Lambotu was right to be cautious.

Once an ant infected with a parasite appears in a nest, a nest will soon appear, spreading at a rate comparable to that of the Black Death. Rambotu doesn't know how much the situation in this nest has deteriorated, so he can only be careful.

Before waiting for the protagonist's arrival, he sends scouts to continue reconnaissance around the perimeter.

After receiving the information packet instructions of Rambo Map to check for parasites, the scythe ant scouts, who are naturally averse to parasites, completed their tasks well and made more discoveries.

The Scythe Ant Scout was ordered to capture and kill several infected ants foraging in the wild, but such a big movement would also startle the snakes, and some uninfected ants were not attacked, and fled back to their nests in the chaos.

Rambotu didn't care if the ants went back to report the news, no matter whether there was an epidemic in this nest or not, it was only a military operation in the first place, and now it is just a matter of raising the alert level.

The biggest discovery of the Scythe Ant Scout comes from near the entrance and exit of this nest. There is a garbage dump for ants, not far from the entrance, where they dispose of not only feces and household garbage, but also corpses.

This is a common habit of the secondary nest of the big-headed ant kingdom, their nest ** part is unusually clean, and the garbage is discarded in the designated garbage heap. The garbage heap in the Divine King's realm will be farther away from the entrance, and a lesson has been learned.

Now, the garbage heap here is overgrown with dense parasitic hyphae, the big ones are ripe, and the small ones are just sprouting and dense, which makes Lambotu tremble.

When the protagonist arrives, he is soon inspected by the guards.

He was also shocked to see this pile of garbage full of parasitic bacteria, and when he looked closely, the mycelium basically grew on the substrate of ant corpses.

The carcass of an ant can be seen from the extent of its shriveling and fracture to tell when it died. Among the corpses on this garbage dump, there are obviously many relatively new corpses, showing that the mortality rate of the nest ** has been extremely high in recent times, far exceeding the normal level.

It is inferred from the protagonist that the parasite has only spread in recent days, which will cause the mortality rate to rise.

The protagonist orders the destruction of this parasitic-infested source of infection. Since they did not carry fire, the ants could only cautiously approach from the periphery, bite off the parasites one by one, and throw them to dry in the sun, so that they could die completely.

Some mature parasites seem to be able to detect a new suitable host nearby by some means, their roots will break, the small cap of the head is crawling on the ground, the probe is looking for the location of the new host, the stipe twists and moves, and it is like a swimming snake, the speed is not slow, and it is really impossible to see that this is a fungus.

Fortunately, the Scouts are very familiar with their "natural predators" and work together to destroy these mobile adult parasites.

The protagonist has previously learned from the surrendered male ants that the southern hilly areas where the Sickle tribe lives have a large-scale outbreak of parasitic bacteria every few years.

In addition to the scythe, other ant races in the southern hills will also be infected, and finally the infected ants will gather into an army to wreak havoc in the hilly areas and move southward, attacking and infecting the healthy tribes along the way, scavenging all the food like hungry ghosts, and bringing a natural disaster to the entire region.

Therefore, the indigenous people of the southern hilly areas are extremely disgusted with these parasites, and they will destroy them when they see them. And it is precisely because of the frequent occurrence of parasitic infections that a lot of the strength of the indigenous ants has been consumed, and objectively it is impossible for the southern part of the big-headed ant kingdom to have a force that is enough to challenge them.

However, the situation of parasites in the territory of the big-headed ant kingdom is not very clear in the big-headed ant kingdom, and they know that there have been many strange disappearances of all ants in the secondary nest in history, but there has not been a large number of infected ants who have taken the initiative to migrate and attack everywhere.

The protagonist also does not explain why the parasite behaves differently when infecting the host in the two regions.

- I'm the dividing line -

It took more than half a day to clean up the parasites from the garbage dump.

During this period, a team of ants rushed out of the target's secondary nest, and the number was in the thousands. From the naked eye, more than half of the infected people are infected, and the rest are not yet infected, but it is possible that there are bacteria in the body.

These ants poured out in a chaotic manner, and after a rough formation, they slaughtered the army of the Divine King.

The messenger who had returned to report had already told them about the attack, and while the Divine Envoy King's legion was cleaning up the corpses, they had already been found by scouts from the Vice-Hive.

Rambotu immediately ordered his troops to reflexively meet the battle, he only used half of the army's strength, and the rest of the troops were still carrying out the operation of eliminating parasites.

It's not that Lambotto is big, it's really these big-headed ants infected by parasitic bacteria, it seems that even the most basic tactics have been lost, and they are not the same as those hard-fighting parasitic ants that they encountered before.

The ants that have not yet been infected gather at the mouth of the nest before acting in groups, while the infected ants rush out of the hole and follow the pheromones arranged by the scouts, and the whole line is stretched out of formation and is not in formation.

Naturally, this chaotic offensive could not pose a threat to the defenses of the Divine Envoy King's legions. The Divine Envoy King warriors didn't even use the sling, and with a few counter-charges, they quickly killed hundreds of parasitic ants.

The only thing to be careful about is that the parasites may take advantage of the chaos to break away from their original host and try to wriggle and crawl towards the Divine Envoy King warrior. But under close surveillance, these parasites are also killed.

The healthy-looking big-headed ants that followed closely behind were also very "healthy", and they didn't seem to have the belief to fight to the death with their kind, but were just carrying out their tasks. After encountering a small stone throwing attack, he quickly lost his fighting spirit and obediently allowed his fellow Divine Envoy King warriors to capture him.

The protagonist has a scythe scout team keep a close watch on the captive team, regularly double-checking for new infected.

At this time, the work of cleaning up the parasites in the corpse pile was basically completed.

After completing the homework, the protagonist is still uneasy, and asks the ant warriors to carefully check themselves and their companions for signs of infection.

After confirming that it is safe, the protagonist orders Rambotu to attack the nest of the big-headed ant kingdom in the infested area.

He asked Lambotu to try to capture the male ants of the secondary nest as much as possible, whether he was infected or not, he was in the know.

The protagonist feels the need to solve the mystery of the parasite, and not like last time, he feels that everything is okay when he chases away the parasite.

This mysterious parasite, lingering, always hangs over this land like a haze.