Just the day after injuring the damselfly, the protagonist saw the assembled parasitic troops on the other side of [Swamp City], which made him unable to help but connect it to what happened yesterday.
Yesterday, the protagonist saw with his own eyes that the injured damselfly fell to the ground and was discovered by several parasitic ants wandering nearby. The parasitic bacteria on these parasitic ants quickly climbed onto the injured damselfly's body, which was unable to escape, and penetrated into its body, ignoring its struggles.
The damselfly soon stopped struggling and fell into a strange calm. The protagonist couldn't see many details in the night. But when the protagonist looked over there again early the next morning, there was no sign of the damselfly.
And at noon that day, suddenly a large number of parasitic ants and parasitic insects appeared on the other side, staring covetously in the direction of [Swamp City]. This was obviously not a coincidence.
The protagonist has never seen so many parasitic beasts gathering together before. There are parasitic dragonflies, damselflies and some bees in the air. There are tiger beetles, dung beetles, spiders and centipedes on the ground. There are also parasitic dragonflies and water lice in the water. The spider disappears and appears. The most numerous ones are naturally parasitic ants.
During the time he came to the swamp, the protagonist only found a few parasitic ants on the other side, and occasionally some parasitic beetles appeared. At other times, the swamp appears perfectly normal and not at all like a home base for parasitic fungi.
The parasitic beasts that appear in groups like this are obviously coming from bad intentions. The protagonist realizes that the enemy's target is obviously the [Swamp City] under his feet, and immediately informs the troops to prepare for the battle.
How did the enemy know about the existence of [Swamp City]? You know, [Swamp City] is about three meters away from the other side. Except for the protagonist himself and some insects with good eyesight, there is nothing on the other side that can see the scene here clearly, let alone judge that there is an army of the Divine Envoy King here. The presence. Although parasitic ants have always appeared on the opposite bank before, the existence of [Swamp City] has never been discovered.
The protagonist's speculation shifts to yesterday's damselfly. That damselfly had obviously seen the existence of the Warrior King of God. After it was parasitized, could its memory be read by other parasitic beasts, or could it actively report it to other parasitic beasts?
At present, this is the only explanation that can explain the reason for the sudden appearance of the enemy. If the protagonist's guess is true, then the creatures infected by the parasitic bacteria not only gather together based on instinct, they even have ways to communicate with each other, and even communicate across species. This is obviously bombshell news.
The protagonist now has no time to think about the consequences if parasites can communicate with each other and even have higher intelligence. He must win the current battle first.
This is a battle that the King of Divine Envoys has never experienced before. The enemy is not any other ants, nor a few fierce insects, but a mixed force composed of dozens of parasitic beasts of various colors and hundreds of parasitic ants. This force even includes the army, navy and air force.
The protagonist currently only has the strength of the Fourth Army, a total of fifty combat teams with 2,500 Big-headed Ant worker warriors, and two hunting ant scout teams with 100 hunting ant warriors.
On the opposite side, not counting parasitic ants, there were about twenty parasitic beasts in the air, more than ten on the ground, and more than ten in the water.
After the parasitic beasts regrouped, they began to attack. This tacit cooperation showed that they were not acting entirely according to the instinct of the parasitic beasts.
The first wave of attacks were the three tiger armors. They used their rapid speed and amazing bounce to shuttle among the plants and rocks in the water. They arrived at [Swamp City] in more than ten seconds and were defeated by the protagonist. .
But this was just the enemy's forward line. Immediately afterwards, parasitic dragonflies, parasitic damselflies and parasitic wasps flew over [Swamp City] and began to attack.
According to common sense, dragonflies and damselflies only hunt prey flying in the air and are not interested in prey on the ground. If they risk lowering their altitude, they themselves will easily fall prey to other fierce insects.
But these parasitic dragonflies and damselflies obviously cannot be explained by common sense.
I saw larger parasitic dragonflies swooping towards the dense ant army formation gathered on a small platform on the island of [Swamp City], and then quickly rising up, disturbing the ant army formation with strong wing winds. The disciplined warriors of the God's Envoy King could not help but waver under the strong wind.
The small and agile parasitic damselfly on the side will take the opportunity to catch the warriors of the Divine Envoy King who have been blown away or who are left alone due to the loose formation, and will bite them to death in the air, or throw them directly into the water.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King who fell into the water basically had no way out. Not only did they drown, but the parasitic dragon lice and parasitic water spiders that were eyeing the water could easily kill them.
There are also some parasitic wasps, which are very small, such as the family of schisps. They are only about 2mm in length, which is not as big as the worker ants of Big-headed ants. But these little assassins are extremely agile. They can always accurately and suddenly lie on the back of the warrior of the King of Gods, and then pierce the body of the warriors of the King of Gods with spikes and inject venom. The warrior of the God Envoy King who is poisoned in this way will soon die.
The Angel King's army has never encountered an attack from the air. In the past, the ants only knew that the flying knights were friendly forces, but the enemy had no flying knights. Even the Flying Knight itself lacks the means to attack the ground.
For a time, the formation of the God Envoy King's army was somewhat loosened, and the ants could only be beaten passively, not knowing how to deal with it.
The protagonist stood at the top of the anthill and witnessed all this. Since there were fewer ants on his side, the parasitic beast's air force did not target this place, and the protagonist's current position was very safe.
Just when the protagonist was about to send out messengers to convey instructions on how to fight back, a scene that made him happy appeared.
There was a team of the God Envoy King equipped with slings, which must have received orders from the team commander and started throwing slings into the air.
As the only long-range attack method for ants, it is normal for smart male ants to think of using this to counterattack. However, being able to proactively think of solutions instead of passively relying on the protagonist's instructions is what makes the protagonist most relieved. The long-term education and sufficient supply of high-end food seem to have had an effect.
Other teams equipped with slings also began to follow suit and fired into the sky. For a while, the slings were spinning, rising, and falling on the small island. Some of the slings even became entangled with each other in the air.
Although most of the slings eventually fell back to the ground, even if these falling slings accidentally hit friendly troops, they would never cause accidental damage because they were castrated.
But for the parasitic beasts who were in the air and were originally safe, diving attacks were no longer risk-free. The God Envoy King's army finally regained some of its disadvantages!
