Chapter 3 Eggs
The fifteen-centimeter-tall toad in front of him made Sistum's whole body tremble, similar to the last time he encountered a small mantis.
Once again, his [insect instincts] worked strongly, and the pair of thighs that were responsible for Sistem's bouncing had accumulated tremendous strength, and the instinct from his body urged him to bounce and flee immediately.
"Is it [insect intuition] that when you perceive danger, you will immediately bounce and escape?"
"But this time my instincts backfired......"
Systm forcibly suppressed the power of his [Insect Intuition], and the derived skill [Insect Intuition] is simple and effective, which can avoid most dangers and greatly increase the survival rate of the grasshopper population.
But this intuition obviously does not apply to the toad.
If the toad in this world has the same habits as the toad in Systham's previous life, playing bounce in front of the toad is definitely looking for death.
Sistemm dared to promise that if he jumped now, he would be swept into his stomach by the toad's tongue and turned into a puddle of thick water in the toad's gastric juices.
Toads and frogs have a habit that Sistem's memory knows that they like moving food and have no interest in dead things.
Sistemm seems to have kept frogs as pets in his previous lives, and sometimes he would tease the frogs by tying them on a rope when the bread worms he bought were inactive or dead.
Faced with the toad in front of him, Heatham knew that the best thing to do was to stay still, because what was still was not attractive to the toad.
Forcibly suppressing [Insect Instinct], which wanted to make him want to jump away immediately, Systham's abdominal breathing gradually slowed, and he entered a semi-dormant state again......
While Sisham waited for the toad to leave, the previous "ant search team" gradually came to the vicinity of him and the toad.
The group of ants apparently did not find the toads hiding in the pile of dead leaves, and still searched for possible food among the dead branches and leaves.
Sou!
The dynamic vision of the insect's compound eye is very powerful, but the toad's tongue is obviously faster, and Systham saw that the tongue in the toad's mouth flashed away, and an ant about twenty centimeters away from the toad disappeared.
The toad spits out half of a dead leaf from its mouth, which is supposed to have accidentally stuck to its mouth when it used its tongue to hunt ants.
The collision of the toad's tongue with the dead leaves on the ground alerted several ants, who sped up their movements and crawled around in search of unusual places that caused the dead leaves to vibrate.
However, it didn't take long for several ants to be preyed upon by the toad's tongue, and only one ant escaped because of the different directions of searching, and gradually walked away.
Even in the face of unreasonable and strange crises, these ants are not the slightest timid, and they don't know if it is their low IQ or their habits.
It should be a habit.
Sistemm recalls a scene from a documentary in his previous life, where ants would charge without flinching even in the face of their natural predators, anteaters thousands of times their size.
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It wasn't until noon that the toad in front of Heatham began to leave.
During this time, the toad ate more than a dozen ants, as well as several bee-like flying insects and a huge dragonfly.
After the toad leaves, the out of danger finally has a chance to eat.
Eating and growing are the survival instincts that flow in the grasshopper's blood, and they are also the things that Systham decides to do after thinking about it at night.
Grasshoppers, which rely on their fertility to survive, have a survival rate dozens of times lower than that of adults in the larval stage, so they must grow as soon as possible and become adults as soon as possible, so that his chances of survival can be improved.
Lifting his dormant state, Systm found a direction and jumped cautiously.
The grasshopper's jumping is somewhat similar to the feeling of a human doing a roller coaster, but the grasshopper is not human, and in the process of jumping, Systm feels that his body is like a machine, without any abnormalities, and can calmly check the abnormalities around him.
On the first plant he jumped to, Systm found two white flowers at the top, about five centimeters in diameter, and the shape was too far away to be seen first.
Systm had an idea to collect nectar, which was obviously a good choice if he wanted his body to grow quickly, he needed nutritious food.
Not only that, but Syst also wanted to taste the taste of nectar, for human slightly bitter plant leaves he can eat like fruit, so what kind of taste does the nectar itself taste very sweet in his mouth?
Heatham is looking forward to it.
On his way to the flowers, the cautious Systm encountered five small white translucent bugs, which had the same six legs as him, and were supposed to be a type of insect.
They are very small, only 0.2-0.3 centimeters, about half the size of his body.
These small insects use their unique mouthparts to destroy the plant walls, while sucking the slightly cloudy sap from the wounds of the plants.
They are obviously herbivorous insects that prefer peace, and Systm is not polite, and directly uses his strong body to squeeze a small insect away and devour the juice collected by these small insects.
As Sistum had expected, the little insect was not a social insect that resembled ants, and when he saw Sistum's strong body, the little insect that he squeezed away quickly fled.
The others ignored Systham's movements and continued to suck on the sap of the plants, apparently not believing that Systm was a threat to them.
When Syst saw the behavior of these little insects, he began to devour the sap of this plant, and the juice tasted very good, somewhat similar to the mango juice he had drunk in his previous life.
It's just that after continuing to snatch the juice from the two little bugs, the remaining little bugs all fled one after another.
Systham tried to bite the wound of the plant wall a few times, but found that the plant wall no longer flowed sap after the small insects left, and it is estimated that it is the unique ability of these small insects to make the sap flow from the plant wound, and it is possible that their mouthparts have injected some special biological mixture into the plant.
Abandoning the juice, Systham used the hook spines on his feet to quickly climb on top of the flowers.
The flowers were larger than those he had observed at the base of the plant, about seven or eight centimeters in diameter, and resembled chrysanthemums.
The stamens in the center of the flower were dense and sturdy, and Systm tried to clean them with his chelicera, but failed, and the stamens were still too hard for his chelicera.
The shallow nectar under the stamens has been sucked clean by bees, and if these stamens cannot be cleaned up, the deeper nectar can only rely on the butterflies' own straws.
Reluctantly leaving the two flowers, Heatham tried to eat some of the ripe leaves.
The taste of the mature leaf is not much different from that of the young leaf, and the effect on his growth is not much different, except that it is laborious and more than three times less efficient to chop the leaf with its now soft chelicera.
If he only eats this kind of mature leaves, the speed of eating may not be as fast as the speed of digestion, which will undoubtedly make him more and more hungry the more he eats, and Sistemtem can only give up, it seems that he can only wait for the first time to eat this kind of leaves.
And just as Systm continued to jump and watch for the danger.
Sistemm found hundreds of pale green crystal clear eggs on the back of a leaf, and his head unconsciously showed a greedy look......
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Grasshoppers don't just have grasses in their diet, and when they get hungry, they will also eat some meat, even young of their kind.