At this time, the protagonist thinks of the events of his previous life, and after crossing into an ant, the protagonist's memories of his past life are blurred, but some of them are in some special situations, and their memories are extremely clear.

It was the summer vacation when I was a child in my previous life, thinking about that age, still in school, not worrying about marriage, family, income, house, car, the only thing I worried about was being called parents by the teacher because of naughty, and the "lesson" after the results were announced after each exam. It was really a carefree childhood.

Every summer vacation, I will always go to the countryside grandfather's house to live for a few days, I still remember that living in the countryside summer night is actually a very comfortable pastime, you can blow a cool breeze, look up at the night sky without haze, the Milky Way is full of stars, and experience the idyllic scenery that has never been seen in the city.

When you sit on the river bank to enjoy the coolness, you are enjoying the cool gift of nature, and occasionally there are some unexpected surprises.

On this day, suddenly a green meteor slipped from in front of him, and before the protagonist could make a wish on the meteor, he heard a "plop" sound, and the meteor fell into the water.

So the little protagonist hurriedly looked down, only to find that the meteor just now was a big praying mantis, which was fluttering its claws and wings on the water with a big belly.

Could it be that the summer is too hot, and this praying mantis also wants to cool off in the water? The protagonist watched curiously, but soon, a small black end suddenly stretched out from the tail of the mantis, and this small end continued to extend outward, and after a while, it had turned into a small black writhing branch.

The dying praying mantis writhed its body in pain, and the black branches continued to drain from the tail of the mantis, and soon turned into a small black rope. The rope twisted stiffly, pulling itself out of the mantis's body as it swam into the water.

Finally, the rope completely detached from the mantis's body, only to see that its length was several times longer than the mantis's body length. It still writhed as hard as it could, swimming swiftly to the bottom of the water, as if something was attracting it. And the praying mantis had become stiff and lifeless, slowly sinking into the water.

The protagonist looked at the figure in front of him, who didn't know whether it was an earthworm or a snake, or some other ghostly thing, and his heart was numb.

The grandfather next to him tells him that it's called a wire worm, and this is the first time the protagonist knows about this disgusting, cruel and strange species.

The grandfather, who loves insects, taught the protagonist a lot of knowledge about insects in the countryside and cultivated the protagonist's curiosity about it.

The protagonist knows that the most common nematode hosts are large arthropods, including praying mantises, cockroaches, etc., as well as locusts.

When arthropods are infected with nematodes during the nymph stage, the parasite will stay with the host throughout their lives until they die.

Wire worm larvae will further develop after parasitic in the host, releasing a large number of chemicals that make the host always feel that they are not full, and they continue to carry out the process of "eating, eating, eating", but they do not know that most of the energy they eat has actually been captured by the parasite.

When they grow up, the body length of the nematode is usually much longer than that of the host, so they will curl up and shrink in the host's abdomen, which is why some parasitic praying mantis and locusts have surprisingly large abdomen, that is because they are curled up with a nematode in their body.

The more terrifying fact is that in fact, there is often not only one nematode parasitic in a host, but also several insects can often be seen crowded together in the host, so the suffering of the host can be imagined.

When the nematode in the host has developed to a certain extent, the worm needs to leave the host and return to the embrace of the river or the sea. At this point, they release chemicals that make the host thirsty, and the host will go to find water on its own.

When the host finds a source of water, the nematode will emerge from the host's tail little by little, and eventually dive into the water to continue the rest of its life.

When the nematode in the host body leaves, its life is basically over, and it can be left without having to endure the pain caused by the parasite.

In fact, the nematode does not deliberately kill the host, even during the parasitizing process, it only absorbs the host's nutrients and makes the host feel uncomfortable, but does not endanger the host's life. However, when the nematode emerges from the host's tail little by little, its rough movements will cause serious damage to the host's internal organs, so the host in this case generally does not live long.

However, there are occasional cases of survivors, and if the surviving host can survive and reproduce as normal, they can barely survive and reproduce in the future, but such lucky ones are very rare.

If the host does not find a water source, the nematodes will also come out, but the habit of the nematodes is to like cold and damp and cannot tolerate dryness, so they will be dried up and killed after leaving the water source not long after.

There are also theories that the nematode does not make the host feel thirsty, but releases proteins in the host to make it like to jump from high to low, and the low places are often rivers and other places with water bodies, so it creates the illusion that the mantis infected with the nematode likes water.

This time, the nematode found in "Dongyang City" was obviously infected with locusts, and this locust was killed by the Divine Envoy King's legion, and its body was transported to the rear warehouse.

This locust is large and mature, and it should have waited for the locust to become an adult before driving the host to find water.

However, the parasitic nematodes were keenly aware of the death of the host, and they could no longer get energy and safe shelter from the host, so these parasites hurriedly came out and were seen by the ants of "Dongyang City".

This is the case in more than one locust, and several locusts have gushed out of their bodies, and the total number is about dozens.

There is no water source near "Dongyang City", these nematodes do not live long, in order to carry out the most important thing in their lives - reproduction, the nematodes that burrow out of the locust's body begin to move to the shade of the back yang, a total of more than a dozen nematodes successfully reached their destination, and began to mate in a slightly damp depression. The successful ones are left with fertilized eggs, and the failed females can also undergo parthenogenesis.

In this way, before the adult worms of the nematodes die quickly, they leave the protagonist with thousands of eggs.

The eggs would have to endure until the summer rainstorms formed puddles before they hatched and found a host.

But now, the protagonist has an idea - these eggs are his sharpest weapon against locusts.