Chapter 20 Simple Traps (Part 2)
Wang Xiaoyu did not waste his energy. After nearly 30 minutes of hard work, the stupid red-headed cricket finally realized that Wang Xiaoyu's big green bug might not want to eat him, so he began to listen to Wang Xiaoyu's orders.
After another 30 minutes of training, the red-headed cricket was finally able to fully execute Wang Xiaoyu's orders.
After sunset, it became darker and darker, and Wang Xiaoyu began to implement his plan.
Although Wang Xiaoyu himself can also act as bait, he will not take risks because there are not many hunters who can break through the spider web and escape. For example, large scorpions, snakes and lizards can break his silk threads, and at that time he turned from bait to real bait.
The only thing about bait is to be enough.
Wang Xiaoyu covered the dead leaves above the grass branches cut by his claws, and then put the dead leaves of the red-headed cricket to the top, while he hid himself under the dead leaves, leaving only a gap for him to observe the movements around him.
In this way, Wang Xiaoyu can eat slowly while waiting for the prey to catch the hook, and he can also use this gap to spray wires outwards.
Not long after, the sky became completely dark after sunset, and the starlight began to sprinkle on the earth. Although the insect's compound eyes were a little inconvenient to see the distance, they were still very sensitive to light. With the starlight penetrated from the dense woods, Wang Xiaoyu's vision was not affected.
The red-headed cricket covering the dead leaves above his body had already begun to chirp with his instructions, and Wang Xiaoyu also began to chew off unknown grass branches around him with his teeth. The experience provided by this grass plant is far less than that of the leaves on the tree, but it is worse than nothing, and can add to the silk thread in his body.
Wang Xiaoyu knew that the long night had just begun...
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As the sun sets, the stars rise and the sky gradually cools down.
The dead leaves mantis hanging on a dead branch felt the cold wind blowing, and it woke up, rubbed its inverted triangle face with its bent elbow holding a brown sickle. The hunger in its abdomen reminded it that it was time to start its new hunt for the day...
The dead leaf mantis, which has a huge body of nearly 20 cm, has to hunt sufficiently every day to maintain his huge physical energy consumption.
With his wings spread, the dead leaf mantis quickly began to take off and hunt in the dark.
A dead leaf mantis flap its wings will make huge noises, which will easily scare off prey. It is not fast to fly, so it is unwise to hunt.
Therefore, the method of choosing a dead leaf mantis is to find a suitable place, and then ambush the preys who are confused and ignorant to step into its attack range. With the talent [hunter intuition], the dead leaf mantis can accurately find the ambush places where prey is easy to pass.
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Not long after stopping at a very ideal hunting site, a prey appeared in the sight of the dead leaf mantis. It was a small frog, and the little frog obviously did not notice the danger hidden beside it.
The small frog's eyes rotated rapidly, and then quickly stuck out his tongue to capture the mosquitoes in the sky. Every time its tongue attacked, it represented the life of a mosquito.
"ah!"
"ah!"
The dead leaf mantis kept hearing the [Word Words] of mosquitoes before they were buried in the belly of the little frog, but the dead leaf mantis did not have any special thoughts. It just felt that these mosquitoes were too small and could not fill their stomachs at all.
One night, hunting hundreds of mosquitoes as food, naturally, the mantis will not do that, because it only needs to hunt a little frog.
When the little frog jumped up and moved again, the dead leaf mantis attacked like lightning, without giving the little frog any chance. It directly clamped the smooth little frog tightly with the hook on the brown sickle.
Then while the little frog was still struggling, the sharp mouthpiece of the dead leaf mantis bit the little frog's head and began to eat before the little frog died.
The dead leaf mantis was a little confused. It did not hear the [Word Word] from the frog before death, because normally when it catches prey like grasshoppers, those preys will speak in the [Word Word] before death. The dead leaf mantis actually planned to chat with the frog before death. It really wanted to ask whether the little frog was tired of catching mosquitoes as food for a day.
The IQ of the Dead Leaf Mantis obviously cannot understand that the little frog is not a bug, and cannot understand and say [Word Word], so the Dead Leaf Mantis kept asking its questions until the little frog died.
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Suddenly, the dead leaves mantis who were eating in the corpse of the little frog faintly heard the unusual [Word Word], which should be the chirping of a cricket.
The dead leaf mantis slowly put down the little frog's corpse and stopped eating...
"I'm a delicious cricket, come and eat me..."
"I'm very delicious. If you want to eat mine, come on..."
The dead leaf mantis completely put down the little frog that had been eaten halfway and gave up the food it had eaten halfway. It rubbed the elbow of the brown sickle and wiped it with its small but extremely sharp mouthpiece. Then it swung its tentacles that were longer than ordinary dead leaf mantis on its head.
"Delicious... cricket, want to eat..." The dead leaf mantis shook its triangular head and said softly in the [Word Word].
The memory of the dead leaf mantis is very vague, but I still vaguely remembered an experience before it was [ripened]. It remembered a very delicious cricket it caught at that time. It was a cricket that was different from ordinary crickets and was particularly delicious.
The Dead Leaf Mantis touched his extremely slender tentacles again. This pair of extremely sensitive tentacles was obtained by eating the delicious cricket [evolution]. It also obtained the cricket's unique passive skill [vibration perception]. It was also because of this passive skill that he could grow into a huge 20 cm that ordinary mantis could not reach because of this passive skill.
The dead leaf mantis' mouth twitched slightly, then spread its wings and flew towards the direction of the cricket chirping...
Soon the dead leaf mantis fell on a dead branch not far from the chirping cricket.
The dead leaf mantis is a little confused. A normal cricket should soon escape under the stone when it senses its arrival. Why didn't this delicious cricket escape?
There was no time for the dead leaf mantis to think, because in the sharp compound eyes of the dead leaf mantis, a black scorpion about 8 cm was rushing towards the cricket.
“Delicious…Cricket, mine!!”
The dead leaf mantis stretched out its body. How could this delicious cricket be snatched away by others? It stretched out its body like lightning again and stretched out its sickle. Then the next moment, it and the little scorpion were stuck in silk threads in different directions.
The red-headed cricket in the middle of the dead leaves did not move a trace and cried again...
"I'm a delicious cricket, I'm very delicious..."
"Okay, Red-headed Cricket, you can stop."
The dead leaf mantis heard a strange hissing sound of [Words], but it ignored it. It kept breaking away from the silk thread. It knew that as long as he broke away from the silk thread of this level, he could get rid of it.
But before the dead leaves mantis got rid of it, the thicker and thicker silk threads sprayed towards him from a gap between the dead leaves on the ground.
"Spider?" The dead leaf mantis made a puzzled sound. It had been stuck to the spider web, but had never seen a spider that could spit out silk threads so far.
Its body was sticking to the spider silk and getting heavier. The two brown sickles were stuck the tightest and they soon couldn't move. His sharp mouthparts were also filled with silk threads. It could not even be able to speak with the [Word Word].
In its compound eyes, the black scorpion on the other side had an experience similar to his, and was also wrapped in silk threads spurted out from the cracks of the dead leaves.
Soon, an unbelievable picture appeared in the mind of the dead leaf mantis...
A green crawler squirmed up from the cracks of dead leaves, and it was only a crawler that preyed on them.
The green crawler slowly crawled onto its body, but the dead leaf mantis was tied up by spider silk and could not move at all. A huge pain came from its neck...
Not long after, the Dead Leaf Mantis lost his consciousness.
Chapter completed!