Chapter 353 - Chapter 353: Chapter 346: Using Gu as Bait_1 (1/2)

Chapter 353: Chapter 346: Using Gu as Bait_1

Ten Wen Money per person, equivalent to a day’s wages.

After the two villagers had received the money, they were both delighted and helped carry the corpse to the front hall.

The houses of the poor were very simple.

Usually, there would be one main room and two bedrooms, with the latrine often lacking a proper room; it typically consisted of a pit dug behind the house, covered by a thatched shed.

He Saixiang’s house was slightly better than Qin Niu’s old one.

After removing the corpse, the entire backyard became exceptionally quiet.

Other than Qin Niu who stayed by the well, no one else lingered there.

Each of them stayed far away, fearing the affliction of unclean entities.

This suited Qin Niu’s intentions perfectly.

The cluster of blood mist at the bottom of the well seemed to become more active, starting to crawl towards the top of the well, but acting very cautiously.

Qin Niu moved to a distance, trying not to startle it.

Soon, a dark red shadow burst out from a corner of the backyard, moving at an incredibly fast speed.

Qin Niu was secretly thrilled, as the child Gu had indeed come.

It was as if it had walked into a trap.

He didn’t rush to capture it, instead wanting to see what would happen after it reunited with its kin.

After the child Gu entered the well, it climbed directly onto the mother Gu, which then carried it on its back.

The mother Gu crawled out of the well and quickly moved along the dark corners of the wall.

Qin Niu merely observed their movements in secret, without disturbing them.

However, to avoid losing track of his target, he sent out two Demon Ants and three War Bees to track them by land and air.

The two Blood Spiders crawled through a rat hole over the low wall of the backyard, then continued in a northwest direction.

It seemed as if they did not like sunlight very much.

Along the way, they intentionally avoided brightly lit areas, choosing routes with darker light instead.

Qin Niu just followed them from a distance, curious to see where they were going.

After about the time it took for a meal to pass, they actually reached the riverbank.

Could it be they were about to enter the river?

Knowing this, Qin Niu should have brought the Diamond Ink Turtle. If they entered the river, despite it being a small river, Qin Niu would quickly lose sight of them.

If he acted now, his plan to use the Gu as bait would be thwarted.

As he weighed whether to capture them now, he saw the two Blood Spiders jump down the riverbank but did not enter the water; instead, they continued upstream.

Every so often, the mother spider fluttered its front paw through the air a couple of times.

Qin Niu noticed an interesting phenomenon: whenever the mother spider raised its front paws, the male spider on its back instinctively dodged backward.

Spiders are different from Termites, which rely on their antennae to distinguish scents.

Spiders lack antennae and only have a pair of fangs.

Some spiders are non-venomous, so their fangs cannot be considered poisonous. Most spiders have venom which they use to inject neurotoxins into their prey upon biting, paralyzing the victim.

It might be more appropriate to describe it as a ‘vegetative state.’

In this condition, the prey does not die but is incapacitated, helplessly waiting as the spider slowly sucks out their bodily fluids.

So, in theory, all spiders are venomous.

At most, the venom is just low in toxicity.

There are also some highly venomous spiders whose bite can kill a person, such as the Red Widow, Six-eyed Sand Spider, Funnel-web Spider, Black Widow, and so on.

Orb-weavers are generally considered low in toxicity or even non-venomous.

A spider’s chelicerae, or ‘fangs,’ are actually not taste organs. They detect the scent of their prey with the fine hairs on their eight legs.

Especially the front legs, where nerves are most abundant, both the sense of smell and touch are extremely sensitive.

The mother spider’s continuous motion with its front legs through the air likely serves to identify pheromones and scents to determine direction.