Laws of the Insect Hive

Similar to System's estimated time, when the sun went down, he successfully sucked off two pupae and began to return to his dead leaf lair.

Due to the growth in size, the original very spacious Dead Leaves Nest has become a little narrow at this time, and it is estimated that this nest will not be able to accommodate him after two levels.

System, who returned to the lair, did not give up foraging at night, but took a short rest.

When the food in System's abdomen has basically been digested, and his body is more flexible and reaches its peak state, he will go on the first hunting action of the night.

After five days of heavy rain and natural disasters, the creatures in the forest that System could hunt were very scarce.

Most of the insects System could find after the heavy rain were cicadas that liked to chirping, but he was not sure that they would be able to hunt them down, because these cicadas would fly away if they found the slightest danger.

Moreover, the activities of these cicadas are very irregular. Although they are often chirping, it is difficult for System to find them if they really want to find them.

In fact, there are prey that move very regularly and are easy to find. Another kind of activity is very regular, and System can be sure that the prey is two spiders.

One is dark brown 6 cm in size, and the other is slightly smaller 3 cm covered with yellow and white patterns.

After the rainstorm, the two spiders have rewoven their webs, staying in the center of the web at night and resting in temporary nests at the corners of the web during the day.

But to System, these two spiders were not so much prey as hunters. System felt that if he challenged these two spiders, 80% of them would kill themselves, and they were directly killed by the spiders' fangs.

After some deliberation and choice, System finally chose the target, which was the chirping cricket. Crickets were also insects with fixed nests.

The location of this cricket's nest, System had already explored two days ago, was a narrow tree hole.

It is precisely because of this tree hole that the cricket escaped the natural disaster brought by the heavy rain.

Two days ago, he was just a grasshopper larva, and he had no obvious advantage over the aggressive male cricket, which was 3 cm in size. Period did not shoot this cricket.

Now that he has turned into an adult grasshopper, System's strength has grown stronger, and it is obviously not a problem to deal with that cricket.

However, after molting, System's body has grown a lot bigger, and he can no longer burrow into the cricket's tree hole, so he can only wait for the cricket to burrow out of the tree hole at night to make an ambush.

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The food in the stomach was digested, and the sky was completely dark.

Ready for everything, System jumped a few times and came to a branch of the branches near the cricket tree hole.

This cricket's tree hole was actually very close to System's nest, only five or six meters away.

[Green Camouflage] Activate!

The patterns and colors of System's body slowly changed to the colors and patterns of tree leaves.

Due to the limitation of this derivative ability, System can only change to a color similar to green, and his body shape is out of proportion to this branch, which can be said to be very flawed.

But if he chose a branch farther away, System was not sure about the cricket's attack, and he could only hope that the arrival of night would prevent the cricket from noticing him.

He went into hibernation without moving, waiting for the cricket to go out and chirper every night at eight or nine o'clock.

At this moment, System was like a poisonous snake waiting for its prey to be hooked, quietly waiting for the cricket to appear.

Snakes are one of the best hidden hunters in nature. When food is scarce, they will not even eat or drink to wait for their prey for several days.

It can be said that reptiles like snakes and some insects have brought the idiom to the extreme.

Whether it is reptile snakes and crocodiles, or most arthropod mantises and katydids, their hunting methods are to wait for the rabbits, stay in one place, and then wait for the prey to enter the attack range, and then suddenly deliver a fatal blow.

Compared with these low-intelligence hunters, although System is still standing by, but his purpose is clearer and more efficient.

He knew exactly when and where his prey appeared.

As System had expected, when the pale yellow moon was a little more than 45 degrees from the ground, the cricket climbed out of the tree hole on time and jumped onto the branches beside the tree hole.

The mate-seeking male cricket apparently didn't find the System hidden diagonally above it, and began to chirping as it vibrated its wings on its own branches.

System's strong hind limbs began to charge up, and the muscles of his wings were ready to go, and he kept simulating in his mind the hunting action after rushing over.

With a breeze blowing gently, System suddenly hit the male cricket, and his wings made a roaring sound, which further increased System's speed.

Between lightning and flint, System's hunt failed...

Compared to those senior hunters who were low in intelligence and would simply sit back and wait, System’s hunting skills were too immature.

The first half of System's ambush was perfect, maybe it was replaced by a mantis or a katydid, and he had already succeeded at this point.

But as a green-tailed grasshopper with a generally small stature, there is no hunting instinct in his blood to pass on to him.

System could only make hunting plans according to his own understanding.

His plan was very simple. Basically, he used his four forelegs to control the cricket, and then used his claws to bite off the opponent's head.

There was actually no problem with System's plan, but his movements were really rough, and his luck was not very good.

System’s sudden attack was very fast, and the cricket didn’t react in time, but the two front limbs that System stretched out first only pressed the cricket’s smooth wings.

With the sudden tremor of the cricket's wings, the barbs on System's forelimbs were unable to exert force, and his landing was a little unstable in this attack, and as a result, the cricket escaped from System's arms like a loach... …

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System made a quick decision the moment the cricket broke free from his arms, and immediately got up and moved backwards, blocking the cricket's hole.

There was still a few centimeters of stagnant water on the forest floor at this time, and it was impossible for a cricket to escape to the surface of the water. The only place this cricket could protect itself was in the tree hole.

However, when System quickly blocked the hole, he suddenly found that the cricket disappeared.

Because of the ability of [Information Reading], the outlines of everything within a meter around him shimmered in System's eyes, and there were no ripples on the water surface under the branches of the trees. Obviously, the cricket didn't jump into the water to escape.

Is it hiding behind the leaves?

Recalling the direction in which the cricket escaped from his arms, System stared at the few leaves growing on a branch not far away and fell into contemplation.

The leaves of this tree are similar in size to maple leaves, and the petioles are short, making it easy to hide.

System hesitantly began to move towards the few leaves, but it didn't take long for System's tentacles to detect a slight vibration, and he quickly began to retreat towards the hole.

But it was too late, the cricket had already escaped back to its tree hole.

The cricket's hiding place is actually just below the branch.

Because of the inertia of human thinking, System has forgotten the general ability of insects to hang upside down...