Chapter 14 What is it like to pretend to be forced in front of 100,000 ants?
Hey, how can you take advantage of your own advantage?
Feng Bei smiled in his heart, his action of throwing the insect corpse yesterday seemed random, but it was actually an idle move, trying to find out the location of the surrounding anthills. The original purpose of this was to avoid the ant colony, but now that time is pressed and there is no time to find insects to kill one by one, the ant colony has become the only place that can provide Feng Bei with an adequate source of food, and he must rise to the challenge.
Following the traces of the dripping of insect corpses, Feng Bei began his hunting journey, and after walking for a long time, he wanted to complain: These ants, the route is too domineering, right?
Yes, the path on which the insect corpses were carried was almost a straight line, completely ignoring whether there was any shelter on both sides, let alone whether it had invaded the territory of other creatures, and opened up a path like an almost rampage, which was simply reckless!
Of course, ants do have the ability to be reckless.
Different from the imagination of ordinary people, ants are definitely very powerful in the insect world, except for a few natural enemies, few creatures take them as their staple food. Because they can spray formic acid, which can cause burning pain to other insects, small animals, and sometimes permanent damage.
In the wild, the most taboo thing is injury, so many predators do not eat ants, and because of this, many insects with mimicry function will mimic ants to scare off natural enemies. Even such a mighty guy as a praying mantis, the "nymph" before the metamorphosis, looks like an ant.
Feng Bei naturally can't learn from the ants so domineering, he has to stop and go, constantly looking for obstacles to hide himself, especially on the way from one grass to another, he is even more cautious to the extreme - no way, although it is early in the morning, but the danger is everywhere, many predators have already gotten up and started the "morning exercise".
Several birds with colorful fur were strolling in the grass, and from time to time they looked down once or twice, and when they raised their heads again, they had already picked up one or two insects in their beaks, smashed them, and swallowed them.
Feng Bei could see very clearly that the bodies of those insects were very stiff, and they had been dead for a long time before they were picked up by the birds. The cause of death was also surprisingly consistent: freezing to death.
The jungle is so cruel, except for the hot summer and autumn, other seasons, from midnight to early morning, the low temperature in the environment exceeds the tolerance limit of many insects, if they can't find a burrow before dark, let themselves get into it to keep warm, then they will never see the next day's sun.
What's more cruel is that not every kind of insect will make holes, many insects can only use ready-made caves, and there are fewer holes and more insects, which will inevitably conflict with the "original cave master...... Hey!
Due to the existence of this phenomenon, every morning, there will be a lot of dead insects scattered like pearls on the ground of the jungle, among the dead branches and leaves, which is a gluttonous feast for many birds, and "the early birds have worms to eat" comes from here.
In just such a while, Feng Bei passed by several unnamed birds, from the point of view of body characteristics, he guessed that it was a close relative of Dabi Bird and Muke Bird, at the beginning, Feng Bei was startled when he touched them, and hurriedly drilled into the depths of the grass, but soon he found that his worries were superfluous, and those birds were in a hurry, and they didn't care about themselves at all.
Yes, dismissive!
Feng Bei swore that he had not misunderstood the meaning of the birds, because on two occasions, he had seen his own reflection in the bird's eye!
After being confused for a while, Feng Bei reacted:
On the ground here, there are so many frozen and frozen insects, for birds, eating them is easy and effortless, and the most nutrients can be supplemented with the least physical strength.
Of course, the premise for the birds not to deal with Feng Bei is that Feng Bei must always be on the run to show the birds how strong he is. As soon as he stops and joins in sharing the corpses, he will become a thorn in the side of those birds, and he will be able to get rid of them soon.
After making sure that the birds would not attack, Feng Bei suddenly became bold, and in order to save time, he no longer deliberately looked for shelter, and began to speed up, and it was not long before his destination was in sight—
It's a large anthill that looks like a small rockery!
It is actually a slight exaggeration to say that the rockery is a small dirt bag more than one meter high, and the dirt bag has been dug out of dense pits, from the outside, it looks like a broken beehive, which will definitely bring a very sour experience to people with dense phobia.
In those little holes, there are countless ants coming in and out...... No, there are only those who go out, and there are no people who go in, all in all, a busy scene. These ants that crawled out of the anthill all ran to the higher, drier places nearby, and spread out in a fan-shape, and the black pressure was so large!
Seeing this scene, Feng Bei let out a long breath, although he was delayed for a while because of some minor problems, he still caught up!
He rushed to the periphery of the ant colony non-stop, his triangular head turned and turned, his big eyes glared and stared, and he began to carefully search for his target in the ant colony!
The morphology of these ants is almost the same, as a true social insect, their movements at the moment are also very uniform: one by one with four hind legs on the ground, the upper body is raised, in the shape of a "human stand", two forelimbs on their head, chest, abdomen, back and constantly rubbing, scratching over and over, as if tickling!
Of course, it's not scratching, ants have shells, they don't itch at all, they do this to clean their bodies, and then apply some pheromones to make it easier to communicate with each other.
After watching it for a while, Feng Bei's eyes lit up, and he finally found the target!
He hurried forward to the side of the fan-shaped area, where there was a swarm of ants, slightly smaller than the others, only seven or eight millimeters long, with a slightly darker and darker belly, and the same itching, but much slower.
Feng Bei completely ignored the thousands of worker ants and soldier ants, and did not care that they could tear themselves apart in an instant, he directly stretched out the knife arm and stretched it between the head and neck of a small ant, and the serrated teeth were closed, like a gardener pruning flower branches, and its head was clamped off with a click!
Then, the wind was as concocted, shuttling and "pruning" in the ant colony, as if walking leisurely in their own garden, and after a while, they "clicked" to death a dozen or so, and felt that it was almost enough, so they swept these headless ant corpses together with their hind legs, and gathered a small whirlwind between the two knife arms, rolled up the ant corpses, and swaggered away!
In the whole process, none of the ants whose heads were cut off resisted, and they didn't even dodge! And next to them, countless soldier ants turned their heads to look here, and witnessed this murderous scene the whole time, but the soldiers and ants who were usually afraid of death to protect their homes and nests turned a blind eye at this time, and let this "ant killer" do whatever they wanted, and none of them rushed up to stop it!