"Something's coming, stand back!" On the belly of Stone Daddy, a mass was moving around inside, seemingly trying to break out. Chaozi's gun muzzle was already aimed at it.

  Look at that constantly moving thing, its body is not small, some animals and the like crawling into corpses to eat internal organs are common things, at most it just makes people feel sick. But in Cha Wenbin's view, it's not so simple, in this place he hasn't seen any other living creatures besides the five of them.

  The things inside were obviously disturbed by external factors, struggling constantly, as if searching for a way out. When the stone father's belly, which had swollen like a soccer ball, suddenly deflated. Just as everyone was wondering if this thing wasn't going to come out and get some air, Zhuo Xiong suddenly discovered that the two or three bamboo leaves on the ground in front of him were slightly shaking.

  Draw gun, ascend hall, fire, a series of actions already completed in the time it takes for lightning to strike.

  After a loud "bang" of gunfire, the withered branches and leaves scattered on the ground flew up in an instant, leaving only a huge bullet hole still telling the story of the previous battle.

  "What's wrong?" asked Zha Wenbin.

  Zhuo Xiong pointed with his mouth and said: "That thing is over there."

  When Chaozi dug open the earth with a smell of gunpowder, a hairy thing had been crushed into a ball of mud. When he held up the melon seedling that was as long as chopsticks with tweezers and showed it to everyone, all were shocked: Is there such a big spider under the sky?!

  Yes, it was a spider, its body alone was the size of a face basin. Super's shot hit its head and the powerful bullet penetrated its hard shell, thoroughly tearing apart its body. The black body was covered with a layer of white fluffy hair, sharp claws shone like sickles, especially the pair of fangs pulled out by Super, one of which was already broken in half, the remaining curved shape made people feel chilled to the bone, compared to a paratrooper's knife, it was probably half a catty versus eight taels.

  "How did you find out?" Chaozi was quite interested in this question, and as a fellow scout, he knew that the success or failure of details lay in observation. He hadn't noticed, but Zhuo Xiong had. This kid felt a bit resentful in his heart.

  Zhuo Xiong told his own discovery, which made Chaozi feel very ashamed, and said with a self-deprecating tone: "Ah, not being a soldier for several years, I've lost the skill of taking care of the house. Fortunately, you discovered it early, otherwise, who knows, maybe we would have been ambushed, and being bitten by this thing is equivalent to going to the underworld."

  "Do you know what this thing is?" Old Wang asked curiously.

  Chaozi held the paw and said, "Snow Domain Wolf Spider, we met during a mission. In my second year as a soldier, a geological exploration team lost contact while searching for mineral veins in Kunlun Mountains. A large number of people were sent to search for them but to no avail. Later, they contacted us because we often operate on the highland snow mountains and have rich experience with snow."

  At this point, Chaozi dropped the melon seeds in his hand and sat down on the ground with everyone, telling them about that thing, something he was extremely reluctant to mention.

  That year, after the exploration team members went missing, the team chose Chaozi and his class to carry out the task. There were ten people in total, including four new recruits who had just arrived that year. These ten people brought seven days' worth of food and equipment because once contact was lost in a place like Snow Mountain with extremely low temperatures, if they couldn't be found within half a month, their chances of survival would be slim.

  The troops were sent to the campsite before the reconnaissance team by plane, at the junction with Qinghai, on the waist of a snowy mountain. The extinguished fire piles and cold sleeping bags in the camp told everyone that no one had lived here for several days. At that time, they searched around and found extra food and medicine in the tent, as well as samples and written materials brought back by the reconnaissance team. They inferred that this reconnaissance team's trip would not be too far away, so they locked their target within a radius of thirty kilometers.

  According to the clues they had, there were six people in the exploration team, including old team members who had been rooted in this area for many years and had more than a decade of exploration experience, as well as two university students who had just been assigned. Both were male. This kind of outdoor exploration, like archaeology, requires extremely strong physical fitness, so the team members had no health problems and were led by experienced old team members, making it unlikely that they would get lost. It was suspected that they had encountered some unknown danger.

  It has been snowing in this area for the past few days, and the footprints left a few days ago have also been covered by new layers of snow. The endless white expanse offers no valuable clues.

  At that time, Chaozi was not the monitor, but just a superior soldier. Their monitor was also an old monitor named Liu Qingguo, nicknamed Old Card. He was from Gansu Province, with dark skin, and had been a soldier for seven years, having received third-class merit twice, and was a seasoned veteran, even someone like Chaozi who was quite arrogant was kept in line by him.

  Previously, the local search and rescue team found an exploration diary in a tent left behind by Wang Song, the leader of this expedition. The latest entry was dated nine days ago, with only a few dozen words: "Discovered a mysterious cave with glowstones inside. Today's wind and snow are too strong to enter, hoping for good weather tomorrow to explore the cave."

  All the previous entries in this diary were about normal daily exploration work, with nothing out of the ordinary. The activity range was to the northeast of their camp, which is close to Qinghai, so they decided to set the direction of their search there as well, mainly focusing on finding caves.

  Kunlun Mountains, also known as Kunlun Xu, is considered China's first sacred mountain and the Mountain of Eternal Life. In ancient times it was thought to be the edge of the world, with rare human activity, perennial snow accumulation, and extremely complex geological conditions. Having taken on this task, it can be said that they have been recognized, and people without certain experience absolutely cannot do this job.

  Lao Kaban led them to set out along the northeast edge, and as he was also active in the snowy mountains for many years, he used his own experience to infer their route, imagining himself as an exploration team to restore the road they had taken before.

  Search and rescue is a very hard job, especially in this icy weather, but for the Snow Eagle Company's Sharp Blade Squad, which has a glorious tradition, this hardship is nothing.

  Everyone was issued binoculars and every short distance they walked, they had to stop to observe the situation in the distance, for fear of missing any details.

  On the first day, they made a new discovery. A new little warrior in the class found a glowing plastic packaging bag on a flat ground about 70-80 meters away from them. After inspection, it was a compressed field ration packaging bag, and a small piece exposed outside was not covered by snow, so he discovered it. This proved that they had been here before, and also proved that their direction of walking was roughly correct. This discovery was a great encouragement to the entire search and rescue team, and Old Card Squad Leader was very happy, praising this little comrade from Jiangxi, nicknamed Little Lao Biao.

  That night, they set up camp here. For these soldiers, outdoor survival was a piece of cake. They left two people to take turns standing guard while the others rested. The first pair on duty that evening were Chaozi and Xiao Lao Biao. Chaozi bragged about his military experiences, earning the admiration of this new recruit, who insisted on calling him "brother" and promised to visit him in Hangzhou during family leave to see the antiques collected by Chaozi's family.

  The next day, they searched along the predetermined route, but this time they didn't find a single hair. Before it got dark, they set up camp under a huge black rock that jutted out. Old Captain Kabar analyzed the situation and felt that his sense of direction and route judgment were correct, so he decided to continue in the same direction tomorrow. By now, they had walked about 25 kilometers, and if they still didn't find any clues tomorrow, they would have to change their route. Therefore, tomorrow's search was crucial. They stewed a pot of beef to replenish their energy, which also attracted the attention of a pack of wolves on the snowy plateau.

  That night, Chaozi was on the third shift, which was around dawn, and he was still partnered with Xiao Laozhang. The two continued to chat about last night's topic, and Xiao Laozhang, this new recruit, admired his older brother even more. Just as they were chatting, a pack of wolves suddenly appeared. These beasts were very cunning, treading softly on the snowy ground without making a sound, until Chaozi's keen sense of smell caught a whiff of something fishy. He turned around to see a snow-white wolf leaping high into the air, pouncing straight for Xiao Laozhang's back of the head...

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