Chapter 52: The Pursuit of the Brutal Mantis Bees
When Zhang Wei found the fruit of a giant tree and was devouring it hard, he saw a fiery red figure on the trunk of the tree in the distance running towards him, Zhang Wei was nervous, so he stuffed all the fruits of the giant tree into his mouth.
At this moment, Zhang Wei had already eaten the fruits of the six giant trees, and his stomach was really not able to hold on, and the seventh giant tree fruit was really a little difficult to swallow.
However, the red figure running in his direction did not run directly towards him, and the fiery red figure only stopped at another branch in the distance. Then it stared at itself with its two pairs of eyes for a while, then looked up at the sky, then turned its head and ran towards the main trunk of the giant tree, Zhang Wei found that this fiery red guy should be the strange beast that he had met before, which looked like a fox. And this guy has the fruit of a giant tree in his mouth.
Zhang Wei, who was relaxed, felt a little puzzled by the behavior of this strange beast, that could not be that this strange beast was reminding himself that the rain had begun to get smaller and it was time to retreat~!
Zhang Wei, who secretly guessed in his heart, didn't care too much about the rain, he left the kindness of this strange beast behind. Zhang Wei continued to look for the fruits of the giant trees on the giant trees, and it was easier to see the situation ahead after the rain became lighter. This increased the efficiency of Zhang Wei's search, and soon Zhang Wei's arms had three more giant tree fruits. Zhang Weifa, who was worried about the difficulty of carrying these fruits, had now become light, and some humming sounds began to appear in the rain, and Zhang Wei knew that these were the vibrations made by the brutal mantis bees when they flew.
At this moment, Zhang Wei is not too worried about his own safety, but is worried about the safety of these fruits in his hands. It can withstand the attacks of brutal mantises, but the skin of these fruits is thin and juicy, and it is not very well preserved.
Zhang Wei had no choice but to pick the leaves of some giant trees, wrap the fruits tightly in three layers and three layers outside, and then stuff these tightly wrapped fruits into the bone shield behind him.
Because the Bone Shield resists the Alien Grass Rope Net woven inside the Bone Shield and is not badly corroded, so stuffing these fruits in the gap between the Alien Rope Rope Net and the Bone Shield at this moment should be able to block the attack of the brutal mantis bee.
Thinking like this, Zhang Wei began to think about his next plan, and he first lay down on the body of the giant tree along the huge tree. Then on the other side of the tree, he found a huge trunk similar to the one before, and a huge nest hung far away from the huge trunk.
This huge nest, the size of a house, hangs from the huge branches of the giant tree, and the giant ball of the nest is connected to the trunk of the giant tree by a thick branch line. It feels very strange, like an apple on a big fruit tree, but the apple doesn't seem to be very secure.
Zhang Wei, who was born in modern times and knows a little about architecture, really can't understand how this nest hangs from the branches of this giant tree. It feels as if this nest could fall at any moment.
Zhang Wei lay on the body of the giant tree and quietly observed the huge nest that looked quite disobedient, but what he didn't expect was that at this moment, he was also quietly observed by more than a dozen large and brutal mantis bees in the nest.
These brutal mantis wasps are in a sense fundamentally different from the insects on Earth, and these insects do not have a queen-level female like the insects on Earth. The path they choose to evolve is the same as that of humans, and each of these ferocious mantis bees can reproduce their own offspring, regardless of male or female. And these brutal mantis bees have no 'husband and wife relationship' breeding depends entirely on whether they can get a lot of food themselves, and when the food is sufficient, the eggs will be born in the body of the brutal mantis. They then lay their eggs in the corrosive venom of the nest, and these brutal mantis larvae in the corrosive slime of the nest exchange genetic information with each other before they degenerate before metamorphosing into adults.
In a sense, the reproduction method chosen by the brutal mantis bee is more scientific, because the weak have been eliminated in the process of survival. The genetic information of the strong can be preserved, and the genes in the favorable direction of each individual due to the genetic mutation are more likely to be preserved. This method of genetic selection and gene retention is carried out by the whole nest, so the offspring of the whole nest will develop in the direction of getting stronger and stronger. Even if an extremely powerful individual appears in the nest, then after many generations, the powerful genetic information of this individual will be shared by all the brutal mantis offspring of the entire nest, and all the brutal mantis of the entire nest will evolve together.
Therefore, each individual of the brutal mantis bees is very powerful, and the division of labor in their lives depends on their growth cycle. Newborn young brutal mantis bees prefer to live around their nests, so they indirectly become guards, and the mantis bees that enter the breeding season need more food, so they become hunting squads. Breeding brutal mantis bees are more focused on the survival of their offspring, so they prefer to manage their nests, while older brutal mantis bees prefer to roam back and forth in their familiar territory, so they become patrollers.
The clear division of labor of these brutal mantis bees is arranged in a position in the life cycle of different individuals, and every time one or several more powerful brutal mantis bees appear in the brutal mantis bee population because of the accumulation of high-quality genes, it means that the strength of their population will be greatly improved again.
And this time, the more powerful young bees in the nest of the brutal mantis bee began to feather, and without the arrival of Zhang Wei, the colony of the brutal mantis bees that stationed their nests on the giant tree would have become even more powerful in the near future.
When Zhang Wei looked at the nest of this huge and brutal mantis bee, he was hesitating whether to continue looking for the giant tree fruit here, or to retreat immediately and come back next time.
The brutal mantis had already made a choice for him, and the black pressure was full of unknown how many brutal mantis bees rushed towards him.
Zhang Wei was really startled when he found these brutal mantis bees rushing towards him, and now he was on the body of this huge fat flower tree. Although he had only climbed to the first branch of the giant fat flower tree, it was estimated that it was not even one-twentieth of his body height for a fat flower tree. But it was still too high for Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei looked down at the height of forty or fifty meters, which made people feel a little dizzy. Thinking about falling from this height would make me even more dizzy.
In desperation, Zhang Wei could only quickly climb down, but now his situation is in line with the old saying 'It's easy to go up the mountain, but it's hard to go down'.
It was obvious that Zhang Wei's speed of descending from the tree was far less than the speed of the brutal mantis bees, and it didn't take long for a fierce attack to launch towards Zhang Wei.
This attack is the same as the previous procedure, first with a corrosive venom attack, followed by a close-range cut bite.
It's just that this time is obviously different from the previous ones, and there are more than a dozen big circles in the team of the brutal mantis bees attacked, and these big and large brutal mantis bees are the brutal mantis bees that have evolved from a batch of larvae that have just emerged in the past two days.
These evolved brutal mantinets have harder shells and sharper scythe forelimbs, and their bodies are black-green and glowing like emeralds. Although the corrosive venom of these bugs is not enhanced, these bugs are almost twice as capable of biting and cutting as ordinary brutal mantises. And these ferocious mantis wasps are more aggressive and more accustomed to flying at night.
The brutal mantis bees are constantly developing in a stronger direction in order to be able to better rule and protect their territory.
Zhang Wei wasn't too worried about the attacks of these brutal mantis bees at first, he was most worried that the venom spewed by these brutal mantis bees would make him slip when climbing the giant tree.
But when these brutal mantis bees actually launched a close cut and bite, he panicked, because he clearly felt that some of the brutal mantis bees were able to cut small wounds on his body. Although the damage caused by these wounds is not very large, and because of the large amount of wood elemental energy in his body, these wounds will heal quickly when they are cut out. But being able to inflict direct damage on him still made him a little panicked.
You must know that Zhang Wei is now climbing on the tree and can't make any counterattacks at all, and in such a situation, he is like a fish on the board, so he can only let them attack.
Therefore, even a very small amount of damage was likely to grind him to death under the continuous attack, so Zhang Wei no longer stood motionless and let them attack him. He began to quickly descend the tree under the attack of the brutal mantises.
It's just that at this time, Zhang Wei, who has corroded slime all over his body and hands, will feel unusually sticky and slippery when he gets off the tree, and the giant tree that has just been washed by the rain is already very wet. When Zhang Wei was halfway down, tragedy happened, he slipped directly from a height of more than ten or twenty meters and fell under the tree.
Zhang Wei, who accidentally slipped on his hand, fell straight under the tree, but fortunately, the wolf tooth hammer was not released in Zhang Wei's hand. He hurriedly grabbed the wolf tooth hammer with both hands, and smashed the tip of the beast bone wolf tooth hammer towards the giant tree.
Zhang Wei was lucky, four or five meters from the ground, the beast bone wolf tooth hammer was fiercely inserted into the body of the giant tree, and Zhang Wei was suspended in the air.
Looking down at the ground, which was already very close to him, Zhang Wei moved his hands towards the end of the wolf's tooth hammer little by little. The wolf's tooth hammer of the lever principle first tilted towards the ground and then fell off the giant tree, while Zhang Wei landed firmly on the ground.
After landing on the ground, Zhang Wei ran away, and the brutal mantis bees at this moment had already chased after him.
Zhang Wei was pursued by these brutal mantis bees for a long time and finally came to the edge of the giant tree's canopy, and when Zhang Wei rushed out of the canopy's enveloped range, the other brutal mantis bees returned to their nests one after another. But the dozen or so brutal mantis bees didn't seem to be particularly afraid of the dark, and chased Zhang Wei for two or three hundred meters before returning to the nest one by one.
The panting Zhang Wei stopped when he found that the last brutal mantis bee had also returned, and he panted and turned to look at the figure that had returned to the nest. Zhang Wei felt a little funny and excited.