Chapter 18: The Crisis of the Spider Forest

Looking at Qin Lan with a strange look on her face, Jessica cleaned up the place next to the bonfire again, and then spread out a blanket, "Okay, young master, you come and sit...... Be careful, there are still dead spiders on the ground, and it can be troublesome to get bitten. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

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When Elle came out, she was also taken aback by the scene of the camp, and it took a long time for everyone to clean up the camp and then sit down next to the campfire.

"Our current location is in the Spider Forest. Jessica also sat beside Qin Lan, watching Elle kneading Qin Lan's shoulders, she finally explained, "The underground world is very complex, and it is divided into many areas, each of which is extremely dangerous, so our actions must not be too far away from the camp, otherwise we will get lost here, and then we will be swallowed by these things and there will be no bones left." ”

"How?"

"This spider forest, for example, has a spider frenzy every four days, and if we weren't in camp, we wouldn't be able to resist it...... So, if you're operating in the Spider Forest, you'll have to get back to the nearby camp within four days. A rudimentary map appeared in Jessica's hand, and she gestured, "The entrance to our entry is in the Spider Forest...... Heading north from here, you will arrive at the Frozen Plains in a day's time, but it is now part of the Orc Kingdom's sphere of influence, and there are many orc races living on the Plains, and Banto is from there. ”

Banto is the underground minotaur, compared to the minotaur on the ground, he is much thinner, although he is still very burly, but far from the sense of strength and strength that the minotaur on the ground has, and his body is black, and the weapon in his hand is not a totem pole of the ground minotaur, but a long-handled broadsword......

"The demonic beasts and threatening existences on the frozen plain have long been cleaned up by the orcs, so it is currently a safe zone, if we are tired underground and don't want to go up, we can go to the frozen plain to rest. Jessica continued to explain to Qin Lan by the light of the bonfire, "From where we are now, to the west is a huge wetland, where there are many disgusting creatures and demonic beasts, and it is also troublesome once they are entangled, and there are swamps and traps all over the place, if it is not necessary, I don't recommend going that way." And if we turn south, it is a stone field, and many mercenaries are currently exploring in that direction, and it is said that there seems to be some secret in that place...... If we go east, we'll spend a lot of time in the Spider Forest, and then we'll go into the dry highlands, where there are some very difficult creatures to entangle, very perverted. ”

"That's roughly the area explored so far, you decide, we go in that direction, mainly depending on what kind of magical beast you want to capture. ”

Qin Lan looked at the map in Jessica's hand, and then suddenly asked, "Have you all finished exploring the Spider Forest?"

"No ......" Jessica stretched out her hand on the ground and drew a large circle with her fingers, "This large area is estimated to be a spider forest, but there are many places that are very dangerous, try not to enter, especially some spider caves, you must not enter, it is said that some people have seen spiders that are several times larger than people, extremely ferocious, fortunately they basically do not step out of the cave." ”

Qin Lan looked at Nancy thoughtfully, then nodded, and then went all the way east.

"May I ask, what kind of demonic beasts are you going to catch? The Stone Wilderness actually has a lot of powerful demonic beasts, compared to which the dry and high demonic beasts are ugly......"

"Let's go check it out...... It's my first time in the Underworld, and I'm going to see before I decide. Qin Lan nodded indifferently.

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Everyone slept beautifully, but no one bothered the other mercenaries...... In fact, it's not far from the exit, and most of the people in this camp have just come down from it, and if you want to talk about women, they've all vented on it, waiting for the spider frenzy to pass before they can hit the road.

Therefore, when Qin Lan and the others woke up the next morning, the camp was basically empty, and there were only a few people left.

After breakfast, Jessica commanded the group to pack up the camp, and then took the lead out of the camp, she was huddled in a tent with Qin Lan and Ellie last night...... Qin Lan slept with Ellie in her arms at first, but she didn't know why, when she woke up in the morning, she had already hugged Jessica.

Fortunately, Jessica doesn't seem to care about this matter, the person who arranged to guard Qin Lan during the day today is Ellie's cousin Solangs, but this fox man doesn't seem to care about Qin Lan, but just keeps talking to his little cousin Ellie.

Qin Lan was puzzled at first, why the underground was called a forest, after coming out of the camp, he realized that this statement was not an exaggeration at all, the dense gray jungle was dense, but there were cobwebs wrapped everywhere, so it looked gray and gray overall...... It's really strange that there are large areas of forest underground, with an average height of less than five meters...... The ground was a little slippery, and in many places there were squirming ditches, with a chilling green liquid floating in them, and the occasional scarlet bubble could be seen bubbling out of them.

"After about three days, we can get to the next camp. Jessica took the lead and glanced back at Qin Lan, "Be careful not to get close to those ditches, something may pop out of them at any time, once you are pulled into the ditch, you will not be saved, everyone be careful." ”

The entire team had already put on a fighting posture, as if they were ready to meet the battle at any time, and when Qin Lan was wondering why this was happening, a group of monsters flying in the air suddenly rushed out of the corner...... They look like bats with fleshy wings, but they have a big head, a long tail, and a cockscomb-like thing on top of their heads, and they are blue-gray and disgusting to look at.

As soon as they saw Qin Lan and the others here, they immediately screamed excitedly and shook their wings and rushed over to this side, just ...... I have to say that they fly really slowly, Jessica's thin sword in her hand provoked a thin light in the air, and as her fingers trembled, several monsters were directly pierced through the body and fell to the ground.

The minotaur Banto was more direct, and with a sweep of the big knife in his hand, several of them were directly cut off......

The bow and arrow in the hand of the white elf archer trembled sharply, but Qin Lanxian didn't even take the arrow from the quiver, but she could shoot out white and swift light and shadow...... Seeing Qin Lan's curious eyes, Solens, who was guarding the side and did not participate in the battle, smiled, "Lucia uses magic arrows, and she doesn't need arrows...... It's not worth wasting precious arrows on these wastes. ”

This is probably the same way as Ming Yanwei after she has the power of the God of War, but this white elf uses magic condensation...... The power should be much smaller.

The battle ended quickly, and with a series of lightning bolts coming out of the hands of another white elf, this group of little monsters had been directly wiped out before they could completely rush in front of Qin Lan and the others...... The dwarf walked up, cut off all their tails, and threw them into the chest behind him.

"What is he?"

"The tails of these little monsters are the only useful thing to make in wine. Bruce laughed, then shook his beard, "Oh, I forgot, all the loot from this trip is yours...... Why don't you do this, I'll pay a silver coin for these tails?"

"No need...... You take it, I'm not interested in them. ”

"Aha, great, you're such a generous human being, I've made Tiger Whip wine, I'll treat you to a drink. ”

Tiger...... Qin Lan was stunned, and then shook her head, don't you, this is how the expensive wine sold on the market comes from?

"Haha...... Don't listen to him. The others laughed, "This tail can make tiger whip wine, it's just that Bruce spoofed and named the wine he made." ”

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Soon everyone moved forward again, and then Qin Lan showed that there were really a lot of such little monsters...... According to Solens, these things feed on spiders, which in turn feed on them, and both sides eat each other...... But spiders eat other things, everything that can move.

There are a lot of this kind of things in the Spider Forest, groups of dwarfs living in the form of tribes, these savage little creatures are very aggressive, they can even use fire, but the most disgusting thing is that they like to hide in the jungle with their small size and blow a thin needle-like thing to harass the team. And the degree of disgusting is still not as good as the swarms of huge flies, especially when watching it drag a huge blood-red tail like a meat sausage to pounce, this scene is really disgusting and disgusting, but Qin Lan is still nauseous early, these flies will explode when they die, and then Jessica and a few other fighters are suddenly covered with fishy green slime.

Along the way, there are really too many such annoying things to count, and they can come out of anywhere at any time, and Qin Lan finally saw something hidden under the ditch, it was something similar to a snake, with only one weird eye on its pointed head, and it would spit out...... Three minutes later, Qin Lan knew that he was wrong, it turned out that this guy's body was very large, and this snake head was only a small part of it, and after the person approached, there were as many as ten snake heads that jumped out of the water...... However, this guy's strength is still a little too low, not even a demonic beast, at most just a monster, and his strength is between the first and second orders.

After being killed by Jessica, the guy's body lay limply on the shore, but Bruce didn't even look at it, obviously it didn't have any value.

There is also a kind of guy called Badger Monster that hides in the woods, they usually disguise themselves as trees, and they suddenly pounce when you get close, and if you get close, they are almost 100% hit...... It is said that once the spikes on their bodies pierce your body, you will be weak and lose all your strength, so after the team killed a few bush demons, Bruce was busy collecting those spikes, and his explanation to Qin Lan was that if these things were ground into powder, they would have the same effect, Yin Man or...... Hey......

Looking at Bruce's shaky thick eyebrows, Qin Lan was speechless, are you really a dwarf?

It's been a hard journey...... Basically, there will be a battle every once in a while, and after a whole day, the leather armor on Jessica's body, who is walking in the front, can no longer see what color it is, and there is no place to take a bath in this ghost place, so Qin Lan looked at her speechlessly...... Are you going to sleep next to me at night?

This is also the place that makes Qin Lan feel the most magical, the underground world actually has day and night, and the light ringworm moss on the rock wall is like the most punctual biological clock, and the light in the day gradually dims at night......

"It's going to be dangerous at night in the wild, so someone has to take turns on duty and ...... Can't sleep in tents. Jessica told Qin Lan like this, "There will be a lot of demonic beasts at night, and many of them are silent, sleeping in a tent can only hinder our vision and reflexes, and in the end, you don't know how you died." ”

The campfire was quickly lit, and Jessica found a place to camp in a wide open field, where after a light dinner, everyone slept on the ground with a blanket and their clothes...... According to Jessica's arrangement, the White Elf mage placed a magical cordon around the camp and a simple enchantment...... This is where elven mages are popular, although their magic level is not as specialized as that of human mages, but because of the mixture, mercenaries are more welcome, there is fire when they want fire, there is water when they want water, and there is wind when they want wind, how convenient it is, one person can top five or six.

On duty in the first half of the night was the human bard, his name was Xi Shi, the leader of the Xinglan Empire, he had known the pair of white elves in the empire, so he chased them all the way to the orc kingdom, and later joined Jessica's ghost mercenary group together. Although he is a little bohemian, his strength is not bad, his personality is very hearty, and his popularity in the team is not bad.

The person on duty in the second half of the night was Nancy. Qin Lan had never seen her do it, so she didn't know what she meant by saying that her strength was good, but ...... When Nancy's finger reached in front of her, Qin Lan suddenly opened her eyes, and then looked at her playfully. "Want to do something to me?"

Nancy suddenly stopped moving, and then glanced at everyone around him vigilantly, everyone was sleeping Zhengxiang, including Xi Shi, who had also entered the dream realm, because he had to hurry up during the day, he had to hurry up and rest.

"Looks like there's something you want to talk to me about?" Qin Lan sat up, then gently covered Ellie beside her with a blanket, and hid her little tail in the blanket. "I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer. ”

"......," Nancy shook her head to indicate that she couldn't speak.

"Turned into a human form and still can't speak?" Qin Lan smiled indifferently, her voice was very low, but in the dead of night, Nancy would definitely be able to hear it.

Nancy's eyes suddenly flashed with a fine light, and her hand was raised again, but in the end, she slowly put it down, and then she was silent for a while before she walked to a position in the camp that was a little far away from the sleeping people, and Qin Lan also stood up and followed.

"You...... Who is it? Why do you know my identity?" Nancy finally spoke, her voice was not the hoarse and bitter of the spider that Qin Lan imagined, but a very crisp and bright voice.

"I'm also curious about why a ninth-order demonic beast would turn into a *humanoid form and blend in with the crowd...... Supposedly, you shouldn't be short of money, what are your plans?Why did you attack me just now?" Qin Lan directly ignored her question.

Nancy looked at Qin Lan tightly for a while before replying, "Can you tell me first, how did you show my flaws? I have no ill will towards you, and I will even protect you...... I wasn't trying to attack you, I just wanted to change your mind a little bit. ”

"Ideas, what ideas?"

"You can't go any further east...... Jessica doesn't know yet, something has been born in the east, keep going east, and you'll all die. Nancy squeezed her voice, "I was just going to make you change your mind...... Can you tell me now how you revealed my identity?"

"It's just my personal ability to show you, in fact, your amnesia method is not bad, ordinary people shouldn't be able to show you...... And as long as you can satisfy me, it's not impossible to let you go. Qin Lan smiled silently, "My purpose this time is precisely to capture some high-level demonic beasts...... The east side is dangerous, and according to what you just said, you big spiders must have escaped from the cave...... That's just right. ”

"......" Nancy looked at Qin Lan in horror, "How do you know my ......?"

"All said, this is my ability. Qin Lan glanced at Nancy lightly, "I also guess that you are not very popular in the race, otherwise you would not have come out alone and tried to integrate into human society...... Are you ostracized, or are you forced to leave because you are a loser in the struggle for some rights......?

"......" Nancy bit her lip, she was frightened by Qin Lan's speculation, and with just one sentence from her, he guessed the facts. "You'd better give up on this idea, my previous race was strong, even so strong that you can't imagine it, Jessica is strong, but she can't protect all of you alone...... Let's change direction and go somewhere else, I might as well grab some ...... for you."

"Xiangdong" Qin Lan nodded affirmatively, "Little spider, if your race is really so strong, I will only be happier." ”

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Jessica and the others didn't know what happened that night, and the next day they still fought bloodily for a day, and Nancy was still the same and didn't mention anything more...... But on the third day, when the group went out again, they rarely encountered the little monsters again, which attracted Jessica's attention, and she strengthened her vigilance, but the whole journey was peaceful, but before nightfall, the group finally arrived at the camp marked on the map, and ...... It is in ruins.

Oops, that's Jessica's first reaction.

The situation was really bad, the whole camp looked like it had been abandoned for a long time, at least for months, but it was only three days away from the original camp...... Apparently, the underworld has undergone some drastic changes, but the mercenaries are completely unaware of it.

"Retreat" When Jessica checked that the facilities in the current camp had indeed been completely destroyed, she immediately made a decisive decision, "Immediately retreat and rush back to the camp we came from"

"But...... Commander, it's too late. "It was Dwarf Bruce who spoke.

I don't know when, outside this deserted camp, there have long been dense shadows...... Spiders, spiders all over the mountains, and they are no longer the kind of small spiders that Qin Lan saw before, the smallest ones that appear here are the size of a basin.

Besieged

Jessica's eyes darkened suddenly, her face was ugly, and with her long scar, everyone could feel the smell of blood wafting from her body. "Xi Shi, Bruce and Banto, you go and check if the trench is still working, Nancy, you ...... Nancy, where are you going?"

"Don't worry, Jessica, as long as I'm here, these little spiders won't attack. Nancy glanced back at Jessica indifferently, and then at Qin Lan, "Now it's as you wish?"

"Nancy, are you going to speak?" everyone looked back at her in amazement, what did she mean by what she said?

"I'm sorry, I deceived everyone, I always speak, but I have to pretend to be amnesia and can't speak in order to hide my identity. Nancy glanced at everyone, "I've had a great time with you, thank you all for taking care of ...... all the time."

"Bang Bang ......" Suddenly a burst of applause came from the darkness over there, "I didn't expect our sister to talk like this...... It's so touching......"

A group of bewitching women with almost no cover on their bodies suddenly turned around the corner, wrong, they appeared sitting on the body of a huge spider, a large group of warblers and swallows, there were more than twenty of them, and the red dots on their chests and the scenery below them were also looming, when several men here were dumbfounded.

"Sister ......" Jessica was stunned, then turned to look at Nancy, "Are they your sisters?"

"That's right. Nancy nodded silently, but her eyes were full of confusion......

"Our dearest sister...... You're finally back, or we might really have to find the outside world......" The spider girls smiled skillfully, and their voices were quite pleasant.

"Why won't you let me go?" said Nancy, glaring at them with a look of indignation.

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Last day of the month......

It's been a bumpy walk, it's not easy...... Next month, this book will be 2oo million words, but it's really, really, tiring.

Want to rest...... v