Ye Han once again fell into struggle and entanglement.
From a profit perspective, if there is no rescue value, there is no need to waste time and energy on rescue operations. By utilizing this wasted time and energy, more people can be helped.
But that's not how human lives are calculated. Even if there is no point in rescuing the people in the cocoon, they are indeed still alive. This is a fact that no one can deny.
He can turn a blind eye and do nothing to save him, but after the mission is over, how will public opinion evaluate him?
Even if everyone understands that there is no possibility of rescue for the victims in the cocoons, there is always a small group of people who try to cover up others and grab others by their hair.
It's not that Ye Han is cold-blooded or that he is evil, but that he has to be on guard against others. As a front-line commander, he is the best scapegoat, so Ye Han will not issue an order to abandon the victim no matter what.
Thinking of this, Ye Han once again wanted to communicate with the headquarters, truthfully report the situation he learned, and asked Beidu to give clear instructions on the next action.
Let’s just let the higher ups have a headache with this damn problem.
Just a short while later, Ye Han received a new order from the headquarters: "Keep moving forward and get to the core residential area of Huishan County as soon as possible."
The command is simple and the hint is obvious, but a hint is a hint. Knowing the meaning of the command does not mean that you can use this command as a shield in the future.
Ye Han asked again without hesitation: "What should I do with the giant spider I encounter on the road?"
"Annihilate on the spot!"
"Where are the victims in the spider web?" Ye Han asked very clearly.
There was no sound in the communication, and Ye Han immediately urged: "What should we do with the victims? Please give clear instructions from the command center."
After a few seconds of silence, the headquarters finally replied: "Support the core residential area first."
"Understood!" Ye Han breathed a sigh of relief and ordered loudly, "Everyone set out to support the residential area!"
The command's final order did not clearly instruct how to deal with the victims in the cocoon, thus avoiding the questions raised by Ye Han, but it made clear requirements for the next step of the troops, which at least gave him an excuse to avoid responsibility.
The convoy continued to move forward, and after driving a few hundred meters, they finally found a second spider web. However, there was no giant spider entrenched in the web, and the web was very broken. Instead, some gray-white liquid was found on the ground.
The body fluid of the giant spider was gray-white. Ye Han judged that the owner of this spider web was seriously injured by the armored battalion and had to escape from the spider web that he relied on for survival.
As the convoy gradually deepened, Ye Han discovered that the distance between the spider webs was between 200 meters and 300 meters, neither further nor closer. It seemed that all giant spiders had their own territory.
Ye Han felt a little uneasy. Judging from what he already knew, more than a hundred people were missing in Huishan, and the average number of silk cocoons on each spider web was about ten. After reasonably amplifying the data, the reasonable number of giant spiders was about three.
Ten to fifty.
On the contrary, if we extrapolate from the distribution of giant spiders, the density of giant spiders is about 0.5 square kilometers. I heard that spiders are very territorial. So how many giant spiders should be inhabited by the area of Eshan County?
However, as the team gradually deepened, Ye Han discovered that this was not how the accounts were calculated.
The ones outside Huishan are all giant spiders with extremely large bodies and fierce temperaments. However, after going a certain distance deeper, you can find that the density of the spider webs is getting higher and higher, but the area is getting smaller and smaller, and the size of the giant spiders has also decreased.
This made Ye Han a little confused. Does the giant spider have any organizational structure? The big ones are on the outside and the small ones are on the inside?
He told his guess to the soldiers, but none of them understood what was going on.
If you don't understand, then you don't understand. Anyway, Raiden's mission is not to investigate the distribution of giant spiders. When he sees a giant spider, he just blasts it with a cannon.
It wasn't until the convoy arrived at the outskirts of the residential area that Ye Han discovered the large spider web across the road again.
Without saying a word, Antongli adjusted the turret to aim at the giant spider.
At this moment, the edge of the spider web suddenly shook, and a small giant spider appeared.
Ye Han immediately stopped him and said, "Wait, don't fire yet!"
Antongli's hand stopped on the shooting button: "Why?"
"We have seen a lot of giant spiders, but I have never seen two giant spiders get together." Ye Han said.
Antongli didn't understand what was so good about this thing, but it wasn't a matter of principle. He would never disobey the commander's order.
I saw the smaller giant spider crawling onto the web, cautiously like a thief, slowly approaching the center of the web.
Xiao Yuan couldn't help but guess: "Does it want to eat secretly?"
The food captured by the giant spider is hung on the spider web, mostly on the side of the giant spider, so Xiao Yuan made such a guess.
"Isn't it necessary?" Chi Wei had a different opinion, "Isn't this thing capable of spinning silk? From this distance, the silk can be pulled to the prey's mouth. There is no need to get close to the giant spider, right?"
As he spoke, the small giant spider crossed over the cocoon farthest from the center of the web. Chi Wei immediately said: "Look, I was right!"
A flash occurred in Xiao Yuan's mind: "Could it be because of the giant spider on the web?"
"Pull it down, can you still grab the spider web from this small grid?" Chi Wei said casually.
"By the way, I mean, male snakes are smaller than female snakes, and male spiders seem to be smaller than female spiders, right?" Xiao Yuan said uncertainly.
Ye Han's expression changed slightly: "You mean, the small one is a male spider, the big one is a female spider, and this male spider is courting?"
"That's what I mean!" Xiao Yuan nodded repeatedly.
At this time, the male spider was already close to the center of the web, but the seemingly sleeping female spider suddenly extended her eight limbs, turned her body to face the male spider, and raised her body in a threatening movement.
The male spider immediately stopped and quickly took a few steps back to get out of the female spider's attack range. However, it did not give up, but carefully turned behind the female spider to look for flaws.
The female spider turns her body step by step, always facing the male spider head-on.
Ye Han thought that the two giant spiders would definitely have to hold on for a while, and there might be some kind of courtship ceremony. In the end, the male spider would win the favor of the female spider and it would be a good thing. He even made a decision in his mind to take the opportunity to kill the two giant spiders.
But at this moment, a male spider suddenly jumped out from the edge of the spider web, quickly climbed up the spider web, and attacked from both sides with the other male spider.
The female spider was furious and kept turning back and forth, not knowing which male spider she should face.
The moment it turned around, one of the male spiders suddenly jumped towards the center of the web with lightning speed and successfully jumped on the female spider. The two giant spiders, one big and one small, were immediately entangled together.
We don't know exactly how spiders mate. We can only see that the female spider uses her size advantage to quickly control the male spider and bites it without hesitation. The male spider struggles violently and the web shakes violently.
