seeing that the situation of the two of them was not good, I quickly cared.
When the two of them heard this, they didn't speak, but just shook their heads vigorously.
After a while, the two of them raised their heads one after another, and the whole person became a little prostration.
Seeing this, I hurriedly took out the fresh water and food that Liu Laoqi had given us, and handed them to Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue respectively.
The two of them drank a few sips of water each, and they didn't have the appetite to move the food at all, but fortunately, after the two of them drank the water, their faces finally became a little normal.
"You guys rest here first, and I'll take a look at the situation." After admonishing Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue, I returned to the previous grave road again.
"This ......" walked into the tombway, and the scene in front of me made my eyes widen in amazement.
At this moment, in the tomb passage, the huge ghost-faced spider that seemed to be inflated before was gone, but on the walls and ground of the tomb, there were many ghost-faced spider slurry and broken limbs that exuded a fishy smell.
Now it seems that the ghost-faced spider's body is nine times out of ten that it has been blown apart.
Seeing this tragic appearance in the tomb, I couldn't help but be a little glad, if it wasn't for my foresight to pull Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue away just now, I'm afraid that the situation of the three of us would not be much better now.
"Come out, there shouldn't be any danger." Seeing that the ghost-faced spider had already killed itself and blown itself into pieces, I was finally relieved and shouted at Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue in the tomb behind me.
When the two heard this, they walked out one after another, and they were a little dumbfounded when they looked at the scene in front of them.
No matter how wild the thoughts of the three of us are, no one could have imagined that the so-called breeding offspring of the ghost-faced spider would be the result of this kind of broken bones.
I noticed that Li Huiyan's eyes had been sweeping around the tomb since she came out, as if she was looking for something.
"You're probably looking for a hatchling, are you?" Seeing this, I asked Li Huiyan.
"Well, it stands to reason that after that ghost-faced spider dies, a new ghost-faced spider should be born." Li Huiyan was still looking for it with her head down, and said in her mouth.
"I haven't seen any living creatures in the tomb since I came out just now, maybe this ghost-faced spider didn't succeed in giving birth to offspring." I thought about it and said.
After all, people still have a lot of infertility, and the ghost-faced spider has been passed down in the tomb for thousands of years, so it's normal to meet one.
"Look, what kind of bead is this, it's so beautiful, it's like a pearl." While I was talking to Li Huiyan, Xiao Yue quietly squatted down and picked up a bead on the ground, shook it in front of the two of us, and said excitedly.
In fact, since I came out, I have noticed these white beads scattered in the tomb.
Since his attention was focused on finding the little spiders, he didn't pay much attention to the snow-white beads that looked like pearls, but only thought that the ghost-faced spiders had snatched them from the tomb robbers and swallowed them.
"Quick, Xiao Yue, show me." Seeing the beads in Xiao Yue's hand, Li Huiyan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly said.
"There's a lot more on the ground." Xiao Yue reluctantly handed the bead in her hand to Li Huiyan, and squatted down again to pick up one and play with it in her hand.
Seeing Li Huiyan's excited appearance, I felt a little puzzled. I thought it was just an ordinary pearl, with Li Huiyan's family background and experience, I wouldn't be excited like this because of a pearl, right?
After holding the beads in her hand and looking at them a few times, Li Huiyan's face suddenly changed wildly, and she threw the beads in her hand without hesitation, and at the same time bent down and slapped the small bead that Xiao Yue was playing with to the ground.
After doing this, Li Huiyan pulled Xiao Yue and me back again and again, until there were no ghost-faced spider limbs and those snow-white beads around, and then stopped.
"Sister Lizi, what are you doing? How beautiful that little pearl is, why did you knock it off for me? Xiao Yue pouted and said with an unhappy expression.
After speaking, she was about to step forward to pick up the small beads on the ground, but Li Huiyan saw this and grabbed her.
I'm a little strange, since I met Li Huiyan, I have never seen her show such a panicked look.
Even when she encountered a thousand-year-old female corpse in the Yao family ancestral hall earlier, and when the three of us were trapped at the bottom of the pool and life and death were unpredictable, she had always been calm and calm, what was going on now?
"It's not a pretty little pearl, it's an egg laid by a ghost-faced spider. If you throw it later, you may not be able to save your life now. Li Huiyan frowned slightly, and said a terrifying sentence.
Those pretty little pearls turned out to be eggs laid by ghost-faced spiders? This is something that no one expected.
As soon as Li Huiyan's words fell, before Xiao Yue and I could say anything more, a series of slight crisp sounds suddenly occurred in the originally calm tomb passage.
As time passed, the clicking sound in the tomb became more and more numerous, as if countless small things were breaking out of their shells.
Wait, out of the shell!
I reacted immediately, shining the light of the flashlight into the tomb again.
At this moment, hundreds of spider eggs that looked like snow-white pearls seemed to come to life, rolling around in the tomb, and there were constantly spider eggs bursting and opening without warning in the process of rolling.
In less than a minute, countless ghost-faced spiders the size of thumbnails emerged from the eggs and spread all over the tombway.
After these ghost-faced spiders emerged from their egg shells, they first swallowed the eggshells that gave birth to them, and then began to follow their breath to gnaw on the broken limbs of the ghost-faced spiders scattered in the tombway.
As the fragments in the tomb were gradually eaten away, some of the ghost-faced spiders who had come out of their egg shells late could not find food, and simply bit their brothers and sisters next to them with hungry eyes.
Unsuspecting, some of them were bitten to death and devoured on the spot.
As time passed, more and more hungry red-eyed ghost-faced spiders joined the ranks of cannibalism.
In the tombway, countless ghost-faced spiders are biting into pieces, and their numbers are constantly decreasing and disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.