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The action began.

The first to react was another clearing in the woods a few hundred meters away from where the ball was located.

Those who arrived here quickly recognized a pine tree that had been marked earlier. Climbing up in twos and threes, he came to a branch and easily found the shovel that had been prepared before. Back under the tree, he used his shovel to lift a large circle of snow around the trunk until the place where the stone was placed came into his eye. He started digging, and in just a minute or two, he had cleared out the contents inside.

In the shallow hole he dug there was a huge block of ice lying in it. It was four or five meters in diameter, and under the thin layer of ice were piles of minced meat, blood clots, and internal organs.

Turning it out of the ground, the man took out the scroll that he had slung behind his waist.

Immediately after unfolding, he recited the incantation. As the scroll lit up with blood-colored runes, a wave of heat rushed towards him, and the air around him twisted and deformed at the same time. The scroll was like a furnace at the moment, releasing a huge amount of heat. Placing the scroll aside to the ice, the man turned and walked away. He knew that for the rest of the day, the scroll would continue to emit high temperatures, fusing with ice until it exposed its contents to the air. The minced meat, blood clots, and internal organs in the ice cubes have a strong attraction for the ground helmet. Once they smell the strong smell of blood, they can't wait to get here.

As he expected, when the ice cubes melted away, the minced flesh and blood inside thawed one after another. Hundreds of meters away, the huge insect ball suddenly trembled. It stretched out and turned into a long worm that was sixteen or seventeen meters long.

Levi, who was holding a telescope, immediately noticed its movement.

The mirror barrel was pointed at that side, and Li Wei quietly admired the moment when it was revived, and a playful emotion hit his heart.

The image of the ground helmet insect is very close to the watermelon insect he is familiar with.

It is the black-gray insects that can often be found in the corners of walls, under bricks, or on rotten leaves, and their bodies are section by section, as if they are wearing heavy armor. As soon as it is frightened, it will shrink and turn into a motionless ball, which belongs to the rat gynecology.

It's a pity that the one who appears in his eyes now is not those cute little bugs.

Unlike the watermelon insects, which feed on rotting leaves, the ground worms, which are countless times larger than them, belong to the ranks of predators. They are omnivores, and although they also eat the roots, stems and leaves of various plants, they have a pathological craving for flesh and blood.

Like the female helmet insect that Levi is concerned about, it shows its instinct prominently at this moment. As soon as it smelled blood, it immediately awoke from its slumber. And in normal times, after a full meal, it at least has to sleep for a long time.

Like sharks, the smell of blood is undoubtedly an extraordinary irritant for them. So much so that once touched, it drove them into madness.

After stretching her body, the female helmeted insect lay on the ground and did not move, only to see a pair of feathery tentacles sticking out of the small holes on both sides of its skull. The size of this pair of antennae is very large, and can be three or four meters long, like two long feather fans. Levi could see its shape clearly through the telescope. Hooked, this guy was overjoyed. According to the knowledge in his mind, Levi knew that this pinnate antennae were the olfactory organs of many insect creatures, such as moths.

As soon as the antennae of the female helmeter stretched out, it immediately swept left and right.

After just five or six seconds, it determined its direction, and more than a dozen pairs of sharp feet under its abdomen moved in an orderly manner, driving its huge body in that direction, all the way to the snow and dust, devastation.

The white snow suddenly showed a dazzling scar.

Levi's face was overjoyed.

The first phase of the task is considered complete.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, he looked down at the entire pine forest below. Now he had only one thought: to pray for more males to lurk in the pine forest. In such a large area, how can you get thirty or forty of them? money, this is all money!

When the female helmetworm reached the open field, she hesitated for a moment before pounced on the shallow pit. Through infrared vision, it discovered that there was a very bright object where the smell was coming from, which made it a little uneasy. But at this moment, it has been tempted by the smell of blood, almost crazy. I saw that its large jaws, which looked very much like ants, suddenly opened, and a jet of countless broken ice erupted from it. In the blink of an eye, the place where the scroll was located had been shattered.

At the time of this movement, its body was still moving forward, but at a slower pace.

The moment the scroll was destroyed by it, the huge body of the female insect also came to the side of the shallow pit, and she couldn't wait to start eating the minced meat and internal organs that had piled up.

"Let's chirp", "Let's chirp", in just a few moments, hundreds of kilograms of flesh and blood clots have been swallowed up by it. Even the blood-stained snow and mud around the bottom of the pit were cleaned up.

The bait here is not poisonous.

The Earth Helmet Worm is sensitive to all kinds of toxins, which is one of the most bizarre traits of all Arcanes. Poisoning their food is not a success. Because when they taste the first bite, they can immediately notice that they are greasy.

Levi is casting bait here, naturally for other purposes.

This is one of his most significant discoveries during this time: female Helmets will immediately enter the estrus stage after they are full, and if they are in the woodland, they will release pheromones to attract nearby males.

It's not easy to figure this out.

This originated from a coincidence.

At first, when Levi gathered a group of people to ask about the foraging behavior of the ground helmets, it happened that his previous question was about their courtship.

As a result, the idea that "they will start mating after a full meal" was discovered by him.

At that moment, Levi immediately remembered that most female mosquitoes also have a similar habit, that is, they can only lay eggs after sucking blood. Here, most likely, the situation is the same. Animal flesh and blood have the same effect on these predominantly vegetarian bugs, such as stimulating ovulation and providing the protein to make eggs. In short, this behavior is definitely the key to the reproduction of the ground helmet.

This has been confirmed by successive dozens of controlled experiments and the dissection of multiple ground helmworms.

During the experiment, Levi also discovered more details.

For example, female insects have a habit of storing flesh and blood, and they have a sac-like organ similar to a stomach in their body that can store engulfed flesh until it reaches a certain amount.

Males will also engage in certain predatory behaviors after being attracted by females, and they will use this method to prolong the estrus period of females.

Also, when the female worm has swallowed enough flesh at once, she will immediately enter the estrus stage. If their surroundings allow, they can immediately release pheromones.

These seemingly extreme and bizarre behavioral physiology, combined with their living environment, is not difficult to understand.

The places where the ground helmets live and breed are either the glacial polar regions with harsh climates or the towering snow-capped mountain tundra. In these white wastelands, green plants are rare, not to mention warm-blooded animals. If flesh and blood really play such a huge role in their reproduction, then the series of extreme behaviors derived from this is understandable.

After all, survival and reproduction are the number one priority for any animal.