Indiana Jones

Chapter 18 Survival in the Jungle (01)

The agility of the huge colorful spider was completely asymmetrical to its body shape, which caught Li Guoshou by surprise, but he was not completely unsuspecting. The moment the colorful spider pounced on him, he swung the butt of his gun backhand and smashed it hard. It hit the colorful spider, but at the moment it hit, he heard a muffled sound. The gun stock seemed to hit something hard, and the colorful spider was sent flying several meters into the air and fell to the ground.

Originally, Li Guoshou thought that this blow would definitely kill the thing. After all, he had used a lot of strength, but what he didn't expect was that the colorful spider rolled on the ground and then quickly stood up to assume an attacking posture. This guy was still alive and kicking, the blow just now just knocked off one of its legs, what surprised him even more was that the colorful spider leg stuck into his gun stock like a steel rod.

"****..." Li Guoshou finally understood that this thing is not easy to mess with, and quickly took a few steps back. At the same time, the colorful spider with one leg missing had rushed over quickly, and its body suddenly lowered its posture and slammed again. bounced up.

Just when Li Guoshou was about to fight back, he suddenly heard a gunshot, and the colorful spider that had just bounced up again was hit by the volley. What is surprising is that this guy struggled to stand up again, and fled into the woods staggeringly, leaving only two broken legs on the ground and a hard shell that was knocked off.

When Li Guoshou turned around, he saw that other people had already run far away. Li Siming's gun had just been put down, and there was still light smoke from the muzzle.

"You guys are too careless to run so far." Li Guoshou cursed and turned around and ran over.

"Let's go." Agui urged everyone eagerly.

"What are you afraid of? That thing is either dead or disabled." Li Siming squatted down and filled his water bottle.

"You know what, this thing is very weird, very vengeful, the biggest one I have ever seen is only the size of a palm, you have seen how big it is, my grandpa said that this kind of thing will only grow up after eating human flesh , It is said that once you eat human flesh, this thing will shed its shell once, and it will grow a lot bigger, how many times does this thing have to eat human flesh to grow so big?" Agui said while digging into the woods.

Everyone gradually learned from Agui that this kind of colorful spider is a unique thing in this forest. There are also some in the uninhabited forest area of ​​his hometown, but it is very rare, and almost few people see it, because it is long. It is colorful, so it has a nice name called colorful spider, and because it is as hard as iron, some people call it an iron-headed spider. Of course, the spider's shell is definitely not harder than iron, and it may be because of its hardness. In some places in northern Myanmar, the local aborigines called this ghost face spider, because the hair on its back and abdomen will form different patterns according to the change of its environment. When threatened, the whole body stands upright, forming two hideous grimaces on the back and abdomen.

This kind of spider is ferocious, surreptitious, and very vengeful. In addition to catching insects, they also prey on small animals. Some people have seen the skeletons of foxes and wolves in their nests in trees. They are the most threatening There are two kinds of sexual weapons, one is a kind of toxin secreted by oneself, this toxin has a certain anesthetic and hallucinogenic effect, and will conjure up various pictures according to the inner fear and strong desire of the poisoned person. In addition to hallucinations, this toxin also has a strong corrosive effect. It will slowly corrode the flesh and blood of the prey into a thick gelatinous liquid for them to enjoy slowly. The color spider likes to dump the prey on the tree , until the last thing left to eat is only a pair of broken and incomplete skin bones, and then lay eggs in the skin bones to make it a breeding ground for the next generation. The most frightening thing is that this venom will not be fatal immediately, and the poisoned person will die immediately. Sometimes when I was awake, I saw my rotting body and the colorful spiders that kept swimming on my body, but I couldn't do anything about it.

Its other weapon is its eight long legs, each of which is as hard and sharp as a serrated knife, capable of nailing smaller animals such as mice and smaller snakes to the ground or cutting them into pieces , but because this thing doesn't like to eat dead things, it often chops up its prey after getting angry and then discards the corpse.

Gu Agui's grandfather said that this kind of spider can grow up to the size of a dustpan. In the early years, hunters hunted and killed this kind of spider, and then used secret methods to process it into shields and sold them to some generals in the army. It is said that this kind of shield was processed again. After that, the hardness will be greatly improved, and it can really reach the point of being as hard as iron, but the weight is very light, which is very suitable for ancient hand-to-hand combat. After all, fighting with a knife and a shield consumes a lot of energy. This lightweight and high-strength Equipment is the dream of ancient infantry, just like many American soldiers on the battlefield today would rather take the risk of being shot than take off the bulletproof steel plate in front of them to charge into battle. There is no guarantee of body flexibility, and if you fall into the water, you may be dragged to the bottom of the water and drown alive. Short-distance charging cannot guarantee rapid progress, and a series of shortcomings such as excessive energy consumption. It is not so easy to carry a heavy steel plate.

In addition, in addition to these two points, this kind of shield also emits a faint indescribable smell, can repel insects, and is an indispensable carry-on equipment for marching and fighting in summer. It is difficult to preserve for a long time, it will deteriorate and shatter after a few decades, and it is hard to come by, so it is impossible to equip troops on a large scale. It is used as a mosquito coil at home. Unless it is necessary, no one will take such an expensive and rare shield to fight. Even if someone brings it to the battlefield, the enemy may be more interested in this thing than his master, and will definitely try to snatch it. In the past, they either took it for themselves or donated it to their superiors in order to get promoted and make a fortune.

Although Agui described this thing as miraculous, everyone is only dubious, they think it is impossible for such a thing to exist, if this thing is so real, the jungle would have been its world long ago, why is it so rare?
The colorful spider leg on the butt of Li Guoshou's gun was carefully pulled out by Agui with a stone. He said that this thing is also highly poisonous, so it's better not to touch it lightly.

After finally finding a suitable place to rest, they encountered such a terrible thing. It was really difficult to find a chance to breathe along the way. The escape along the way was dangerous and dangerous, and they could only deal with it exhausted.

In order to avoid being retaliated by the injured spider for Agui to take them away in a hurry, Li Siming's shot just missed, and only knocked off its two legs and a piece of the back carapace, so it is likely to follow behind and wait for an opportunity revenge.

Although everyone felt that Agui was making a fuss, they still followed him and left in a hurry because Agui was the only jungle guide here. In this way, everyone walked forward for more than half an hour, when they were too tired to stop. When I came down to rest, I saw an RB devil hanging upside down from the tree in front of him, and a colorful spider was climbing up and down on him...

(End of this chapter)