After the Fairy Disappeared

  The stone room is very large and hollow, almost regular oval shape, inside there is a table, several chairs, and two pools of reeds on the ground.

  The tables and chairs are all worn out. It is hard to understand how the spider demons found human objects in the wet swamp.

   It is not easy to have a table and chairs, but not a bed, so the two of them only have reeds.

  In the corner of the stone room, there are piles of medicinal materials designated by Dong Rui.

  He walked over and flipped it twice, shook his head and said, "There are still a few flavors missing."

  The spider demon guard came in and reported: "It will be delivered later."

   Even for them, it takes time to go around the swamp and pick unfamiliar herbs.

  Dong Rui sat on a chair and looked around: "What kind of place is this?"

   "Bladder." This is what He Lingchuan said.

   "The Devil's Nest." This is what the spider demon guard said.

  One person and one spider spoke at the same time, but Dong Rui didn't hear clearly: "What are you talking about?"

  He Lingchuan rubbed his forehead, and suddenly asked the spider demon guard:

  「Are you familiar with this cave?」

   "Yes." The guard would not lie, "I was born here."

  He Lingchuan exhaled lightly: "This is the devil's nest?" The devil's nest swamp, "the devil's nest,?"

"right."

  Dong Rui also heard a little trick: "You mean, the whole swamp is named after this cave?" What's so special about this cave?

  He Lingchuan caressed the mountain wall.

This texture is really unforgettable for him: "Zhu Erniang said that the Jiana tribe was destroyed by monsters. The big monsters in ancient times liked to call "gods" demons." Therefore, this cave is probably the lair of monsters. ? After Zhu Erniang moved to the swamp, she picked a ready-made one and used it as her residence."

   These words sound ordinary, but after careful consideration, Dong Rui understood the deep meaning, and couldn't help but be moved:

  「Are you saying that the so-called monsters are gods? The Kana clan was angered by the gods, so they exterminated the clan?」

   "Anyway, we haven't collected all the medicinal materials yet, we are idle now." He Lingchuan asked Spider Wei, "Does Zhu Erniang also live here?"

   "The ancestors live in the atrium of the heart."

  He Lingchuan nodded. From the word "atrium", it can be seen that Zhu Erniang knows exactly what a "magic nest" is.

  「Can you take us to see it?」

  Spider Guard: "Wait for us to report!"

   After finishing speaking, one of them turned and left.

  Dong Rui asked He Lingchuan: "Is "atrium", "bladder" a code?"

   "Your table is at the bladder position." He Lingchuan said, "Zhu Erniang lives at the atrium position, which means literally."

  Dong Rui looked at him, as if what he was speaking was not human. Is this magic nest named after human organs?

   It's fine for the spider guard to know, why does the newcomer He Lingchuan also know?

  He's going crazy.

  He Lingchuan discovered another characteristic of this person besides being cheap, that is, his curiosity is particularly strong. "I'll let you know when I finally confirm. "

   After more than a quarter of an hour, the spider guard came back and said: "Come with me, don't wander around."

  It seems that Zhu Erniang is also careless, and she is not afraid of others looking at her boudoir.

  At present, the spider guard led the way, and took another round of twists and turns, and the distance was farther than before.

  He Lingchuan recorded the road silently.

   After walking this way, they found that this is the base camp of spiders, and they can meet one within a few steps. Some forks are guarded, or are directly blocked by dense spider webs, and no one can enter.

  …

   Soon, the atrium arrived.

   This is almost the core of the entire cave. The two squeezed out of the narrow passage, and suddenly saw:

   There was a huge cave in front of him, seven or eight times larger than the cave where the two of them worked, and the height was more than five feet. It really echoed every shout.

   There are more fluorescent spores here than anywhere else, and they grow densely in the rock crevices, illuminating the entire cave like daytime.

  Dong Rui glanced

  Pointing at the mountain wall, the voice was full of exclamation: "This, this?!"

   There are several spider demons standing under the mountain wall, each of which is bigger and bigger than the other. The largest and tallest of them is more than three feet (ten meters) tall!

  Even the burly Zhu Erniang looked smaller and smaller in comparison.

  Even if they stand there quietly, they are so powerful that others dare not approach them.

   This is the real Big Mac, how many people will be scared to death if it is released?

  He Lingchuan knocked his finger back: "Call it a ball, it's not alive."

  He took the opportunity to count, one, two, three, four, five, there are only five giant spiders here.

   "Huh?" Dong Rui was still immersed in the visual shock.

   "You didn't approach, how do you know?" Zhu Erniang's voice sounded behind the two of them.

  It didn't know when it followed, and it didn't make any movement.

  The body, which is bigger than the room, can actually shrink to a fourth or fifth of its original volume, and walk through narrow passages.

  After it climbed out of the tunnel, its size grew back, like a fat sea thrown into the water.

  Actually, Zhu Erniang's questions are very good.

  Several spider demons standing in a row against the wall, they have to have a good appearance, and if they want to be fierce, they have a fierce power, and the spiders have no eyelids, so they always look like they are staring at people. They just don't move, so why are they not alive?

  He Lingchuan answered very well: "They have fluorescent spores growing on their joints. If they are still alive, they will clean them up at least?" If he remembers correctly, spiders are still a kind of creature that likes to be clean. It's not an old turtle who just lets barnacles attach to their shells.

  Zhu Erniang seemed to laugh: "Smart."

This affirmed He Lingchuan's judgment, Dong Rui was overjoyed, and strode over, darting among several spider demons, knocking here, touching there, he was more happy than the blue child getting his favorite toy ban.

  Even Zhu Erniang felt flattered when she saw it: This man likes it so much?

   "These are the remnants of my fading."

   "Ah?" Dong Rui looked at it, then at these giant spiders, "Oh!"

   No wonder they all look the same, but the sizes are different, like nesting dolls.

  Recalling what He Lingchuan said earlier, he pointed to the biggest spider and said, "This is your fairy body from ancient times? It's really, really amazing!"

  The ancient objects are almost decayed by now, let alone the slough of the fairy.

  Only seeing these things, he felt that the trip to the Devil's Nest was worthwhile.

  Unexpectedly, Zhu Erniang's tone sank immediately: "The body of the fairy is not here."

"what?"

  Zhu Erniang didn't explain, but He Lingchuan suddenly understood. He remembered that he saw a total of six giant spider sloughs in the spider's nest in Panlong's dream. Sure enough, it wasn't a mistake in the dream, but Zhu Erniang was missing one.

  …

  Where did the biggest slough go?

   "That's amazing." The surprise and admiration in Dong Rui's tone finally pleased Zhu Erniang, and he introduced them one by one, "This is from the end of ancient times, this is from the early, middle, and late periods of Middle Ages..."

  The closer to the present, the smaller the slough.

  Dong Rui took a look at He Lingchuan, and said to Zhu Erniang: "I understand, you took the initiative to entrust your Taoism to the shell, and shed it together, right?"

   Zhu Erniang tapped the ground with her sharp front paws: "Exactly."

   "Smart, really smart!" Dong Rui gave a thumbs up, "The ancient immortals disappeared from the world because they couldn't adapt to the environment where aura is getting thinner. No one else can learn your method."

  He Lingchuan didn't say a word, because the bone necklace on his chest became hot again.

   Walking into the Atrium Cave, the Divine Bone Necklace responds, indicating that it covets something here.

  The cave is empty, only the spider slough is the most conspicuous, so what it wants is Zhu Erniang's shell?

  Looking at Zhu Erniang, He Lingchuan thought to himself, this request for the divine bone necklace is not easy to satisfy.

   Having said that, how did Zhu Erniang transport such a huge spider slough all the way here?

   And then stuffed into the narrow passage into the atrium cave?

   It seems that it still has a secret method.

  Dong Rui touched the spider slough like a woman touching jewelry, and couldn’t put it down, and suddenly said to Zhu Erniang: "I will take a little from each spider slough, which will be of great help to the development of medicine!"

   "Really?" Zhu Erniang was not happy when she heard that she was about to move her slough, "What's the reason?"

   Unreasonable, Dong Rui may become its dinner today.

"A single bristle is enough!" Dong Rui quickly explained, "The biggest difficulty in developing a new medicine for you is that there are too few contrasting substances! Although you have many offspring, your cultivation is far behind you. Qianli, the medicines prepared according to their characteristics may be too weak for you; these spider sloughs come from you, as long as I take out samples and compare them separately, the difficulty of making medicines will be reduced by more than one level!"

  Zhu Erniang is also well-informed, and what he said is not unreasonable, and each slough only picks one bristle, so the loss is very small. So it thought for a while, and took a bristle from each of the five spider sloughs, and handed it to Dong Rui.

  Leaving this huge showroom, the Spider Queen personally led the two of them to move on, entering two small rooms.

  Although it is "small", it is only a relative showroom.

  One here is the residence of the queen, and the other is sealed airtight with spider webs.

"here is?"

  「The center of the devil’s nest. I rarely come, so I just seal it off.」

  The Spider Queen opened the spider web with her own claws, otherwise others would not know how much effort it would take.

   There was a thick layer of dust accumulated here. After He Lingchuan saw it, even though he was shocked, he didn't dare to take a deep breath.

  This stone room is smaller than Dong Rui's workshop, with a stone platform in the middle.

  There seemed to be many curtains hanging around the stone platform, but after taking a closer look, it was found that this thing was soft and elastic, like a rubber band, but more like——

   It is more like the tendons that connect Yungu and the entire mine that He Lingchuan saw in the Chifeng Mine in Panlong Dreamland!

   It's just that it has been through too long. Although it is not corrupted, it has dried up.

   "Flesh and Flesh Fortress." He Lingchuan muttered the name that once made him shudder in his dreams, "It's not some monster that eats up the Jana people, but the abuser!"

   No wonder when he walked into this cave, he had the illusion that his nightmare had come true.

   is true.

  Dong Rui frowned: "What is that?" Ever since he entered the cave, he had been asking questions. He seemed to be the most ignorant of the three creatures, and he hated this feeling.

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  After the fairy disappeared