Chapter 6: Spider Hunt

When they approached the medium-sized forest, a creepy crawling sound came from the forest, and then a group of gray shadows jumped out of the forest and landed on the grass.

Ji Lin looked closely.

These suddenly appearing shadows were a group of hyena-sized spiders, with a layer of fluff growing on their dark gray chitinous carapaces, and eight pairs of compound eyes glowing with creepy green light, falling on these attackers who intended to invade their territory.

The eight strong spider legs spread out to make an attacking posture, twisting restlessly and leaving traces on the mud.

The gray giant Ao made a clacking sound.

Because Ji Lin brought more people, they had not yet planned to launch a charge and were looking for an opportunity to attack.

[Name]: Hunting Spider

[Type]: Beast - Dark Age

[Armor Strength]: 0

[Melee Defense]: 40

[Weapon Power]: 3

[Abilities]:

Cluster Tactics I: Increases the hit rate and dodge rate of troops. This effect will reach a maximum of 30% (not activated) when the number of allies exceeds twice that of the enemy

Beast Nature: The death of companions will stimulate their aggressiveness.

Swiftness: Faster speed.

[Introduction]: Don't be alone.

Ji Lin frowned.

The medium-sized garrison troops directly turned into wild monsters at the top of the Dark Age. Hunting Spiders can be said to be the most common new lord killers. The cluster tactics alone can ensure that they can disgust high-quality melee single units. There is no other way except to slowly grind them to death.

This thing has a swift label and its attack power is not low.

Fortunately, he had enough spearmen, and the swarm tactics of these spider hunters were useless. The failure to activate the swarm tactics meant that the number of spider hunters was not more than his spearmen, and spider hunters without a number advantage were no match for humans.

If the ratmen and goblins or orcs encountered such a large group of spider hunters, they would definitely lose members. If the barbarians of humans were not well controlled at the beginning, they would be seriously injured and lost members.

Although these spider hunters have a layer of chitinous carapace, this is not counted as armor. Spider hunters can be domesticated and cultivated into special scout spider hunters. The carapace of scout spiders will develop again due to sufficient food, and their bodies will become larger and covered with a thick carapace. At this time, they can have an armor strength of ten points.

And the infantry in the classical era only had an armor strength of ten points.

"Forward."

Ji Lin gave the order.

In his vision, his two talents, fire extinguisher and planned defender, were both playing a role.

Such a wide spear formation, if used on the battlefield, would only be scattered by a single charge, but it was enough to fight against these hunting spiders with zero impact force.

The spear tips drooped, and the tips of a hundred spears flashed coldly in the sun.

Too heavy, not flexible enough.

These were its shortcomings.

The spears formed into a military formation turned their shortcomings into advantages. It didn't matter if they were not flexible enough, they could make up for it with numbers. The only target they had to face was a little space in front of them. It didn't matter if they were heavy, they just had to hold it up and push forward.

An inch longer, an inch stronger.

Stab.

A simple action constituted the whole of the spearmen. Even if you could dodge the oncoming attack, the fatal piercings from all directions would end your life.

There was nowhere to hide, nowhere to avoid, and the hunting spiders that took the initiative to emerge from the forest and fight them on the flat ground were in a dead end from the beginning.

The wall of death they formed blocked all the space for evasion and maneuvering, all of which were approaching spear tips and spear shafts.

The first blow came from Chang Heng. In the center of the formation, he took away an oncoming hunting spider with a precise heavy stab, lifted it high and threw it on the ground. The bloody smell of the same race immediately aroused the ferocity of these hunting spiders, and they hissed and rushed towards the spears.

Beasts are not smart after all.

Facing the primitive spearmen pressing on, the spider group stupidly met this wall of death.

After losing mobility, the hunting spiders seemed so fragile, and no matter how scary their appearance was, it could not change themselves. As long as they were surrounded in the forest of spears, a spear would be thrust out fiercely, nailing the hunting spider that wanted to jump to the ground, and then other cold lights would come and pierce the hunting spider through the heart.

Ji Lin also saw a flash of fear in the eyes of some soldiers, which made him feel that these primitive spearmen had more humanity.

The most dangerous thing was that a hunting spider went around to one side and knocked down a soldier, causing him to be slightly injured. The hunting spider was not poisonous, and a simple bandage to stop the bleeding would not affect the combat effectiveness.

The effect of the military formation was remarkable.

As long as the military formation was maintained, the morale would be at a high level.

The spider group was rapidly decreasing in number. The length of the gun barrel cut off their thoughts of flying. Their attacks could not touch the primitive spearmen at all, but every stab of the spearmen would nail a hunting spider and take its life.

This was not a battle, but a massacre.

Raise the gun and stab.

The last hunting spider that dared to attack them fell to the ground and died.

The remaining hunting spiders were in disarray and fled back to the forest.

Without his command, these primitive spearmen solved the battle. He stood behind the formation to provide the buff of supervising the battle and the bonus buff.

Ji Lin touched his palms, but found that his palms were sweaty.

Sure enough, he was still nervous...

There were still some that had not been killed... Wait -

Ji Lin looked at the pop-up window of the system with a strange expression.

‘Eradication completed, hostile target: Hunting Spider.’

‘Controlled, medium-sized forest’

‘Obtained blueprint: Lumberyard, food reserves +31. ’

‘The spider nest has changed from hostile to neutral due to morale collapse and fear of you. ’

A new prompt appeared on the forest on the small map, with a spider logo floating above the medium-sized forest, and the forest also changed from neutral gray to green under his control.

The rate of meat production of spiders is a bit low. They killed more than 70 spiders before the system prompted an increase of 31 food reserves.

[Spider Nest]

[Ability]: Hatching spiders.

[Development]: Ranch

[Quantity]: 29

[Introduction]: Spiders that are not hungry are extremely gentle, please make sure to feed them.

Ji Lin was in a good mood. Not only did he get the blueprint of the lumberyard, but his 10% morale damage became the last straw that overwhelmed them and created a special resource spider nest for himself.

This is a good thing.

If the lord is lucky enough, he can break the morale of the wild monsters and turn them to neutral, and develop them as part of the resources.

Hunting spiders are the easiest to tame for elves, tree people and demons, but difficult for humans, so the human race can only buy this useful scout in the market.

Spider legs are also a rare delicacy.

When Ji Lin took the primitive spearmen to deal with the wild monsters.

The farmers at home were not idle either. Ji Lin gave them instructions to use wood and mud to build mud walls, using wood as a frame, and then filling the frame with mud to form a stable structure, and pile up a vertical mud wall to prevent enemies from getting in.

One hundred people built a two-meter-high mud wall to surround the village.

Some lords would choose to build resource mining buildings at home to avoid attacks on buildings built outside, and then the expanded defense area would be extremely difficult.

On the tenth day, Ji Lin's goal was to directly meet two waves of enemy attacks, so he naturally would not build resource mining buildings at home.

If the population didn't need houses to live in, he wouldn't even need the 20 houses in his home. It would be easy for him to block the entrance and resist two waves of enemy attacks.

Stepping over the corpses all over the ground, the strong smell of blood made his body subconsciously send out uncomfortable signals.

He had seen all kinds of corpses and blood in his previous life, but after rebirth, he would react to some scary spider corpses.

Opening the backpack, Ji Lin used the lumberyard blueprint.

The blueprint will not be used automatically after it is obtained, but will first go to the lord's backpack. The lord can sell the blueprints he doesn't need in the future. In the later stage, there are many useless wonder blueprints. It's a pity to eat them and throw them away. It's better to sell them to people in need in exchange for some useful resources.

[Lumberyard]

[Requirement]: 40 wood

[Ability]: Logging

[Introduction]: Three-piece set for land reclamation, you deserve it.

The order to build a lumberyard was issued in this forest.

Minus the ten pieces of wood burned in one night and the wood used to build the mud wall frame, the one hundred wood points he picked up on the first day were all gone.

So poor.

The resources that were close to being empty kept reminding him to replenish them quickly.

‘Lumberyard, construction countdown 1 hour. ’

A wooden bungalow rose from the ground, and the resources were piled on the ground as if flowing out of the void. There were invisible workers controlling the construction. No matter how many times you watch the automatic construction, it is so amazing.

On the map interface, fill up the number of workers in the lumberyard. After the construction is completed, villagers will naturally come here to start working.

Ji Lin is going to the next location. There is a medium-sized berry bush and a small mineral vein waiting for him today.