Doesn’t the title sound like a pirated comic book from childhood? (｢･ω･)｢Hey
——I am the dividing line——
Not to mention that Suzaku escaped all the way back to the main nest with the remaining defeated soldiers, and escaped by accident.
Let’s start with this battle between mysterious ants and parasitic katydids. It is fierce, hearty, bloody, and cruel. Even in the insect world where the weak and the strong prey on the strong, fights are extremely rare.
The commotion here even quickly attracted the attention of the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion who were monitoring the periphery of [Purple Leaf Li City] not far away.
The three flying knights quickly arrived at the battlefield and wandered around. They quickly noticed the corpses of pavement ants scattered on the ground, as well as the two sides fighting.
These flying knights have all received training in detecting parasitic bacteria. The ability of the parasitic bacteria on the katydids to confuse ordinary ants does not work on these specially trained flying knights. The flying knights quickly identified the true identity of the katydids. The Flying Knights immediately attached great importance to their identities - parasitic bacteria were a key investigation target that the protagonist had taken care of, and so were the mysterious ants. Now that the two have come together to fight, it will undoubtedly be a highlight.
Afterwards, the protagonist who received the information was very surprised that there were parasitic bacteria on the north bank of the river.
However, consider that parasitic bacteria can infect many types of insects. The protagonist has seen ants, katydids, stag beetles, dung beetles, etc. If the parasitic fungus infects a flying insect, it can easily spread to the north bank of the river or even further.
However, the protagonist also infers from this that since the parasitic bacteria can easily spread to vast areas of the world, but it has not caused huge disasters in the north and south of the river, it shows that this race is a compatible existence for the ecosystem.
But this does not mean that the protagonist will give up the attack on the parasitic ants in the swamp. These enemies threaten his rear and must be eliminated quickly.
Back on the battlefield, when the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion arrived, the first phase of the battle was coming to an end.
The five mysterious ants were either dead or injured, and it was only a matter of time before the entire army was wiped out. This huge parasitic katydid actually single-handedly wiped out a mysterious ant team that could not be defeated by dozens or hundreds of pavement ant warriors.
When the parasitic katydid stuffs the struggling mysterious ant leader into its mouth and chews it up, the first stage of the battle is over.
All five mysterious ants were bitten to death, and the leader among them was even chewed up and eaten whole. But the parasitic katydid was not unscathed. One of its middle limbs was almost broken from the connection between the femur and tibia, leaving only half of the dura mater still connected - a masterpiece of the mysterious ant's jaws.
The parasitic katydid lifted the injured mid-foot, and licked the wound with its ferocious huge chewing mouthparts still hanging with blood and tissue fragments. The katydid licking its wounds would look perfectly normal if it weren't for the fact that some of the parasitic bacteria on its back were leaving its enemy's body and crawling towards the corpse of a mysterious ant nearby.
The battle is not over yet. The flying knights in the sky can see the mysterious ants on the ground not far away in [Purple Leaf Licheng]. Although they did not receive any reward from the messenger, they were alarmed after just a minute or two.
Hundreds of mysterious ants gave up their mission to stay on the ground and swarmed madly in the direction of the parasitic katydid.
The mysterious ants came very quickly, and they did not go straight like the pavement ants. Instead, they separated into two groups and surrounded the parasitic katydids in advance. They seemed to know the enemy's location already.
The parasitic katydid seemed to smell something in the wind. It stopped licking its wounds, stood up, raised its forelimbs, spread its wings, and opened its mouthparts widely - this is a gesture of threat or fighting.
The parasitic katydid does not try to escape, it will continue to fight until it dies.
In fact, even if this is a normal katydid that is not controlled by parasitic bacteria, it will be difficult to escape in this situation: one of its legs is injured, and its movement speed is affected; and its wings are the same as the beetles the protagonist saw before, hard and Although the forewings are normal, the hind wings used for flight are abnormally short and seem to have degenerated.
In other words, this katydid cannot fly at all, and on foot, its current speed is obviously unable to escape the rapid pursuit of the mysterious ants.
The parasitic katydid was ready to fight, and the four mysterious ants it killed stood up unsteadily and crawled to the katydid after their bodies were invaded by the parasitic bacteria.
The army of mysterious ants finally arrived on the battlefield. They seemed extremely impatient and angry, and directly attacked the parasitic katydids and parasitic mysterious ants.
The katydid and the mysterious ant that had just been parasitized also came forward in the opposite direction.
This was a battle that refreshed the three views of the Flying Knights. Both sides showed extremely strong combat effectiveness.
I saw the parasitic katydid rushing into the ranks of hundreds of mysterious ants. The mysterious ants that made the pavement ants frightened were not taken seriously by it.
At this moment, any part of its body can be turned into a weapon:
The six limbs of the katydid take turns rhythmically kicking away the mysterious ants that are approaching. The extremely strong carapace of any mysterious ant that is kicked away will burst, which shows the strength of the katydid's legs.
Sometimes the front legs of the katydid will turn into kicks, and the sharp hooks on the front legs can pin the mysterious ants directly to the spines. The katydid will also use the hook-like structure of its front legs to grab the mysterious ant, and then send it into its bloody mouth to bite it to death and eat it.
The ferocious-looking mouthparts have no direct killing effect and can only assist the front legs.
The katydid's seemingly vestigial wings often flutter violently to fly away mysterious ants that try to jump on the katydid's back. Although these wings cannot fly, they can also assist the katydid in jumping long distances. It can enter and leave the mysterious ant colony seven times, just like Zhao Yun of Changbanpo.
Even the four mysterious ants that had just been parasitized suddenly became so powerful that it took five mysterious ants to compete with them.
But the mysterious ants were more numerous after all, and they cooperated closely. After paying a certain price to eliminate the four parasitic mysterious ants, they began to encircle and attack the parasitic katydids.
After all, the katydid had suffered leg injuries, and it seemed that it would take a while before its wings could assist long-distance jumps again. No matter how it moved, it could not escape the encirclement of the mysterious ants.
The mysterious ants began to attack the katydid's injured middle leg, one after another, and soon completely bit off the injured leg.
Some other mysterious ants finally jumped onto the katydid's back and were not unfortunately ejected by its wings. They began to bite directly at the base of the katydid's wings, and their sharp jaws quickly bit off both pairs of wings.
Under the siege of mysterious ants, the parasitic katydid, which had been fighting for a long time, finally lost its majesty and was covered in scars, with its wings and mid-foot bitten off.
But its ferocious mouthparts and spike-covered forelegs are still extremely lethal! ! !
