Celestial Masters Alliance

The fifth level is simply my living hell. Spiders the size of soup pots crawled all over the wall, dragging a huge white egg on their abdomens. Our arrival caught their attention, and they immediately pointed their heads in our direction, their eyes glowing green. Shan Yu shrank visibly, and it seemed that I wasn't the only one who was scared.

"What are the white things on their bellies?" Xiaoba asked, nudging me with his elbow.

"It's an egg. The mother spider provides nutrients to the egg. After the egg is formed, the little spiders will fall off on their own. The mother spider then wraps the egg with silk. The little spiders kill each other in the egg. Finally, the strong one can break out of the cocoon and emerge. Come out." My voice was trembling as I spoke, a little embarrassed, and I glanced at Shan Yu secretly. Shan Yu stared at the spiders with a pale face, and his body tensed up and went into a defensive state.

"How disgusting!" Xiaoba retched.

"Many creatures have cannibalized themselves before they formed themselves! It's impossible for them to have any thoughts anyway!" As I was talking, the wood came towards me.

"Don't you think it's strange?" He looked at me and softly said such a word without beginning or end.

I was waiting for him to continue, when Xiaodao interjected: "It's really strange! As far as I know, spiders are not social creatures. There are quite a lot of them gathered here, and they are not turtles. They choose sites to lay eggs collectively. If they are long-term Don’t the people in the village know about gathering here?”

Xiaoba only hit part of the problem, but missed the point: "The strangest thing is that if they live in a group, then the eggs and the female spiders that lay the eggs belong to the vulnerable group. Usually the group will put the vulnerable group at the back. The ones at the front should be the strong defenders. The first level is undoubtedly the entrance to the tower, and the third level is the defensive area closest to the outside world. They put the defenseless eggs there. There are adult spiders only on the fifth floor, but they are all women and children dragging their eggs..." I glanced up.

"You can't make a conclusion until you explore further!" The wood has moved towards the stairs. It seems that he thinks the same as me. The top is where they are most important.

"Shan Yu, you walk behind the log, and the two of us are behind." I gently pulled Shan Yu. She shook for a moment before walking towards the stairs.

The trumpet protected me, and I looked back at the load-bearing pillar in the center of the tower. The firelight was not enough for me to see clearly, but my intuition told me that it was clean and naked. Although the female spiders were staring at us, their bodies were bulky and basically at a standstill. None of them were willing to risk getting close to us.

"Brother! Where do you think all the missing people in the village have gone? With so many female spiders gathering together to lay eggs, they must need a lot of food!" Xiaoba asked softly.

The wood held the torch and waved in front of it, then walked to the edge of the stairs without railings and stood there. I looked up and from now on, spiders of different sizes were slowly crawling on the wall. The wood was reminding us not to get close. . There are no handrails on the stairs. Looking down is a shocking black hole. Walking on this side will make your legs and feet weak.

On the sixth floor, there were still female spiders all over the wall, but the eggs in the abdomen of the female spiders here were obviously much smaller. Mu Mu glanced at me and asked, "What do you think?"

It took me a long time to realize that he was asking the question Xiaoba had just raised. I thought for a while and replied: "There is an incinerator behind the village, not far from here. It is a simple lime pit dug when we came to deal with the epidemic. All the sick and dead animals were buried there. I don't know that the incinerator is still there now." It’s not there, but if it is, I think that’s where the spiders are getting their food.”

"But won't your intestines be broken if you eat something stained with lime?" Shan Yu asked, tightening his collar. Her pale face showed glistening beads of sweat under the firelight, which made me feel a little distressed.

"The lime for the incinerator was distributed by the county, and people would come to add it every once in a while. But once the epidemic passed, management was lax, and there were still people who were greedy for this little bit of expenditure, it is estimated that it has long been turned into an ordinary pit. ." I leaned towards Shan Yu and held her cold, sweaty hand in my hand.

Xiaoba did not complain about me this time, but scolded angrily: "How much money can this cost? They are lazy and greedy for money. I will expose them when I get back!"

"Shut up! Stop being ignorant! Promise me not to mention anything you saw with me to anyone!" I glared at Xiaodao, and Mu Mu also put pressure on him with my eyes.

Xiaoba sighed, rolled his eyes and replied, "Okay!"

Seeing his careless look, I was still worried, so I said in a stronger tone: "You swear!"

Xiaodao was stunned for a moment, then helplessly raised a hand to the sky and said solemnly: "I swear! If you reveal anything about this place, you will die alone!"

Since I have sworn a poisonous oath, I had to let him go and continue the topic: "I don't think the spiders here will eat alive people. Those so-called missing people are just word of mouth from the villagers and have no basis." !" As I said that, I glanced at the wood. He was scanning the entire floor seriously, and when he saw me pause, he stopped to express his attention to my opinion.

I continued: "The breeding industry is different from other industries. You will not get rich overnight, but you will go bankrupt overnight."

"We can't rule out the occurrence of a case." Mu Mu suddenly interrupted.

I sighed and nodded helplessly. "Let's go! They're coming!" Wood growled, and I realized that as I spoke, all the spiders were turning towards us, moving little by little, and the blank wall above my head was now completely black. .

Xiaoba almost led me to run wildly, because the stairs were completely occupied by spiders. "Hurry up and zip up your clothes and put on your hat!" Mu Mu shouted at the stairs on the seventh floor. He reached into the back of his neck, grabbed an egg-sized spider, threw it to the ground and crushed it to death.

I was so frightened that my whole body shivered, but I couldn't help but look above my head, Oh my god! Spiders of all sizes were everywhere I could see, and they were so vicious that they were always ready to jump down and attack us. The spiders on this layer are no longer dragging white eggs. They are of different sizes and colors and move quickly. They all look like young adults. Everything confirmed my idea. Their formation was to protect the top floor. So what is the top layer? I couldn't help but shudder. If I wasn't wearing a hat right now, my hair would be standing on end.

We had no chance to stay on the seventh and eighth floors, so we rushed to the top.

The stairs reach the end here, and the gray and misty light cast from the high window allows me to see everything here clearly. The dome is in the shape of a prism, at least ten meters above the ground. It can be vaguely distinguished that there are circular patterns painted there, with circles spreading out from the center. The presentation of this pattern is similar to the pattern projected by the jade lock. There are characters between the patterns, but I don't recognize these characters. There are also paintings on the walls, which are obscured by spider silk. The one closest to us is clearer. It shows a huge and colorful phoenix soaring among auspicious clouds, and a group of people kneeling on the ground to worship. I was shocked by the exquisiteness of the picture. The facial expressions of the people kneeling on the ground and worshiping each other were different. Some looked expectant, some had evil intentions, and some were calm and kind. I never knew that a human face could have so many emotions in it.

The corner of the screen was covered by a large group of spider webs, and I discovered that there were basically no spiders here, and there weren't many spider webs. There were only nine spider webs in every corner. Judging from the area, these spider webs can wrap up three big men. Thinking of this, I shuddered again.

Xiaodao took out his mobile phone to take pictures of the paintings on the wall and the dome. We all followed him in a tacit understanding to be prepared.

There are some spider silk on the wall behind the first painting, but you can still see clearly that it is the same big phoenix just now. A man is riding on the back of the phoenix and is burned by the fire. The man is holding a knife in his hand, and the blade is already burned. Inserted into Phoenix's back. My heart was violently tugged, what's going on? The first painting is still worshiping, and the second painting starts hunting. People's hearts are changing so fast. I think the Phoenix must be confused.

In the next painting, the person on the Phoenix's back has been burned to ashes by fire, but the knife inserted into the Phoenix's back is still there. The Phoenix is ​​seriously injured and is being pulled by people with chains. There is a person behind him who is looking greedy. Plug out the feathers on the phoenix's rear tail. I was shocked by this cruel scene and unconsciously covered my mouth.

Walking further back, the wall is almost covered with spider webs, and all you can see is a large plate at the bottom of the screen, and a large group of expressionless people kneeling on the ground.

"Do you dare to tear off the spider web?" Xiaoba squatted on the ground with his cell phone to take pictures of the scenes missing from the spider web.

"If you don't want to die, don't touch anything here. Don't forget the stupid things you did on the third floor!" I scolded Xiaoba while giving Mu Mu a hard look.

The wood didn't seem to notice me, but stared at the stairs alertly. sky! Spiders began to spread toward us at the top of the stairs. They were small, shiny, blood-red spiders. In the wild, the brighter the color, the more poisonous it is, and it looks like we're in for a disaster.

At this time, there was a sudden light at the window, like a flash of a spotlight, followed by a loud thunder explosion. I was startled, and Shan Yu couldn't help but let out a soft cry. I quickly approached her, and she pointed to the corner with a trembling voice: "That...there..."