our family is gone

Chapter 204 Corruption Monster
"Ow~"

Before she could speak Wangcai, she howled up to the sky, then turned her head and rushed into the darkness.

"Here!" Paracelsus responded and greeted the two of them.

What if the lord had an accident in order to cover himself?
Just at this moment, Lance's voice came.

"Taken a little time by annoying little bugs."

Lance, holding the giant killer, came out of the darkness. Both the clothes and the blade were stained with the white sticky substance spit out by spiders. It's no wonder he didn't come back immediately...

And in his hand was still dragging the corpse of a spider, the crossbow bolt on the back of its armor was still there.

"These guys should have gathered here a long time ago, but they didn't dare to go forward because they were afraid of the fire." Lance explained casually, then turned to look at a few people, "Are you all right?"

"It's nothing, these pigs are bigger than our dimples!" Boudica commented while looking at the corpses on the ground.

Hearing this, William couldn't help but agree, and at the same time, doubts arose.

"How can there be such a huge spider in the world?"

"Don't be surprised if anything appears in Hamlet, it's a place full of magical power." Lance joked as if mocking himself, then raised his hand to caress the wound on Wangcai's body to heal it.

And Paracelsus has already begun to take out the tools and start dissecting and studying the slightly more complete corpses.

I don't know whether it is to calm down, or to use this to cover up the unspeakable mood.

Lance, with the help of the other two, removed the spider webs from his body. Paracelsus couldn't see them at the time, but he could clearly see that all four were aimed at him. If most of the first wave hadn't been caught by the sword He would be even more embarrassed if he was shot all over his body.

The white mucus was like water at the beginning, and then became thicker and tougher when exposed to air. This property seems a bit familiar...

Isn't this just glue?
Can you catch a batch of these spiders by yourself, and then set up a glue factory like milking cows?
Needless to say, there are really tricks, there is no such thing as glue in this world, but resin is used to make waterproof glue, and it is necessary to use this if you want to make a big boat.

As for the green one, it is naturally some kind of venom, and I don't know the specific effect and what use it can be.

"Boss, can this stuff be eaten?"

Boudica was picking up a severed foot, looking at the jelly-like flesh on the incision and asked curiously.

"I advise you not to eat it, at least no one knows if it is poisonous until it is verified."

Lance looked a little speechless. This thing looks like this, and it grew up in the wilderness of Hamlet. No one knows if it has been corrupted, and it is not afraid of problems if it is eaten?

"But don't you just eat the wolf boy?" Boudica looked aside with a pityful expression, and she also wanted to taste something.

Hearing her sound, Lance suddenly turned his head and looked at Wangcai, seeing him biting off the carapace and licking the creamy muscles inside.

"Wangcai!" Lance raised his hand and plunged the giant sword into the ground, then strode towards it.

Wangcai stood up straight with a shake, looked at Lance who was approaching, stepped back slightly, wanted to run but didn't dare, his little eyes wandered wildly, and didn't dare to look directly at the comer.

"Can things be eaten indiscriminately? What if I poison you, silly dog?" Lance directly reached out and grabbed the fur on the back of his neck, pulled it up, and raised his hand to pat it on the face, "You can't learn from it." Fergus? Did I let you eat it?"

"Woo~" Wangcai closed his eyes and let his slaps slap on his face, wailing submissively.

"Don't pretend to be stupid, next time I see you eating recklessly, I will not eat your good fruit!"

Fergus has undergone anti-feeding training, and will never eat other things without William's order, but this guy Wangcai has no one to discipline him. He doesn't have any rules. there is a problem.

William couldn't help feeling a little ashamed seeing such a simple and rude scene. Dog training is particular, and brutal beating will only make the dog resist.

But it is undeniable that it does work, and the only explanation is that the lord's strength can deter even animals, otherwise other people would definitely step forward and give it a bite.

"That's not quite right, the spiders were not infected, there was no trace of the fungus on them."

Paracelsus put down the scalpel in her hand, and in front of her was the corpse of a giant spider that had been completely dissected.

Her words brought the team's attention back.

The emergence of serious business made Lance restrain his education Wangcai action a little, put it down directly, and moved closer to it, knelt down to check the situation of those spiders, and couldn't help frowning.

"There's really no sign of infection."

That's right, it's a bad thing that no fungal infection was found, because it proved that there was a problem with their direction, and they were getting farther and farther away from the truth...

"Isn't it normal that these spiders are not injured, and they won't be infected?" William was a little confused. In terms of the transmission method alone, it is impossible for these spiders to be infected.

"The question is, if these spiders are not infected, why are they attacking us together?"

Lance explained something, which made William silent and fell into thinking.

But Boudica is not a guy who likes to use his brain. Hearing this, he thought about it for a while and immediately crashed due to overload. He shook his head and spoke to Lance.

"Boss, what do you mean by that? I'm really anxious!"

"I don't know if there are any spiders living in groups in the world, but in terms of the size of these spiders alone, it is impossible to gather so many together because the food cannot keep up.

If these were not infected with fungi, it would be a strange thing to attack us in groups. "

"I understand, it's not enough to eat." Boudica looked the same as before.

After hearing it, William realized what the lord said just now. In fact, he didn't understand it just now~
"That's right!" Lance seemed to realize something.

Boudica's words reminded him that these spiders obviously don't have much intelligence, and this kind of behavior doesn't seem like clumping together at all, otherwise they wouldn't be separated just now, it's more like they are trying to snatch their prey.

They should just be attracted together, but the act of snatching prey itself indicates another problem, that is, there is no prey.

This also confirms what happened in the wilderness to make these spiders leave their territory and need to go out to hunt.

"Boss, why are you talking half of what you say!"

"It's very simple. The only explanation is that they gathered here temporarily. Look at the trees around you, and the tree that the spiders climbed just now. This place should not be where those spiders often move, but four of them were attracted here.

I don't know what caused them to leave the territory, but it must have something to do with the situation in the wilderness. "

William stretched out the torch and observed carefully, and found that the trees where the spiders had crawled had either traces of piercing the bark with their sharp feet, or traces of moving with the help of spider silk, but there were no other places around them.

Lord Lord's observation is so meticulous...

"Well, no matter what the reason, there must be something we want to find over there."

Lance looked up at the sky, intending to estimate the time, but it was pitch black in front of him, and he realized that he didn't sleep and was dazed.

"I'm going to keep going, you should have a good rest, right?"

Lance's words are self-evident. He knows that operating late at night will put the team in danger, but there is no way. He must follow up the clues that he finally found.

This is a gamble. If nothing is found, it will further weaken the morale of the team. Similarly, if he finds further clues, it will help him solve the old ancestor's conspiracy.

After this night raid, the other people lost their sleepiness and started packing their things one after another.

Lance raised his hand to sacrifice the wreckage, but his eyes were on the dark wilderness.

This time was different from the old road before, the traces of those bandits were easy to find, and the enemy was very clear, but now his understanding of the wilderness was very shallow, he had some guesses about what the enemy was doing, but he was not sure.

The pressure built up inside him, but he couldn't show it, so he just kept going.

"Extinguish the torches, and the enemy will find us."

Lance stomped out the torch, and the darkness instantly engulfed the team that had lost the shelter of the campfire.

Darkness rules now—black as death.

Even Boudica didn't want to go into the wilderness in such a dark environment, let alone the other two. His actions directly put a lot of pressure on the others.

It's just that the position of the team has changed at this time. Lance leads the team directly at the front. With his spiritual vision, he can ignore the darkness, while Boudica and Wangcai walk at the end, beware of possible enemies.

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"Snapped!"

There was a sound, followed by the dull sound of something falling to the ground.

Without hesitation, Paracelsus directly picked up the tool and went forward to dissect the giant spider with the arrow in its head, and took out the gland.

When dissecting two kinds of giant spiders, the glands of the web-spinning spider are in the abdomen, while the glands of the poison-spitting spider are on both sides of the lower jaw. This is the most valuable thing.

Lance watched her sacrifice those corpses directly after finishing the work, and felt that the spirituality returned was more than three times that of an adult.

Originally, Lance had some complaints about these spiders attacking at night, but now he is eager for more.

The team was only a short distance away when Figgs, who was walking steadily, suddenly stopped and squatted down in one direction without making a sound. William, who was holding the dog leash, realized something and opened his mouth immediately.

"Fergus smells that!"

The advancing team immediately became vigilant because of William's words, but excitement rose in Lance's heart, and finally found it.

"Let's go and have a look."

Lance issued an order to move forward without hesitation. The purpose of this trip is to reconnaissance. Of course, he has to go up to see if there is a situation.

Soon he found the target, it was a few strange black shadows, just standing on the wilderness, but they didn't look like human beings.

In Lance's vision, these monsters all emit a faint spiritual fluorescence, are they considered extraordinary creatures to some extent?
You must know that you didn't feel this way when you saw the corpse before, and Lance somehow felt something was wrong in his heart!

The others couldn't see what was in the distance, but were suddenly stopped by Lance.

He took out the torch, just lit it, and the fire light dispelled the darkness around the team, but this time it seemed to touch something, and the parasite that was still in a dormant state just now started to move.

And another thing that Lance didn't expect was that the actions of these parasites were not as stiff and slow as he imagined, but instead showed a staggering posture.

"Be careful of the enemy!" Lance directly handed back the torch, and the crossbow in his hand emerged out of thin air.

His sound also alerted the others, but the range of the torch was limited, and they didn't know what the enemy was, where it was, and how many there were?
Under certain circumstances, Lance's voice actually increased their pressure.

There is no way to exclude Boudica and the other two have no experience in similar situations at all.

"Wow!" Fortunately, the dog can distinguish the direction of the enemy through the sense of smell. Paracelsus raised the torch in the direction of Figes. After the torch was lit, the flame became brighter and brighter, and finally saw the team attacking from a distance. enemy.

It's just that not seeing it makes them full of stress, and after spying on these monsters, it makes them even more stressed.

The monster's body was in the shape of a human, and there were some tattered clothes hanging on them to prove their previous identities, but other than that, they had nothing to do with humans.

The body is almost all fibrous, and the outer skin has turned into brown bark, showing toughness. It is covered with yellow mushrooms, stacked irregularly in size, and they grow wantonly on this "dead wood".

The muscles on the monster's arms were shriveled and contracted, and the fingers stretched uncontrollably and twisted into claws. The ends had been mutated into sharp claws. The entire palm was yellow, and it seemed to be covered with germ spores.

What really shocked people was the head of the monster... maybe it shouldn't be called the head, because a huge mushroom directly occupied the place of the original head, becoming a real mushroom head.

And this can only be regarded as ordinary. The real horror lies in another kind of monster, which can make people feel inexplicably frightened just by seeing it.

It was an indescribable monster, and the human part remained more, whether it was the limbs or the head, except for the shriveled and contracted muscles, the human appearance could be seen.

But the strange thing is that this "person" body is bent backwards, all fours are on the ground, and his stomach is facing upwards, and a huge red fungus grows on it, like a honeycomb-shaped tumor, with dense holes on it .

There are also a lot of yellow mushrooms growing disorderly around the bacteria.

What really shocked the team was that this kind of monster whose limbs were bent backwards completely violated the human body structure could move, and the crawling posture with all fours on the ground was not slow.

When this thing is close, they will feel what is called a surprise!
What's even more surprising is that there are not only two, but three mushroom heads and one honeycomb fungus.

"Oh~ the corruption is so serious!"

"Germs eat life!"

"Mushroom Boy!"

(End of this chapter)