Chapter 164 Beehive (3rd update)

Hearing Li Changying's words, Lin Zhen stopped and waved to him: "I don't deserve to be your idol, let's work together."

Li Changying immediately chuckled and took two quick steps to follow Lin Zhen.

He is a tough guy with a straightforward personality. He admires those who are brave enough. Lin Zhen's move to expose the truth this time immediately convinced him.

No matter whether he lives or dies in the future, let's get him first! Seeing Li Changying's dark face with a smile, Lin Zhen was also happy in his heart. Having Jiang Huai and Lou Qingfeng as companions is not completely safe. Even if a team cannot have all strong points, three or four strong points must be guaranteed, and Li Changying is undoubtedly the best puzzle piece.

As for overthrowing the sky, it would probably take a very long time, but if I didn't say that, how could I convince Li Changying?

The two of them moved very quickly, and half a day later, Lin Zhen finally saw the legendary beehive.

After passing through the dense forest, the view suddenly opens up.

A long tree trunk lay across there, with a huge mound of earth in the middle. Above the mound, many dense branches were winding and covering it, and countless flower buds were about to bloom on the branches.

Unlike the flower buds that had not bloomed before the star crystals appeared, there were clearly star crystals hidden inside these flower buds, but for some reason the flowers had wrapped them up.

At a cursory glance, the number of flowers on this mound must be over a thousand, or even tens of thousands!

The star crystals inside are wrapped in petals, just like colorful lanterns in children's hands, beautiful and hazy.

Above this mound, about a hundred meters high, there is an extremely huge beehive hanging on a large tree trunk.

From where Lin Zhen was looking, the beehive seemed a little blurry. Countless black shadows were flying around the hive. The light was refracted due to too much obstruction, causing the air there to be strangely distorted and bizarre.

The mutated bees, mutated wasps, and mutated hornets are buzzing like small airplanes, but they will not stray far from the hive.

On the tree trunks on both sides of the mound, there were warriors waiting in the distance.

Because the pile of soil is located in the middle of a tree trunk and can only be approached from both ends of the trunk, the rest of the position is suspended in the air, so the best places to pick it are only in the east and west directions.

In each direction, there are five rows of seats arranged like a queue, with a distance of about twenty meters between each horizontal row, and there is no seat beyond a hundred meters.

Li Changying took the initiative to explain to Lin Zhen: "Lin Zhen, you see, there is a big difference between this place and the ant nest, that is, all the star crystals are concentrated on this mound of soil."

"Why are those star crystals wrapped in petals? Shouldn't the flowers bloom after crystallization?" Lin Zhen asked.

"This is exactly the difference. After the star crystals here bloom, the mutant bees around will come to collect nectar, which prevents the star crystals from absorbing more energy. Therefore, the star crystals will instinctively protect their stamens. When they appear and are collected by bees, they learn to close their petals."

"So there is such a saying. Then how can we pick the star crystal when the petals are closed?"

Li Changying pointed to the huge beehive above and said, "That depends on when nectar will drip from this place."

"Nectar will drip? There is honey in that beehive?" Lin Zhen looked up.

"It can be said that after these bees mutated, they still retained their instinct to collect nectar, but the stamens of the star fruit tree no longer contain real honey. What they collected was actually energy, which was stored in the hive. After a long time, even the hive could not hold all the energy, and the energy would slowly drip out of the hive."

Li Changying pointed to the densely packed holes under the honeycomb and said, "Energy honey may drip from those holes at any time. Whenever a drop of honey drips, if it accurately falls on the star crystal flower, the petals will open and absorb the energy honey to their heart's content, allowing the star crystal to grow. At this time, it is time for us warriors to pick it."

Lin Zhen nodded, and was shocked by the wonders of this world. There was simply nothing strange.

"The closer you are to the mound, the better your chances of picking up star crystals."

"That's right. The five people in the front row have the best position, with a good view and a short distance. They can pick up the star crystals as soon as they appear. The people in the second row will definitely be slower than them because of the distance. The third row and the rest will be even slower, so their chances of getting star crystals are slim. Picking star crystals here requires competition, and elimination is cruel."

Just as Li Changying was speaking, the warriors below suddenly became agitated: "There's honey!"

Lin Zhen raised his head and looked upwards, and saw a drop of golden liquid taking shape in a small hole in the honeycomb. It was in the shape of a water drop and was getting bigger and bigger, and was about to fall.

Lin Zhen observed the place where the drop of honey fell, and it should be a location on the west side of the mound.

The warriors on the east side also observed this and sighed, knowing that they would have no chance this time.

The honey finally fell down, even sparkling as it fell, and landed directly on a flower bud.

Nourished by the honey, the flower bud immediately opened its petals, greedily absorbing the energy of the honey, and the star crystal inside also revealed its true face at this moment.

"Planet crystal!"

Someone sighed. Since most of the warriors here are level nine generals, planetary crystals are not very useful. But it is better than nothing, so several warriors still flew out to fight for them.

However, the warriors sitting in the first row on the left did not move. Lin Zhen even discovered that there were only three people sitting in the five seats in the first row, and two seats were empty.

Several warriors who rushed out were immediately besieged by bees. Among them, three warriors were in a group. They cooperated very well. Some went to pick the bees, some were responsible for resisting, and some were responsible for covering.

A total of five warriors competed for it, and in the end, the team of three warriors successfully seized the planetary crystal.

The other two warriors were a man and a woman, and they seemed to be from the same team. The female warrior performed very well, as if she was born with super speed. She even fought continuously with the two warriors of the trio and did not lose the upper hand. However, the male warrior retreated at the critical moment.

The female warrior lost her cover and still rushed out despite being besieged. However, one of her arms was stung severely by a mutant bee. The spear-like bee sting pierced her arm, causing her to sweat profusely from the pain.

The team that seized the planetary crystal returned happily. After some discussion, a ninth-level warrior left and went to find a place to absorb the planetary crystal.

At this time, Lin Zhen had roughly understood the pattern of the honeycomb.

The warriors on both the east and west sides gathered around this big mound of earth. This was the place to pick star crystals. As long as the energy honey fell on one side, the people on that side would pick it.

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Some warriors have obviously reached the level of compressing the Dantian Qi. Warriors like these are only interested in star crystals and will not fight for other star crystals.

Moreover, in the process of competing for star crystals, warriors are still allowed to fight each other. It seems very common to trip each other up and use dirty tricks. They will do anything for the sake of profit.

No wonder Li Changying said this was a cruel elimination site. It was much more cruel here than the ant nest, and there were also many more people here than in the ant nest.

Just as Lin Zhen and Li Changying were watching, a warrior walked towards them.

"Li Changying? How dare you come back to the Hive? I thought you would never show up again after you ran away. Don't you know that Boss Zhou secretly ordered that anyone can assassinate you?"

Li Changying snorted coldly: "Tong Huan, since I dare to come back, I am not afraid of his assassination. I want to challenge the Hive ranking again."

Tong Huan is the receptionist here at the Beehive. He curled his lips when he heard what Li Changying said: "Then you also need a team. Is this person with you? The two of you are not enough."

"You don't have to worry about that. We will have someone here in a couple of days."

"Well, since you insist on coming back, I won't stop you. Do as you please. You know the rules of the challenge. Once you succeed in the challenge, we will take 30% of the star crystals you get."

Tong Huan said this, then stood up and left, returning to lie on a branch not far away.

Lin Zhen looked at Li Changying and said, "Even if Jiang Huai and Lou Qingfeng come, we still need one more person to form a team. Do you have any acquaintances here?"

Li Changying said helplessly: "Zhou Bu Tong is the boss here. The first group in the west is his team. If I offend him, I'm afraid the old people here won't team up with me."

Hearing this, Lin Zhen also had a headache. If he had known this would happen, he should have asked Ma Mingxing or Sun Tie to come over to match the number of people.

But those two people wanted to stay in the ant nest, and Lin Zhen couldn't force them.

The two of them slowly walked towards the beehive. Lin Zhen even saw a few of the people who were chasing Li Changying that day. After seeing Lin Zhen, although there was still some fear in their eyes, it was not like that day. Obviously, here in the beehive, they didn't care much about Lin Zhen.

While I was looking around, I heard a noise coming from the front.

One girl seemed to beg the others: "Please, don't chase me away, my hand will recover, I am definitely not a burden."

"Zhao Xiaoman, you don't have to say anything more. We definitely don't keep useless people in our team. Of course you had no problem before, but now you are poisoned. Not only do you need an antidote, you also need the energy of a star crystal to clear the toxins from your body. We don't even have enough star crystals, so how can we give them to you? Besides, we don't have an antidote right now. You can go find Boss Zhou."

The girl named Zhao Xiaoman looked to be about twenty years old. She was wearing a purple leather outfit and was quite pretty. She seemed to be a student from the previous class. At the moment, her face was pale and one of her arms was swollen. The bee venom had entered her body and she had to be treated in the near future.

Li Changying saw this scene and sighed: "This is not the first time such a scene has occurred. The antidote is in Zhou Bu Tong's hands. If Zhao Xiaoman wants to stay, she has to ask Zhou Bu Tong for it. But it fell into the hands of that bastard. Alas!"

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