"It looks like blood. Antonio stood up and said to Murphy, and the adventurer nodded approvingly and said, "I've checked, and there is only this bloodstain around, not quite like it was left by someone who was killed by spiders." ”

Antonio listened to Murphy as he raised his head to look up at the wall in front of him, its surface was covered with a thick layer of spider silk, Antonio stared at the wall in front of him for a moment, and suddenly stretched out his finger and pointed at a point on the surface of the spider web.

"See? From here, it seems to be divided into two very different pieces. Antonio pointed to the dot in the web and said to Murphy.

Murphy stared at the knight's firelight for a moment, and sure enough, there was a noticeable difference in the color of the cobwebs, some of which looked whiter and seemed to be newly repaired, while the other cobwebs around him were darker and older than it, with a thick layer of dust falling on them.

"Could it be that the murderer took the spider silk from here and used it to hang the elven king's body from a tree?" said Murphy.

"Quite possibly. Antonio turned back to Catherine and asked for the talisman dagger, and used the dagger to cut the newly patched cobweb, and found that the density of the cobwebs was more sparse than the rest of the cobwebs, and not only that, but he also found many small red spiders under the cobwebs.

He groaned slightly, and held out a finger close to the little spider, and when his finger was close to the little spider, several small spiders pounced on them and stabbed them with their sharp teeth, but fortunately Antonio's metal gloves protected his fingers, and the knight retracted his hand unharmed.

"Fierce little thing!" he said back to Murphy.

"Looks like we know where the blood came from. Murphy nodded approvingly.

"Yes, the killer apparently tore off the web with his bare hands, but he didn't guard against the little villains lurking underneath, so his hand was bitten hard, and he had to squeeze out the poisonous blood to alleviate the pain, so he left this mark!" Antonio said, returning the dagger to Catherine.

"If so, he must be very powerful, and if any of us can come here alone, face so many ferocious spiders, big and small, and take a cobweb with him unharmed?" said Murphy, looking back at the crowd present.

"If you are a magician with great magical powers, you should be able to do it. Tali stepped forward to the two of them.

Antonio and Murphy focused their eyes on her beautiful face and heard Tali explain, "Many human or elven magicians whose magic can effectively deter animals like spiders, such as fire or thunder, and even the holy light used by priests, can scare and make them retreat. ”

"I remember that the Elven King was also a powerful magician. Antonio turned his gaze to Sophia's face, and the elf princess was stunned for a moment, then nodded subconsciously.

Seeing this, Antonio glanced back at the cobwebs on the wall, frowned, and said, "If that's the case, could it be that this cobweb was taken out by His Majesty Elendil himself?"

"Why did my father do this?" asked Sophia, surprised.

"I'm afraid I can't explain it to you right now, Your Highness. Antonio glanced at the puzzled look on her face and said, "We'd better go deeper, so that we can find out why your father is near the spider's lair, and also explain the clues we have found." ”

The group set off again and continued their way deeper into the cavern, and after using the flames to make a path blocked by cobwebs, the team passed through several caverns of various sizes, but they were never attacked in any way, not even the shadow of a spider was seen, which surprised them a little.

When they passed through a wide passage four or five meters wide and nearly ten meters high, and came to the entrance of the cave at the end of the passage that was sealed by an oversized cobweb, Antonio ordered the knights to come forward and burn the cobwebs, and as the flames tore the cobwebs apart, a huge cavern filled with the smell of corruption appeared in front of everyone.

On the ground inside the cave, there are piles of white insect eggs scattered everywhere, each of which can reach the height of ordinary people's knees, and a large amount of spider silk is wrapped around the spider eggs, forming a protective layer similar to a bird's nest.

Everyone cautiously walked into the cave, looking at the eggs everywhere, they felt a burst of shock, they didn't dare to imagine how many giant spiders would hatch from these eggs, and at this time the cave was empty except for the eggs, the spider queen was not here, and other giant spiders did not appear.

"Looks like we've found their hatchery. Murphy said, looking around at the spider eggs.

"I hate this place, they give me goosebumps!" said Catherine, shrinking her shoulders and touching her bare arm with her hand.

"What is this?" said Antonio, suddenly, pointing to the cave wall on the right.

I saw a strange huge character glittering on the cave wall, and not only that, but there were more strange characters around it that were glowing faintly in the dark shadows, almost encircling the entire hatching room.

"Looks like some kind of magic rune!" Tali stepped forward and looked at the characters on the wall side by side with Antonio, "but I can't explain what it means, it's not a generic text." ”

"I know them, these are ancient elven scripts that were specifically used to write runes. Sophia came up to them and said, "I can read them, but I can't read them, and if I want to know the full meaning, I'm afraid I'll have to ask my sister." ”

"Let the Lamp God help us get some pen and paper, and write down these runes and bring them back to Her Highness Eva to see. Antonio turned back to Tali.

The mermaid immediately summoned the god of lights and asked him to help him conjure up pen and paper, Antonio had one of the knights lean over to make a table, and Tali took it upon himself to write down the symbols on the wall with paper on his back.

"I have a hunch," Murphy whispered to Antonio while Tali was taking notes, "If even Her Highness Sophia doesn't recognize these words, then it means that these spells are used for some kind of advanced magic, could it be that the Elven King left them here?"

"You mean, the Elf King raised the Queen of Spiders and these spiders here?" Antonio glanced at Murphy in surprise, and Murphy cautiously glanced at Sophia beside Tully, and whispered, "I'm just guessing, otherwise why would the Elf King appear near the Queen Spider's lair in the middle of the night?"

"Moreover, the footprints of the spider queen we found outside the cave are facing the direction of the elf king, maybe when the elf king was killed, he was waiting for the spider queen to leave the nest, or maybe he summoned the spider queen, but before the spider queen reached him, he was shot to death!"

Antonio's shocked expression gradually calmed down, and he had to admit that although Murphy's speculation sounded very startling, it did say that it was past when combined with some of the evidence.

However, he still couldn't make an inference easily, after all, if the Elf King secretly raised the spider queen and its minions here, it might mean that he had some ulterior motives.

"Don't make a noise yet, let's take these runes back and let Her Highness Eva identify them, and then you and I will go back to the Oak Sanctuary to find Rogge at once, I need to hear his opinion, this matter seems to be far more complicated than I thought!" Antonio whispered to Murphy.

Before the words fell, Catherine's nervous voice suddenly came from behind her: "Look, over there!"

Everyone looked back together, only to see that among the pile of spider eggs in the center of the cave not far away, the top one was cracked, and several slender spider legs stretched out from the crack, and then an ugly spider head crawled out of it, and eight small eyes looked at everyone in the cave sneakily.

The scene became silent for a while, and everyone's eyes were focused on the little spider that had just broken out of its shell, half of its body had not yet come out of the egg, but it just looked at everyone in a daze, and suddenly let out a scream after a while.

Catherine and Sophia shot at the same time, and the silver bullet and arrow hit the spider at the same time, and its head was instantly shattered, and it was planted on its back into the egg shell.

Everyone had just breathed a sigh of relief, when they suddenly heard strange noises one after another around them, and people's eyes swept over the surrounding spider eggs, and they saw that cracks appeared on the surface of the spider eggs, and ugly little spiders crawled out of the slime.

"Damn, get ready to fight!" Antonio shouted, and the Knights immediately formed a circular human wall to protect Tali and the others in the circle, Antonio held the sacred spear, Murphy unsheathed his sword, Catherine and Sophia clenched their firearms and bows and arrows, vigilantly watching the movements of the spiders.

Soon, all the spider eggs in the cave were shattered, and a large number of newly-born giant spiders crawled towards everyone from all directions, Antonio's sacred spear pointed, and the spearhead bloomed with brilliant holy light, and the spiders illuminated by the holy light immediately retreated in horror, letting out one scream after another.

A strange hissing sound came from the top of the cave, and Antonio and the others looked up in the direction where the sound came from, only to see that at the huge hole in the top of the cave that was sealed by cobwebs, two thick spider legs tore the cobwebs apart, and a huge spider fell under the suspension of an arm-thick spider silk.

"It's the Spider Queen!" exclaimed Catherine and Sophia in unison.

Antonio gasped as he looked at the massive monster that was close to the Titan's height, and the spider queen looked at the crowd with eight vicious red eyes, opened its mouth full of fangs, and let out a threatening hiss, and disgusting venom flowed from between its fangs.

"We'd better not fight him!" Murphy whispered to Antonio as Tali suddenly straightened up and said to them, "It's done!"

"Let's go, slowly get out of here, move lightly, try not to provoke them!" Antonio whispered to the knights, and the knights slowly moved towards the entrance of the cave with the escort of the group, and the spider queen stood quietly in place and stared at them, while the small spiders around him pressed on the left and right.

"It doesn't seem to be planning to attack us. Antonio was relieved, and escorted the people to the entrance of the cave with the Knights, and just as they were about to walk out of the cave, there was a sudden creepy hissing sound behind them, and everyone looked back to see a tide of giant spiders coming from the great passage.

Antonio's eyes widened in surprise, and he suddenly said: "No, it's not that it doesn't want to attack us, it's just waiting for reinforcements, waiting for its encirclement to form!"

He clenched the divine spear in his hand, conjured a dazzling holy shield in his left hand, gritted his teeth and said, "Since this is the case, there is only one way to fight to the death!"