Chapter 292: Escape in the Air (2)
After spending a long time with Xiaoqing II, the protagonist has been able to understand the state of the Dao mount according to some subtle changes.
Like now, he knew that his mount's stamina had reached a limit.
From lurking on the trunk of a tree, to suddenly charging at the wasp and successfully injuring him, to being chased by the newly reinforced wasp and escaping, it all happened in half an hour.
And in this half an hour, Xiaoqing II was in high-speed movement all the time, consuming a lot of energy and physical strength.
Now, the lactic acid in the body is gradually accumulating, and the tiredness makes it involuntarily slow down.
In fact, the endurance of the flies themselves is not bad, and they can fly for five or six hours without stopping.
However, sustained low-speed flight is not the same thing as high-speed sprint flight, and many long-distance runners are unable to sustain long-term sprint speeds, which are very energy-intensive.
And it just so happens that Xiaoqing II's recent energy intake is not ideal.
While in the lair, the mount is replenished with enough food every day. In the days when the scout team set out, the scout team carried a limited amount of dry food, most of which was prepared for the flying knights, and the male ants were given priority, and the mounts could only get a little jerky at rare times.
In order to survive, the Flying Knights spend some time each day allowing their mounts to forage freely.
Luckily, the journey was at the edge of the forest, where there were plenty of decaying plants, fungi and large insect carcasses that could keep the flies fed.
This food is obviously not comparable to the food provided in the nest, where the fly mounts can get enough meat and honeydew instead of putrid scraps.
The calories ingested these days are barely enough to maintain the needs of the reconnaissance team's activities, after all, whether it is reconnaissance or tracking the paving ant barbarian army, the speed does not need to be too fast, and the energy consumption can also be controlled at a low level.
But now, after half an hour of high-speed movement, it has squeezed out the energy accumulated by Xiaoqing II, and it has inevitably slowed down. This is a disorder brought about by the normal physiological reactions in the body, which is not something that any mental factor can resist.
The wasps behind them are different, they are full of energy and still chase at a high speed.
The distance between the pursuer and the protagonist is now reduced by a gap that is visible to the naked eye.
Without speed, stamina, and weapons, the protagonist and Xiaoqing II have little hope of escaping.
It seems that the fate that greeted them was to be chased, caught, and killed by wasps, and then made into meat balls that became rations for wasp larvae.
The protagonist is still not desperate, since he came to this world, he has faced countless life and death crises, and he is no longer as easy to panic as he was at the beginning.
There are fierce insects such as praying mantises, centipedes, and spiders, as well as ants such as paving ants and parasitic ants. Every time, he finally saved the day, and relied on the spirit of never giving up and a little bit of luck.
Luck is incomparably illusory, but it cannot deny its existence.
There are a lot of stories about luck around everyone, some lucky and some unlucky.
Crossing is a lifelong opportunity for some people, but it is a bad luck for others who strayed into it.
As a person who is suspected of crossing after death, the protagonist's crossing, even if he is attached to an ant, is to gain another life, and from this point of view, he is lucky.
And this kind of luck appears every time it appears at a critical moment, just such an opportunity, as long as you seize it, the protagonist can escape from death.
This time, the protagonist who didn't give up saw a glimmer of opportunity for him again.
Although Xiaoqing II's speed was gradually decreasing, it was only relatively speaking, and the surrounding trees were still quickly left behind.
Just as Xiaoqing II suddenly lowers his height to avoid a tree branch, the protagonist notices a hint of reflection in the air of the tree branch.
Of course, the air is not reflective, but when the protagonist looks back, he sees that there is indeed something in the air reflecting the sunlight.
If you look closely, they have a hexagonal shape, very slender, and they appear in the faint light. If it weren't for some dust and debris stuck to it, and the protagonist has extraordinary eyesight, he wouldn't have noticed this thing at all.
It was a spider web, and although it was impossible to see where the spider was lurking, the spider web was intact and delicately structured, covering a large area of space, and the spider must be waiting on the side.
It can only be said that Xiaoqing II and the protagonist have escaped just now.
Xiaoqing II suddenly lowered his height in order to avoid the branches, and also happened to avoid the entire cobweb between the branches and the trunk. Otherwise, they will both crash headlong into it and become a meal for the spiders waiting for the rabbit. Even if they break free, there is no chance to avoid the ensuing wasps.
But at the moment of seeing the cobwebs, the protagonist does not have the joy of the rest of his life in his heart, but his brain begins to work and calculate at high speed.
After some thought, the protagonist jerks on the reins.
In the escape just now, in order to avoid disturbing Xiaoqing II and reducing his speed, the protagonist has not controlled the reins.
But now, as soon as he pulled the reins, the balance bar of his mount was pulled, and Xiaoqing II was unconsciously pulled to turn to the left.
Under the control of the protagonist, they turn one hundred and eighty degrees around the trunk of a huge tree.
Immediately afterwards, the two wasps behind him also followed the "clumsy" turn in a direction and continued to chase after the protagonist.
Xiaoqing II flees in front and the wasp chases behind, with the protagonist firmly in control of the reins, even if it slows the mount significantly.
The wasp in the back is getting closer and closer, and it seems that with a little more force, the large yellow jaws can reach the prey in front of them.
But that's just a little bit worse.
The prey in front of him suddenly took another sharp turn, from flying horizontally to flying vertically into the sky.
With this sharp turn, you will avoid the predators behind.
However, the wasp didn't care, this little trick has been used many times, as long as he turns around, the little distance he throws away will soon be smoothed out.
Moreover, the wasp could already see that the prey in front of it was slowed down and physically exhausted. Food, it's coming soon.
But, suddenly, the wasps felt something was wrong – they were entangled.
The protagonist's final sharp turn will sweep the edge of the cobweb, and the two wasps that are unresponsive will crash into the cobweb.
The cobwebs, which had been intact and tight, immediately broke through two large holes, but the webs withstood the test, and both wasps were entangled and could not break through the webs and fly away.
Behind the leaves on the side, a black spider with a body as big as a broad bean revealed its huge and terrifying body.