(To be modified later) "That's why I say this is a very magical characteristic. What's more interesting is that if the young spiders are male spiders and they are artificially separated, then the male spiders will follow the scent to eat the female and male spiders after they grow up. , the proportions are also one hundred and seventy percent.”
"But if the young spider is a female, then it will definitely eat its parents, with the female spider first and then the male spider."
"Spiders have a limited lifespan." Xu Huo mentioned.
Madam Butterfly's eyebrows arched, "This is the interesting part. Male butterfly spiders have a lifespan of up to decades, while female spiders are multiples of male spiders. It is said that some scientists have raised them since they were young, and they have raised them till their own age." The dead spider is still alive and well.”
"So if the young spider fails to eat its mother before it grows up, it will start a hundred-year hunt to kill its mother until the female spider dies or her scent disappears."
"It's really scary." The woman opened her fan to cover her red lips. "Most spiders that have not evolved have a lifespan of less than two years. The lifespan of butterfly spiders after transformation is equivalent to human longevity."
"Some scientists have also doubted whether the female butterfly spiders are really mortal. In order to ensure that the species will not spread, they have the habit of killing their fathers and mothers thousands of miles away."
Xu Huo laughed out loud, "Eternal life? Seeking eternal life in a kind of spider?"
Madame Butterfly also smiled, "No, that's why most of the butterfly spiders died in the laboratory. I don't know whether they really don't die naturally, but they make this kind of spider a rare species."
"Maybe this is the bad thing about human beings. They want all the good things, and they will trample everything for it. But if they really make it, it will be a benefit to mankind, but it's a pity that they are all mediocre people."
She was talking about only one kind of spider, but she knew that there must be more species used in the experiment, and even humans themselves were among the test subjects.
"That's why the world has to change. Why live so long? Love knows no bounds. If a person can make outstanding contributions beyond the limits of a single person, isn't it also a disguised form of immortality?" Madame Butterfly turned back and winked at Duke Tarr. Blinking, "Mr. Duke, don't you think so?"
"It makes sense, it makes sense." Duke Tarr said with great admiration: "It turns out that this is the concept of New Wheel Religion. Madam's words can simply sublimate a person's soul. Physical life and death are insignificant, and only the spirit of dedication can last forever."
Madam Butterfly lowered her eyes, looked away in boredom, touched her cheek and said, "I have to take a beauty sleep."
When the beauty opened her mouth, Duke Tarr of course agreed. He sent her back to the castle attentively, and had people bring her beauty food before going to bed. He even picked a bouquet of flowers for her himself, so that she could fall asleep with the fragrance of the flowers at night.
Madame Butterfly turned away his temptation, and Duke Tarr ignored Xu Huo who was accompanying him. He touched his chin and entered the next room. After a while, a bodyguard left the castle.
Xu Huo's bedroom was on the third floor. After seeing them off, he returned to his room.
Of course Mr. Dong knew that the bodyguards had left the castle, but the bodyguards around Duke Tarr were obviously very skilled players, so he couldn't think of following them.
But this Madame Butterfly is quite interesting.
"Sir, I found two more copies of the notes left by the previous gentleman." Mr. Dong came in with the booklet and food.
"Just put it on the desk." Xu Huo also has a desk in his bedroom.
Mr. Dong put it down as he was told and said as he led him out: "Sir, go to bed early tonight."
Xu Huo couldn't help but glance at him, but the other party didn't say much and closed the door gently after going out.
After a brief pause, Xu Huo opened the umbrella of justice on the terrace. He waited until it started to rain outside before returning to his desk and continuing to read He Pu's notes.
The servants and Mr. Dong rested one after another. In the rainy night, several lights in the castle were extinguished one after another. Except for a glimmer of light on the third floor, the rest of the huge building seemed to be completely integrated into the night.
I don’t know how long it took, but a different feeling enveloped the castle.
Xu Huo, who was reading his notes, stopped, looked up and looked out the window, and saw pairs of red lights through the curtains, staring into the room like eyes.
He put down the things in his hands and stood up and walked out. When the window was opened, the red light outside disappeared. The night breeze blew in. The hanging gauze curtains and the flowers in the garden downstairs swayed at the same frequency. His eyes moved downstairs. , Madam Butterfly, who should have gone to bed long ago, actually appeared alone in front of the maze garden, turned back and looked in his direction, then turned and walked into the maze.
After she entered, a luminous butterfly flew out of the flower tree and flew precariously to his window.
As soon as he reached out to catch it, the butterfly dispersed into light spots and disappeared in the air.
There was no other movement in the castle. Xu Huo hesitated for a moment and then went downstairs with his umbrella.
The castle at this time looked different from when Mr. Dong controlled it before. There were lights in the corridors and the reception hall on the first floor, but except for these areas, other places were completely dark. Occasionally, people could be seen when walking past. The feeling of something peeking out of it makes one's scalp tingle.
This feeling was familiar to Xu Huo. He went downstairs according to his memory, then went around from the side corridor to the outer corridor behind the main building, and passed through the botanical garden to the maze garden.
But before he could get closer, those things hiding in the darkness crawled out. The ground, tree trunks, and even branches and leaves were densely packed with small burr-like things. They looked slightly different, but they all looked the same. There were plenty of legs, some non-venomous and some highly venomous. They surrounded him for a few seconds and then all crawled towards him.
Xu Huo didn't stop, ignoring the spiders crawling up his pants, and walked straight into the garden maze, bypassing the two giant spiders blocking the way, and walked along the maze passage to the center.
He had entered this maze once, and he roughly remembered the layout of the route at the beginning, so he was not blocked by the visually changed passage and quickly found Madam Butterfly who had entered the maze.
She stood alone, her light purple silk nightgown dripping dark purple from the rain, and her beautiful face was also stained with water drops, but she didn't care about this, nor did she care about anyone looking at her, and raised her head slightly Looking into the air, he stretched out his hands as if to catch something.
Xu Huo followed her line of sight and looked carefully at her hands. After a few seconds, he saw a pair of translucent wings flapping, but this fleeting picture was incomplete. In the blink of an eye, there was nothing in her hands again.
"Has your brain evolved for the second time?" Madam Butterfly struck each other with her palms. To the naked eye, it looked like she tapped the air, but an invisible force dissipated.
Xu Huo knew that he would never see the butterfly just now. He held an umbrella and looked at the woman, "You want to kill me."
