ask sword 2

Chapter 534 Spider Swarm
Boom!
Li Ang woke up from the dream and sat up subconsciously, but his forehead hit the chin of Lu Yunan, who was staring at him seriously.

"Hey!"

Lu Yunan covered her lips and sucked in a breath of cold air, and waved her hand amid Li Ang's apology, "It's okay. Are you having a nightmare?"

"Um"

Li Ang nodded hesitantly, the dream just now was too real, the dark sky covered with overcast clouds, people who were indifferent, desperate or mad, and the last sentence of the mountain leader, which was deafening and still reverberating in his ears. The sky is falling."

There was no need to hide in the pitch-black tent, Li Ang told Lu Yunan all the content of the nightmare, and the two discussed it, but in the end they didn't come to any conclusion.

The rain outside the tent has stopped for a long time, and the cliffs are dry.

After eating the last bit of dry food, the two packed up the tent and climbed up again.

Since they already knew that there were spiders living in Liyuan at this height, Li Ang and Lu Yunan were more cautious this time, and prepared crossbow arrows cut from bamboo and wood in advance.

In addition to killing wild species, these arrows can also ignite clusters of arrows, shoot into the fog, and use the flames to clear the field of vision.

As they climbed all the way, more Liyuan wonders were displayed in front of the two of them.

There is a dandelion-like herb with a height of about one meter, with a pom-pom the size of a leather ball at the top.As they mature, the pom-poms float up and sway with the wind until they explode when they touch the rock wall, driving the seeds at the end of the pom-poms as deeply as steel spikes into the cliff.

There is an animal that resembles a mixture of crabs and scorpions. It is two meters high and lives in caves. The huge gray cheliceras that occupy most of the volume are integrated with the rock wall. Once it senses the outside air or rock vibration, it will wake up instantly. , clipping prey with chelicerae.

In addition, there are flying snakes with wing membranes, crimson ant colonies with an average thumb size that can spit acid liquid three meters away, and even monsters that are suspected to be close to insects.

Lu Yunan observed every kind of Liyuan creature he saw. Whenever a threat approached, he untied the silk umbrella cloth from his back and shrouded the two of them. Li Ang also stopped climbing, stood still, and disguised himself as a piece. rock.

Some mosquitoes tried to approach the two of them, but their mouthparts could not penetrate the ink silk umbrella cloth. After several attempts, they flew away on their own.

Li Ang and Lu Yunan stopped and walked like this, and came to the layer of viscous spider silk again.

"The ecological environment of Liyuan is no less complex than a hundred thousand barren mountains,"

Lu Yunan said solemnly, "There is no sunlight in the abyss, and the producers that make up the bottom layer of the ecological environment are luminous strains, and above are plants, herbivores, and carnivores.

After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, these monsters have adapted to the environment where the aura is isolated from the abyss.

At the same time, spiders should also be a very important part of the entire ecosystem of Liyuan - the diversity of biological species in the spider silk layer has been greatly reduced,

The spider swarm is like a cover, covering the entire Liyuan, and will regularly prey on the lower-level monsters.

The superposition of the two factors resulted in the fact that the monsters in Liyuan rarely appeared in the outside world. "

This also confirms from the side how difficult it is to escape from the highly unknown spider silk layer.

Li Ang and Lu Yunan fell into silence. Unlike the valley bottom, the ecological environment in the middle layer of Liyuan is lush and diverse, and there are sufficient food sources.

With Li Ang's physical fitness and Lu Yunan's ability to predict, it is not necessarily impossible to survive here.

Main food is moss, lichen, bamboo shoots, etc., occasionally hunting flying snakes and collecting honey, enough for the two of them to survive for a long time.

However, they have a reason to have to go back.

Li Ang has teachers, classmates, and disciples waiting for his return in Chang'an.
Lu Yunan also has clansmen from Montenegro in the north.

".Let's go."

Li Ang took a deep breath, and his calloused fingertips hooked into the gap between the rocks.

He climbed slowly, not only because of the increased humidity in the silk layer and the slippery rocks,
It is also because spider groups often patrol the canyons—these spiders have a certain social nature. As far as Lu Yunan saw the scene, they have more than one spider nest with a diameter of more than [-] meters.

Some spiders in the nest are responsible for cultivating luminous fungi on the rock walls and collecting dew and honey
Some spiders are responsible for hunting animals from the lower layers, wrapping their prey in silk and sending them into the nest.

The prey is then digested by other spiders and the nutrient solution is fed to the newborn spiderlings.

In the vast thick fog, the number of spiders inhabiting may be calculated in units of millions or tens of millions.

The small spider is only the size of a palm, as if it were different from the outside tarantula.
The largest spider has a body length of three to 40 meters, which is comparable to a land chariot. When crawling on the rock wall, the whole cliff trembles.

"It's almost like aliens,"

Lu Yunan was silent, swiping his fingertips on Li Ang's back and writing a sentence, "If this power is released to the outside world, I'm afraid it will be more than enough to destroy the country."

Judging from the food habits of the spider group, if caught by them, immediate suicide becomes a less painful option.

Lu Yunan opened the ink silk umbrella cloth, covering the two figures, blocking the smell, and observing the direction only through the gap at the front end of the umbrella cloth.

Li Ang also slowed down, and stopped immediately when there was trouble.

As a result, the climbing speed was greatly slowed down, Li Ang's arm was sore, and Lu Yunan's eyes were extremely sore.

But it can't stop. Above is the most dangerous area, with dense nets and spiders walking through it, busy.

It took Li Ang two hours to climb the short distance of 800 meters.
At their most dangerous, a hound-sized multicolored flower spider even crawled over their ink silk camouflage.

so close
Li Ang let out a sigh of relief and climbed up according to Lu Yunan's instructions, but accidentally touched a slippery spider silk that had just been woven. He couldn't grasp it firmly, and his body fell suddenly.

Even if the right hand firmly grasped a raised rock and stopped the falling, the ink silk disguise on the two of them was pulled by inertia and fell backwards.

The sultry feeling in Mosi's disguise for a long time disappeared in an instant, and Li Ang instantly felt that countless pairs of eyes were looking at him.

"Wow!"

Lu Yunan, who was lying on his back, let out a groan. From her perspective, thousands of spiders all over the mountains and fields stopped and looked over.

Countless spiders swarmed along the visible and invisible cobwebs.

Fall!

She just wanted to remind her loudly, but the spider group ignored the two and crawled straight past.

what happened? !
Lu Yunan's mind got stuck for a moment, the attention of these spiders was not on them at all,

The spider group of the entire spider nest scrambled to climb the largest fortress giant spider, and the giant spider carried them and climbed into the distance.

There, hundreds of giant fortress spiders with their insignificant peers on their backs emerged from the thick fog, lying neatly and meekly on the rock wall, quietly waiting for something.

Such a solemn and inexplicable scene made Lu Yunan hold her breath subconsciously, and even forgot to draw on Li Ang's back and describe the scene.

Boom, boom.

A loud noise that shook the sky and earth came from afar,

An unimaginably huge, obscuring giant spider slowly emerged from the thick fog.

Its brown-gray body surface hairs stand up like steel pillars,

The back armor and chest plate showed a tough and thick metallic luster, like a steel city wall that was too wide to see the edge.
The eight sturdy feet dig deep into the solid rock, and every time they move, a whole piece of cliff will be shattered and peeled off.

Those fortress spiders are as small as babies before it,
All spiders lay down reverently and obediently, raising their cheliceras high, as if .
"bow down."

Lu Yunan said softly, "They are kneeling to worship their ancestors."

(End of this chapter)