Man-eating spiders in the swamp

In the afternoon, after nearly 10 hours of struggle and bumps, the freighter "Sturt" was finally freed from the crazy stormy waves. Due to multiple failures of the freighter, Captain Fossman had to order: the ship was anchored in the waters in front of an unnamed island near Rockar for refurbishment.

　　The next morning, after finishing the work at hand, the sailors Charred and Unshee, Will, and Paul, with the captain's consent, put on their muskets and drove to the island in the lifeboat.

　　It was an irregular, flat, circular island with a coastline of about seven or eight kilometers. The surrounding water was wandering fast, making it difficult to land. They took a boat around the island for half a week, followed a slightly gentle backflow, and finally climbed up from the south slope.

　　The east and west of the island are mountains, which are covered with large areas of dense tropical rainforest. North and south are gentle oases, with a small river flowing down from upstream and a small lake downstream. The low-lying areas around the lake are swampy quagmire, overgrown with lush wormwood and slender water willows.

　　Everyone walked around the ridge along the coastal slope and came to a flat slope. They could no longer restrain their excitement and jumped up with joy. They bumped into and chased each other, had a carnival for a while, and then fell on the green lawn one after another, sticking their faces to the ground... Isn't it, trapped on a sea ship for many years, what they saw was sea water and wind and waves, what they heard was the roar of the engine, like a bird trapped in a cage all day long, the lava of feelings has been suppressed for a long time, how I hope to find a place to vent to the fullest!

　　They had kissed the fragrant earth enough before they stood up. Will and Paul decided to go to the lake on the south side of the island to see if the water was fresh. Charred and Onshi went hunting in the mountains and decided to get some wild game back.

　　As soon as they entered the forest, they found two hares. Probably very few people patronize here, and the hares are not very alarmed when they see people. Unshi raised his hand and shot, and one hare was killed on the spot. The other was wounded by the scattered projectile and fled into the grass, and Charid chased after him to make up for it. In less than three minutes, they easily obtained two trophies.

　　Passing through a dense forest, they found a few more pheasants. Although the meat was not much, it tasted delicious. They were ecstatic and both raised their guns. They heard two consecutive sounds of "bang, bang", three pheasants were killed and two injured, and one fluttered into the depths of the forest.

　　Anshi was busy cleaning up the pheasants on the ground. Charid saw that it was about to get into a thorn bush. He hurriedly picked up his gun and was about to "make up the fire" when he suddenly heard a "whoosh" and fell from the branches above his head. A bundle of something thicker than a cable caught him, and he suddenly felt a chill on his neck. Charid couldn't help but be startled, and when he looked, it turned out to be a mountain python, staring at him with green eyes. The blood-red letter in his mouth was about to hit the tip of his nose. Charlie was so frightened that he hurriedly pulled it with his hands. How could he move it? Instead, he was tightened by it.

　　Charred felt that it was getting more and more difficult to breathe. He pulled the python's body desperately with both hands, and used all his strength to squeeze out a string of weak and indistinct voices from his throat. He shouted out of the woods with difficulty and despair: "Ang... Xi, hurry up, save... life..."

　　Probably hearing a noise in the woods, Anshi stepped in quickly. Seeing this, he was first startled, then threw down the musket in his hand, pulled out the belt and put it in his mouth, leaned over lightly, grabbed the python's head with both hands at lightning speed, and put it in the belt hoop.

　　The mountain python struggled to wrap Charid's neck tighter. At this moment, he really couldn't stand it anymore. But seeing Aung Hee doing his best, he had to hold on desperately. Due to the strength of the mountain python, Aung Hee's hand on the mountain python trembled.

　　Although Charid was so entangled by the mountain python that he couldn't breathe, his mind was very clear. He hurriedly stretched out his hands to help Anshi grasp the python's head, and Anshi freed one hand to tighten the belt buckle. Tie the python's head to a small tree trunk, strangle it hard, and finally strangle the mountain python straight and flutter, and the mountain python quickly slips down from Charid's neck.

　　Immediately, Charid sat limply on the ground like a marathon runner, panting for breath. The python wrapped Aung Hee around the trunk of the tree, and the tree trembled, and the leaves fell to the ground like snowflakes. No matter how the python twisted and slapped, the rough, scaly body twisted around his face and body like a file, and he just held on to the belt tightly and refused to relax.

　　Seeing this, Charid stood up, wagging, and went to pull the python's tail. The guy only threw his tail, and Charid fell to the ground with a "pounce". His hand just hit the musket on the ground, so he quickly stood up and grabbed the musket and smashed it at the protruding part under the python's neck. There is the heart of the mountain python. Its heart was smashed and it couldn't be fierce anymore.

　　Gradually, Aung Hee finally emerged from the loose circle of the mountain python, and the blood of the mountain python splattered all over his face. They pulled the dead mountain python away, three or four meters long.

　　The two of them packed up their prey and were about to go down the mountain when suddenly Paul ran over out of breath and shouted in panic, "Come on, it's not good, Will he, something happened..." The three of them quickly came to a small lake. It is the dry season now, the lake has receded to the center of the lake, and the dirty swamp has been exposed, covered with weeds. There are also clumps of sunflowers growing in many places.

　　Will was entangled in the long leaves of a clump of sunflowers, covered in jet-black poisonous spiders.

　　What's going on? It turned out that after Will and Paul went down the mountain, they found a large clam by the water in a swamp. They pried open the clam shell and found a thumb-sized, sparkling pearl inside. Then they found a lot of lake mussels containing pearls in the shallow water nearby. Perhaps the specific natural environment here makes lake mussels prone to pearls. Maybe there are more rare mussels by the lake, so they decided to go to the lake to have a look.

　　The two walked on the hard mud block covered with weeds for a while, and a thick clump of sunflowers blocked the way. Will in front didn't mind, and one hand touched the leaves of the sunflower inadvertently, and the long leaves fell down like a noose, dragging Will and pulling him desperately, but the leaves of the sunflower became more and more entangled. Tight.

　　The spider perched under the sunflower came out of its nest, and as soon as it landed on Will, there was a burst of greedy sucking and biting. Will struggled desperately, and his body was bound by the flowers and leaves of the sunflower. How could he get rid of it? After twitching in pain for a while, Paul, who was in a daze behind him, woke up suddenly and reached out to remove the spider for him. He didn't want his fingers and The back of the hand suffered a few bites, the pain was unbearable, and there was no other way to save Will, so he had to run into the mountains to find Onshi and Charid.

　　Unsch used the barrel of a musket to pluck the poisonous spider that was on Will's body. Those "hungry people" in the swamp who seemed to have been driven out of the starvation prison were now bowing and burying their heads on Will and sucking desperately, but they couldn't get rid of it. A few spiders were probably annoyed and shot over like arrows, and when they landed on a person, they took a heavy bite, and their flesh was as painful as if they had been stabbed.

　　The three of them had to slap the spiders that landed on their respective bodies while covering their wounds to exit the danger circle.

　　Or Anxi has a way. He took the two back to the mountain forest, and one of them tied a handful of Songming, used a branch to lengthen the handle of Songming, and moved the ignited Songming over. When those guys saw that the momentum was not right, they fled one after another. Some didn't have time to escape and were burned to death on the spot.

　　They rolled the pine glow, burning the group of poisonous spiders and their patron god, the sun wheel flower.

　　Only then did they approach Will, and they saw that he had long since died, his face and body seemed to have been shot by random arrows, with many scars and no intact skin.

　　This is an island that is calm on the surface, but actually dangerous. There are venomous spiders that eat people in the moor, and boa constrictors that entangle people in the mountains and forests... Thinking of what happened after landing on the island, Charid couldn't help but feel terrified, and hurriedly carried Will's body with Anshi and Paul and boarded the lifeboat.

　　Back on the ocean ship, Anshi told them that in the swamps of the forests of the Brazilian Amazon, there were such man-eating spiders. They usually perch under the sunflower, and rely on the leaves of the sunflower to entangle their prey. Whether it is a human or a beast, if they accidentally touch the petals of the sunflower, the sunflower immediately stretches out its long leaves to entangle people or beasts. The spiders lying under the sunflower will be dispatched in full force, devouring the prey. At the same time, the excrement is used to fertilize the sunflower, and they are in trouble. They are interdependent and use each other like sea anemones and jellyfish in the sea.