Chapter 35: The Zombie Army
Along the way, white filaments slowly overflowed from the joints and cracks of the ant's body, as if white hair had grown.
Immediately afterwards, the ant's skull was punctured, and a not-so-long stem grew out of the body, which is the true posture of the spore after growth - zombie fungus.
The zombie fungus, which parasitizes the ant and occupies the brain to control it, has now come to the position of the queen ant.
This is the heart of an ant nest where it will replicate and reproduce.
The white stem on the ant's head grew again, branching out into a branch, and its movements gradually became normal, except for the stem that grew on its head, everything else was the same as that of a normal ant.
The white stems began to produce small spores, tightly clustered together, but the color was still very light, far less profound than the black spores of the little rocket.
The zombie fungus observes the position of the queen ant through the eyes of the ant, and manipulates the ant's limbs to move forward step by step.
Naturally, the queen's residence will have a lot of guards.
"Stop!" several black, majestic male ants stopped it.
The zombie fungus manipulated the ant's body, and the toothed mouthparts of its head jerked out, attacking directly at the ants.
It was the first time for these male ants to see such a rebellious thing, and at the same time, they were shocked, and they also opened their mouths together to bite the parasitic ants.
After being parasitized by zombie fungus, the ant is really like a zombie, even if the hands and feet are bitten off and the body is broken, it still continues to fight these male ants without fear of death.
At this time, the spores on the stem on the top of the parasitic ant's head mature, and suddenly burst, scattering extremely small spores to the vicinity.
Naturally, the male ants besieging the parasitic ants were not spared, and the black spores adhered to the male ants and then burrowed into their bodies.
In this way, the task of the parasitic ant is completed, and it is completely an empty shell, and everything in the body is absorbed by the zombie fungus and converted into nutrients for reproduction.
The male ants also began to twitch, fell to the ground, and then staggered back to their feet like a zombie, and they were also infected.
They also began to grow white hairs on their bodies, and stems grew on the top of their heads, and they walked hard to the queen's position, because there were so many ants there.
The ants came to the queen's side, and there was a black patch of pressed ants, and there were hundreds of them without counting them.
It's the same way, the spores on their heads burst out and scatter around... It's like a biobomb that infects the surrounding hosts.
It is estimated that soon, this nest of ants will be infected by zombie fungus...
In the yard, Mei Jun and the others were still busy harvesting and devouring their prey.
In less than a few days, he had become the strongest presence in this place.
But his goal is just to be a new man!
"Big brother, have you noticed that something is wrong with this place?" Su Pofu looked around a few times, and always felt a burst of hair.
Under Aji's guidance, they came to the vicinity of the ant nest, but the entrance to the ant nest is not large, so they should look carefully.
"Afraid of a fart, are you still afraid of a few ants?" Mei Jun kicked him in the ass and scolded.
"Aggie, did you find the entrance?" he asked, turning to the shovel armor at his feet.
"Big brother, they're there!" Su Pofu suddenly pointed to a small pebble and exclaimed.
There is a small hole next to the pebble, which happens to be covered by a withered leaf, and it is very hidden.
But soon it was no longer hidden, and the black ants came out of the small hole, and then dispersed in all directions.
Ajixing hurriedly crawled towards the entrance of the cave, just because it had a holiday with this group of ants in the first place, and now that it has a big brother, it also wants to show it.
"Wait, I'm afraid there's something unusual there, we need to be careful. Mei Jun stomped his foot to stop Aji's movements, and said in a deep voice.
"Aggie, retreat! Stay away from these ants first, don't get close to them easily. ”
Stavel Armor Aji, who had become a loyal little brother, immediately turned around and retreated two meters away.
Mei Jun herself is a fungus, which is why she is so sensitive to the perception of her kind.
Those ants had fungus-like hyphae and spores on their heads, and if he was not mistaken, they must all be infected and parasitized by fungi.
But what kind of fungus is this, that can infect an entire colony of ants on a large scale, and if it were to be devoured...
He watched the scattered ants fall into deep thought, searching his soul for the essentials of knowledge to see if there was any information about this strange species.
However, he searched for a long time, but could not find any information about this strain.
"These ants behave strangely, and their movements are a little stiff, like zombies being manipulated. Su Po, who is also a human being, suddenly remembered a news report.
"Zombies, parasites, or ants, is it the kind of zombie fungus found in the rainforests of South America!" Mei Jun said in a lost voice.
"No, even that kind of thing shouldn't have such a terrible rate of infection. He lowered his head, habitually covered his mouth with his left hand, exhaled, and said in a deep voice.
"Is it too..."
"Big... Eldest brother... It's not good..."Su Pofu's exclamation interrupted Mei Jun's thoughts.
As soon as Mei Jun looked up, he saw an army of zombies.
A black crush of ants rushed towards them, carrying a number of beetles, locusts, and the like, all of which had one or two zombie fungus stems on their heads.
It's so dense that it's just a numb scalp.
"Aggie, get out of the way. He hurriedly leaned down and patted the black armor on Aggie's back.
"Yes, Fungus Master. Shovel Armor Aji's honest voice came from under his feet.
Then, the six crawlers under Aggie rushed forward desperately, and this speed was twice as fast as usual.
Because it also saw the huge zombie army behind it.
If you don't run faster, your life will be in jeopardy.
The thought came to Aji's small brain.
But because it increased its speed, Su Po was miserable and couldn't stand firmly on his back.
He was too small to use the hook in his hand to hold on to the gap between the black armor, but Aji's running made the black armor on his back continue to rise and fall...
"Big—" he was finally shaken off by the bumpy black armor.
"You're a nuisance. Mei Jun wrapped a mycelial hand around Su Pofu's body and pulled it back to Aji's back, without a good airway.
He always has some knife mouths, and the hand of the mycelium is obviously still wrapped around Su Pofu's body, just because he is afraid that this dog's leg will fall again.
After devouring the mutated coccidioides of water jade mold, the toughness of his body has made a qualitative leap, no longer like the jelly that broke when he pulled it.
"Thanks... Thank... Eldest brother. Su Po, who was saved his life, exhaled a big breath of cool air and thanked him.
"Aggie, let's climb to the top of the old willow tree first. ”
"Yes, Lord Fungus. ”
Soon, Aggie came to the old banyan tree with great familiarity, and the sharp thorns on its feet were easily embedded in the bark, and then six creeper feet climbed up in an orderly manner.