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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 gasped, and waved her hands 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 cloudy and suffocating dark sky, the figures who were either indifferent, desperate or crazy, and the deafening last sentence of the head of the mountain, which still echoed in his ears. The sky is falling.

There was no need to hide it in the dark tent, Li Ang told Lu Yunan all the contents of the nightmare, and the two discussed it, but in the end they didn't come to any conclusions, they could only blame it on the psychological pressure they had been in Liyuan for the past two days.

The rain outside the tent had stopped for a long time, and the cliffs were completely 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 Li Yuan at this height, Li Ang and Lu Yunan were more cautious this time, and prepared crossbow bolts cut from bamboo and wood in advance.

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

As they climbed along the way, more marvels of Li Yuan were revealed in front of the two of them.

There is a herbaceous plant about one meter high, which looks like a dandelion, with a pompom the size of a leather ball on the top. When these pompoms are mature, they will float up and sway with the wind, until they will explode automatically when they touch the rock wall, and the seeds at the end of the pompom will be nailed deep into the cliff like steel nails.

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

In addition, there are flying snakes with wing membranes, red ant colonies that are the size of an average thumb and can spit acid three meters away, and there are even monsters suspected of being close-footed insects.

Lu Yunan observed every kind of Liyuan creature he saw, and whenever there was a threat approaching, he took off the black silk umbrella cloth from his back and covered the two of them. Li Ang also stopped climbing, stood still, and pretended to be one rock.

Some mosquitoes tentatively approached the two of them, but their mouthparts could not penetrate the ink silk umbrella cloth, and after a few attempts, they flew away by themselves.

Li Ang and Lu Yunan stopped and walked like this, and came to the thick spider silk layer in the air again.

The complexity of Liyuan's ecological environment is no less than that of a hundred thousand barren mountains,

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

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

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

The spider swarm was like a cover, covering the entire Liyuan, and would regularly prey on the lower monsters.

The superposition of the two factors resulted in the monsters in Liyuan rarely appearing outside.

This also confirmed from the side how difficult it is to escape from the spider silk layer with an unknown height.

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

With Li Ang's physical fitness and Lu Yunan's predictive ability, it may not be impossible to survive here.

The main food is moss, lichen, bamboo shoots, etc., and occasionally hunt some flying snakes and collect some honey, which is enough for two people to survive for a long time.

However, they have reasons to go back.

Li Ang has teachers, classmates, and disciples waiting for his return in Chang'an.

Lu Yunan also has people from the Black Mountain in the north.

.Let's go.

Li Ang took a deep breath, and his callused fingertips caught the gap between the rocks.

He crawled slowly, not only because of the increased air humidity in the spider silk layer and the slippery rocks,

It is also because there are often groups of spiders patrolling the canyons—these spiders have a certain degree of sociality. As far as Lu Yunan saw, they have more than one spider nest with a diameter of more than 300 meters.

Some spiders in the nest are responsible for cultivating luminescent fungi on the rock wall and collecting dewy honey

Some spiders are responsible for hunting animals from the lower layers, wrapping the prey with spider silk and sending them to the nest.

The other spiders digest the prey and feed the nutrient solution to the newborn spiderlings.

In the vast and dense 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, which is similar to the wolf spider in the outside world.

The largest spider was thirty to forty meters long, comparable to a land chariot. When crawling on the rock wall, the entire cliff trembled.

It's almost like an alien creature,

Lu Yunan remained silent, stroking Li Ang's back with his fingertips, and wrote a sentence, Exposing this power to the outside world may be more than enough to destroy the country.

Judging from the feeding habits of spiders, if caught by them, committing suicide immediately becomes a less painful choice.

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

Li Ang also slowed down his walking speed, and stopped immediately if there was any disturbance.

As a result, the climbing speed slowed down considerably, Li Ang's arms were sore, and Lu Yunan's eyes were also extremely sore.

But it can't stop yet. Above is the most dangerous area, densely covered with nets, and spiders walk through it, busy endlessly.

It took Li Ang two hours to climb the short distance of 800 meters.

At the most dangerous time, a multicolored flower spider the size of a hunting dog even crawled over their moss camouflage.

so close

Li Ang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, followed Lu Yunan's instructions to climb up, but accidentally touched a wet and slippery spider silk that had just been woven, and he couldn't hold it firmly, and his body suddenly fell downwards.

Even though the right hand firmly grasped a raised rock to stop the fall, the black silk camouflage on the two of them was pulled by inertia and fell backwards.

The long-awaited sweltering feeling in Mosi's disguise disappeared instantly, and Li Ang instantly felt countless pairs of eyes looking at him.

Woo!

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

Countless spiders came rushing along the visible and invisible cobwebs.

fall!

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

what happened? !

Lu Yunan's mind froze for a moment, these spiders were not paying attention to them at all,

The spiders in the entire spider nest scrambled up to the largest fortress giant spider, and the giant spider carried them to the distance.

There, hundreds of giant fortress spiders with their backs full of tiny ones emerged from the dense fog, lying neatly and docilely on the rock wall, quietly waiting for something.

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

Boom, boom.

The earth-shattering loud noise came from afar,

An unimaginably huge giant spider slowly emerged from the dense fog.

Its brown-gray body surface has hairs standing 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 feet that stand up to the sky dig deep into the solid rock, and every time they move, a whole piece of the cliff will be shattered and peeled off.

Those fortress spiders are as small as babies in front of it,

All the spiders lay down respectfully and obediently, and lifted their chelicer limbs high, like...

bow down.

Lu Yunan said softly, They are bowing down to their ancestors.