Chapter 263: Survival in the Wild (3)
In fact, there are far more red insects than ladybugs and negative mud worms.
Ladybugs are familiar to everyone, so I won't repeat them here.
The negative mudworm is a more primitive group in the general family of leaf beetles, belonging to medium-sized or large insects, they sometimes have spots, some groups have metallic luster, and some groups are very bright in color, such as bright red background. Negative mudworms have a wide range of feeding habits, mainly feeding on monocots and dicots. In this way, the vegetarian negative mudworm is indeed less threatening.
However, among the red insects, there are also some species with strong aggression and lethality, such as red bugs.
Red bugs include ground red bugs, cotton red bugs, first red bugs, curved edge red bugs, necked red bugs, giant red bugs, etc., with a body length of 9-13 mm, which is larger than the big-headed ant and the paving ant. They mainly eat the seeds of fallen mallows, such as linden trees. However, red bugs also often attack other insects or eat corpses, and lone ants are basically more than lucky when they encounter red bug attacks.
I have to say that the protagonist is bold, and he can walk sideways in the insect world with his strength. Otherwise, he would have avoided these potential dangers long ago.
The protagonist slowly leans over under the cover of weeds, approaching the round red. The other party is in the green blades of grass, looming as the protagonist's position changes, but never moves.
It is a small clearing in the middle of a forest with a clump of low, wide-covered weeds.
When the protagonist gets very close, he finally sees the other person as he is, and then the protagonist laughs - the jaw is open, the tentacles are swinging, and the mood is happy.
It is a huge snakeberry, set off by many tender green oval leaves, and the fruit is crystal clear, so dazzling and attractive red in the sun.
Snakeberry is a common wild fruit in China, and it can be seen from its many aliases that people everywhere are familiar with it: snake pickle grass, dragon spit bead, three-clawed wind, nosebleed fruit, snake fruit, cockscomb, wild strawberry, ground berry, silkworm berry, snake grape, etc., there are dozens of names.
Snakeberry is a perennial herb of the Rosaceae family, and its stems grow creeping on the ground, so it occupies a wide area.
Its fruit is a polymer fruit like a strawberry, the false fruit is huge, the achene fruit is oval, and the whole aggregate fruit is bright and dripping, attracting many children, including the protagonist when he was a child, to taste it. However, the protagonist's attempt was quickly stopped, and everyone said that it was called a snakeberry, which was eaten by snakes and was poisonous.
Out of love for life, the protagonist as a child resists the temptation of snakeberries with great willpower, and it is not until later that he learns that snakeberries are not poisonous.
In fact, snakeberry is not only non-toxic, but also rich in a variety of pharmacological ingredients, not only included in ancient medical books, but also applied to modern medicine. It's just that snakeberries don't taste as delicious as they seem, and they are far less delicious than strawberries. If I had to describe it, the taste of snakeberries was almost non-flavorful, as plain as taking a sip of water.
But the protagonist is still happy, although snakeberry has no taste, it is non-toxic and rich in vitamins, carbohydrates and minerals. In particular, the spherical ruby-like small seeds on the surface of snakeberries are the seeds of snakeberries, which are rich in energy and nutrients.
It's these seeds that make the protagonist's eyes shine. He galloped over, climbed up the snakeberry fruit along the stem, and ate eagerly.
The snakeberry fruit is composed of two parts, a strawberry-like aggregate fruit, one part is a large, central false fruit, and the other is a real fruit (spur fruit) evenly dotted on the surface of the false fruit.
The protagonist takes a bite of the fake fruit first, and the cool water-rich flesh goes down to the stomach, which immediately relieves the thirst of the long journey. After eating several grains of the fruit in a row, the taste is crunchy, and the feeling of the fruit bursting in the mouth is like biting through the roe, and a stream of pulp water flows into the stomach, so that the body that has been hungry for a long time and longs for energy is instantly resurrected.
The protagonist is not unsuspecting, of course, but in fact, he is at least half of his mind watching around.
From the moment he feels that something is wrong, the protagonist tries to find the source of this feeling. Along the way, although the protagonist is very careful, he still has a sense of being watched and haunted.
Something must be following him.
If the other party dares to jump out, the protagonist will definitely not be stingy with his anger, and he is bound to give the other party a lesson that will last a lifetime.
However, the other party never showed up, which is troublesome. The forest is a complex environment full of dead branches and leaves that can hide and obscure the view, and many insects have protective colors, making them a perfect place to live. Even though the protagonist looks around for a long time, he doesn't notice anything unusual.
Of course, the protagonist doesn't have the heart to play hide and seek with each other all the time, and the mood is tense all the time, and the burden on the body is also great!
Therefore, it is necessary to find out this thing that follows you and spies on you as soon as possible.
The protagonist now starts eating snakeberry fruit, not all for the sake of eating, but in fact selling a flaw - any animal, no matter how vigilant it is, will inevitably be unable to move and have its vision blocked. This is the best chance for predators, and no hunter will willingly give up such an opportunity.
Snakeberry is a creeping plant that covers a large area of land, and the protagonist is now standing at the highest point of this plant, and the grass blades nearby are very low, allowing the protagonist to notice subtle changes in the neighborhood at any time.
Six, seven, eight, the protagonist eats a lot of snakeberry's energy-rich achenes in a row, and still doesn't notice anything unusual around.
Is it wrong with your feelings? Or is the other party a very patient and suspicious hunter?
Feeling that his stomach is full, the protagonist begins to slow down the pace of eating, otherwise if he does nothing and lies on a high place, the ghost will know that something is wrong.
At this moment, the protagonist notices that a blade of grass is moving not far from the right, and there is no wind at this time, and there is no movement of other blades of grass around it.
The protagonist doesn't turn his head, and looks over with his peripheral vision, and there is nothing on the blades of grass, but the blades of grass are covered underneath, and the protagonist can't see it really.
Is it the thing that keeps snooping on the protagonist, or is it a bug that happens to pass by?
The protagonist is nervous!
After a while, another blade of grass moved slightly, and if you didn't pay attention, you might not have noticed.
This large snakeberry leaf serves as a good cover for the attacker and as a radar for the protagonist to observe the enemy.
If the blades of grass that are touched twice are connected in a straight line, the end of the extension line is exactly where the protagonist is now.
Now, the protagonist has finally determined that this insect hidden under the blades of grass must be the target of himself!
Found you!!