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What Shao Jing didn't know was that when the Gu worm in his hand was restless, it was also when Mai Mai was in danger.Before that, even though he first encountered the gatekeeper dragon and the vampire vine, and then found the chigger, Mai Mai was not in any great danger, especially the chigger, who went to Hengrou alone.But now, he did encounter danger.

An hour ago, they sat under a tree and rested for ten minutes.The military adviser and the boss were discussing something in a low voice, while Mai Mai and the woman sat a little further away.The woman looked at them blankly and sneered slightly.Wheat is observing a tree nearby.There is a group of ants on this tree, biting a group of spiders.The ants are about the size of a lentil, and their shells glow reddishly. They are so big that the wheat can see the opening and closing mandibles on their heads.The spider is about the size of an apricot, with white threads constantly spraying out from between its eight long legs. When it sprays on the ant, it wraps it tightly around it, and then bites it down with its mouthparts... While the military adviser and the boss were talking, Seven or eight spiders had already killed dozens of ants. They sucked quickly, and the ants quickly turned into shriveled empty shells, stuck to the bark by spider silk, dangling.But this is nothing, what surprised Xiaomai was that the spiders devoured each other after eating all the ants.In the end, the largest spider won. It ate seven of its companions and then curled up on the tree trunk. Then, its black back shell gradually lightened and turned gray.Wheat was wondering, a hole was cracked on the gray back shell, and something was trying to squeeze out.Finally, a spider with a reddish color squeezed out, its whole body was wet.In the process of drying the water, its body swelled obviously, until it became the size of a fist. A layer of reddish hair grew on the shaped shell, and it slowly crawled away.

Mai Mai could no longer hear what the boss and the military division were saying, and he was frightened.A spider, the size of an apricot, lost its skin and became the size of a peach in just ten minutes after devouring its companion.If it devours a few more of its kind and sheds another layer of skin...if it sheds its skin a few more times or even a dozen times, what will it look like?How many bugs on this ancient road are devouring their own kind, shedding their skin, and growing bigger?When these enlarged bugs meet each other, what will happen when they devour each other?Frightened by his own thoughts, he grabbed the woman's hand impulsively, wanting to ask something: "These bugs--"

He didn't know how to express his thoughts, but the woman had already understood, and said slowly: "On this road, the weak die and the strong live." She was silent for a few seconds, and added, "This In the words of your Han people, it is called 'independence'. It means that a group of people go in..."

She couldn't finish her sentence, because the military adviser and the boss seemed to have reached a consensus, and they stood up and urged everyone to go on the road.Mai Mai had no chance to talk to the woman again—the military division saw them talking and deliberately separated him from the woman—so he didn’t know what she wanted to say in the last sentence, and he didn’t understand what the word “poison” she said was. What means.He speculated that it might be because the plants and animals here are poisonous, but it didn't seem to match the phrase "go in a group".He had a lot of questions in his mind, especially the spider, but half an hour later, he at least knew the answer to his first question, and at that time, they lost their dumbness.

At that time, the woman and wheat were still walking in the front, and the dwarf was frightened by the chiggers, so he had to walk in the middle, holding a long branch in his hand, and kept whipping the grass in front, hoping to drive away any possible insects. open.Tightening the cuffs and trousers in the hot and humid forest made walking more difficult.Everyone was so hot that they couldn't sweat.In addition, the repeated frights consumed a lot of physical strength. After walking for about an hour, everyone was out of breath, and the sound of breathing was so heavy that it was buzzing in their ears. Even the military division lost vigilance, so the vague shout could only be Wheat heard it.Mai Mai was also very tired. Although he had good physical strength, carrying a bag was a heavy burden. Besides, he was also a city person, and he really didn't have the ability to trek in this kind of wilderness, so although he heard There was a cry, but it took nearly half a minute to realize that it might be a human voice. When he turned around, the mute had disappeared.

The military strategist held the gun tightly in his hand, but he didn't know where to shoot.It was broad daylight, it was noon, and although there was shade from the trees above, the sun was still shining, but the mute just disappeared out of thin air. They shouted for a long time, and then walked back for a certain distance. , still nothing.

The boss was holding a gun and fidgeting aimlessly.The mute has been following him, and he can be regarded as his diehard loyalist. How could he not be in a hurry if he just disappeared out of nowhere?

The military division's spirit was about to collapse, and he said in a hoarse voice: "We have to hurry up, we can't waste any more time. Maybe there will be something coming out of this forest after dark."

The boss got angry: "No! You can't throw away the iron!"

This was the first and only time Mai Mai heard the real names of these people.The boss walked back and forth like a wild animal trapped in a cage: "We have to find him, otherwise no one will be able to leave!"

The military adviser's face was gloomy: "Stop for a while, everyone will die!"

The boss seemed to have lost his mind a little: "I can find him!"

The military division said coldly: "You have to find it yourself, we are leaving."

The boss suddenly raised his gun and pointed at him: "If you can't find Tie Zi, no one is allowed to leave!"

The military division sneered: "You want to die here, but others don't—"

The dwarf looked from one to the other in panic, and kept saying, "Don't, don't—" He turned around, trying to get in between the boss and the military adviser to persuade him, but fearing that their guns would go off, he put him first. Killed.While he was spinning, a piece of cloth suddenly hung down from a tree trunk not far behind him.

It was a very strange scene. In such a primeval jungle, a piece of cloth suddenly hung down from the tree trunk. The snow-white cloth reflected the sunlight and was moist and even.In fact, it can't be called cloth, it's more like fine silk, it just hangs down like running water, and behind the dwarf, it seems to be still fluttering in the breeze.

Wheat pointed to the piece of "cloth" in surprise and called out: "Look!"

The dwarf turned his head back and also let out an "ah" in surprise.But he just made such a sound, and the cloth suddenly rolled towards him, because the dwarf instinctively flicked, the cloth seemed to be just sticking to him, and then retracted.But just like that, the dwarf's body was stuck by the cloth and flew out. He screamed in panic and instinctively pushed with his hands, but when he stretched out his hands, they also stuck to the cloth. The more he struggled, the more the sticky area became. big.Only then did Mai see clearly that it was not white cloth, but some silk, some—spider silk.

Now Xiaomai knew how big those spiders would become. On the tree, above the dwarf's head, a spider the size of a truck wheel hung down from a spider thread as thick as a finger.It raised its abdomen slightly, and then spewed out a stream of white silk, quickly engulfing the dwarf.The spider descended on the dwarf in an orderly manner, and the two front legs quickly wrapped the spider silk around the dwarf. It took only a dozen seconds to wrap the dwarf into a white silk bag.In those ten seconds, Mai Mai was not afraid, but thought of a passage he read on Baidu: The mountain spider is as big as a wheel, and its threads are like a piece of cloth...

The military adviser and the boss were so surprised that they didn't react until the spider dragged the dwarf up the tree again, and they raised their guns to shoot.A slight shot of the bullet swept across the spider, breaking both of the spider's legs, but the pistol bullet only hit half of its shell.

But that was enough to piss off the spider.It suddenly lifted its belly -- the boss rolled to the side, and the silk that spewed out hit the tree trunk and stuck firmly.The spider slid down along the thread, opened its large vise-like jaws, and bit the boss.

The military division raised his gun and fought again.This time he aimed at the spider's fist-sized compound eyes, but his gun went askew, and a spider silk flew out from nowhere and stuck to his wrist, dragging him back a step.Three or four wheel-sized spiders descended from the surrounding trees, and their blood-red compound eyes stared at the four people on the ground.

The woman suddenly pulled Mai Mai: "Run!"

Mai Mai instinctively stretched his legs, and as soon as he turned around, he felt a swish on his back, and then a snap, he couldn't run anymore, and the backpack was stuck by spider silk.Fortunately, it was just a backpack. Mai Mai threw the backpack away, not even daring to look back to see which spider had dragged the backpack away, and ran away with the woman.

There are many trees here.Running is naturally strenuous, but it is also beneficial.Because although these spiders no longer conform to the common sense of biology, the silk threads they shoot always conform to the laws of physics and will not bend.The wheat and the woman circled around among the trees, and several times, white silk threads narrowly brushed past them and sprayed on the tree trunk a few centimeters away, making crackling noises.Occasionally, a single spider silk floated onto them, and it turned out to be as strong as a nylon thread, and it took a lot of effort to break it.

The woman panted heavily, and said intermittently: "Quick—find a place with flowers—these spiders are afraid of bees—"

Wheat doesn't know where there are flowers in this dense forest, let alone, are the bees here ordinary bees?Won't it sting?

The woman gasped and said: "The sun is good, the place--flowers, I want, the sun--"

They ran towards the bright place, and there were constant slaps behind them. It seemed that those spiders knew where they were going, and even knew to intercept them, forcing them to turn.Three strands of spider silk shot across from the wheat at the same time, forming three lines of interception between the two trees. Wheat lowered her head and raised her legs, trying to get through the spider silk, but after such a delay, another strand of spider silk shot over. It slapped around his shoulders and immediately dragged him down.Mai Mai stretched out his hand to grab a vine next to it, but the force dragged him backwards, and his hand slid over the rough vine, which was painful, but he couldn't catch it.

The woman shouted loudly: "Fire! Is there any fire!"

Mai Mai reached into his trouser pocket, thank God, he did find the lighter.He bought this lighter on the streets of Kunming.He doesn't smoke, but when he saw this copycat copy of ZIPPO, he couldn't help but paid for it.This gadget looks a bit like the one Shao Jing traded out in Haishi, but the workmanship is obviously much rougher.Fortunately, although the appearance is fake, the gasoline inside is not fake. As soon as the wheat was beaten, a small flame sprang up and ignited the spider thread on the shoulder, and the spider thread broke immediately. smell.

Mai Mai took off his coat, lit it with a lighter, and ran waving.At this time, the woman was already trapped between two trees by seven or eight bundles of spider silk, and a spider had already landed on top of her head, making the appearance of spraying another spider silk.Mai Mai rushed over, picked up a branch and stabbed it hard.This poke seemed to tickle the spider, and the thing just moved sideways instinctively.But it was enough for the wheat to burn the spider silk and drag the woman out.A thin blouse was unburned, and wheat threw the last bit of fire towards the spider, and then dragged the woman and ran wildly.

After seven or eight minutes, Xiaomai already felt that her legs were stuck by spider silk, and she couldn't drag her. Her chest seemed to explode, and her throat was burning, but the spider silk kept coming, like forever. will not be exhausted.Now wheat really feels hopeless.Some things can be fought, but some things are useless. The strength difference between the two sides is too great, such as him and the spider.

The woman suddenly pulled the wheat hard, and the two of them lost their legs and fell into the grass at the same time.The woman pressed Mai Mai's head tightly, panting, "Low your head! Don't pant!"

Xiaomai didn't know why the woman suddenly pulled him down, but he still lowered his head. A few seconds later, he heard a buzzing sound in the distance, like bees flying, but it was not louder than the flapping of ordinary bees how many times.He finally couldn't help but look up, his eyes almost blurred - in front of him, a group of bees as big as small birds flew up, with very clear yellow and black stripes on their bodies, and a poisonous stick behind them. The thorns were as long as a little finger, and a dozen of them formed a piece, rushing towards the spider...

Shao Jing retreated to a place 50 meters away from Menrong, and slashed his wrist with a dagger.Just now, he pricked his finger and dripped a few drops of blood on the ground. The insects that looked like vines immediately gathered from all directions, and the closest ones jumped on the few drops of blood first, and the blood was sucked up in an instant.But Shao Jing picked up the stone and threw it, but he didn't attract their attention at all.

Shao Jing put the blood that flowed out into two hard plastic bags.He didn't know how many vine worms there were, and he didn't know how long a plastic bag of blood could attract them, but he knew that he had to get in quickly, and if he wanted to get in, he could only think of this way now.He squeezed the wound, filled two small plastic bags with blood, tied up his mouth tightly, then tore off the strips of his shirt to wrap the wound, then covered it with a layer of mud, and finally smashed the banyan leaves he picked up. Rotten, thoughtlessly pasted on the face and body, hoping to deceive these bugs.

The plastic bags were thrown separately and hit the tree roots on the left and right sides. The bags were very strong and not broken, only a little blood oozes from the mouth of the bag.However, it was this bit of bloody smell that had already attracted all the vines to become agitated, stretching their bodies desperately to reach the plastic bag, and then pushing each other to get inside.The air root channel was let out, and Shao Jing rushed in without hesitation.Almost all the bugs were attracted to him, and a few bugs landed on him by chance, and were also deceived by the banyan tree leaf juice he smeared. Before they entangled immediately, they were picked away by Shao Jing with a dagger .

At the end of the air root passage, Shao Jing saw something dangling on the banyan tree, and the vine worms all around were entwined on that thing, and the worm body was red, which was different from the green one outside.He couldn't help taking another look, and suddenly found that the hanging thing was a corpse, and the bugs that turned red were just sucking blood from the corpse.

Shao Jing's heart trembled for a while, but his feet didn't stop.When he was about to squeeze out of the passage, several vine insects finally found him and stretched out towards him.One of them burrowed into the wound on his arm, and Shao Jing grabbed it with one hand, and cut the insect's body with the other hand with a dagger.A red liquid flowed out from the worm's cut, and the rest of the worms immediately turned to the same kind, sucking the liquid that flowed out. Shao Jing took the opportunity to squeeze it out from the passage, and then he saw the dead python on the ground.

Only a piece of skin and a skeleton remained of the dead python, and there were still worms on the python's body, and the round body was slowly wriggling, making one's scalp numb.

However, Shao Jing only took one look and walked into the depths of the forest.He knew that there were many dangers here, but since he had already entered and wanted to continue walking in, there was no need to read more about it.The most important thing for him now is to find the wheat.