After listening to Wang Chen's story, Lin Lehan asked in confusion: "You met a male silkworm spider? How is that possible?"
“Wouldn’t the female spider eat the male spider after laying her eggs?”
Wang Chen nodded, "It stands to reason that this would be the case, but this male spider is a bit special."
"It faced the fate of being eaten and chose to save itself."
Wang Chen described to Lin Lehan the traces he found between the large and small tunnels, and explained: "I guess the male spider dug a small tunnel in advance and hid in it before the female spider wanted to eat it."
"The size of the female spider made it impossible for her to enter, so she widened the tunnel. Unexpectedly, she was killed by us within a few days of digging."
Lin Lehan thought for a while and said: "This doesn't make sense. There is no food stored in the small cave you went to see. Even if the male spider has to dig out the earth to escape, how can it survive this period of time?"
"That's why it wants to bring the spider eggs into its escape tunnel." Wang Chen asked with a smile, "Can the Shadow Girl Bingxue be smart enough to come up with the answer?"
Lin Lehan suddenly realized after thinking for a while, "You mean, the male spider brought the eggs into the small cave to force the female spider to deliver food to it, otherwise it would feed on the eggs?"
"Yes, I think it has already done this. Some of the remains of spider cocoons I saw in the small cave are from the food cocoons brought in by the mother spider, and the others are probably swallowed spider eggs. "
Wang Chen took out a small piece of dull and gray spider silk from his hand, "Look."
Lin Lehan took it and looked at it, "This doesn't look like egg-protecting spider silk." She compared it with the egg bag on the spider egg.
"I think the celestial silkworm spiders themselves have a way to destroy the egg-protecting spider silk. After they do this, the egg-protecting spider silk will become this decayed state." Wang Chen said.
"You see, although the color of this spider silk is different from that of the egg bag, it is a bit more tough than ordinary spider silk. I think my guess is not wrong."
Lin Lehan nodded slowly, "It's a pity that we can't know what that method is. If we could know it, we might not be able to publish a paper in the field of ferocious beast research."
Wang Chen smiled and said: "Isn't it already of great scientific value to know that the male spider will find a way to avoid being eaten by the female spider?"
"You mean I should compare the Celestial Spider with human nature, and compare the psychology of ferocious beasts with human beings? To prove the selfishness of males?" Lin Lehan said thoughtfully.
"Ahem, don't over-interpret it!" Wang Chen said, "It can't be said that the male spider is selfish. It should be said that this kind of species law is born to be eaten by the female spider. It is really weird."
"The male spider I killed was only a silver-level ferocious beast, while this female spider was a gold-level ferocious beast. I think the reason why the female spider chose it as her mate was so that she could safely eat the male spider."
Wang Chen went on to say, "Perhaps this is the case for the Cecropia species, which selects its mates with the same eye on food. Other races that have the habit of eating their mates should be like this."
Lin Lehan nodded in agreement, "I will compile these things into a manuscript when I go back."
She patted Wang Chen on the shoulder, but because of his petite stature, it looked more like she jumped up and hit him, "Don't worry, hero, you must be the first author."
"Then let me thank you first." Wang Chen rolled his eyes, he didn't care about these things.
Furthermore, if you really want to publish an article on this topic, you will have to compare enough Cecropus couples to be able to say something meaningful. Whether this work can be effectively implemented is the key to whether you can publish an article.
"It's a pity that big spider. If I hadn't crushed it to death with my palm, maybe it would have been the lucky one to escape from the mother spider's mouth." Wang Chen said with emotion.
"Come on, if the scum spider doesn't die now, it will be eaten by other female spiders in the future." Lin Lehan said disapprovingly.
"Why did you call the scum spider? It seems like your feelings identify with this guy?" Wang Chen pointed at the body of the female spider not far away.
"What else? Girls help girls." Lin Lehan said with a smile.
When Wang Chen heard this, he deliberately stood up and looked Lin Lehan up and down.
The latter felt uncomfortable, "What are you looking at me for?"
Wang Chen clicked his tongue and said: "If you turn into a Celestial Silkworm Spider, it seems that it will be difficult to find a male spider that is weaker than you to eat. I guess you will have to pay attention to the newly hatched spider babies."
Lin Lehan was stunned, "It doesn't seem like you are complimenting me."
"What else? Boys bully girls." Wang Chen said, and ran away before Lin Lehan could react.
"Hey! Stop! Don't force me to use my skills!"
Lin Lehan looked at his back and chased him while shouting.
…
After some fighting.
The two began to discuss the next course of action.
Wang Chen still wanted to hunt a gold-level ferocious beast, but Lin Lehan's task had been completed, so he asked the latter what he thought.
"Do you plan to go back directly now? Or form a team with me again?" Wang Chen asked, "If you go back now, then give me a transfer method. I will give you money after I go back and get rid of the equipment."
What he was talking about was the equipment dropped by killing the gold-level Celestial Silkworm Spider, the Celestial Silkworm Armor.
Because he only lost this piece of equipment, he had no choice but to sell it first and then distribute it to Lin Lehan.
Lin Lehan thought for a while, "I'd better walk with you for a while, otherwise it would feel very unloyal to leave like this. How can we, the children of the world, do this?"
"I didn't expect the Shadow Woman to be so kind." Wang Chen smiled and said, "That's fine, let's see if I can drop some more equipment and give it to you directly, so I don't have to bother selling it for money."
"Okay, okay, but my hero, have you thought about what gold-level ferocious beast you want to hunt?"
Wang Chen had already told Lin Lehan before that his purpose of coming to Misty Island was to hunt gold-level ferocious beasts, but he just changed the real reason for the system mission to the reason for rapid upgrade.
Lin Lehan looked worried, "I almost lost my life in dealing with this Celestial Silkworm Spider. If we deal with other gold-level ferocious beasts, even though there are two of us now, the difficulty will probably not be low."
Wang Chen smiled mysteriously, "Don't worry about this. I already know it. This time it will be much easier."
…
Wang Chen and the two returned along the way they came, and gradually approached the forest where the ghouls were.
Lin Lehan went to investigate first, while he temporarily stayed in a hiding place waiting for news.
While waiting, he took out some items from the storage ring and started working on them silently.
Soon, Lin Lehan came back and shared information with Wang Chen.
"The group of ghouls seems to have just finished a hunt and is now resting. They are all gathered together. It is a good time for us to launch a surprise attack."
"How about that giant ghoul? Is it there?" Wang Chen asked.
Lin Lehan shook his head, "I find it strange too, I didn't notice it at all."
