Empty, saline soil with dots of brown soil with white crystals and scattered withered weeds. This is a seemingly desolate but vibrant venue, a seemingly vibrant but secretly murderous venue.

In this hunting ground chosen by the ants, a hunting battle is taking place that is spectacular for the microcosm.

The attacking side is ants, and like wolves, they launch a ferocious siege, while the besieged earthworms resist with all their might.

It's a battle between wolves and dragons, it's a duel of life and death, and it's a daily show that nature plays out.

From a distance, the ants crawled all over the earthworm's body, and their big jaws pierced into the earthworm's flesh and cut the muscles and nerves inside.

Although the earthworm has no eyes, it already feels bad when it is attacked for the first time. Although it does not have deadly weapons such as sharp jaws, toxins, and stingers, it is by no means defenseless.

Earthworms are covered in mucus, and these viscous body fluids are a good protective layer.

The mucus comes from the earthworm's own secretion. The body wall of an earthworm is composed of the corneum, epithelium, cerricular, longitudinal muscle, and body cavity epithelium. The outermost layer is a single layer of columnar epithelial cells, and the secretions of these cells form the keratinum membrane. The membrane is extremely thin, composed of collagen fibers and non-fibrous layers, with small pores. Columnar epithelial cells are mixed with glandular cells and are divided into mucus cells and protein cells.

Mucus secreted by mucus cells usually moistens the surface of the body. When the earthworm encounters severe stimulation, a large amount of mucus cells secrete and wrap the body into a mucus film, which also has a protective effect.

Many ants' limbs are trapped in the mucous membrane, and they have to use a lot of precious energy to struggle, and they can't bother to attack for the time being.

Earthworms are huge in size and have a strong ability to resist blows due to their special physiological structure. A large number of ants are firmly nailed to its massive body, biting countless wounds of various sizes, but it is difficult to seriously hurt the earthworm.

The earthworm's counterattack began, and its body was its greatest weapon. I saw that the earthworm began to roll and struggle violently, sometimes twisted into a ball like a twisted flower, and sometimes its body was straight like a spring that stretched out rapidly.

As the earthworms rolled and writhed wildly, several ants were thrown out, but they were not injured and soon joined the warband.

The hunt is at an impasse, the ants are unable to kill their prey quickly, and the resistance of the earthworms cannot make the fierce hunters give up or suffer casualties.

Time is slowly passing, and the advantage is tilting in favor of the ants.

Compared to earthworms, ants have better stamina and are more adapted to this long tug-of-war. In the battle, the earthworm's frantic resistance consumed a lot of energy, and its movements began to become sluggish and stiff.

As time passed, the earthworm slowly stopped resisting, and began to move with a predator, enduring the pain. It arched and crawled towards the grass not far away, where there was relatively moist and soft soil, and it tried to burrow into the dirt to avoid these terrible ants.

Naturally, the ants are reluctant to let their prey escape, but no matter how much they attack, it is difficult to stop the earthworms from moving.

Some soldier ants and worker ants crawled down to the ground, biting the flesh of the earthworm with their large jaws, and exerting all six limbs together to try to organize the earthworm's advance. The strength of the ants is very strong, but in front of the earthworms with absolute size and weight advantages, the strength of dozens of ants is still downwind, and they can't stop the earthworms from moving forward.

Some older soldier ants crawl back and forth on the earthworm's back, trying to find the earthworm's weak spots. They attacked the head and tail of the earthworm, but the earthworm did not have any weaknesses on its appearance, except for the slight increase in its speed due to the pain, the attack of the older soldier ants had no effect.

Nobita followed closely behind the earthworm, and as a male ant, he did not need to participate in the battle, and his own combat effectiveness was also very weak. But seeing the prey fleeing little by little, he was very anxious but had nothing to do.

It was the soldier ants and worker ants of the hunting team who found the solution themselves, a hunting tactic that has been engraved deep in the genes by genetic evolution over hundreds of millions of years.

As the ants began to shift their targets, there were more and more wounds on the earthworm's body, and the soldiers were concentrating on attacking its middle part, where the skin and flesh were lifted, and the annular muscle layer inside was exposed, and the ants continued to cut the muscles, all the way deep into the internal organs, and the earthworm's intestines, nerves and other tissues were exposed to the air.

As if they were performing a surgical operation, the ants used their sharp jaws to dismember the earthworm alive little by little. This is the most primitive tactic, and the most effective.

The earthworm's nerves have been severed a lot, and there is a problem with the nerve connection between its head and tail, although the injury is not fatal, even if it is completely broken into two, the two can survive separately.

But now this situation is not broken, and it is indeed the most unfavorable situation for earthworms.

As the nerve is severed, the nerve tissue at the back of the body takes over control of the second half of the body, while the front half of the body is still controlled by the original brain tissue and other nerves of the head.

The front half of the body is still carrying out the previous escape plan, crawling towards the grass. The back half of its body felt the pain coming from the front, and it instinctively wanted to flee backwards.

Now the two halves of the body are tug-of-war with themselves, exerting force in opposite directions to each other, which not only makes it difficult to move, but also aggravates the wound in the middle of the broken part.

The ants were not having a good time, and the mucus secreted by the earthworms after being injured increased greatly, and many of the ants who were fighting had to temporarily leave the battlefield and call their companions to clean up the mucus. This mucus not only interferes with movement, but can sometimes clog the stomata and can suffocate ant hunters if the mucus is not removed before it dries.

The battle between the hunter and the prey lasted for a full hour or two, and the earthworm finally broke in two, and the first one fled frantically into the distance after getting rid of the burden.

The ants did not pursue, they concentrated on attacking the rear half, which was more seriously injured and did not move much.

This half of the prey is in hand, although it is less than half, but the amount of meat is also rich enough, and it can be regarded as a good receipt.

The ants began to cut the earthworm's body, cutting it into small pieces little by little while it was still alive, and then several ants worked in groups to remove the mountain-like pieces of flesh.

Nobita's biological clock told him that because the hunt had taken too long, it was too late to return to Dongyang City.

So, the hunting party began to move to a nearby transit station, where they were going to spend the night and then return the harvest to the den tomorrow.