The sickle-shaped hook claw is anticoagulant toxin, and the floating microworms are bloodthirsty and silent.

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If you want to send a questionnaire, what is the most annoying little bug on Lanxing? I'm afraid that most creatures will not hesitate to choose the curved tube worm, a small flying insect that flies quickly by vibrating two pairs of transparent wings on its body, and has a very similar habit to a mosquito, with all kinds of annoying characteristics. They have tenacious vitality and vigorous reproduction ability, so both the number of individuals and the distribution range can definitely squeeze into the strongest queue of multicellular organisms in Lanxing, and they also have the characteristics of dead skin and face that cannot be driven away.

However, the Curved Tube Worm is the same as the mosquito, the amount of blood they absorb is actually not worth mentioning for animals, and the biggest harm of this creature is to spread harmful germs everywhere, so if you want to say that the most dangerous bug on the Lan Star and the one that causes the most deaths, it is definitely not the turn of the Curved Tube Worm, so what is this bug with a very high lethality rate?

Undoubtedly, it's the flying scythe.

The flying sickle is not as old as the curved tube worm, in fact, it was a species that only began to appear in the middle of the Sixth Age. In appearance, they don't look like traditional insects, nor do they have wings for nimble flight, they look like a white sphere without feet, topped by feeding mouthparts and a pair of powerful and very sharp sickle-shaped hooks, which is where their name comes from. Other than that, all that is exposed to the surface is the excretory passage and the mating organs, and there are no other organs at all.

Since the Yanghai Space Gate incident at the beginning of the Sixth Age, the planet's magnetic field, which has greatly increased in strength, has made it possible for many creatures to learn geomagnetic levitation, and the Sky Scythe is also one of them. Their evolutionary path is so extreme that today, the Scythe has completely abandoned walking, and even its legs have degenerated, turning it into a creature that uses geomagnetic levitation to move entirely on Earth's magnetic levitation. Geomagnetic levitation has become an instinct for them, this is not like the occasional use of the Xin Yu people, once they lose the magnetic levitation ability, the flying scythe will lose almost all of its ability to move, and can only barely use the pair of sickle-shaped hooks to crawl.

On the other hand, during the flight of the geomagnetic levitation, the flying scythe has become a creature with terrifying movements. They can do almost anything they want in the air, whether it's levitating in place or making quick turns, they are silent and fly so fast that it is almost impossible for large animals to react to their movements, and they don't suck some of their blood like Curved Tube Worms, they are truly cruel bloodthirsty carnivores.

No anesthesia, no hiding, the flying scythe often uses its superior mobility to sprint to the side of large animals, and its pair of razor-shaped hooks can tear through skin and muscles like jelly, tearing off long strips of flesh directly from the appearance of the opponent.

This process is quite brutal, and most prey often feel severe pain before they can react to what is happening, followed by severe bacterial interference and blood flow in the wound...... Unlike the way Curved Tubeworms secrete blood-clotting substances, the Flying Scythe has chemicals on its claws that prevent bleeding, especially against platelets. These fierce executioners don't just eat living animals, even a corpse that has not been dead for a long time can also be a good meal, so the flying scythe will never mind the prey dying because of the inability to lose blood, they will often be very patient to follow the same prey for many days, repeatedly tearing flesh from the other person for food, until the other person is completely dead, and can eat these flying scythes for days before the corpse is completely decomposed.

In fact, this is the most terrible problem, once it is attacked by the Sky Scythe, the prey will leave a unique breath on its body, and other Sky Scythe will also take the initiative to attack the same target once it feels this breath, and eventually cause the large prey to bleed to death by constantly causing damage, which makes the Sky Scythe one of the few creatures that can really hunt prey many times larger than its own size.

Of course, compared with the Curved Tube Worm, there is a big difference, that is, the Curved Tube Worm is very afraid of the cold, and is almost only willing to be active in the tropics or subtropics, but the Flying Sickle is different, the normal temperature superconductor used to create the magnetic field in their body is more advantageous in the cold environment, and the prey can be stored in the cold environment for a longer time after death, so this fierce little creature especially likes to be active in cold areas, but they can occasionally be seen in temperate zones, That's not good news.

At least definitely for Twilight, as she nervously watched the barely visible white balls wander around, she finally realized where the slender wound on Xinglan's face had come from. There were several slender gaps in the animal skin's clothing, and the cold air flow poured into the interior from the cracks, making her shiver a little, and she didn't dare to pull open the clothes to expose more skin.

Compared to her, Su Hui was obviously more embarrassed at this time, the clothes on one side of his side had been torn open by a slender slit, and the few wisps of breath wafting from the slit obviously made those flying scythes even more crazy, it was the smell of blood mixed with the toxins they had infused.

"Can you still hold it up?" It'd been a few hours since they left the collapsed cavern, and Twilight had spent hours trying to dig through the collapsed ice like crazy, until she was stopped by Akira before she could stop her...... Those huge blocks of ice can't be dug up by hand alone, at least not without tools. After exiting the exit of the tunnel, they were clearly approaching the upper reaches of the massive waterfall, and they quickly lost their way after losing Xinglan.

It was impossible to follow the river, because the ice sheet also completely obscured the original outline of the river, and only the boundless white could be seen as far as the eye could see, and even the pupils of the Moon Prayer could weaken the effect of the bright light by contracting on their own, and the snow blindness showed mild symptoms.

Shortly after that, they were attacked by flying scythes.

In fact, not to mention the Flying Scythe, even the few whip wheels that come now are not something they can deal with, and when faced with the small size and flexible Flying Scythe, the bone spear that Su Hui has been using as a weapon is useless...... It was obviously impossible for this thing to be used to shoot dead bugs, and the only consequence of trying it was that a long strip of flesh was torn off by a flying scythe while his arm was briefly exposed. This was a piece of flesh torn off without any anesthesia, and even the ground that Suhui walked along the way left a little bit of blood.

Aside from anything else, Suhui was indeed a strong-willed warrior, and his irrepressible snort could only be heard when he got closer, and he didn't even show a hint of pain other than that.

Snow was silent, watching the two of them walk with the hovering flying scythe.

This process continued until a small forest appeared in front of them, and yes, a sparse grove appeared, covered with a thick layer of snow and the boreal plants did not seem to have completely lost their vitality, and there was even a pond next to the tree that had not frozen.

"I need to clean my wounds." Su Hui suddenly spoke, walking towards the long-lost liquid pool, "You can't continue like this, there may be dangerous animals tracking along the blood, it's best to clean the wounds." ”

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Twilight squinted at the sky, and occasionally could still see the afterimage of the flying scythe passing by, these little things had a lot of patience and were extremely difficult, "This forest looks a little weird. ”

It's no wonder that Twilight is suspicious, after all, the sudden appearance of a small forest and a small pond in a world where everything is completely frozen is too strange, no matter how you look at it, it looks like something is wrong, and the forest is so quiet that there is no sign of animals in it.

"The pond is not in the woods, I won't enter the woods, just clean it outside the woods." Hui looked at the flying scythes with some anxiety, they seemed to be a little farther away at this time, and he didn't hesitate any longer, "Twilight, you help watch the scene in the woods. ”

“…… Well, the faster the action, the better. Twilight froze up a dozen meters from the pond, keeping an eye out for any movement in the woods and the flying scythes in the sky, while Suhui walked quickly to the edge of the rare pool that had not frozen, revealing his arms that were almost completely red with blood, and he didn't care if the water was cold or biting, as long as he could clean the wounds.

Twilight takes a deep breath and even takes the risk of pulling her hat back just to get a clearer view. She could visibly feel her heart pounding, and the tension seemed to permeate every corner of the environment. The Sky Scythes were a bit unusual at this time, they didn't take advantage of this opportunity to continue to swoop down and feast, but wandered back and forth on the high ground, the woods were not thick, and they could be seen clearly from here, and if a beast appeared from the depths of the woods, Twilight was sure that they would have enough time to escape.

However, for some reason, I always felt a little uneasy, the pond should not be dangerous, because it is not a deep pool, even from the top down, you can see it clearly, the bottom of the pond is unobstructed, and there is nothing in it except for a few bones......

Wait, what's wrong?

A pond with very shallow water, but no freezing in this cold environment? Thinking of the scattered bones in the pond, and the flying sickle, instead of taking advantage of the rare opportunity to hunt for food, he chose to watch the situation from high altitude...... Twilight gasped heavily, and the truth was about to come out, and she only felt her heart jump out of her body, and her pupils, which had contracted into thin slits, suddenly dilated, and she roared out almost hoarsely, "Suhui, get out of that pond quickly!" ”

"There must be something wrong with that place, you must not go near there!"

(Thanks to the 100 starting coins of "Purple Cloud Half Covering the Light Moon Trace" and the 10 starting coins of "もふもふ" for reward~)