Chapter 52: The Terror Water Spider
Jack turned around in a hurry, and he distinctly heard Turks calling out to him, "Turks, is that you!?Turks, where are you!?"
As soon as the words fell, in the hole on the water, Tex's angry voice came out: "I...... In this hole...... Jack, save me......"
As soon as these words came out, Luthor and Jack jumped into the water without hesitation and swam towards the black hole in the water three or four meters away from the river bank.
This circular cave is less than twenty centimeters above the water, unlike a natural cave, with a diameter of less than one meter. Jack shouted into the hole, "Are you here?" and after a while, Tex's response came from inside the cave: "The water eating spider is not here, you come and save me...... The voice was urgent and powerless.
Without much thought, Jack immediately turned over and entered the cave, and then the glimmer of the cave entrance groped in the dark, communicating with Tex to determine his position.
"I'm on a spider's web, I can't move......" Turks was anxious, but Jack was clearly more anxious than he was.
"You keep talking to me, it's so dark in this hole, there's an echo, I can't see you. ”
Luthor stood guard at the entrance to the cave, nervously watching the water for movement.
At last, Jack saw Tex, whose body was wrapped tightly in a circle of white silk, lying on a web of finger-thick silk ropes, unable to move, except for an arm with a sleeve that had fallen off. Turks grabbed Jack's hand like a straw. Jack tried desperately to pull him out of the spider's web, but no matter how hard he tried, Tex would still bounce back after being pulled some distance.
Turks looked frustrated. Jack realized his loss and immediately comforted: "Don't worry, Turks, I'll have a way to get you out!" Jack touched his body, only to find that his dagger had already fallen into nowhere, he asked Luther for it, and Luther also said that the dagger was lost.
"Turks, where's your dagger?" asked Jack.
Tex, who had struggled too much before this, was covered in wounds, and was bloodied by the claws of the water-eating spider he had spoken, and was very weak, but he still had his red and swollen eyes half open and said, "Look for it...... My dagger seems to have fallen into this hole......"
Jack quickly turned around and reached out to rub his hand on the ground. This fifty-square-sized cave has been turned upside down, and there is no trace of the dagger. Jack is very anxious, if he doesn't get Tex out soon, it is likely that the water-eating spider is coming!
"You're here...... Look for ...... under the net," Tex said with a faint breath.
Jack listened to him and plunged headlong under the two-meter-diameter spider web. Finally, he touched the dagger!
At this moment, Luthor suddenly shouted outside the cave, "Jack, hurry up, something is swimming on the water!"
Tex smiled helplessly, his red and swollen eyes opened with effort, and said to Jack in an extremely weak voice, "Good brother, I am grateful that you can come to my rescue...... It's just, run quickly, or you'll die......" Turks coughed twice, feeling that he might be about to become a feast for water-eating spiders, and suddenly felt sad.
Who knows, Jack held Tex's hand tightly and said, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, you'll be fine!"
Afterwards, Jack hurriedly beckoned Luthor to come ashore and enter the cave. Luthor didn't know what Jack was going to do, but the waves in front of him reminded him that it was too late to leave, and he had to go into the hole!
In the corner of the wall in the darkness, Jack whispered to Tex, "Tex, no matter what happens, don't open your eyes, don't panic." Turks silently "um".
The two of them hid about five meters away from Tex, quietly waiting in the shadows for the "thing" that was about to come in.
At this moment, a huge black shadow covered the entire entrance of the cave! Jack could see countless sharp pointed feet entering the cave one by one, and these pointed feet were supported by a huge green spider!
The spider in front of him, in addition to the sharp claws, has a body the size of three adults, not to mention the eight feet as thick as a human thigh, it is hard to imagine that there can be such a huge spider in such a place.
Jack noticed that the big spider had something black and brown on its forefeet, which suddenly reminded Jack of the giant salamander he had met before!
The two people hiding in the shadows did not dare to make a sound, they were waiting for an opportunity.
The water-eating spider stretched out its forefeet, shook off the piece of meat it had brought back from the outside, and cut through the meat with its three extra claws from the tiptoes, sending its forefeet into its mouth. And these three sharp claws...... It was clearly a sharp claw that scratched Jack.
Tex's eyes were tightly closed, as if waiting for the final judgment before death, without a sound.
Obviously, the water-eating spider didn't want to eat Tex, but tacitly regarded him as his last dinner, maybe he had to enjoy it, or ...... It is the main meal after the appetizer!
"Oh no! the water eating spider is going to move the Tex!" Jack suddenly thought in his mind, and he seemed to have a hunch of the idea of the water eating spider.
Sure enough, after eating a few bites of meat, the water-eating spider paced the cloth towards Turks!
Jack couldn't hold it anymore, grabbed the dagger in his hand, and waited for the water eating spider to make further action!
The monster in front of him pulled out a long filament from the spinner at the bottom of the lower abdomen, and firmly wrapped the meat it brought back in the giant web, and after processing the "snacks", the water-eating spider kept playing with Tex with its sharp claws, and the wrapped Tex was turned over and over like a puppet! It used so much force that it easily flipped Tex over.
After a while, as if the time was ripe, thinking that Tex was dead, the water-eating spider immediately showed the jagged teeth in its mouth and tore at Tex.
With a bang, a small rock suddenly smashed into the water eating spider, hitting it straight on the head. The water-eating spider came down from the net vigilantly, hesitated for a moment, and then crawled towards the place where the stone had been thrown.
This stone was thrown by Luther.
Luthor hid in the darkness, nervously watching the approaching water-eating spider in front of him, holding his breath, not wanting it to find out, and then waiting for Jack's action.
The spider got closer and closer, and at this moment, Jack, who had already been in ambush, jumped up, pounced on the spider's body and stabbed a dagger into the neck of the spider! The spider fell to the ground, twitching its steps, and rolling in pain.
Jack hurriedly beckoned Luthor, who was hiding in the darkness, to come out, and the two worked together to cut the twine-thick spider silk with a dagger, saving the weakened Turks.
I can't think about it anymore, the water eating spider behind him is slowly recovering from the pain, and it is very likely that the next moment will be the time for it to get up, and it can't delay for more.
The two men went into the water, one in front and one in the back, and very quickly brought Turks to the shore and away from the river.
According to Luther, fortunately, this water-eating spider is an aggressive amphibian, and it is not too poisonous in itself, and the predation only relies on its sharp and tough eight feet and pointe claws to attack the target, and the wound on Tex's face should have been injured in the fight with the water-eating spider, and it is not a big problem. It's just that the current Turks can't get up and walk on their own because of their body overdraft.
The two thought about it, but there was really no way, and Turks had lost his mobility again, so he could only choose to return.
However, it is unrealistic for them to climb up the waterfall and go back the way they came, and there is only one way for now, and that is to continue with Tex.
Not much to say, the water-eating spider should not die from the wound of a dagger, it may follow later, this is its habitat, all the terrain and everything it is familiar with, at that time it must not be an opponent to fight head-on, the expedient thing now is to take the Turks and pass through the gap where they were going to enter before. Give it a try!
Then, Jack and Luthor took Tex's arm and carried him to the gap.
Just as Luthor was finally stepping into the gap, the water-eating spider pounced! Luthor shrewdly dodged in, not being hurt by the spider's sharp pointed feet. The water spider waved its steely forefeet, fangs and claws at the crack in the mountain, but unfortunately it couldn't get in.
"It's dangerous!" Luthor gave a false alarm.
"Let's go!" said Jack.
At this time, it should be evening outside, and in the cave that is already relatively dark, the later it gets, the darker it gets, and it will become more and more unfavorable to Jack, so they can only speed up their pace.
The gap is getting wider and wider, and finally it really comes out!
There was a sound of water all around, Jack couldn't see anything, and when he was worrying about what to do, the weak Turks stretched out his hand slightly, pointed to his chest and said, "Jack...... The fire stick ......", and Jack then pulled out the fire stick that was hidden in his pocket from Tex's arms.
In such a dark underground, the absence of fire is even more torturous than the absence of food. Without food, you will end up going out for a few days, and without light, even if you have three heads and six arms, you will not be able to go outside in the dark.
Jack happily blew on the fire stick, but because it was a glimmer of light, it only illuminated the path under his feet, but it was better than being blind.
If the Turks were not injured and could walk on their own, they could have hurried and walked along the riverbank, and if there were no other monsters underwater, they would have gone into the water faster.
But the reality in front of them is that their speed has been reduced by half because they have to take care of Tex.
Tex is in much better mental condition than he was in the nest of the water-eating spider before, and he is gradually talking more, except for the injuries on his body, he should soon be able to walk on his own.
As the three of them hobbled along, Jack remembered the water spider he had just come, and he asked Luther, "Why is the water spider so big, it's completely different from what I've ever seen, and why is it here?"
Doug, in the faint light, suddenly frowned, causing a trace of anxiety to appear on his slightly wrinkled cheeks. He replied, "It all starts with the water-eating spiders themselves. The water-eating spider originally lived in the jungle wetland, is a solitary animal, there is no gender distinction, but each water-eating spider will produce countless eggs before dying, and then the pre-hatched small water-eating spider will eat its siblings to supplement its own nutrition, and it is precisely because of this reason that each adult water-eating spider is very large, the largest can reach 300 kilograms. ”
"Well, then what?" asked Jack.
Luthor suddenly sighed at this time and said, "Tana Snow Mountain, a thousand years ago, as a shelter for human beings, saved countless lives. It is said that in a place unknown to humans, there is a spirit of Tana, which attracts countless animals to go, and I don't know what kind of charm it is, so that every year, every day, every moment, countless animals will gather here from all over the continent. I think that's probably the reason why the herds and water-eating spiders are here. ”
Jack suddenly realized after hearing this, at this time Tex coughed twice, and Jack gently patted him on the back. Then he turned his head and asked, "So, you already knew that the beasts must have been here, or at least they must have come in from here?" Luthor nodded.
Things probably have a clearer context. Jack knew he was in the right place, and now he was almost waiting for Tex to heal and they get out.
As soon as he finished speaking, a very strange thought suddenly appeared in Jack's mind - he was thinking: if he was a water eating spider, he would definitely find a new way to pass through and find his own way. For some reason, since entering this canyon, whether it was a giant salamander or a water-eating spider, he felt as if he knew what their next move was.
But then I thought about it, since the water-eating spider could persistently wait for them under the water, there must be other more amazing actions, such as continuing to track their movements until they were chased. Thinking of this, Jack shook his head and dismissed his strange idea.
However, just when they were less than two hundred meters away from the crack in the mountain, from the water in front of them, there was a sudden sound of rolling waves!
"Luther, hurry up!" Jack had a hunch that something was wrong, this place was not a good place to stay for long, and the sooner he left, the better.
Luthor also looked warily at the darkness in front of him, where the sound came, set up Turks, and quickened his pace. The splash grew louder and louder, and Jack and the others had to turn around and go in the opposite direction.
It was impossible to orient themselves in the dark, but there was no time for them to discern their directions. At this moment, an uphill slope appeared in front of me!
Without hesitation, Luthor and Jack picked up Tex and ran. No matter how much Tex said it hurts, they still run in broken steps, after all, it is important to escape!
With a "poof", something in the water fell to the ground, no need to think about it, it must be the water eating spider out of the water, and Jack and the others were less than fifty meters away from the water eating spider at this time.