Chapter 39: Escape from the Spider's Mouth (1)
In this dark underground stone room, the surrounding areas were covered with white cobwebs, and in one corner, the remaining firelight of Stern's burning cobwebs reflected the white bones scattered on the ground, which was very terrifying. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Stern had previously wittily wrapped a human bone around the cobwebs to drive away several large tarantulas with black prickly fur that were trying to drag Donnie away, and successfully rescued Anne and Kansa. Just as everyone was about to rejoice in the danger and leave, to their surprise, there was a group of tarantulas staring at them with blood-red eyes in the darkness in the distance! One of them is particularly large! It is staring at its prey with eight eyes the size of red bulbs.
"Oh my God! How are there so many tarantulas here! Stern had goosebumps when he saw those dense eyes
"It's so scary, how can there be so many "tarantulas!" Donnie was so frightened that he went straight to the corner of the stone room, what he was most afraid of was bugs, especially if it was still so big, and the wound he was bitten by the tarantula was still bleeding, but fortunately Anne gave him a simple treatment, which was slightly better.
"This tarantula has big eyes, too! That's proportionally the size of a car! Anne exclaimed, paying special attention to the conspicuous eyes the size of the eight bulbs.
Stern told everyone to prepare for defense immediately, because Stern had extinguished most of the cobwebs in order to save people, and only one torch made of cobwebs rolled in white bones was left in his hand.
He thought that tarantulas should be afraid of fire, so he called the other three people in front of him to make a small wall of fire out of cobwebs, temporarily preventing those tarantulas from coming and attacking them again. He took a few more bones, made a few improvised torches, and held them in his hand in case he needed them. Despite this, everyone was still very frightened when they saw the blood-red eyes in the dark darkness, and they involuntarily shrank into the corner.
Stern looked at the basement the size of a basketball court by the light of the fire, sighed and said, "In my opinion, this is probably the nest of this big tarantula, and the tarantulas who are going to eat Donnie are all the size of a basin, and the eight light bulbs standing in the dark opposite us are not a king tarantula with loud eyes!" It's no wonder that several of us were caught in this basement without us knowing! ”
Downey asked Stern worriedly, "Sergeant, let's figure it out!" We finally drove away a few small ones to break free, and now there is a tarantula king waiting for us! ”
"I'm afraid it's more than one tarantula king! Don't worry, they're afraid of fire, they won't attack us for the time being, let's find a way first, it's a big deal I'll burn its nest on fire! ”
Stern said half-jokingly.
But Stern thought to himself that even if they attacked with fire, he might be burned to ashes before they could escape safely, because he hadn't fully figured out the details of this tarantula lair yet, and if he really fought the giant tarantula king on the other side, he might not be his opponent at the moment. The worst thing was that his only pistol had run out of bullets when he had hit those tarantulas before, and he didn't have any lethal weapons in his hand, so he had no chance of winning, because there were not only this big one in the stone chamber, but also a group of small ones, and Stern felt more and more that there was little hope of escaping, and he had a headache.
Thankfully, the tarantula king hadn't seen any movement at the moment, so Stern decided to think of a safe way first. So he asked Anne, "Anne, what do you know about the habits of this tarantula?" ”
Anne was nervous for a while, but suddenly heard Stern ask him: "Tarantulas never rely on webs to trap and hunt, they are very fast, and they can ambush their prey directly with their keen vision and strong bouncing power." Some species can paralyze their prey with venom and drag it back to the nest to digest it slowly. ”
She paused, then said, "But the tarantulas we encounter now are more than ten times larger than the usual species, and if you want to escape, I'm afraid it won't be so easy. Another thing I think is strange is that normal tarantulas live alone and make nests, but this kind of tarantulas actually live in groups, which is not the same as their close relatives."
Donnie also sighed after hearing this: "It's definitely not an ordinary tarantula, an ordinary tarantula can already break the world record if it looks the size of a fist!" I don't know what these tarantulas eat, and they have grown to such a terrifying size! ”
Stern pointed to the pile of bones on the ground with a torch and said, "You said they grew up eating something." ”
Donnie looked at the bones on the ground, understood what Stern meant, and felt disgusted again: "These brahmins are really perverted, they actually use living people to raise such a horrible animal!" No wonder they finally perished! ”
"Okay, you guys don't have to go on and on, let's hurry up and figure out how to escape!" Anne saw that these two people were not nervous at all, and it was estimated that if they talked about it endlessly, I was afraid that they would all become a few white bones.
Stern shrugged at Anne as he took a torch left and right to see if he could find an escape exit, meaning he had been trying to figure out a way.
"Looks like we're going to have a snack for tarantulas, the stone walls here are very tightly sealed, except for the other side that I don't see, which is there."
Stern pointed to the area beyond the wall of fire, and he looked along the edge of the chamber where he could illuminate it, and found that the stone wall on the side where they were was was completely enclosed and very strong.
"This place can't be completely enclosed, so how did these tarantulas drag us into this stone chamber?" Anne immediately asked
Stern responded, "That's right, that's what I thought, so the exit should be in the place occupied by the tarantula swarm, and I can't see where it is for the time being, so I can't see where it is." ”
The three of them began to ponder, maybe the exit was behind the tarantula group on the other side, but at the moment they were not sure that they could deal with this big tarantula, on the one hand, the stone room was closed, and there was no certainty that there must be an exit behind the tarantula group that could escape immediately, on the other hand, since these tarantulas could drag them silently to this nest, it meant that they were definitely not ordinary insects, not to mention that there was a tarantula in the dark who didn't know how big it was, and I didn't know how poisonous these tarantulas were, If you alarm them, you may die faster. That's why everyone is thinking about safety measures.
After a while, Donnie seemed to think of something suddenly, so he muttered, "Regarding the exit, I actually have a question. ”
"What are the doubts?" Anne and Stern asked him together.
"You said these tarantulas were raised by the Brahmins of the Angkor period, so how did they feed them?"
Anne replied, "It stands to reason that there is a hole in the stone chamber to throw into it, just as we raise fish in glass bottles. We're not just going to find that gap, but we can't see it now. ”
"But don't you think it's strange? This tarantula is not a fish, it can't live without water, it's been hundreds of years, why haven't they left here, and still use this place as their nest? ”
"I'm surprised to hear Donnie say that, Sergeant, are you sure it's a tarantula?" Anne hadn't seen the tarantula at the time, and when Donnie said that, she was a little suspicious of it, because she had never seen such a large tarantula.
"What could be wrong? He has black hair like long thorns, and his legs are thick and strong, not what a tarantula is. Besides, this tarantula was roasted when I fled from the jungles on the border between Vietnam and Cambodia a few years ago. It's just that this one is several times bigger than I've seen in the jungle. ”
When Anne heard that Stern had eaten tarantulas, she couldn't help but feel sick to her stomach: "According to the habit of tarantulas to live alone, it is certainly not normal for such a large group to use this stone chamber as a nest, and I think it is indeed very likely that the previous Khmer people deliberately kept them here in captivity, and then they got used to this place as a nest." But Don makes sense, we still have to find the hole where the Khmers fed them, and since they can feed the slaves as food, there must be a hole here that is enough for us to escape. ”
Donnie didn't think about it before responding: "Then after talking for a long time, don't you still have to face that group of big spiders?" ”
Anne had no choice but to look at Stern, hoping that he could come up with a better solution.
"If I have to attack them, I'll have to plan for it." Stern was also frowning now, seeing that the fire from the cobwebs was getting smaller and smaller, there were not many cobwebs left that could be burned, and time was pressing, and everyone fell into silence.
At this moment, Stern suddenly exclaimed, "Oops! How did I forget about him! ”