Our family is in decline

"Ouch~"

Before she could open her mouth, Wangcai looked up to the sky and howled, then turned around and rushed into the darkness.

"Over here!" Paracelsus reacted and greeted the two of them.

What if something happens to the lord trying to protect himself?

Just at this moment Lance's voice came.

"It was delayed a little by annoying little bugs."

Lance walked out of the darkness holding the Giant Killer. Both his clothes and the sword were stained with the white sticky substance spit by spiders. No wonder he didn't come back immediately...

And he was dragging the corpse of a spider in his hand, and the crossbow arrows on its armor were still there.

"These guys should have gathered here a long time ago. They were just afraid of the fire and didn't dare to come forward." Lance explained casually, then looked at a few people, "Are you okay?"

"It's nothing, these pigs are bigger than our pigs!" Boudica commented while looking at the corpses on the ground.

After hearing this, William couldn't help but agree, and at the same time he had doubts.

"How could there be such a huge spider in the world?"

"Don't be surprised if anything appears in Hamlet. This is a place full of magical power." Lance joked like a self-mockery, and then raised his hand to gently caress the wounds on Wangcai's body, smoothing them out.

Paracelsus had already begun to take out tools and began to dissect and study the slightly more complete corpses.

I don't know if I am calming down or if I am trying to cover up my unspeakable feelings.

Lance cleared the cobwebs on his body with the help of the other two people. Paracelsus couldn't see it at the time, but he could clearly see that all four of them were aimed at him. If not most of them were killed by swords in the first wave, He would be even more embarrassed if he was shot all over his body.

The white mucus looks like water at first, and then becomes thicker and tougher when exposed to air. This property seems a bit familiar...

Isn't this just glue?

Can I catch a batch of these spiders myself and then build a glue factory like milking cows?

Not to mention, there is really something going on. There is no such thing as glue in this world. There is resin as waterproof glue, and if you want to build a big ship, you must use this.

As for the green one, it is naturally some kind of venom. I don’t know what the specific effect is or what use it can be.

"Boss, can this thing be eaten?"

Boudica was picking up a severed foot and asked curiously while looking at the jelly-like flesh on the cut.

"I advise you not to eat it. At least no one knows whether it is poisonous or not until it is verified."

Lance looked a little speechless. This thing looks like this. He grew up in Hamlet Wilderness. No one knows whether it has been corrupted. There is no need to worry about problems if he eats it?

"But didn't the wolf boy just eat it?" Boudica looked to the side with a pity expression. She also wanted to taste it.

Hearing her voice, Lance suddenly turned around and looked at Wangcai, seeing it bit open the carapace and licked the creamy muscles inside.

"Prosperous wealth!" Lance raised his hand and inserted the giant sword into the ground, then strode towards it.

Wangcai stood up straight with a tremor, and looked at Lance who was approaching. He stepped back slightly because he wanted to run away but didn't dare. His little eyes were wandering, and he didn't dare to look directly at the person coming.

"Can I eat random things? What if I poison you stupid dog?" Lance reached out and grabbed the fur on the back of his neck to pull it up, then raised his hand and slapped it on the face, "You can't learn from this. Fergus? Did I let you eat it?"

"Woooo~" Wangcai closed his eyes and let the slap hit his face, letting out a submissive wail.

"Don't pretend to be stupid. Next time I see you eating randomly, I'm sure you won't get the best results!"

Figgus has been trained to refuse food and will not eat anything else without William's order. However, Wangcai has no one to discipline him, so he does whatever he likes. There are no rules at all. If he doesn't teach him a lesson, he may have to do it in the future. there is a problem.

William couldn't help but feel a little ashamed when he saw such a simple and crude scene. Dog training is very particular. Brutal beating will only make the dog resist.

But it is undeniable that it does work. The only explanation is that the lord is so powerful that even animals can be subdued. Otherwise, others who dare to do this will definitely come forward and give him a bite.

"That's not right. These spiders are not infected and there is no trace of the fungus on their bodies."

Paracelsus put down the scalpel in his hand, and in front of her was a completely cut open corpse of a giant spider.

Her words brought the team's attention back.

The appearance of business made Lance restrain his actions to educate and prosper a little, put it down directly, and moved closer, squatting down to check the situation of the spiders, and couldn't help but frown.

"There's really no sign of infection."

Yes, not discovering the fungal infection is a bad thing, because it proves that there is something wrong with their direction and they are getting further and further away from the truth...

"These spiders are not injured. Isn't it normal that they won't be infected?" William was a little hard to understand. It was impossible for these spiders to be infected simply based on the mode of transmission.

"The question is, if these spiders are not infected, why are they attacking us together?"

Lance explained, and William fell silent and fell into thinking.

But Boudica is not a guy who likes to use his brain. After hearing this, his mind overloaded and shut down. He shook his head and spoke to Lance.

"Boss, what do you mean by that? I'm really worried!"

"I don't know if there are any gregarious spiders in the world, but given the size of these spiders, it's impossible to gather in such large numbers because the food can't keep up.

It would have been a strange thing if these were not infected with fungi but would attack us in swarms. "

"I understand, it's just not enough to eat." Boudica looked like that.

Only when William heard this did he realize that this was what the lord just said. In fact, he didn't understand it either~

"That's right!" Lance seemed to have a reaction.

Boudica's words reminded him that these spiders obviously had no intelligence. This behavior did not look like they were hugging together, otherwise they would not have separated just now, but more like they were trying to snatch their prey.

They should just be attracted together, but the act of snatching prey itself indicates another problem, that is, there is no prey.

This also further confirms what happened in the wilderness, causing these spiders to leave their territory and need to go out to hunt.

"Boss, why do you only speak half of what you say!"

"It's very simple. The only explanation can only be that they gathered here temporarily. Look at the trees around you and the tree that the spider climbed just now. This shouldn't be a place where spiders usually move, but four of them were actually attracted.

I don’t know what caused them to leave the territory, but it must be related to the conditions in the wilderness. "

William stretched out the torch and stepped forward to observe carefully, and found that the trees where the spiders had crawled had either traces of their pointed feet piercing the bark, or traces of moving with the help of spider silk, but there were no traces in other places around them.

The Lord's observations are so detailed...

"Well, no matter what the reason is, there must be something we want to find over there."

Lance looked up at the sky, intending to estimate the time, but the darkness in front of his eyes made him realize that he was confused even if he hadn't slept.

"I plan to keep moving. You should rest well, right?"

Lance's words were self-evident. He knew that late-night operations would put the team in danger, but he had no choice but to follow up on the clues he finally found as soon as possible.

This is a gamble. If nothing is found, it will further weaken the morale of the team. Also, if further clues are found, it will help him crack the ancestor's conspiracy.

After this night attack, several other people lost their sleepiness and began to pack their things.

Lance raised his hand to sacrifice the remains, but his eyes were focused on the dark wilderness.

This time was different from the previous ones on the old road. The traces of the bandits were easy to find and the enemy was very clear. But now his understanding of the wilderness was very shallow. He had some guesses about what the enemy was doing, but he was not sure.

Pressure was building inside him, but he couldn't show it, so he kept moving forward.

"Put out the torches, the enemy will find us."

Lance stamped out the torch, and darkness instantly swallowed up the team, which had lost the shelter of the campfire.

Darkness reigns now - black as death.

Even Boudica didn't want to enter the wilderness in such a dark environment, let alone the other two. His move directly put great pressure on the other people.

However, the position of the team has changed at this time. Lance leads the team directly in front. He can ignore the darkness with his spiritual vision. Boudica and Wangcai are walking at the end, watching out for possible enemies.

…………

"Snapped!"

There was a sound, and then there was a dull sound of something falling to the ground.

Without hesitation, Paracelsus picked up the tools and went forward to dissect the giant spider with an arrow in its head and take out the glands.

The anatomy of the two giant spiders, the glands of the web-weaver spider are in the abdomen, while the glands of the poison-spitting spider are on both sides of the lower jaw. This is the most valuable thing.

Lance saw her sacrifice the corpses directly after she was done, and felt that the spirituality returned was more than three times that of an adult.

Originally, Lance had some objections to the night attacks of these spiders, but now he was eager for more.

The team only penetrated a certain distance when Figes, who was walking steadily, suddenly stopped and squatted down quietly in one direction. William, who was holding the dog leash, realized something and spoke immediately.

"Figgs smelled that!"

The advancing team immediately became wary because of William's words, but Lance felt excited because he finally found it.

"Let's go over and have a look."

Lance issued the order to move forward without hesitation. The purpose of this trip was reconnaissance. Of course he had to go up and take a look when encountering a situation.

Soon he found his target, which were several strange black figures standing in the wilderness, but they didn't look like humans.

In Lance's field of vision, these monsters all emit a faint spiritual fluorescence. Are they considered extraordinary creatures to some extent?

You know, I didn't feel this way when I saw that corpse before. Lance felt something was wrong for no reason!

The other people couldn't see what was in the distance, but they were suddenly stopped by Lance.

He took out the torch, which had just been lit. The light of the fire dispelled the darkness around the team, but this time it seemed that something had been touched. The parasite that had been dormant just now began to move.

And another thing that Lance didn't expect was that the movements of these parasites were not as stiff and slow as he imagined. On the contrary, they actually showed a staggering and running posture.

"Be careful of enemies!" Lance directly passed the torch back, and the crossbow appeared out of thin air in his hand.

His sound also alerted several other people, but the range of the torch's light was limited, and they didn't know what kind of enemies they were, where they were, and how many there were?

Under certain circumstances, Lance's words only increased their pressure.

There is no way to exclude Boudica and the other two have no experience in similar situations.

"Woof!" Fortunately, dogs can identify the direction of the enemy through their sense of smell. Paracelsus raised the torch in the direction of Figes. After the torch burned, the fire became brighter and brighter, and finally he saw the enemy coming towards the team in the distance. of enemies.

Just not seeing them made them full of pressure, and after spying on these monsters, their pressure doubled.

The monster's body is in human form, and there are some rags hanging on its body to prove their former identity, but other than that, they have nothing to do with humans.

The body is almost completely fibrous, and the outer bark turns into brown bark, revealing a toughness. It is covered with yellow mushrooms, stacked in irregular sizes, growing wantonly on this "dead wood".

The muscles on the monster's arms withered and shrank, and the fingers were stretched out of control and twisted into claw-like shapes. The ends had been transformed into sharp claws. The entire palm was yellow, as if it was covered with spores of germs.

What really shocks people is the monster's head... maybe it shouldn't be called a head, because a huge mushroom directly occupies the position of the original head, becoming a mushroom head in the true sense.

And this can only be regarded as ordinary. The real terror lies in another kind of monster, which can make people feel inexplicable fear just by seeing it.

It was an indescribable monster, with more human parts preserved. Whether it was the limbs or the head, except for the dry and shrunken muscles, it could be seen that it looked human.

But the weird thing is that this "man"'s body is bent over, with all fours on the ground, and his belly is facing up, with a huge red fungus growing on it, like a honeycomb tumor with dense holes on it. .

There are also many yellow mushrooms growing disorderly around the bacteria.

What really shocked the team was that this monster, whose limbs were bent backwards and completely violated the structure of the human body, could actually move, and it was not slow to crawl on all fours.

When this thing got closer, they felt what a surprise was!

What's even more surprising is that there are not only two, but three mushroom heads and one honeycomb mushroom.

"Oh~ the corruption is so serious!"

"Germs eat up life!"

"Mushroom boy!"