After spending time with Xiaoqing II, the protagonist has been able to understand the status of the mount based on some subtle changes.
Just like now, he knew that the mount's physical strength had reached its limit.
From lurking on the tree trunk, to suddenly charging at the wasp and successfully injuring it, to running away after being chased by the newly reinforced wasp, all this happened within half an hour.
During this half hour, Xiao Qing II was in high-speed motion non-stop, consuming a lot of energy and physical strength.
Now, the lactic acid in the body gradually accumulates, and the fatigue makes it slow down involuntarily.
In fact, the endurance of flies themselves is not bad. They can fly for five or six hours without stopping.
However, continuous low-speed flight and high-speed sprint flight are not the same thing. Many long-distance running champions cannot maintain sprint speed for a long time. This high-speed sprint consumes a lot of energy.
And Xiaoqing II's recent energy intake is not ideal either.
While in the lair, the mount can receive enough food every day. During the days when the reconnaissance team set off, the dry food carried by the reconnaissance team was limited. Most of it was prepared for the flying knights, with priority given to the male ants. The mounts could only get a little dried meat supplement at a very rare time.
In order to survive, the flying knights will spend some time every day letting their mounts freely forage for food.
Fortunately, we were all on the edge of the forest along the way, where there were a lot of rotting plants, fungi and large insect corpses, which could barely fill the flies' stomachs.
This food is obviously not comparable to the food provided in the nest fly stable, where the fly mounts can get enough meat and honeydew instead of rotten residue.
The calories consumed these days are barely enough to maintain the activities of the reconnaissance team. After all, whether it is reconnaissance or tracking the pavement ant barbarian army, the speed does not need to be too fast, and the energy consumption can be controlled at a low level.
But now, after half an hour of high-speed movement, Xiao Qing II's accumulated energy has been squeezed out, and it has inevitably slowed down. This is an obstacle caused by the normal physiological reaction in the body and cannot be resisted by any mental factors.
But the wasps behind were different. They had plenty of energy and were still chasing at a high speed.
Now, the distance between the pursuer and the protagonist is shortening to a visible distance.
Without speed, endurance, and weapons, the protagonist and Xiao Qing II have almost no hope of escaping.
It seemed that their fate was to be overtaken, caught, and killed by wasps, and then turned into meat balls to become food for wasp larvae.
The protagonist still has no despair. Since coming to this world, he has faced life and death crises countless times and is no longer as easily panicked as he was at first.
Those that bring life and death crises include fierce insects such as praying mantises, centipedes, and spiders, as well as ants such as pavement ants and parasitic ants. Every time, he finally saved the day, relying on the spirit of never giving up and a little bit of luck.
Luck is extremely elusive, but its existence cannot be denied.
There are many stories about luck around everyone. There are lucky people and unlucky people.
Time travel, for some people, is an opportunity that they pursue throughout their lives, but for others, it is a slap in the face of bad luck for others who stray into it.
As a person who is suspected of time-traveling after death, the protagonist's time-travel, even if he is possessed by an ant, he has gained life again. From this point of view, he is lucky.
And this kind of luck often appears at critical moments. It's just an opportunity. As long as you seize it, the protagonist can escape from death.
This time, the protagonist who didn't give up saw another opportunity.
Although Xiaoqing II's speed is gradually decreasing, that is only relatively speaking, and the surrounding trees are still being quickly thrown behind him.
Just when Xiao Qing II suddenly lowered his height to avoid a tree branch, the protagonist noticed a trace of reflection in the air of the tree branch.
Of course the air does not reflect light, but when the protagonist looks back, he sees something in the air reflecting sunlight.
Look carefully, those things have a hexagonal shape, are very slender, and appear like shadows in the dim light. If it weren't for some dust and debris stuck on it, and the protagonist's extraordinary eyesight, you wouldn't have noticed it at all.
This is a spider web. Although you can't see where the spider is lurking, the spider web is intact and well-structured. It covers a large space. The spider must be waiting nearby.
It can only be said that both Xiaoqing II and the protagonist escaped a disaster just now.
Xiaoqing II suddenly lowered his height to avoid the tree branches, and happened to avoid the entire spider web between the tree branches and the trunk. Otherwise, they would both run headlong into it and become a meal for the spiders that were just waiting. Even if he breaks free, he has no chance to avoid the incoming wasps.
But at the moment when he saw the spider web, the protagonist did not feel the joy of surviving the disaster, but his brain began to operate and calculate at high speed.
After some thought, the protagonist pulled the reins sharply.
During the escape just now, in order to avoid disturbing Xiao Qing II and reducing the speed, the protagonist never controlled the reins.
But now, when he pulled the reins, the balance rod of the mount was pulled, and Xiao Qing II was unconsciously pulled to turn to the left.
Under the control of the protagonist, they rotated 180 degrees around the trunk of a huge tree.
Immediately afterwards, the two wasps behind him also turned "clumsily" in the same direction and continued to chase the protagonist.
Xiaoqing II is escaping in front, and Wasp is chasing behind. At this time, the protagonist firmly controls the reins, even if it significantly slows down the mount's speed.
The wasp was getting closer and closer behind it, and it seemed that with a little more effort, its large yellow jaws could reach the prey in front of it.
But, it's just a little bit different.
The prey in front of him suddenly made another sharp turn, from flying horizontally to flying vertically into the sky.
This sharp turn will avoid the predator behind.
However, the wasp didn't care. The prey had used this little trick many times. As long as it turned around, the little distance left would soon be erased.
Moreover, the wasp has already seen that the prey in front of it has slowed down and is exhausted. Food will be available soon.
But suddenly the wasps felt something strange - they were entangled.
The protagonist's final sharp turn will brush against the edge of the spider web, and the two wasps that were unable to react crashed into the spider web.
The originally complete and tight spider web immediately burst into two large holes, but the spider web withstood the test and the two wasps were entangled and failed to break through the web and fly away.
Behind the leaves on the side, a black spider as big as a broad bean revealed its huge and terrifying figure.
