After Mr. Huiyan advanced along the direction of the canyon for two hours, the forest distribution on the gentle slopes on both sides of the red mountain cliff began to show significant changes; the fir forests and ash trees that were originally common in the river valley gradually disappeared and were replaced The darker pine forest.
And there seemed to be a layer of mist between the dark forest land. From a distance, it seemed that the dark green forest canopy was covered with a vast expanse of white smoke.
However, when you get closer, you can clearly see that it is not mist at all, but spider webs wrapped around the tree branches. The endless white spider silk overlaps each other to form such a spectacular scene.
They even completely wrapped the trunks of the trees, giving the trees a "wax tree" look. Rows of such dead trees lined up on both sides of the valley were really shocking.
Of course, in the eyes of ladies, this is not spectacular at all, but rather annoying.
Fang Yu rarely saw Alyssa looking a little unhappy. She looked at the densely packed spider eggs under the tree and shuddered, then turned back and asked Ai Xiaoxiao and Jita to close the windows on the platform. Gotta die.
The two little girls also ran very fast, and for a while there was the sound of closing windows everywhere on the platform.
Even Tang Xin was not immune. She first checked the doors and windows of her living room, then nervously checked them again, cleaned the infirmary, and then locked the door behind her and refused to come out.
Fang Yu looked at her speechlessly: "Tangtang, you are a therapist."
Tang Xin hid behind the door and replied confidently: "I'm only level three."
"Then you have to come with us."
"No," Tang Xin's tone softened a lot, and she begged, "Brother, can I not go?"
She is most afraid of these furry things.
Luo Hao was walking out from under the basement carrying a pair of armor. When he heard Tang Xin's words, he raised his shield with an upright face and said, "Don't be afraid, sister, I will protect you."
"Get out." Tang Xin gritted her teeth.
However, Fang Yu thought that the third-level healer really couldn't help much, and it was not easy to protect him. It would be better to stay on the platform to rescue the possible wounded, so he nodded.
Tang Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Ai Xiaoxiao also stayed for the same reason, although the latter looked indifferent to the spider webs all over the mountains and plains. Only Jita was left holding her magic book. Isolated and helpless, looking at the patient Tian Lan who was gloating about his misfortune, I felt extremely envious in my heart.
Sylvide remained as calm as ever. She only touched the other person's soft short hair and said, "Stand behind me later."
Jita pushed up her glasses and looked at the ship officer with tears in her eyes.
At this time, Aitila parked Mr. Gray Rock outside the canyon, and everyone quickly got ready and got off the platform one by one.
Because Miss Naturalist had introduced the habits of the Silver-maned Giant Spider before, Fang Plover took the initiative to divide the team into two.
The Silvermane Giant Spider is a social web-weaving spider that usually builds a nest around a mother spider. One spider group can be large or small, and a large one can have thousands of adults.
Because this giant spider almost only lives in this red mountain range, it is also called the Panier Spider. Of course, large spider groups are difficult to see outside the Panier Mountains. In this canyon
The nests are almost exclusively made of small spiders.
It's said to be a swarm of small spiders, but there are still thirty or fifty of them.
However, Fang Piao didn't intend to go head-to-head with these big guys.
The main purpose of their trip was to obtain the spider webs that had been processed through alchemy. The spider webs of the Panyr Spider were tough, lightweight, and had a certain affinity for the wind element. They were the most suitable raw materials for making sails for aerial ships.
But that doesn't mean that in this cobweb-strewn forest, such raw materials are within reach.
These webs ejected from the giant spider's glands will produce amazing viscosity once they come into contact with the air. Not to mention collecting these webs, how to get them off once they stick is still a problem. Therefore, their main target is actually the glands that weave the webs.
body.
The Panier spider is a typical matriarchal society. The male spider is responsible for guarding the spider nest, but the male spider cannot weave webs and is a guard on the periphery of the nest.
Female spiders are responsible for hunting and raising their offspring. They weave special giant webs around their nests to capture passing large prey. Therefore, only female spiders have glands for web weaving.
However, female spiders will not leave the nest easily, and the turn of spring and summer is the egg-laying season of giant spiders. At this time, female spiders usually stay in the egg chamber. The egg chamber of giant spiders is usually located in the center of the nest, so it is necessary to
Getting in is easier said than done.
At the same time, although the body of the giant spider is huge, the gland itself is not big. To build a set of sails, it is definitely not enough to kill just one or two. Eight out of ten spiders may be a little less, and a spider swarm may only be just one
good.
Coupled with the spare sail, they had to deal with two or three spider swarms.
However, the adults of the Panir Cunning Spider can generally reach level 18, and the spider mother is a leader-level creature of level 22. Even if the latter fights alone, the fighting intensity is no less than the gray-spotted lizard they encountered a few days ago.
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What's more, giant spiders have never been in the habit of fighting alone. Once they are dispatched, they will swarm them all.
It is obviously not an easy task to "extract teeth" from these big guys.
Fortunately, adventurers will always find a way.
The giant spiders living in Panier Chishan are a typical carnivorous spider. Their carnivorous habits give them extremely aggressive nature. Their food list actually includes not only the local elk deer, blue sheep and other large
Creatures, and even another local overlord, the hill giant, are also within its hunting range.
Since hill giant communities are often much smaller than cunning spider societies, these giant descendants have to stay away when faced with giant spiders that are ten times their number.
But hill giants are always much smarter than these insect creatures. They often choose to attack the nests of cunning spiders and kill their young to curb the expansion of giant spiders. This is also the top of the food chain, the cunning spider Panir.
Biological creatures are one of the biggest threats faced in the Red Mountains.
In order to deal with this threat, giant spiders have become sensitive and irritable during the long evolution. Once someone attacks their nest, they will fall into a group rage and pursue the attacker almost endlessly.
But this unwillingness to die is often exploited by adventurers.
This is exactly what Fang Plover planned.
The first team to go was Baggins, Red, and Siesta, plus Luo Yu, who could use magic to transform the terrain to a certain extent. What they were going to was not a spider den, but a nearby plovers using a clockwork fairy to explore.
Know the location of the hill giant settlement.
They are ancient creatures up to level 27, the survivors of the battle between dragons and giants. Adult hill giants are seven meters tall and can stride more than three meters, and they are often accompanied by mountain cannibals who are good at throwing rocks.
magic.
Without the use of quicksand, even the big cat people and Shasta would have a hard time escaping.
The forest is not only filled with giant spiders, there are also a large number of ordinary spiders that thrive. In fact, most of the spider webs seen outside the valley are not the work of the Panyr Spider.
Everyone watched as the four people stepped on the ordinary spider webs accumulated in the forest and entered the canyon.
As the lion man's figure disappeared into the forest for the last time, the four of them disappeared without a trace.
As for the remaining people, the task is not easy either, and they must stay and face the giant monsters, the Panir Cunning Spider, with their claws and teeth.
Moreover, their mission may have to go deep into two or three lairs. To be honest, it may be more difficult than the former.
In this team, there must be someone who knows a lot about giant spiders. Tata and Ms. Naturalist are both qualified. In addition, Aitila, who is a druid, can be added to the team if necessary.
Divided into three.
Each of these three teams needs to be equipped with a dexterity master class, and Parker, Alyssa and Sylvide are just right for the job.
In addition, the box serves as the main magic support.
Fang Yu was responsible for using the clockwork goblin to conduct reconnaissance and surveying the terrain, leading a series of tasks, and also taking care of communication and support matters. Luo Hao, who had just joined the team, was responsible for protecting him closely.
Fang Plover roughly distributed the tasks and used Clockwork Fairy to mark four or five spider nests and the shortest route to the central area of their nests. Not every spider nest needed to be visited, but records and escape routes must be left.
Then he pushed Jita out
The latter had introduced the habits of the silver-maned giant spider to everyone before, and now holding his own magic book, he had to repeat it again with trepidation:
"The silver-maned giant spider, also known as the Panir spider, belongs to the order of giant spiders unique to Aitaria. It lives in groups and weaves webs. The larvae are 30 centimeters long and the adults can reach a maximum length of about four meters. They have chelicerae belts.
Poison, toxins can destroy the body's balance system, attack agility and perception attributes."
Fang Yu fearfully patted the three glass bottles on his upper arm strap, which were filled with green liquid, and said to everyone: "This is a neutralizer. Once poisoned, use it immediately. If the antidote is used up, you will be poisoned again."
, you must return to the platform to seek treatment.”
Seeing everyone nodding, he said again:
"Adult Panir spiders are generally between level 16 and 18, while juveniles are at least level 5 and above. They can also cause effective damage to us, so they cannot be ignored easily. The main attributes of the giant spider are strength, agility, and speed.
It has a physical attribute and a mental level that is stronger than most insects, but it is still immune to mental spells and effects."
"They have three main weaknesses," he pointed to the head: "The first is the brain, which is located above the chest and abdomen, the mouthparts and the esophagus."
"The second is the heart, which is located on the back of the abdomen, but is usually protected by a strong chitin shell."
"The third is the book lung at the back of the abdomen and chest joint. This place is under the abdomen and lacks effective protection. It is the most suitable position for attack. Agility professions can consider attacking from below, but be careful not to be stabbed by the bristles or sharp claws.
hurt."
Finally, Ms. Tata was responsible for summarizing:
"The typical social structure of giant spiders is a pyramid-shaped structure composed of a mother spider, several female spiders, and a large number of spider guards. The spider guards are all male individuals, and the female spiders are breeders and cunning hunters. A few spider groups still have
There will be a spider queen, but a spider swarm with a spider queen is often a large collection of several spider swarms."
"The adult giant spider's solid hair is black, and the female is grayer. However, only giant spiders that reach a certain age will have a silver mane. The reason why the silver-maned giant spider got its name is because of its queen.
The presence."
"Then what should we do if we encounter the Spider Queen?" The Papalar thought for a moment and asked a rather crow-like question.
"Of course you have to run as far as you can."
"Can you escape?"
"Parker, if you keep talking nonsense, I will throw you to feed the spiders." Alyssa couldn't bear it.
"Well……"
The journey that followed was probably the most unpleasant journey for everyone since arriving in Aitaria.
There are towering white spiers piled up in the canyon forest. They are actually the egg cocoons of spiders stacked together. The lower layer is like a layer of cotton-like spider silk densely covered on the forest floor. These creatures hiding in the dark are extremely sensitive to vibrations.
Sensitive, as soon as everyone walked in, a patch of gray bugs of all sizes on the ground scattered out from under the net, which was a spectacular scene.
Some of them panicked and even climbed onto everyone's boots, causing the ladies to scream and throw these harmless little things away.
certainly.
The main ones are Alisa and Kitta.
But even Fang Plover couldn't help but feel his scalp numb when he saw this scene.
However, this is not the most excessive thing. The most troublesome thing is that from time to time, insects of different sizes will fall from the canopy above the head, and they will land on people's shoulders, hair, and even inside their collars.
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Although everyone applied a layer of insect repellent before setting off, this would prevent spiders, big and small, that accidentally fell into the collar from burrowing into the collar and biting people unexpectedly.
But that furry feeling is really unforgettable.
Only Miss Tata remained indifferent, watching peacefully as a big-bellied garden spider landed on Fang Plover's shoulder, not far away from her. It struggled for a long time, but finally rolled down.
On the other hand, Nini curiously grabbed the hind legs of a white-fronted tall-footed spider. No matter how hard the latter struggled, it could not move at all.
"Nini, loosen it."
Fang Yu said helplessly.
It wasn't that he cared about the little thing's freedom, but Nini was sitting next to his collar, and she was about to throw the thing into his collar.
Nini obediently let go of her hand, and the poor spider was relieved and fled in panic, rolling all the way to the ground.
"Papa, Nini, be obedient."
"Yes," Fang Plover sighed: "Don't mess with them."
He and Sylvide protected Jita on the left and right, and Luo Hao also held a shield above Jita's head to prevent Miss Naturalist from collapsing at any time.
In fact, she was so scared that she couldn't even walk.
Fortunately, in the team, the new recruits Luo Hao, Sylvide and Box were indifferent to these spiders. Luo Hao turned a blind eye, and the ship officer lady looked familiar. As the daughter of a great explorer, what kind of scene was there?
Seen it?
As for the box, he was picking up two fist-sized nest spiders on the ground and carefully comparing which one was bigger so that he could keep one as a magic pet.
It wasn't until Alyssa couldn't bear it and gave him an ultimatum that he reluctantly let the two spiders go.
However, after a person's nerves are stretched to their limit, they gradually become numb.
When we first went deep into this canyon forest, even the square plover felt strong discomfort. But after walking for a while, although we were still occasionally startled by spiders hanging down from our heads with silk threads, there were more.
As time went by, he gradually began to turn a blind eye to the spider landing on his shoulder.
After all, these little things actually pose no threat to them.
Of course, the other big guy here is different.
After advancing for about twenty minutes, Fang Plover stopped.
Because he saw some wool-thick spider webs beginning to appear between the fallen tree trunks on both sides. This was definitely not a web that ordinary spiders could weave, and the identity of its owner was obviously revealed to the Panier Spider.
Panier spiders will only weave webs outside their nests. The presence of these webs indicates that they have entered the territory of at least one spider group.
After he stopped, he released the clockwork fairy first.
Although it was just an ordinary reconnaissance mission, he still released as many as seven at a time just to be on the safe side, because whether the clockwork goblins would be stuck in the net in this place was sometimes a matter of probability. In fact, he was the first to do so before.
During the first positioning, one-third of the clockwork fairies were lost.
However, shortly after releasing the clockwork fairy, Fang Plover was stunned:
Because the first thing he saw after letting the Clockwork Goblin go deep into the lair was not the Panir Spider.
But a group of people.
To be precise, these people are old acquaintances. Probably because in this sparsely populated wilderness, far away from civilization, it is difficult for even adventurers to meet them, and the other party did not deliberately hide their identity. This is why Fang Pliance immediately
He recognized the other party as someone from the Dragon Fire Guild.
He has a deep memory of the guild's robes, so he cannot admit his mistake easily.
What's more, at this time when Stargate Port is publicly wanted for the Dragon Fire Guild, it is unlikely that anyone would deliberately pretend to be a member of this guild?
What further confirmed his opinion was that not long after, he saw among those people the eldest sister who had been away for a long time.
It's just that the latter seemed to be alert and opened the magic barrier, so that once his clockwork fairy entered, it aroused the other party's alert. A man dressed as a wizard turned around and looked in this direction, but fortunately Fang Plover stopped.
He had to be quick so that the other party didn't notice his clockwork fairy.
The eldest sister noticed the abnormality and immediately asked: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." The magician shook his head.
"Is there a giant spider behind you?"
"Probably not."
"Be careful," the eldest sister said. "It should be hiding in this area. It is very cunning. Be careful not to let it outflank the escape route."
The magician nodded.
While Fang Plover was listening to this conversation from a distance, suspicion arose in his heart. He thought to himself, why are these guys here if they don't go to Nicol Bolas? Or is the 'it' they are talking about, all the way from Vanric?
The dragon witch who escaped here?
But why did the dragon witch come and huddle with these spiders?