Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

“Ji Ya——!”

The purple-black narrow horn opened to almost 90 degrees, the limbs were broken, and the shadow spider with thick green blood flowing all over its body screamed and pounced on the powerful enemy in front of it, ready to fight to the death.

Facing the terrifying clamp that could cut her in half, Edi Lika remained calm, continued to maintain the posture of charging, and pulled the bowstring to the limit.

The sharp teeth covered with poisonous mucus were close at hand, as if they would drag her into the alien mouth like a meat grinder in the next second.

Until this last moment, Edi Lika finally let go of the bowstring.

The heavy arrow, which was as thick as an adult's wrist, turned into an afterimage and drilled into the constantly opening and closing mouth of the shadow spider.

After a long period of charging, this powerful arrow easily broke through the fragile defense inside the shadow spider's body, crushed the brain at the junction of the thorax and abdomen, and drilled out a small half from the gap in the shell.

The giant spider beast that was charging forward froze, its limbs spasmed violently as if it had been electrocuted, and fell to the ground.

The narrow-horned species had strong vitality, but no matter how strong a creature was, it would not survive with its brain destroyed.

But out of caution, Edelica drew her bow again and shot another arrow at the head of the shadow spider.

The arrow shot at zero distance penetrated the head of the shadow spider and nailed it firmly to the ground.

The ferocious spider beast completely lost its vitality and turned into a slightly trembling corpse.

Edelica folded up her hunting bow and sighed silently.

Her mission this time was to "investigate regional anomalies" rather than "hunt shadow spiders."

If possible, she still wanted to follow the procedures and bring back the situation here first, and then let the scholars of the guild decide whether to issue a hunting mission.

However, while she was investigating this spider nest, the owner of the nest came back.

With the shadow spider's strong sense of territory and cruel temperament, it was obviously impossible to leave peacefully.

In the end, she could only reluctantly send the shadow spider on its way.

"It's what the little guy wanted." Edelica muttered to herself after putting away her weapon.

Before, Fufu promised to "hunt the shadow spider" for her in order to ask the strange-faced people to lead the way for her. She was originally thinking about how to resolve the misunderstanding.

Now, there is no need to explain anything.

"Gaga!"

"Ka Ka Ka Ba!"

The strange-faced people cheered and ran over.

In the previous battle, these little guys helped to distract the target's attention to some extent, but to be honest, they did more harm than good.

The strange-faced people happily peeled the corpse of the shadow spider, and Edelica didn't care.

She didn't need the materials of the shadow spider, but the claws and teeth soaked in venom, and the venom crystals condensed on the back of the shadow spider were very precious treasures for the strange-faced people.

If they want it, give it to them. With this friendship, they should not attack passing humans at will anymore.

"Gaga Kaba."

After a while, the strange-faced tribe with boar tusks on its head came to her.

He handed her the recovered arrows and several pieces of poisonous bird skins peeled from the corpses of the shadow spiders.

"Thank you."

Edilika only took back the arrows, but did not take the rubber skins. "It's better for you to give these things to her yourself.

If I give them to her, it will be against the rules."

The strange-faced tribe did not understand her words, but seemed to understand her meaning, and temporarily collected the skins that were still stained with blood and venom.

After solving the current trouble, Edilika continued her investigation.

Under the command of the strange-faced tribe with boar tusks on its head, most of the strange-faced tribe left first with their spoils.

It brought a few clever guys with it and continued to follow Edilika, looking like "we are here to help".

Edilika did not refuse their kindness.

To her, the combat power of these strange-faced people is dispensable, but they can provide help in warning and guiding.

Edi Lika continued to move towards the depths of this underground spider nest.

Following the traces, she walked into a tunnel, but the end of the tunnel was a dead end.

Judging from the traces on the cave wall, there was originally a passage here, but it was later blocked by the shadow spider.

This gave Edi Lika a headache. She didn't bring a pickaxe and a shovel this time. If she dug the soil with her hands, how long would it take to dig?

Just as she was struggling, the strange-faced people jumped out.

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These little guys who are also good at digging the ground volunteered to dig the soil. Not long after, they opened a small passage at the end of the tunnel that could barely accommodate hunters.

They also took the initiative to enter it first to explore the way for her.

Edi Lika suddenly understood why some people like to deal with these irritable little guys.

When you are an intruder, they will be extremely aggressive and entangled.

But when they recognize you as a friend, their enthusiasm and loyalty are far beyond the reach of many humans.

"Thank you, little guys." Edi Lika smiled and thanked the strange-faced people, bent down, and followed them into the passage.

Passing through the several-meter-thick earth, Edi Lika and the others came to a spacious underground cave.

On the stalactites on the top of the cave, there are huge cocoons.

Through the translucent spider silk, you can vaguely see that the cocoons are wrapped with corpses of monsters.

The number was astonishing. A closer look revealed that there were wild boars, herbivorous dragons, spirit deer, and even two giant birds.

Suddenly, the huge cocoon wrapped around the giant bird twitched slightly.

A thought popped up in Edelica's mind-are these monsters really dead?

Or, after being injected with a large amount of digestive fluid by the shadow spider, they could only watch their muscles, internal organs, and even bones melt into a semi-liquid state, but could not die completely?

Not intending to think deeply about this issue, Edelica came to a smaller cocoon.

She pulled out the peeling knife and cut open the cocoon.

Large clumps of disgusting pus flowed out of it, and with it flowed many melon-sized spider eggs to the ground.

Some spider eggs had embryos that had already formed. After struggling on the ground for a while, they tore the egg membrane and broke out of the shell.

"Gah!"

A strange-faced man ran over angrily and crushed the incomplete little spider into pieces.

In those cocoons, they also found the bodies of their own kind

Edilika's face was also not very good.

She had hunted shadow spiders more than once and "visited" the hatching room of shadow spiders. There had never been such a large number of cocoons in the nest of any shadow spider.

As long as they were given some more time, an astonishing number of small shadow spiders would hatch one after another.

Of course, this does not mean that the shadow spiders in the dense forest will become a disaster.

Without the protection of their relatives, it is very difficult for shadow spiders to grow from larvae to adults. Most of them will become nutrients for other carnivorous creatures in the early stages of their growth.

The key question is, how can shadow spiders find so many prey?

Has the richness of biological resources in this dense forest increased to this extent?

No wonder the shadow spiders were attracted to migrate here.

So, when she investigated the nest of the giant bird before, she also made a similar discovery - the number of cubs and giant bird eggs in the nest was unusually large.

Maybe, this is the "abnormality" that scholars are looking for?