These two parasitic spiders did not completely scale the first line of defense wall.
Although this city wall is not high, it is wide at the top, half a decimeter wide. The first-line warriors of the Divine Envoy King set up defenses on it, and it was here that they killed the parasitic tiger beetles and parasitic scarabs that rushed in recklessly.
But the parasitic spider was lying on the outer facade of the city wall. Instead of entering rashly, it got stuck on the edge.
These parasitic spiders are ordinary spiders, but after being parasitized, their habits changed drastically. They did not hide in the woven spider webs and wait for prey, but followed other parasitic beasts to move together.
Now, their abdomens are bulging, and from time to time, a stream of sticky threads is ejected from the glands, shooting towards the army formation of the Divine Envoy King. These webs have a short range, but are enough to cover a distance of less than a decimeter.
With every shot, one or two unfortunate ant warriors would be stuck by the silk thread, and then the spider would immediately use its front two legs to quickly pull the silk thread back, and bring the ant warriors trapped by the sticky thread to its ferocious mouthparts.
The parasitic spider then binds the ant warriors with silk, like a mummy.
The tied ants have no chance of survival. Some of them are also injected with venom by parasitic spiders while they are tied. The flesh in the carapace will soon be dissolved into a ball of liquid. Some were not injected with venom, but parasitic bacteria took the opportunity to climb up and infect her. Maybe it won't be long before a new parasitic ant emerges from the cocoon.
The ants need to maintain their military formation. If they stay in place, they will be helpless against the parasitic spiders that shoot from a distance. If they pursue them, they will not be able to catch up with the extremely agile and flexible enemies.
Some of the Angel King team tried to counterattack with slings, but the effect was not good. The spiders stuck on the edge of the city wall could hide in the outer facade of the city wall as long as they turned slightly sideways. The stone bullets fired were hit by the city wall that was originally designed to protect the ant defenders. Blocking it will not pose a threat to the spider.
At this time, the military formation of the parasitic ants was also approaching rapidly. Although the speed was not too fast because of the need to maintain the formation, it had already traveled nearly half the distance and was almost within the attack range of the defenders' slings.
If the Divine Envoy King's army does not get rid of these two wretched parasitic spiders before the enemy launches a large-scale attack, it will inevitably affect subsequent operations.
At this time, the hunter ant scouts who had been silent before appeared from the bridgehead ant mound and quickly killed the parasitic spiders.
The parasitic spiders are extremely sensitive to the high-speed approaching ants, and immediately spray silk to intercept them.
However, the sickle-hunting ants were extremely dexterous, dodging left and right, effortlessly avoiding several incoming spider threads. Even though the two parasitic spiders sprayed frequently, neither one was hit, and instead they quickly shot each other. The distance is getting closer.
At this time, the parasitic spider turned around and wanted to run away, but it was already too late. After the distance was shortened to a certain extent, the ants ejected one after another and quickly fell to the side of the parasitic spider. After three strikes, five divided by two, the ants that had escaped cleanly Kill the enemies under the city wall.
At this time, the large army of parasitic ants was already very close. The ant scouts did not engage in a reckless battle, but quickly retreated under the leadership of the commander.
Almost at the same time, large black clouds rose up from the city wall - the defenders began to fire stones.
Stone bullets and clay bombs rained down on the team of parasitic ants. Among these parasitic ants, whether they were big-headed ants, sickle-hunting ants or corn hairy ants, although they were covered by carapace, their stone-throwing power was not strong enough, so it was difficult to be directly attacked. Killed. However, it is common for people to have their legs broken and their antennae broken, and the parasites on their backs to be killed and injured.
There was a commotion in the parasitic ant team. If it weren't for the suppression of the pale golden parasitic ants, these ragtag groups of different ant races would have collapsed soon.
After all, no matter how ferocious they are after being parasitized, these parasitic ants still have instincts. When they are attacked without seeing an enemy in sight, the instinct of any creature is to run away.
Only those pale golden parasitic worker ants have good eyesight and developed intelligence. They know that the enemy is on the rocks not far away. Only when they have a target will they have the fighting spirit to continue fighting.
The parasitic ants rushed through the stone-throwing shooting area, but suffered a certain weakening.
When they got under the rocks and the parasitic ants began to climb up the rocks, the parasitic bacteria on many parasitic ants took the initiative to break away from their hosts and did not follow them to climb up. Instead, they wandered in the soil, seemingly looking for something.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the Angel King's army had spread a large amount of ant feces around the rocks. The feces exuded a strong ant smell, which misled the parasitic bacteria to wander here looking for their next host.
This is also my experience when fighting parasitic ants in the southern hills. It can effectively separate the parasitic bacteria and parasitic ants.
When these two enemies appear at the same time, the warriors of the God Envoy King will inevitably focus on one and not the other. If they are not careful, they will easily be infected by parasites.
But as long as they are forced to separate, the individual parasitic ants and parasitic fungi have obvious weaknesses, so there is nothing to fear.
But the tactics used to deal with ordinary parasitic ants can be seen through by the pale gold parasitic ants. These pale gold parasitic ants immediately ordered their subordinates to fill the nearby ant feces with soil. Soon, the parasitic bacteria that had lost their prey scent crawled back to the parasitic ants around them.
But ordinary ants can be parasitized by up to three strains of parasitic bacteria. More parasitic bacteria will consume too many nutrients and drag the host to death. Therefore, many parasitic bacteria cannot find a suitable host for a while and wander on the ground. They can only hide in the shade first, otherwise they will be quickly dried out by the sun.
While the parasitic ants were filling up the ant feces, the defenders' warriors of the Envoy King also poked their heads out from the edge of the city wall. In groups of more than ten, they pushed down some stones the size of mung beans to peas.
These large and small falling rocks rolled down along the edges of the city wall and the stones at the bottom of the city wall, hitting the parasitic ants, causing some casualties.
The parasitic ants had to brave falling rocks and attack upward along a slope of more than 70 degrees.
When they finally climbed to the top of the city wall, they were faced with the razor tactics of the God's Envoy King's army, which was waiting for them, and they could only die of hatred.
There are only a few parasitic scythe ants with explosive combat power, which can have a chance to shake the defenders' military formation, but their number is too small and they will soon be killed by the defenders' counterattack.
By about noon, most of the parasitic ants had been killed, leaving behind a field of corpses and minced remains of the parasitic bacteria. On the other hand, the pale gold parasitic ants hid behind, and only a few were killed by the hunting sickle ant scouts who took the initiative.
Seeing that they had been defeated, the remaining pale golden parasitic ants quickly gathered the remaining defeated soldiers and retreated. The Divine Envoy King's army turned back after a brief pursuit.
The first day's defensive battle was won!
