This giant mantis stares at the protagonist hungrily with a fierce look in its eyes. As soon as the protagonist made eye contact with Mantis, he felt an unprecedented sense of fear, and trembled as if he had lost control of his body.
The next moment, I saw the mantis kicking its limbs, the wings behind it suddenly opened, and the hind wings flapped hard. In just a short moment, the mantis disappeared on the spot.
"Danger!" The protagonist suddenly felt that the rhythm of the whole world had slowed down. It is said that when humans encounter dangerous situations, they will feel that the passage of time suddenly slows down. This phenomenon is said to be related to the surge of adrenaline. Although the protagonist is now an ant, and I don’t know if the body can still secrete adrenaline, the protagonist really feels that the scene in the field of vision is like a stuck video player, moving frame by frame. Play the screen slowly.
The protagonist can clearly see that the mantis swooped into the air and flew into the air. After jumping over the highest point of the parabola, it fell at an extremely fast speed and pounced on the protagonist. The protagonist can even clearly see the cold reflection on the pair of sickles and the faintly visible tissue fluid of the ants.
The soldier ants around him were still showing their teeth and bluffing in ridiculous slow motion. The protagonist clearly knows that these subordinates cannot be counted on, and Mantis' only target is himself. At the critical moment of life and death, the protagonist is extremely calm. He feels that he can mobilize every nerve and muscle in his body in an unprecedented good condition.
The next second, the mantis slammed into the ants' formation with a shocking attitude. Several soldier ants that were close were blown away by the violent air fluctuations. But the protagonist, who should have been at the center of the impact, opened his wings in an instant before being caught by the mantis, and used all six limbs to escape from the attack range of the mantis by half-flying and half-jumping.
At a critical moment, the protagonist's wings, which he could not use no matter how much he practiced before, came to his aid at the critical moment and helped him escape.
Mantis missed the attack, and its huge triangular head immediately twisted, and its eyes quickly locked onto the protagonist who had just escaped not far away.
Only then did the soldier ants react. The two nearest soldier ants that had not been blown away rushed forward. Regardless of the huge size difference between themselves and the mantis, they wanted to pounce on the soft abdomen of the mantis and tear it apart with their giant claws. , let the mantis feel the fighting power of the ant.
But the mantis just waved the two scythes on the left and right seemingly casually, and the two soldier ants were already caught in the scythes. The mantis' front legs exerted a slight force, and the sickle closed tightly. The two soldier ants were cut into four pieces from the waist and fell to the ground. The two soldier ants were not dead for a while, and the six pairs of jointed limbs and antennae on the four body segments were still struggling to twist, gradually consuming their remaining vitality.
The mantis didn't even look at the bodies of the two soldier ants. After all, the soldier ants were relatively small and had slightly larger heads. For the mantis, the plump body of the male ant is more attractive.
At this time, several soldier ants jumped on the mantis's feet. The mantis just shook its legs and kicked them away.
"Can't be beaten..." The protagonist felt chills in his heart. These soldier ants were no match for the giant mantis, and group tactics were useless against an extremely flexible, jumping and flying mantis. No wonder the short-winged male ant from before could not escape his bad luck even though he was protected by ten soldier ants.
"Escape, I have to escape!" The protagonist had lost the courage to fight at this time and almost peed.
The protagonist immediately turned around and ran away, although his reason told him that facing this kind of predator, the more he ran away, the easier it would be to die. However, now the protagonist doesn't even have the courage to look at the mantis. He turns his back and runs away for a few steps, as if he can escape. After all, the protagonist was an otaku in his previous life. Face to face with this ten-story monster is a scene that only appears in monster movies. The powerful fighting power of this mantis has shattered all the protagonist's previous optimism.
The mantis was not in a hurry when it saw the protagonist turning around and running away. Maybe it had seen too many stupid prey, whether it was flying or crawling, but it had absolute confidence in its own speed and strength.
The mantis once again bounced away several soldier ants that crawled over to bite its legs. It exerted force on its limbs, spread its wings and beat the air fiercely, and flew into the air again.
This time there are no soldier ants guarding the protagonist. They are still far behind and have lost their target due to their poor eyesight.
The protagonist felt the sound of breaking through the air above his head, hurriedly exerted his wings and six limbs, braked urgently and jumped to the left, narrowly avoiding the mantis's swoop from the sky again.
At this time, Mantis became impatient and let a weak target escape from its scythe twice in a row, making it very angry.
The protagonist is not happy about escaping death for the second time. This mantis is standing less than three meters in front of him. With its slender body and tightly held scythe, it only takes a single pounce to kill him. Catch, crush, eat.
The desire to survive takes over, and the protagonist changes direction and escapes to the left. The protagonist observes that the mantis moves very fast in a straight line, maybe it turns slower?
The sound of wings beating the air sounded again behind him, which was unusually loud among the rustling of leaves.
The protagonist has regained some sense and calmness at this time, and knows that he can only count on himself at this time. With the mentality that it would be better to live for one more second, the protagonist ran in a zigzag pattern and successfully avoided two more attacks from the mantis.
For the first time, one of the mantis' scythes almost cut the protagonist. If the protagonist hadn't jumped up hard, it would have been cut in two. The protagonist felt like he was breaking out in a cold sweat, even though ants don't sweat. The second time, the mantis attacked with great force. Although it did not directly hit the protagonist's body, the air flow caused the protagonist to fly away.
There was a pair of wings behind the protagonist, which intensified the impact. The protagonist was blown away by the airflow and bounced twice on the ground, landing not far from the caterpillar whose hair was plucked.
As soon as he landed, the protagonist felt that his six limbs were numb and uncontrollable. He tried hard to control his limbs, but in vain. Whether it was due to excessive exertion or injury, he was completely unable to move.
"Dead!" The protagonist felt extremely calm at this time. He watched the mantis approaching with the proud posture of a winner, but there was no fear of imminent death.
