Chapter 16: Hunting Crickets and Leaving
No one is born hunting, but praying mantis and spiders are born to hunt, and it's a helpless thing.
However, Sistum's hunting skills can be honed gradually, although there is no inheritance from the bloodline, but the intelligence of humans and the strong physical fitness of insects, as long as he keeps practicing, he will definitely make him an excellent hunter.
It only takes a few more hunts like this, and Systm will be able to catch this cricket.
However, Systm has no one to practice with, and his strength is insufficient before he transforms into an adult, and challenging a strong opponent will undoubtedly leave him disabled or even killed; And after transforming into an adult, he ushered in this rainstorm and barren world, and there was no prey for him to choose.
Systham shook his head, and he came to the cricket's hole and tried to get in.
As Sistrom had observed, the narrow hole really couldn't get his worm head through, and if he forced it in, he would definitely break his head and bleed, and the gain would outweigh the losses.
However, upon closer inspection of the tree hole, the head of the Seat began to smile humanly.
The hollow was of a peculiar shape, narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, only six or seven centimeters deep, and Sistemm could even smell some of the earthy smell of the cricket.
By widening the wood near the hole, he was able to get into it and prey on the cricket.
And widening the hole, Sistemm just has a solution, and that is his bioweapon [Corrosive Slime].
This corrosive liquid can easily corrode the bark of trees, and it is believed that the effect of corroding wood is not bad.
Although he can spit out not much slime, he can also recover the corroded sap to reduce consumption, and it is enough to open the hole in the cricket's tree.
The cricket hiding in the hollow of the tree is like a turtle in an urn, and there is no possibility of escape.
Fishy-smelling slime began to leak from Systham's chelica teeth, and the hole in the tree hole began to melt slowly.
As Systm used [Corrosive Slime], the crickets, which had been standing still in the hollow of the tree, became a little restless, and their bodies trembled slightly, moving from side to side from time to time.
Seeing this, Systm was more careful to prevent the cricket from suddenly popping out of the hole in the tree and allowing it to run away again.
Ten minutes later, the hole had been half-opened by Systham, and the crickets in the tree hole had quieted down in the tree hole as if they had resigned themselves to their fate, only their abdomen was still breathing slowly.
After another ten minutes, Systm managed to bite off the cricket's head.
There was no fighting, as the cricket had been stunned by the poison gas before it could catch him.
It was only natural that the cricket was uneasy at first and suddenly became quiet after ten minutes, and it seemed that the smell of his [corrosive slime] was somewhat toxic.
However, the toxicity of this gas is not strong, and it takes more than ten minutes to stun crickets in a confined space such as a tree hole, and it is obviously not feasible to use it as a means of hunting.
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Eating Sistemm did not stop, he ate the carcass of the cricket while thinking about his next prey.
Food was scarce after the rainstorm, and Sistemus couldn't think of anything to hunt, and finally he thought about the two spiders again.
In the process of hunting crickets, Syst came up with a way to deal with spiders.
He has a unique advantage over spiders, and that is the ability to fly.
The solution that Systham came up with was to find a stick, grab it, and fly up to stab the spider with it.
Systm certainly didn't think he could stab a spider through with a stick, all he wanted to do was stab the spider into the water.
Although the spider can prevent the silk thread from falling down, he can break the silk thread with 2 attacks, which is somewhat difficult to operate, but has a chance of success.
However, Syst could only think of so much, the spider would indeed lose its strength if it fell into the water, but so what, even if the spider was very unfortunate enough to drown, he would not be able to catch it.
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As he thought about it, Sisstem's chelica teeth chattered and chewed, and after metamorphosing into an adult, his chelica teeth became sharper, and he could easily chew even the strongest of crickets' brains.
Heatham preferred this crustacean to ordinary meat, and it tasted like crispy milk chocolate, a taste experience he had never experienced in his previous life.
After eating some of the cricket's carcass, Systm grabbed the remaining crickets and flew back to his nest of dead leaves.
After much thought, Systm finally chose to leave.
The area of 100 meters nearby has been very familiar to him after these days, and he is sure that he will survive here in peace for two months.
But only by constantly walking can he find more prey and opportunities, allowing him to extend his small lifespan.
Heatham decided to leave the remaining cricket carcasses for the next morning, and leave the place when he had eaten and drunk enough.
Rather than the dim night, Heatham finally decided to explore the unknown forest during the day, after all, his body needed proper rest, and the dim vision at night made his exploration inefficient.
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Before dawn, Systm had eaten the remaining carcass of the cricket.
Early in the morning, Systm emerged from the nest of dead leaves, chose a slightly higher direction and began to jump forward.
Because of the loud roar of his wings, Heatham did not choose to fly, although there were no birds in the vicinity for a few days after the rainstorm, but it is difficult to say how far away.
Because he had [INFORMATION READ] to observe the danger, although he acted cautiously, he was not slow to move, and after five minutes he jumped and moved a hundred meters to an unfamiliar realm.
[INFORMATION READ] was very efficient, and Systm found several gray-brown mushrooms on a rotting and dead tree.
Mushrooms are undoubtedly a nutritious food that is made up of fungi.
However, compared to the green plants, Systm's body was unfamiliar with the smell of mushrooms, and he could not tell if the mushrooms were highly poisonous.
Although the color of this mushroom seemed to be non-poisonous, Systm did not dare to try it lightly, he jumped on the mushroom and observed it for a while, and finally jumped away.
As Heatham progressed towards the higher ground, the water on the ground became more and more shallow, and after a few hundred meters, some potholes gradually appeared on the ground.
It wasn't long before Systm decided to take a break due to [INFO READ] depletion, and Sistemm spotted a dozen insects he was familiar with.
It is a dozen ants that are very common in the forest, these ants have a black-brown body and a body shape of about a centimeter, and this breed of ant Sistemm seems to have encountered before.
At this time, the dozen ants were biting at a tadpole struggling in the mud, which had grown hind legs about three centimeters in size except for its tail.
Because the stagnant water subsided, the tadpole was unlucky enough to be trapped in the mud, and even if it was not discovered by the ants, it would not escape death.
Sistemm looked around carefully, and when he saw that there was no danger, he aimed at an ant and rushed straight over.
Rushing towards the ant colony with his adult body is no longer a zebra rushing towards the hyena swarm, but an elephant rushing towards the hyena swarm.
He's going to hunt an ant first to try his current skills!