The protagonist is about to announce the dismissal of the meeting, when he reports a situation that attracts the attention of the protagonist.

Roll report: Among the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion who retreated, eleven soldier ants were confirmed to be infected with silk thread parasites.

These soldier ants were all engaged or retreating, and accidentally crawled on their backs by nearby silk thread parasites, and caused infections because they were not cleaned up in time.

Luckily, they were not killed by the enemy because of the intense pain they were infected, nor did they fall behind on the night march and never disappeared (most likely by nocturnal carnivorous insects).

Unfortunately, there seems to be no cure for them when they are infected.

After returning to the main nest, due to the protagonist's indifference in the conference room, Roll is responsible for coordinating the placement of the withdrawn troops. He commanded the other ants to pull out the silk parasites that had penetrated into the flesh of the soldiers.

But after hours of savage growth, the threads grew very quickly, and had firmly penetrated into the depths of the host's flesh.

The first parasitic soldier ants rolled on the ground in pain when the silk thread was pulled out, and the pulled silk thread still had pieces of flesh and tissue fluid. The unfortunate soldier ant soon died in a tumbling of pain.

Instead of trying to remove the silk thread parasites from the remaining ten parasitic soldier ants, he concentrated these infected people who were still very conscious in a nest room, and ordered dozens of healthy and strong soldier ants to guard the only entrance.

The protagonist only then thought of this problem, in the chaos of war, it is inevitable that some legionnaires will be infected. But at that time, I was hit too hard, and I didn't take care of this matter in time.

Fortunately, before the original expedition, the protagonist made a plan to centralize the infected soldiers. And the roll is even better than the protagonist expected, and guards are set up to prevent these soldiers from wandering around and infecting other ants after they get confused.

Although the protagonist originally formulated a plan to centralize the placement of the infected, he actually had no experience and countermeasures on how to treat these infected.

Judging from the report, it is not possible to forcibly pull out these silk threads of parasitic bacteria, and even the parasitic infected legionnaires will be killed. If possible, the protagonist still wants to save these unfortunate legionnaires.

The protagonist decides to go and see what is going on with these infected people first.

This kind of environment is not suitable for too many people, and the protagonist drives most of the kings away, leaving only himself and Luo to go to the lair where the infected are housed.

This nest is located on the edge of "Dongyang Castle", far away from important nests such as the King's Bedroom, the Queen's Bedroom, the Combustion Chamber, and the Hatchery Room. Even if there is an infection or a battle here, it will not endanger the safety of "Dongyang Castle".

The protagonist didn't expect that he was a little anxious to handle things so well.

Soon, the protagonist passes past the Guardian Ants and enters the nest where the infected are housed.

These infected people are not in good shape right now.

The protagonist can see that these infected soldier ants have a long silk thread of parasites behind them, which is the culprit that infects them.

At this moment, all the silk thread parasites hung down on their stomachs, like hay that had lost its moisture, and no longer stood upright.

But this does not mean that the situation of the host is getting better. If you look closely, you can see that the cracks in the carapace on the back of the infected legionnaire are densely popped with small umbrella lids in every place.

This is the mycelial larvae that only popped up last night.

These hyphae will frantically absorb the host's nutrients, but due to the vicious competition between themselves, only the three fastest-growing silk thread parasites can grow, and the other juvenile hyphae will die due to malnutrition, and then be reabsorbed by the host's body.

However, not all hosts will survive to that time, and many hosts with weak constitutions will die due to excessive nutrient absorption by silk thread parasites.

At this moment, the infected legionnaires in front of the protagonist have not yet reached the most dangerous moment when the mycelium is frantically competing for nutrients, but no one knows how many of the ten soldier ants will survive.

Due to the sedative secreted by the juvenile hyphae, these infected soldier ants are lying on the ground weakly at the moment, motionless. In this way, they will only consume the least amount of energy themselves, and most of the energy will be supplied to the larvae of the silk parasite.

Only those lucky enough to survive to the maturity of a small number of silk thread parasites can start eating again.

The protagonist is completely unaware of the cause of this situation now, but from the infected lying all over the place, he also knows that the situation is not good.

Now the old silk thread parasitic bacteria have lost their activity, while the small parasitic hyphae are not yet aggressive.

Since he doesn't have to worry about being infected, the protagonist simply boldly walks to the middle of the infected and orders the soldier ants in front of him to stand up with his tentacles.

There was almost no response from the tentacles of the soldier ants, and only very faint emotional information could be detected. She is no longer able to receive any commands from the protagonist, and she has stopped even thinking, and the protagonist is unable to enter her consciousness to understand her current state.

If I had to describe it, now this soldier ant seems to be in a vegetative state, still alive, but unable to move or think.

The protagonist tries to contact the other parasitic ant ants, and the situation is still the same.

They still have to get rid of the parasites, the protagonist thinks.

Yesterday the method of forcibly pulling out the silk thread parasite was useless, but today the situation is different, and the old silk thread parasite has withered.

The protagonist chooses one of the thinnest-looking soldier ants to experiment with, and if nothing is done, the emaciated soldier ant, who has lost two legs in battle, will definitely not survive.

The protagonist easily pulls out the old withered silk thread parasite. These silk thread parasites seem to have died on their own after completing their mission of parasitism and reproduction, and even the root system that has been deeply rooted in the flesh and blood of the host has shrunk, and it is no longer like yesterday when it is pulled out to bring great harm to the host.

But pulling out the dead silk thread parasite had no effect, and the infected emaciated ant was still slumped to the ground, unconscious, and showed no signs of improvement.

The protagonist tries to pull out the new hyphae that have emerged from the crevices in her carapace, but there are so many of them that they can be found in the crevices of all carapace and arthropods.

The protagonist tries to pull out one of the hyphae. I saw this almost transparent mycelium writhing weakly and struggling a few times, and it was irresistibly pulled out of the head by the protagonist.

The hyphae attached to the underside of its head are so long that the protagonist extracts a full three millimeters of hyphae from the infected soldier ants.

As the blood-carrying hyphae is pulled out, the protagonist sadly discovers that the body of the infected emaciated soldier ant lying on the ground twitches violently, and he swallows his last breath.

These newly grown mycelium can't be pulled out, so can't these infected legionnaires be saved?