Since he can't force it, the protagonist has to experiment with other methods.

The properties of this silk thread parasite make the protagonist think of leeches. Leeches are locusts that feed on the blood or bodily fluids of humans and animals, and live mainly in reservoirs, ditches, paddy fields, lakes and marshes in fresh water.

Leeches have the characteristic that once they bite their prey, they will not let go easily. If the leech is pulled out by brute force, its suction cup will remain in the wound, causing infection and ulceration.

This is the same as the silk parasite that takes the life of the host at the same time even if it is pulled out.

Humans generally use cool oil, cigarette butt water, salt, strong vinegar, alcohol or liquor, chili powder, lime and other drops on the insect body, or use fire to burn it, so that it relaxes the suction cup and falls off on its own.

There are no other material nests, but there are still some fire and table salt.

Needless to say, the fire in the combustion chamber is the fire brought from the main nest. Table salt, on the other hand, is the mineral rock salt collected by ants.

Ants like to eat salt, which is a trivia that the protagonist only learned after he crossed, and he thought that ants liked sugar.

Unbeknownst to the protagonist, in his previous life, a research project sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the Amazon Conservancy found that some ants actually prefer salty foods to sugar, at least if they live in less salty areas far from the ocean.

All animals, from ants to humans, need salt to maintain the mobility of their nerves and muscles and the balance of water.

The researchers speculated that ants' tastes would vary depending on their location, and for this reason, ants at different distances from the ocean were tested to prefer salt or sugar, and found that ants farther away from the ocean preferred salt.

In a buffet experiment, the researchers provided ants with a delicacy of cotton balls soaked in salt or sugar for the ants to choose to eat. Scientists have found that ants living more than 100 kilometers inland prefer salt-soaked cotton ball delicacies.

This preference is mainly manifested in vegetarian ants, as carnivorous ants get enough salt from their prey, while vegetarian ants cannot.

Just as herbivores such as cows and deer can only get salt by licking the salted ground, wolves and other carnivores get salt from bloody meat.

After thinking of a countermeasure, the protagonist immediately ordered some worker ants to bring some salt and torches to test the efficacy of silk parasites.

The first thing to do is the salt test. The protagonist has the worker ants smear a large amount of salt on the back of the infected soldier ants and observe the reaction.

Salt can be described as the poison of some insects, if the salt is dropped on the slugs or snails, because the mucus layer on the surface of the body contains a large amount of water, when encountering salt, the salt particles will dissolve into a salt solution, the osmotic pressure of the high concentration of salt solution is much greater than the osmotic pressure of the cell fluid in the slug cells, due to the osmotic effect, in order to maintain the balance of osmotic pressure will directly lead to a large amount of water loss of cells, under the action of high-concentration salt solution for a long time, slugs and snails will die due to severe dehydration.

The protagonist is full of anticipation for the efficacy of salt, but when the salt is sprinkled on the silk thread parasite, it does not appear as the protagonist expects.

It may be due to the thicker epidermal cells of the silk parasite, and these salts do not immediately have any visible effect on the silk parasite. After half an hour, the silk thread parasite slightly appeared to curl with lack of water.

However, this water shortage does not continue to worsen, and at this point, Roll reminds the protagonist that the infected soldier ants are also showing signs of dehydration.

Although the protagonist doesn't know how to see that the infected soldier ants are dehydrated, he is a half-hung ant himself, and he doesn't know a lot of knowledge, so it's more professional to roll.

It seems that these silk parasites are very tenacious and have begun to absorb a lot of water from the host's body to cope with the dehydration caused by salt.

In order to prevent endangering the lives of the infected soldier ants, the protagonist can only ask the worker ants to carry the salt grains. Then the worker ants were fed some water to the infected soldier ants.

Although these soldiers are no longer able to eat actively, they can still swallow instinctively when the liquid drips on their mouthparts, so that they will not die of thirst in their sleep.

Since salt is ineffective against silk thread parasites, the protagonist can only experiment with the efficacy of flames.

The fire was brought from the combustion chamber by the worker ants, and a thin wooden stick wrapped in pine resin carried the small flame from the combustion chamber to the place.

Because the torch was so small, the flame on the torch had been extinguished, leaving only a little charcoal on the torch head. However, this kind of stable dark fire comes in handy.

The protagonist picks up the smoldering torch and slowly brings the torch head close to the back of the infected ant ant.

He had to keep the torch close to his back, or he might get burned even if he was an infected soldier ant.

The smoldering torch head still has a high temperature, and when it gets close to the mycelial larvae, the mycelium larvae writhing frantically as if they were in danger, and some even try to burrow back into the host's body.

However, most of the mycelial larvae quickly dry up under the heat, and are completely destroyed at the cellular level, and the dead can no longer die.

Seeing that the heat has a miraculous effect on these tenacious silk thread parasites, the protagonist is overjoyed, although there are still some mycelium larvae that hide in the bodies of infected soldier ants and cannot be eradicated, but at least there is a palliative solution, and the probability of these legionnaires saving a life is greatly increased.

The protagonist immediately teaches the worker ants with torches how to use torches to kill silk parasitic larvae, and how to keep a good distance so as not to seriously injure the infected soldier ants.

Once the worker ants have mastered the technique, they are guided by the protagonist, and the visible hyphae on the backs of these legionnaires are quickly removed.

The protagonist peels off the dry and charred mycelium, and the remaining hyphae hidden in the flesh can still be seen through the cracks in the carapace, but these can't be completely removed, and the protagonist is already very satisfied with the current curative effect.

The protagonist orders the dispatch of some worker ants to take care of the wounded warriors, and if the mycelium grows again, they continue to heal with torches. At the same time, he instructed them to feed them water and honeydew regularly to replenish nutrition as much as possible.

As for the ultimate fate of these infected warriors, the protagonist can only pray to the heavens.

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After finishing his job dealing with the injured, the protagonist moves on to other things.

He first ordered all the queens to lay 100 male eggs as soon as possible.

Later, the protagonist goes to tell Rambo Fei to finish teaching the second batch of young male ants as soon as possible.

After the second batch of males graduate, the protagonist plans to hold a wedding ceremony for the first batch and the second batch of males born at the same time, and after the ceremony, "Dongyang City" will have more than 100 adult males.

In the event of another war, Dongyang Castle will be able to dispatch more than 5,000 troops at a time, and its military strength will be greatly increased.

However, at present, there is a very important resource lacking in the wedding flight ceremony - the unmarried female ant.