Although the protagonist has paid attention to the approaching silk thread, the silk thread is still a certain distance away when he kills the last worker ant.

At the speed at which the thread crawls, the protagonist estimates that he has at least two seconds left to react.

When the silk thread suddenly rolls itself into a spring and stabs at the protagonist with lightning speed, the protagonist who has made a mistake in judgment is not ready.

And in the face of the net composed of nine ejected silk threads, he could not avoid it.

In desperation, the protagonist's wings fluttered, his hind limbs kicked, and a roll barely avoided the ejection of the five silk threads in front of him.

There are four silk threads left, three of which are shot not far from the protagonist's side, and one that bounces right on his body.

Don't mention the silk thread that falls off the leaf, just talk about the one on the protagonist.

I saw that as soon as it fell on the protagonist, this silk thread that seemed to have life was like a tiger entering the mountains and forests, and the dragon diving into Daze, and suddenly became extremely flexible.

As soon as the protagonist stretched out his hand to grab it, the silk thread had a flexible tail, I don't know whether it was conscious or unconscious, and avoided the protagonist's hand several times.

Then, like a dragon and a snake, the silk thread moves nimbly through the carapace on the protagonist's back until it touches the gap between the carapaces.

The tip of the thread immediately drilled into the gap. The protagonist only felt a slight numbness in his back, and the head of the silk thread had already been drilled into a small section.

The deep fear engraved in his genes comes back to his mind, and the protagonist understands that it will never be a good thing to let the thread into his body like this.

While the thread no longer swims, but writhes into the gap, the protagonist barely reaches the end of the thread with his arthropods.

With a little force, the protagonist found that the silk thread was very strong, and under this pulling, it didn't move at all.

Not only that, but as the protagonist exerts a little force, a heart-piercing pain comes from the wound, which makes the protagonist feel painful.

But seeing that the silk thread is getting deeper and deeper, and the lesser of two evils, the protagonist will be horizontal, and the arthropod will burst out with the greatest strength and pull it violently.

Under brute force, the head of the silk thread was thrown out of the crack in the carapace and flung onto the page with a "snap", and the head was still stained with viscous tissue fluid and a little muscle.

The combined pain of fire and pinprick in the back makes the protagonist's soft and hard hairs stand on end, and if he can make a sound, then the protagonist's howl will surely shake the whole grass.

Enduring the severe pain, the protagonist pulls out the freshly pulled out with one foot, and stomps on the head that is still twisting the silk thread crawling towards him.

At this time, the silk thread finally struggled a few times and stopped moving.

The other three threads are already slowly coming closer, and the protagonist tramples them all to death with one kick.

Before he could breathe his breath, the protagonist raised his eyes and saw dozens of worker ants crawling quickly along the branches towards the leaves.

The protagonist knows that this is an enemy reinforcement attracted by pheromones, and if it were a normal time, he would not be afraid of such enemies at all.

But now, the protagonist is wounded in the back, and he can only exert two or three percent of his ten successes, and the mysterious silk thread on the enemy's body can launch a sneak attack while people are unprepared, making it impossible to guard against it.

After weighing the pros and cons, the protagonist hurriedly climbed onto Xiaoqing's back, and didn't bother to tie the rope, and hurriedly took off as soon as he pulled the reins.

After the protagonist takes off, the worker ants climb onto the blades and search everywhere but do not find the enemy, and these worker ants lift the corpses of their unconscious companions and dead comrades and disperse.

There were only five blank threads left on the leaves that could not find a host, and they were little dried and curled under the baking of the sun.

The protagonist lies on Xiaoqing's back weakly, endures the pain in his back, tightly grasps the hard hairs on Xiaoqing's carapace, and barely controls and flies back to "Dongyang City".

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It takes a week for the protagonist to recuperate from the wound on his back.

These days, in addition to recuperating from his injuries, the protagonist is not idle.

After summoning Roll, the protagonist carefully compares the images in different information packets, and has basically determined that the worker ant he encountered is the same as the murderer ant he encountered.

It's just that the ants that roll into it don't grow three silk threads from their backs.

Based on the above situation, the protagonist boldly guesses that there was some kind of bad change in "Dongyang City" at the beginning, and a male ant who was hidden for some reason ordered some worker ants to mix in the rolling team, so that they could wait for the opportunity to assassinate the male ants who were going to participate in the wedding ceremony.

After a failed assassination, the male ordered the entire nest of ants to relocate to the hilly terrain to the south.

However, this conjecture does not explain the two doubts:

The first question is why TUNGYANG SHING has produced a large number of young males this year, which is far higher than the normal standard.

It is important to know that although the male ants will let the queen control the number of soldier ants and worker ants according to the nest situation, they will never interfere with the production of male eggs and the number of young females.

The second question is why the worker ants encountered by the protagonist have three silk threads on their backs?

These threads resemble parasites, but unlike insects, they have certain plant-like qualities. Could it be that this is a cordyceps-like creature?

As far as the protagonist's observations are concerned, the silky creatures do not kill their host, the broad-knotted big-headed ant, but instead form a symbiotic relationship.

In some cases, the filamentous organism will break away from the mother and crawl towards the unparasitic host. This should be a way of reproduction.

The threads even emit a thin smoke of pale green. This smoke not only notifies other filaments of a suitable new host in the vicinity of the threads, but also allows the host ants to go berserk and attack the new hosts frantically, making it easier for the filaments to parasitize.

The protagonist can't help but feel terrifying, this silk parasite can also control the actions of the host ant, which is simply a bridge in a science fiction film.

However, the protagonist doesn't know that in the real ant world, there are countless scenes comparable to science fiction movies. For example, there is a species of zombie ant, which is also parasitized and controlled by fungi.

It is a 48-million-year-old fungus that is able to alter and control the behavior of ants by releasing chemicals, turning them into their own puppets until they eventually die.

This parasitic fungus has evolved the ability to control the animals it parasits since ancient times, even before the uplift of the Himalayas.

This parasitic fungus still lives on Earth and usually lives on ants. Ants are often infected with this parasitic fungus when they pass through forest ground cover, and their behavior is controlled by the fungus from then on.

The fungus continues to grow in the ant's body and releases chemicals that affect the ant's behavior, making the other party a "zombie ant", and the "zombie ant" controlled by the fungus no longer has its own behavior and life.

The last stage of their lives is also the most painful and terrifying. In the last few hours of life, the "zombie ants" will crawl underneath the leaves where they are and bite the central vein of the leaf with their jaws, trapping themselves on the leaf, while the parasitic fungus also locks onto the leaf. This leaf becomes an "ant's grave".

The humidity and temperature of the environment here are the most suitable for the survival of fungi. When the "zombie ants" die, the parasitic fungus sprouts from the ant's head, produces spores and "launches" them onto the forest ground cover at night, infects other ants, and so on.