In addition to the fact that the protagonist has once again obtained a mount of excellent variety, the research on parasitic ants in "Dongyang City" has also made great progress.

Previously, the Legion of the Divine Angel King had seized a large number of parasitic ants' eggs, larvae, and chrysalis during a raid on discarded parasitic ant nests, and these parasitic ant offspring were initially placed in the "Stump Fortress".

Not long afterward, the Divine Envoy King Army, who pursued the remnants of the parasitic ants that had escaped, found a large number of ant eggs, larvae and chrysalis discarded by the parasitic ants that jumped into the lake because they could not carry them.

Many of the parasitic ant's offspring have died due to the icy water of the lake, but those who survived were housed in makeshift camps near the lake.

The offspring of the parasitic ants in the "Stump Fortress" were also moved to a temporary camp, and the protagonist also transferred a group of experienced conservation worker ants from "Dongyang City" to take care of the offspring of these parasitic ants.

With the emergence of the Hunting Scythe Ant Force, the temporary camp far from the sphere of influence of "Dongyang City" was abandoned, and the descendants of these parasitic ants were brought to "Dongyang City".

In order to prevent the threat to "Dongyang City", the protagonist even builds a small nest under a poplar tree not far from the nest to house the parasitic ant offspring.

In addition to the offspring of parasitic ants and the nursery of worker ants, only the second legion is stationed as a garrison in case of accidents.

Thousands of parasitic ant eggs, larvae and ant pupae were originally obtained, and after a series of transportation and tossing, less than 1,000 still survived.

But these sample sizes are enough to support the study of parasitic ants. In particular, among the offspring of this thousand parasitic ants, larvae of large workers and light gold workers were identified.

At the beginning of the discovery of these parasitic ant offspring, the protagonist organizes a manual to distinguish them, trying to find out if there are any juveniles of parasitic large worker ants or light golden large worker ants.

After identification, it was found that there were some large individual pupae among the ant pupa, and these pupae hatched into large worker ants. And the three pale golden pupae also lived up to the protagonist's expectations and hatched a pale gold worker ant.

The eggs were all identical, and no large or pale gold eggs were found.

Most of the larvae are also ordinary individuals, originally there are some large or pale golden larvae individuals, but with the nursery worker ants are raised equally, these different individuals gradually tend to be consistent with other larvae, and finally their pupae are no longer distinguishable, and the hatched ones are all ordinary parasitic worker ants.

It is said to be parasitic worker ants, but because there are no silk parasitic bacteria in "Dongyang City", the offspring of these pupa adult parasitic ants will not be infected by parasitic bacteria, and the parasitic ant offspring who have been exposed to the environment of "Dongyang City" since childhood are contaminated with the same breath as the Divine Envoy King Army, and they also consciously regard themselves as a member of "Dongyang City".

However, their special life makes it impossible for the protagonist to treat her as an ordinary worker ant, and the protagonist still needs to conduct various research on them.

For example, for ordinary parasitic worker ants, the protagonist has tested their strength, but these parasitic worker ants that grew up in "Dongyang City" are not as strong as those infected with parasitic bacteria, and their strength level is the same as that of the worker ants born in "Dongyang City".

Suffice it to say, if it weren't for the protagonist's request that the parasitic worker ants be marked with a mineral red dot on their foreheads, they would be completely indistinguishable from ordinary worker ants.

So why are parasitic worker ants infected with parasitic bacteria more powerful? The protagonist speculates that either the way the parasitic ant nest nurtures its offspring is different from that of "Dongyang City", such as feeding different foods (the larvae of worker ants in "Dongyang City" are fed relatively low-level food, and only high-end food rich in energy and protein will be provided when feeding male and female larvae). Either that, or the silk thread parasite that infects their bodies is provided by the mutation.

In order to test the protagonist's idea, the protagonist has some live silk thread parasites retrieved from a secret nest guarded by heavy soldiers.

These silk parasites were cultivated from hyphae collected from the vicinity of the parasitic nests, and when they were larvae, they were not aggressive, and the protagonist ordered the Divine Legion to bring some of the parasitic larvae back to Dongyang City and cultivate them in a separate, secret, and heavily guarded nest.

This nest is very close to the combustion chamber, and there are a lot of combustibles piled up inside, and once there is a danger of spreading, the soldier ants in charge of guarding it can take the fire as soon as possible and burn all the parasites inside.

Of course, the protagonist can't use the body of the ants in "Dongyang City" to feed these parasites, but only feed them with the corpses of dead insects and ant excrement, so the growth of parasites is not ideal, and they are almost just struggling to live.

However, in this way, the activity of the parasite is reduced, which is conducive to safety and experimentation.

The protagonist selects 10 parasitic worker ants and 10 regular worker ants, and then transplants the parasite to them.

The parasitic bacteria, which were originally listless, gradually regained their vitality within a few days after taking root in the ants. Subsequently, these infected ants, whether parasitic workers or ordinary workers, gained stronger strength than before.

However, with this, they lost consciousness and began to try to attack normal ants. As a last resort, the protagonist orders the guards to exterminate the infected ants, and the corpses are thrown into the combustion chamber and burned completely.

This experiment proved that infection with the silk parasite can make the host more powerful, but the side effect is also obvious, and the infected person becomes as aggressive and contagious as a zombie.

The mystery of the parasitic ant's power that the protagonist wants to understand is solved, but there is no way to use it harmlessly, and the protagonist's plan to use the results of the experiment to make the residents of "Dongyang Castle" gain more power can only be put on hold for the time being.

However, the protagonist is not discouraged, he is more interested in the existence of large worker ants and light gold worker ants.

Through the cultivation of nests in "Dongyang City", only the large worker ants and light gold large worker ants that had already formed pupation successfully broke the pupa to adulthood, while the individuals suspected of being large worker ants and light gold large worker ants among the larvae eventually disappeared from ordinary worker ants, and there were no such special individuals in the eggs.

As far as the protagonist knows, there are only two types of eggs born by the queen, one is an unfertilized egg, which will develop into a male. The other is a fertilized egg, which will develop into a worker ant or a female. Among them, the development of fertilized eggs into female ants or worker ants depends entirely on the way they are raised.

This makes the protagonist wonder if the different development results of ordinary worker ants, large worker ants and light gold large worker ants in the parasitic ants are also the result of different parenting methods.