Chapter 306: Gathering of the Bee Lords, a Gluttonous Feast (asking for monthly tickets)
On August 10th, Japan time, in a sea area near Osaka.
The sun was shining brightly, and the sea and sky were shining brightly, but at this moment an uninhabited island on the sea was shrouded in bottomless darkness, as if God had neglected this island, and sent down a dark cloud, covering the island alone.
This is where the light-eating bees live. Sunlight is the main source of nutrition for the bees, so during the day, their colonies absorb sunlight in alternating sequences, as if they were performing some kind of evil sacrifice.
As batches of bees took turns to absorb the sunlight that fell on the island, the island had to fall into darkness for a long time. There was not even a break in the process, and any sunlight that fell on the island would be absorbed by the bees at the first opportunity.
Their feeding stops until night falls, when only moonlight and artificial light can reach the island.
At this moment, a huge beehive is hanging on a steep mountain in the center of the island.
The hexagonal honeycomb radiates light, like a brightly lit sky garden, suspended motionlessly in the air, and deservedly becomes the most eye-catching building on the island.
Its area is so large that it looks like three or four football fields connected together.
At this moment, four light-eating bees with different appearances were scattered at the entrance of the hive.
Their appearance is very different from that of ordinary light-eating bees, but most of them have the body outline of humans.
The leading giant bee named "Qiao" has a long tail and a black body. His facial features are no different from those of humans. His pupils are erected high and emit a captivating golden light. He has two pairs of hexagonal wings behind him, and each wing looks like a honeycomb.
The second bee lord "Gu Li" has no wings, his skin is purple, his pupils are also purple, and his tail is connected to a huge hammer. Among the four bee lords, it is the tallest, with strong limbs, and a body as powerful as a bodybuilding champion.
Cameron, the third bee queen, was slender, with a human female face and blue pupils. She wore a navy blue dress, a blue bow on her short hair, and a pair of huge wings on her back, like a bird.
The fourth bee queen "Melvette" has a relatively ordinary appearance, with a golden body, well-proportioned limbs, and a pair of transparent thin wings behind it. It looks like a large ordinary light-eating bee, but there is no huge bee sting on its face, instead it has the facial features of a normal human teenager.
At this moment, two queen bees, "Joe" and "Melwitt," were sitting on the ground at the entrance of the hive, playing cards with each other.
Cameron was lying on the ground, holding the body of a little human boy. She held her chin with one hand, smiling slightly, and used the boy's dead hand to hold a pen and draw on the notebook;
"Guli" used the stones in the honeycomb to rub the huge hammer connected to the tail, making a clanging sound and sparks flying.
Melvert looked down at the cards in his paws, scratched his head, and patted the dust on the ground with his transparent wings. "Joe, I really don't understand what's so interesting about these human things."
"I don't understand it either," Joe said. "That's why it makes sense. Something is only interesting when it's unknown... It's the same with humans. Once you figure them out, they become boring."
Gu Li said as he polished the giant hammer: "Aren't humans our food?"
"Joe, Guli, Melvitt, look, look! I'm painting with his corpse!" Cameron said, suddenly sitting up from the ground.
She grabbed the boy's hands and lifted his body high above her head.
The other three bees turned their heads to look, only to see that the boy's eye sockets were empty, with only two lines of blood flowing out. He was holding a pencil in his left hand and a notebook in his right hand, both of which were frozen.
On the notebook, blood and pencil marks mixed together to draw a playful smiling face on the notebook.
"What's so funny about this?" Melvert sighed, "Just eat it quickly."
"This kind of low-level creature should stay in our stomachs, not be used as decoration." Guli swung the giant hammer at his tail.
"But... don't you think he's cute?" Cameron raised her fingers to her chin. She looked at the boy's empty eye sockets stained with blood, then looked at Gu Li and Melvitt.
Joe silently withdrew his gaze from the boy's body and continued playing cards with Melvert.
"I'm tired of playing." Cameron suddenly frowned, "Here you go, Guli." As she said that, she threw the boy's body to Guli.
"I don't eat this kind of food that's not yet developed. It's not even considered fruit."
Gu Li swung the giant hammer at his tail, smashing the boy's body into pieces, which turned into a blood mist that splashed on the wall.
He turned his head and looked at Joe and Melvert who were playing cards. "You guys should stop playing. The queen bee has already told the worker bees to bring the captured mutants here. We should have a big meal next."
"Why do we need to eat?" Joe suddenly asked.
Cameron raised his lip corners. "According to the Queen Bee, as long as we eat those special humans, we can develop our own potential and gain unique abilities."
"What's the point of getting power?" Joe asked again.
Gu Li said, "Of course, we will trample the lower races under our feet and conquer the world."
"What's the point of conquering the world?" Joe looked at the cards in his hand, took out one and put it on the ground.
"You?" Gu Li said, "Why do you think so much?"
"I just can't understand why we exist in this world. According to human knowledge, everything will eventually dissolve and the universe will eventually turn into nothingness... Then what is the meaning of our birth?"
At this point, Qiao raised his head and looked at the other three bee queens. "Aren't you curious?"
"I don't know." Cameron touched the bow on his head, "I just know that human clothes are very beautiful, and some humans are very cute. I want to make them into toys."
"The pleasure we feel is the meaning of our existence," Gu Li said. "Kill as much as you want and eat as much as you want, isn't that enough?"
"I don't understand these complicated things, but I really can't play these human things, Joe..." Melvitt said, throwing away the cards, supporting himself on the ground with his hands, looking up and sighing.
Joe slowly put down the cards in his hand, lowered his head, and thought quietly.
He turned his head and looked toward the bottom of the hive.
At the bottom of a high mountain, dense swarms of bees were all raising their heads. Their stingers split open, revealing a hideous mouth like a carnivorous plant. It opened and closed, desperately sucking in the thin sunlight in the air.
A moment later, large groups of light-eating bees flew in from the edge of the island. Each light-eating bee held a human corpse in its hands. From a distance, they looked like a dark cloud.
"The worker bees brought those special humans here." Guli licked the corner of his lips.
"We haven't eaten this kind of humans yet. The queen bee said that this kind of humans is not only delicious, but also beneficial to our evolution." Melvitt said lazily.
"In human terms, this is a 'feast', right?" Cameron laughed.
Joe stared into the distance silently, without saying a word, while the sea breeze blew from the horizon and hit his face.
At the same time, near the Japanese border, a private plane was flying through the sea of clouds.
The cabin was quiet. Looking out the window, there was a sea of clouds. The clouds sometimes looked like galloping horses and sometimes like swift dragons.
“Actually, when I think back on it, I always feel it’s a pity,” Uriel said suddenly.
"What a pity?" Gu Qinye turned his head and looked at her.
"When we were still in Lijing, I thought I could wait for you to accept the invitation and join Hongyi, and then I would carry out the mission of defeating the Ghost Bell with you."
"Why?"
She raised her head, "Because this way you can end the ghost bell with your own hands, and there will be no regrets..."
Gu Qiye suddenly stopped talking. He held the controller in one hand, rubbed his forehead with the other, and closed his eyes to rest for a while.
Uriel closed the game.
Garfield yawned. "I think we can learn from the cabin next door. It's so quiet there. No one talks."
"Is it weird for kids to sit at the same table? Do you have to go to the next table to bother those stuffy adults?" Urushihara Ruri teased, "But, I feel like someone over there is going to get restless soon."
Before she finished her words, someone suddenly opened the cabin door and walked in.
Gu Qiye looked up and saw the person coming in wearing a double-breasted Tang suit and had long straight black hair. He looked exactly like Fan Dongqing from "Liqing Boat".
Fan Dongqing put his hands in his pockets, looked up at the six people in the cabin, and sighed, "I can't stand those taciturn people next to me. Someone come and change seats with me."
"Me, me, me."
Urushihara Ruri raised her hand like a child, smiled slightly, and then stood up.
"No, don't go." Fan Dongqing grabbed her arm and stopped her from leaving.
"Why?" Urushihara Ruri raised her eyebrows and turned to look at him.
"I'm bored when you're not around." Sailing Holly said, "Let Garfield go over there. Doesn't he want to go to bed?"
"Okay, okay...thank you for your help." Garfield yawned, stood up from his seat, and then walked past the two of them.
He didn't even bother to take off the steam mask. He just made a guide dog and a leash out of metal and walked slowly forward by pulling the leash.
When Jiujiu saw the seat next to him was empty, his eye twitched.
"Hey, isn't this our pink-haired sister?" Fan Dongqing greeted her, "Are we sitting together again?"
Jiujiu looked up and glared at Fan Dongqing, saying word by word: "Narcissistic man, can I let you two sit together?" After saying that, she stood up and sat in the back, next to Kalina.
"Are they on good terms?"
Gu Qinye asked while turning his head and glanced at Urushihara Ruri and Fan Dongqing out of the corner of his eye.
"According to rumors, Fan Dongqing seems to have liked her for a long time." Yuriel said softly, "Please don't get me wrong. I don't know the definition of 'like'. I just heard it from others."
"So that's how it is." Gu Qinye withdrew his gaze.
He thought, Fan Dongqing should not be a member of the Salvation Society. If my father and I catch Urushihara Ruri together, Fan Dongqing will have to chase our family. That would be a really strange scene.
He sighed and looked down at the time. According to the itinerary, the plane was about to arrive in Japan.
"We're almost in Japan, how about we continue playing the same game to kill time?" Gu Qinye suggested.
"Okay." Uriel deadpanned, "But don't you dislike playing?"
"It's actually quite fun." Gu Qiye said, "But don't choose the ghost bell."
She thought for a moment, raised her ice-blue eyes from under her hair, and stared at him motionlessly:
"Then I choose Makutaki? I think this will also help to channel your psychological problems."
"Forget it, why don't you just choose the ghost bell."
The two of them played "Alien Alliance" for a while. Uriel let him win a few games and finally stopped letting him win.
She looked focused, her fingers poking at the buttons and shaking the high pole, and the ghost clock on the screen roared, suddenly summoning the clock tower.
With the sound of "clicking", the hands of the clock tower turned upwards to twelve o'clock, and the whole world was covered with a layer of mercury, and even the black pupa could not move.
Then Ghost Bell roared forward, punching through the black pupa's abdomen one after another, making big holes in it.
The mercury that enveloped the world disappeared, time resumed its normal flow, the black pupa spat out a mouthful of blood, knelt on the ground, and his health bar visibly dropped to zero.
"You are such a jerk." Gu Qiye said unyieldingly, "You don't seem like a smart person would play this game. You can even pause for two seconds. Who can beat you?"
"Then... let's try a different role?" Uriel asked, looking up at him.
"Can."
Gu Qiye raised his head and met her gaze, then froze for a moment. The sea of clouds suddenly sank in a corner, and sunlight shone in through the gap, shining through the window onto the Icelandic girl's face. There seemed to be a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"So you can still laugh?" He thought for a moment and then asked.
Uriel was stunned for a moment, then she restrained her expression slightly, first withdrew her gaze from his face, and then silently put on the Apple headphones.
She was silent for a long time, like a robot with a delayed response, before she said, "Maybe it's because... there are very few people who play games with me."
Gu Qinye nodded silently.
He lowered his head, and suddenly it occurred to him that he would betray Hongyi in a few days, and even become their enemy. Yuriel didn't know about the Savior Society, and she would definitely stand on Hongyi's side at that time.
Rather, the two of them didn't have a close relationship, so it would be meaningless even if she considered him a friend.
What expression would she have when she looked at him? Would she still smile like she did just now? Of course not.
Gu Qinye breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head, and collected his messy thoughts.
He turned his head and looked out the window. The dazzling sunlight hit his face. His sight passed through the sea of clouds. In a trance, he could already vaguely see the outline of the city. The plane arrived in Japan and was heading towards Osaka.
(End of this chapter)
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