Suddenly, Gu Chen saw something green clinging to a blade of grass. It looked like a leaf, a foot long and deceptively harmless. If he hadn't been looking so closely, he would have missed it entirely: a swift mantis, a creature capable of splitting a human skull with a single blow.
Its jagged, sickle-like forelegs were longer than its entire body, gleaming with the dark green sheen of metal, a stark contrast to the rest of its fragile frame.
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