(Two in one) “It’s up there.”
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“Ugh——” It was the thrown pop-tail worm that vomited.
Ah Kang took this opportunity to pick the worm off with one hand, then shot it into the mouthparts, electrically cooking it from the inside out.
Nan Guo looked at Ah Kang numbly and sinisterly with a face full of worm vomit. Ah Kang was so frightened that he almost pressed the trigger of the stun gun on Nan Guo.
“I…I didn’t mean it.” Ah Kang whispered.
[Pfft, hahaha, I’m gonna vomit just seeing this worm, for real]
[I advise this professor to be kind, even the worm was unable to put up with him any longer]
[Look at how you scared the kid, even if you did it on purpose, we have no objection~]
Nan Guo has now confirmed that the worm’s mouthparts spray is just ordinary rumination spit and does not cause any other harm.
Jiang Kun glanced at Nan Guo and quickly looked away to avoid vomiting.
He couldn’t help but ask Lu Liran: “We have walked almost a hundred meters, right? Why haven’t we walked out yet? What happened here? They are all corpses…”
Luo Qi wrinkled his face and added: “More importantly, why do I feel that the further we walk, the higher the integrity of these carrion? It feels more and more…fresh?”
Lu Liran also discovered this. Such signs were disturbing, but from the moment they fell into the cave, they didn’t have many options to choose from.
“Do you think this looks like a storage warehouse?” Lu Liran said, having a bold and outrageous guess in his mind.
“Warehouse?” Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the mountains of carrion and corpses around him, “Storage these?”
From a human perspective, it is natural not to consider the warehouse. If Luo Qi were to describe it, it would be more like a hunting ground.
But thinking about it, most of the corpse mountains had the best parts eaten, leaving behind the inferior parts behind, and some even looked like they had been vomited out.
Not long after the mating season ends, there will be a long and severe winter, and the swamp will be covered with a thick layer of white snow, making it more difficult to catch any prey.
If these were stored rations dragged back by a certain creature, it would be understandable. Just like an ox would regurgitate the food in its stomach pouch and re-eat it, a certain creature here might have the same living habits.
As for the corpses becoming fresher as they walked, it was most likely that they were getting closer to the creature’s lair.
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Lu Liran frowned and gradually slowed down.
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“We burned all its food reserves. Will it go crazy?” Luo Qi also inhaled.
When Jiang Kun and Ah Kang heard this, their expressions froze.
Putting it this way, it seems that Lu Liran and this thing should have become mortal enemies.
It was unknown how long they’ve been walking, but the meat mountains on both sides have become much fresher.
The spring-tailed worm only eats carrion, and the mouthparts they evolved are only suitable for processing carrier. Therefore, there are almost no spring-tailed worms in these short piles of meat that have not yet completely decomposed.
Except for the three or two spring-tailed worms that followed closely from behind, there were no new worms to deal with, which immediately made everyone feel much less stressed.
Although these meat mountains are still a little difficult to light, they are much easier to light than the mud and moss coverings they encountered before. Lu Liran saved the oil in his hand and used his dagger to carved out the fat that was not separated from the meat mountain.These still fresh and ready-made fats were collected directly by him.
He set fire to all the meat mountains on both sides. Now that he has reached this point, he shouldn’t let go of them.
“Wait! I go! Captain Luo, look! Is that Xiao Lu?!” Ah Kang suddenly raised his finger and said.
On the mountain wall not far away, a ball-like white cocoon was not completely covered, and only Xiao Lu’s gray face could be seen, his eyes even opened and closed, and his lips moved, as if asking them for help.
Without waiting for Lu Liran’s warning, Luo Qi and Ah Kang ran over excitedly.
——Because they were attacked by spring-tailed worms all the way, everyone untied the rope buckles around their waists to facilitate movement. Luo Qi and Ah Kang left the team directly, and Lu Liran had no time to stop them.
He cursed with a cold look on his face and had no choice but to follow quickly.
Fortunately, the two of them were not stunned yet. When Lu Liran and Ke Ji caught up, they saw the two of them stopping cautiously a few meters in front of the round egg.
“No, didn’t we clearly see him being entangled by that anaconda? Why did he appear here?” Ah Kang asked Luo Qi in a low voice.
Luo Qi also regained his composure after being excited. They saw with their own eyes that Xiao Lu was tightly entangled by the giant anaconda, and the bones made a crisp sound of breaking and dislocating. There was no way he was still alive…
He raised his head to look at the round cocoon hanging three or four meters above the stone wall, but it was clearly a path inside. How could he be brought to such a place?
And it wasn’t just Ah Kang who saw him open his eyes and speak, he also saw it!
But now, Xiao Lu closed his eyes tightly again. Only the silk cocoon tightly wrapped around his body undulated slightly to show that he was still breathing.
Luo Qi’s eyes turned red: “I thought he was dead, but I didn’t expect…”
“I also thought…I thought the giant anaconda would definitely swallow him, but I didn’t expect that he would actually escape…” Ah Kang choked.
He turned to look at Lu Liran and asked for Lu Liran’s opinion: “Can we bring him down? He shouldn’t be left here to be turned into rations, he is still alive!”
Lu Liran squinted at the round white cocoon and said: “The premise is that he is indeed still alive.”
Ah Kang was stunned: “What do you mean? Is he alive?”
“It’s the cocoon that’s moving, not him breathing.” Lu Liran warned in an abrupt rush of blood.
Hearing this, Luo Qi subconsciously looked at the cocoon again. He understood what Lu Liran meant, but found it unbelievable: “You mean, the cocoon is alive?”
“What I mean is that the things in the cocoon are alive.” Lu Liran said, while motioning for the two people to follow his footsteps and retreat carefully.
[What? Isn’t the thing in the cocoon that person? But doesn’t that mean this person is dead?]
[I’m already dizzy, it doesn’t matter what the truth is, what’s important is that I just want to make sure that the next plot is something I can watch QAQ]
[The anchor’s live broadcast room is really suitable for horror movie directors to draw materials…]
[+1 The graphics are awesome]
[At this time, I wish I was watching the recording, so that I can have high-energy early warning QAQ]
[I hope the barrage army waiting for me will be powerful enough and don’t let me see it too clearly, aaahhhh]
Lu Liran carefully retreated while saying: “I once encountered a kind of spider on the edge of the Ghost Forest Swamp, called a thief spider. Its method of incubating eggs is particularly unique. It uses spider webs to build cocoons, wraps its prey in the cocoons, and then lays eggs inside.”
“The cocoon silk has a constant temperature, so even if there is no mother spider, it can hatch the eggs alone, and the successfully hatched spiderlings will stay in the cocoon until the prey in the cocoon is digested, and then they will break out of the cocoon.” He whispered, quickly making the people in the team aware of the current situation.
Luo Qi’s eyes trembled: “There is such a creature?!”
“Of course there is.” Nan Guo interrupted, “The thief spider is a very responsible mother spider among spiders. She lays hundreds of eggs at a time. In order to successfully allow all the spiderlings to survive, the mother spider will hoard an unusually large amount of food, and will even eat the food and then regurgitate it in order to carry it to the nest.”
“No matter what, the amount they stock up is always much greater than what the spiderlings eat.”
Jiang Kun thought of the “mountain of corpses and sea of corpses” they walked along, the ever-sticky touch under their feet, and the carrion on the mountain of corpses. No wonder he always felt like there was some mycelium wrapped around it when he looked at it, and he thought mushrooms were about to grow.
Jiang Kun felt uncomfortable all over when he thought that those were all spider silk.
Lu Liran glanced at Nan Guo and continued: “The thief spiders are not venomous, but they are better at parasitism. The limbs of adult spiders have the function of anesthetizing neurons. They will slowly affect the host, and finally obtain the needs for survival through parasitism. They occupy the magpie’s nest, and over time the thief spider got its name from this.”
“You know so much.” Nan Guo sighed sincerely.
Lu Liran twitched his lips and gave a fake smile: “Because I want to live.”
He looked at the other two people. Luo Qi and Ah Kang had stopped saying anything, fully realizing that he had done something impulsive and risky.
“The mountain of corpses ahead and here should be the mother spider’s territory. Let’s leave here carefully.” Lu Liran reminded, “Don’t touch anything, especially the spider web.”
“It’s too late.” Ke Ji said in a deep voice.
Lu Liran was stunned when he heard this, his pupils narrowed: “What?”
Ke Ji motioned Lu Liran to look at his feet, and he saw that there were thin white threads on the soles of their feet. The lines were obvious, but the white threads were so subtle that they couldn’t be seen without looking closely.
Along the way, they mostly stepped on the muddy mountains of corpses. There was no way of knowing when the white silk was laid.
Lu Liran’s face turned ugly, and he heard Jiang Kun scolding: “Whose fucking spider is weaving cobwebs on the ground?!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a drop of water fell on his shoulder. Jiang Kun wiped it away as usual ——Since entering the cave, there have always been water droplets falling from time to time. However, such a large cave has a large number of water droplets, which is not surprising, and Jiang Kun is not worried.
He frowned and took a few steps to the side, avoiding the dripping area, and continued to curse: “What kind of thief spider is this? No wonder it’s called such a name, isn’t it too gloomy?!”
Ah Kang nodded in agreement, and then saw a drop of water fall on Jiang Kun’s shoulder.
Jiang Kun was stunned for a moment, come again?
Nan Guo suddenly clenched his fists and trembled all over. He pointed to the top of the cave above everyone’s heads and said in a trembling voice: “It’s up there.”
After hearing this, everyone suddenly raised their heads and looked overhead. Under the reflection of the surrounding fires, the roof of the cave more than ten meters above the head was also vaguely visible——
A giant spider with a full belly and knuckles covered in red and yellow markings was hanging upside down above their heads, and it was holding a meter-long, long-legged insect between the tips of its pair of limbs!
It opened its silk-spinning gland mouth, and a drop of liquid dripped from its mouth.
“Drop”, hitting Jiang Kun on the shoulder.
Jiang Kun：“……”
Oh, great. And I so hate that Prof!
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😭😭😭 ahhhh i cant deal with spiders 💀💀💀 why is it always jiang kun having these unlucky encounters
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The spider lover in me is like “baby!”
The cocoon… 🤮
How?!! Why??!!!
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Nope… Nope! See you guys in a later chapter about two months from now
First a mountains of bugs in an narrow space and now spiders…I have been barely skimming through the last chartern… See you in a few chapters, I can not deal with that.
See, this is why I hate spiders. I don’t know why people think spiders are cute or harmless!!
Oh not harmless most of the time, but they are so incredibly cute!
My moto is if its not on me its fine, tarantulas are fine if they are on me though, they are the most fearful arachnids and they are really easy to accidentally kill by dropping them…
Wolf spiders are scary just because they jump all over super quick, but generally they couldn’t care less about people and deal with flies. Happy with them in the corners of my house, same with house centipedes, super scary looking but absolutely harmless to people
I would faint and/or vomit.
Both. My souls passing from my body into either the heavens above or down in hell.