The situation has changed. Just now, the protagonist was still in the role of a hunter with a group of subordinates. At this moment, the protagonist felt that the hairs all over his body were standing on end. He was being targeted by something extremely dangerous and terrifying.
The soldier ants have stopped working and are dancing their tentacles in panic, as if looking for a clue in the air.
What on earth is staring at me... The protagonist tried hard to suppress the feeling of fear rising from the bottom of his heart. I already feel the danger, so where is the danger?
The protagonist struggles to keep his body still; running around in the face of danger is undesirable. The protagonist slowly moves his head and scans his eyes around him. But nothing was seen. After a 360-degree search, he could only see shrubs and weeds. The wild grass is too tall and lush, and it is easy to hide the enemy's figure.
What about hearing? The protagonist's hearing has basically maintained the level of the human period, but before humans came, hearing was not good at it. The hearing of ants is mostly used to feel the vibrations of the earth's surface. Moreover, the winds in this world are howling, and even if the wind is slightly weaker near the surface, it will rustle the branches and leaves of the shrubs, seriously disturbing the hearing system.
Smell... yes, smell, the protagonist finally found the reason for arousing the fear in his heart. Along with the breeze blowing from the surface, there was a faint fishy smell. There is no matching information in the protagonist's memory about this fishy smell, but it makes him feel scared.
The wind is blowing from the west. The protagonist no longer sat still and waited for death. He immediately pointed his body towards the west and upwind, quickly shook his abdomen, and summoned ten soldier ants to his side.
Facing an unknown and huge threat, after receiving the signal, these soldier ants formed a dense defense formation around the protagonist, all facing the direction where the enemy may appear.
What the hell is this? The protagonist cursed fiercely. This was too unlucky, and I originally thought it was just a relaxing hunting practice session.
The potential threat did not remain hidden for long. As a leaf on a clump of grass to the west shook violently, a huge insect more than twenty times the size of a male ant landed on the ground not far in front of the protagonist.
This insect is slender, covered in bright green, and its color is very close to that of grass blades. This also prevents the protagonist from judging the location of the enemy in advance. Its huge triangular head has well-developed mouthparts, and its two huge yellow-green compound eyes are rotating, looking at the small group of ants in front of it. Its forelimbs are a pair of huge, sharp scythes covered with jagged spines. The six-legged hind limbs are strong and powerful, full of explosive power. The pair of wings on its back had just folded up. With the help of these wings, the mantis jumped across a distance of several meters and jumped directly to the opposite side of the protagonist like a magic weapon descending from the sky.
Yes, it's a praying mantis.
The praying mantis, also known as the knife mantis, is a carnivorous insect that is good at camouflage and can hunt most types of insects and even small mammals such as mice.
Praying mantises are inherently large insects, and this mantis is a full 100 millimeters long, making it a big one in the mantis family. Standing in front of the protagonist and ten soldier ants, the contrast between a human being and a ten-story building is as great.
The protagonist soon discovered the source of the fishy smell he smelled - a dead male ant was tightly clamped on the left sickle of the mantis. The male ant's head had been chewed off, but when he saw With his wings, which are only half as long, the protagonist confirms his identity.
This was a male ant that went to the ground with him to practice commanding the ant colony to hunt. Unexpectedly, he was already killed by a mantis just after being separated for a short time. The mantis came from the west, and this male ant happened to be moving west of the protagonist. It can only be said to be an unfortunate fate.
None of the soldier ants around the dead male ant can be seen. As the protected male ant, enjoying the protection of the soldier ants, it is inevitable to fall into this fate.
Thinking of this, the protagonist feels cold in his heart. Even if there are ten soldier ants surrounding him, can he escape the attack of the mantis?
This gap in combat power means that eleven unarmed humans have to fight against a monster that only exists in movies, and there will be no superheroes to save the world.
After the mantis landed on the ground, it did not immediately launch an attack. Instead, it took a leisurely look at the group of ants, while slowly chewing the corpse of the dead male ant.
The soldier ants around the protagonist showed no fear. They worked hard to raise their bodies to make themselves look bigger. At the same time, they vigorously waved their tentacles and forelimbs. Their big turtles kept opening and closing, and their abdomens shook rapidly. These all show their high fighting spirit and fighting spirit.
However, after rationally comparing the strengths of both sides, the protagonist is still pessimistic and hopes that a battle will not break out. Hopefully the mantis will be full after eating the poor male ant and won't need to hunt again.
The protagonist carefully recalled the description of the mantis in the documentary he watched when he was a child. He vaguely remembered that the mantis mainly relied on disguise to ambush its prey, and rarely ran up to its prey before attacking. Maybe the mantis was just taking a walk, the protagonist could only console himself.
The protagonist sadly discovers that as a group, ants are the top of the food chain and the nemesis of all insects. But when there is only one ant or a small group, this giant mantis tells the protagonist who is the king at the top of the food chain in terms of individual strength.
Just as a group of hunters can defeat a group of lions, lions on the African savanna know how to hide from the hunters. But when a lion faces a hunter, the situation of strength and weakness is immediately reversed.
But this time, the protagonist is the absolutely disadvantaged party.
What little hope the protagonist had had was quickly dashed. The mantis swallowed the body of the male ant in just a few mouthfuls. Then a fierce light appeared in his huge compound eyes with a triangular head, and he stared at the protagonist closely.
