Knowing that the enemy army is attacking again, the protagonist has no choice but to summon the army of the Divine Envoy King to go on an expedition, and soon eliminate the parasitic ant army of today's wave of invasion.

With the experience of the first day, this time the warning came in time, and it was passed to the lair just after the enemy army had just entered.

Most of the ants operating in the southern region were effectively evacuated and did not suffer much damage except for a few casualties.

And the protagonist also has plenty of time to calmly form a legion. This time, only soldier ants were recruited, and priority was given to soldier ants who had participated in the battle against parasitic ants.

In this way, after destroying all the enemies, the loss of the Divine Envoy King's own army is not large.

The protagonist has a great headache for the parasitic ant army that has invaded for two days in a row, and he has a bad premonition, and he is afraid that he will be attacked by such harassing attacks every day in the future.

He carefully examined the corpses of the dead parasitic ants, all of whom were relatively old, and the silk thread parasites that parasitized them had fully matured.

According to the memories read from the captives before, these ants will not survive for a few days in the parasitic nest, even if they do not die in battle, and will soon die under the influence of the silk thread parasite, which will then become nutrients for their growth and reproduction.

In other words, these parasitic ant warriors who were sent to harass them, and at the same time, must have never returned, and they were all going to have no days to live. In this way, even if seven or eight hundred warriors were sent to invade Dongyang City every day, there would not be the slightest loss to the parasitic ant nest.

If these invading forces can interfere with the normal economic activities of Dongyang Castle and prevent the worker ants of Dongyang Castle from hunting, foraging, and collecting fuel and salt mines, then they will achieve the enemy's goal.

The protagonist still doesn't know who the ruler of this mysterious ant nest is, but it should not be a male ant as he guessed before, and through the captive's memory, there is no trace of male ants in the entire parasitic ant nest.

No matter who is behind it, he is a cunning opponent.

He first murdered the ruler of "Dongyang City", Lao Wang, and caused the entire "Dongyang City" to fall into a situation where there was no leader.

Later, he sent his loyal men to hide in the team that was participating in the wedding ceremony, waiting for an opportunity to kill the young male ants.

Since every year, the team of the secondary nest that participates in the wedding flight ceremony is completely wiped out due to various reasons and cannot reach the main nest, so even if all of them have an accident, it will not arouse any suspicion.

The assassination was exposed by a sudden night rain and did not achieve the set goal. It is possible that some of the Assassins fled back to the "Dongyang Castle" and reported the situation to the people behind the scenes.

At this time, the mastermind behind the scenes had completely taken control of "Dongyang City", and used some means to make the citizens without male ants obey his command.

After the assassination failed, the mastermind who thought it had been exposed, fearing retaliation from the big-headed ant kingdom, had to lead all the ants of the original "Dongyang City" to relocate to the hilly area in the south.

This relocation plan Zhou Xiang moved all the food and supplies in the entire "Dongyang City", leaving nothing behind.

The relocated party may not have had a destination at first, but after a full day's march south (which should have been much slower than the lightly armed Equator legions) due to the need to carry supplies, the migrants made their way to the hilly terrain.

This side is far away from "Dongyang City", and according to the general range of ants, you will not find this place. Moreover, there are water sources here, food is relatively abundant, and even the nectar source resources of scale insects have been discovered, which is a very suitable place to build a city.

So the migrants, who did not like to be nocturnal, built a new nest at the bottom of a valley in the hilly area.

The above is the protagonist's speculation about the origin of the mastermind and the parasitic ant nest, which are based on known evidence.

But the protagonist still has a little puzzle that can't be answered, that is, why is the enemy's entire ant nest parasitized by silk thread parasites, and when was it parasitized?

Was it in "Dongyang City"? Or did they migrate to the hills and become infected by the local silk thread parasite?

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In the next two days, the same number of parasitic ants came from the south every day, harassing and attacking the big-headed ants on the outskirts of "Dongyang City". This also proves the protagonist's conjecture that the enemy's purpose is to interfere with the development of "Dongyang City" with dying parasitic ants.

Since the protagonist has already given orders to the ants who are out and about, except for a few victims who are caught off guard, the other ants retreat and warn them after discovering the enemy, so the loss of "Dongyang Castle" is not large.

However, due to the daily harassment, the food harvest in the southern region has dropped significantly, especially due to the remote location of the salt mines, the amount of salt collected has dropped to the lowest point, and it is almost impossible to meet the normal needs of the whole city.

In addition, the corpses of dead enemies need to be cleaned up in time. Previously, because he did not pay attention to cleaning up the corpses of the enemy, he just buried them shallowly in place, and as a result, new silk thread parasites soon broke through the ground and grew on the corpses.

The filamentous parasites infected some normal ants passing by the nearby "Dongyang Castle", and a day later, the mycelial larvae of the filamentous parasites emerged from the cracks in the carapace of the infected ants.

All the other ants turn a blind eye to these infected ants, and it is only when the protagonist discovers them that he orders a city-wide investigation and treats the infected with a hot method, which curbs the potential threat of the proliferation of parasites.

Scalding the infected has proven to be effective, as about half of the infected ants can be cured if they are given food and water in a timely manner, while the other half eventually run out of life through constant treatment and repeated attacks.

In order to prevent more ants from being infected, the protagonist leads the team to disinfect all the corpses of enemies who have died in the past few days.

The simplest and most effective way to do this is to burn it with fire. On the battlefield south of Dongyang Castle, a large number of dry twigs and grass stalks and other fuels were piled up, and the corpses of the enemy were piled up on top of each other on the pyre, and finally burned to the ground. The spores and hyphae of all silk parasitic bacteria have also disappeared and can no longer parasitize ants.

The protagonist feels the need to restore normal production order in the southern part of Dongyang City, otherwise the production of grain and salt will be affected for a long time.

With the current strength of "Dongyang City", especially the insufficient number of male ants, it is not possible to completely eliminate the parasitic ant nest. If the threat of parasitic ants cannot be fundamentally addressed, then there is a retreat.

Every day, after destroying the invading enemies, the protagonist will ride Xiaoqing and fly low in the southern region to patrol around. He was looking for a suitable location to build a fortification to keep the enemy out of the country.