Inside the Insect Nest, Lü Zhong saw the infected Great Honey Insects, piled mountain-high.
Dissected insect corpses revealed that their bodies were filled with white mycelia. Their forms had stiffened, becoming long and rigid. Although not yet completely dead, they had lost all mobility.
They remained motionless, no matter how the Insect Queen commanded them.
A small, milky-white flower had also grown from each of their heads.
The sight caused a strange expression to cross Lü Zhong's face. After all, no matter how he looked at it, the bizarre illness seemed to be a fungal parasite that had invaded the Great Honey Insects, transforming them into a type of "Cordyceps."
According to the Stewards' observations, the onset of the strange illness occurred in two stages.
