Chapter 2173 Strange Cocoon

The frost giant and Taramon, who had disliked each other not long ago, actually hugged each other after sleeping soundly, looking very close.

Early the next morning, Joan and Clark continued on their way, and Tara followed naturally.

According to Clark, Dajiao had found a "meal ticket" and was determined to eat and drink with them.

With a Tara beast accompanying him during the journey, Joan didn't need to ride a horse, but sat on the big horned and broad back to drive more smoothly and comfortably.

Clark's mouth can't be idle, and sometimes Joan is too lazy to talk, so he quarrels with Dajiao. Two species who don't understand each other can actually quarrel...

On the third day of camp, Clark decided to have a wrestling match before dinner.

Big Horn gladly accepted the challenge, it had long wanted to teach the mean-spirited frost giant a lesson.

Joan served as the match referee, and after a fierce hand-to-hand fight between the Frost Giant and the Tara Beast, the game was judged to be a draw.

Clark claimed that he was merciful and did not use his full strength, but he also admitted that Big Horn did have two brushes, especially since it has six legs and a more stable center of gravity than a two-legged creature like himself, which is a huge advantage in wrestling.

Dajiao was panting heavily from exhaustion. Although he still looked dissatisfied, there was obviously a little more awe in his eyes when he looked at the frost giant.

As a beast living on the desolate ice field, after the contest just now, Dajiao knew in his heart that his strength was far behind the frost giant.

If Clark was serious, it would be useless for him to grow six more legs, and he would still be thrown to the ground.

After getting along these days, Joan found that Taramon's friendship with himself and Clark had deepened significantly.

Before setting off on the road the next day, he discussed with Clark, and then lifted the charm spell cast on Dajiao.

At first, Joan was a little worried that after the spell was lifted, Dajiao's attitude changed abruptly, and he even attacked himself in the cold.

It turned out that he was overthinking, Dajiao's attitude was the same as before, and he was still so funny and happy with the intimacy between him and Clark as before...

Talamon is a typical omnivore, basically there is nothing it does not eat.

During his travels in the Yunwu Mountains, Dajiao sometimes used his fangs to dig out hardy plant tubers buried deep in the permafrost, hibernating snakes, or small burrowing animals, and swallowed them as snacks.

Usually, Joan can also use the charm spell to exert mind control on Dajiao, and tell it not to eat dangerous or poisonous things. After the charm was removed today, Dajiao began to let himself go, and the frequency of digging was obviously higher than the previous few days.

In fact, it had a very full breakfast, and it did not dig the frozen soil for the purpose of foraging. It digs here and there like this, and most of the time it is just honing its foraging skills and having some fun during the desolate journey, so as not to be too busy. Too boring.

However, this thing of "joy" will become a big trouble if it is not done well.

When it was almost noon, Dajiao gave Joan a "big job" - digging out a huge and strange off-white cocoon-like object from the snow.

Joan used the "see-through hand mirror" to look at the cocoon dug out from the big horn, and found that it was not the larva that was developing as he expected, but... a "big spider" that seemed to be hibernating.

The monster in the cocoon gathers its eight claws and curls up into a ball. The diameter of the spherical body is about 12 feet. If it wakes up and fully stretches its limbs, its size will double its size, comparable to Talamon.

Joan also noticed that the monster's pair of forelimbs were specially transformed into "capturing feet", which were in the shape of crab claws. It was a powerful murder weapon at a glance!

Supernatural-looking arachnid-like creatures, oversized bodies, and specialized crab claws to capture feet, all these characteristics indicate that the mysterious monster hibernating in the cocoon is not easy to mess with!

Reason told Joan not to disturb the monster's sleep, but he was very itchy, and wanted to cut this unprecedented polar creature out of its cocoon, collect blood samples, and make specimens...

Just when he was still hesitating, Dajiao had already practiced the great "death spirit" one step ahead, lowered his head and pressed his sharp horns against the cocoon, tried his best to pierce the hard and thick shell, and picked it up with a snort. break!

The translucent viscous liquid gushed out along the cracks in the cocoon, and Joan could feel the chill emanating from the mucus two steps away.

If it weren't for the "spirit collar" body protection, I'm afraid I would be shivering from the cold. It is conceivable that if ordinary people directly touch this extremely cold mucus, they will definitely suffer severe frostbite.

This phenomenon prompted Joan to speculate that the hibernating monster soaked in this kind of extremely cold mucus, even if it is not a "cold subspecies" creature, at least has a strong cold resistance, otherwise it will be frozen to death.

The Tara beast is naturally immune to cold damage. The big horn ignored the extremely cold mucus stuck to its horn, and continued to bury its head in tearing the cocoon shell. After a lot of effort, it finally tore a big hole in the cocoon, exposing the monster in the cocoon completely. In front of Joan and Clark.

After removing the cocoon cover, Joan could see more details.

This monster is indeed very similar to a giant spider. The black chitin shell is smooth and hard, and the limbs and head are covered with long and thin white hairs.

Unlike other arachnid creatures with many single eyes, this monster has only a pair of huge eyes on its face, which are closed tightly. It is not yet known whether it is single eyes or compound eyes.

The mouth under the eyes has an even more peculiar structure. The lower jaw is actually split into three pieces and folded inward into a hook shape. The cold saliva in the mouth slowly seeps out through the gap between the jaws—it is the mucus that fills the cocoon.

Joan also discovered that the monster's "capturing pincers" slowly opened and closed unconsciously during sleep, like two giant serrated scissors, also soaked in cold mucus.

Curious, Joan activated "Advanced Internal Vision" to check the status and attributes of the monster in the cocoon.

...

Reconnaissance target: super-large magical beast (supernatural arachnid, insect subspecies)

Health status: weak (deep sleep)

Life Level: Level 12

Abilities: Str 32 (-6), Dex 11 (-6), Con 22, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 5

Special abilities: dark vision, keen sense of smell, tremor perception, cold resistance level 3, hibernation; extremely cold slime (touch causes level 2 frostbite, additional "entanglement"); other (unidentified)

...

"Brother Clark, do you recognize this monster?" Joan asked the frost giant.

Clark rubbed his chin to look at the big spider in the cocoon, and replied uncertainly: "I've never seen this creature, but judging from its weird appearance, it should be the crab claw spider that Bayerhoff mentioned."

"Crab claw spider..." Joan wrote down the name in the notebook, and then asked Clark, "Is this creature dangerous?"

Thanks to book friends: tce, reward 500 starting coins this week; old bookworm 1980, reward 200 starting coins this week