If we are deprived of the intellect and the ability to invent and use tools, human beings are actually quite weak as a living being.

Lacks a strong snout and claws, muscles are not strong enough, skin is not thick enough, and scales do not grow. The soft belly and limbs are difficult to resist the claws and fangs of carnivores, and they can easily kill when counterattacked by herbivores, and even their senses are much weaker than those of other creatures.

More than 80% of people's information and cognition of the surrounding environment comes from vision, and as a social creature, hearing is more often used to communicate with their own kind. The slightest sense of smell is usually used to distinguish sick individuals or rotten food in the group, and then instinctively dislike and reject the old, weak, sick and disabled individuals, so as to avoid the spread of epidemics caused by dense group life.

Without the light of wisdom, humanity would have been a tiny creature that would have lived in caves shivering to hide from large predators, and had gone out during the day to pick up berries and steal the scraps of predators.

This is also the theory that human beings are the primates of all things that have been born all over the world, including the White Church, and that it is the gifts of the gods that make humans so unique - and as to whether other civilizations, including elven dwarves, are counted in a large concept of "man" or exist outside of the oracle, between their appearance, at least and this part of the explanation is very difficult, most theologians have skipped this question, consciously or unconsciously.

A small number of extremely blasphemous heresies, combined with the hidden time of other major races and the rise of human civilization, give the help of more advanced races dominated by elves and gnomes in the development of early human civilization, and these individuals have been passed down in human society as gods and have been retained by Acura.

This naturally offends a lot of people, and most of the people who dare to say such things openly have no good end, but if you think about it carefully, even the elves now have a certain degree of divinity in the minds of humans.

Live to the point of being virtually immortal, and master magic that is difficult for humans to master—but let's get back to the point.

Humans who developed in huddles did not change their strength, they did not develop claws and fangs, nor did they evolve stronger muscles. What is done, on the other hand, is to expand the concept of "cave" as a "shelter" through the gathering of more individuals, through labor, and through wisdom. Fenced off the ground, built walls and houses, turned the whole world into its own shelter, and inhabited it hundreds of times thousands of times the number of people of their ancestors.

In order to maintain the self-functioning of this small closed system, human beings have given birth to a series of common cultures and common beliefs, and have begun to assign different responsibilities to different individuals in the system - most of them are responsible for labor, and a small part is responsible for managing these laborers.

The more mature the closed social system, the more clear and complex the division of labor, and the individuals in the high positions in it.

It is also farther away from the world outside the original shelter, that is, nature.

The food they eat is not hunted and handled by their own hands, but what they eat is obtained by low-level laborers, processed and slaughtered to a completely unrecognizable shape, and then carefully prepared by others before being served to the table.

Eat meat every day, but never know how big the creature with this meat is, what kind of smell it emits, what kind of road it likes to take when you are in the wild, what kind of fruit it likes to eat, where it can kill with one hit, and where it will make it angry and kill yourself.

When you are detached from the human social system on which you live, you are thrown into the wilderness, and even when you are in the dark night, you are completely deprived of the greatest reliance of vision.

No matter how delicate the clothes are worn, how noble the status in human society is.

You'll be like your ancestors in ancient times, shivering under the breath of predators in the dark.

Even the survival instinct may not be as good as that of the ancient ancestors-

"Whew-" The hunting torch illuminated the limited area, and Henry's tall back cast an elongated shadow under the light of the torch in his hand, and the wind blew the fire and swayed the fire, and even the ground could not be seen clearly.

Our Miss Roan and Yajiro stayed behind him, and a short distance away, Lulu led the way, and another team of Kaleva and Old Joe's guards followed by Miss Doctor also walked through the woods.

And the previous few young warriors from Pingshan County were left with only three people following behind Henry, trembling, as if the appearance of a frightened little milk dog had long lost its previous spirit.

This was a long-expected result, but it was an accident that the group would agree to help.

The young man named Torotaro Iwakura, the son of the Chinese clan in Pingshan County, who had been headed earlier, now looked frightened, and stood behind the sage with his wakicha clenched in tattered clothes—and he was the one who asked for help this time.

With the exception of the two additional young samurai, the four retinues with luggage were gone. This is a very easy to guess scene, the night is very dark, the visibility is very low, and when there is any problem, the samurai master who did not bring much luggage turned around and ran away, and it is common for the remaining entourage of large bags and small bags to run away and be left in place.

It's just panic, and to the surprise that these samurai care about their entourage. After going up the mountain for more than 1 hour and 40 minutes, they ran to Henry and his party, took out the only belongings they had, and asked them to help search and rescue the entourage for the sake of their fellow samurai, and promised to thank them after finding something.

At the expense of spending a lot of money, I also want to ask others to save the existence of just a subordinate.,Combined with the previous retinue who dared to open their mouths to stop Toritaro and others.,Think about how they probably grew up with these martial arts children since they were children.,Like childhood sweethearts, the entourage who is valued.。

Although all of this is the fault of Torotaro and others, although these guys escaped from the battle, they are not completely ruthless and unjust, and they do intend to give Henry a few people a substantial reward, so our sage Mr. naturally has no intention of getting along with money.

Ryunosuke's ronin group did not participate in the operation, as Torotaro directly skipped them. Whether it was because there were too many people and they were afraid of not having enough money or because they were disdainful of the ronin, we don't know, but all in all, only Henry's small troops went up the mountain, and through Torotaro's frightened gibberish description, they also roughly knew what kind of ghost they were up against.

Soil spiders.

A monster in the Chronicles of the Gods and Gods, it is rumored to be an extremely large spider type that does not build webs but burrows. They dig a pit in the ground, then spin silk to fix the clods and fallen leaves with their strong silk threads to make a lid, and then spread a series of tiny silk threads on the outside, and hide in the pit and cover it with a lid.

A creature touched the thread and rushed out of it with lightning speed, capturing and dragging it into the tunnel.

Torotaro and the others, who were lost because of the darkness of the night, passed by the nest of the earth spider when they walked around, and one of the young samurai was instantly dragged in, and the few of them who witnessed the scene were separated in a panic, and when they calmed down a little, they couldn't find their original location when they turned back.

In the end, they had to run down to the only discernible place, the orange glow of the campfire at the bottom of the mountain, and chose to run down to ask for help.

The composition of the team is very simple, except for Lulu and Miss Doctor, who are the guides, everyone else is combatants. They put on light armor, and Yajiro and Old Joe had planned to bring a large bow to prevent the sneak attack of the human-faced birds, but since the longbow was difficult to move in the forest and it was difficult to aim at night, they only brought spears at Henry's suggestion.

The Humans, a special long-poleed weapon similar to Rigal's halberd or boar spear, called the Cross Spear - as the name suggests, this spear not only has a pointed end, but also has bladed ailerons on both sides. Similar to halberds, they can be used to hook opponents, and when they stab the target, the horizontal part also helps to increase damage and keep opponents in check.

In the face of monsters with tenacious vitality, it is more reliable to use a cross gun than an ordinary gun. Because the opponent may not die immediately after being pierced, if there is no means of control to get close, it is very likely that he will also be injured.

There were 4 people with crossguns, including our Loan Maiden and Kalewa. And Miss Doctor and Lulu only carry short knives for self-defense. The size of such a team is actually a bit minimal, but considering the total number of people and the size of the composition, they really can't pull out many people.

The little young master, who has experienced a lot of things, has grown up rapidly now, and he is no longer boasting about Haikou like before, and it is the honor of a samurai to open and close his mouth. He knew that he had something to learn and that he needed to learn, and he came out this time to gain experience.

Aya's intentions are even simpler, as a doctor, she is fascinated by the paradoxical existence of monsters and ordinary creatures. And her knowledge of earth spiders is also something that the group can rely on.

In fact, it was the person who judged that the monster that attacked was probably the so-called earth spider, and it was Aya who introduced the related habits. The scrambling Torotaro and his party only knew that there was a multi-legged black shadow that had dragged their companion away, and the rambling description was only confusing in the end, but it was the Doctor who summarized a few characteristics and the terrain they passed through to give such a guess.

It's important to know what the attacker is, because even monsters follow territory and rules. The knowledge provided by Aya and the knowledge of what kind of area they would probably set up ambush in would allow people like Henry and Lulu who were familiar with the wild to consciously seek out such terrain.

Soil spiders nest in places with a lot of fallen leaves, because these fallen leaves on the ground can interfere with the vision of their prey, and it is more difficult to see the outline of their lids woven with silk sticking to clods of earth on the complex surface. In addition, it is best to have relatively sparse shrubs, as few prey will force their way through areas where the shrubs are too dense, and the chances of successful capture are too low if nest traps are placed.

The main point of this is that the trees are tall and dense and broad-leaved, and there is not much shrub growth on the ground because they have fallen leaves even in the middle of summer, and the leaves cover the sun.

After summarizing these characteristics, it is not aimless, but deliberately searching for similar landforms reduces the area that needs to be searched, and also makes search and rescue more efficient.

But because it was too dark, even if there were torches with a much larger illumination range than the lanterns, they still walked for a long time before they saw the more likely terrain.

And just as he walked over, a black shadow made a "whoosh" sound and rushed over.

"Is it a spider?" Mira asked subconsciously, but the sage shook his head.

The black shadow swayed back and forth on the nearby ground, which clearly did not fit the characteristics of the ambush-loving earth spiders.

"Give me the torches, and the others gather and plant them on the ground three paces apart. He said this, and then threw the torch out with unmistakable accuracy as the others were told.

"Click——!" The blazing torch smashed into a pitch-black shell that reflected the light, and the body with its long orange feet made a "click" sound and quickly moved away from the fire.

"What a big centipede. The girl felt that her hands were shaking a little, and the chilling feeling made many people get goosebumps.

"It's a hundred feet. Aya called out her common name, then grabbed the corner of Kaleva's coat and hid behind him.

"What's going on in this place, are the bugs so big? Old Joe said this vigilantly, holding the cross-gun, and the others next to him did not reply.

Oversized centipedes roamed the woods as if looking for an opportunity to attack them, and Henry drew his great sword behind his back.

Rush forward before anyone else can react.

"Hiss——!" The giant centipede with its fangs open was accurately stabbed in the mouth by the sage's sword before it was halfway through its movements, and then he grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands and twisted it vigorously, and then with a flick, half of the skull sprayed with the body fluids of the worm fell to the ground.

Dead but not stiff, the hundred-legged body was still twisting and moving wildly in place, but Henry quickly poked half of his body with the tip of his sword, picked it up, and kicked it out a few meters away.

"Smack!" the sound of carapace shattering and the rustle of trees was heard, and less than 5 seconds after its appearance, the terrifying giant centipede returned to dust.

The sage casually picked up the torch that had just been thrown out on the ground for lighting, and with a gentle stroke shook off the bug's bodily fluids from Kramer, and retracted it into the sheath behind his back.

“....... Watching teachers hit these things will always give people the illusion that they are weak. Miss Luo An sighed helplessly, and her words also aroused the heartfelt approval of the others next to her.

"Keep walking. The sage didn't pay any attention to this, but turned around and said.