Chapter 12: Predation
The next evolution is not far off.
Inheritance memories show that all types of cockroach warriors on this planet grow up according to the six stages of junior warriors, intermediate warriors, senior warriors, mountain masters, county lords, and cockroach kings.
Each grade is divided into 9 growth stages, 9 molts and 9 minor genetic evolutions.
Banbu is now a 1st in-star junior fighter.
In order to make it easier to calculate the strength (to make it easier for the reader to distinguish between them), Banbu uses L to represent the age stage, and is an L1 junior warrior with plenty of food, and it only takes one month to usher in the next evolution.
Inheritance memory guides that junior warriors should grow up quickly under the protection of the clan elders, and only after becoming intermediate warriors can they leave, choose a territory, and survive independently. The seeds bred during this period can also be planted first, and then sown after finding a suitable habitat.
The elder of Banbu is the Red Cockroach Tribal warrior with a body length of about 200, and unfortunately, it hangs up inexplicably.
Without asylum, you can only rely on yourself, and your initial growth becomes difficult.
L1 junior warriors, limited in size, weak in combat, can only hunt all kinds of small insects for food, and are still at the bottom of the food chain.
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At noon, the sun was scorching.
Banbu is currently at the peak of his development, and his need for food is very high, and he feels hungry in his stomach not long after eating the animal meat he brought back.
Hurriedly ran out of the door, carried a leaf, lay at the entrance of the cave and chewed slowly, staring at the Xuncao field not far away, his heart suddenly lit up.
Banbu saw that a cyan insect with a body length of about 15 was lying on the blade of Xuncao, leisurely and comfortably eating the fresh grass blade. The cyan carapace is the best cover color, and the pointed head lies under the blade of grass, almost blending with the blade of grass, standing still, and difficult to detect.
In the memory of inheritance, this insect is called "Sword Horn Locust", with two well-developed hind legs, in the form of chicken legs, it can bounce a long distance in an instant when encountering danger, and the adult is also good at flying. Once it alarms them, it immediately bounces, and flies a long distance with the fluttering wings, and has no combat effectiveness, but the ability to escape is first-class.
Now in late spring and early summer, most of the locusts are in the nymph stage.
The body length of this one, which Banbu accidentally found, is only about 15 years long, and there is no doubt about it.
"The nymph is fledgling and not good at flying, maybe you can try."
Banbu looked around to make sure there were no other powerful predators, and then crawled out of the passage, clinging to the ground, and quietly approached slowly.
All the way to the bottom of the sword horn locust perched on the grass of Xun.
The swordhorn locust hung upside down on the blade of grass, and the perspective detected the traces of the spotted cloth, moved slightly, and did not care, instinctively in the consciousness, this small insect did not pose any threat to it.
In the next moment, Banbu calculated the angle, jumped off the ground, and lost its wings and flew up.
In just a moment, the tip of the toe of the left forelimb pierced through the back armor of the swordhorn locust, pierced through the carapace, and firmly grasped the death, while the right forelimb stabbed to the side of the compound eye.
Syllable!
The sword horn locust instinctively bounced on its developed hind legs, rolled to the ground with a spotted cloth.
Banbu quickly locked the swordhorn locust with his four walking feet, and used his right forelimb as a dagger, constantly stabbing his head.
Green blood with gray-black brains flowed outward.
The sword-horned locust was unwilling to accept its fate, and its well-developed and powerful hind legs kept kicking, rolling in the grass with a spotted cloth, and struggled violently for a long time before choking.
There was a lot of fighting, and more than a dozen sword-horned locusts hiding nearby were alarmed, and they jumped away in fear.
Although the food was harvested, the head was not satisfied with the kill, the head was the key to all living things, and it was clear that the head was not the best place to attack insects such as locusts.
It took some effort to drag the body back to the chamber, first removing the two stout hind legs.
Peel back the thin crispy carapace, which is full of soft and tender muscles, and two legs are enough for a full meal.
Continuing to cut the corpse, it was found that in addition to the two hind legs, there were only two not well-developed muscles under the back plate of the swordhorn locust that could be eaten, and the seemingly fat and soft abdomen was almost all fat and internal organs that did not taste good.
Banbu thought about it, and only cut off the muscles, and threw the rest to the mouth of the big head to harvest the ant's burrow.
After all, it was the first time to hunt, and if it was successful, let the neighbors share in the fruits of their victory.
After eating up the hunting and harvest, it was already dusk in the afternoon, and Banbu planned to go out to hunt a swordhorn locust again as a supper, but found that there were several small snakes with red patterns that came out of nowhere, wandering in the nearby grass, also hunting for the swordhorn locust. Brightly patterned, triangular heads, typical venomous snakes, their venom is lethal to the insect organism.
This time is also the peak period for the activities of various birds and animals.
Madara immediately discouraged the idea of going out, hid in the depths of the chamber, and lurked.
Cockroaches digest the various nutrients contained in the ingested food at a very high rate and use them efficiently.
When Madara eats a lot of meat in one day, his weakness is swept away, and his body still has a large amount of nutrients for growth. When you are still and still, you can clearly feel that the cosmic force that is free of nature is attracted and gathered by the carapace, and penetrates into the body through the carapace.
The Force is integrated into the bloodstream, and with the flow of blood, it is integrated into every cell in the body, and the cells are strengthened and transformed.
During the transformation process, the nutrients stored in the body are quickly depleted.
In the middle of the night, the nutrients stored in the body were consumed, and the carapace's rate of absorbing the cosmic force immediately decreased, almost stopped, and hunger came from the abdomen.
A very simple growth model, if you eat well and eat well, you will grow faster, otherwise you will stagnate.
Banbu went out before dawn, carefully searching each plant, and it took a little time to find a sleeping swordhorn locust nymph.
Adjust the angle, charge up, and pounce to attack.
After a hunting experience, Banbu changed to four walking feet to grasp and stabilize his body, the left paw of his forelimbs was embedded in the dorsal armor, and the right claw was used as a dagger, attacking the hind legs of the sword-horned locust, stabbing and destroying the tibial muscles.
The effect was not significant, the awakened swordhorn locust was paralyzed in its left leg but still able to move its right leg, and it kicked violently, rolling violently with the spotted cloth to the ground, and then struggled more fiercely.
Bounced on one leg, the force was unbalanced, and the spotted cloth was dragged around in place, and in a hurry, he attacked the head instead, tossing for a long time, and finally killed the target completely.
"Little locusts are so difficult."
Madara was depressed, dragged the corpse back to the chamber, saw that it was not dark, stared at the corpse for a little observation, and went out to continue the search.
The third hunt, changing the attack site again, the right claw attacked the position where the head and the dorsal armor of the sword horn locust were connected, the lower claw from the weak point, the tips of the toes were straightened, and they pierced deeply into the connected muscles, quickly bent and pulled outward, cutting off a large number of nerves and blood vessels.
After a successful hunt, the sword-horned locust instinctively kicked its legs and landed with a spotted cloth, and after landing, its two hind legs curled up and lost its movement, and the green blood water flowed along the position of the carapace nodules, without any resistance, and died quietly.
"It should be cut off from the central nervous system that connects the brain and the torso, and hunting according to this method will be much more efficient."
Compared with the previous two hunts, the third hunt was much easier, and Banbu was very satisfied, and planned to hunt the swordhorn locust in this way in the Xun grass field where the ants were harvested in the next time to obtain food.
Time and quantity have stabilized, go out twice at noon and early morning, hunt two at a time, and throw the food that you can't finish to your ant neighbors next to you, after all, Xuncao is what they are doing to grow.