Chapter 264 (1/2)
These toads are big and small. The biggest one is more than three meters high. They are like a bear and the smallest one is as big as a calf. They are fat, with lumps on their backs and wet swamp mud all over their bodies.
In the dark night, they squat in the reeds, motionless, like a crouching stone lion.
Every time an insect passes through them, its tongue will spring out of its mouth like a spring, and roll the insect into its mouth with great precision. The movement was so swift that the naked eye could not catch the whole movement, only the virtual shadow of the tongue moving. No insect could escape their attack.
”Quack! Quack - ”
these giant toads squatting in the reeds gave a loud cry occasionally.
The four of Ye Xi continued to lurk. Now there are too many big toads. It's dangerous to act rashly. They have to wait for the toads to disperse.
Originally, they would start to drive away the insects around, but now they are basically still. Because these toads mainly capture moving creatures, if they move, they will be attacked.
At this time, ye Xi found that the soil under his feet was loose. After a while, insects the size of many coins, emitting green light, came out of the ground.
As soon as they came out, they flapped their wings and flew into the air.
A little fluorescence rose from the reeds.
These insects are very fast and flexible, flying through the air.
But even so, they did not escape the attack of the toads. The tongue that could only see the shadow was constantly ejecting out. These luminous flying insects were rapidly decreasing at the speed visible to the naked eye.
Ye Xi saw a flying insect flying over the swamp. At this time, a long tongue was immediately ejected from the calm swamp with a sound.
The flying insect couldn't even struggle and was drawn into the swamp.
”Quack
A large toad with only a full stomach around occasionally let out a satisfied high pitched frog call.
The great toad in the endless swamp is one of the most adapted species to the environment here. It hunts at an amazing speed and secretes venom. Other creatures here are not enemies at all. Therefore, it is breeding more and more, occupying almost the whole swamp.
The four were very patient. As time went on, there were fewer and fewer insects in the reed field. Some big toads hopped to the distance to hunt for food.
The most experienced stone Eagle took aim at a single toad not far away. He waved to Ye Xi and them. The four men crept slowly towards it in the reeds.
This toad is not small, more than one person high, and its back is covered with terrifying bumps the size of a bowl. This is not a decoration to frighten the enemy. It can spray poison. The skin of the prey sprayed by the venom will itch extremely, and then it will immediately grow a fire blister. If the body is poor, it may be allergic to death on the spot.
It also has a pair of biggest pimples, located above the tympanic membrane on the head side. The venom can be sprayed more than ten meters away, so it can not be too close to it.
Stone eagle in 20 meters away from it made a gesture, motioning people to stop.
High in the reeds, four men squatted there, alert to the surrounding movement.
The stone Eagle gently takes out the bait prepared in advance.
He tied the ten thunderstones tightly together with thin vines. After two days, the electric light in the thunder stones was quite dim, but the effect should be enough if the ten stones were tied together.
In fact, adding some insect poison and so on will be more safe, but they still want to eat toad, and they will eventually poison themselves with poison bait.
The stone Eagle picked up the thunder stone ball, and then threw it at the big toad with lightning speed!
The glistening thunder stone ball flies in mid air, and at first glance looks like a magnified version of that glowing insect. The big toad's bulging eyes rolled.
Whew!
A ten meter long tongue sprang out, rolled up the thunderstone ball at a speed that could not be caught by the naked eye, and then took it to the mouth like a spring.
The time taken for the whole action may not add up to more than a tenth of a second.
Ye Xi thought to himself that such a terrifying predator, fortunately, only lives in the endless swamp. If you put other predators outside, they would not be their opponents, and the rhythm would be destroyed every minute.