Boom!
Li Ang woke up from his dream and subconsciously sat up. As a result, his forehead hit the chin of Lu Yunan, who was staring at him seriously.
"Hey!"
Lu Yunan covered her lips and took a breath of air. She waved her hand when Li Ang apologized, "It's okay. Are you having a nightmare?"
"Yeah"
Li Ang nodded hesitantly. The dream just now was too real. The dark sky was filled with overcast clouds and made people breathless. The figures were either indifferent, desperate or crazy, and the last words of the mountain chief, which were deafening, still echoed in his ears: "
The sky is falling."
There was no need to hide anything in the dark tent. Li Ang told Lu Yunan all the contents of the nightmare. The two discussed it, but in the end they didn't come to any conclusion. They could only attribute it to the psychological pressure in Liyuan for the past two days.
The rain outside the tent has stopped for a long time, and the cliffs are completely dry.
The two ate the last bit of dry food, packed up their tent, and climbed up again.
Since they already knew that there were spiders living in the Liyuan at this height, Li Ang and Lu Yunan were more cautious this time and prepared crossbow arrows made of bamboo wood in advance.
In addition to killing wild species, these arrows can also ignite arrow clusters and shoot into the fog, using the flames to clear the field of vision.
As they climbed all the way, more wonders of Liyuan were revealed in front of them.
There is a herbaceous plant about one meter high, similar in shape to a dandelion, with ball-sized pom-poms on the top. When mature, these pom-poms will float up and sway with the wind, until they automatically explode when they are about to touch the rock wall, destroying the pom-poms.
The seeds at the end of the ball are driven deeply into the cliff like steel nails.
There is an animal that resembles a hybrid between a crab and a scorpion. It is two meters tall and lives in a cave. The huge gray claws that occupy most of the volume are integrated with the rock wall. Once it senses the outside air or the vibration of the rock, it will wake up instantly.
, use chelicerae to pinch off prey.
In addition, there are flying snakes with wing membranes, the average size of a thumb, red ant colonies that can spit acid from a distance of three meters, and even monsters suspected of being close-by insects.
Lu Yunan observed every Liyuan creature he saw. Whenever there was a threat approaching, he took off the silk umbrella cloth from his back and covered the two of them. Li Ang also stopped climbing and stayed still, pretending to be a piece of cake.
Rock.
Some mosquitoes tentatively approached the two of them, but their mouthparts could not penetrate the silk umbrella cloth. After several attempts, they flew away on their own.
Li Ang and Lu Yunan just walked and walked, and once again came to the thick layer of spider silk in the air.
"The ecological environment of Liyuan is as complex as a hundred thousand barren mountains,"
Lu Yunan said solemnly, "There is no sunlight in the abyss. The producers that make up the bottom layer of the ecological environment are luminous strains, and above that are plants, herbivores, and carnivores.
After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, these monsters have adapted to the environment of being isolated from the aura.
At the same time, spiders should also be a very important part of Liyuan's entire ecosystem - the diversity of biological species in the spider silk layer has been greatly reduced,
The spider swarm is like a cover, covering the entire Liyuan, and will regularly prey on lower-level monsters.
The two factors add up, causing the monsters in Liyuan to rarely appear in the outside world."
This also proves from the side how difficult it is to escape from the spider silk layer with unknown height.
Li Ang and Lu Yunan fell into silence. Unlike the valley bottom, the ecological environment in the middle layer of Liyuan is lush and diverse, with ample food sources.
With Li Ang's physical fitness and Lu Yunan's ability to predict, he may not be able to survive here.
The main food is moss, lichen, bamboo shoots, etc., and occasionally hunting flying snakes and collecting some honey, which is enough for the two of them to survive for a long time.
But, they have reasons to go back.
Li Ang has teachers, classmates, and disciples waiting for his return in Chang'an.
Lu Yunan also has tribesmen from the Black Mountains in the north.
".Let's go."
Li Ang took a deep breath and hooked his calloused fingertips into the gaps between the rocks.
He climbed slowly, not only because the air humidity in the spider silk layer increased and the rocks became slippery.
It is also because there are often groups of spiders patrolling and wandering in the canyon - these spiders have a certain degree of sociality. From what Lu Yunan saw, they have more than one spider nest with a diameter of more than 300 meters.
Some spiders in the nest are responsible for cultivating luminous fungi on the rock wall and collecting dew and honey
Some spiders are responsible for hunting animals from below, wrapping the prey in balls of spider silk and sending it to the nest.
Other spiders then digest the prey and feed the nutrient solution to the newborn spiderlings.
The number of spiders living in the thick fog is probably measured in millions or tens of millions.
The small spider is only as big as a palm, which is almost different from the wolf spider in the outside world.
The largest spider is thirty to forty meters long, comparable to a land chariot. When crawling on the rock wall, the entire cliff is shaking.
"It's just like alien creatures,"
Lu Yunan was silent, stroking Li Ang's back with her fingertips, and writing a sentence, "If this power is released to the outside world, I'm afraid it will be more than enough to destroy the country."
Judging from the eating habits of spiders, if they are caught by them, committing suicide immediately becomes a less painful option.
Lu Yunan opened the silk umbrella cloth and covered the two figures, blocking out the smell. She could only observe the direction through the gap at the front of the umbrella cloth.
Li Ang also slowed down his speed and stopped immediately if there was any disturbance.
As a result, the climbing speed slowed down significantly, Li Ang's arms were sore, and Lu Yunan's eyes were also extremely sore.
But we can't stop yet. Above is the most dangerous area, with dense nets and swarms of spiders walking through it, busy and busy.
It took Li Ang two hours to climb the short distance of 800 meters.
At the most dangerous moment, a colorful flower spider the size of a hunting dog even crawled over their silk camouflage.
Good risk
Li Ang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and followed Lu Yunan's instructions to climb up. However, he accidentally touched a piece of slippery spider silk that had just been woven. He was unable to grasp it firmly and his body plummeted downwards.
Even though their right hand firmly grasped a protruding rock to stop their fall, the silk camouflage draped on their bodies was pulled by inertia and rolled down.
The sultry feeling that had long awaited him in Mo Si's disguise disappeared instantly, and Li Ang instantly felt countless pairs of eyes looking at him.
"Woo!"
Lu Yunan, who was lying on his back, screamed sadly. From her perspective, thousands of spiders all over the mountains and fields stopped and looked over.
Countless spiders came one after another along the visible and invisible spider webs.
Falling!
She was about to shout a warning, but the spiders ignored the two of them and crawled past.
What's going on?!
Lu Yunan's mind was stuck for a moment. The attention of these spiders was not on them at all.
The entire spider nest swarm scrambled to climb onto the largest fortress giant spider, and the giant spider carried them and climbed into the distance.
There, hundreds of giant fortress spiders, carrying their tiny cousins on their backs, emerged from the thick fog, lying uniformly and docilely on the rock wall, quietly waiting for something.
Such a solemn and strange sight made Lu Yunan hold her breath subconsciously, and she even forgot to draw words on Li Ang's back to describe the scene.
Boom, boom.
A loud noise that shook the earth came from afar,
An unimaginably huge giant spider that covered the sky and sun slowly emerged from the thick fog.
The brown-gray hairs on its body stand up like steel pillars.
The back armor and chest plate show a tough and thick metallic luster, like a steel city wall so wide that no edges can be seen.
The eight legs that hold up the sky and stand on the ground are dug deeply into the solid rock. Every time they move, an entire cliff will be shattered and peeled off.
Those giant fortress spiders are as small as babies in front of it,
All the spiders lay down respectfully and submissively, raising their chelicerae high, as if.
"Kneel down."
Lu Yunan said softly, "They are kneeling down to worship their ancestors."
This chapter has been completed!