While the protagonist is struggling with how to catch a lone parasitic worker ant, a turning point appears.

A shadow suddenly appears under the protagonist's feet, and he hurriedly looks up to see that a ladybug has just flown overhead.

The ladybug landed next to the scale worm, quickly grabbed a defenseless scale worm, stuffed it into its mouth and chewed it.

The body of this ladybug is like a half ball, the head is black, the shell on the back is orange-red, the antennae are very short and not very obvious, and the short feet are hidden under the large wings, which are easy to ignore without looking closely.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

The protagonist counts carefully, and there are seven black dots on the back of this red ladybug, which is a seven-star ladybug.

Ladybug is a predatory insect of the family Ladybugidae of the order Wings, and is a beneficial insect whose adult can prey on wheat aphids, cotton aphids, locust aphids, peach aphids, scale insects, ticks and other pests.

Right now, the seven-star ladybug is killing scale insects, which is good news for the shrub at its feet, the large number of scale insects is almost overwhelming it.

But this is bad news for the grazing parasitic worker ants, who are the only source of honeydew in their nests and cannot afford to lose.

The grazing parasitic worker ants immediately leaned over and tried to attack the ladybug with their large pincers. But the hemispherical carapace on the ladybug's back makes it difficult for these parasitic worker ants to eat.

The parasitic worker ants immediately changed their tactics, and they tried to flip the seven-star ladybug from underneath and attack its soft belly.

This seven-star ladybug has a life-saving trick, only to see that its six arthropods suddenly secreted some yellow viscous liquid, and a foul smell spread in an instant.

The protagonist is far away, and the smell of this smell is disgusting, not to mention the parasitic worker ants who surround the seven-star ladybugs.

These parasitic worker ants retreated from the side of the seven-star ladybug in unison, but they were unwilling to circle around it, watching one after another scale insects disappear into its mouth.

Seeing this, a parasitic worker ant hurriedly crawled to the ground, seeing that it was time to move reinforcements.

When the protagonist sees it, he thinks that he can't wait any longer, and he won't be able to scratch his tongue after a while when the parasitic ant army comes.

And at this time, it is also the protagonist of Tianzhu, a parasitic worker ant actually bypassed the ladybug and crawled in the direction of the protagonist. She may just want to go around the back of the seven-star ladybug to flank it, but this is the right thing for the protagonist.

The protagonist stands still, so that even if the ants are very close, they will not notice as long as their antennae do not touch him.

When the parasitic worker ant crawls to its side, the protagonist suddenly spends up and knocks the hapless parasitic worker ant unconscious with a punch.

The protagonist's action attracted the attention of the other parasitic worker ants not far away, and they turned their heads to this side in unison, and their antennae also pointed here, not even caring about the seven-star ladybugs on the side.

However, due to the distance and the fact that there were no alarm pheromones wafting, the attention of these parasitic worker ants was quickly attracted by the seven-star ladybug in front of them.

The protagonist knocks out a parasitic worker ant and drags her back to where Xiang is. It's some distance from the place where the parasitic worker ants were stunned before, so it's safe to be spotted by the enemy.

When the protagonist sees Ah Xiang wanting to come, he immediately meets him and asks him to stop. Now there is another source of danger that needs to be eliminated, and he doesn't want Ah Xiang to be accidentally injured here.

The protagonist returns to the fainted parasitic worker ant, her back standing upright with three silk threads, and does not leave the host to attack the protagonist.

The protagonist recalls a week ago, as if the threads would not move until they touched a new potential host, or under the influence of the emitted pale green smoke.

The protagonist calms down, takes a few deep breaths with his blowhole, and then gently touches the middle of a silk thread.

These threads come to life the moment the protagonist touches them. Although the protagonist only touches one, the three silk threads actively break away from the parasitic worker ant's body almost at the same time, writhing and crawling towards the protagonist.

The protagonist has long been prepared, these threads crawl slowly anyway, just pay attention to their sudden ejection.

Soon, the protagonist stumbles on the head of the three silk threads without any danger. Then, dragging the captured captives, he returned to the leaves.

The protagonist tied the captive to Xiaoqing's back, and quickly returned to "Dongyang City" with Ah Fei and Ah Xiang.

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The captives don't wake up until the afternoon, and after the protagonist discovers that he has lost the parasitic silk thread, the worker ant is slightly confused for a while, and then still wants to attack him, but the madness and strength are not as strong as when they were parasitized.

The protagonist has already arranged for six worker ants to be on the side, firmly controlling the six limbs of the parasitic worker ants, and the other soldier ant holds down the head of the parasitic worker ant with large tongs and presses her to the ground.

The protagonist steps forward, intersects the antennae with the antennae of the parasitic worker ant, and begins to work on reading the information he wants.

The worker ant's mind is full of chaotic and manic emotions, but it does not stop the protagonist's conscious temptation.

As long as the ordinary ant refuses, the other ants will not be able to read the information in her mind through their antennae.

For this reason, the protagonist also conceived a lot of cliché plans, and ants can't lie anyway, so it's still easy to think of clichés.

However, the brain of this parasitic worker ant seems to be open, and the protagonist reads it at will, but does not respond to the protagonist's questions.

There are pros and cons to this. The advantage is that the protagonist can rummage through the information he wants at will, and the disadvantage is that he can't search accurately, so he can only find a needle in the sea.

Fortunately, the protagonist found that this parasitic worker ant is very young, and it takes no more than a month to break the pupation, and before the pupation, the ants have no memory, and the memory information of a month can still be read through it.

The experience of this parasitic worker ant in just one month, the protagonist used a quick release and dragged the progress bar, and it took half a day to complete the search.

As a worker ant at the bottom of an ant nest, this parasitic worker ant does not have access to particularly confidential information, but from her experience, the protagonist still finds a lot of valuable content.

First, the protagonist determines that the ants live in an underground nest not far from the tongue-scratching bush, and that the nest is clearly newly built.

Newborn captives do not have parasitic threads, but most adult ants in their nests do have threads on them, and will soon transmit them to their unparasitic companions.

However, the ants in the nest are not dissatisfied with being parasitized, and perhaps they do not understand the hidden dangers of being parasitized.

But the protagonist can intuitively feel the lethality of the parasitic threads: this nest often contains dead adult ants, far more than a normal nest of the same size.

The protagonist sees from the perspective of a captive who once dumped the corpse of a dead parasitic ant at a fixed garbage dump outside the nest.

The garbage dump in front of me was so shocking, thousands of ant carcasses were piled up densely, almost forming a small pyramid.

The corpses all had silk threads on them. No, this is no longer a silk thread.

On the corpse, the silk thread sucked up the remaining nutrients inside the corpse, and quickly grew into a small mushroom with an umbrella cover, similar to the appearance of enoki mushrooms.

And the pile of corpses at the foot of the mushroom is firmly bound together by mycelium, as if the pyramid is covered with a layer of hoarfrost, which also ensures that the pyramid will not collapse.

The protagonist realizes: this parasitic silk thread is a fungus. What he didn't know was that the parasitism on zombie ants was also a fungus.