Chapter 50: Preying and Being Preyed
The rustling sound soon rang out again, and a faint smell of blood wafted from the direction of the entrance to the crack. The giant horse twisted its body, waving nearly a hundred steps, and was very satisfied to return to its lair. It was lucky today, although the noisy dinosaur ancestors had already fled quickly when they heard the rustle, but as soon as they came out of the cave, they encountered the medium-sized monsters that had been passing by. It only took half a minute for the giant Malu to bite the prey in half, and soon gnawed the prey cleanly, and after eating enough, the insects danced their tentacles and probed in the air for a while, and then reversed the direction and burrowed back into the crack.
It didn't take long for Ma Lu to return to the position where he had just discovered his prey, and once again shook his tentacles unwillingly. For these large insects, after each time they are full, they can live normally for more than ten days without eating, so they don't need to hunt now, but the naturally ferocious giant Malu still follows his instincts and wants to hunt every creature that comes in front of him. However, he could only be disappointed again, there was no trace of any prey around, after all, with its comprehension ability, it was impossible to know what magic was and what was a magic circle. In vain, Ma Lu didn't know if he was a little irritable, slapped the ground with his forked tail, then twisted his body again and began to move, and after his stomach was full, it was the most important thing to naturally return to the nest and sleep well, and everything else had to make way for this.
However, just as it began to move again, a dark shadow suddenly fell from the sky and landed on its body. I don't know when it began, the black shadow has been lying in ambush directly above Ma Lu, waiting for the opportunity to attack. Seeing this black shadow, Lina and Freya let out a short exclamation at the same time, and immediately covered their mouths tightly with their hands, fortunately, there was a hidden magic circle, and the sound was not transmitted outside to be discovered by the two entangled demonic beasts.
The Black Shadow of the raid was also a giant bug, a gray-black giant spider. The spider is huge, with a diameter of two meters just counting the round body parts, and if you count the eight terrifying long legs, it can basically be said that its crawling posture is more than six meters. The giant spider is covered in short, hard burrs, and its whole body is grayish-black, except for the tip of the abdomen with a dark red color in the black. On either side of the spider's body, eight powerful long legs were neatly arranged, and the outer edges of the legs were covered with sharp barbs, like a long, jagged saw. On the giant spider's relatively small cephalothorax, eight red eyes are scattered in various parts, and in the position of the head, two sharp fangs are trees under the upper jaw, and even the fangs are covered with gray-black burrs. Its belly was much larger than cephalothorax, and it looked round, with a white filament hanging from the top of the tunnel on its tail, barely visible in the light of the hedrons, and no one could detect the presence of spider silk in the dark.
"Such a big spider?" Lina whispered in surprise: "Denya, the biggest spider outside is the legendary forest spider in the Death Forest, it is said that it can hunt wild sheep and wild deer, but even then, it is said that they are only less than two meters in size, and if you count the width of the legs, if you only count the body, it should be only more than half a meter." But this, this one is too big, it's several times bigger. ”
"That horse is four times bigger than a sand horse. Pannis said, "Of course, spiders can also be bigger. ”
"You just said that there are demonic beasts nearby, so you mean it. Catherine looked up at the top of her head with some trepidation, because of the existence of the one-way hidden barrier, the light inside the barrier could not shine through to illuminate the top of the tunnel, so it looked dark. This invisible effect is the most likely to make people feel uneasy, especially after such a large spider has just hung down from the roof of the cave, and it has amplified this uneasiness to the extreme: "This kind of spider will not be highly poisonous, that will be more dangerous, it seems that when we move here in the future, we must pay careful attention to the top of our heads." ”
"Most of these spiders with two teeth growing upright will be highly poisonous. "Spiders are one of the most fearsome hunters in the world, silent, fast, and accurate, and their teeth are inherently defense-breaking, unless you unfold your shield, even a gold-tier spider can easily pierce the skin of a Legendary-level professional, not to mention that this is still a Legendary-level predator in front of you." If you are attacked by it, the best thing to do is to kill it as quickly as possible. ”
"Can you hear them moving?" asked Catherine tentatively, "We can't hear them, but your hearing should be fine." ”
"No, it's a pity. Pannis shook his head and said, "Spiders are one of the few creatures I can't hear them moving, they crawl so faintly, such a big spider, the sound it makes when it crawls is no louder than the sound of a small petal falling, and it is really difficult to distinguish between the sounds mixed with the surroundings." ”
"Isn't that a way?" Catherine suddenly thought of something, and suddenly realized: "No, I see, although they don't make a sound when they crawl, once the big spiders start to attack, they will bring a lot of noise. So when you act here, it seems that as soon as you hear a strange rumor, you must immediately unfurl your shields. ”
"Yes, it's that simple. Pannis glanced at Catherine appreciatively, then turned back to stare at the giant spider and said, "They use their fangs to attack in the same way, first raise their upper bodies, and after accumulating their strength, they stab their fangs heavily into the body of the prey, piercing the skin of the prey and injecting venom. The bigger the spider, the louder the wind caused by this action, so for people with keen perception, the big spider is not as scary as the small spider, well, maybe this big is an exception. ”
"Isn't the big spider as threatening as the little one?" Catherine whispered as she repeated Pannis's words, remembering them deeply. She memorized every serious word that Pannis said during her adventures in the world, because they might save her own lives and those of her companions in the future.
"Yes. Pannis nodded and said: "I heard a story before, many years ago, there was a very strong Legendary-level professional, who should have stepped into the threshold of the demigod with half a foot, if nothing else, he would definitely be able to step into the half-body realm in another year at most." However, he followed several demigods into the Forest of Death, and accidentally passed by a small spider, about the size of a thumb. ”
"And then?" asked Lina curiously, "He was attacked by spiders?"
And then he died. Pannis shrugged his shoulders and said with an innocent expression: "I died without knowing it, without any sound, let alone defense." ”
"How can you tell a story like that. Lina said dissatisfiedly, "At least you have to explain how he died." ”
"He died of poisoning, but the problem is that no one knows how he died. Pannis spread his hands: "Some people suspect that he was attacked by a spider, but a few demigods around him, none of them found out when the spider attacked." However, some people think that he came across spider silk floating in the air as he passed by, but this conjecture is even more terrifying, because a single spider silk can poison a legend, a creature that no one has ever heard of. ”
"Forget it, you better stop talking. Freya rubbed her arms and felt chills run through: "If I could, I would never want to deal with them, I hate spiders the most." ”
"I don't want to, who would want to deal with such a predator. "But it can't be helped, this is our profession, even if we hate it, we have to face them." ”
While several people are talking, the war between Spider and Malu has entered its most intense stage. The spider fell from the sky and landed directly on the front half of Ma Lu's body, which was defenseless at all, and the eight long legs shrunk into a ball and tightly locked Ma Lu's body, and the backward cephalothorax fell sharply, aiming at Ma Lu's relatively fragile head and biting down hard. Ma Lu himself is also a predator, although he was locked up by the spider raid, but he still turned his head flexibly, used his fangs to open the spider's bite, and then bit back, a pair of large jaws are strong and powerful, and there is a tendency to crush the head of the giant spider. But the giant spider twisted its body, avoided Ma Lu's big jaws, and then lay on Ma Lu's back tightly to lock its movements, allowing it to writhe and struggle wildly, constantly consuming its strength.
For a while, the tunnel was like a storm, full of smashed stones, although Ma Lu was at a disadvantage, but except for the head and relatively fragile abdomen, the spider's fangs could not break through any of its exoskeletons, and although the spider did not have a hard defense, it was much more flexible than Ma Lu, and lying on the back that Ma Lu could not attack, occupied a considerable game. The two giant worms rolled around in the tunnel, but neither of them could inflict fatal damage on the other. The war has fallen into a stalemate, Ma Lu desperately tries to twist his body and bite the spider, but the spider desperately wants to attack Ma Lu's head or abdomen, and neither side can turn a few ideas into reality.
"Who do you think will win?" asked Lina secretly.
"Spiders can win. Pannis affirmed, "I think the last one to survive must be the spider." ”
"Why?" Lina asked, "It doesn't look like there's that much of a gap between the two sides." ”
"But spider silk hasn't been used yet. Pannis explained, "Don't forget that spiders spin silk. ”
Sure enough, the battle quickly moved from stalemate to final stage, and Ma Lu's writhing finally threw the spider off his back. But the spider immediately spewed out a large amount of silk thread from its abdomen, tying the back half of Ma Lu's body into a ball, and restricting Ma Lu's movement in his eyes. But at this time, Ma Lu did the most surprising thing, it bit on his body, and his sharp teeth directly bit off the trapped back half of his body, but he escaped into the depths of the tunnel without stopping.
The victorious giant spider did not chase after it, wrapped the tail that occupied one-third of Ma Lu's body tighter and tighter, and finally dragged it behind its body, and slowly burrowed back into the tunnel and disappeared. (To be continued.) )