The giant dragonfly carrying turtles and ants in black, escorted by flying knights, crossed the line of Black Creek and went deep into the north bank of Black Creek.
After arriving at the target area, these aerial forces of the God's Envoy Army began to hover.
On the ground, a large number of parasitic organisms opened their jaws, raised their wings, and displayed their stingers menacingly into the air, posing an extremely threatening threat. However, these parasites on the ground without the ability to fly have no way to deal with the giant dragonflies and flying knights in mid-air!
The flying knights are still looking for the exact target. There are many parasites below, which makes it look noisy and heavily guarded. If you want to complete the mission and hit the target with one hit, you must narrow the range of the target as much as possible.
The target of these Divine Envoy King's air force is actually the command system of the parasitic army!
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What is the relationship between parasites? Is there an ant-like hierarchy and chain of command? Or is there an unknown way of communication and command?
Much of this is still shrouded in mystery.
The civilized ant tribe has been dealing with this fallen ant tribe for a long time, and the history of the battle has been recorded in thousands of years. However, the information they recorded about the parasitic organisms is very little, and it is impossible to answer this question.
Zhu Jue was already thinking about this issue when he first came into contact with parasitic organisms in his hometown, and so far he only has some speculations.
He once thought that the pale yellow parasitic ants that appeared near his hometown [Southern City] were the commanders of parasitic organisms similar to the male ant kings and kings of the big-headed ant family.
But this time, the number of parasitic organisms that appeared near Black Creek was extremely large, and the number of pale golden parasitic ants among them was very small, which was far from enough to support the production and command operations of a large army.
There is obviously a tacit understanding among the parasitic creatures, and the channels of communication and command must be very smooth. It is impossible to rely on these very few pale golden parasitic ants. There must be some kind of channel unknown to Zhu Jue!
For months, the Flying Knights tried to uncover the secret in aerial reconnaissance.
No matter which ant tribe you belong to, when conveying orders and exchanging information, in addition to face-to-face tentacle contact, messenger ants are required to travel back and forth. Where the command center is located, there must be a lot of messenger ants coming and going, as if there are ants coming in and out like a node.
In the past, whether facing the red fire ant army, the pavement ant empire army, or other ant tribes, this rule applies. As long as the interference of countless ants moving around is eliminated - although this is not easy - the messenger ants can pass through. The trajectory locates command centers large and small.
In the past, the Legion of the God Envoy basically did not have the ability to decapitate the enemy's command center. The power and accuracy of the flying knights' ground attacks were not enough. It was also difficult for the airborne elite infantry soldiers to successfully perform tasks in the tightly defended enemy command center. And basically the soldiers participating in the mission never come back.
But now, the entry of black turtle ants into service, combined with the weapons specially prepared for them, can greatly increase the success rate of decapitation tactics with less sacrifice!
This time, facing the attack of the ferocious parasitic army, Zhu Jue decided to resort to this tactic! If the effect is good, the civilized ant coalition will launch a counterattack!
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In the past few days, while fighting and protecting the airspace, the flying knights had been collecting movement data of various parasitic organisms on the north bank of Black Creek.
These data are analyzed every night by the commanders in the fortress group and other assisting ants, using the "cloud brain" method invented by the Finance Minister "Xiao Sheng".
What surprised Zhu Jue was that the intelligence showed that there was very little communication between parasitic organisms. Although the parasitic ants had tentacles touching each other, they were obviously lower than the normal frequency!
On the contrary, there are some abnormalities in the parasitic hyphae: no matter what species is being parasitized, when two parasitic organisms are close to each other, the hyphae on their bodies will approach each other like magnetic poles that are attracted.
Sometimes, these hyphae will touch together, and the caps will gently touch each other; sometimes, these hyphae will not be close together, but will only attract each other at a distance, and return to normal until the host moves away!
This made Zhu Jue have to guess that the parasitic hyphae are the controllers of these parasitized organisms. Can the parasitic hyphae communicate with each other through touch? Just like the antennae of an ant! ?
Then by extension, can those hyphae that are not touching also be able to communicate? Can they communicate across small distances? Might these hyphae function like transmitting and receiving antennas?
If this is the case, then the information detected by the flying knights makes sense. The parasites do not need a large number of messengers to communicate face to face.
By communicating with each other at a certain distance through the hyphae on the parasites, an information network can be formed. The commander can easily command thousands of troops and make complex and exquisite coordination - just like the parasitic army in the Battle of Black Creek As shown in!
Zhu Jue even once suspected that the parasitic organism did not have a clear commander, but was a cloud-intelligent creature that controlled all hosts through the wisdom of the group consciousness of many parasitic hyphae.
This is inspired by the way that multiple ants can perform cloud computing together, which is also invented by the Ant Federation in China. There is no reason to think that parasitic mycelium cannot do this!
But this conjecture was quickly abandoned by Zhu Jue!
Because the flying knights eventually discovered that among some widely separated parasite clusters, some stray individuals would appear and go to another group.
Or arrive at an intermediate position and stay, and move as the relative positions of the two clusters move, roughly staying at the midpoint. Even if two clusters are moving apart, new parasites will join in, forming two, three or even more nodes.
Zhu Jue believes that these parasitic organisms with special behaviors are messengers and communication relays. There is an unknown wireless communication method between the parasitic hyphae, perhaps similar to radio waves!
There are clear communication channels, proving that there is a command center in the parasitic army!
Through observation and marking the historical locations of a large number of relay nodes and parasite clusters, Zhu Jue has roughly figured out that the wireless communication method between parasitic hyphae requires one every half meter at most. Parasites act as relays.
After recording the distribution of many communication nodes, it can be clearly seen that it is a network structure with some core points. These core points are obviously the command center of the parasitic army that has been looking for.
The center closest to the center, Zhu Jue guessed, was the location of the supreme commander of the parasite. It had not moved for many days!
The black-clothed turtles and ants, under the guidance of the flying knight, are identifying their position in the air and preparing to carry out the beheading mission!
