diskusbooks Chapter 267 Spider
Chapter 267 Spider
Huo Yu ignored Ning Yu and looked at Ning Jian, urging him, "Wife, hurry up, you're all wet."
Ning Yan smiled slightly and said to Ning Yu, "After the New Year, you will be 18 years old. It's time to find a wife."
Ning Yu knew there was no hope when he heard this, so he began to take off his outer cloak and said, "Go ahead and look for it. I'll envy you guys to death when you find it."
Huo Yu bent down slightly to help Ning Yan take off his hat and scarf, and said to Ning Yan proudly, "We'll talk about it when you find it."
Bai Lifen said at this time: "If it really doesn't work, I can just pick one up on the road."
Ning Yu protested upon hearing this: "Mom, am I still your biological son?"
Getting married is such a big thing, how can you just pick one?
Bai Lifen consoled him, saying, "Isn't this a special period? I haven't even seen a matchmaker on the road, so it's hard for me to properly arrange a match for you."
Ning Chengyong also said cheerfully at this time: "Didn't Brother Jian say before that this natural disaster would take several years? I think your mother has a point."
Otherwise, how long will it take to get married? By then, Ning Yu will become an older bachelor like Duan Zhili.
Ning Yu immediately became withdrawn upon hearing this. When did his parents become so unreliable?
Oh, it seems that ever since Big Brother Huo came to our house and since my brother gave birth to twins, these two old people started to let themselves go. They can come up with all kinds of wild ideas. They are really becoming less and less reliable as they get older.
It seems that I have to rely on myself for everything in the future, Ning Yu thought silently in his heart.
While Ning Yan was taking off Huo Xi's outer cloak, he listened to the conversation between his parents and Ning Xi, and then he couldn't help laughing. His parents were in a good state now, with a broad mind and no worries. They would surely live a long life.
Huo? looked at the smile on Ning Yan's face. At this moment, he bent down and was just looking at Ning Yan at eye level. He couldn't help but move forward and kiss him.
Ning Yan glared at him and said helplessly in a low voice: "Dad and Mom are here, please behave yourself."
Huo Yu smiled and whispered, "Don't be too reserved. My wife looks so beautiful when she smiles."
Ning Jian had just taken off his outer robe, so he ignored Huo and put the robe on the shelf in the room.
Two days later it was New Year's Eve, and several families gathered together to have the New Year's Eve dinner.
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, the snow continued to fall for another two months before it gradually showed signs of stopping.
At this time, the snow in the yard was already half a person's height. This was the result of their previous fight. In the places outside where the snow was thicker, it was already as high as a person. Huo Yun was thrown into the snow and disappeared completely.
When Ning Yan woke up that day, the two children had already gotten up and gone out. He opened the map and took a look, then said to Huo Xi, "Brother Xi, the temperature will be getting higher and higher in the next few days and will soon reach zero. It looks like the snow should stop."
The temperature is now over 20 degrees below zero, and it will get higher day by day. On the fifth day, the highest temperature has reached 5 degrees above zero. It seems that the snow is about to stop.
It has been snowing for more than three months, it’s time to stop, otherwise the firewood at home will soon be used up.
Huo Hearing this, he turned over and said, "That's perfect! These two kids can finally be separated from us."
In order to save firewood, the family had two kangs. Huo Ningzhen took care of his two sons, and Ning Chengyong and his wife took care of Ning Lu.
His two sons were sleeping in the room, so it was difficult for him to be intimate with his wife. Now, he is finally free.
Ning Yan said upon hearing this: "Do you have any other ideas?"
Huo Yan put his arm around Ning Yan's waist, leaned in and whispered in his ear, "I don't have any other thoughts about my wife. There's only one."
Ning Yan elbowed him upon hearing this.
Huo Yu pretended to be hurt, bent over and wailed, "Wife, you are murdering your husband."
Ning Gang didn't want to bother him, so Huo Xi came over again, hugged him and kissed him hard several times before letting him go.
After a few days, the weather began to clear up and the temperature rose to more than 10 degrees in just a few days.
However, after the snow outside, as the saying goes, it’s not cold when it snows, but it is cold when the snow melts, so everyone is still wearing very thick cotton clothes.
Bai Lifen watched the snow outside melt at a visible rate every day and muttered, "The weather is so unpredictable."
Ning Chengyong said, "This sudden change of cold and heat makes it easy to get sick. When the snow melts, many people will surely get sick."
In the following days, the temperature gradually rose and the snow on the ground melted quickly. In less than half a month, there was no trace of snow in the entire Xia Cang City.
The melted snow made the ground muddy, and the water in low-lying areas was knee-deep.
After a few days, the temperature rose to over 20 degrees Celsius, the ground began to become dry, and Ning Yan and the others changed into summer clothes.
That evening, before it got dark, a group of people were eating in the yard.
Ning Yan has recently developed the habit of checking the map from time to time. When he looked at the map this time, he saw red dots flashing on many purple dots within a radius of several kilometers, and these dots were still wandering around.
Although the target was not in their direction and was about one or two kilometers away from them, Ning Yan was still a little shocked by the sudden appearance of so many dangerous animals.
He quickly told Huo Xi about this, and Huo Xi flew onto the roof to check the situation.
Seeing this, Huo Yun and Ning Jing also flew onto the roof and followed Huo Yun to look forward.
After seeing the scene clearly, Huo Yun said loudly: "Dad, bugs, bugs that can fly that day."
Ning Jing added: "It's a cockroach."
At this moment, in the sky not far away, cockroaches were flying in the air with their wings flapping, and occasionally they landed on the ground in a swarm. Due to the obstruction of trees and buildings, they could not see clearly what was below.
When the people below heard this, they instantly recalled the scene of that day and got goosebumps.
Zhou Youfeng was surprised and said, "Why are there cockroaches again? Aren't they frozen to death in such a cold weather?"
Duan Zhili said: "It might have flown in from the south."
It snows here, but it may not snow in Nanjiang City.
After Huo Yan took a look, he said to Ning Yan, "Wife, I'm going out for a while."
"What are you going to do?" Ning Yan asked with concern.
Although Huo? can fly, there are too many cockroaches. What if something happens?
Huo? comforted him, "It's okay, I won't go far. I'll just take a look ahead and come back."
Something was wrong up ahead, and he wanted to go check it out.
Ning Yan threw him a few packets of powder and said, "Grab a torch and be careful."
This powder was made by grinding Atractylodes lancea, which can drive away cockroaches when burned.
"Okay." Huo nodded and went out with Orange.
After Huo left, Ning Jian led everyone to pile some weeds around the area where they lived, then sprinkled powder on them, set them on fire to drive away cockroaches.
Their house was in the west of the city, and Huo was also going to the west of the city.
They walked forward holding torches and sprinkled a lot of powder on the oranges, but no cockroaches dared to approach them.
Going further west from the city, there are several towns and counties under its jurisdiction, where many people live. After walking for a few kilometers, Huo? had a general idea of the situation.
Many people were frozen to death during this snowstorm. The weather warmed up quickly and the temperature rose rapidly. The corpses that were not dealt with in time soon became smelly, attracting cockroaches to eat them, and they did not even spare the living people.
In addition, Huo also saw several huge spiders crawling in the mountains and forests, predators flying in the sky, and cockroaches resting on the ground.
The spider is about nine feet tall, and its body length is twice its height. It crawls very fast, and wherever it passes, all the flowers, plants and trees turn into dead branches and leaves.
Spiders are the natural enemies of cockroaches. Huo thought the city was saved, but he didn't expect that spiders could also harm people.
Many of the living people in the town came out to look for food or "pick up" things. What they "picked up" were all from the homes of those who had frozen to death, mostly silver, money and precious jewelry.
Then Huo? saw a spider passing by, and several people were instantly scared and screamed and ran away, but they didn't run far before they were entangled by the spider's silk, and then hung on their arms like a silkworm chrysalis.
Huo? was also shocked when he saw this situation. It was the first time he had seen such a large spider. Its fighting power was so terrifying that ordinary people had no power to fight back.
Orange sensed the danger and knew it was no match for this thing, so it jumped and hummed, signaling Huo to go back.
Seeing this, Huo? did not stop and took it back directly to explain the situation so that they could think of a solution.
There couldn't possibly be only a few spiders; there were probably more. If they couldn't kill them all, they would have to find a way to leave here.
There were more and more War Wolves outside. After entering the yard, things got much better. At least there were no cockroaches flying around the yard.
When Ning Gang saw Huo Yu coming back, he asked, "Brother Yu, what's going on?"
Huo Yu recounted what he had seen, and everyone in the group was shocked. Even someone with some fighting ability like Sun Huzi asked in disbelief, "Brother Huo, are you telling the truth?"
A spider this big? What did it eat to grow to this size?
The largest spider he had ever seen, with all eight legs stretched out, was only about the size of a palm. How could a spider that big grow? Could it be that it ate cockroaches?
Ning Chengyong asked in confusion, "More than nine feet high, isn't that as tall as our house?"
Their house is only about nine feet high, and it would be higher if the roof was included.
Hearing this, everyone looked towards the rooftop nearby, and they couldn't help but shudder. It was taller than all of them, and the height alone was enough to defeat them, not to mention the strength.
Zhou Youfeng said with great pride: "No matter how high the enemy is, we can't just sit there and wait for death. Let's kill them."
Sun Huzi also nodded: "Yes, after all, we have practiced for so long, now is the time to show our true strength, kill one by one."
Everyone else nodded.
Huo Yun was confused by what the adults were saying, but he understood that a fight was about to start, so he joined in the fun and said, "Dad, if there's a fight, I'll go back too. I'll fight too."
Ning Jing also said: "I will fight with my brother."
After saying that, he raised his little fist.
The two babies spoke seriously, but when they looked down, they found that they were not even half the height of the spider. I wonder if they would be scared of the spider.
Ning Yan patted his two sons' heads, then said to Huo Xi, "Brother Xi, this spider came from the west. The city doesn't know about it yet. We need to find a way to notify them quickly."
Huo said, "It's definitely too late for us to go. I'll try to send out a signal flare."
The spiders crawled very fast and were not far away from them. Coupled with the influence of the cockroaches, going to the city was not a good option for them. They could only send out signal sheets to remind them.
Huo? knew that Donglin State had a kind of military flare, which was used by the army to warn of danger and increase vigilance.
This kind of flare cannot be used easily, especially by ordinary people. Once discovered, it is a capital crime.
However, the situation is special now, so he will try it later to remind the generals defending the city to be on guard in advance.
Ning Yan nodded when he heard this, and then ordered everyone to start setting up things near the villa to prevent spiders from coming in and hurting people.
He went into the room and came back with more than a dozen knives in his hands, which he then distributed to everyone for self-defense.
Although everyone was surprised that Ning Yan had so many knives in his hands and the materials of the knives were so good, they did not ask too many questions. The most important thing now was to save their lives.
At the same time, Ning Jian added a large amount of mint to the firewood burning around the house. The smell of mint would keep spiders away.
After several months of planting, the land area in the space has been upgraded to 100 acres, so Ning Yan directly planted an acre of mint in it so that he can use it whenever he wants. Now it happens that he can burn it directly as firewood to drive away spiders.
In addition, they have cultivated a lot of garlic in the room with water in the past few months. Ning Yan asked them to crush the garlic, add some water, stir it evenly, and then sprinkle some on the walls, ground, and even the roof of the house.
Spiders are most afraid of gases with pungent odors, and garlic is one of them.
Before long, the air was filled with the fragrance of Atractylodes lancea, the coolness of mint, and the spiciness of garlic. The smell mixed together and for a moment I didn't know how to describe it.
If you say it smells good, it also has a strange smell. If you say it smells bad, it doesn’t feel that unbearable. Anyway, it’s very strange.
When the signal flare sounded, the officers and soldiers in the city were dealing with cockroaches. They couldn't think of a good way, so they could only hold torches and burn them in the sky. As long as the cockroaches didn't fly around, they could still deal with them.
When the generals in charge of defending the city heard the sound of the flare, although they didn't know what had happened, they were immediately shocked. This kind of flare would not be used easily unless a very dangerous situation occurred.
At the same time, he sent an officer to inform the prefect to be alert in advance.
Huo Yun and his children lay motionless on the roof looking to the west. After a while, they saw the giant spider that Huo Yun had mentioned crawling towards them.
I counted them and there were five in total. There were more behind them, but I couldn’t see how many there were.
The little fat boy shrank his neck in fear when he saw the spiders, and whispered to Huo Yun beside him: "Huo Yun, these spiders are so big and scary. Let's go down quickly."
He was so worried that the spiders would see them and come in and eat them all.
Huo Yun heard this and whispered calmly, "Dad said that as long as we don't make any noise, the spiders won't come in, so don't worry."