After the shopkeeper finished speaking, Gu Yuan and the others were deep in thought.
He repeatedly told Gu Yuan and the others not to go out at night.
If you hear any weird noises, pretend you don't know, and don't be overly curious to peep, otherwise the lives of the three of you will be in danger!
The innkeeper was also kind-hearted, but he didn't know that the more he said this, the more the curiosity of Gu Yuan and the others was aroused.
As the saying goes, a man of skill is bold, so after the innkeeper left, Gu Yuan and the other three had no intention of having any more food or drinks.
They went back to their room and agreed that when the strange voice appeared again tonight, they would go out together to find out what happened.
Night soon fell again, and the three of them did not go downstairs. After eating the dinner served by the inn, the three of them gathered in the room, waiting for the strange sound the shopkeeper mentioned to appear.
Waiting until midnight, the little eagle, which had already started to doze off, was woken up by Li Cheng.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
The little eagle came close to Gu Yuan, followed Gu Yuan, and looked out the window.
Sanyuan Town was completely silent in the middle of the night, except for the strange sound that kept echoing in the town.
Listening carefully, it was indeed what the innkeeper said, the sound sounded like many people moving around.
"Listen to this sound, tens of thousands of people can't escape from this noise. Is it really possible that the evil soldiers are taking advantage of this?"
The little eagle listened for a while and then curiously said to Gu Yuan.
Gu Yuan frowned and shook his head. He would never believe it if the Yin soldiers tried to talk about such a thing.
However, he himself couldn't tell what exactly made this strange noise.
"Stop guessing, let's go take a look."
"Both of you, be careful and don't alert the shopkeeper."
Gu Yuan carefully opened the window, jumped out of the window first, climbed up with both hands, and hung like a bat on the eaves of the second floor. After investigating the surrounding situation, he determined that it was safe.
Then, with a gentle movement of his hands, he rose into the air and landed on the roof of the inn like a feather.
"It's okay, you two come out!"
Little Eagle and Li Cheng behind them followed suit and followed Gu Yuan to the roof of the inn.
At this time, the moon in the sky was like a curved hook. With the faint light of the moon, the three of them jumped and walked quickly on the roof.
The three of them followed the direction in which the sound came from.
Finally, in a dilapidated house in the west direction of Sanyuan Town, not far from the city wall, I met the owner of the strange noise.
The three of them squatted on the roof and saw that there was a large hole in the dilapidated house that was several times larger than the mouth of the well.
A giant spider, only half the size of a human, was constantly emerging from the hole in the ground, mixed with countless spiders the size of watermelons.
These spiders crawled so densely that the scalps of the three of them felt numb.
This three-in-one house has been taken over by this giant spider.
It seems that they have been occupying this courtyard for a while. They have built webs everywhere in the courtyard and hung more than a dozen white spider cocoons in the main hall of the courtyard!
"Gu Yuan, Li Cheng, have you seen it?
What are those spider cocoons hanging in the main room?
Are they their children?"
Li Cheng looked at the shape of the spider cocoon carefully and said: "I don't think so. The shapes of those spider cocoons are big and small, long and short, thick and thin. If it is their child, the shape will be different."
There should be such a big gap.”
"What's wrapped in the cocoon?"
"Looking at the shape, I suspect it's the prey they caught. They couldn't eat it for a while, so they hung it up and saved it for another meal."
Gu Yuan also nodded and agreed with Li Cheng's statement.
If Li Cheng's prediction is correct, what is wrapped in these silk cocoons should be the prey stored by these giant spiders.
That human-like sound of walking was exactly the sound of dense footsteps made by these giant spiders crawling in and out of underground caves.
Coupled with the wire-like hair on their legs, they make a swishing sound when they crawl, which does sound a bit like the sound of a large army passing by.
"This is a ghost-faced red spider, also called a human-faced red spider or a ghost-faced red spider. Isn't this thing unique to the Southern Region?
Why is there such a ghost thing here?
And there are so many more?”
"Although this is just a low-level ferocious beast, isn't it too scary to gather so many of them together?"
The little eagle saw the giant spider in the house, carefully identified it, and couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice.
Li Cheng on the side also spoke at this time:
"Don't worry about why they appear here. We must find a way to eliminate all these ghost-faced red spiders now."
"Once these guys escape, the people in the town will suffer."
"You said it's too late. These guys have already escaped, but I don't know why, but they haven't attacked the people in the town yet."
"Do you even need to ask?
It must be that the time has not come."
"What time is it?
Do these things have intelligence?"
"I don't know if they have IQ. Why don't you go down and scold them and see if they get angry?"
Gu Yuan stared at the large group of ghost-faced red spiders in the house and said without raising his head.
"Okay, you two, stop making trouble and get down to business!"
These giant spiders are extremely poisonous and good at spinning silk. Their eight legs are as hard as eight iron rods.
It is not an easy task to keep them all in the house without missing a single one.
After thinking about it, Gu Yuan came up with a way to deal with these ghost-faced red spiders.
"We set fire to control this thing in the house first, and then go in and destroy it."
"set fire?"
Little Eagle and Li Cheng said in unison, and their eyes immediately lit up.
"Yes, set fire!"
Ghost-faced spider mites can burrow into the ground and wade through water, but are afraid of fire.
Thinking of a way, the three of them immediately split up.
Fortunately, this house is located in a remote place and no one lives in the surrounding houses.
The three of them went around in a circle and found several barrels of tung oil in a nearby store.
Fortunately, the people in this store are very timid. When they heard someone moving things in their store, they didn't dare to come out to check.
A raging fire quickly broke out around the abandoned house.
"Eagle, you stay outside and make sure the fire doesn't spread."
"If anyone is attracted by the fire, they must be driven away and they must not be allowed to put out the fire!"
As soon as Gu Yuan finished speaking, he ran a few steps quickly, stepped on a wooden pillar on the side, jumped into the air, jumped directly over the sea of fire, and fell into the house occupied by the ghost-faced red spider.
The sudden fire outside had already alerted the Ghost-faced Starscream.
They were crawling around anxiously.
Seeing Gu Yuan land in the courtyard from the sky, several ghost-faced red spiders immediately raised their heads and pointed their mouths with a pair of fangs at Gu Yuan, making strange "click" and "click" sounds.
"Bang!"
At this moment, Li Cheng also jumped over the sea of fire and landed next to Gu Yuan.