After the immortal disappeared

Not to be outdone, the man on the other side stood up in a flash, even higher than Zhu Erniang.

It was a giant black and gray python. Its body was coiled in the reeds and its exact length was unknown, but its chest was close to five feet (1.6 meters) in diameter and it had whiskers under its jaw.

It opened its mouth in protest, and the fangs that popped out were like scimitars and were more than four feet long.

The wind happened to be blowing ashore, and He Lingchuan soon smelled a fishy breeze.

The swords were tense and the battle seemed to be about to begin. He Lingchuan quietly hid back.

I don’t know how the two parties communicated. After about ten breaths, the giant python lowered its head and Zhu Erniang also retracted her legs.

After a while, the python demon turned its head to the north and meandered away.

Zhu Erniang watched it leave before slowly crawling back.

Passing by He Lingchuan, it suddenly said: "Are you so excited that you think you will have a chance to escape when the two powerful forces are fighting?"

"How can you?" He Lingchuan smiled very perfunctorily.

"Boshan Jun loves to eat people the most, and they eat them raw. The prey swallowed whole by it can still feel itself being digested in its stomach." Zhu Erniang seemed to be smiling too. It has lived for thousands of years. , Isn’t he as smart as a young boy? "If you fall into its hands, your fate will be ten times worse!"

Then it walked slowly back to the devil's nest with a big belly.

The storm dissipated before it started.

In He Lingchuan's opinion, the giant python is more afraid.

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It is worth mentioning that spiders often found water corpses in the swamps during this period. Sometimes it's wild animals, sometimes it's livestock, sometimes it's humans, often accompanied by a lot of driftwood boat planks, basically washed down from the upstream.

These are the consequences of the Hanhe River floods.

He Lingchuan also occasionally found the floating corpses of Yuan soldiers. After so many days of drifting to the swamp, they were swollen to the point where only their clothes could be identified.

I don’t know how the war in Yuanbei is progressing. He couldn't go back, so he could only dig a hole silently and let them bury them in peace.

In fact, in the past ten days, he noticed that the attitude of the spider group towards the two humans changed from neutral to unfriendly.

Especially for Dong Rui.

Not Zhu Erniang, but the swamp cave spiders.

This must be attributed to Dong Rui's inhumanity in conducting experiments, well, inhumanity. The spider monster designated as the experimental subject was still intact and healthy when it went in. When it came out, it had six or seven broken legs, all of which were light. Some had enlarged limbs, some had their legs backwards, and some looked as if they had been injected with water. Still swollen and swaying when walking.

Some have lost their heads, and some are crazy about hitting the cage and disowning their relatives, as if they are suffering from mania.

Anyway, it’s all weird and has no good ending. Not to mention the spider demon whose intelligence has been awakened, even He Lingchuan shuddered when he saw it.

He finally understood why this guy could arouse the anger of both humans and gods in various countries:

If you try to reach your upper limit, you won't be able to touch other people's lower limits.

He Lingchuan reminded Dong Rui more than once, and even Zhu Erniang came to see the demon puppet master after hearing the spider group's protest, but he was blocked by him saying "If you don't do it this way, it won't happen."

Oh, can it be done just like this? He Lingchuan is not optimistic.

Every time he passed by a spider swarm, He Lingchuan could feel the malice coming from the spiders when he heard the squawking sounds behind them. The Devil's Nest Swamp is not a place where they can stay for a long time. Even if Zhu Erniang is willing to let them go in the end, these little spiders will probably be thinking about settling their scores.

But at least for now, with Zhu Erniang's order as a talisman, He Lingchuan was still safe. Spider monsters are simple in nature and have better discipline than worker bees. In addition to giving Dong Rui a hand, he just walked around in the cold eyes of most spiders.

After a quick walk, He Lingchuan discovered that the actual volume of the Demon Nest was at least twice as large as the Chifeng Mine. The passages and caves were stronger and more spacious, and even had comprehensive defenses. After all, this place has been in business for more than ten years, but the other place was hurriedly built in a few days, and the quality is very different.

Just looking at the size of this demon nest, he knew that the predators who originally lived here were of a high level. He didn't know how the Bega Kingdom defeated it back then.

Here's the weird thing -

It stands to reason that the battle should have been quite brutal, but he didn't see many magical powers or traces of indiscriminate bombardment here, or even any damage caused by the fight.

You know, even if only three patrol teams entered the Chifeng Mine, they left many traces there.

Perhaps the Demon Nest at that time was too powerful and could repair itself?

There are too many things that don't make sense.

However, the structures of the nests created by the tormentors are all similar, after all, they all imitate the human body.

He Lingchuan wanted to walk around Panchang for a few times, but was stopped every time, saying that it was a restricted area. The spider guards at the door were almost as big as the guards at Zhu Erniang's door, and they were formed into groups of three, guarding them to the death.

He Lingchuan has good observation skills and found that the frequency of burrowing spiders coming in and out of this place in groups is much higher than that of other places in the Demon Nest.

And they transport fluorescent spores, grass, algae, and even some fermented fertilizers. It was the first time He Lingchuan saw that monsters were also skilled in composting.

Seeing this, he had an idea.

Burrowing spiders are not originally creatures with strong ability to act collectively and are relatively loose. However, once a monster appears in this group, it is likely to transform into a biological structure like a honeycomb and ant nest. Not to mention anything else, leopards were originally loners, but the family of Leopard Demon Quartz would live, cooperate and practice together, and even their descendants would still do this more than a hundred years later.

Nowadays, these burrowing spiders have an orderly division of labor and cooperation, and their care must be to make a living by eating.

Finally one day, He Lingchuan found several burrowing spiders walking inside, carrying something like glutinous dumplings on their foreheads. They were white, soft and still moving.

He had seen this thing in his dream——

Aphid larvae.

Sure enough, Zhu Erniang led the spider group to start their own business in the Devil's Nest!

Start a ranch.

The length of the human intestine is astonishing, at least six meters long when stretched straight. The total space in this part of the Devil's Nest is not small. Although it cannot be compared with the old nest in the Ghost Needle Stone Forest, as long as the temperature and humidity are controlled well, the spider colony can thrive, the aphid cows can produce honeydew, and the spider colony has A stable source of food rations.

He knew that these burrowing spiders would not easily change their diet to only eat fish and shrimp.

However, in reality, Zhu Erniang had not been burned by He Lingchuan over the aphid pasture, otherwise it would never have placed humans in its nest, which was too close to the pasture.

Should I repeat the same trick and repeat what I did in the dream in reality? But even if he could escape from Zhu Erniang's territory, how would he break out of the mirage at the edge of the swamp?

He Lingchuan made secret plans and occasionally consulted Dong Rui.

Now Dong Rui, apart from eating, drinking and having diarrhea, was focused on the experiment and wanted to work hard for thirty days. He didn't take He Lingchuan's new information to heart and just said "oh" lightly.

If the burrowing spiders open a pasture, let's do it. What does it have to do with them?

He Lingchuan pressed his hand that was holding the medicine bottle and said like a gnat, almost only the two of them could hear:

"It's been more than half a month. I'm just asking you, can Zhu Erniang's medicine be made?"

Dong Rui glanced at the door and whispered: "No."

"..." Is it so straightforward? "Then you test a ball!" Still not thinking of a way to escape?

Dong Rui sighed, and said with the patience of teaching a layman: "It is not difficult to prepare the medicine for making demon puppets. I have experience and skills, and there are even some ready-made medicines. I just need to fine-tune them. The biggest problem is Zhu Erniang herself."

"What happened to it?"

"No two beasts have exactly the same characteristics, as does the demon puppet. The point of creating them is to cause non-directional mutations." Dong Rui shook his head, "But Zhu Erniang is an ancient demon fairy, although she uses transformation to reduce her cultivation. , but its body and demonic nature are too stable, well, it is not only stable, it is as solid as a rock. These medicines may not be of any use to it, and at most it will cause diarrhea."

"To take a step back, if the drug takes effect, it will have to endure intense and long-lasting pain. I have tested so many monsters, and during the process of transforming into monsters, no one can endure it."

The process is extremely painful, but the outcome is unknown. Just to fight Yuanli, is Zhu Erniang willing to pay this price?

He Lingchuan was puzzled: "Then what have you been busy with these days?"

"Using living ancient demons and their remains for experiments, even just a small part of them, what a luxury opportunity it is!" Dong Rui said with a smile, "It also has a group of disciples and descendants, which are just like downgraded copies of it. They still volunteered to do it for me. Experiment, where can I usually find such good opportunities?"

In the past, when he wanted to create demon puppets, he would kill them alive first. The higher the level of the demon beast he wanted to capture, the greater the risk he would take. Otherwise, why would he be wanted by Bega Kingdom?

This is simply his happy nest for scientific research.

"What are you going to do when the time limit is up?" He Lingchuan reminded him to focus on practical issues first, as time flew by so fast.

Dong Rui scratched his head: "Let's talk about it later."

After being interrupted several times by He Lingchuan, Dong Rui quit the workaholic mode. Of course, it was also because his mind was a little overwhelmed after high-intensity work.

The moon was full tonight, so the two of them simply walked to the entrance of the Devil's Nest, sat by the water in the sinkhole, drank, and watched the silver light fall over the ground.

He Lingchuan always had good wine hidden in his storage ring, so he took it out now, one jar for each person.

Looking up from where the two of them were, they could see that the full moon was like a silver basin, and the light shining on the water was as bright as a star.

Dong Rui stared blankly for a while, then let out a long sigh.

Do people like this still know how to be sad for spring and autumn? "Why are you sighing?"

"It's nothing." Dong Rui stopped wearing a mask. No creature in the swamp thought he was ugly. In the eyes of the spider demon, He Lingchuan was probably as ugly as him.

When he drank, a little drink leaked from the crooked corner of his mouth.

He Lingchuan had become accustomed to that miserable face, so he asked him again: "What's going on with your face?"

Dong Rui only drank and kept silent.

After a while, he wiped the drink from the corner of his mouth and said, "A woman did it."

He Lingchuan was surprised: "So cruel?"