Chapter 15: The Trap

So when Ma Kai found out that he had fallen into the trap of this monster, his first reaction was that he must live, and it was important to escape! He exerted all his strength, and in a prostrate position on the sand, he swam out of the quicksand whirlpool with his hands and feet. The monster was still hiding in the cave, its eight eyes flashing with a strange and vicious red light, staring motionless at the monster in front of it.

At first, Ma Kai could still jump a few meters, but as he ran out of strength, he was immediately carried to the center of the whirlpool by the falling quicksand. Originally, at this time, his physical strength was basically gone, and it was a fool's dream to escape from this quicksand whirlpool when he was unwell. The monster lurking in the cave is like a skilled sea fishing master among humans. When humans catch big fish in the sea, if they pull hard at the moment when the big fish is hooked, it is likely to break the fishing line because of the desperate struggle of the big fish, and thus fail; But the real sea fishing masters will not do this, they will let the big fish struggle to escape, wait for the big fish to swim away, the strength is exhausted and then drag it back, and so on a few times, no matter how strong the big fish will become exhausted, at the mercy of the fisherman.

Things are like this, how can people be worthy. Ma Kai is now a big fish that has been hooked, and the monster hiding in the shadows is a fisherman, and he is very confident that he can catch this big fish that has fallen into the net, so he is not in a hurry, but just watches Ma Kai struggle in vain.

Ma Kai tried to break out of the quicksand whirlpool several times in a row, but failed, and in a hurry, he felt a pain in his throat like a torn throat, and a hot liquid like fire gushed out of his throat uncontrollably!

It's blood! Ma Kai tore his already inflamed throat due to excessive vigorous exercise, and coughed up blood from his mouth in large gulps! But he was now completely indifferent to stopping the bleeding, and the pain of the tearing throat was far greater than all the pain he had suffered before, and the pain that seemed to tear the whole nervous system apart was like a blunt axe constantly chopping at his head. To make matters worse, he couldn't scream yet, and the slightest vibration of his vocal cords would magnify the pain exponentially.

All Ma Kai could do was hold his throat tightly with both hands, which would relieve the pain a little, but it would not cure it. It wasn't long before he felt the pain paralyze his whole body, and he gradually became lightheaded, his eyes blackened, and he fell to the ground.

Ma Kai suddenly fainted on the ground, because the lying position allowed him to disperse the pressure and temporarily float on the quicksand, which was carried by the quicksand all the way to the black hole in the center of the whirlpool. Just as he was about to reach the center of the whirlpool, the quicksand suddenly stopped, and Ma Kai stopped in the sand pit half-buried and half-exposed like a corpse.

The monster in the black hole stopped the flow of quicksand, and looked at the "corpse" lying on the ground with wary eyes. It's funny to say that since it learned the skill of digging holes in the ground and creating quicksand whirlpools to hunt animals in this barren desert, it is the first time it has encountered such a prey that "dies without a fight".

Instinctive vigilance made the natural hunter pay more attention to this unexpected "corpse", which it stared at for a long time, but never moved. Maybe it's because it's so hard to hunt in the desert that even a monster that has been eroded and modified by alien cells has to eat, and this monster finally can't stand the temptation of food and crawls out of the black hole.

This is a "desert tarantula", which retains the basic appearance of the tarantula on earth, with eight legs and eight eyes, a body covered with bristles, a spindle-shaped thick belly, a hairy head with huge mouthparts, and eyes that sparkle with a sinister light, ugly and extremely intimidating. Fortunately, this "desert tarantula" is not large, as if there are two completely different individuals in the snake population, such as the "Stalker Snake Man" and the "Black Snake Lord". "Spider-like monsters" that have been modified by alien cells also have a variety of individuals, and the differences can be as large as the world. And the size of this "desert tarantula" is only equivalent to a small person among humans, even in the face of a young man like Ma Kai, it does not have much advantage in size.

Of course, the danger of monsters cannot be judged by their size alone, and the "tarantula" is originally a species with extremely high aggression and hunting skills, and the individual potential of the modified alien cells is immeasurable. However, this "desert tarantula" is a little different, and it is clearly leaning towards the latter when it comes to fighting its prey with its physical strength and relying on its mind to set traps and safely hide in the shadows.

The "desert tarantula" approached Makay's "corpse" step by step, and the hunting ground instinct told it that the prey that died so easily was very likely to contain unpredictable dangers. But it was so hungry, in this barren desert, there was little water and food, and there were few people; Although it doesn't have to eat humans to survive, the beasts here are almost dead due to the devastation caused by the Doomsday War. The environment here is much harsher than the primitive desert before the nuclear war, and in the initial stage of the alien cell invasion of the earth's biosphere, although it was transformed into an excellent desert hunter, its body structure has been fixed since then, and it can only survive in this desert, leaving the desert and losing all hunting skills.

It was the first meal in almost a month, and the "desert tarantula" couldn't help but drool at the expense of its saliva, if its saliva could also be called saliva. What's more, this is still the human that these alien monsters like to hunt the most, and the smell of human beings is almost like a luxurious meal to them; Tempted by this feast, the desert tarantula walked faster and faster, moving its eight legs alternately, almost running to the side of Ma Kai's "corpse". By this time, it had only food in its head to lure it, and had ignored the warnings of their most precious predatory instincts of wild creatures.

The big spider happily ran to the side of the "corpse", ready to feast, this is the first time in many days to open the meat! In order to save his own energy consumption, he didn't even use spider silk and venom to paralyze the "corpse" again. Of course, who would be overly wary of a "corpse"?

This is actually a paradox, if the pure wild leader of the action of the individual, will inevitably strictly follow the laws of predation of nature, with the spirit of lions fighting rabbits to do their best to treat any kind of prey. But when the alien cells endowed these species in the earth's biosphere with excessive combat power and bloodthirsty behavior, they also did not forget to increase their IQ level too kindly. For animals, IQ gains are largely a good thing. As can be seen from the organization of the attack on Observatory 1108 by the "Black Snake Commander" and the fierce battle against the bears, it would not have been possible to achieve that point if it had not possessed an almost human IQ.

However, the knife is not incomparable, and many of the monsters that have been eroded and transformed have improved their IQ, but they do not know how to use this mind to fight. On the contrary, it is because of this low-level intellectual development that they become like ignorant and uncivilized humans, greedy, obscene, stingy and timid, giving priority to preserving themselves and encroaching on the interests of other monsters. No matter how much the intelligence is developed, the wisdom of these low-level "inferior" people cannot reach the level of a normal human being, but their wildness is greatly reduced because of this immature intelligence. This may be the sequelae of violating the laws of species evolution and forcibly pulling out seedlings.

This "desert tarantula" is a typical case of a victim of this sequelae, and at the moment it is running to pick up its own candy like a child who accidentally picked it up. I'm afraid that if I take a step slower, this candy will disappear, and I don't know that this "candy" will become a sharp weapon that will harm its life!

"Whew!" A sound of breaking wind came, and Ma Kai, who was lying motionless like a "dead corpse", suddenly turned over, shook his arm violently, and smashed the mechanical locator that had been tightly carried towards the "desert tarantula"! The mechanical locator is half the size of a laptop in a tin box, and it is very heavy. Under Ma Kai's desperate smashing, he smashed impartially and accurately on the eyes of the monster "Desert Tarantula"!

The "Desert Tarantula" is a monster that has been eroded by alien cells, and is different from the normal tarantula structure of the original geosphere. The eight eyes on its head are arranged in two rows, six in the front and two in the back. The six eyes are slightly smaller, only secondary eyes, which grow on either side of the forehead, and are mainly used to sense light and observe sneak attackers from behind them. The two eyes in the back row were much larger, focused forward, mainly used to focus on the image and keep an eye on the prey, which was the main eye he used to attack. (Actually, real-life creatures have a similar structure, most of the carnivores have eyes on the front of the face, and the pupil distance is very close, because they use their eyes to hunt prey, such as lions and tigers; Herbivores have eyes on both sides of their faces, with a long interpupillary distance, and their eyes are mainly used to defend against sneak attacks from behind and on both sides of predators, such as cattle, horses, and sheep. Our human eyes are on the front of the face and the pupil distance is close, which indicates that we are hunters and not prey...... laughs)

At this moment, Ma Kai's mechanical locator smashed on the two main eyes accurately. The two main eyes of the "desert tarantula" are completely exposed, protruding like two light bulbs, without any protective parts. was smashed by this iron box, and turned into two pools of ****-like flesh and blood sludge, and black dirty blood splattered out with flesh and blood foam, spraying most of Ma Kai's body!

The black blood of these monsters is corrosive, not enough to be lethal, but enough to leave an excruciating chemical burn on the human body. But at this time, Ma Kai didn't care about these wounds at all, he didn't even wipe the black blood on his body that was burning his skin, but roared at the "desert tarantula" like crazy: "Beast! Here you go! If you don't come to kill me, I'll kill you too! I swear I'll kill all of you monsters, and not a single one will be left! Come on! ”