Judging from the monster illustrations included in the astrolabe, the giant ant lion lives up to its name and is an enlarged version of the real-world "ant lion" insect (antlion larvae).
This monster is visually estimated to be three meters long and two meters wide. It looks like a giant beetle with a flat belly. It has yellow cilia covered with sand on its surface, forming a natural camouflage. It lies motionless in the depths of the pit. Without the help of an astrolabe, it would
It's difficult to distinguish it from its surroundings.
The most visually striking organ on the giant antlion is the pair of huge pincer-like upper jaws extending from the top of its head!
There are sharp serrations on the inside of the upper jaw, which can be used as a tool for digging sand and creating pits, or as a weapon, which can easily cut off an adult's thigh.
This giant insect always pursues the principle of waiting for prey. Only when the prey mistakenly steps into a pit and is bound by quicksand, they will move on the wind, drag the prey into the bottom of the pit, strangle it, have a delicious meal, or use the dry sand to dry the prey carcass.
, set aside as food reserves.
Unless absolutely necessary, the giant ant lion will never leave the pit where it lives, which poses a problem for the rescue team:
If you want to destroy the giant ant lion, you must actively enter the pit and lure the monster out to fight.
However, once you step into the pit, you will be trapped by the quicksand. Let alone hunting the giant ant lion, you may not even be able to protect yourself.
Is there a way to make people move freely in quicksand as if they were walking on flat ground?
Many ideas flashed through Gao Fei's mind, but unfortunately they were all unrealistic.
"Gao Fei, I suddenly realized something, we have been fooled!"
Jiang Feng sent a private message through the horoscope, and his tone could not hide his anger.
"The thing is obvious. To deal with monsters like giant ant lions that are good at sneaking and preying in quicksand, we must rely on sandworms with the same ability to burrow in the sand!"
"In other words, after General Rodriguez received the distress letter, he should have sent the Sandworm Cavalry Regiment to support him. However, the old fox did not do that and asked us to ride camels to rescue people. This is not a clear trap.
people!"
"You think this is the leader deliberately giving you problems, but from the perspective of the leader, this is training you, little comrade!" Gao Fei smiled and took pleasure in the hardship, "I'll give you a chance, if you don't succeed,
Don’t blame your boss for not promoting you in the future.”
"Bah! This kind of leader is the most annoying!" Jiang Feng said angrily.
Complaints are complaints. You can't just retreat to Iron Fist Castle in such a dejected manner. There are no conditions, and difficulties must be solved by creating conditions.
Gao Fei thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea struck him and he came up with a good idea.
"My Berserker has the 'taunt' skill. With this skill, I can pull the giant ant lions out of the quicksand pit, forcing them to chase me and bite me. Once on solid ground, this monster is no longer scary. Brothers swarmed up to me.
, just hack him to death with random knives and that’s it!”
"Well... you can try it, but I'm worried that taunting won't work on the giant ant lion." Jiang Feng asked Gao Fei, "Isn't this skill of taunting the 'scold formation' and 'provoking method' often mentioned in storytelling? It's very effective on humans."
Maybe it works, but for big bugs like giant ant lions, even if you call them ancestors, they won't understand. Can you really anger them?"
"Taunting is a supernatural ability similar to magic. You cannot apply the rationality in reality in a fantasy world. To say the least, any creature with a certain level of intelligence can be irritated by hostile body language, such as you
Bare your teeth at a big wolfdog and see if it bites you!"
Gao Fei smiled and then said to her: "In several previous adventures, I successfully taunted the ferocious hyena and winter wolf. The giant ant lion is a magical beast after all, and its intelligence attributes are similar to those of wolf dogs. Taunting should be effective on them.
of."
Jiang Feng accepted his point of view, but was still a little worried.
"What is the maximum distance for taunting?"
"About ten meters."
"The quicksand pit created by the giant ant lion has a radius of 10 meters, which means you have to stand on the edge of the pit to activate the taunt. If you are not careful, you will slip into the quicksand. This is too dangerous."
Jiang Feng bit his lip and thought for a while, then said to him: "Before you go to pull the monster, remember to tie a strong rope around your waist, and tie the other end of the rope to the camel. In case you fall in the sand pit,
I will whip the camel and drag you out of the pit as quickly as possible."
"This is a good idea, just do as you say!"
Basaka carried a cable with him, tightly wrapped around his waist, and the other end was connected to the strongest camel in the army.
After being prepared, Gao Fei raised his battle ax and, under the nervous gaze of Jiang Feng and others, walked lightly toward the camp.
Not far away, Gao Fei noticed that the sand under his feet showed a slight color difference. This was caused by the different refractive index of quicksand and hard sand under the light.
Gao Fei used his tomahawk to explore the path and poked the ground in front of him. It was indeed very soft.
He took two steps back, picked up a stone on the spot, rounded his arms, and threw it into the quicksand pit.
boom!
The stone fell in the center of the quicksand, creating a large crater, and the stirred up sand and dust slowly dispersed in the air.
The giant ant lion lurking at the bottom of the pit is born with a high degree of myopia. It mainly relies on the cilia on its body surface to sense the tremors coming from the surroundings, and then determine the location of its prey.
The stone thrown by Gao Fei successfully aroused the giant ant lion's alert, and it quickly crawled out, with its upper body exposed on the sand, waving its pincer-like jaws, eager to try.
When he got closer and took a closer look, he found that the thing causing the shock was just a stone, which made him scream in anger.
Gao Fei seized the opportunity to activate "taunt", imitating the giant ant lion's squeaking and screaming. He didn't know what it meant, anyway, as long as it can make the other party angry.
The giant ant lion's will attribute is not high, and it is easily angered by Goofy. Its six long legs quickly paddled in the quicksand, and it raised its jaws to charge at the guy who provoked it.
Gao Fei took a few steps back and continued to challenge the giant ant lion.
The giant ant lion climbed to the edge of the pit and stopped. It instinctively realized that leaving the pit would put it in a disadvantageous situation. However, after a slight hesitation, it finally couldn't restrain its anger and chased out desperately.
Gao Fei retreated and paused until he lured the giant ant lion away from the pit of quicksand before he stopped. He held up his battle ax with a grin, rushed forward and struck the giant ant lion head with the ax, causing its chitinous carapace to shatter on the spot.
, hemolymph splashed out.
Jiang Feng and her group of soldiers were not idle either. They showed their weapons and stepped forward to attack. They struck with a loud bang and killed the giant ant lion in the blink of an eye.
After winning the first battle, Gao Fei's confidence greatly increased.
Next, he took the medicine according to the prescription and ridiculed the monsters.
He also successfully pulled the second giant ant lion out of the trap, but this one was more alert than the one before. It stopped after a short distance away from the trap, hesitantly, as if it wanted to turn around and retreat into the quicksand.
Goofy didn't want to watch the cooked duck fly away, so he rushed forward and stamped his feet to activate "Earth Shock"!
With a bang, the ground shook and sand flew!
The giant ant lion was caught off guard and was bounced more than two meters high by the shock wave coming from the surface. Then it fell to the sand and fell on its back.
