On a ridge, Box was hugging his knees and huddled in a bush. He looked through the gap between the stand-up collars and looked at the members of the Dragon Fire Guild below in the valley, forming a circle at the entrance of a cave covered with white silk.
semicircle.
He turned back with some confusion and asked Alyssa beside him.
But Alyssa shook her head. She didn't know much about these big spiders, so she just looked to the side again.
Next to Fang, there is a huge monster with eight pitch-black eyes, baring teeth and claws, still retaining the ferocious form in life. Its body is more than three meters long and at least two meters high. It has gray-black manes all over its body, except for eight furry ones.
The long legs were hanging limply on the ground, and there was a huge hole in the bulging belly, exuding waves of stench.
It has apparently been dead for quite some time.
If everyone looked back, they would see that there were many such huge corpses on the road behind the mountain. They fell to the ground in various directions, some of them were charred and black, curled up in a ball, and still maintained the posture of struggling in life, as if they died under the flames.
However, the wounds on the abdomen of each giant spider are not fatal.
Because everyone has unanimously recommended Parker, the owner of the title of 'First Class Material Collector', to check it out. The area inside the abdomen is empty, and the glands that produce silk have been removed first.
It was obviously just a wound left by removing the material after the giant spider died.
Jita also looked down quietly, and then whispered: "That is the entrance to a cunning spider's nest, and they plan to lure the spider guards inside out."
As for the next words, there is no need to speak anymore, because the people of the Dragon Fire Guild have already proven this with actions.
People lit turpentine torches at the back, and then passed them to the melee professions in front in turn. The iron guard at the front took a torch and ran a few steps toward the entrance of the cunning spider's lair, and then threw the torch in his hand toward the entrance.
Not long after, bursts of white smoke came out of the cave entrance.
"Are they crazy?"
"Light a fire in this forest. This forest is full of flammable cobwebs and dead trees. Are they not worried that they won't be able to get out?"
"Now the spiders are going to riot."
Luo Hao couldn't help but whispered.
Everyone also agreed with this view.
Parker was wiping his hands hard on a handkerchief, then looked at the colorful handkerchief with disgust and threw it aside.
"Stay away from me," Alyssa looked at this guy very seriously, "How could you even think of picking it out with your hands? I'm telling you, Parker, you can't come within three meters of me before you go back and clean yourself."
The Papalar man had no choice but to walk aside quietly, muttering and complaining that women were such a bother.
At this time, there were bursts of shrill screams coming from the valley below.
That's the sound of the spider swarm
Densely dense giant spiders soon appeared in the forest. They not only rushed out from the entrance, but also emerged from the cracks in the red mountain wall on one side, forming a swarm like a giant spider.
Black tide.
A sea of spiders flooded through the forest, and the people of the Dragon Fire Guild were a little commotion. It was probably because the number of spiders exceeded their expectations.
Not only the people from the Dragon Fire Guild, but also the people from the Seven Seas Brigade watching this scene on the ridge could not help but take a breath of air. Although they were somewhat mentally prepared for the number of spiders, when this scene actually appeared in front of their eyes.
, the impact is quite different from what was imagined.
They are not the first to bear the brunt, so you can imagine how much psychological pressure the front row of the Dragon Fire Guild has endured.
"Are these people fools?" Luo Hao complained again.
Fang didn't think so in his heart.
Decisively, everyone in the Dragon Fire Guild calmed down again after a brief commotion.
Fang watched quietly as the Iron Guards and Guard Knights in the front row raised their large shields to block the tide of spiders. Among the Dragon Fire Guild's front row, the Iron Guards accounted for the majority, and they looked like a line from a distance.
Gray lines.
It seemed weak, but when the spider swarm like a black tide collided with this line, the huge giant spider guard was seen crashing into the shield formation, and the rows of giant shields retreated one after another. However, the iron behind the shield
The guards just took a step back and immediately stabilized themselves.
Viewed from the top of the ridge, it is as if the line curved inward slightly and then rebounded tenaciously.
There were priests in gray robes in the back row, and then the monks stepped forward, chanted incantations, and dropped streaks of gray light on the heads of the giant spiders. When these lights shrouded the heads of the giant spiders, the monsters opened their teeth and claws.
It weakened almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the offensive also stalled.
Fang found it somewhat interesting. Among the gods of Orin, only Anguina, who is in charge of knowledge, history, mystery and self-improvement, Trielle, the god of dreams, and Elaine, the blind goddess who reveals destiny. Priests and monks are good at spells.
Department of magic.
But he was most familiar with the followers of Anjina, and their attire was anything but that.
And Trielle is the god of Amea, and the natural artifacts do not accept the chosen believers. As for the blind goddess Elaine, the only priests are women, and currently there is no match for any of the monks of the Dragon Fire Guild.
So in addition to the gods of Orin, the only ones who master so many curse spells are those evil entities that are hidden in the darkness and ordinary people don't even know their names, evil gods and demons, and the saints of darkness.
In Aitalia, only cultists believe in these 'false gods'.
It seems that the Dragon Fire Guild has completely surrendered to the side of the cultists, or rather, with so many evil priests, they themselves have become cultists.
Fang felt a little unbelievable, because the Dragon Fire Guild was different from Listening to the Rain. The higher-ups of Listening to the Rain were missing, but the Dragon Fire Guild seemed to have embraced the Dragon Worship Cult from top to bottom.
It can be said that the top management of Listening to the Rain acted like this because they were blinded by their own interests. But for the ordinary members of the Dragon Fire Guild, what was their reason for making this choice? Don’t they know that they will eventually face someone from the Dragon Fire Guild?
to legal sanctions?
After the Dragon Fire Guild blocked the spider swarm's attack head-on, they immediately separated into two teams of rangers and nightingales, and ignited more fire points from the left and right wings of the Panir Spider.
At this moment, Fang finally understood how those cunning spiders died. No matter how terrifying the giant spiders were, they were just wild beasts after all. Driven by the flames, they also fell into panic. They panicked and rushed left and right, screaming.
, some died in the sea of fire, while others could never break through the Dragon Fire Guild's defense line and were slaughtered by the archers, magicians, and elementalists in the back row.
Only a few giant spiders fled back to the depths of the forest in panic.
However, the Dragon Fire Guild also suffered heavy casualties. After a battle, only a few men were left in the front row, and everyone else was injured. And a Spider Guard broke into the formation of mages and archers at the last moment.
It caused the largest casualties in the back row of the Dragon Fire Guild since the war began.
After the battle, Fang saw the people of the Dragon Fire Guild carrying the bodies of the deceased one by one, turning them into dots of black light, rising into the sky, and gradually disappearing into nothingness.
The process was almost exactly the same as the deaths of dragon cultists he had seen.
However, what the other party did was not a mysterious ritual, but just a way for the other party to collect the equipment conveniently after the corpse disappeared.
After a battle, although the people of the Dragon Fire Guild were in pieces, the remaining people did not panic. They arranged for the elementalists and magicians to put out the fire first to prevent the mountain fire from spreading.
Although the fire below spread quickly, the members of the Dragon Fire Guild acted in a very orderly manner. The elements cast a few spells and completely extinguished it in a short time.
Fang and Sylvide couldn't help but exchange a look when they saw this, and they both saw that it was obviously not the first time for the following members of the Dragon Fire Guild to do such a thing. Or rather, they were very skilled at it.
After the fire was extinguished, the members of the Dragon Fire Guild began to collectively dispose of the giant spider's body. The process was almost as expected by Fang, just cutting open the abdomen and taking out the glands.
As for the other parts of the giant spider, including the chitinous carapace, they were ignored and thrown aside.
Not long after, another large force appeared at the bottom of the valley, and the other party was also from the Dragon Fire Guild. They gathered together with the previous "Big Sister Head" team and formed a larger team again.
Fang took a closer look and saw that judging from the quantity, it should not be the batch that had been resurrected before.
This shows that the opponent's manpower in this canyon seems to be far more than what they see in front of them.
Fang also realized almost immediately that the Dragon Fire Guild's purpose of coming to this place might be the same as their adventure group, that is, to collect the silk of the Panir Cunning Spider.
The only use of Panir Spider silk is to make sails for aerial ships. So what do the people of the Dragon Fire Guild do with collecting so much spider silk for making aerial ships and sailing ships?
Are they going to build a ship?
And for such a large-scale operation, it is obvious that this is not the first time that the other party has done such a thing. Why did the Dragon Fire Guild build so many ships?
In addition, the construction of so many ships obviously cannot be carried out in a small place. However, there are only so many suitable anchorages and excellent ports for shipbuilding in Kaolin Ithulian. This is not the second world after all. Just find any place
It is also an unknown place that has not been explored and developed by previous generations.
Fang felt vaguely that he smelled a conspiracy. Where was the Dragon Fire Guild hiding from the truth?
And could the other party's shipbuilding move be related to that so-called big plan?
Only the Papalar people looked at the huge scene of the two groups of the Dragon Fire Guild disposing of the corpse of the giant spider in the valley below, and suddenly said with infinite melancholy: "Oh my God, there are so many materials, it would be great if they were ours, we
There’s no need to stay in this nasty place anymore.”
He does not mean that.
Fang Wenyan couldn't help but feel a slight movement in his heart.
Luo Hao, who had just joined the team, was obviously very interested in this. After hearing this, his eyes lit up, and he tentatively asked the others: "A man is not rich without windfall, and a horse is not fat without night grass. I like this proposal. Do you want it?"
Why don’t we give it a try?”
But Alyssa rolled her eyes at the two of them: "Still fat, Luo Hao, you are already fat enough. Also, are you crazy?"
She pointed downwards and lowered her voice: "Count how many people there are on the other side. They are more than ten times as many as us? And Luo Hao, can you handle an adult cunning spider?"
Luo Hao thought for a moment and shook his head.
He was only at level nine, and the level he had accumulated through experience potions would take a long time to solidify his actual combat effectiveness. Facing an adult cunning spider, three of them were not enough for him.
Alyssa then said: "So the other party's average level is higher than ours, so I say you should be less careful."
But just as she was silencing the two of them, she heard Fang Youyou say something from the side:
"It's not like there's no chance."
"Mr. Ed, even you..." Alyssa suddenly felt that the team was finished, and even Ed was infected by these unreliable guys. Of course, she did not know that she had concluded that Fang was very reliable.
How did it come about
Fang shook his head: "I didn't mean to go up so rashly. You have also seen that although the other party has a lot of manpower, they cannot protect themselves safely in such an environment. By constantly replenishing manpower,
To make up for the losses in the battle, but what if we miss?"
"We are in the dark and the enemy is in the light, so there is always a chance." He looked at the others and said with some confidence, "Even if there is no chance, at worst we can just not take action and we won't lose anything."
Alyssa was still a little worried: "That's what I said."
Fang Zheng was about to say something more, but then his communication crystal suddenly lit up. When he lowered his head, he saw that Luo Yu's communication emblem was displayed on it.
It seems that there is another news from Big Cat Man and Baggins.
He signaled everyone to be calm, then turned on the communicator and asked: "How are you doing over there?"
Rhett's voice came from the communication channel: "Ed, we have encountered some minor situations here."
"Oh?" Fang felt something in his heart.
Sure enough, the big cat man continued: "After we arrived at the intended destination, we found that there were other people hiding in the valley here. They also seemed to have plans for the settlement of the hill giants."
"Those are people from the Dragon Fire Guild." Fang was almost certain of this: "We also encountered them here. I guess they may have ulterior motives."
"People from the Dragon Fire Guild?"
The people over there seemed a little surprised. The big cat man asked again: "Ed, what should we do now? If we are from the Dragon Fire Guild, they will definitely not let us lure away the hill giant."
"Wait a minute," Fang thought for a moment, and an idea gradually formed in his mind: "I guess if they stay there, they will take action sooner or later. When the time comes, you will follow them. We have to see what they want to do first."
"Ed, what do you mean?"
In Fang's opinion, the plans of the Dragon Fire Guild and their adventure group should be different on this point.
Their plan was to lure the hill giants into fighting with the Panir spiders, and then hide on one side to reap the benefits. However, judging from the previous battle, the people of the Dragon Fire Guild did not think it was impossible to directly destroy a small-sized monster from the front.
Even a swarm of medium-sized spiders.
Judging from the results of the opponent's battle, their method of attracting giants to fight the cunning spiders seemed redundant and inefficient.
But the other party has ambushed men in the valley over there, so they will definitely not be in a daze like in the past.
Reconnecting it with the conversation he overheard between the 'eldest sister' of the Dragon Fire Guild and the magician, a bold idea emerged from his mind. He had previously thought that 'it' was the Dragon Witch.
But now it seems that there was some mistake in the prediction. The "it" in the other party's mouth should refer to the mother of the Panir spider.
Even the Spider Queen.
Fang took a deep breath and felt that the other party seemed to be playing a little too hard.
However, he is not worried about the Dragon Fire Guild playing too much, and even vaguely hopes that the bigger the other party will play, the better. Only the stronger the other party's fire is, the more likely it is to get burned. As for those opportunities that did not exist in the first place, this is not
Did it come out naturally?
Fang turned off the communication crystal and then glanced at everyone: "The people from the Dragon Fire Guild should have plans. I think we can follow them and take a look first."
Everyone listened to the entire conversation between him and the big cat man, and naturally there was no objection.
And Luo Hao was even more excited: "I'm starting to like your team a little bit. It's much better than that guy Yu Wenyu."
"Of course," Fang suddenly felt a little swollen after hearing this: "Our adventure group will be one of the best adventure groups in Aitaria in the future, and you will gradually discover this in the future."
The Papalar people just rolled their eyes when they heard this.
However, before everyone left, they had to report to the three ladies staying on the platform that they were safe. They also told them that their plans had changed and that they might stay in the canyon for a longer period of time, so that they did not have to worry about this for the time being.
Just when he opened the communication crystal, there were waves of terrifying screams coming from the other end of the communication channel, which startled him and he quickly asked Tian Lan what happened.
But from Tianlan's communicator, Ai Xiaoxiao's voice came: "A spider has come in, cousin."
"Ah?" Fang asked quickly: "Is it an adult body or a juvenile body?"
"No," Ai Xiaoxiao shook her head: "It's just an ordinary big spider."
"Ordinary spider?" Fang was speechless for a moment: "Where's Tangtang? Ask her to come over. I have something to tell you."
Ai Xiaoxiao glanced back and replied: "Tangtang and Tianlan are being chased all over the house by it. I'm afraid I don't have time to reply to you, cousin."
Fang listened to the sound of chickens and dogs jumping from behind, and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Finally, he sighed and told Ai Xiaoxiao about the situation here, and asked her to help explain it after the other side was free. Although judging from the terrifying level of the background sounds, I am afraid that it will take a while,
His cousin and Tian Lan couldn't stop talking.
Fang then turned around and saw everyone snickering.
"Why are you laughing?" Fang said angrily, "Aren't you afraid of spiders?"