Knowing that the enemy army was attacking again, the protagonist had no choice but to summon the Angel King's army to go out and quickly eliminated today's invading parasitic ant army.
With the experience of the previous day, the early warning this time came in time, and was delivered to the nest just after the enemy troops entered the country.
Most of the ants active in the southern area were effectively evacuated, and apart from a few casualties, they did not suffer much damage.
And the protagonist also has plenty of time to calmly organize the army. This time only soldier ants were recruited, and priority was given to soldier ants that had participated in battles with parasitic ants.
In this way, after all the enemies are eliminated, the loss of the God Envoy King Legion itself will not be great.
The protagonist is very troubled by the parasitic ant army that invaded for two days in a row. He has a bad feeling that he will be harassed by such harassing attacks every day in the future.
He carefully inspected the bodies of the dead parasitic ants. These dead parasitic ants were relatively old, and the thread-parasitic fungi that parasitized on them were fully mature.
According to the memories previously read from the captives, even if these ants did not die in battle, they would not survive for more than a few days in the parasitic ant nest. They would soon die under the influence of the thread-parasitic fungi, which would then become nutrients for their growth and reproduction.
In other words, these parasitic ant warriors who were sent to harass and who would definitely never come back would not have a few days to live. In this case, even if seven to eight hundred soldiers are sent to invade "Dongyang City" every day, there will not be any loss to the parasitic ant nest.
If these invading troops can interfere with and destroy the normal economic activities of "Dongyang City" and prevent the worker ants of "Dongyang City" from hunting, foraging, collecting fuel and salt mines, then the enemy's goal will be achieved.
The protagonist still doesn't know who the ruler of this mysterious ant nest is, but it shouldn't be a male ant as he had guessed before. Through the memory of the captive, there is no trace of male ants in the entire parasitic ant nest.
Whoever is behind this, he is a cunning adversary.
He first murdered Lao Wang, the ruler of "Dongyang City", causing the entire "Dongyang City" to fall into a leaderless situation.
Later, he sent his subordinates who were loyal to him to hide in the team participating in the wedding flight ceremony where they were, waiting for opportunities to kill these young male ants.
Since every year the secondary nest team participating in the wedding flight ceremony is wiped out due to various reasons and cannot reach the main nest, so even if something happens to them all, it will not arouse any suspicion.
The assassination operation was exposed due to a sudden night rain and failed to achieve the set goal. There may be some assassins who escaped back to "Dongyang City" and reported the situation to the mastermind behind the scenes.
At this time, the man behind the scenes has completely controlled "Dongyang City" and uses some means to make the city residents without male ants obey his command.
After the assassination failed, the mastermind, who thought he had been exposed, was afraid of retaliation from the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, so he had no choice but to lead all the ants in the original "Dongyang City" to move to the southern hilly area.
Zhou Xiang planned this relocation to move all the food and materials in the entire "Dongyang City", leaving nothing behind.
The relocating team may not have a destination at the beginning, but after marching southward for a whole day (due to the need to transport supplies, their moving speed should be much slower than the lightly-armed Archangel King's army), these migrations The visitor came to the hilly area.
This place is far away from "Dongyang City". According to the general activity range of ants, they will not find it here. Moreover, there is water here, food is relatively abundant, and nectar resources for scale insects have even been found, making it a very suitable location for building a city.
So the migrants, who didn't like to be active at night, built a new nest at the bottom of a valley in the hilly area.
The above are the protagonist's speculations about the mastermind behind the scenes and the origin of the parasitic ant nest. These speculations are all based on known evidence.
But the protagonist still has a bit of confusion that cannot be answered, which is why the enemy's entire ant nest was parasitized by thread parasites, and when was it parasitized?
Did you get tricked in "Dongyang City"? Or was it infected by local thread-parasitic bacteria after moving to the hills?
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In the next two days, the same number of parasitic ants came from the south every day, harassing and attacking the big-headed ants in the suburbs of "Dongyang City". This also proves the protagonist's speculation - the enemy's purpose is to use dying parasitic ants to interfere with the development of "Dongyang City".
Since the protagonist has given orders to all the ants that are out and about, except for a few who were caught off guard, the other ants retreated in time and warned the enemy after discovering the enemy, so the losses in "Dongyang City" were not great.
However, due to daily harassment, the food harvest in the southern region has dropped significantly. Especially due to the remote location of the salt mines, the amount of salt collected has dropped to the lowest point, and it is almost impossible to meet the normal needs of the city.
In addition, the bodies of dead enemies need to be cleaned up in time. Because I didn't pay attention to cleaning up the enemy's corpse before, I just buried it shallowly in the same place. As a result, new thread-parasitic fungi soon broke out of the ground and grew on the corpse.
These thread-parasitic fungi infected some normal ants passing by the nearby "Dongyang City". After a day, the mycelial larvae of the thread-parasitic fungi emerged from the cracks in the carapace of the infected ants.
All other ants turned a blind eye to these infected ants. After the protagonist found out, he ordered a large-scale investigation throughout the city and used scalding to treat the infected, which curbed the potential threat of the spread of parasitic bacteria.
Treating infected people with scalding has proven to be effective. As long as the infected people are replenished with food and water in time, about half of the infected ants can be cured, and the other half will eventually be exhausted through constant treatment and repeated attacks. life.
In order to prevent more ants active outside from being infected, the protagonist led the team to disinfect all the corpses of enemies who died in the past few days.
The simplest and most effective way is to burn it with fire. A large amount of dry twigs, grass stems and other fuels were piled on the battlefield south of "Dongyang City". The enemy's corpses were piled on top of the pyre and finally burned with a fire. All the spores and hyphae of the thread-parasitic fungi are also wiped out and can no longer parasitize ants.
The protagonist feels the need to restore normal production order in the southern region of "East Yang City", otherwise the production of grain and salt will be affected for a long time.
With the current strength of "Dongyang City", especially the insufficient number of male ants, it is still unable to completely eliminate the parasitic ant nest. If the threat of parasitic ants cannot be fundamentally solved, then we can only settle for the next best thing.
After destroying the invading enemies every day, the protagonist will ride on Xiaoqing and fly around at low altitude in the southern region. He was looking for a suitable location to build a fortification to keep the enemy out of the country.
