After the immortal disappeared

Not to be outdone, the man on the other side stood up in a flash, even higher than Zhu Erniang.

It was a giant black and gray python. Its body was coiled in the reeds and its exact length was unknown, but its chest diameter was close to five feet (16 meters) and it had whiskers under its jaw.

It opened its mouth in protest, and the fangs that popped out were like scimitars and were more than four feet long.

The wind happened to be blowing ashore, and He Lingchuan soon smelled a fishy breeze.

The swords were tense and the battle seemed to be about to begin. He Lingchuan quietly hid back.

I don’t know how the two parties communicated. After about ten breaths, the giant python lowered its head and Zhu Erniang also retracted her legs.

After a while, the python demon turned its head to the north and meandered away.

Zhu Erniang watched it leave before slowly crawling back.

Passing by He Lingchuan, it suddenly said: "Are you so excited that you think you will have a chance to escape when the two powerful forces are fighting?"

"How can you?" He Lingchuan smiled very perfunctorily.

"Boshan Jun loves to eat people the most, and they eat them raw. The prey swallowed whole by it can still feel itself being digested in its stomach." Zhu Erniang seemed to be smiling too. It has lived for thousands of years. , Isn’t he as smart as a young boy? "If you fall into its hands, your fate will be ten times worse!"

Then it walked slowly back to the devil's nest with a big belly.

The storm dissipated before it started.

In He Lingchuan's opinion, the giant python is more afraid.

…

It is worth mentioning that spiders often found water corpses in the swamps during this period. Sometimes it's wild animals, sometimes it's livestock, sometimes it's humans, often accompanied by a lot of driftwood boats, basically washed down from the upstream.

These are the consequences of the Hanhe River floods.

He Lingchuan also occasionally found the floating corpses of Yuan soldiers. After so many days of drifting to the swamp, they were swollen to the point where only their clothes could be identified.

I don’t know how the war in Yuanbei is progressing. He couldn't go back, so he could only dig a hole silently and let them bury them in peace.

In fact, in the past ten days, he noticed that the attitude of the spider group towards the two humans changed from neutral to unfriendly.

Especially for Dong Rui.

Not Zhu Erniang, but the swamp cave spiders.

This must be attributed to Dong Rui's inhumanity in conducting experiments, well, inhumanity. The spider demons designated as experimental subjects were still intact and healthy when they went in. They came out with six or seven broken legs, all of which were light. Some had enlarged limbs, some had their legs backwards, and some looked as if they had been injected with water. Still swollen and swaying when walking.

Some have lost their heads, and some are crazy about hitting the cage and disowning their relatives, as if they are suffering from mania.

Anyway, it’s all weird and has no good ending. Not to mention the spider demon whose intelligence has been awakened, even He Lingchuan shuddered when he saw it.

He finally understood why this guy could arouse the anger of people and gods in all countries:

If you try to reach his upper limit, you won't be able to touch other people's lower limit.

He Lingchuan reminded Dong Rui more than once, and even Zhu Erniang came to see the demon puppet master after hearing the spider group's protest, but he was blocked by him saying "If you don't do it this way, it won't happen."

Oh, can it be done just like this? He Lingchuan is not optimistic.

Every time he passed by a spider swarm, He Lingchuan could feel the malice coming from the spiders when he heard the scurrying sounds behind them. The Devil's Nest Swamp is not a place where they can stay for a long time. Even if Zhu Erniang is willing to let them go in the end, these little spiders will probably be thinking about settling their scores.

But at least for now, with Zhu Erniang's order as a talisman, He Lingchuan was still safe. Spider demons are simple in nature and have better discipline than worker bees. In addition to giving Dong Rui a hand, he just walked around in the cold eyes of many spiders.

After a quick walk, He Lingchuan discovered that the actual volume of the Demon Nest was at least twice the size of the Chifeng Mine. The passages and caves were stronger and more spacious, and even had comprehensive defenses. After all, this place has been in business for more than ten years, but the other place was hurriedly built in a few days, and the quality is very different.

Just looking at the size of this demon nest, he knew that the predators who originally lived here were of a high level. He didn't know how the Bega Kingdom defeated it back then.

Here's the weird thing -

It stands to reason that the battle should have been quite brutal, but he didn't see many magical powers or traces of indiscriminate bombardment here, or even any damage caused by the fight.

You know, even if only three patrol teams entered the Chifeng Mine, they left many traces there.

Perhaps the Demon Nest at that time was too powerful and could repair itself?

There are too many things that don't make sense.

However, the structures of the nests created by the tormentors are all very similar. After all, they all imitate the human body.

He Lingchuan wanted to walk around Panchang a few times, but was stopped every time, saying that it was a restricted area. The spider guards at the door were almost as big as the guards at Zhu Erniang's door, and they were formed into groups of three and were on guard.

He Lingchuan has good observation skills and found that the frequency of burrowing spiders coming in and out of this place in groups is much higher than that of other places in the Demon Nest.

And they transport fluorescent spores, grass, algae, and even some fermented fertilizers. It was the first time He Lingchuan saw that monsters were also skilled in composting.

Seeing this, he knew something.

Burrowing spiders are not originally creatures with strong ability to act collectively and are relatively loose. However, once a monster appears in this group, it is likely to transform into a biological structure like a honeycomb and ant nest. Not to mention anything else, leopards were originally loners, but the family of Leopard Demon Quartz would live, cooperate and practice together, and even their descendants would still do this more than a hundred years later.

Nowadays, these burrowing spiders have an orderly division of labor and cooperation, and their care must be to make a living by eating.

Finally one day, He Lingchuan found several burrow spiders walking in, with something like a glutinous dumpling on their foreheads, white and soft and moving.

He had seen this thing in his dream -

aphid larvae.

Sure enough, Zhu Erniang led the spider group to do their old business in the Demon's Nest!

Opening a ranch.

The length of the human intestine is amazing, at least six meters when stretched straight. The total space in this part of the Demon's Nest is not small. Although it cannot be compared with the old nest in the Ghost Needle Stone Forest, as long as the spider group controls the temperature and humidity, the fungal blanket can thrive, and the aphid cattle can produce honeydew, and the spider group has a stable source of food.

He knew that these burrow spiders would not easily change their diet to only eat fish and shrimp.

However, the real Zhu Erniang was not burned by He Lingchuan for an aphid ranch, otherwise she would never put humans in her nest, which is too close to the ranch.

Do you want to repeat the old trick and repeat the dream in reality? But even if he could escape from Zhu Erniang's territory, how would he break out of the mirage at the edge of the swamp?

He Lingchuan secretly calculated and occasionally consulted with Dong Rui.

Now Dong Rui, apart from eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, was devoted to the experiment, and he had to work hard for 30 days. He didn't take He Lingchuan's new information to heart, and just said "Oh".

The burrow spiders opened a ranch, so what does it have to do with them?

He Lingchuan pressed down his hand holding the medicine bottle, and his voice was as soft as a mosquito, and almost only the two of them could hear it:

"It's been more than half a month. I just want to ask you, can Zhu Erniang's medicine be made?"

Dong Rui glanced at the door and whispered: "No."

"..." So straightforward? "Then what's the point of your experiment!" Still not thinking of a way to escape?

Dong Rui sighed, and said with the patience of a layman: "It is not difficult to prepare the medicine for making demon puppets. I have experience and technology, and even some ready-made medicines. I just need to fine-tune them. The biggest problem lies in Zhu Erniang herself."

"What's wrong with it?"

"No two beasts have exactly the same characteristics, and the demon puppets are the same. The key to making them is to cause non-directional mutations." Dong Rui shook his head, "But Zhu Erniang is an ancient demon fairy. Although she has reduced her cultivation by metamorphosis, her body and demon nature are too stable. Well, not only stable, but also rock-hard. These medicines may not be of any use to her. At most, she will have diarrhea."

"Stepping back, if the medicine takes effect, she will have to endure severe and long pain. I have experimented with so many demons, and none of them can endure the process of transforming demon puppets."

The process is extremely painful, but the result is unknown. Is Zhu Erniang willing to pay such a price just to fight against Yuanli?

He Lingchuan was puzzled: "Then what have you been busy with these days?"

"It's such a luxury to use living ancient demons and their remains for experiments, even if it's just a small part!" Dong Rui laughed, "It also has a nest of disciples, just like its downgraded copies. They are still willing to do experiments for me. Where can I find such a good opportunity at other times?"

In the past, when he wanted to make demon puppets, he would fight to the death first. The higher the level of the demon beast he wanted to catch, the greater the risk. Otherwise, how could he be wanted by the Beijia Kingdom?

This is simply his happy nest for scientific research.

"What are you going to do after the deadline?" He Lingchuan reminded him to focus on practical problems first, and time passed quickly.

Dong Rui scratched his head: "Let's talk about it later."

After being interrupted by He Lingchuan several times, Dong Rui quit the workaholic mode. Of course, it was also because his brain was a little overwhelmed after high-intensity work.

Tonight, the moon is full, and the two simply walked to the entrance of the demon nest, sat by the water of the tiankeng, drank, and watched the silver light pour down.

He Lingchuan always had good wine hidden in his storage ring, so he took it out at this time, one jar for each person.

From where they were standing, they saw a full moon like a silver basin, and the light shining on the water was as bright as stars.

Dong Rui stared blankly for a while, then sighed.

Does this kind of person still know how to feel sad about the passing of time? "Why are you sighing?"

"Nothing." Dong Rui didn't wear a mask anymore. No creature in the swamp thought he was ugly. In the eyes of the spider demon, He Lingchuan was probably as ugly as him.

When he drank, a little bit of wine leaked from the crooked corner of his mouth.

He Lingchuan had gotten used to that horrible face, and asked him again: "What's wrong with your face?"

Dong Rui just drank and didn't say anything.

After a long while, he wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth: "A woman did it."

He Lingchuan was surprised: "So cruel?"