Chapter 35: Tarantula Suspicion
Rays of morning light seeped into the Mambres Canyon, creating a glimmer of hope in the gloom.
Miranda woke up slowly, her mind drowsy, and the lingering dreams of the long night in a trance gradually disappeared without a trace.
It's just that the feeling of shyness is still fresh in my memory of the moment of waking up.
Miranda blushed suddenly, and secretly glanced at Allen, who was still asleep, and unconsciously bumped into the deer in her heart.
"What's wrong with me, how can I have such dirty thoughts!" Miranda hurriedly cleaned up the charm left in her dream, unaware that there was still a young man in a corner of her heart.
"Let's take a look around. Not wanting to disturb Alan, Miranda tiptoed away from the remnants of the fire.
Unbeknownst to her, the moment she walked out of the secondary protection enchantment, Alan suddenly woke up.
Looking at the fading sky, Alan felt like he had recovered a lot. However, instead of calling Miranda, he secretly withdrew the barrier and continued to close his eyes and pretend to sleep.
Miranda didn't go far, but walked around the cave and returned, picking a few red wild fruits along the way.
"I'm so happy to have found something good. ”
Alan had already sat up.
"You're awake, this is the fruit I saw nearby, I don't know if I can eat it. Miranda stretched out her hands, each holding three or four red fruits.
"Let me see, it turned out to be a caramon fruit, you are so lucky. ”
"Oh?"
"Fruit is a specialty of the Mambres Canyon, and eating it for the first time will slightly strengthen the physical fitness, and it is also a rare medicinal herb. Alan glanced at the red fruit and gave the answer in combination with the hint of the chip.
"Oh, it's good to eat, give, breakfast. Miranda handed the smuta fruit in her right hand to Alan.
The two had a simple breakfast with the pan wood fruit, and then started on the road again.
It was still Miranda wielding a long sword to open the way in front, and Alan was using a combination of chips and the True Eye to plan the route, trying his best to avoid the territory of some beasts, and it was really inevitable that the two of them would solve it with three or two swords.
When the two of them reached the edge of a small wood, Alan suddenly spoke: "Miranda, wait first. ”
"What's wrong?" Miranda put away the sword in her hand, because there was no need to open a path in the woods ahead, and the tall trees were lined up, and the thick foliage had already cut off the shrubs and vines.
"Now there are two options. The first option is to go directly through the woods in front of you and reach the cold pool in about an hour, while the second option is to bypass the cliff face next to the trees, which is estimated to take six or seven more hours. ”
"Is there anything in the woods up ahead?"
"Well, a very ferocious tarantula, maybe more than one. Alan held his chin in his left hand and looked at Miranda.
Although he would love to walk straight through the woods and pack up a few tarantulas to accomplish the purpose of his trip, he was not alone now, and with Miranda by his side, he thought it would be better to hear her thoughts first.
"What ......about the tarantula," Miranda thought about it, and then said indifferently, "Let's try to get through the woods first, and if it doesn't work, we'll exit and go around again." ”
"Good. Allen, of course, agreed.
The two cautiously walked into the woods.
In the dim woods, the huge trees were as thick as three people hugging each other, but the height was unknown, and the towering branches and leaves were intertwined, leaving only a few faint glimmers of light projected down.
The ground is paved with leaves that have fallen over the years, and it is soft and soft to step on, and in some places where there is a lot of water, water can seep out over the upper of your shoes when you step on it.
Alan and Miranda went one after the other, both flashing their swords and moving forward vigilantly.
There was silence everywhere, and even the cries of birds and beasts were cut off from the woods. The woods seemed to be another world, with a dangerous aura in the silence, and I don't know what kind of horror lurked in the darkness in the distance.
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound, as if stones were thrown into the calm surface of the lake to provoke a continuous reaction, and more sounds came from a distance, and for a time the woods came alive, as if a feast had begun.
"Run. Alan has been paying attention to a tarantula hidden in the trunk of a tree in front of him since he found it, thinking that the two of them could clean it up casually, but he didn't know that the tarantula was a nest as soon as it was dispatched, and judging from the movement in the distance, there were no less than thirty of them. Where did Alan dare to fight the idea of a tarantula, and hurriedly beckoned Miranda to run.
The black-brown tarantula in front of him, which looked like a sentry, found that the prey was trying to escape, and he couldn't hide anymore, so he dragged a thick wire down from the tree, and kept making a "hissing" sound from his mouth.
As soon as it landed on the ground, the eight legs of the tarantula, as thick as a human arm, moved at the same time, supporting the huge belly of more than a meter.
The tarantula's huge body did not lag behind, but instead came to Allen with a few movements, and on its football-sized head, a large mouth made of poisonous crows kept opening and closing with jagged teeth.
A green light surged, but it was the tarantula who attacked first.
Poisonous entanglement is a skill of tarantulas, and if they are unfortunate enough to be sprayed, even a full-fledged knight will freeze and be wrapped in silk by tarantulas until they are eaten.
Alan knew this well and warned Miranda.
I saw that Allen, who was moving quickly, turned to one side, accurately avoided the attack, and rushed straight up towards the tarantula, and the short sword in his hand quickly intertwined a sword shadow, but in the blink of an eye, the cross sword was launched.
Miranda, who was beside her, saw that Eren was attacked by a tarantula, and also cooperated with the use of a long sword to stab the tarantula in the abdomen.
The two worked together to get rid of the tarantula in three or two clicks, but they didn't dare to stay and continued to flee quickly.
Without the monitoring of the tarantula sentry, the sound behind him gradually became quieter, and Alan asked the chip to calibrate the direction at all times, so as not to run in the wrong direction in a panic.
The two of them had probably run halfway through the woods, but the surroundings were quieter, and the tarantula swarm had tacitly given up tracking their prey.
Miranda apparently noticed this, slowed down, and whispered to Alan, "This place makes me feel very uneasy, let's be careful." ”
"Hmm. Alan was thinking about something.
Under the scanning of the chip, dense cobwebs appeared in front of him, forming a spider wall in the woods, and there was a hole in the spider wall a little far in front of the right, but Alan felt that it was more like a trap.
"Let's go this way. After much consideration, Alan decided to break into this trap. Not to mention that the spider silk wall is sticky, it is not easy to break it, unless it is directly burned, but Alan does not want to reveal his wizarding identity too early.
"Good. Miranda naturally trusts Allen, and basically has not encountered other dangers along the way, which undoubtedly shows Allen's experienced skills, worthy of being a middle-level mercenary with deep qualifications, and Miranda no longer has any doubts.
After running another two hundred meters, a wall of spider silk was in front of it, and the gap was not far from the right-hand side.
At this time, Alan also found an oversized purple tarantula hiding behind a tree trunk above the gap.