The protagonist continues to fly south, and soon flies to a hilly area where parasitic ants are entrenched.

Although there is almost no threat from flying in the sky, the protagonist still cautiously circles the periphery first, and then goes deeper after confirming that it is safe.

He first chose the shrub where the scale insects had been found, and after careful observation, only a small number of scale insects were feeding on the shrub, and there was no trace of parasitic ants.

After a series of heavy rains, only the luckiest and strongest scale insects survive, so the scale insects are greatly reduced, which is expected.

Even the aphid resources in "Dongyang City" have lost a lot in the past few days, and the supply of honeydew has suddenly become even more scarce, and even the male and female ants have temporarily interrupted the daily ration of honeydew. It seems that before the next rain, the grazing worker ants will have to be ordered to move the aphids to their underground nests to shelter from the rain.

However, the parasitic ants even give up on getting honeydew from the precious scale insects, which the protagonist did not expect.

What would make them willing to give up such an important luxury resource? All the protagonist can think of is that the lair is threatened.

The protagonist immediately drove Xiaoqing and flew towards the valley on the southern slope of the hills.

Along the way, the protagonist lowered the flight altitude, as long as it was maintained at an altitude of about half a meter, then with the vision of the parasitic ants, it was impossible to effectively capture the protagonist's figure, which was still very safe. At this distance, the protagonist can see every move on the ground more clearly.

As he gets closer to the nest of the parasitic ants, the protagonist notices that the soil here is getting wetter and wetter, and large and small waterholes begin to appear in large and small waterholes. It seems that the rain disaster here is not clear.

The protagonist soon finds the entrance to the parasitic ant's nest, which is located on a slightly dry piece of high ground. However, the terms "dry" and "highland" are only relative. Looking at the surrounding Ze Country, the protagonist can imagine what it is like to be under this lair.

Countless parasitic ants swarmed out from the entrances and exits, and without exception, these parasitic ants were covered in mud.

The parasitic ants, carrying eggs, pupae and food, are lined up in an endless line of ants under the command of the large worker ants along the way, and climb the slopes of the hills further south.

The protagonist follows, probably flying less than twenty meters, and the protagonist sees the destination of these parasitic ants.

It was a boulder halfway up the hill, and in the gap between the boulder and the soil, countless parasitic ants came and went.

It seems that the parasitic ants have built a new nest here, and judging by the size of the move, they are ready to abandon their original nest in the valley.

These parasitic ants used to live in plains, and when they built their nests, they only needed to find a high ground slightly above the ground. But when their nesting experience reached the hilly terrain, it was a fatal mistake.

Since the parasitic ants felt that the vegetation at the valley floor was more abundant (because the water was more abundant) and that it was easy to obtain food, they found a slightly higher area at the valley floor and built their nests.

The short-lived heavy rains at the beginning of the previous rainy season had not yet exposed the shortcomings of the nest's flood control. However, when it rains heavily, the special topography of the hills causes the water to flow towards the valley floor, which is much more violent than the plains of the same period.

Now even the plain nests like "Dongyang Castle" have been damaged, not to mention this parasitic ant nest that has become a reservoir size.

Almost half of the space of the parasitic ant nest, which suffered heavy losses in the rain disaster, was filled with water, and countless food supplies and ant mouths were destroyed by the flood.

After learning the hard way, it is rare to encounter a long sunny day today, and these parasitic ants can't wait to move to a higher place.

The protagonist has Xiaoqing stop at the top of the boulder above the new parasitic ant nest, where there are currently no parasitic ants roaming and it is still safe.

He carefully surveyed the moving team of parasitic ants below.

The protagonist estimates that despite the rain, there are thousands of parasitic ants on the ground alone, most of them are moving, and a small number of them have begun to wander out in search of food.

It seems that in order to completely defeat and destroy this parasitic ant nest, it will take a lot of troops. These parasitic ants are far more powerful than the paver ant barbarians or ordinary big-headed ants, and when attacking them, they have to face the threat of silk parasites.

At this time, the protagonist notices a strange phenomenon.

He found that when the parasitic ants moved, they actually moved the corpses of their companions.

Inside these corpses were clearly long-dead corpses, completely covered by mycelium, possibly moved from an ant cemetery. There are also corpses that have just died in the rainstorm, and the corpses look very new.

"What are they doing with the bodies? If you don't have enough food, you want to eat the corpses of your companions? The protagonist conjectures.

Soon, however, he discovered that the parasitic ants had simply piled up the ant carcasses near the entrance to the new nest and rebuilt them into small pyramids.

This pyramid is located in the blind spot of the protagonist's vision, and he only sees it when he rides Xiaoqing to follow it.

The "Ant Corpse Pyramid" is already quite large-scale at this point, and as the protagonist has seen from the captive's memories before, the dense mycelium covers almost all the ant corpses.

Whenever a new corpse arrives, the mycelium growing from the parasitic mycorrhizae quickly climbs up the corpse at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye, covering it completely.

The covered corpse takes on a state that resembles a melted candle, with sticky pus flowing from underneath and emitting a pungent stench that makes the protagonist very uncomfortable.

At the same time, the adult silk thread parasites on the pyramid are all extremely strong, and there are constantly silk thread parasites that are as thick as the dog's tail grass stalks suddenly "self-destruct".

With a "poof", a bunch of slender spore filaments were ejected, settling down in all nearby touches. Soil, stones, and plants have all become temporary habitats for spore silks.

The protagonist knows that this is a parasite multipliing, and although it is the first time he has seen such a scene, it is not difficult to guess.

It's just that the ants in the parasitic ant nest, except for newborns, are basically infected. Can these spore filaments still find a suitable host?

The mystery was soon solved.

Perhaps it was the attraction of the foul-smelling pus flowing from the "pyramid of ant corpses", and soon a dung shell (dung beetle) and a butterfly (dead leaf butterfly) with wings like dry leaves arrived almost at the same time.

The two of them did not disturb each other, and the butterfly sucked the pus from the ground with its long siphonic mouthparts, as if it were agar gyokuro. And the shell lang rudely kneaded a large pile of ant corpses into a ball and swallowed them into his stomach.

Neither the shell nor the butterfly noticed that while they were happily eating, the spore filaments of countless parasites had already been contaminated with their bodies as they continued to move.