Chapter 20: The Praying Mantis

This giant praying mantis has a fierce glint in its eyes, staring hungrily at the protagonist. As soon as the protagonist's eyes and the mantis's eyes make contact, he feels an unprecedented sense of fear, as if he has lost control of his body.

In the next moment, I saw the praying mantis kick its limbs, the wings behind it opened violently, and the hind wings flapped vigorously. In just a moment, the praying mantis has disappeared in place.

"Danger!" The protagonist suddenly feels the pace of the whole world slowing down. It is said that when humans encounter dangerous situations, they feel that the passage of time suddenly slows down, and this phenomenon is said to be related to the adrenaline rush. Although the protagonist is now an ant, and he doesn't know if he can still secrete adrenaline in his body, the protagonist really feels that the scene in his field of vision is like a video player with a card frequency, slowing down the picture frame by frame.

The protagonist can clearly see that the praying mantis pounces violently, flies into the air, and after jumping over the highest point of the parabola, it falls at a very fast speed and pounces on the protagonist. The protagonist is even able to see the cold reflection on the pair of scythes and the faintly visible tissue fluid of the ants.

The soldiers around him are still bravading their teeth and claws in ridiculous slow motion. The protagonist clearly knows that these subordinates can't be counted on, and the mantis' only goal is himself. At the moment of life and death, the protagonist is extremely calm, and he feels that he can mobilize every nerve and muscle in his body in an unprecedented good state.

In the next second, the praying mantis violently crashed into the ants' formation with an earth-shattering attitude, and several soldiers who were close to it were swept away by the violent air fluctuations. But the protagonist, who should have been at the center of the impact, was about to be caught by the praying mantis at the moment before his wings opened up instantly, and his six limbs worked hard together, and he escaped from the attack range of the praying mantis with half flying and half jumping.

At a critical moment, the protagonist couldn't use the wings no matter how much he practiced before, but at the critical moment, he helped him escape alive.

The mantis missed, and its huge triangular head immediately twisted, and its eyes quickly locked on the protagonist who had just escaped not far away.

At this time, the soldiers reacted, and the two closest soldier ants that had not been lifted off pounced, regardless of the huge size difference between themselves and the mantis, they wanted to pounce on the soft abdomen of the mantis, and tear it with a big crow, so that the mantis could feel the combat power of the ants.

But the praying mantis only waved the two scythes on the left and right seemingly casually, and the two soldier ants were already caught in the scythe. I saw that the front feet of the praying mantis were slightly forced, the sickle was tightly closed, and the two soldier ants were cut into four pieces from the waist and fell to the ground. The two soldier ants hadn't died for a while, and the six pairs of arthropods and tentacles on the four bodies were still writhing vigorously, gradually consuming the few remaining life forces.

The praying mantis didn't even glance at the flesh of the two soldier ants, after all, the soldier ants were relatively small in size, so their heads were slightly larger. For the praying mantis, it is the fat body of the male ant of the protagonist that is more tempting.

At this time, a few soldiers pounced on the mantis's feet, and the mantis just shook their legs lightly and kicked them away.

"The ...... that can't be beaten" The protagonist has a chill in his heart, these soldier ants are not the opponent of the giant mantis at all, and the group tactics are useless in the face of an extremely flexible, jumping and flying praying mantis. It is no wonder that the male ant with short wings before was protected by ten soldier ants, but he could not escape his fate.

"Run, I must run!" The protagonist has lost the courage to fight at this time, and he is almost out of the woods.

The protagonist immediately turns and runs away, although reason tells him that the more he runs away from this predator, the easier it is to die. However, now the protagonist doesn't even have the courage to look at the praying mantis, and it seems that he can escape by turning his back and taking a few steps. After all, the protagonist was an otaku in his previous life, and he came face to face with this ten-story monster, which is a scene that only appears in monster movies, and the powerful combat power of this praying mantis has shattered all the optimism of the protagonist before.

The praying mantis is not in a hurry when it sees the protagonist turn and run away, perhaps it has seen too many stupid prey, whether it is flying or crawling, but it has absolute confidence in its speed and strength.

The praying mantis bounced away several soldiers who crawled over and tried to bite its legs, and its limbs exerted its strength violently, its wings opened and flapped violently into the air, and it flew into the air again.

This time, the protagonist is no longer guarded by soldier ants, they are still far behind, and they have lost their target due to their poor eyesight.

The protagonist feels the sound of breaking the air above his head, and hurriedly uses his wings and limbs together, brakes suddenly, and jumps to the left, once again narrowly avoiding the praying mantis's pounce from the sky.

At this point, the praying mantis becomes impatient, and twice in a row allows a weak target to escape from its scythe, making it very angry.

The protagonist is not overjoyed by the second escape, the praying mantis stands less than three minutes in front of him, its slender body and clenched scythe, which can grab, crush, and eat itself with a single pounce.

The desire to survive takes over, and the protagonist changes direction and runs to the left. The protagonist observes that the praying mantis moves very fast in a straight line, so maybe it will turn more slowly?

Behind him, the sound of wings fanning the air sounded again, and it was unusually loud in the rustle of leaves.

The protagonist has regained some sanity and composure at this time, and knows that he can only count on himself at this time. With the mentality that it would be good to live for one more second, the protagonist ran in a zigzag and successfully dodged the two pounces of the praying mantis.

For the first time, one of the mantis's scythes almost cut the protagonist, if it weren't for the protagonist's struggle, it would have become two sections, and the protagonist felt that a cold sweat was going to come down, although ants don't sweat. The second time, the praying mantis pounced very hard, although it didn't directly hit the protagonist's body, but the air flow set off knocked the protagonist away.

The protagonist has a pair of wings on its back, which exacerbates the impact it suffers, and the protagonist who is swept away by the air currents bounces twice on the ground, landing not far from the plucked caterpillar.

As soon as he landed, the protagonist felt that his limbs were numb and uncontrollable. He tried to control his limbs, but in vain, I don't know if it was overconsumption or being injured, he was completely unable to move.

"Dead!" The protagonist is unusually calm at this time, watching the praying mantis approach with the pride of a victor, but there is no fear of imminent death.