Chapter 705: Net Valley
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Mage Joan
- Cheng Jianxin
- 1289 characters
- 2021-01-30 08:51:44
For safety reasons, before leaving, Joan cast a spell to bless himself and his companions one by one to avoid falling.
The four descended down the steep slope, and it took more than half an hour to reach the bottom of the slope.
At this point, Guru has been investigating a circle around the valley at the bottom of the slope, and brought back some new discoveries.
The terrain outside the valley is flat, with towering stalagmites everywhere.
The soil is moist and fertile, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of moss, and clusters of mushrooms can be seen everywhere.
Such an environment is undoubtedly very suitable for the survival of insects, rodents and parasitic anaerobic plants, and these lower organisms also provide ample food for more fierce predators, thus forming a rich and diverse ecosystem.
According to Guru's observation, in this dark shrouded valley, at the top of the food chain is a type of mutant spider.
These spiders are as big as wheels, their round bodies are black and oily, their legs and feet like eight folding knives are covered with thorns, and their sharp jaws are dark blue, which may be highly toxic.
Guru didn't dare to look closely at these terrifying giant spiders and hurried back to his master to seek refuge.
Joan tells his companions what Guru observed. The four of them are alert and explore the deep valley along the inclined ramp.
The miner's lamp projected a straight searchlight beam, sweeping back and forth through the darkness.
Underground moths that feed on mushrooms are disturbed by the light, flapping their wings and flying in the air, and sometimes groups of bats fly by suddenly.
The moths living in this valley are all as big as a plate, and their bodies are covered with gray and white fluff.
The bats seem to be similar in size to moths, but they exclusively feed on this large moth, and they show no interest in the four human explorers who break into their homes.
Joan noticed that between the adjacent stalagmites in the valley, almost all of them would pull up more than one huge cobweb.
The sticky wires used to weave this cobweb, each as thick as an adult’s thumb, look like a transparent cable.
If the bats and moths chasing each other hit the cobweb, they are stuck to death, and they are still struggling to escape.
The silk shook violently, disturbing the mutant spiders lurking in the dark, and crawled out of the cracks in the rock one after another.
These big spiders swing eight long, slender and flexible feet, crawling fast to the web along the thick silk, holding the prey with a pair of short limbs, then clamping the throat with the hard jaw, and then spit out regardless of size The sharpness is comparable to the dagger's straw, which penetrates deeply into the prey and injects venom.
After just a few seconds, the prey was paralyzed by the venom and paralyzed on the cobweb.
In addition to causing paralysis, spider toxins also contain special digestive juices, which quickly dissolve the flesh of moths or bats into a thick paste.
The mutant spider uses a straw to extract the half-digested flesh and blood of the prey, and when it eats, it makes a sound of "snapping", as if drinking a bowl of thick soup.
Within five minutes, the blood of the prey was drained, leaving only a thin, crisp shell stuck to the cobweb.
After the full meal, the mutant spider shivered and became fuller and fuller with big belly, and extracted spider silk from the navel to repair the broken cobweb.
What she saw in front of her made Audrey and Hailar feel scalp numb.
The hairy giant spider is even more terrible than the dragon in the eyes of the girls. If it is not for the sake of face, they may have already retired.
The four took their steps lightly, circumvented the cobwebs, and tried to avoid disturbing the mutant spiders.
However, when they struggled, they finally came to the pass to the depths of the valley, and they were all dumbfounded.
Two cliffs rose up from the ground and closed at the top, leaving only a narrow path leading to the valley.
However, this only passage has been blocked by dense webs of cobwebs, as if there are countless heavy curtains hanging, a large area of white flowers, blocking the explorer's sight.
Joan, Hailar and Zion brothers were forced to stop at Taniguchi, thinking about how to break the cobweb blockade.
Considering that the cobweb is flammable, Hailar took out two large bottles of "flame glue" from his backpack and planned to throw it over to light the cobweb and burn it clean.
Joan worried that the fire would cause a large group of mutant spiders to attack, and waved her hand to signal that she should not be busy with arson. She first cast a peep to see what secrets were hidden deep in the valley covered by the cobwebs.
The stereoscopic view generated by the "Navigation Compass" is not limited by the field of view, and can display the features of the landscape in the valley.
Based on the zoom of the map, Joanne estimated that the straight-line distance from the entrance to the end of the valley was about 800 yards.
This not too long path, the wide area is comparable to a square, and the narrow area is like a gut, which can only be used by one person.
Through the three-dimensional navigation map, Joan can also see that not only the entrance of the valley is blocked by the cobwebs, but also the narrow areas inside the valley are covered by the dense cobwebs.
The only flaw of the navigation compass is that it can only map the landform, but it cannot display the specific location of the local habitat.
For example, in the underground valley where the spider silk is entangled, there are invariably a large group of mutant spiders entrenched in it, but they cannot be seen on the navigation compass.
To learn more about the ecology in the valley, it is not enough just to navigate the compass. Joan needs a prophetic spell that can project his observation angle into the valley.
"Apacenya!"
Joan softly recited a mantra representing "Foresight and Discovery".
The three "Eagle Eyes" attached to the prosthetic eye can be cast up to 3 times a day.
Joan used up all of today's usages in one breath, setting up three magical observation points in succession within the valley blocked by the spider web, according to the map generated by the navigation compass.
The three observation points are evenly distributed on the path through the valley, about 200 yards away from each other.
After the cast, Joan can switch his perspective to these three observation points at any time, and observe the situation around the observation point nearby.
Next, Joan first shifted his perspective to the first observation point closest to Taniguchi.
The moment he switched his perspective, he felt dizzy.
When the consciousness recovered, he realized that he was already inside the valley, and there was no sense of existence in the light body, as if there were only a pair of eyes hanging in the air.
Joan looked around, quietly in the dim valley.
I don't know where the airflow came from, blowing the layers of spider webs hanging between the cliffs, like a white sail blowing in the wind.
Near every cobweb, Joan can always find at least one huge poisonous spider, who seems to be waiting patiently for his prey.
Joan glanced around the first observation point for a week, and then switched his perspective to the second observation point two hundred yards away.
Probably by coincidence, the second observation point was set right in the middle of a large cobweb, with a large spider lying on the opposite side.
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