Seeing the six-legged Destroyer charging towards him with ferocity, he had already crossed the normal distance in an instant, and was about to pounce! The male hairy forest ant had no other choice but to use all six limbs to leap away from the tree trunk and jump to the bottom of the tree.
In the eyes of the Destroyer, he only saw a black shadow flashing past, drawing an arc in the air, and then fell straight down! The bottom of the tree trunk is several meters high from here, and is already out of the Destroyer's effective sight. It only looks like a sparkling blur. It has no idea where the male hairy forest ant fell.
At this time, the male hairy forest ant has landed safely on the water. He adjusted his body posture in the air and did not sink when he fell into the water. His six limbs were tilted and stretched out, making full use of the tension of the water film to float on the water. , pressing out six small dimples on the water surface, thus keeping the body as far away from the water surface as possible.
As a descendant of the water god, and having lived near the water for a long time, the hairy forest ants have accumulated a wealth of experience and knowledge on how to survive on the water. Due to unexpected factors such as weather, many hairy forest ants unfortunately fall into the water every year. After all, it is impossible for them to really swim (legend has it that a tribe of savage ants received the blessing of the pool god and could swim in the water), so they have summed up a set of survival methods for falling into the water. The actions are passed down from generation to generation.
By stretching its six limbs, the body of the male hairy forest ant can stay dry out of the water, preventing it from drowning due to water entering its stomata, and preventing the body's heat from being rapidly lost due to direct contact with the water.
Now, all he has to wait for is for the wind to blow him to the shore. Of course, he can also slowly move his limbs and move on the water under his own power. It's just that the power of ants is too small compared to nature. Most of the time, they are doing useless work. It is better to wait quietly.
The water areas where the hairy forest ants live are not very large. Sometimes they are just a small pool in the eyes of humans. In addition, they are an ant tribe that is active during the day. There is always wind during the day. Even a breeze is enough to kill people who have fallen into the water in ten minutes. ants rushed to the shore, so most of the hairy forest ants that fell into the water were spared.
If some important ant members fall into the water, their fellow ants will call flying troops to come and retrieve the ants. Each nest has patrolling rescue dragonflies in the sky, which can hover on the water to perform rescue operations. It's just that this male hairy forest ant can't rely on the flying troops now. Yesterday, the flying troops escaped on their own after discovering the Destroyer invasion. The dragonfly also had two Destroyers that jumped on it. It's not known whether it survived. Survive.
The male hairy wood ant just wants to wait for it to reach the shore and escape quickly. The situation he is currently facing is not optimistic. It is already the end of October and the water temperature is already relatively low. Even if only six limbs are exposed to water, the slightly undulating water waves will still make some water stick to the body, and then quickly take away the body temperature.
There are dangers lurking under the water. In this season, there are no most ferocious grasshoppers that will sneak up on him. However, the shrimps and crabs under the water in the pool may break through the water at any time and take Mao Lin away before they reach the end of their lives. The life of the male ant.
Even on the shore, the male hairy forest ants can see a few crabs in action, and there are black shadows passing under the water from time to time, which makes the male hairy forest ants extremely nervous.
When the colony was first built here, in addition to the salt-alkali mines, it also valued the crab egg resources here. The caught and pickled crab eggs were a rare delicacy and sold well to many ant tribes. But now, these crabs during the egg-laying period are no more than a threat to the male hairy forest ants that fall into the water, second only to the destroyer!
Perhaps it was because the water surface was turbid and there were too many floating objects, or maybe the crabs were busy mating, but the male hairy forest ants still managed to get ashore and were not caught and eaten by the giant crabs that suddenly broke out of the water.
There are also crabs on the shore. They are focused on picking up the plankton-rich silt with their pincers and eating it in their mouths. They don't care about the ants wiping their bodies on the side. On land, ants run very fast and are no longer a recipe that ordinary crabs can easily obtain. .
The male hairy forest ant felt wet and cold all over, and finally wiped off the large droplets of water on a piece of moss that was not dry, and then tremblingly approached the nearby grass.
There may be Destroyer activities around here, and the male hairy forest ants feel that they are safe only if they hide in the grass. But even if he is safe for the time being, what can he do if he has no kin, no food, and no nest? How long can you live? He doesn’t even know it himself!
But as long as he has a breath left, his innate desire to survive will always support him to live!
After getting into the grass, drying his body on the relatively dry grass blades, lying on a high place and enjoying the sunshine motionlessly, allowing the body temperature to return to a comfortable level, the male hairy forest ant finally felt alive.
There was a Destroyer moving on the branches not far above his head. It should be the Destroyer. The distance was a bit far away, so he could only vaguely see its approximate size. The male hairy forest ant lies motionless, and is very safe at this distance. The destroyer can't see the target clearly at this distance either, and may regard him as a black spot on the autumn grass that represents decline and withering!
After relying on sunlight to replenish body temperature, the male hairy forest ant must consider what to do next! Using the cover of vegetation, he could slowly move away from the colony ravaged by the Destroyer.
But it is impossible to arrive at the other nearest colonies today. A solitary ant is vulnerable in the cold autumn night. He is not Zhu Jue. He does not have a "god descending from heaven" and does not know much about survival in the wild.
Doing nothing obviously won't work. After some thinking, the male hairy forest ant slowly crawled down the grass blades without alerting the Destroyer, and used the cover of the grass to move towards the other colonies in his memory.
Perhaps it was because of fate that, shortly after leaving the colony, a familiar sound of flapping wings was heard in the sky. The male hairy forest ant looked into the sky in surprise. Several figures gradually flew closer in the distance, becoming larger and clearer.
Even if they haven't seen clearly who is coming, just by the familiar voice they have heard since they emerged from the pupa, the male hairy forest ants know that they are coming from the same species riding dragonflies!
He wants to cry for help! But he didn't know what to do. He stood on the tall reeds by the water and waved his forelimbs, but the dragonflies were just hovering near the nest not far away, and the destroyers began to leave the nest and show off their power in the sky - neither party noticed. The male hairy forest ant calling for help in the distance...
In desperation, the male hairy forest ant came up with an idea. He jumped back into the water below him with a "pop" and used his arthropods to wave the water surface to create circles of small ripples.
Before being blurred by the cold water, the male hairy forest ant finally saw two dragonflies breaking away from the large group and flying towards their direction!
