Volume IV Chapter 44 The Pursuit
Shi Leiyin can be said to have coveted the big thunder light insect for a long time. Shi Leiyin traveled all the way from the southern tip of the continent, and he had encountered the Great Thunder Light Insect once in total, and this was the second time. This strange insect is not only rare, but also very difficult to catch. To be precise, it is difficult to capture completely, and the large thunder insect will recklessly release its own current when it is in crisis, and the result will be that it will not be able to withstand the released current and irreparably damaged. The excessive current will not only dismember the Great Thunder Light itself, but will also scorch the remnants of the body, causing Shi Leiyin to be unable to parse useful genetic sequences from it even if he obtains the broken body of the Great Thunderlight Worm.
Unlike the previous time when Shi Leiyin took the initiative to capture, this time it was the big thunder light insect that took the initiative to attack. This gave Shi Leiyin a great opportunity to capture them. After releasing a wave of electricity to paralyze Shi Leiyin, the big thunder light insect also lost its desperate ability to carry out electric bursts, and Shi Leiyin deliberately transformed into a sticky body like sticky mosquito paper, sticking them firmly, and then wrapping them.
Carefully move the Great Thunder Bugs from their chests to the storage boxes on their shoulders. Since one side has been transformed into a launching nest for a biological warhead by Shi Leiyin, Shi Leiyin can only let the big thunder insects stay with Ma Gu, but fortunately, although the name is a big thunder light insect, it is actually just a mosquito-like insect about the size of an ordinary person's palm after being unfolded, and after being wrapped by Shi Leiyin's body, one will occupy the space of two fingers. Even if there are about 30 of them, you can still stuff them if you squeeze them.
Ignoring Juno's protests coming through Magu, Shrayin turned his attention to the burrow the golden beetle had fled into. The reason why he didn't digest and analyze the big thunder light insect in the first time was also the same.
Being able to live in symbiosis with a special creature like the Great Thunderlight Worm, this golden beetle will definitely not be a simple creature. Both Shi Leiyin's curiosity and devouring instinct urged him to find and capture the golden beetle.
That hole is very well hidden, if it weren't for Shi Leiyin watching the golden beetle retreat backwards and hide in it, even if he was within a meter, it would be difficult to find that there was a cave there that was enough for huge insects more than a meter high and more than five meters long to hide in it.
Approaching the mouth of the cave in three steps and two times, Shi Leiyin was stopped by a second wave - it was three antlion-like insects. It has the same huge pincers and dome-like head as the antlion, but it is hundreds of times larger than the antlion. On the head, which is half a meter in diameter, there are two pairs of larger pincer-shaped mouthparts. The swift attack hit Shi Leiyin in the leg before he could react. Shi Leiyin's slime body did not play any protective role at all this time, and the six pairs of pincer mouthparts made a piercing metal grinding sound on the metal body of the mechanical species.
However, after all, the body of the body is a high-tech alloy product derived from the cosmic civilization, and even if the insect that is not even a demonic beast grows to a huge size of a hundred times, it is still not enough to cause damage to this metal shell. Without a single scratch left, Shi Leiyin safely retreated his body out of the attack range of the three insects.
After secretly warning himself that he should not be careless, Shi Leiyin turned his attention to the three insects. If he had expected, a fourth insect was hidden a little further away. Apparently, the four insects were deliberately kept as guards near the burrow.
This can be regarded as the second symbiotic creature of the golden beetle. However, compared to the large thunder insects raised in the body, the symbiosis shared by this nest is simpler, and the incidental to the golden beetle should be lighter.
Through the process of these insects preying on other insects that occasionally pass by, Shi Leiyin also confirmed that these insects are a large antlion, with a weak and fat body hidden under the hard head and sharp pincer mouthparts. And in front of Shi Leiyin's new weapon, the biological warhead, the so-called hard head is not much tougher than the branches of those magic plants. The four warheads directly dissolved the four insects into four pools of green water.
After carefully confirming that there were no other threats around the cave, Shi Leiyin approached the entrance of the cave again. After two waves of blockades, Shi Leiyin lost his confidence in catching the golden beetle a little. Time dragged on for too long, and the size of the hole was not large enough for Shi Leiyin to enter the internal pursuit. If the cave is not a beetle's nest but only one of the exits to the nest, the chances of successfully catching the beetle will drop to an extremely low level. After all, although this golden beetle has a magical reaction, it has not reached the level of a monster, and in the secret realm of the stone forest, there are as many objects with the same degree of magical reaction, and it is impossible to accurately locate them.
It seemed that Lady Luck was favoring Shi Leiyin, and as he approached the mouth of the crypt, a blue light shot at him. Although this blue light carried a huge power, making Shi Leiyin feel a hint of threat, he was not surprised.
The presence of an attack indicates that the golden beetle did not run far, and it also means that this cave is a nest to hide in, not an underground tunnel that extends in all directions.
The part of the body facing the hole quickly solidified and transformed, and a bone shield took shape in an instant with the rotation of Shi Leiyin's mind. The speed of blue light is not fast, not even the speed of sound, but the power is not small. This is a mass of plasma that has been ejected, although it does not have the impact of speed, its own high temperature is difficult to resist even the bony structure of the dragon's jaw.
After burning through the bone shield of more than five centimeters, this ball of plasma was finally resisted by Shi Leiyin.
Removing the bone shield, Shi Leiyin saw the situation in the cave clearly.
As Shi Leiyin expected, this cave was the nest of the golden beetle. The hole is small and large, similar to the shape of the reagent bottle used in the experiment. After about ten meters or so of the passage, there is a large space large enough for the golden beetle to turn around and move inside.
As far as Shi Leiyin can confirm, this nest has no entrances and exits leading in other directions. And the golden beetle's plasma attack just now also proves that it has no other way to escape.
From the golden beetle's unclosed mouth, it was clear that the cloud of plasma was ejecting from its mouth. From the location of the golden beetle and the speed of the plasma ejection, Shi Leiyin could guess that the distance of the golden beetle's plasma attack was about ten meters. Such an attack distance, combined with the slow movement speed of the golden beetle, can also be judged to belong to the golden beetle's own defensive weapon, which is equivalent to a skunk's fart, and belongs to the last means of defense.
Sure enough, the golden beetle, which had recovered from the launch plasma, found that it still hadn't been able to drive away the threat, and actually curled itself up like a watermelon worm. The golden armor on its body showed amazing malleability, making this huge insect more than five meters long but nearly one meter tall curl up into a complete ring, hiding the more fragile head, tail and abdomen under the golden armor.
"Actually pretending to be dead," Shi Leiyin even smelled a hint of rancid smell emanating from the golden beetle's body. Obviously, this behavior is not only to protect the weak point so that the threat cannot be controlled, but also to play dead to avoid predator. It can be seen from the insects passing nearby that deliberately avoid the mouth of the cave, and this rancid smell has a good effect on avoiding being eaten by corpses, at least in the secret realm of the Stone Forest.
However, the more abilities the golden beetle shows, the more interested Shi Leiyin will be in it, and only the insect instinct will not think that its behavior will only become one of the reasons why Shi Leiyin is determined to prey on it.