Chapter 245: Fighting Poison with Poison (3)
A drop of water, a crystal droplet, slowly glides on the dark green leaf.
If you look at the drop from a different angle, you can see the light flickering, and the surrounding scene is reflected in the clear sky, green grass and trees, and insects.
The water droplets slid faster and faster, pressing the leaves slightly sagging, which accelerated the rolling of the water droplets, and the water droplets only lingered a little when they passed the tip of the leaves, and then threw themselves into the arms of gravity without hesitation, until they were crushed on the ground.
Before the droplets shattered, a large group of insects under the tree was reflected.
It is a large army of insects, composed of a variety of insects or other arthropods, and carnivorous insects and herbivorous insects coexist in harmony.
What these insects have in common is that in the carapace on their bodies, more or less fungi have grown out of the cracks in the carapace, which is a group of parasitic war beasts.
At this moment, they did not have the domineering spirit they had when they fought with the Destroyer before, but instead gathered together in a languid group, hiding under their subordinates or in the cracks of the stones, as far away as possible from the unguardable falling droplets.
These droplets of water continue to fall, a typical scene at the end of the rain.
It has been more than a day since the continuous rain first arrived, and although the rain has finally stopped, the water droplets that remain on the plants are still dripping, causing great trouble to these parasitic war beasts.
A fluffy parasitic spider huddles up next to the parasitic dung beetle, its bristles are full of fine water droplets, and it has to resist the lazy feeling brought by the slowly cold body temperature, while wiping its lower body from time to time, trying to dry it as much as possible to avoid hypothermia. But the dung beetles around it, the water droplets rolling off its smooth and round back carapace are always dripping on its head. If it had emotions, it might have been furious!
Compared to some small parasitic war beasts, this spider is still lucky.
More than a dozen parasitic flies huddled together to keep warm, but they were not in a good position, a huge half-opened magnolia flower on the top of their heads was destroyed by the rain, but before it was destroyed, a large amount of rainwater was stored in the bowl of magnolia flowers, and the rain slanted down like a flood, and the flies that were already half-frozen below had no time to dodge, and soon struggled in the puddle a few times and did not move, floating in the puddle, lifeless.
The parasitic insects gathered together due to the influence of parasites, and although they instinctively knew that they should avoid the rain, under the control of parasites, their desire to huddle together was actually greater than their desire to survive.
These parasitic war beasts just barely hid in a drier place under the tree and resigned themselves to their fate, spiders did not go to the back of the leaves to hide from the rain, and scorpions did not dig holes but shrank in the open air, all of them used their bodies and lives to shake the power of nature.
After all, although there are many parasitic war beasts here, they lack the soul species of parasitic ants.
In swampy areas, parasitic war beasts are always attached to parasitic ants, and in addition to foraging, parasitic ants can provide almost all necessary services for other parasitic war beasts, such as comfortable shelter, such as cleaning the body, and so on.
Without parasitic ants, this group of parasitic war beasts was powerful but unable to take care of themselves, so they were at a loss in the spring rain and ended up in such a situation.
- I'm the dividing line -
A swarm of swarthy ants made their way through the rain on the ground, their way through the grass and the open field, stained with water droplets and mud alike.
But the destroyers were determined, and they only licked the dirt off their bodies as they moved, trying to keep their bodies as clean and dry as possible, not at all as embarrassed as parasitic beasts.
This is a main force of 5,000 Destroyers, who have come out of the occupied [New Salt City] and other places, gathered together, and then moved in the direction of the salt marsh according to the guidance of the radar destroyers.
Unlike the parasitic beasts that can only fight the heavy rain on their own bodies, these destroyers hide in the warm and comfortable nests built by the big-headed ants, where there is a thick rainproof layer and a perfect drainage system, and the underground is dry and warm, so that the destroyers can survive the rain unscathed, and only after the sun comes out today that they have enough sunshine, they have begun to march.
- I'm the dividing line -
Two days ago, the parasitic war beast that suddenly appeared did catch the Destroyer by surprise at first.
The Destroyer's physiology is overwhelmingly superior to the vast majority of ants, with larger bodies, stronger strength, stronger carapaces, and sharper jaws.
However, in the face of all kinds of bugs, they lose all their advantages. Scorpions are bigger than them, dung beetles are stronger than them, foot carapaces are stronger than them, and mantis jaws are sharper than them.
The Destroyers can only fight with numbers and organizational skills just like other normal ants do against predators.
This time, unlike on the north bank of the Great River, parasitic war beasts are sporadically popped up, even if the powerful parasitic mites or parasitic wasps, the destroyers are desperate to kill the enemy with double-digit losses.
When hundreds of clusters of parasitic beasts burst out, their power was terrifying, and even the five hundred groups of the Destroyers could not resist it.
The parasitic beasts slammed in, and the beetles and scorpions of all colors smashed and crushed the destroyer's ranks like assault chariots, far more powerful than the beetle legions of the Divine Angel King's legions.
Although the bugs that followed behind did not have such a terrifying ability to break the formation, the various tactics made the destroyers who had lost their formation even more confused. The Mighty Destroyer is no better than the Divine Messenger Warriors in the face of parasitic beasts, and they don't have artifacts like protective nets or ballistas.
Parasitic beasts use their jaws, spikes and stingers, venom and acid, and use all weapons to fight.
For two days, the Destroyers had lost nearly four figures in the field and had to temporarily shrink back into their lair.
But the parasitic beasts did not seem to intend to spare these old enemies, the parasitic crabs and parasitic scorpions used large pincers to destroy the ant mounds, the parasitic mole crickets and others were burrowing, and the parasitic spiders blocked the entrances and exits with newly woven cobwebs.
If it weren't for a timely heavy rain that forced the parasitic war beasts back, I'm afraid that the Destroyers would have to have a hard time.
Now, after the rain is the most vulnerable time for parasitic beasts, the Destroyers know this, and their war against parasites has been going on for countless years!
The hordes of Destroyers gathered and emerged from their nests, passing through the rain-beaten wreckage of cobwebs that could no longer seal the holes, basking in the sun, forming battle formations and quickly pulling out.
A battle between the Destroyer and the Parasitic War Beast that the creatures on the south bank of the Great River have never seen before!