At this time, the queen ant finally stopped calming, and instinctively made her sense of danger.

The parasite twisted and approached, and this one was not quite the same as the usual ones, with a thicker stipe and a larger cap, but the overall length was shorter and the movement was slow.

Although it also seems to feel duller than the normal parasite, the direction in which it moves is itself. Any creature that deliberately leans towards it in the face of an unfamiliar species will instinctively detect whether the other person is hostile.

The queen ant is now aware of the hostility!

If the target of the parasite is not the ovitable-laying queen, who cannot move on its own, any normal ant can easily escape with its slow speed.

But the queen ant was tragic.

She writhed her upper body in vain, but she could only struggle weakly in place on the bedding woven by ant silk and grass silk, and her bloated abdomen made it impossible for her to move.

Her violent movements disturbed several worker ants who were waiting to lay eggs, and the worker ants immediately ran to the queen ant to find out why.

The queen ant seems to have grasped a lifesaver, and the protagonist reads from memory that the queen ant sends a message for help to the worker ant in front of her.

But the two worker ants that intersected with the queen's antennae only responded with an unusually confused emotion. No matter how much the queen said that something strange was approaching, they didn't seem to be able to see the unusually thick moving hyphae, and did nothing.

Like the ghosts or ghosts in thrillers that only the victim can see, the parasite seems to be able to confuse ordinary worker and soldier ants, and only male ants and queens have some resistance to this deception.

Under normal circumstances, if the male ant or queen has given a special order, the worker ant and the soldier ant can also eliminate the presence of parasitic bacteria that interfere with the face.

But the queen's plea for help was useless.

At this time, the protagonist had already sighed in his heart, and he could see that the two worker ants, no, almost all the worker ants in this hole, had small mycelial sprouts emerging from the cracks of the carapace. If you don't look closely, it's easy to ignore the identity of the infected in this low-light environment.

These worker ants still retain the consciousness of being ants, but as the parasite grows up little by little with the ant's body as nutrients, these ants will eventually lose themselves.

The tragic queen ant did not realize that these worker ants in front of her could not save her, her call for help failed, and the worker ants who did not notice any "abnormality" quickly left, and they should do what they should do.

The queen ant could only watch alone, without resistance, as the strange, terrifying mycelium approached her.

She twisted her body, trying to get as far away from the hyphae as possible, and her upper and lower bodies were almost ninety degrees apart.

In the huge compound eye, the figure of the Grim Reaper was reflected closer and closer, and the tail end of this mycelium was still glued to the remains of tissue fluid and muscle in the body of the previous victim, which was ironclad evidence that the stipe was forcibly pulled out of the host's body.

Soon, the queen ant can't see the parasite, but the cold touch on her body tells the protagonist that the parasite has climbed up the queen's back.

With a burst of heart-piercing pain, the queen finally shuddered most violently. But then, a numb-like numbness came, and the queen calmed down, and she could no longer feel anything strange on her back.

The queen's dormitory was calm, the dead ant carcasses were finally found and carried away, the ants continued to come and go, and the queen returned to her quiet and began to eat, as if nothing unusual had ever happened......

But the protagonist knows from the queen's memories that the queen is gradually losing herself. She began to lose consciousness frequently, retaining only her emotions and instincts, and the memories that belonged to wisdom were crumbling.

Due to the lack of timers, the protagonist does not know how often the queen loses consciousness, but the memory she can maintain while awake is getting shorter, indicating that her condition is deteriorating dramatically.

The horror is also that the queen ant seems to have forgotten the terrible scene that happened to her not long ago, and the protagonist is able to read her parasitic memories, but the queen herself never thinks about it again, as if nothing exists.

The readable memories are becoming more and more fragmented, but from these fragments, the protagonist can see more and more parasitic ants, and the parasitic bacteria grow larger and larger.

The proportion of parasitic ants in the queen's dormitory is obviously higher than the statistics after the Divine Envoy King's legion conquered this secondary nest, and it seems that the parasitic ants also realized that the queen ant was their companion and began to gather here.

Although the protagonist can't see the situation on the queen's back by reading his memory, now the queen ant is his captive, and he observes it with his own eyes, and finds that this queen ant can't see any hyphae on its back except for its hideous appearance, which is very different from the appearance of other parasitic ants.

Could it be that this is a new strain? It seems to have been completely assimilated into the body of the queen ant, like a parasite rather than a fungus. But the parasites on ordinary ants are no different from the ones that the protagonist has been exposed to before!

The queen ant's remaining memories don't have much reference value, but there is a growing desire in her consciousness to leave the nest and go in a certain direction.

Her goal is the south, the warm south, the south where the sun is most violent.

This explains why the queen leaves the nest with some of her followers.

So, is this also the case with the "Dongyang City", which once mysteriously became an empty nest, and those secondary nests that mysteriously disappeared in the history of the big-headed ant kingdom?

But judging from the current situation, this queen ant obviously only took away a small number of ants, where did the other parasitic ants go? Is it because there is no queen ant and all of them die at the end of their life?

This also doesn't make sense, the protagonist leaves "Dongyang City" and returns, the interval between the time is only a month, it is impossible for all the ants to die in such a short time, and the protagonist did not find the corpse of the parasitic ant in or near "Dongyang City" in the first place.

There are more and more mysteries surrounding parasitic bacteria, which makes the protagonist's brain a little painful.

After returning to the main nest, the protagonist always feels that the desire of parasitic ants to go south is a breakthrough direction, and parasitic bacteria seem to be most active in the southern hilly areas, and parasitic natural disasters often break out, making the local indigenous ants see it as a great threat.

Perhaps the key to solving this mystery lies in the southern hills, or even further south, in the mountains.

Thinking of this, the protagonist sends a messenger to order Gardenia, the ruling ant of "Southern City", to keep an eye on the situation in the southern hills.

At the same time, he also gave an order to one of the male ants who surrendered to him first, asking them to form a small team to go out and explore the secrets behind the parasites!