Gliding umbrellas follow the wind, mottled bast fanged beasts.

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Lanxing, the Nanyuan Continent, a grove near Xinghua Lake.

The sun's brilliant rays shone from the sky, penetrating the not lush canopy and falling to the ground, and the little fragments of golden light seemed like a life dedicated to all things, and it seemed so sacred and beautiful in the forest.

It was a restful afternoon for this wood. The silvery white Ice Moon Frost Shower silently overlooked the earth in the sky, its faint figure barely discernible from the background in the strong sunlight. Occasionally, a few wisps of white color slowly streak over the trees, gliding in a wonderful trajectory in the breeze as light as a miniature paraglider.

This is a species called umbrella ant on the planet, and whenever the breeding season comes, they secrete a special white filament that covers their bodies and then jumps off the top of the canopy...... Nature's breezes unfold their cleverly folded structures into paraglider-like devices that take them through the skies as they travel to far-flung places that would normally require a long crawl to reach, where they will be a new breeding site and start a new story.

Although they are not really flying creatures, the light and small nature of the umbrella ants allows them to glide far, far and even higher in the breeze, and if they think they have reached the right place, they will use their sharp forelimbs to cut through the part of the paraglider that connects to the body, and then jump directly from the sky, of course, this small insect is very difficult to fall directly to death.

Tiny white dots float across the sky above, and these small creatures that follow the wind have no effect on the large creatures that live in the woods, and although they all live under the same sky, they don't interfere with each other as if they were living in two different worlds.

At this moment, an umbrella ant that happened to be floating in the air seemed to think that this forest was very suitable, and it resolutely cut off the miniature paraglider that it had spent a long time making...... This judgment is very important, because the time of the breeding season and the nutritional constraints do not allow them to make a second paraglider slowly, so each umbrella ant only has one chance to skydive, and once they find the wrong landing place, the final result is naturally needless to say.

At the moment when the connection line was disconnected, the miniature paraglider, which had lost the weight of the umbrella ant's body, suddenly flew higher and higher towards the sky under the blowing of the breeze, and gradually turned into a white dot so small that it disappeared into the end of the sky. It may be torn apart by the air currents in the air and fall back to the ground again, it may continue to fly far and wide in the sky with the wind, or it may be collected and recycled again by some life that lives in an invisible high place, but at least, its fate with its creator ends here. The small black body of the umbrella ant began to fall rapidly after losing its paraglider, but a sudden crosswind deflected its direction, causing the umbrella ant to fall not on the verdant canopy as it had hoped, but through the gap between the leaves, and onto the pale, hard surface.

Before the umbrella ant could come to its senses, the pale, hard surface flipped over with vibrations...... From the Umbrella Ant's point of view, it was as terrifying as the whole land was flipped in front of it, and it didn't even have time to put up any resistance before it was thrown off the pale hard surface and smashed into the dirt. Of course, this level will not kill the umbrella ant, and it will begin to dig frantically with its forelimbs the moment it hits the ground, quickly hiding itself under the dirt, and in the coming months, it will create its own underground kingdom and thousands of people in this underground.

In the shadow of the leaf tree, the barge lazily turned over its body covered by the pale hard leather, and rested its two sharp, curly front teeth comfortably on the rock in front of him, enjoying the leisurely time.

Of course, it didn't turn over to get rid of the umbrella ant, in fact, when the umbrella ant landed on its hard skin, the strong beast, which was more than two meters long, didn't even notice this little creature that was insignificant to it. This creature resembles a wild boar in appearance, and although they are omnivores, they are especially fond of mushrooms and other mushrooms, and are rarely willing to eat meat...... But you would be wrong to think that they could be classified as harmless, as these sturdy beasts are somehow similar to hippos in that they are territorial, and will aggressively attack large animals that intrude on their territory. These big, clumsy-looking guys can completely tear an adult moon prayer to shreds.

The Moon Prayers call them shells, because the surface of these creatures secretes some pale gooey material when they are exposed, and they use the stickiness of this substance to cover the surface of the body with things like sand and gravel, and eventually form a hard skin similar to cement. Since the viscous substance retains considerable toughness after solidification, the hard skin formed will not be too hard to move...... Or more like a layer of body armor, with strong toughness, able to disperse the force to the whole. The meaning of barge shells is precisely that they have a mottled shell.

Even predators with a stronger physique than a barge generally don't hunt them, not to mention the kind of skin that can't be bitten by bite, no one wants to eat a mouthful of gravel and sand first, right? Every spring and summer, the shortcomings of the body structure of the shell become apparent, that is, similar to the problem of exoskeleton organisms, the epidermis that cannot grow on its own restricts their growth, so it is necessary to undergo a full-body skin exchange. In those days, the life of the barge was basically trying to get rid of the old skins...... This is not an easy thing to do, so if you come to the woods at this time, you may see the barge shell rubbing against the rock as if in heat, or take the initiative to find those predators with sharp teeth and claws, trying to use the other party's attack to break the old skin, as for whether to run away in time to find a safe place to change the new skin, or because it is too late to escape, it will be caught and eaten...... That's a matter of luck, so this creature is actually very famous in a sense, and is known to be a master of death.

However, this is not the season for skinning, nor is it the breeding season, so this barge is just lying in the shade of the striated leaf tree and quietly enjoying a good leisurely time, by the way, rummaging through the dead wood and leaves in the shade to see if there are any new colonies to change the taste.

It was in a really good mood, so happy that it didn't get up to chase it away when it noticed any creatures entering its territory. If this situation is put on the moon prayer person, it is probably "The seal of this quilt is so strong, I can't break free." With such a state of mind, it even decided to turn a blind eye this time, and let the intruder go as long as it left before it had finished its leisurely time.

"The black eyes and ears of the cat in the nine nights~There is no joy and no sorrow~"

However, this time the intruder was obviously not so acquainted, but began to approach its location, and what was even more arrogant was that the other party was obviously still humming as he walked, and he didn't look at it at all, which made the shell feel dissatisfied...... However, when the other figure appeared in front of it, it once again dismissed the intention of getting up and attacking, and only let out a low warning sound from its throat.

"The cat is running with the earth on its back~ running in the endless void~"

The long silver-white hair fluttered behind him, and the moon-praying man who was softly humming an ancient myth walked out of the leaf forest, and the silver-white pupils that contracted into a crescent moon in the sunlight looked at the beast in front of him who didn't even bother to get up, this young man who looked to be in his twenties, dressed in neat fur clothes, seemed to have a funny smile, and in his hand he held the longbow that had been drawn.

He didn't have the nervousness that ordinary moon prayers felt when they saw the barge, which made the barge feel a little uneasy, but it still didn't care much about this opponent, it knew that the power of this creature was no match for it at all, even if it wielded a sharp blade, as long as it didn't hit the eye or something, it couldn't pierce its skin, which was not a threat at all. It had seen other moon-praying people wield that longbow, but that attack would only cause it a burst of pain at best, and would not kill it at all.

"The sun is a warm ball of yarn ~ cats run around it ~"

The unknown moon prayer man walked more than ten meters away in front of the barge, and aimed the bow and arrow in his hand at it, and the barge waved its sharp curly front teeth indifferently, its size was large but not clumsy, at this distance it was impossible for the other party to directly hit its vital point, and it had no intention of continuing to lie lazily...... Although the skin does not break, the pain is not pleasant.

"The cat is running while rolling ~ The bell on the tail is shining ~ "

In that moment, the Moon Prayer suddenly let go of the hand that drew the bow, and at the same time slammed back as if he had practiced it countless times. In the eyes of ordinary people, the arrow is so fast that it is impossible to see clearly, but it is clear in the eyes of the barge, and it naturally does not use its fragile body parts to take this attack hard, but is ready to shoot it directly away with its claws.

It's just that Barge Shell is not a real high-IQ creature after all, so it has not been able to notice the cunning light that flashed in the eyes of the moon praying person in front of it, so it has lost its last chance to recover.

"Red, white and purple three bells jingle ~ flashing hairs flying everywhere ~"

The barge didn't understand what was happening at all, and when its claws struck the arrow, it seemed to shatter something at once, and the next moment, a tremendous force that was completely irresistible tore its proud skin mercilessly, and flesh flew everywhere......

After the blinding flash and loud noise, the prayer moon who quickly retreated and closed his eyes stood up again, slowly walked towards the immobile barge, and opened his silver-white eyes like a crescent moon.

The unknown tune he hummed softly sounded again.

"The sweat after running rises ~ the hot blood burns ~ "

(Thanks to the 100 starting coins of "Rabbit's Qiluno" and the 588 starting coins of "もふもふ" for rewarding ~ Thanks to the book friend "Even Piao~" for providing the barge setting, slightly modified the name and details~)