Chapter 6: Springboard! Spider eggs!
Two days went by in the blink of an eye.
Tang Xiao used the skill of queen ant camouflage to the extreme, luring those strong soldier ants to private corners, and then preying on them; On the other hand, lead the entire ant colony to expand to the periphery and besiege lone large insects, such as unicorns and green worms......
Although the ant colony suffered heavy casualties, this was only Tang Xiao's first springboard, so it was not very distressing.
Tang Xiao has now reached level 2, and his body is twice as large as the original queen, but he is not bloated at all, especially his upper jaw, which has evolved into an iron pincer claw similar to that of a unicorn fairy.
"Anterior chela, level 1, short time to gain bone strength, increased strength 2, hardness 2, cooldown: 10 minutes.
Anterior chela, level two, greatly enhances the strength of the exoskeleton in a short time, increases strength 5, hardness 5, cooldown: 10 minutes.
Front Chelate, Level 3, increases bone strength to the extreme for a short time, increases Strength 20, Hardness 20, and gains derivative skills: Smash, Cooldown: 30 minutes. ”
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This is Tang Xiao's main combat skill evolved after preying on more than a dozen soldier ants and giant insects such as the unicorn fairy that sent the worker ants to his mouth, and the effect also made him quite satisfied.
And according to the above description, the higher the level, the power will be doubled, but ......
That's a lot of evolution points for each upgrade!
Anterior chela, level 2, evolution points required for leveling: 100 points.
You must know that he has only earned nearly 100 points from his crazy eating in the past few days, and the evolution points are used for many purposes, such as repairing damaged bodies at critical moments, or exchanging items and skills in the main god space and strengthening their physique.
So he is still a little reluctant to waste his evolution points on the skills of these insects, and now the efficiency of preying on these insects with extremely low combat ability is fundamentally his own needs, and it seems that he is ready to hunt some large creatures.
Creatures larger than ants......
Tang Xiao ignored the obstruction of worker ants and soldier ants, crawled out of the hole alone, and looked at the surrounding environment with poor eyesight, and now the nest is no longer the original sandy land, but is built under the rotten wood hole nearby.
Is that......
In the cold moonlight, where the broken wood joined another tall tree, there was a faint glimmer of silver.
Tang Xiao hurriedly climbed a few steps forward, although it was still a little hazy, but he finally saw a rough idea-
It was a string of spider eggs hanging in the air!
The crystal-like transparent spiders, densely packed, exhaled and inhaled under the faint moonlight, as if they already had life.
Tang Xiao's heart moved!
Although spiders also belong to the insect class, whether it is combat power or their toxin and cobweb abilities, they are very suitable for their next step of evolution.
Merely......
Since there are live spider eggs here, spiders must be nearby, although there are still a lot of ant armies left here, if you simply besiege them, as long as you don't encounter the kind of large spiders that are more than two or three inches long, you will definitely be able to capture them.
But once you fall into the cobwebs, how many of them are slaughtered.
Scouting is crucial!
Back to the anthill, Tang Xiao divided the soldiers into groups of twos and twos, with spider eggs as the center of the circle, and conducted reconnaissance within one meter of the other party's circle, and demanded that if they encounter tree trunks and low plants, they must climb up.
At the same time, because the ant's eyesight was not good, and it was in the dark of night, Tang Xiao also put together the remaining sappers and was responsible for docking with the soldier ants and transmitting information.
I have to say that although the ant population is weak, but the degree of internal socialization is very high, all ants have a clear division of labor, especially the order of the queen ant, has absolute authority in the population, and the efficiency is very fast, Tang Xiao will establish such a simplified version of the information collection and feedback system......
The night is still long.
The rainforest is more lively at night than during the day.
Tree hollows, leaf tops, low bushes, and pools of water, where all sorts of predators hide, waiting for an opportunity, and every once in a while, there will be bursts of wails and excited feeding, and it must be that some prey has taken the bait.
Just like ......
At the moment, like a rainforest spider who was staging a killing dance on the spider web, tonight was really a harvest night for her, and those ants who were usually cautious actually crashed into their cobwebs like crazy.
This is undoubtedly a windfall for himself who has just laid eggs and is very weak, greedily rubbing his furry tentacles, dismembering the ants that have fallen into the cobwebs and struggling desperately, and sucking the internal organs containing nutrients into the mouthparts like steel pipes.
As she is in absolute dominance over ants in the biological chain, she does not have the slightest worry......
Lying in the distance, Tang Xiao, who had been receiving signals from the ants, sneered in his heart, the biological chain is not absolute, and he who has human thinking and wisdom has the capital to defeat the strong with the weak, and he must do so! Only by constantly challenging and being stronger can we evolve!
Otherwise...... It's elimination!
"Follow the plan, prepare for action." Tang Xiao nodded at the ants responsible for transmitting the information and gave the final order.
Ant colony action!
Worker ants are still used as sacrificial cannon fodder, stunned to crash into the spider web, which is only an arm's length away from the spider eggs, taking advantage of the instinctive greed of low-level organisms and the desire for meat to drag it down......
The soldier ants lie in ambush on its way to rescue the spider eggs.
Everything was arranged, and Tang Xiao, who was recuperating, also started to act.
He found a take-off point from the tree hole, spread his wings, and under the cover of night, he quickly flew towards the spider eggs hanging in mid-air!
Spiders lay eggs in the air, which is also the result of nature's long-term evolution, first of all, avoiding the risk of most of the tougher insects and small rodents on land, and secondly, for creatures that can fly in the air, this kind of spider eggs without much nutrition is really a bit boring, and most of them will not take the risk of landing from the air to prey on this kind of thing.
Merely......
This time, he met Tang Xiao, an outlier in the experimental body, a small ant actually had wings, and the most important thing was that he dared to pay attention to the rainforest spider that was more than twice his size!
Although Tang Xiao's eyesight is not good at the moment, the closer he gets, the clearer the fishy smell on the spider eggs becomes, and even if he flies blindly, he also landed safely on the white and shiny spider silk that connects the spider eggs and the branches.
Wielding the front claw that has evolved into an iron pincer, he lashed at the spider silk!