Although the protagonist does not know about the zombie ants, he does not know what kind of creatures are parasitic on these ants.

He just intuitively felt that these strange parasitic ants were related to a series of anomalies in the previous "Dongyang City".

But at least one thing he was sure of - these strange parasitic ants were hostile to Dongyang City.

That's why last time, the parasitic worker ant attacked him wildly after smelling the breath on the protagonist's body.

After the protagonist recovers from his injuries, he can't wait to set off again, targeting the hill where he found the parasitic ants last time.

This time, he wants to capture a captive and then learn about these mysterious ants through the captive. In the technical terminology of our People's Liberation Army, this is called "scratching the tongue".

This time the protagonist does not intend to act alone.

The hills are far away from Dongyang Castle, and although Xiaoqing only needs to fly for five minutes, it takes the ants five hours to walk, and there may be obstacles and dangers along the way.

So the protagonist decided to set off with only flying knights, and the number of knights should not be too many, so as not to startle the snake.

In the end, the protagonist picks two young males who have performed best in flight training to act with him.

In order to make it easier to identify, the protagonist named them "Ah Fei" and "Ah Xiang".

That morning, the protagonist took Ah Fei and Ah Xiang and rode their mounts into the sky, turned to the south and flew quickly.

The protagonist's mount is still a red-eyed and green-shelled Xiaoqing. In the last operation, although Xiaoqing was entangled in a spider web, she was not injured, and after a few days of recuperation, she is now in good shape.

And Ah Fei and Ah Xiang's mounts are ordinary black and gray houseflies, and their body sizes are also smaller than Xiaoqing.

The three flying knights head all the way south, and the protagonist quickly finds the hill with the help of memory.

The protagonist and his two subordinates land on the bush where they last encountered spiders.

Before landing this time, the protagonist carefully checks the landing site to make sure there are no threats such as spiders or praying mantises.

After landing on the leaves of the bush, the protagonist first goes to see the battlefield last time.

The broken webs were still stirring in the breeze, and the spider's corpse was gone. The cobwebs of the original location of the corpse had broken a hole for some reason, and the spider corpse probably fell from here.

The protagonist does not find the shadow of the parasitic ant on the top layer of the shrub, so the protagonist asks Ah Fei to look at the three flies on the leaves, and he takes Ah Xiang to slowly climb down the main trunk of the shrub.

After a short climb, the protagonist discovers the goal of the trip with his excellent eyesight.

Seven parasitic worker ants are busy on the trunk of a tree, grazing their herds.

The object of grazing is not the aphids that the protagonist is familiar with, but a small, ugly gray bug. This small insect is similar in size to an aphid, but has horizontal stripes on its carapace and numerous soft whiskers that look like tentacles on the edge of its back shell.

If aphids are like transparent emeralds, these bugs are inconspicuous gravel.

The protagonist is curious about what the parasitic ants are doing herding these ugly little bugs?

But it soon dawned on him when he saw that the insects also secreted liquid for the grazing ants to suck on.

In fact, these small insects are called scale insects, which are agricultural pests that often damage leaves, branches and fruits, and are very fecund. Female scale insects will excrete honeydew from ** like aphids, so as to attract ants to suck and let ants protect themselves.

The parasitic worker ants are dutifully grazing these little bugs, and they all have three silk threads on their backs.

The threads ignored the many scale insects on the side, perhaps knowing that they were too small to serve as hosts.

The protagonist puts these scale insects aside for the time being, and although "Dongyang City" is currently in short supply of honeydew due to the breeding and training of flies, the main target today is not them.

The protagonist stares closely at the seven grazing ants, which are a bit of a lot, and the protagonist is afraid to make sure that he will not be entangled in silk threads when facing so many parasitic worker ants.

You have to find a way to lure out one or two lone worker ants.

The protagonist thinks about it and doesn't have a clue for the time being.

At this time, a herding worker ant seemed to have drunk honeydew and crawled back to the ground with her large, almost translucent belly.

The protagonist's eyes light up, so wait until the ants are full and gone, and then they will serve when there are one or two left.

But reality quickly slapped the protagonist in the face.

As soon as the well-fed parasitic worker ant left, three more worker ants with shriveled stomachs crawled over and joined the grazing team.

At this time, the number of grazing ants increased instead of decreasing, and it became nine.

The protagonist had to continue to wait patiently, and after half an hour, the grazing ants came in and out, and finally became five.

The protagonist feels like he can't wait any longer, and it's already the time when the ants have been grazing the least since the protagonist arrived.

So the protagonist asked Ah Xiang to stay in place and quietly touched it.

With his eyesight far beyond that of ordinary ants, the protagonist quietly approaches the parasitic worker ants all the way with the help of raised obstacles on the bark of trees.

At this distance, normal worker ants are already concerned about moving creatures, and the protagonist can no longer move forward rashly.

Just a short time after the protagonist touched it, there was one more ant grazing, and it became six.

The protagonist thinks for a moment and plucks a small piece of bark from underneath him. He hooked the bark with one hand and carefully aimed at a worker ant that had left the group slightly.

With a "whoosh", the protagonist throws the bark at it, hitting the target in the head.

Although the protagonist throws with a lot of force, the weight of the bark is too light, and it only stumbles the parasitic worker ant.

The worker ant looked up blankly and looked around vigilantly, but saw nothing.

"Whoosh", the second piece of bark that the protagonist throws also smashes on her head. With a distance of just a dozen centimeters, the protagonist will not lose at all.

At this moment, the parasitic worker ant was frightened, and fled to the ground in a panic, completely ignoring its companions not far away.

This is a protective instinct of ants. When the protagonist is a naughty child, he likes to use grass stalks to tease the ants on the ground. He found that this time, when the ants encountered an incomprehensible attack (the plucking of grass stems), they would flee in the wilderness, and they did not even have time to warn their nearby companions to be careful.

But the protagonist's purpose was not achieved, he had expected the parasitic worker ant to run in his direction in a panic, and then just happened to capture it alive and bring it back.

The protagonist then chooses a parasitic worker ant and repeats his old trick.

As a result, the worker ant also fled to the ground. It seems that the ants flee instinctively in the direction of the nest, which makes the protagonist's wishful thinking fail!

What to do?