Chapter 9 rainstorm
Sistem has encountered ants many times when he came to this world. Every time he saw the ants, the species was different, black, dark red, dark brown, no matter the color and size.
Obviously these different populations of ants breed very well in this forest.
Encountered ants running away embarrassingly several times, which made Systrom feel resentful, and he wished to retaliate against these ants immediately.
But after calming down, Sith knew it was difficult.
Even if he grows into a big grasshopper in the future, it will be difficult for him to defeat the ant colony head-on. Moreover, there are too many types of ants in the forest. Even if he retaliates, he cannot find a target for revenge.
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After jumping continuously, Systrom returned to the tree with many butterfly pupae.
Several hours later, the unlucky corpse on the path of the flame has probably been searched for by creatures such as ants, and Systrom did not waste time continuing to search for such corpses.
For Sisterm, the most stable food source is still these chrysalis which are enough for him to eat for more than ten days.
As long as he finds a way to destroy the chrysalis, he will not have to worry about finding meat for the next ten days. He can also safely undergo the second metamorphosis to become an adult grasshopper, even relying on these pupae to complete the third metamorphosis. impossible.
Sisterm waved his chelating teeth and aimed them at the silk thread that fixed the pupa to the bark, and soon a pupa fell from the bark.
Sistem obviously didn’t expect the fallen chrysalis to be broken, he just tested whether he could get them to the ground.
The outer shell of the chrysalis is even tougher than the strongest head exoskeleton of the katydid corpse. After the upgrade of Systrom, there is still no way to break the chrysalis.
But Systrom didn’t think of anything. He thought of a very damaging method.
Relying on this method, these chrysalis will not be much worse without annihilation of the entire army.
The method that Systrom thought of was to bury these fallen worm pupae in the soil with dead branches and broken leaves.
is like a seed buried in the soil.
Plant a pupa in spring, and harvest a butterfly or moth in autumn.
Sistem’s thoughts seem naive and stupid, and also very ridiculous.
But it is very deadly to these butterflies. Butterflies that emerge from the pupa will be very fragile in the first few minutes. The consequences of their unstretched wings encountering soil and dead leaves can be imagined.
Nearly 90% of the time, after their pupa emerges, their wings will become deformed due to the attachment of soil and broken leaves, thus completely losing the possibility of continuing to survive.
However, this method of damaging is obviously detrimental to others, burying these pupae will obviously waste a lot of Sistem’s time, and waiting for the pupae to hatch also brings the problem back to the original point.
Could these butterflies emerge from their cocoons in a few months, and he will have to wait a few months?
After trying to attack the chrysalis several times with the wood thorns they found, the sun went down again.
Sisterm jumped back to the lair he found when he was degenerating.
As the night approached, Sisterm saw another insect hunter-a bat flying fast in the dense forest.
These sudden appearances of bats made Systrom decisively give up his plan to forage at night. Although he has [Dark Vision] and [Information Reading] to assist him, his vision is much more limited than during the day, and his A lot of mental power has been consumed, and [Information Reading] cannot be used for too long.
In the face of a dark night full of dangers, it is not a wise choice to go out for food.
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It has been a few days since he became a grasshopper, and Systrom has become more and more familiar with the control of the body. He put his body into a dormant state with great ease, and his spirit quickly entered half asleep and half awake. status.
Today’s night was a bit unusually hot and sultry. Sisterm, who went to sleep in the first half of the night, was awakened three or four times because of the sultry heat.
After waking up, his abdomen accelerated his breathing several times before his body returned to normal.
Sistem’s tentacles felt a moist and sultry breath in the air.
“Low air pressure and sultry heat, is it rainstorm coming?”
As Sisterm guessed, it didn’t take long for the sporadic raindrops to fall, and then the raindrops fell faster, and the sultry weather quickly became gloomy and cold.
Sistem’s shelter was washed away by heavy rain, and the dead leaves swayed constantly with the impact of the rain. Fortunately, the wind was not strong in the rainy night, and the dead leaves stuck in the cracks in the bark were also very reliable. Tem’s lair is not in danger of collapse.
Feeling the dead leaves on top of his head, Sisterm gradually calmed down, and he soon entered a dormant state again.
However, as time passed, Systrom’s insect head gradually showed a solemn expression.
The faint light came through the gap between the dead leaves and the branches. It was dawn, but the heavy rain showed no signs of stopping…
Although he did not face the heavy rain directly, the splashing rain water still moistened Sistem’s body under the dead leaves. In the still violent rainstorm, Sistem heard the sound of running water below.
The violent rainstorm gathered into a flowing stream. Although I didn’t see it with my own eyes, Systrom, hiding in the dead leaves, could imagine the rainwater gathering outside.
He was very fortunate that he didn’t hide under the dead leaves on the ground like the first night he awoke. If he did that, he would be washed away by the rain in all likelihood, and he would have no choice but to die.
In the second day after the rainy night, the torrential rain continued without stopping, but there were signs of fading.
But in the nearby evening, the torrential rain became heavier again, as if making a joke for Systrom who was hiding under the dead leaves.
As time went on, UU reading www.uukanshu.com removed the sound of rain washing the branches and leaves of the trees. Sisterm could no longer hear the sound of rain hitting the ground. He could only hear the sound of rain hitting the trees. Continuous dripping sound.
The tree where Sisterm is located should have become a small lake-like existence, and the sound of the rushing water before has completely disappeared.
The strong rainstorm usually lasts for a short period of time, usually over a few hours, but the rainstorm in the forest where Sisterm is located lasted for three days and there is no sign of abating.
On the third day of the torrential rain, Systrom’s abdomen was already extremely hungry, and because of the continuous rain and the temperature dropped, Systrom felt his body became very stiff.
Sistem can only be forced to move his body appropriately, so as not to cause the blood in his body to coagulate due to the low temperature, which may cause necrosis and disability.
But moving the body will make Systrom’s abdomen more hungry, and in order to relieve the hunger, Systrom has to keep his body still and reduce his physical consumption…
The cold brought by the rain and the inability to go out for food undoubtedly plunged Systrom into an unimaginable vicious circle.
The hunger in his abdomen drove Systrom to use his claws to bite the bark that had been soaked in rain water, but this was useless. Even if the bark was soaked in rain, his claws could not handle it.
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On the fourth day of the heavy rain, Systrom, hiding under the dead leaves, finally made the decision to take the rain to find food.
He may still be able to hold on for another day or two, but by then his physical stamina can no longer support him to go outside to find food, so he can only passively wait in the dead leaves for the rain to end.
Sisterm is not going to give his life to heaven to decide…