A new day had begun, and the members of the Salt Lake Tribe, led by Zhou Xu, were still carrying out their hunt on the outskirts of the Black Forest.
In fact, that was what they had done every day before this.
Their actions had continually squeezed the giant spider's survival resources in the Black Forest, forcing it to launch frequent attacks against them of its own accord.
This day was no exception...
"The giant spider! The giant spider is coming!!"
At the shout, the tribe member responsible for watching the giant spider came sprinting toward them.
Thinking back, the reason the giant spider had been able to kill its way directly to them the first time it emerged was that the tribe member on lookout had made too much noise and drawn it over.
Of course, agonizing over that now would do them no good.
Although Zhou Xu was still somewhat nervous after hearing the shout, his overall state was exceptionally calm.
"What are you panicking for? We came here this time to hunt it down!"
Zhou Xu's words instantly gave the surrounding tribe members a pillar to lean on.
"Send the signal. Proceed according to the original plan."
Almost as soon as he said this, their primary target for the expedition appeared at the edge of his field of vision.
Although they had already encountered the giant spider countless times during this period while competing for the limited food in the area, one thing remained unchanged: that hideous monster brought them immense pressure every single time!
Its eight spider legs moved in coordination, and the giant spider was as nimble as ever. Its rapidly approaching form made the pressure on everyone multiply!
"Prepare the slings. Launch the attack according to the arrangements from our drills!"
Once the order was given, the tribe members stationed throughout the Black Forest began spinning the slings in their hands and launched an attack on the giant spider, but the results were negligible.
"C-Chief, will this really work?"
In barely this short time, the tribe member who had run over to deliver the news had already begun displaying his outstanding potential as a professional morale-downer and started losing heart.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu, as the tribe chief, was just as nervous inside, but he would never show it.
"Do you know the greatest difference between humans and beasts?"
As a heavy, muffled thud suddenly came from the distance, Zhou Xu tapped his own head.
"It's the brain. Humans know how to use their brains."
At that moment, two thick spider legs on one side of the giant spider sank directly into a pit.
The pit was not particularly deep, and climbing out would be effortless for the giant spider. It was completely unrealistic to restrain it with the pit trap alone, and Zhou Xu had known that from the very beginning.
"Now!!"
With that loud shout, Zhou Xu charged forward while rapidly spinning the strange rope in his hand, with a stone tied to each end.
Once he had built up enough speed, Zhou Xu bent down and hurled it low along the ground.
Pulled along by the stones at either end, the flying rope spun all the way forward and wrapped directly around the spider leg at the moment of impact.
At the same time, the tribe members scattered throughout the other areas followed suit, taking out identical weapons and hurling them.
Their skill at throwing the flying ropes was certainly nothing to boast about. After all, only a week had passed since Zhou Xu created the things.
But as long as the target lost its ability to move, and they closed the distance appropriately to increase their margin for error, the shortcomings in their technique could soon be made up for.
After one volley of flying ropes, the two spider legs that had fallen into the pit had not even been pulled free before the six exposed legs were bound one after another.
The huge body that had just reared itself up crashed to the ground again, and the giant spider completely lost its ability to move!
The sudden turn of events clearly threw the giant spider into a panic, and it began struggling wildly.
But with all eight spider legs wrapped in flying ropes, it could not exert any strength at all.
"Watch out for the webs it sprays from its abdomen! Avoid that area and attack its joints! Take off all eight of its legs!"
Up to this point, the plan had proceeded smoothly, and Zhou Xu's heart settled completely. His entire demeanor became relaxed and assured.
With this grand plan as the foundation, he had assigned tasks to the tribe members long ago. Now that they had received the signal, each of them moved with great speed.
Dashan charged the fastest. Once he closed in, he took careful aim at the joint of the giant spider's leg, raised the stone axe in his hands, and brought it down with a mighty chop!
Although the giant spider's shell provided fairly good defense, enough to withstand the stone pellets from their slings, the joints had limited strength by necessity in order to preserve flexibility.
With that heavy, forceful chop, the shell around the joint shattered, and bluish-green insect blood sprayed through the air.
The giant spider immediately cried out in pain, letting out a series of shrill hisses as its struggles became even more frenzied.
Not wanting any variables to arise, Zhou Xu hastened their movements.
He directed the tribe members wielding stone axes to chop through the giant spider's eight legs one by one.
Even if the giant spider did not die after losing all eight legs, it had already lost the power to resist. As long as they avoided the part from which it spewed webs, would it not be meat on their chopping block?
Under the sustained assault, the giant spider let out a mournful cry and completely breathed its last.
Looking at the monster's corpse before them, the tribe members who had been tense just moments ago, wildly swinging their stone axes, all froze where they stood.
"It-It's dead?"
"It really is dead."
"We did it! We succeeded!!"
They could hardly imagine that they, who had previously been able to do nothing but flee in disarray whenever they faced the giant spider, had now managed to kill it so easily!
The entire process seemed utterly unbelievable to them.
And if they were to say who had enabled them to accomplish this, the tribe members, whose emotions had settled somewhat, all turned to look at Zhou Xu standing not far away.
At that moment, the reverence in their eyes had almost reached an indescribable level.
Feeling those gazes falling upon him one after another, Zhou Xu was wildly exhilarated inside as well. But in front of so many tribe members, he still had to maintain the dignity of a chief, at least for appearances' sake.
After calming his emotions and organizing his thoughts, Zhou Xu quickly beckoned to Fei Que beside him.
"Fei Que, go back to the tribe and call people here to deal with this giant spider's corpse."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu swept his gaze around and briskly selected four more tribe members.
"To be safe, the four of you stay here and keep watch. The rest of you, follow me."
After giving his instructions, Zhou Xu took the lead and walked toward the depths of the Black Forest.
There was no need to explain their destination. It was naturally the fissure cave that served as the giant spider's nest!
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