Chapter 54: Infiltrating the Lair
Exited more than three hundred meters in one go, and after making sure that no servant spider chased him out, Qi Lin simply found a rusty scrapped car and sat on the hood.
Qi Lin counted his equipment again, a total of a box of C4 clay explosives, two Nepalese hunting knives captured from the leader of the men in black, a multi-purpose sapper shovel, a military crossbow with a quadruple optical scope, twelve quenched alloy crossbow arrows, a Colt AR15 assault rifle with a grenade launcher attached, five magazines of thirty rounds each of 5.56mm NATO standard bullets, and a military stimulant given to him by Bryce.
As for the other extra weapons and ammunition, they were all buried by Qi Lin along the way in several locations that only he knew, and once there was a shortage of ammunition, he could completely fight and retreat, and obtain the equipment buried there in advance after arriving at any supply point.
Under the gray and yellow camouflage cloak, Qi Lin was also wearing a tactical vest obtained from the man in black, and all the equipment such as crossbows and sabers were hung on it, which was not only easy to carry, but also able to arrive at once when he wanted to use it.
As for the body armor of the man in black, although he left a few pieces at the supply point, he didn't wear them on him.
The weight of the heavy body armor with four layers of Kevlar material plus bulletproof ceramic pieces inserted in the chest, back, and armpits is close to ten kilograms, and wearing such a heavy bulletproof vest will not only consume a lot of Qi Lin's physical strength, but also the hard ceramic pieces will also restrict his movements to a certain extent, which is why Qi Lin gave up.
Anyway, as long as he doesn't hit the heart or head, with his physique, a few shots are not a big problem, but after wearing heavy body armor, once the flexibility is reduced, it is even more deadly.
Qi Lin had almost eaten up the food he had brought out from Thunder City, and now in his backpack were only a few large pieces of roasted bloodthirsty rat meat, as well as a few cans that had been found in the ruins of old-time supermarkets and stores.
The meat of the bloodthirsty rat tasted very bad, the meat was rough and had a sour taste, and those canned foods had more or less exceeded the shelf life indicated on it for at least a year - but in Qi Lin's eyes, these things, as long as they could be used to maintain satiety and physical strength, were enough.
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After waiting for about an hour, Qi Lin felt that the "alarm" caused by his stepping into the spider's lair of Assasin just now should have been cleared, and then he tiptoed closer to the university campus that had been reduced to a spider's lair.
The way the Assasin crypt spider seeks the enemy is to rely on the vibration of the ground, as for the distance of induction, Qi Lin just got close to the building that became a "nest" and took a piece of spider silk and then retreated to the school gate, and then attracted the attack of the servant spider, so the distance of induction should not be too far.
As for the strength, this is not easy to judge, Qi Lin used to walk at a normal pace, and because of vigilance, he deliberately lightened it a little, which shows that the Assasin Crypt Spider should still be very sensitive to the sense of vibration.
This time, instead of taking the main gate, Qi Lin chose to come to a section of the fence that was more than a hundred meters away from the gate, which was once overgrown with creepers, and now, only sections of yellowed dead vines were still wrapped around the iron railing at the head of the wall.
With a slight touch, the fragile withered vines turned into powder, and Qi Lin climbed the rusty iron railing with both hands, and with a slight tap on his toes, he deftly climbed over the fence and fell silently into the campus.
Here, there was still a distance of about fifty meters from the nearest building wrapped in spider silk, and Qi Lin planned to test the specific reaction range of the Assasin spider before making further decisions, so he lightly stomped on the ground.
The force used in this kick is not large, at most it is equivalent to a person weighing 50 kilograms jumping up and down with all his strength. After stomping this kick, Qi Lin immediately retreated to the place where he had turned in, his body tightly pressed against the wall, motionless.
One-minute, two-minute, three-minute......
Until ten minutes passed, no servant spiders appeared.
"Whew-" Qi Lin breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that the perception of these spiders was not as perverted as he imagined.
At this time, Qi Lin took out from his backpack what he had just taken from the dusty shelves of an old-era supermarket—two of the largest elongated sanitary napkins.
Although this sanitary napkin is a special product for women, it does not mean that it only has such a purpose, when there was a long-term shortage of war materials, sometimes the insole was not available, and some soldiers would choose to buy two sanitary napkins as insoles, which were not only soft and comfortable, but also had good sweat absorption performance.
It's not just sanitary napkins, in desert areas, in order to prevent sand from leaking into the barrel and causing malfunction, there are often people who put the sleeve on the muzzle of the gun and use it as a dust cover, and the effect is quite good - this is the real use of things.
However, Qi Lin did not use these two sanitary napkins to pad the inside of the shoes, but first brushed the dirt of the shoes, then tore off the adhesive strip on the back of the sanitary napkin, and pasted the two sanitary napkins on the soles of the shoes.
Since the Assasin crypt spider relies on its feet to sense its prey, then Qi Lin can completely reduce his steps to the lightest by putting a layer of sanitary napkins like cotton pads under the original hard rubber soles to absorb shocks.
Holding the dagger in his mouth, Qi Lin held a crossbow in one hand and a sapper shovel in the other, and quietly approached the nearest school building covered with spider silk.
Through the gray-white spider silk, you can vaguely see the slogan written on the outer wall of the teaching building in a one-person-sized gilt font - "Apply what you have learned", but the lower half of the sentence is not clear and is completely wrapped in spider silk.
Sure enough, this time, until Qi Lin approached the corner of the teaching building, no servant spiders appeared, which made him slightly relieved.
A slight "rustle" sounded from one side, and Qi Lin immediately fixed all his movements, standing in place like a wooden man, and at this time, a small group of servant spiders suddenly came out from behind the building.
These servant spiders, similar to those described in the brain materials, have a basketball-sized torso, behind the torso is a spindle-shaped belly, which makes it easy for them to move through the crypt, and each of the eight sharp arthropods is more than half a meter long - such a large spider, in the old days, must have attracted the exclamation of a large group of biologists, but in the wasteland, it is just a common thing.
Radiation has completely changed the vast majority of life on Earth, even humans.
These servant spiders did not come to attack Qi Lin - according to the attack methods of the Assasin crypt spiders, they would only attack suddenly when they approached the prey, and these spiders crawled directly and swaggered less than ten meters in front of Qi Lin, as if they were completely unaware that not far away, there was a motionless "intruder".
The servant spider has no self-awareness, everything is controlled by the spider mother and the king spider using pheromones, as long as Qi Lin does not make abnormal noises, even if he stands in front of the servant spider, he will be treated as a lifeless stone - this is because the spider mother and the king spider can only feel the vibration near themselves or her subordinates, and then make judgments and give orders, but if there is no vibration around the servant spider at all, they will naturally not know anything.
And these puppet-like servant spiders will only mechanically complete the tasks assigned to them by the mother spider or the king spider, and they will not care about other things at all.
This group of servant spiders crawling past in front of Qi Lin's eyes had many corpses of bloodthirsty rats on their arthropods, and the bloodstains of these corpses had not dried up, and even a bloodthirsty rat that had been pierced through the abdomen was not yet dead, and its body was still convulsing and spasming.
Qi Lin immediately realized that this was a team of servant spiders who were out hunting...... And these bloodthirsty rats are part of their food, as long as you follow these servant spiders, you can find the location of the king spider who commands them!
Qi Lin was not in a hurry to go to the laboratory, the location of the laboratory building was in the middle of the three "nests", and before that, he still needed to collect some more information related to the Assasin King Spider to confirm the safety of this operation.