Volume 2 Corpse Transformation Witch Chu Chapter 186 The Silent Assassin in the Forest
[Your Excellency, there are three lifeforms in the first hundred meters on the right, one is about the same as Your Combat Strength, and two are twice the combat power of Your Excellency's current physical fitness. γ
Ouyang hadn't gone far before he received a hint from Daiochis, which immediately made him feel 120,000 points of spirit and attention.
Combat power here refers to the combat power of pure physical fitness, and does not count the ability of traps, intelligence, and tools.
After Ouyang received the news, he slowly moved his steps and walked forward in the woods, trying not to make a sound, but fortunately, the ground of the forest was relatively soft, and there was no sound when he stepped on it.
He held the "flesh and bones" in one hand and the bow and crossbow in the other, vigilantly watching everything around him.
As a biochemical pistol, the "Flesh and Bone Connection" will have an extremely loud explosion sound when fired, while the bow and crossbow rarely attract people's attention except for the sound of breaking the wind, so it can be used for assassination with a bow and crossbow.
He didn't go far before Ouyang saw the existence that was about the same as his own combat power.
It was an elk-like animal, with exaggerated and bizarre horns.
This kind of horn doesn't feel like the traditional horn used to contradict each other and butt against each other, it is more like a weird weird helmet that hammers each other.
The head horns take on the appearance of a semi-circular durian helmet, which protects the animal's head, and the helmet horns have various raised thorns on it, which looks very hideous, and no one will question such lethality.
The helmet-horned deer was the height of an average adult man, and its muscular body had clearly visible muscle textures.
Especially when it raised its head, the muscles of its chest, neck, and legs, as if the exposed electronic circuits on its body, bulged one after another, and looked quite hideous.
At this time, it was bowing its head and chewing on the low vegetation on the ground, and the mouth that was not as big as Ouyang's fist pouted and pouted, no matter how it looked, it didn't look like a creature that could attack a soldier silently.
Ouyang switched the bone source bomb to the frost bomb, and did not dare to make much movement, he patiently squatted in the bushes and carefully observed everything around him.
Deochixi's tentacles used light and shadow technology to simply simulate the surrounding environment, making Ouyang look less conspicuous.
But after a long time of stunned observation, the helmeted deer was about to leave, and he still found nothing, nor did he see any trace of any other creature in the jungle.
[Where are the two creatures you said have twice as much combat power as me?, why haven't I seen any of them?] Ouyang asked with telepathy.
In the state of semi-proliferating armament, Ouyang was able to communicate with Daiochisis without interference, and without a trace of energy consumption, it was very convenient.
[Right in front of you, next to the cervid.] Deochisis replied.
In order for Ouyang to "see" the enemies lurking in the forest, Daio Chisis stretched out his tentacles and condensed them on Ouyang's head to form a funny antenna that looked like a twisted flower.
If Ouyang looked in the mirror at this time, he would definitely complain that this shape is too similar to the characters in children's cartoons.
Belch...... In fact, Deochisis is indeed a "cartoon" image, right?
With the help of Deochisis, Ouyang sensed the existence of those two creatures.
One was behind the helmet-horned deer, but in that place, Ouyang only saw a cluster of blue-green plants, and the other was right next to that plant, and there was also a plant that looked exactly the same.
From the foliage, both plants appear to be ferns, with symmetrical double leaves that are characteristic of ferns, and sporangia at the edges of the leaves.
[Is it a predatory plant?]
Ouyang stared at the two clusters of ferns carefully, and after looking at them for a long time, he still didn't find any traces of active life.
There are many types of predatory plants, similar to pitcher plants and Venus flytraps, which are plants that can capture prey.
[It shouldn't be a plant.] Deochisis retorted, "My senses are not so sensitive to the perception of plants. It must be an animal that can be felt from such a distance. γ
This also explains why when encountering that "willow brain", there was no power to fight back against the initial vine whipping.
γAnimal ......γ
Ouyang leaned against the trunk of the tree and moved forward more than ten meters again, carefully observing the two plants within a dangerous distance of ten meters.
Eventually, he found a trace of animal life in this body that looked like a fern.
It was a pair of eyes condensed like some kind of jadeite, with a certain luster in the thin sunlight, and it was this glimmer of luster that made Ouyang sure that this was a pair of animal eyes, not ordinary leaves.
The eyes were well hidden, as green as two leaves in the two "ferns", and the strange eyes didn't even have pupils, just connected to the body and motionless.
It looks like it should be some kind of insect, as only the eyes of insects take on the luster of this gemstone.
If Ouyang hadn't noticed their existence in advance, it is estimated that even if he walked past them face to face, he would not have found that these two small leaf-like things would actually be "eyes".
It will not be discovered that this dead thing like a plant will be an assassin who is extremely well hidden.
And if you walk past them and don't find them, you will inevitably be preyed on.
At that time, no matter what the opponent's combat power is, even if it is much lower than his own, if he is attacked when he is defenseless, he will only have to eat a wave of damage, and then see who is stronger and who is stronger.
In the absence of Daiochisis, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Ouyang to survive the other party's hunt if he encounters these two things alone.
However, now that these two hidden assassins have been discovered, Ouyang has a bottom in his heart.
Seeing that the helmet-horned deer was unconscious, still eating its own food, Ouyang decided to let it try the water first!
"Bang!"
Ouyang's left hand held a crossbow, and from the crossbow shot a crossbow arrow without an arrow, hitting the head of the helmet-horned deer, causing its head to shake slightly and almost fall.
The helmethorn shook its head to sober itself up a bit, and stopped eating because of the fright, but instead of running away, it cautiously observed its surroundings through the gaps in its horns.
Its horns were scarred, left by mutant wolves and tooth-faced boars, and they were either repelled or simply killed.
The rich experience of fighting in the forest knows that the helmet-horned deer must not panic at this time, and cannot run directly.
Because if the hunter dares to hunt you, it means that it has the confidence to outrun you!
"Chirp tweet!"
It hissed as if to intimidate the creature that had attacked it, its hooves rubbing restlessly against the dirt on the ground, constantly stirring the sand, but it did not notice the creature that attacked it.
There were enemies, but they were not found, and this restlessness made the helmethorned deer a little irritable and restless.
Although deer can only see black, white and gray, which is equivalent to color blindness, they are very sensitive to gray, and vertebrate eyesight is not bad and can see many things clearly, but this vision is a little embarrassing at the moment.
It stamped its hooves and prepared to run out of this strange place, unaware that a "plant" behind it had moved.
And it moved so quickly as the wind, so quietly.
One second it was a harmless "dead thing", and the next moment it suddenly became an experienced assassin, wielding the scythe of death that harvested life.
It was like a gust of wind blowing, and the "plant" moved slightly, and saw a flash of green light, and a scythe-like thing rested on the neck of the helmet-horned deer that was still stamping its hooves.
"Ding!"
Although the movement of the "plant" is so fast that it is difficult for the naked eye to catch the helmet-horned deer, it does not have a decisive effect!
Under the seemingly soft fur of the helmethorn deer, there is a layer of calcareous armor!!
The "plant" didn't seem to expect this either, and the scythe just stopped there, without the slightest intention of moving.
"Tweet ββ!"
When the deer spotted the enemy, he immediately shook his head, intending to attack the attacker with his hideous horns.
"Bang!"
After repelling the attackers, the Helmed Deer wanted to continue the pursuit.
"Click!"
There was another crisp sound, and another "plant" also moved, this time from below upwards, waving the "big scythe".
This time, just for a moment, the head and neck of the helmet-horned deer were forever disconnected.
The other "plant" seemed to have a stronger scythe, and in a single moment, the head of the helmet-horned deer was cut off by the monster's scythe-like arm.
No, not just a little stronger, but more subtle.
It first uses the tip of the scythe to break through it, and then after piercing the body of the helmet-horned deer, it makes a cut from the inside, which is naturally easier!
And maybe it was because the speed of being decapitated was too fast, the head of the helmet-horned deer that flew out was not even dead in an instant in the air, and within this second, the helmet-horned deer even made a sound!
"Tweet ββ!"
No living thing but its own kind cares about this unexplained sound.
And after this moment, the action of pouting and making a sound is forever frozen.
With a "poof", a body that was still fresh just now completely lost the breath of life.
Golden opportunity!
Seeing this scene, Ouyang knew that his time had come.
"Whew!"
The crossbow arrow shot quickly, instantly slicing through the distance of less than ten meters, and an arrow was nailed into the monster's body.
Tsk, I cried stupidly by myself!
Because of instinctive reasons, he directly shot the bow and crossbow that he had just used, and after reacting, Ouyang immediately gave up the bow and crossbow, pulled the trigger of the "flesh and bones", and shot another shot at the monster!
"Bang!"
Burst!
The sharp tip of the arrow, accompanied by a powerful kinetic energy, pierced the surface "skin" of the monster's bark, burrowed into its body, and got stuck in half, seemingly causing no damage to the monster.
But this is only a temptation, and the real attack is coming!
Immediately afterward, a bone-derived projectile with a chill struck the link between the monster's scythe arm and body, freezing it into a block of ice.
Then, due to the inertia caused by the strong impact force of the bone source bomb itself, the frozen joints became brittle and broke directly under the destruction of this huge impact force.
"Smack. β
The monster's scythe arm falls directly to the ground.
After receiving such a serious attack, no matter how sluggish he was, he should know that he was attacked, and the monster turned his body to Ouyang's side at the first time, as if he wanted to find out what was attacking him.
The limbs that had originally landed on the ground moved their bodies, and in the state of movement, the incomparably realistic camouflage was directly destroyed, and Ouyang was able to see clearly what these two monsters were.
In terms of appearance, these are two praying mantis-like creatures, although they are not very huge, they stand up, and they are not much different from Ouyang's height, but they look like praying mantis with exceptionally smooth body lines.
Their bodies have distinct head, thorax and abdomen, with six legs on all fours, and two scythe-like forelimbs, which are their predatory feet. Even if he stands up now, he still looks like a sapling.
The praying mantis is a very well-known mimic insect that has mimicked into a wide variety of mantis species.
Mimic flowers, mimic leaves, mimic plant stems and leaves are all routine operations, and there are even mantis mantis that mimic into water droplets, and there is a kind of praying mantis that lives in the desert will mimic into water droplets on the desert to lure small insects that take water, and then hunt them.
The most exaggerated is a kind of mimicry prey, this kind of praying mantis will immediately open its wings when it sees a locust, shake to the sides, its hind wings stand upright, like a sailboat, the upper end of the side body is bent, making the sound of a poisonous snake jet, the weight of the whole body is placed on the back four legs, the body is all erect, standing motionless, and the eyes are staring at the locust.
When the locust moves slightly, the head of the mantis will then turn, and the locust will be frightened by the power created by the mantis, and then slowly lie on the ground, not running away, and even move towards the mantis, when it moves to the reach of the mantis, the mantis pounces, and the locust becomes the dinner in its mouth without resistance.
This way of hunting has a kind of "preemptive capture" and "surrender without a fight" in the art of war.
After all, locusts are not invincible to mantis in size, and even if locusts are really weak and afraid of hard, they don't compete with insects, they love to gnaw plants, and they won't be able to fly.
This kind of predation after being deterred and losing all ability to resist is indeed an extremely sophisticated hunting method.
As a predatory insect, the praying mantis's hunting skills are enough to write a book for people to study.