"Uh... how did you and it... meet?"
In order to relieve the embarrassment on the way to find the exit, Xiaolan asked the old man pretending to be natural.
"Is this little guy?" The old man straightened up and tilted his head towards the right shoulder where the human-faced spider was lying. "Speaking of it... it's still a very interesting thing. When I just broke in here, My eyes were bleeding and rotting all the time. At that time, I really almost died. One day, when I was scraping the moss on the wall to make food as usual, I suddenly felt my finger being stung. After that, I My fingers began to swell, my body began to itch, and I slowly became breathless. When I fainted, I thought I was dead. However, I woke up later, and my eyes were not swollen or painful. When I woke up, the little guy was lying on my body. I used to be afraid of spiders and I knew what they were, but this time I wasn’t afraid. Since then, the two of us have been together."
Through the green fluorescence on the cave wall, Xiaolan glanced at the human-faced spider.
In any case, it is difficult to associate this image with the word pet.
But in this case, it is a great comfort to have a life that can accompany each other.
"Ahead..." The old man raised his arm and pointed to the dark road ahead, "Going through this water curtain is the end of the cave."
Only then did the sound of gurgling water reach Xiaolan's ears. Sure enough, a thin curtain of water filled with mist appeared in front of them, blocking them from the road ahead.
Pass through the water curtain and reach the end.
The platform here is the most spacious. On the left side of the platform, there is a black pool the size of a basketball court. The water surface is extremely calm. The green fluorescent light shines on it, but it is still pitch black, making it difficult to see what is under the water.
Except for the pool, the surroundings here are no different from other places in the cave.
Xiaolan looked left and right, desperately looking for differences.
The old man stood quietly aside, reaching out to tease the spider from time to time.
After a long while, the old man opened his mouth, "Have you found anything?"
Stones, all stones.
This is not even as good as the place where the two of them fell in. Although the exit there is above, at least there is an exit.
"It seems...I'll take a look again."
When Xiaolan was doing the second round of naked-eye scanning, the human-faced spider suddenly raised its front legs, swung its black bean-like eyes from side to side, and crawled onto the ground.
"it……"
"It's okay," the old man smiled, "I must have found a living creature."
Xiaolan's eyes followed the human-faced spider, and sure enough, in the corner of the wall, a line of large ants was climbing.
The human-faced spider drove the ants into a shallow ditch. The ants marched as usual, but they did not see that at the end of the road, a dense and sticky white spider web was waiting for them to enter the urn.
"It's so smart." Xiaolan couldn't help but admire.
"How can you survive here if you are not smart? This little guy is about to become a sperm."
Xiaolan nodded, and the smile suddenly solidified on her face.
etc.
"Ants?" Xiaolan suddenly moved back. The ants were so frightened that they ran out of the ditch. The human-faced spider waved its front foot at her reproachfully.
"What's wrong?"
"Where did these ants come from?" Xiaolan followed the source of the ant brigade to find it.
"I don't know," the old man also came closer, "but ants often appear here, so the little guy prepared traps here."
A bunch of black ants the size of fingernails were arranged in an orderly row.
Xiaolan followed the team of ants and moved.
She came to the black pool.
"These ants actually crawled out from here," Xiaolan was stunned. "They actually came out from under the water."
***
The three of them stood at what was supposed to be the entrance to the ruins and exchanged firm glances.
"Walk."
There were collapsed boards and rocks everywhere, the giant moon was gone, and there was only an ordinary moon in the sky. The moonlight was so weak that they couldn't see the details in the darkness, so they could only walk back to back and cautiously step towards the ruins. Go deep.
"Is this really here?" Merry held the wooden stick he picked up from the ground in front of his chest.
Lu Qianqian picked up a spike and said, "We must not have reached the place yet."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because there are neither people nor bones here," Lu Qianqian wrapped a piece of cloth around the blunt end of the spike, "so at least we haven't reached the place where they stayed."
At this time, Jasmine suddenly stopped.
Her eyes were staring in one direction.
Lu Qianqian and Meili stopped at the same time, looked at Jasmine warily, and then looked at the place where Jasmine was staring closely.
"I seem to have seen a pair of eyes." Facing the darkness, Jasmine spoke slowly.
"Eye?"
"It's green and shining," Jasmine raised her hand, "It's right there."
"Not human?" Merry asked.
Jasmine shook her head, "I don't know, I just caught a glimpse of it from the corner of my eye, and it disappeared in an instant."
Merry took a step forward, stretched his neck and looked at the small slope made of broken wooden boards, "Nothing."
"I don't know either..." Jasmine began to doubt herself, "It seems like it just flickered, barely..."
"Jasmine!"
Merry retracted her feet, and as soon as her eyes returned to Jasmine, she screamed in horror.
Jasmine's back suddenly felt cold.
She felt a biting coldness, accompanied by a hissing sound, quickly approaching the back of her neck.
It's too late to look back...
Lu Qianqian disappeared instantly.
Soon, Lu Qianqian's figure appeared behind Jasmine. Her body was still bowed in mid-air, maintaining a scorpion-tailed posture. She raised the spike in her hand and swung it down hard.
A stream of thick, cold liquid splashed onto the back of Jasmine's neck.
"Hiss!——" The hissing sound broke out for a while, and then stopped.
All this is done in almost half a second.
Jasmine turned around suddenly and took two steps back. Merry supported her behind her.
Lu Qianqian had already stood still, holding the spike in his hand. On the spike, hanging... a dead snake.
The sharp thorn hit the snake's seven inches, and the snake's blood spilled all over the floor. The snake still kept its mouth wide open, and the core was spit out. The snake's teeth were sharp, glowing coldly under the moon.
"Tune the tiger away from the mountain." Lu Qianqian spit out four words.
Jasmine's back felt cold again.
Is this a way to think of something like this?
"It should be because there are three of us and it's difficult to attack, so we should attract our attention first and then defeat them one by one." Merry murmured.
"Then is it the same eye I see?"
"I don't think so." Meri poked the snake's tail with the wooden stick in his hand to confirm that it was completely dead. "When it came, we didn't hear anything, and you see, this snake's eyes are yellow. of."
Indeed, the earthy color of the snake's eyes had become turbid, and the last target that appeared in the eyes was Jasmine's neck.
This means...
"There are many snakes here," Lu Qianqian shook the dead snakes away and shook the snake blood from the spikes, "We have to be careful."
