novellk Chapter 1662 [Fufu's Bizarre Adventure 54] Inside the Spider's Nest
Chapter 1662 [Fufu's Bizarre Adventure 54] Inside the Spider's Nest
Chapter 1662 [Fufu's Bizarre Adventure 54] Inside the Spider's Nest
“Ji-ya——!”
The purple-black narrow horns opened to almost ninety degrees, the limbs were broken, and the shadow spider with thick green blood flowing all over its body screamed and pounced on the powerful enemy in front of it, ready to fight to the death.
Faced with the terrifying clamp that could cut her in half, Edelica remained calm. She continued to maintain her power-gathering posture and pulled the bowstring to its limit.
The sharp teeth covered with poisonous mucus were right in front of her, as if the alien mouth would drag her into the meat grinder in the next second.
It was not until this last moment that Edelica finally released the bowstring.
The heavy arrow, as thick as an adult's wrist, turned into an afterimage and penetrated into the constantly opening and closing mouth of the shadow spider.
After accumulating power for a long time, this powerful arrow easily broke through the fragile defense inside the shadow spider's body, crushed the brain at the junction of the thoracic and abdominal segments, and drilled out a small half of it from the gap in the shell.
The giant spider beast froze in its forward motion, its limbs twitching violently as if it had been electrocuted, and it fell to the ground.
The narrow-horned species is tenacious, but no matter how tenacious a creature is, it cannot survive with its brain destroyed.
But out of caution, Edelica drew the bow again and fired another arrow at the Shadow Spider's head.
The arrow fired at close range pierced through the shadow spider's head and nailed it firmly to the ground.
This ferocious spider beast completely lost its vitality and turned into a slightly twitching corpse.
Edelica folded up her hunting bow and sighed silently.
Her mission this time is to "investigate regional anomalies" rather than "hunt shadow spiders."
If possible, she still wanted to follow the procedures and rules, report the situation here first, and then let the scholars of the guild decide whether to issue a hunting mission.
However, while she was investigating the spider nest, the owner of the nest returned.
Given the Shadow Spider's strong sense of territory and cruel temperament, it is obviously impossible for it to leave peacefully.
In the end, she could only reluctantly send the shadow spider on its way.
"That's what the little guy wanted." Edelica muttered to herself as she put away her weapon.
Previously, in order to ask the strange-faced people to lead the way for her, Fu Fu made the promise of "hunting shadow spiders" on her behalf. She was originally thinking about how to better resolve the misunderstanding.
Now it's okay, no need to explain anything.
"Quack!"
"Kaka Kaba!"
The strange-faced people ran over cheering.
In previous battles, these little guys helped distract the target to some extent, but to be honest, they did more harm than good.
The strange-faced people were happily skinning the shadow spider's body, and Edelica didn't care.
She had no need for the materials of the shadow spider, but the claws, fangs, and venom-soaked venom crystals condensed on the back of the shadow spider were extremely valuable treasures to the strange-faced tribe.
Just give it to them if they want it. With the friendship we have this time, they probably won’t attack passing humans anymore.
"Gaga Kaba."
A moment later, the strange-faced creature with boar tusks on its head came up to her.
He handed her the recovered arrows and several pieces of poisonous bird skin peeled off from the corpses of shadow spiders.
"Thank you."
Edelica only took back the arrows, but did not take the rubbery skins, “It’s better for you to give these things to her yourself.
If I go and give it, it will be against the rules."
The strange-faced people didn't understand what she said, but seemed to understand what she meant, and temporarily collected the skins that were still stained with blood and venom.
Having solved the immediate problem, Edilica continued her investigation.
Under the command of the strange-faced tribe member with boar tusks on his head, most of the strange-faced tribe members left first, loaded with spoils.
It, along with a few clever fellows, continued to follow Edelica, looking as if saying "we're here to help."
Edelica did not refuse their kindness.
To her, the combat effectiveness of these strange-faced people is dispensable, but they can provide help in vigilance and guidance.
Edelica continued to move deeper into the underground spider's nest.
Following the traces, she entered a tunnel, but the end of the tunnel was a dead end.
Judging from the marks on the cave wall, there was originally a passage here, but it was later sealed by shadow spiders.
This gave Edilica a headache. She didn't bring a pickaxe or a shovel this time. If she dug the soil with her hands, how long would it take her to finish?
Just as she was struggling, the strange-faced people jumped out.
These little guys, who were also good at digging the ground, volunteered to dig the soil. Soon, they opened a small passage at the end of the tunnel that was barely enough for the hunters to pass through.
He even took the initiative to go in first and explore the way for her.
Edilica suddenly understood why some people liked to deal with these grumpy little guys.
When you are identified as an intruder, they will become extremely aggressive and will continue to harass you.
But when they recognize you as a friend, their enthusiasm and loyalty are far beyond the reach of many humans.
"Thank you, little ones." Edilika smiled and thanked the strange-faced people, then bent down and followed them into the passage.
After passing through the several-meter-thick layer of earth, Edilica and the others came to a fairly spacious underground cave.
On the stalactites on the top floor of the cave, there are huge cocoon bags hanging one after another.
Through the translucent spider silk, one can vaguely see that the cocoons are wrapped with corpses of monsters.
The number is astonishingly large. Upon closer inspection, one can find that there are giant wild boars, herbivorous dragons, spirit deer, and even two large strange birds.
Suddenly, the huge cocoon wrapped around the big monster bird twitched slightly.
A thought popped up in Edelica's mind - are these monsters really dead?
Or, after being injected with a large amount of digestive fluid by the shadow spider, one can only watch his muscles, internal organs, and even bones melt into a semi-liquid state, but cannot die completely?
Not intending to think about this issue any further, Edelica came to a smaller cocoon bag.
She pulled out her peeling knife and cut open the cocoon.
Large clumps of disgusting pus flowed out from it, along with many spider eggs the size of cantaloupe flowing to the ground.
The embryos in some spider eggs are already formed. After falling to the ground and struggling for a while, they tear through the egg membrane and break out of the shell.
"Gah!"
A strange-faced creature ran over angrily and crushed the underdeveloped little spider into pieces.
In those cocoons, they also found the bodies of their own kind.
Edelica's face also looked unhappy.
She had hunted shadow spiders more than once and had also "visited" the shadow spider's hatchery. No shadow spider's nest had ever contained such a large number of cocoons.
As long as they are given some more time, an astonishing number of small shadow spiders will hatch one after another.
Of course, this does not mean that the shadow spiders in the jungle will become a plague.
Without the protection of their relatives, it is very difficult for shadow spiders to grow from larvae to adults. Most of them will become nutrients for other carnivorous creatures in the early stages of their growth.
The key question is, how can the shadow spider find so many prey?
Has the richness of biological resources in this dense forest increased to this extent?
No wonder the shadow spiders are attracted to migrate here.
That being said, she had made a similar discovery when she investigated the giant bird's nest before - the number of cubs and giant bird eggs in the nest was unusually large.
Perhaps, this is the "anomaly" that scholars are looking for?
(End of this chapter)