Author: Arion's Dolphins

This centipede has a dark red carapace and dozens of pairs of sharp long legs. The most conspicuous thing is the exaggeratedly large chelicerae, which looks very penetrating.

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 giant prehistoric arthropods such as the ancient millipede or the Yekel horseshoe crab.

Tang Zhao initially thought it was holding some kind of food, but when he looked closer, he discovered that what it was holding was actually a ball made up of a large group of small centipedes.

These little centipedes are still larvae, their carapace has not yet grown, and their bodies are all milky white.

Tang Zhao was quite lucky. He encountered a centipede holding eggs. They are one of the few arthropods that can take care of their own offspring.

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

It takes more than a month for the eggs to hatch, and the time to raise the larval centipedes is also not short.

Seeing Tang Zhao approaching, Centipede stood up and made a threatening 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 it was in good condition, the two sides would probably have a fierce battle, but that is not the case now.

The opponent had to protect the little centipede, and the lower body was fixed and unable to move. At the same time, after a long incubation and care period, the centipede was actually very weak and was no match for Tang Zhao.

In fact, there are cases in nature where the mother centipede dies and supplies its body as nutrients to the young centipedes. 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 for him.

Although arthropods do not have much intelligence, and their parenting methods are only the result of natural selection, from a human perspective, what this centipede does can almost be called great maternal love.

If he were still a human and saw a centipede holding eggs, he would just leave silently, but now he is a lizard, a predator in desperate need of food.

After a few seconds of fighting between heaven and man in his heart, 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 centipede's chelicerae, pushed its head to the ground, and then used his claws to divide its thick armor.

After removing the carapace from its neck, Tang Zhao started the usual attack process - decapitating, removing the chelicerae, taking out the blood core and swallowing it.

Then he looked at the bunch of small centipedes that had gathered under him and were crawling. Tang Zhao sighed in his heart and finally started to bite.

Not to mention that the team of the third princess's callees is about to arrive, nor to mention that keeping them here will create hidden dangers for future generations. These are still small centipedes with larvae, and they cannot survive without protection.

Instead of compromising for self-satisfaction, making full use of resources is the key.

He had done many things like stealing bird eggs and eating insect eggs before.

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

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

It was already noon when we arrived, and after two hunts, it was now dusk.

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

After he blocked the entrance to the cave, he began to eat inside.

This is also a time-consuming task, taking both animals a long time to eat.

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

After eating, Tang Zhao began to seize the time to rest.

When he woke up the next day, Tang Zhao had another delicious meal, and then dragged his somewhat heavy body to the creek to bask in the sun.

The time for digesting food is just right to heat up the body without delaying things.

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

I found a carnivorous katydid, but it was not very big and not very poisonous, so Tang Zhao easily dealt with it.

Since he saw no suitable insects to attack, Tang Zhao turned to traps and waited for them.

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

Now he can move to another place, but the insect meat he has hoarded can only be discarded.

He couldn't carry hundreds of kilograms of meat, and he couldn't bear to throw things away, so he had no choice but to stay where he was for a while.

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

After eating one place, they immediately migrate to another place to look for food and resources.

This method is much faster than sitting around and waiting for the rabbit, and the proactive predatory strategy can bring him more opportunities to prey.

With the help of bait, he finally caught a carnivorous beetle. Before Tang Zhao had time to peel off the blood core, he encountered an uninvited guest again.
Chapter completed!