After collecting the trophies, Mo Bei went to tear up the cobwebs again. The Roman dagger with the Blood Book that he just bought was extremely sharp. Cutting these cobwebs was like scratching a plastic sheet, and easily peeled them off in pieces from the tree.
Even so, he worked for a while before roughly peeling off the spider silk from several trees.
"Don't bunch it up, otherwise it will be difficult to spin the yarn. Just fold it layer by layer like this."
Seeing Milor and Perona peeling and rolling them into their arms, he reminded him aloud.
"Oh well!"
Milor nodded, feeling a little ashamed, because Mo Bei had said before that we should work hard to explore the potential value of various foods. She fully agreed, but after coming here, she still did not discover the potential value hidden here. value.
If it weren't for Mo Bei's explanation, she would have regarded this spider forest as a huge threat to Kurast Harbor, just like everyone else.
In fact, this is just a limitation brought by the background of their time. It is not that Mo Bei's brain is very good, it is just that he has been exposed to a relatively advanced consciousness.
After removing the cobwebs covering the tree crown, they found that the trees in this area were already showing symptoms of death. It seemed that this forest had not been occupied for a long time, but if they continued to walk in, there would definitely be another area without any traces. Living dark forest.
"It's almost done. Let's take some back for them to try. If it's of great use, it will prevent a large number of people from collecting it."
Mo Bei put a bunch of spider webs that his teammates had peeled off together into his inventory and gave up for the time being. Anyway, he already regarded this spider forest as a high-yield plantation.
Afterwards, the three of them headed deep into the spider forest again, looking for the reason why their numbers suddenly began to increase.
In fact, Mo Bei felt that there was a strong inevitability for their numbers to skyrocket.
According to some information he had learned before, the reasons for the proliferation of biological creatures can be summarized into six points.
The first is strong adaptability and sufficient food.
Spiders are very magical creatures and have many powerful abilities. Otherwise, no one would create a superhero like Spider-Man. Without two brushes, how can a superhero be created in one bite?
If you were a Butterfly Man. . . That. . What's the use of that? The light will shine. . .
The alienation of these spiders in the rainforest is extremely successful. Not only are they powerful individually, they also form groups. They have changed from waiting for prey to actively hunting in groups, occupying an unparalleled ecological niche in this rainforest.
The second is strong reproductive ability and fast reproduction speed.
They absolutely agree with this.
Third, there are few natural enemies. To be honest, career changers are no longer qualified to be their natural enemies, so their natural enemies are only more powerful ones of the same kind.
Generally speaking, creatures that have the same kind as their natural enemies have absolutely no natural enemies.
Fourth, the expansion channels are connected to each other without obstacles.
This jungle is basically unimpeded for them. They can crawl wherever they want and lay eggs wherever they want. This is consistent with this.
Fifth, the protection of human beings.
This is not the case, but this can be put another way: humans have not developed the habit of eating them!
This can very well confirm the truth:
There’s nothing that a barbecue can’t solve, and if it’s not solved yet, try another one!
The sixth point is the vast living space, which is basically the same as the fourth point.
Since they have taken over all the conditions for flooding, their numbers have increased dramatically and their territory has expanded rapidly in the past two years. Perhaps it is because they reached a certain critical point and began to grow like a snowball.
Therefore, Mo Bei felt that the main purpose of their trip was to enter the core area and find ways to inhibit their growth rate.
Then, through external cannibalization, their numbers will be suppressed and controlled back to a safe range, and then you can happily cut leeks, happily.
The only way he could think of was to beat up the spider leader that no one had seen for a long time. Perhaps this could also slow down their growth rate.
As they continued to go deeper, they were never besieged by the spider swarm again. Maybe it was because the previous battle killed all the spiders in this area, or maybe it was because they were marked as a high threat because of this massacre. mark.
Many creatures can communicate remotely through means such as pheromones. Since these spiders can summon countless similar creatures to surround and kill them in the blink of an eye, they may also be able to leave marks on their bodies that only they can feel.
If that were the case, it would save them from fighting all the way in, and Mo Bei felt that the more advantageous point was that those powerful elite monsters and leaders might be lured out directly to avenge their descendants.
They had tasted this kind of sweetness at the Wizards' Guild. From time to time, people would come to the door and give away a wave of heads and equipment.
After traveling forward for half a day, they discovered the entrances to dozens of underground lairs along the way. They didn't know if they were all connected, but they didn't want to dive in to see what was going on.
"The further you go, the stronger the smell of plant matter becomes." Milor sniffed slightly and said.
"The trees here are dead. Coupled with the hot and humid climate of the rainforest, they are wrapped in spider silk and will inevitably rot."
Mo Bei raised his head and looked up. There were only twigs left on the crown of the tree. All the leaves had fallen off and were tucked in the spider webs. From time to time, he could see some young spiders that were only the size of fingers crawling in the spider webs.
As he walked, he held a dark gold crossbow and threw hell. When he found spider egg sacs under a tree, he shot an explosive arrow to blow them up.
Gradually, he discovered a pattern. These spiders did not place their egg sacs randomly, but placed them very evenly. There were one or two under almost every tree, and some had empty silk sacs. It seemed that they had hatched recently. It hasn’t been made up yet.
They wrapped every tree tightly. Could it be that they were using these trees as nursery beds?
He came closer and opened a piece of spider web with his sword. Suddenly, several spiderlings crawled hurriedly and hid under other spider webs. However, something on the rotten tree trunk suddenly made him realize.
The trunks were covered with layers of fungi and showed signs of being eaten.
These young spiders are actually vegetarian, and the fungi growing on these decaying trees are their food. They rely on these fungi to grow to a certain level, and then start to eat meat, or be eaten by other spiders.
"They deliberately covered all the trees in the forest to death! They cultivated fungi as the basis for the reproduction of the entire group!" Mo Bei gasped.
This kind of adaptability is so terrifying. . .
You must know that among the 40,000 kinds of spiders in the world, only one vegetarian species has been found!
And all the spiderlings here can grow up by eating fungi!
These spiders are definitely preparing for the next outbreak. Perhaps after these two batches of spiderlings grow up, they will be able to weave webs and cover a larger area of the forest.
Within the rainforest, there is no limit to their expansion!
