Chapter 51: Disintegration
For six hours, it seemed like a year, Lin Ye fought side by side with the lizards, repelling the attacks of the growing number of marching ants. Gradually, Lin Ye found that the movements of these marching ants became a little stiff, and some of them began to appear on their bodies, but some of the marching ants were still very strong and seemed to be immune to Beauveria bassiana.
With a loud roar, Lin Ye kicked away a worker ant, and the head of this worker ant spun around a few times, and after turning several heels, it was directly killed by one blow. But if you kill one worker ant, three more will rush up. The lizard's red dorsal armor had become dull, and it opened its mouth to dissipate heat, and its body had been cut in several places by the jaws of the worker ants, and its movements were no longer as agile as before.
Lin Ye flapped one worker ant with his wings for a while, and kicked the other one away with his foot, and the flame feather cloak on his back changed into a black flame, engulfing the five worker ants in front of him in an instant. His flame can be kneaded into any shape at will, and at the moment it is like a large cake, from top to bottom, the five worker ants are directly baked, and there is a strong smell of burning.
After finishing the enemy in front of him, Lin Ye had just raised his head and had not had time to catch his breath, when he saw nearly ten marching ants crawling towards him! One dead, another one, tens of thousands of marching ants, even if they stood in a row and let Lin Ye kill them one by one, it would take a month to wipe them all out!
Isn't there no end to this endless stream of attacks? Thinking back to the army of marching ants I saw before, these worker ants were only a fraction of a fraction of them.
Lin Ye had never felt so aggrieved. He could only be beaten but could not fight back, and his territory was already in jeopardy. Lin Ye was engrossed in dealing with the enemy in front of him, and in order to maintain enough spirit to complete the plan in his heart to turn defeat into victory, he had no strength left to kill the worker ants who reported the news.
Looking at the dense forest to the north, the number of worker ants has increased dramatically, and at the same time, there are even stronger soldier ants among them! These soldier ants not only have a pair of sharp jaws, they are born to fight, and battle has been engraved in its bones!
This soldier ant went on a rampage all the way, pushed away the worker ants on one side, and pounced towards Lin Ye.
Lin Ye shook his head, his spirit was a little trance, and the surprise attack of the soldier ants immediately made him sober up.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Ye roared and fought with the soldier ants.
This was the first time he had fought a soldier ant in close quarters, and the ant's eyes were degraded, but he was very sensitive to the ground vibration, and he could also sense the scent of the forest night. It opened its special jaw and bit at Lin Ye's leg, and Lin Ye jerked his leg. The jaws of the soldier ants joined together and collided with fierce sparks. And Lin Ye took advantage of this opportunity, he twisted his waist suddenly, his right leg turned three hundred and sixty degrees in mid-air, and slammed into the neck of the soldier ant with strong inertia!
Raptor Kick!
The soldier ant was immediately knocked four or five meters away, and the shell of its neck was directly kicked and shattered by Lin Ye, revealing light green body fluids.
It shook its head and stood up a little tremblingly, although Lin Ye's blow hit it hard, it did not end its life! Just as the soldier ants were about to launch a counterattack, a worker ant behind it rushed over, its tentacles swayed, and the attacking movements of the surrounding marching ants stopped suddenly, and then turned around and left.
What happened, Lin Ye was suffocating, and he had consumed a lot of physical strength just now. The gap between soldier ants and worker ants is really different.
Watching these marching ants retreat impatiently, Lin Ye's eyes flashed with a fine light, and he realized something.
After tidying up the messy feathers, Lin Ye turned his head to stop the lizard from pursuing these worker ants, and he chirped a few times, signaling that the lizard was guarding the territory here.
The lizard understood Lin Ye's words, it looked at Lin Ye with some reluctance, nodded slightly, and then jumped onto the hollow log, vigilantly observing the surroundings, guarding against the attack of some marching ants who had not received the order.
Lin Ye rested for a while, he took a sip of water, ate a few silver-scaled fish in the pool, and then chased after the marching ants.
Arriving at the site of the ant colony in the gravel area, it was already a mess. The dense ant tide that was distributed before has been fragmented at the moment, revealing a large number of gaps in the middle.
The retreating marching ants returned to the colony, blending with the sensational black, but the black was now stained white.
The defense system of the whole team of marching ants began to collapse under the action of Beauveria bassiana, and a large number of worker ants were infected by Beauveria bassiana, and their bodies began to grow white hairs, which were growing rapidly at the speed of the naked eye. The white fur immediately manipulated the nervous system of the marching ants, causing them to become sluggish and even unable to move.
These Beauveria bassiana-infected marching ants spontaneously move away from the colony, an instinct that the species has had since it evolved, just as humans isolate patients infected with the plague. Beauveria bassiana is an extremely terrifying killing weapon for marching ants, and it must not be allowed to spread to the entire ant colony, especially the queen.
But there are still some worker ants who have not had time to evacuate, they are lying on the ground, either incapacitated or dead, and the white powder is scattered farther with the breeze.
Beauveria bassiana, which is dispersed in the night, is fatal to the colony of marching ants. In order to avoid Beauveria bassiana infection, the queen had to stop her reproductive plan, and the unhatched eggs lying on the side were abandoned.
The queen writhes, its lower body detached from its white jade-like abdomen, and it looks like an enlarged version of a worker ant when it is separated from its breeding period, but its antennae are more elongated, releasing pheromones to order the movement of the marching ants around it.
The entire army of marching ants abandoned the old, weak, sick and disabled, and began to advance towards the dense forest area in the south. The queen ant was protected by the guard ants, and together they slowly advanced south.
The remaining infected marching ants that are still able to move are heading towards gravel areas, trying to avoid infecting more mates with the fungus.
The black tentacles of the Guards swayed slightly, transmitting each other's signals, forming a dense network of hearts, jointly building a unified and efficient communication system, and the core of its central network was the queen ant.
Today, there are less than a hundred guard ants that can protect the queen, and the entire ant colony is also scattered under the onslaught of Beauveria bassiana.
As the colony moved, the dead ants, which had been mixed with the surviving marching ants, remained in place and were immediately exposed. The number of deaths has exceeded 10,000.
The rest of the marching ants are also affected by Beauveria bassiana, their shells are dull and they move much slower than before.
Lin Ye lowered his head, lowered his steps, and slowly crawled towards the queen ant.
The beating of his heart became intense, and although he held his breath, Lin Ye's body trembled uncontrollably.
This time, he has to win!