If the protagonist is still human, he will close his eyes to alleviate his fear before death when faced with this situation.

But now, the protagonist is just an ant without eyelids, and can only watch as the winning praying mantis holds two huge scythes aloof, and approaches him step by step. In the protagonist's compound eyes, the terrifying figure of the praying mantis has been reflected.

Not only is the protagonist's limbs numb and uncontrollable, but even his brain seems to be convulsive, at this time the protagonist has no idea of continuing to struggle, resist or escape, as if the brain has acquiesced to the arrival of death and forcibly cut off control of the body.

Some animals, such as rabbits, when faced with the inevitable outcome of death, such as the imminent death of a wolf's kiss, will actively cut off control of the body due to the stress response and die, which is commonly known as "being scared to death". This avoids extreme suffering before death.

At this time, the protagonist is in this situation, although his soul is still trying to struggle, but his brain and body have turned their backs on his will, unable to move, and unable to think about how to survive. The brain is just full of all kinds of emotions. The most hateful thing is that his intuition has not been deprived, and he can only watch the grim reaper with the sickle approach him step by step, and the footsteps are like the beat of a drum.

"Why did I come into this world...... Why. If you die in the previous life, you will die, and you will be reborn to suffer in this life. ”

"It's okay to be reborn, it doesn't matter which dynasty you are reborn into, people are the primates of all things, and few people will be killed by other creatures."

"Why ants, ants, ants! A praying mantis is about to take my life. Praying mantis, how many mantis did I kill when I was a child. Screw their heads off, tear off their wings, keep them in bottles and forget to starve to death. ”

"Now I'm going to be killed by the praying mantis, a praying mantis that humans can easily destroy. I'm going to die, is this retribution? ”

"Who's going to save me, those damned soldier ants. How did you protect me, why did you linger in the distance? , Rambovan, where are you, come and lure the praying mantis away. You're just ants, you go and die, I don't want to die! I hate these ants! ”

Although he has lost control of his brain, the protagonist's emotional thinking is extremely violent, and these emotions converge together and can only be summed up in one word, that is, "unwilling".

Yes, unwillingly. I am not willing to die inexplicably in my previous life, and I am not willing to live for a few days in this life and follow in the footsteps. Unwilling to be reborn as an almost useless ant, and even more unwilling to die at the hands of the praying mantis. All the traversers' faces will be disgraced by themselves.

The praying mantis walks slowly, or the protagonist thinks it is slow, because of the shaking of the branches, the falling of the leaves in the wind, the howling of the wind, all the sights and sounds seem to be slowed down. This slowness only tightens the protagonist's fear little by little.

The praying mantis has walked in front of the protagonist, and in its hideous compound eyes, the protagonist can see his own motionless appearance on six feet in the sky.

"I'm going to die, so come on, I hope it doesn't hurt too much." The protagonist feels tears in his eyes, do ants cry too? "Ah, I remember. In my last life, I was hit by a car, and it hurt so much and it was cold at that time......"

The praying mantis had already raised its huge scythe, and at this moment, in the dim sky, a strong beam of light actually broke through the thick clouds and turbid atmosphere, and shone straight on the small area where the protagonist was.

"It's the Tyndall effect." The protagonist thinks to himself, "How beautiful! ”

The scythe didn't fall, the mantis's head jerked 90 degrees to the right, and he suddenly saw something, and for a moment abandoned his attention to the protagonist.

The protagonist can't turn his head sideways, but the compound eye on one side is just right to see that range.

What attracted the mantis's attention was a slowly wriggling caterpillar half a meter away, a caterpillar without a few hairs. The protagonist recognized it, isn't it the caterpillar he led his subordinates to hunt.

It turns out that the protagonist faces the mantis at the beginning, facing west, and after dodging the first pounce, the protagonist runs south, and is chased by the mantis again, so he turns to the northeast and runs around, not far from the place where the caterpillar was plucked in the first place.

And that caterpillar, although it was ferociously bitten by many soldier ants, was huge after all, and it had not yet reached the point of being severely damaged. It's just the instinct of the insect that makes it simply fake its death when it feels like it can't escape. Even when the soldiers plucked its feathers, it was still in a state of suspended animation and did not reply. Now, after a while, it felt as if there was no movement of the ants around it, so it quietly woke up and prepared to slip away.

It is true that the ants have no energy to care about this cunning caterpillar, but this hapless caterpillar is being targeted by an even more terrible hunter.

Although the male ant of the protagonist is a better hunting target than the soldier ant, when compared to this caterpillar, it seems completely unsightly. This caterpillar is fat, white, delicate, and full of energy, making it as attractive to praying mantis as candy is to a child. Moreover, insects are naturally more sensitive to moving objects, and the protagonist is unable to move on all six feet at this time, while the caterpillar crawls slowly and firmly into the distance.

Therefore, in contrast, when the protagonist is about to die, the praying mantis turns his head and changes his goal.

The praying mantis spread its wings again and flew into the sky. The protagonist also understands what is going on and hurriedly wants to escape. However, the ant's body still refused the command of the brain and remained motionless.

Although he had just escaped death, if he couldn't escape, then the danger had not yet been contacted.