Chapter 806 Mutated Echidna
"Revenge for the tomb-bearing birds, vent your anger, is this reason sufficient?"
Gao Fei smiled lazily at Xiao Ma.
"Don't just think about how nature is. Nature is 4.5 billion years old. What big scenes has it not experienced? There is no need for us ants to be self-indulgent."
"In issues that do not involve the bottom line of being a human being, instead of following the mainstream moral standards against my will and waving flags and shouting, I would rather do what I want and just ask for a thought to be understood."
Ma Yun was stunned for a moment, and her eyes became a little confused.
"Although Gao Fei's attitude is not politically correct, I like it."
Jiang Feng smiled and waved his hand to blast out a "Yangyan Palm", which instantly evaporated a large area of ants.
At the same time, Wang Daqing also smashed the electric baton on the ground. Few ants were directly electrocuted, but the thunder that broke out afterwards killed all the ants within 20 feet around.
Tang Ning seemed to be touched by Gao Fei's words. She looked at him deeply and then unbuttoned her shirt.
"Sister Tang, are you going to take action too?" Ma Yun asked in surprise.
Tang Ning's exclusive profession is "String of Nature", similar to Druid. She is an environmentalist who takes it as her responsibility to maintain ecological balance. Why does she also want to eliminate the ant colony?
Tang Ning handed her coat to Ma Yun and said calmly: "I respect the laws of nature, but I also hate ants."
As soon as she finished speaking, her body decomposed into countless birds of paradise, which flew towards the bird's nest like a colorful cloud and pecked at the ants.
Qi Tian lacked group attack methods, and his big mantis did not have any tricks suitable for dealing with ant colonies, so he could only watch the fun from the side.
"We didn't see half of the ant nest along the way. How could there be a large group of ants nearby?"
Qi Tian looked around and muttered to himself in confusion.
"Xiaotian, that's a group of marching ants. There is a shovel ant nest!"
Ma Tao laughed and scolded while holding a cigarette in his mouth.
"Ah? Don't army ants build nests?"
Not only Qi Tian was surprised, Gao Fei also heard about it for the first time, so he quickly opened his phone to Google it.
Just as Ma Tao said, army ants don't have the habit of building nests. They are like a group of ferocious bandits. They eat everything they can eat wherever they pass by. Occasionally, they will seize the nests of other creatures and temporarily station there to avoid the wind and rain.
At this time, there was a rustling sound in the bushes, as if something was peeking out.
Gao Fei turned his head to look at the place where the abnormal movement came from. The shadow covered by the branches and leaves looked like a wild boar.
The mutant mantis next to Qi Tian was very vigilant. It immediately raised its catching feet and squeaked at the bushes to remind its owner to be careful.
Ma Tao raised a finger and hushed, signaling his companions not to disturb the guy hiding in the dark.
The unknown beast in the bushes hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't resist the temptation and bravely climbed out.
This guy is as strong as a wild boar, with a gray-white head, brown fur, and a back covered with thorns of varying lengths.
The strangest thing is its mouth, which looks like a curved tube.
"What is this thing? It looks so strange!" Qi Tian was full of suspicion.
"It looks a bit like a hedgehog..." Ma Tao guessed.
"How can there be such a big hedgehog!" Ma Yun shook her head repeatedly.
"Or it could be a porcupine."
"The mouth of a porcupine is not like this." Gao Fei whispered.
The strange animal with thorns all over its body seemed to see that Gao Fei and others had no intention of hurting itself. It trotted past them, approached the nest of the tomb bird, and spit out a thin tongue from its tubular snout, and skillfully preyed on the marching ants.
The tongue of this monster was covered with mucus. It swept a circle in the grass and was covered with dense marching ants. It retracted into its mouth and chewed slowly. It was so delicious!
Gao Fei saw this scene and realized why its mouth looked like this. It turned out to be an animal similar to an anteater, with a slender tubular mouth, which is conducive to exploring ant nests in depth.
Gao Fei raised his mobile phone to take a photo of it, and used the image search function to find the corresponding species. The most reasonable answer seems to be an animal called echidna.
Echidna looks like a hedgehog, but it is actually far away from hedgehogs in terms of kinship. It is a close relative of the platypus, a more primitive mammal.
The thorns on the hedgehog are solid, firmly growing on the body, without barbs, and cannot be fired to hurt people.
The thorns on the echidna are hollow and have barbs. It is said that they can be fired like arrows. After a period of time, new thorns will grow at the place where they fall off.
Irian Island happens to be one of the main habitats of echidnas, so this one is also correct.
However, the problem is that the echidna is about the same size as a hedgehog, but the one in front of him is like a wild boar, which is really ridiculous!
After a little thought, Gao Fei could only come up with a logical guess.
The echidna in front of him was probably a new species that was infected by magic and mutated.
He opened the star disk to investigate, and the result gave him a small surprise.
In the database of the Heavenly Palace, ordinary echidnas can be found, but this large mutant species has not yet been included.
"Xiaotian, that is a mutant echidna. Are you interested in taming it as a second natural partner?" Gao Fei asked Qi Tian.
"Okay, I'll try!" Qi Tian rubbed his hands excitedly.
"Be careful of the echidna's thorns. It is said that it can be fired like a crossbow arrow to stab people." Ma Tao reminded.
"Brother Xiaotian, go ahead boldly! I'll cover you!"
Like Doraemon, Ma Yun found a simple tower shield made of thick wood from the star disk and cast a spell to activate it.
The activated tower shield floated into the air, and under Ma Yun's mental control, it floated towards the mutant echidna with Qi Tian.
The mutant echidna, which was busy devouring the army ants, remained highly alert. When it found Qi Tian approaching, it immediately roared "Yo Yo", which was full of warning.
"Hey, big fur ball, don't be so fierce! I just want to get to know you and make friends."
Qi Tian's playful smile looked like a hooligan who stopped a beautiful girl on the street to ask for WeChat.
With the professional ability of the animal trainer "Wild Identity" and the perception attribute of up to 20 points, Qi Tian could always easily tame wild animals in the past, but today was a bit unexpected.
The mutant echidna didn't buy his tricks. It turned its back to Qi Tian, raised its thorny butt, and shot four thorns at him in one breath with a sharp sound of breaking wind!
Fortunately, Ma Yun reacted quickly and controlled the floating tower shield to block Qi Tian in time. All four spikes were blocked by the shield.
The two-foot-long spikes were nailed on the one-inch-thick shield and penetrated it, revealing a little sharpness!
Such strong penetrating power!
Gao Fei watched from the side and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
The spikes shot by the mutant echidna may not be as powerful as rifle bullets, but at least they are not inferior to strong bows and crossbows.
