The fast-moving parasitic bugs and parasitic tiger beetles move at high speed, using their jagged and powerful jaws to tirelessly slaughter the black fire ants on the ground that come out to look for food but fail to escape back to the fortress in time.
The parasitic army arrived so quickly that these working ants were not warned by the scouts at all, and were suddenly massacred. For a moment, they were panicked and unable to resist.
Most of the working ants are scattered, and a single ant is no match for the vicious parasite beast. The few ants that fought in formation were quickly taken care of by the huge parasitic beast. After the formation was broken up, they were killed one after another.
Those ants that escaped were not much better. More and more ants were constantly being caught up and killed. Only a few lucky ones took advantage of the slaughter of their own kin to move a certain distance towards the fortress and seemed to be out of the way of the enemy.
But even the ants that have already run halfway may not be able to escape. Not all the parasite beasts on the ground are chasing them. Most of them are attacking those ants who dare to resist. It seems that there is no threat on the ground.
But a new threat comes from the sky!
There are a group of faster threats in the sky. These are parasitic wasps, parasitic golden wasps, parasitic braconid wasps and other aerial assassins. They are hovering in the air, constantly looking for new targets.
Every time after finding a target, these assassins, who are so light that you can barely hear the flapping of their wings, will suddenly appear behind the ants like a flash of light.
The parasitic wasp quickly injects anesthetic liquid with a needle. The anesthetic liquid originally used to deal with larger prey such as caterpillars and spiders will take effect quickly on the small ants, causing them to faint before they have time to react.
Then, one or two parasitic bacteria are transferred from the parasitic wasp to the anesthetized ant. The unthreatened parasitoid will not rush to kill the anesthetized ant, but "purify" her.
Some parasitic wasps have more unique and malicious habits. The dose of anesthetic they inject is very small, making the ants comatose for only a short time. After half a minute, they start to wake up and continue to run away, unaware of what just happened, as if An ant loses half a minute in his life.
At this time, the ants' backs were covered with parasitic fungi and spores, but she couldn't feel them. Along the way, other parasitic wasps and parasitic beasts will not attack her.
By the time she was "lucky" and "unscathed" and escaped to the entrance of the fortress, mycelium and spores had disappeared into her body from the gaps in her carapace, pores, etc., and she had quietly brought her into the nest.
Thousands of ants were killed outside the fortress, and only a hundred or so escaped, and most of them were infected.
The defenders had no idea, because these special infected ants had no abnormal appearance and were placed directly inside the fortress without being observed as minor injuries.
Because the scouts reported that there were a large number of parasitic troops outside, which were obviously the main force of fallen ants, the fortress commander did not send troops to meet the troops outside. He could not take risks and was unwilling to take risks.
The death of thousands of ants was caused by his order to forage for food and guard outside the nest, but he let it go without any guilt - tens of thousands of ants died in a war, as long as he could hold on to this fortress, even if Even if the whole army is wiped out, he will not hesitate. This is the ruthlessness of the male ant commander and his brilliance.
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The parasitic army then began to attack the city. The parasitic wasps were wandering in the air. The parasitic tiger beetles and carabid beetles used their rough and powerful jaws to gnaw at the concrete wall made of ants from the entrance of the hole, trying to expand the hole so that their huge bodies could fit in. .
Some Black Fire Ant Army soldiers were not willing to sit still and wait for death, so they came out to fight back on the shell of the ant mound. However, once they stepped out of the protection of the fortress, the parasitic wasps in the air would appear like ghosts.
Soon, after dozens of corpses were left behind, the defenders learned the lesson and huddled inside the anthill, letting the parasite beasts demolish their homes.
When the parasitic beetle destroyed the entrance of the cave and half of its body got in, the defenders began to fight back.
Although fighting back in a narrow passage requires facing the terrifying head of the parasitic beetle, the black fire ant warriors are very brave and charge forward against the huge jaws, without even looking at being chopped up and strangled by the jaws. glance at his companion.
They cling on ferociously, biting with their jaws and stinging with their stings, focusing on the compound eyes and carapace gaps of the parasitic beetle.
Some desperate black fire ant warriors even burrow directly into the mouths of parasitic beetles and inject venom into their esophagus with stingers before being chewed up.
The black fire ant warriors' life-threatening fighting style was very effective. These parasitic beasts had lost the instinct to fear death, but they could not resist such a crazy attack, and soon left more than a dozen corpses.
The parasitic ant army was already close to the fortress at this time, and the "Parasite Ikkyu" located inside it, as the brain, could directly sense the plight of the siege insect beasts from this distance.
As its brainwaves circulated, the army of parasitic beasts that originally filled the ant mound receded like a tide, leaving only the corpses of those dead insect beasts, half-body hanging outside the ant mound, as if they were hanged. The prisoners on the rack were particularly strange and terrifying.
The defenders did not bother to clean up the corpses of these parasitic beasts. These corpses were blocked here and shortened the defender's defense surface. After burning the parasitic bacteria crawling off the corpse with torches, the defenders rushed to other defense lines to support them.
The parasitic ants have launched an attack immediately. This fortress is a typical ant mound style of the fire ant clan. There are many entrances and exits, and there are many places for the defenders to defend.
In the past, the black fire ant clan was good at using such fortresses to take advantage of the black fire ant clan's combat power in street battles, killing large numbers of enemy ants that dared to invade.
But once the attacking enemy becomes stronger, such ant mounds will in turn put great pressure on the defenders.
At present, the fortress defenders still have sufficient strength. They can set up defense lines in every passage and every nest room, and compete with the parasitic ants to consume them. But once the defenders are out of strength, they can only shrink back underground and abandon the ground.
At first, the black fire ant defenders strongly blocked the parasitic ants at the outer positions.
But as a group of parasitic big-headed ants and warriors from the Original God Envoy King Corps joined the battlefield, they quickly broke through the two lines of defense and led other ants into the interior of the ant mound.
Even within the extremely large and complex parasitic army of the ants, these parasitic angel king warriors are powerful beings.
Although the black fire ant warriors are powerful, they are only flesh and blood and rely on their own bodies, carapace, jaws and stingers.
Even if many of the bronze jaw knives and bronze armor of the Parasitic Angel King warriors are rusted, they can still provide additional lethality and defense, making the proud jaws and stingers of the Black Fire Ant Warriors repeatedly ineffective.
