Chapter 46: Spider Venom and Rodent Killing
As night falls, Systm searches for rats while experimenting with a new form of attack after his third metamorphosis.
The target of Systm's chosen attack is a spider that is common in the forest and likes to hover in the middle of a spider's web at night.
After his third metamorphosis, Syst acquired an entirely new organ, his tentacles.
The tentacles are unusually flexible and strong, each tentacle can wrap around and lift a weight equal to his body weight, and the stretch distance is very long, a full ten centimeters.
This tentacle has the [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] property of Systm, which allows it to grow back even if it is broken, and is much easier than it is for him to grow limbs with exoskeletons.
Because of this trait of tentacles, Systm tried to hunt spiders with his tentacles.
Even if his tentacles are bitten by the spider's fangs, he can take the initiative to bite off his tentacles to avoid poisoning himself.
Flapping his wings, Systham hovered directly in front of a spider web, silently staring at the spider on it.
It is a black-gray spider with five centimeters of outstretched limbs, and based on the color of the spider, it is inferred that this spider is not very poisonous.
Heatham slowly stretched out the tentacles on his feet, wrapping them around the spider.
The spider didn't move, and it wasn't known if it hadn't seen Sistem's movements, or if it had seen Sistem's movements but didn't choose to pay attention.
As Sistum looked at the spider, he remembered his memories of catching dragonflies in his previous life.
The dragonfly rested on the branches and leaves of the horsetail grass -
He cautiously walked over to the dragonfly, trying not to make a sound, and then slowly stretched out his hand.
His hand gradually moved closer to the dragonfly, and then to the ......
Sudden shot!
His hand pinched the dragonfly's wings, and the dragonfly was completely unable to break free.
The image of catching the dragonfly in his memories coincides with the action of wrapping the spider around the spider with his tentacles......
When Sistum's six tentacles were still half a centimeter away from the spider's body, they suddenly exerted force!
Several of the spider's limbs were wrapped around Sistum's tentacles at the same time, and in an instant, the spider was torn off the spider's web by Sistrom with his tentacles.
The spider's eight legs were firmly bound by Sistm's tentacles, and it couldn't even struggle, only to use the fangs on its head to keep biting at the air.
Systm flew to the ground with the spider, and he pulled out one of the tentacles that was wrapped around the spider's body, and used it to pick up the hard thorn on the stem of a rose plant that he had prepared earlier.
Using his nimble and powerful tentacles, Systham easily pierced the weak points of the spider's skull with his hard spikes.
With the white juice flowing out, it didn't take long for the spider to be completely motionless and dead.
……
Systm tore off the spider's limbs with his tentacles and put them in his mouth to chew.
After the third metamorphosis, his body's hunger has weakened a lot, and he doesn't feel hungry even after a long time.
I don't know if it's because of [hunger-resistant constitution], or if his body's need for food has decreased.
Heatham found that many of the delicious foods were now lighter for him, less tasty, and nearly a third less experienced.
Tearing at the spider's organs with his tentacles, Systham casually threw away some of the unpalatable flesh and the gray fluff on the spider's body.
Systm used his tentacles to remove the venom glands connected to the spider's chelices, and he prepared to throw them away as usual.
However, at this moment, Systm's body let out a special reaction.
It's the strange ability [intuition] that he's gained by listening to the world!
His [intuition] told him that the venom glands of this spider were delicious and would not cause too much harm to his body, which would be good for his body.
Systm swung the spider's venom gland with his tentacles, lightly dipped a little of the juice from the spider's venom glands, and reached his tentacles into his mouth......
But just as the tentacles were about to enter his mouth, Heatham stopped.
To eat, or not to eat, you still need to think carefully.
Regarding eating the spider's venom glands, Systm feels like someone is holding a bag of rat poison, pouring it into a glass of water and mixing it with water in front of him, and then telling him that drying this cup of potion is good for your body!
[Intuition] is Sistum's newfound wondrous ability, much more effective than his previous [Insect Intuition].
But is this ability really worth trusting?
Systham remembered the moment when he had just woken up, accidentally jumping in front of a toad, and if he hadn't actively suppressed [insect intuition] in his body, he would have died long ago.
To eat it like this is undoubtedly to use his life to experiment with this special ability of [intuition].
But what about not eating?
Sistemm was very unwilling, if his body that had undergone three transformations could really resist this toxicity, and this toxicity did have a growth effect on his body, he would definitely regret it.
Systham fiddled with the spider's venom glands with his tentacles, thinking.
After a few minutes, human ingenuity allowed Systm to finally come up with a solution.
Tasting the spider venom directly in his mouth would naturally be extremely risky, but he could have diluted the venom before tasting it.
If a small drop of the spider's venom is diluted thousands of times, and he still dies violently after tasting it, then he is dead.
……
Sistemm was repeatedly grasping the spider's venom glands with his tentacles to think, when his tentacles suddenly heard a special movement, the cry of a mouse.
Throwing away the spider's corpse and spreading its wings, Systm flew in the direction of the sound.
Behind a tree a dozen meters away, Systham spotted the rat that made the sound.
The rat digs the rhizome of a vine plant with its paws and crunches and gnaws.
The mouse has a dark gray body, its right eye is closed, and there are some bloody scabs on the hair at the corners of its eyes.
Not surprisingly, the rat was the one who nearly killed him and disabled Shava.
A flickering blue light appeared in Systham's compound eye, scanning around.
Flapping his wings, Systm flew to a vine of the same species three meters away.
[Color-changing camouflage] activates!
After the third metamorphosis, Systham's [Green Camouflage] becomes [Discolored Camouflage], and his skin can mimic any plant color pattern like a chameleon.
Adjusting his body slightly, Systham's body twisted slightly, and it didn't take long for him to disguise himself like the branches and stems of vines.
In the face of nimble rodents, Systm still chooses the ambush that insects are best at.
It's not that Systm isn't sure he can defeat the rats, but he's worried that he will attack and let the rats escape into the rat holes, adding unnecessary trouble.
Five minutes later, after the rat continued to eat an unknown fruit that had fallen from the tree, the rat finally spotted the vine where Heatham was.
The rat, as he had done before, began to dig into the rhizomes of the vines, apparently not finding him.
Sistemm observed the rat's movements, spotted an opportunity, and rushed towards the rat!
His tentacles reached out in an instant, and they were aimed at the limbs of the rat and wrapped them directly.
As Systham's body came into contact with the rat, the rat rolled on the ground and began to jump as if frightened.
But Sistum's ambush was very well prepared, and before the rat could spot him and be frightened, its limbs were firmly wrapped around its tentacles at the same time, and its tumbling and jumping did not affect the tentacles in the slightest, but almost threw Sistum's body away.
Systm quickly adjusted and carried out the plan he envisioned, flapping his wings with maximum force!
By the time the rat found that its limbs were wrapped around its tentacles and began to bite at the tentacles, Systham had already pulled the rat away from the ground.
By the time the rat had bitten off the first tentacle that had wrapped around Sistum, Sistemm had already flown with it to the top of the tree.
When the mouse struggled to bite off the three tentacles of Heatham, Heatham had already used his tired wings to fly up a hundred meters with the rat in the air-
Without waiting for the rat to continue biting and struggling, Systm let go of his remaining three tentacles, and his body became lighter.
It was still very laborious for his body to fly with this constantly struggling mouse.