After the protagonist returns to "Dongyang City", he temporarily puts behind him the mystery about the mysterious disappearance of the residents here.
The next day, the protagonist once again rode Xiaoqing and set off towards the south.
According to the protagonist's previous knowledge, the south and east of "Dongyang City" do not belong to the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
There are lakes and dense forests in the east, but the protagonist does not dare to enter the dense forests to explore, fearing that he will encounter any danger in the dark depths of the forest.
As for the south, the protagonist has been here once before, but the distance was not far.
That time, the protagonist and several of his men formed a temporary hunting team and successfully captured a caterpillar.
Then the hunting team was attacked by a mantis, and the protagonist escaped death and left a deep impression on this place.
This time, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing and quickly passed through the bush where he was in danger in a straight line.
Passing through the bushes and continuing to the south is a different terrain, which is a stretch of rolling hills, while the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is basically plains.
Most of the hills are not high, only about ten meters on average, but to ants they are like towering mountains.
The shrubs stopped at the foot of the hills, and there were only scattered shrubs and large stretches of continuous wild grass on the hills.
The protagonist hovered in a circle over the hills. The grass and leaves on the ground were so dense that it was impossible to see clearly what was happening on the ground.
Although flies fly quickly, their endurance is not very good. They usually have to take a break after flying for five to ten minutes.
Xiaoqing has been flying for more than five minutes now, and the frequency of wingbeats has begun to decrease significantly. So, the protagonist ordered it to fall towards the bushes on the top of a hill.
Generally speaking, there are few predatory insects on the treetops and they are safer than on the ground.
Xiao Qing descended straight towards the top of the bush, while gradually slowing down.
The master tightened the reins firmly to ensure that Xiaoqing understood that his command was to land, not simply to lose height.
By this time it was very close to the top of the bush. The protagonist suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something shining in the bushes under the sunlight.
what is that?
The protagonist stared at the suspected flashing location with wide eyes. The suspected flash point was near the expected landing site.
Xiaoqing is faithfully executing the protagonist's order to land. It is very tired. After receiving the order, it is very cooperative and even starts to land in a hurry.
The protagonist's sharp eyesight, which is better than that of ordinary insects, allows him to find the glimmer of light on the top of the bush again.
It seems...a line?
Reflective? metal wire?
The protagonist is wondering what thread reflects light and why it is hanging on the bush. A terrifying scene suddenly appeared in his sight.
As the height decreases, the protagonist gets closer and closer to the location of the flash. And due to the change in angle, he saw more reflective lines in an instant.
Countless lines are arranged in circles and circles, one circle inside another, layer upon layer. There are also some vertical lines from the circumference to the center of the circle. These vertical lines and the concentric circles together form an airtight network.
This is a spider web! ! Right in front of the protagonist and Xiao Qing.
Only then did the protagonist realize the danger before him. He suddenly pulled the first rein, trying to pull Xiao Qing up.
But it was too late. In just one second, Xiaoqing and the knight on its back crashed into this dense spider web.
Before Xiaoqing's landing speed could completely slow down, it broke several spider silks along the way, but these sticky spider silks also wrapped around it tightly like maggots attached to its bones.
When Xiao Qing stopped, he was already entangled in many spider threads. It flapped its wings in fear, and its six legs kept struggling. But this kind of struggle had the opposite effect. Instead, more spider threads were wrapped around his body, making him even more unable to move.
Xiaoqing's struggle was in vain. Many spider silks are stronger and more elastic than steel wires of the same weight. Even humans have not been able to create materials with such high strength and toughness. It is a tiny fly and there is no way it can break free on its own.
The protagonist's situation was slightly better at this time. He was thrown off by Xiao Qing, and his abdomen was only stuck to a spider thread, hanging in the air.
But the protagonist is not optimistic. He can feel that the entire spider web is shaken by Xiao Qing's fierce struggle. This kind of vibration is irregular and completely different from the vibration when the wind blows.
The protagonist can feel the vibration, so the owner of this spider web should also feel it.
Spider webs are webs made of silk produced by some species of spiders and can be used to capture insects and other food.
After weaving a spider web, spiders usually wait for prey to fall into the trap on or near the web until they sense the vibrations produced when the prey collides with or is trapped in the spider web...
As expected, the protagonist soon felt another regular vibration.
The protagonist looked in the direction where the vibration came from, and a gray spider came into view. This is a spider about the same size as Xiao Qing, hiding on a branch of a bush connected by spider silk.
At this moment, it felt a strange movement coming from the spider web, which was the familiar vibration of food falling into the net.
So the spider couldn't wait to climb up the vertical line connecting the bush and the center of the spider web, and crawled towards Xiao Qing.
This spider web opens roughly vertically. At this moment, the spider crawled in from the upper left side of the spider web, while Xiao Qing was entangled on the right side of the center of the spider web, and the protagonist was thrown to the lower side of the spider web.
If the spider attacks Xiaoqing, the protagonist will not be noticed by it for the time being. But if Xiao Qing dies, even if the protagonist is safe and sound, it will take a lot of trouble to return to "Dongyang City" on foot.
And Xiaoqing is a mount that the protagonist personally trained, so naturally he can't just watch it being eaten by a spider.
Xiaoqing must be rescued, and the protagonist begins to struggle.
He was not struggling blindly, otherwise it would only cause more spider threads to wrap around his body and make things worse and worse.
Thanks to his relatively petite figure, the protagonist's abdomen is now only stuck to a spider thread, and he is suspended in the air with his belly facing upwards.
The protagonist carefully avoids other spider threads, tilts his head, and wants to cut the spider threads with the large, plier-like claws of his upper jaw.
But the spider silk is so sticky that as soon as the protagonist's upper jaw touches the spider silk, he feels stuck.
The protagonist tried to pull slightly, and the spider silk deformed and twisted, but it was still firmly stuck to the roof of the mouth and could not be pulled apart.
Therefore, the protagonist can only increase his strength and jerk his head. His brute strength, far superior to that of insects, came into play, and the spider threads were immediately cut off.
But that doesn't let the protagonist off the hook.
On the contrary, because the spider silk was broken, the protagonist's abdomen was still stuck. So the protagonist drew an arc in the air like the pendulum of a pendulum. With a "pop" sound, he was thrown to another position in the spider web, and his back was also stuck.
Misfortunes never come singly. The spider that was crawling towards Xiaoqing felt the strange movement coming from the spider web, and it suddenly turned its head in the direction where the protagonist was stuck!
