Ecological niche may sound like a lofty word, but the actual meaning is very simple, it refers to a certain organism that perfectly integrates into the local environment and obtains food in a relatively fixed location. For example, small beasts that can climb occupy the arboreal niche, larger beasts occupy the ground niche, birds and finches occupy the sky niche during the day, bats occupy the sky niche at night, etc.

On the main quest, the hints given by the system are very intriguing, and after such an operation, Feng Bei has basically fed half of the big praying mantises and brought them back to life from the brink of death, but this is just a meal, and there may not be a next meal after eating this meal, and it can be regarded as "standing on a solid ecological niche".

The system has already given a judgment that the beer bottles made by Feng Bei can only attract 7 big mantis for long-term consumption, which shows that the bottle is covered with skin worms at this time, the total number of these little guys in the vicinity should be very limited.

He meowed, what kind of strange jungle is his location, according to common sense, there are so many trees here, the land should be very soft, very suitable for the survival of popping skin insects, their total amount should be very large, like flies and mosquitoes, how to catch it can't be caught?!

Could it be that this place only looks soft on the surface, but in fact the ground under the root layer of the tree is hard, so that the Gidding worm cannot lay eggs at all?

Feng Bei scolded a few words, indignant that his brilliant idea could not be fully utilized, but he quickly adjusted his emotions:

Atributing his own unsuccess to external reasons is often correct, but it is also completely useless, and he has long been aware of this.

Now the most important thing is how to make these praying mantis have a stable and large source of food.

Feng Bei analyzed in his heart:

These praying mantis have extremely low agility and high self-consumption, so only prey that is slow and nutritious will meet their standards. But in this dangerous jungle, how can there be such a lovely creature? Even if there were, it has long been regarded as forbidden by other predators, and it is very difficult for praying mantis to get a piece of the pie.

In Feng Bei's view, the only advantage of these praying mantis is that they still have the strength of the handle, at least in the insect world, the strength is okay, plus their innate powerful broadsword, as a strong attack force is absolutely qualified. So, are there any prey in the jungle that runs slowly and is nutritious, but other creatures dare not hunt or cannot hunt?

There really is!

The first thing that came to Fengbei's mind was that it was a creature similar to a river mussel, those guys were numerous and had good flesh, but he soon realized that this was not feasible, not to mention that the mantis's big knife could not break the shell of the river mussel at all, and the mantis could not adapt to the humid environment alone, so that this plan could not be implemented at all.

Shelled ones are not good, so what other creatures meet the requirements of "bulky"......

Just as Feng Bei was thinking, he inadvertently glanced at his system panel, and his eyes suddenly widened! I don't know when, the number of praying mantis that had eaten enough dropped from 26/30 to 25/30!

Aren't those praying mantis already saved?!

With strong doubts, Feng Bei hurriedly raised his head and glanced among the praying mantises, and soon, he found the problem:

A female praying mantis nearly 30 centimeters long is coiled around another male praying mantis, doing something magical! This is normal, and humans often do it, but what is not normal is that the head of the male praying mantis lying on its body is gone, and it is being held in the hands of the female praying mantis and eaten carefully!

What's even more abnormal is that the male mantis has no head, they are all dead, but they are hugging the female mantis more and more, and the sensational action has not stopped, still maintaining the rhythm of the beat!

This...... How long have you just eaten?!I can't bear it anymore, and I'm starting to think about the rain?!

Feng Bei could naturally see that this state of being thrown into holding eggs after death was definitely the initiative of the male mantis! He couldn't help but feel a knot:

Isn't it cheap? It's so good to do this, it's worth putting your life into it?

I went out of my way to save you, just to let you enjoy those few seconds?!

After venting the depression in his heart a little, Feng Bei sighed slightly, of course he knew that the male mantis would do this, but it was just by nature, and it was completely understandable. For Warcraft, being able to leave their genes and their offspring is more important than anything else, and even for much more advanced humans, sex has always been a very scarce resource.

He couldn't help but think of the top-secret documents he had seen in the church's archives:

In the past, many inferior men used goats to solve their needs, because they were docile, not very resistant, and had a good position.

But there is a problem that in the past, people lived in a generally simple place, and it was easy to find out when they used goats to solve their needs, and it was not easy to explain to others, so they said that they were tempted by demons, and over time, the image of goats, especially the horns on their heads, became a symbol of demons.

What's even more incredible is that the clergy of the church observed that before this, the demons in the hell plane had no horns, but when this general trend of thought arose in human society, those demons really grew horns one by one!

To be honest, Feng Bei's heart was full of shock when he saw this record, and he had a very rich association from it, but soon, those thoughts were forgotten by him - he was just a fourth-order miscellaneous fish, and it was my business that demons were not demons.

After observing for a while, Feng Bei found that the praying mantis completely ignored the cannibalism incident that occurred in front of them, as if this was a natural thing! There were even a few female praying mantis with very envious looks on their faces, and they began to look around and scratch their heads one by one to attract the attention of potential mates!

Can't wait any longer!

The desires of these big praying mantis have been suppressed for too long, and the estrus period has long been disordered! If you wait any longer, if you don't find something to do for these praying mantises, I'm afraid that within half an hour, all the male praying mantis present will die under the female mantis's pomegranate skirt!

I didn't want to use the method of casualty too much, but now I can't take care of it! Think about it carefully, anyway, the task only requires me to fight for the ecological niche for 30 giant praying mantises, and the extra 40 or so will die when they die!

With this thought, Feng Bei slowly came to the female mantis who was eating vigorously, and ignored the action of presenting the body of his "husband" to him, and directly raised his knife arm, and split the female mantis in half with one knife!

The insect blood that was shot out sprayed all over his face, Feng Bei didn't care at all, with this fierce might, he turned his head to scan all the big mantis present, and said:

"You don't think that the gift of this holy messenger was taken for free, do you?

Anyone who does not report it will be regarded as adultery and will be put to death on both sides!"