hunt and eat

Chapter 226 The Cannon Beetle and Its Mobile Ammunition
Two days later

The team set off from Dede Village, and after more than three hours of trekking, they finally arrived at a miniature basin called Shipao Forest.

Except for Weiwei who was still fighting hard at the blacksmith shop, there were three people left in the team, plus Qiao Qiao, all dispatched this time.

"The task this time is to hunt the cannon beetle. Considering that there are a lot of axe beetles entrenched here, for the sake of safety, I suggest to lure the cannon beetle out before hunting."

While loading ammunition into the heavy crossbow, Nia explained to her teammates.

The cannon beetle and the axe beetle are the subspecies of the heavy beetle and the penetrating beetle that Guta and the others encountered in the armored dragon hunting battle.

The relationship between the two is also very similar to that of the original species, but there are obvious differences in the specific cooperation methods.

Instead of using heavy beetles, they use pheromones to manipulate carpenter beetles to act as their fortresses, while the use of cannon beetles is more extreme and ruthless.

Using a tail similar to giant scissors, the cannon beetle will place the male, smaller axe beetle in front of its mouthparts, and use the move called [Beetle Blast Cannon] to release the latter along with the body fluids in its body. Together they turned into terrifying shells and fired at the enemy.

Because the power of this move is too powerful, even ordinary flying dragons dare not easily provoke this grumpy beetle queen.

Of course, while this move [Beetle Blazing Cannon] is powerful, it is also very costly.

That is the ax beetle as a cannonball, the moment the cannonball (that is, itself) hits the target, it will be directly smashed to pieces, without a whole body.

That's why, Nia proposed to lure out the cannon beetle alone.

No one wants to face a mobile tank with ammo on the go.

"Let me seduce. After all, in terms of speed and jumping ability, no one can match me at present." Guta directly recommended himself.

After acquiring [Foot of Lust], his speed has grown terrifyingly, coupled with his powerful strength and impressive defense, the daydream of the hexagonal warrior, which he had never imagined before, seems to be gradually Become reality.

Everyone looked at each other, and there was no objection.

"Be careful, and if possible, don't hurt those ax beetles as much as possible. They are miserable enough." Nia looked at the ax beetles that flew by from time to time in the basin below with some sympathy.

As a beetle-like monster with obvious upper and lower classes, the ax beetle is probably not even a slave to the cannon beetle, at best it is just a handy tool or dry food that it carries with it.

Every time they fight other monsters or hunters, the ax beetle will be consumed by the cannon beetle like a cannonball, so that even a female hunter like Nia feels sympathy for them.

For women who hate bugs most of the time, this is already a very rare thing.

"Okay, then I'll go back." Guta nodded, and then slid down a fork in the basin lightly.

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10 minutes later

Relying on his agility, he managed to avoid the ancient pagoda patrolled by more than a dozen axe beetles in a row, and successfully found the cannon beetle that was comfortably hiding in the shade in a corner of the basin, and seemed to be eating Sharon meat.

It was a strange beetle that was as large as a rat tank and covered with a yellow-brown tough carapace.

The mouthparts are extremely ferocious, and the tail shows a fiery red pincer-like tail, sweeping the ground from time to time, leaving behind a dazzling spark.

"Let me think about how to lure it out." Carefully hiding his figure, Guta swung his head back and forth, observing the surrounding environment.

Compared with other places, the terrain here is obviously higher, perhaps to show its status.

There is no shadow of the ax beetle on the side for the time being, probably because the cannon beetle is in the feeding period, and other ax beetles are afraid of being used as food, so they will not approach here easily.

Strange species relationship... If I were an ax beetle, I would have flown away by myself, who is still a slave here?
Guta cursed in his heart.

However, if the position is so high, it is more convenient to seduce.

Soon, Guta thought of an idea.

Speaking of which, this is more or less borrowed from the two sand lions I met that day.

After finding a position relatively close to the outside of the basin, Guta slowly bent down and lifted a stone about half a person's height from the ground.

Roughly aiming at the position of the cannon beetle, Guta imitated the sand lion's throwing skills and threw the stone out violently.

The boulder drew a graceful arc from the air, and smashed hard on the cannon beetle's head.

Hit the target!

This is not how accurate the ancient tower was thrown. In fact, no one would miss a monster of this size.

The cannon beetle, which was still eating, was bounced violently by this inexplicably flying boulder.

The damage was actually not that great, and more was caused by the fright caused by the sudden attack.

Scanning the surroundings slightly, the cannon beetle quickly locked on to the young hunter in the distance, who did not hide his figure at all.

Putting on the flame-like dragon-slaying suit for the first time, Guta was in a state of excitement, and even put on the full-coverage helmet with great interest.

Coupled with the ferocious design of the joints of the suit, the whole person looks like the villain in the armored warrior.

The mouthparts of the cannon beetle shrank for a while, perhaps because of vigilance, and there was no sign of launching an attack immediately.

"Oh, oh, that's not acceptable." Guta shook his head, and casually picked up another fist-sized stone from the ground.

The next moment, with a "swoosh", the entire stone directly hit the mouthparts of the cannon beetle, causing the latter to take a step back unconsciously because of the pain.

"Now, you should be angry, right?" Guta laughed.

Sure enough, this time, the cannon beetle was finally completely enraged.

It threw down the half-eaten corpse, kicked its limbs on the ground, and rushed towards the ancient tower like a tank moving at high speed.

"That's right!" Guta stepped back unhurriedly, and didn't start running immediately.

At his speed, if he really started to run, he would lose sight of the cannon beetle in a matter of minutes, which would be out of his original plan.

About 30 seconds later, the cannon beetle finally caught up with the ancient tower, and its huge shield-like front claws grabbed it from one side.

With a burst of strength in his legs, Guta nimbly avoided it, and along the way, left a not deep and not shallow scratch on its shield-shaped worm arm with the Taotie Taidao.

"This defense is as thick as a heavy beetle." Although he didn't use all his strength, Guta was still shocked by the defense of the cannon beetle.

As a beetle monster with a low ecological niche, this kind of defense is already terrible, not to mention that according to rumors, this guy's attack power seems to be only stronger.

"In nature, there are really all kinds of monsters."

Faithfully acting as a bait, feeling the ancient tower of the approaching ax beetle, he sped up the pace of escape again.

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(End of this chapter)