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It has just been caught off guard and has not yet come to its senses after being blinded by a mess for no apparent reason.

First gnawed by a group of crazy rabbits, and then stung by a group of crazy bees, and now it is finally out of the encirclement, and found that it is surrounded by wide saline-alkali land that is not suitable for it to play and terrifying monsters that cannot be provoked, it only feels that today is simply unlucky, and now the mood is really darker than the sky on the triangular head.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the swarm of demon bees, which were suddenly surrounded by a swarm of blue birds, suddenly became chaotic as if they had encountered a natural enemy, and they no longer had time to care about anything else, and they fled back to the wild grass, at least not for a short time.

Looking at the four monkeys that suddenly popped out of nowhere, it felt a burst of amusement. Are you so scared that you can't walk?

Perhaps, I should eat something, I was shocked. It may have thought so at this point.

The Shadow Mantis gently lifted its arms in front of it, and slowly leaned forward its upper body, which was its standard predatory move, and its indestructible blade hands would be a nightmare for all prey it targeted. It had the confidence to blast the four people in front of him who dared to stand in his way to the slag.

However, fortunately, it didn't notice it, and when it showed its killing intent, the demon beasts around it that it regarded as its fierce enemies were so frightened that they took two steps back.

......

Clown Flower is really a good helper, and her cowardly personality and bluffing appearance really scared the female mantis who had never seen the "world". Well, except for the one just now, which only has two of the six legs, and the half-hanger of the upper body is missing.

When he learned that the Shadow Mantis had appeared around the Vault, Kerr still had an indifferent attitude, after all, here, new enemies appear every day, and danger lurks everywhere in the visible, and the unseen.

However, the fact that it has not appeared in previous exploration operations, which is a large eater, has caused Kerr to have new doubts. After he deduced the information that the Shadow Mantis had just arrived here not long after he was injured, he had deduced from the time when Rouse was injured.

Unlike ordinary people, the young man, who has experienced too much fear and has long been numb, has a new idea - it is better to wait for the butcher's knife to fall, than to cut the grass and eradicate the roots while the enemy has not gained a firm foothold.

And relying on that unknown ability to feel the negativity in his heart through fear will be his best way to judge the location of the praying mantis. Beside him was a suitable object—the clown who had just conjured up only two sickle legs.

The existence of power did not bring Kerr any extraordinary strength and wisdom. It was born at the most painful time of Kerr, like a curse, constantly reminding the boy of his original remorse. is like the devil's whisper, always telling the young man who has long been numb in his heart about the darkness and negativity of this world.

Although Kerr was not knocked down by himself, he constantly endured the ravages of fear to understand the darkness, and in the process of playing with fire, the boy unconsciously lost the other side of being a "human" - hope. As he grows faster and faster, Kerr lives in his own remorse as if he is becoming a "child" who is becoming more and more rational and indifferent because he is disgusted with himself...... , like a coward.

Kerr always laughed at himself like this, and then, in the pain, buried himself even deeper.

......

If you want to live in such a world, it is almost your job to devise traps to make up for the shortcomings.

The layout began as early as Kelle learned from the clown flower about the mantis's movements.

From the very beginning, all the foreshadowing - delaying time through mountain hares, carving magic circles and waking up demon bees in the chaos, and disturbing the bee colony with soundproof magic circles were all for one purpose - to lure the "prey" into the Great Gobi.

Several imitative clown flowers were rushed to the reserved location by the prepared Clio, and for outsiders who were not yet familiar with the new neighbors here, these were obviously misjudged by the Shadow Mantis to be extremely terrifying rivals.

And the killing game will start here.

You must know that in this land, countless people who have fallen on the path of exploration have proven with blood that the most dangerous creatures are often the most harmless.

-- Man-eating grass looks like a weed, but its well-developed root system is several times that of the same type of herbaceous plant. But it wasn't the most troublesome thing, the branches that lay on the ground, hard as vines and covered with barbs, were its killer feature.

Whenever the buds emerge after the new year, two kinds of shoots emerge at the same time, one will disguise itself like a weed, and the other will hide in the shallow layers of the earth, becoming the death of its prey.

For example, where the Shadow Mantis is stepping on now, the cyan vines are dancing like demons, tying the six sickle legs together like rice dumplings, while the mother mantis is unconscious and continues to pose, and the little mantis next to it is almost overwhelmed by the rioting man-eating grass.

Poison is always the favorite tool of plant predators.

Kerr and the other four people happened to be divided into four corners, surrounding the prey or hunter in front of them in the center, and Igusi continued to make some small movements to numb the nerves of the female mantis, so that it did not dare to act rashly. While observing the poisoning of the Shadow Mantis, Kerr looked at the old man's expression without surprise.

There's no absolute trust in this damn world, and only Clio knows about the killing of Kronry, and Leto knows that she does what Kerr says. Kelongrui had just been trapped in the grass and died, but Igusi had come out like he had known it to be, which was worth playing.

If it weren't for the fact that Igusi didn't have much malice, perhaps he would have been labeled as dangerous by Ker.

"Don't look at me so nakedly with suspicion, boss. ”

is already an old man, but he is coquettish like a child, should he say, is it worthy of being an old man?

"That day, I was wandering around when I accidentally bumped into Colonrui, who was discussing with Clio about rebellion and how to trap you to death. As a result, when the two of them finished discussing, they just wanted to find you, and found that Clio had sold Kelonrui after changing hands. No, I thought that the old man was almost a handful of bones, so I didn't have to rush the credit, so I didn't have a chance to say it. ”

Kerr smiled and nodded, agreeing with him. And Clio next to him broke out in a cold sweat.

As a warrior, it is also strange to practice stealth to such an extent that he can't even detect it.

On the other side, the Shadow Mantis had also noticed that something was wrong around it, but it had long since lost the strength to struggle, and even gave Kerr the time to speak.

Man-eating grasses constantly mounted on its body, and the high slope on which it stood was actually formed by the accumulation of countless groups of man-eating grasses.

The Shadow Mantis screamed and knew there was no chance of escape, but it never lived again, allowing the surging vines to engulf itself and build a green tomb.

By the time even Kerr suspected it had died inside. A terrifying scream came from the depths, and the next moment, a praying mantis cub broke free from its restraints and returned to the earth with a surging pillar of dark purple light.

With a slightly regretful and satisfied gaze, the female mantis finally disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Smack"

"You're crazy, it's so small. ”

Leto tried his best to hold the dagger in Kerr's hand. In a matter of seconds, it would have ended the life of the cub.

"It's going to grow up, aren't you? Do you feel sympathy for it? Surprised Kerr turned to Leto, who was in full armor beside him.

Kerr knew how hard he had used, but was stopped by Leto, who had made a hasty move. I can't help but feel that this little girl who was almost used as rations by hungry people has grown up.

However, this emotional expression was mistaken by Leto as Kerr's determination to kill, so he protected the little mantis behind him more tightly.

"Our goal is nothing more than the big one. Now that the prey is in hand, let it go. We need to give an account to its mother. ”

Leto pretended not to care and continued to ask Kerr's opinion.

"Why, does what happened to it remind you of yourself?" Kerr looked at Leto, who was wearing a visor that was hiding his expression. But deep down in her heart, Kerr saw a child who only knew how to sit on the ground and cry.

Leto was about to answer, but in the afterglow, he found a transparent wind blade silently slicing through the place where the mantis cub was, leaving only a corpse that had been cut in half.

"What a naïve idea. ”

Gerle never looked back, put away his knife, and left.

"You...... It's pitiful!" Leto shouted in disbelief at Kerr's departing figure.

Under the black sky, Kerr slowly walked forward against the wind and sand that was suddenly blown up on the Great Gobi.

Lined with sparse weeds and a monotonous world behind him, on the empty plains, Kerr is like a lone wolf, burdened with loneliness and pain. Walking alone in the dark night when he was alone.