Chapter 295: Parasitic Queen

The Divine Envoy King's legion is already familiar with attacking the underground nest, especially if it is not difficult to attack such a secondary nest with few ant mouths.

But now it's not an ordinary secondary nest, but a parasitic infected secondary nest. Fortunately, although this nest has a huge threat of parasites, it is obvious that there are not too many infected ants, and in the ground battle just now, the infected ants who heard the news were all wiped out, so the Divine Envoy King Legion did not encounter much resistance underground.

The ant defenders underground seem to have lost their command, and the ants who are not infected have no intention of resisting, and after being asked by their big-headed ant clan to leave the nest and assemble (disarm) on the surface, they obediently do so.

The few infected ants were too scattered, but they were quickly eliminated without making any waves.

But the protagonist fails to catch the nest's only dominant male to ask what the hell is done.

The body of the male ant was found in his dormitory, seemingly dead for a few days, and the body had dried up.

That is, this nest actually continued to operate for a few days without the management of male ants, relying on instinct and inertia. If the Divine Envoy King's legion doesn't arrive in time, over time, the parasite will be able to completely control this secondary nest through the host, and then spread to all sides.

The only queen in the nest was also missing, and according to reports from healthy worker ants who surrendered, there was only one queen in this nest. But yesterday, the queen left the nest under the guard of a group of worker ants, but they didn't notice which direction the queen was going.

This series of abnormal movements reminds the protagonist of the previous changes in "Dongyang City".

After the protagonist leaves "Dongyang City" because he is looking for fire and goes to the main nest "Qingqiu City", there are many accidents in "Dongyang City".

Lao Wang was killed, and the male ants who went to the main nest to participate in the wedding flight ceremony were attacked by the large worker ants of the same family, and when they returned to "Dongyang City", they found that it had become an empty city, and all the ants were missing.

If you count the number of male ants hatched by the protagonist, the number is unusually large, far exceeding the average; and the emergence of an uncommon ant species such as small secretaries in "Dongyang City".

The mysteries surrounding parasites and missing nests continue unabated.

The protagonist always feels that he must solve this mystery as soon as possible, as if it is a matter of life and death.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist returns to the main nest "Qingqiu City", and the flying knights take off urgently, heading to the vicinity of the infected secondary nest that has just been conquered, looking for the traces of the queen ant and her party who left the day before.

The protagonist thinks that the ants, including the queen, must know something. Whether they left on their own accord or behaved instinctively after being invived, the only way to find out more about the parasite was to find them.

Rambotu's legion remained in the area, scraping the ground to search for further information, and at the same time responsible for destroying all remaining parasites, leaving no hidden dangers.

- I'm the dividing line -

Half a day later, the Flying Knights find a strange line of ants in the shade of a tree and quickly report to the protagonist.

There are about fifty or sixty ants in this row, mainly worker ants, mixed with a small number of soldier ants, and a queen ant among them.

The reason why it makes the flying knight feel strange is that in this time of chaos, no queen ant will go out.

In the past, there were only two situations in which the queen moved in the big-headed ant kingdom:

First, before winter comes, the queen ants of the secondary nest who may be invaded by the paving ant barbarian country should be transferred back to the main nest for the winter, so as to avoid losses. After all, the fertility rate of big-headed ants is not as high as that of paver ants, and queens who can live for many years and continue to lay eggs are an important strategic resource.

Second, after recovering or conquering the nest, the queen ant will be selected from the queen of the main nest to be stationed to ensure long-term control of the newly conquered territory.

Now that the main nest "Qingqiu City" has been firmly in the hands of the protagonist, the flying knights also know that the main nest has not mobilized the queen ant recently. And apparently there is no queen moving between the secondary nests.

Then this group of ants is obviously suspicious, and it is also in line with the protagonist's order to find a suspected infected queen and her entourage.

The flying knights lowered their altitude to try to get a closer look, but the other party's eyesight was surprisingly sharp, and many ants opened their jaws to the sky, jumping and jumping, although it was ridiculous, but it could be seen that they wanted to jump up and attack the flying knights in the air.

The flying knights did not dare to risk descending too low, so they could only scout at a half-high distance and then quickly return to report.

The protagonist can see something unusual in the packet brought back by the Flying Knight: the queen's huge belly is uneven, not smooth and bloated like a healthy body, but similar to the abdomen of a parasitic queen that he has seen before.

Moreover, a normal queen will stop laying eggs before she needs to travel long distances, and her abdomen will gradually return to its normal size, so that she can travel long distances.

But the parasitic queen's stomach was already swollen to that of the termite queen, and she couldn't move on her own, and the ants accompanying her were carrying her.

Now that this group of suspected "infected people" has been discovered, the protagonist quickly mobilizes Rambotu's troops, and he also goes to the rendezvous, personally sits in the town, and chases all the way, and after spending a night in the field, he catches up with this "infected" team in the afternoon of the next day.

At a closer look, the protagonist resists the desire to vomit: the queen ant opposite is no longer ant-shaped, and her huge abdomen is covered with tumors, and she is constantly wriggling one arch after another.

A large number of parasitic buds have emerged from the cracks in the carapace of the queen ant, and the worker ants and soldier ants around her are all infestation.

The infected parasitic ants have very keen eyesight, and they have been annoyed by the flying knights, and after discovering the protagonist's pursuers, they immediately left behind the immobile ant queen and slaughtered the Divine Messenger King Legion in a chaotic manner.

The Divine King's legion wiped out this small group of enemies with a clean sweep, capturing the immobile queen ant.

The protagonist approaches the queen, keeps a safe distance, and sends a worker ant forward with the protagonist's message packet in an attempt to communicate with the queen.

Although the queen ant has become terrifying, the parasitic bacteria on her body are just emerging, and she may still be conscious, and the protagonist hopes to learn something from her.

But to the disappointment of the protagonist, the queen ant tries to bite the Divine Envoy King warrior in front of her, writhing her immobile body frantically.

The Divine Envoy King warrior nimbly dodged the attack and quickly climbed onto the ant's back.

Fortunately, the parasites on the queen ant are not yet mature and will not be contagious. The Divine Messenger King warrior forcibly made tentacle contact from behind her, and then quickly returned.

The protagonist hurriedly reads the packet she brought back.