lizard lord

Chapter 9 Decoy
This centipede's carapace is dark red, with dozens of pairs of sharp long legs, the most conspicuous is the exaggeratedly large chelicerae, which seem to have strong penetrating power.

The body length is astonishing. At first glance, it is almost the same as Tang Zhao's body length. It may be equal to the prehistoric giant arthropods such as ancient Malu or Yekel horseshoe crab.

At first, Tang Zhao thought it was holding some kind of food, but when he took a closer look, he found that what it was holding was actually a small ball made up of a large group of small centipedes.

These little centipedes are still larvae, their carapaces have not yet grown, and they are all milky white.

Tang Zhao's luck was not bad, he just met a centipede that was laying eggs, they are one of the few arthropods that can take care of their offspring.

The larvae do not have the ability to survive in the wild. Under normal circumstances, the centipede mother will take care of them closely until they can basically survive.

It takes more than a month for the eggs to hatch, and it takes a long time to raise the young centipedes.

Seeing Tang Zhao approaching, the centipede stood up and made a deterrent gesture.

At this time, its lower body was still tightly wrapped around the little centipede, and it seemed that it was not ready to let go.

If this centipede met Tang Zhao when he was in good condition, there might be a fierce battle between the two sides, but not now.

The opponent wanted to protect the little centipede, so the lower body was fixed and could not move. At the same time, after a long period of incubation and nursing, the centipede was actually very weak, and it was not Tang Zhao's opponent at all.

In fact, there are situations in nature where the female centipede feeds the young centipede after she dies. The current Tang Zhao picked up a centipede that was in poor condition.

It's just that this omission is a bit of a psychological burden on him.

Although arthropods do not have much wisdom, and the way of raising children is only the result of natural selection, but from the perspective of humans in Tang Dynasty, what this centipede does can almost be called great maternal love
If he was still a human, he would just walk away silently when he saw a centipede laying eggs, but now he is a lizard, a predator desperate for food.

In the heart of heaven and man fighting for a few seconds, Tang Zhao finally opened his claws and walked in the direction of the centipede.

The hunting process went smoothly. Tang Zhao, who flew onto the centipede, immediately controlled the pair of claws of the centipede, pressed its head to the ground, and then divided its thick armor with claws and teeth.

After removing the carapace around his neck, Tang Zhao began the usual attack process—beheading, removing the chelicerae, taking out the blood core and swallowing it.

Looking at the group of little centipedes that were crawling under him again, Tang Zhao sighed in his heart, and finally began to speak.

Not to mention that the team of the third queen's caller is coming soon, and it is not mentioned that keeping the other party is a hidden danger for future generations. These are still small centipedes of larvae, and they cannot survive without protection.

Instead of softening your heart and gaining self-satisfaction, making full use of resources is the key.

He has done a lot of things like stealing bird eggs and eating bug eggs before.

In his opinion, making full use of every resource on the prey is a kind of respect and appreciation for life.

After eating all these centipedes, Tang Zhao dragged the body of the giant centipede into the cave with some difficulty.

It was already noon after arriving, and after two huntings, it was now dusk.

Like other large reptiles, he does not plan to go hunting at night, as the temperature is too low to affect physical activity.

After he plugged the hole, he began to eat in it.

It's also a time-consuming job, taking a long time for both animals combined.

Even if his digestion ability is much stronger than that of ordinary lizards, he can't eat it anytime he wants, and he's not a garbage disposal station.

After eating, Tang Zhao took the time to rest.

After waking up the next day, Tang Zhao ate another big meal before he dragged his heavy body to the stream to bask in the sun.

The time to digest food is just to heat up the body without delaying things.

After warming his body, he began to prepare for hunting again.

I found a carnivorous katydid, but the opponent was not big in size, and it was rare that it was not poisonous, so Tang Zhao dealt with it relatively easily.

Seeing no more suitable insects, Tang Zhao turned to traps and waited for the rabbit.

The remaining half of the katydid was a good bait. Tang Zhao found an open space, put the insect corpses there, and then started to ambush on the spot.

It's okay to move to another place now, but the insect meat he hoarded can only be discarded.

He couldn't take hundreds of kilograms of meat with him, and he couldn't bear to lose things, so he had to stay where he was for a while.

With the current strategy, he is more suitable for living a nomadic life.

Immediately migrate after eating a place, go to another place to find food and resources.

This method is much faster than sitting on a tree and waiting for a rabbit, and the active predatory strategy can bring him more opportunities to prey.

Relying on the bait, it was very easy to catch a carnivorous beetle. Before Tang Zhao could peel off the blood core, he encountered another unexpected guest.

(End of this chapter)