Chapter 337: Ruins, Shadow of the Queen Bee (Fifth update, please give me a monthly ticket)
After hearing what Melvit said, Gu Qinye and Yuriel showed a slight surprise on their faces.
They could certainly tell that the queen bee had been severely injured for some reason, which was why she was placed in that huge cocoon, quietly sleeping and recuperating. But they had never imagined that the queen bee could be injured so badly by a queen bee.
And the culprit is Melvit who is standing in front of them.
Only half of Melvit's head was left, half a head and half a face. The expression on his face was brutal and ferocious, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and black arcs of electricity remained in the cracked flesh.
He spread the pair of transparent thin wings behind him high up and roared word by word:
"You know what... I also concealed the conditions for the birth of a queen bee from the other bee queens. One reason was because I didn't want to die, and the other was because I didn't want to see them killing each other. So you should be thanking me, humans!"
"What do you want us to thank you for?" Gu Qinye asked casually. At this moment, due to the layers of tightly fitted mirrors around Melvitt, he didn't dare to approach him rashly. He had to stay with Yuriel and wait for the opportunity to attack.
"What are you thankful for? Even a question like that. If a queen bee is born, you won't stand a chance. You'll be worse than pigs and dogs in front of the queen bee. Only at that moment will you know what despair is."
Melvitt suddenly laughed hoarsely, "Among the queen bees, only Joe knew something... Because he can sense some of the queen's memories and emotions through his sense of smell. So... he knew I was hiding a secret, and he also knew that the queen bee's injury was related to me."
"In the eyes of the Bee Tribe, my actions are tantamount to a capital crime, and even affect the future of the entire tribe. But Joe didn't expose me. He just played cards with me without saying a word, occasionally probing me with a few words, but he would only say so briefly."
"Joe is a really interesting friend. If he knew he had to devour his own kind to become king, he would definitely be heartbroken and give up, right?"
"Joe is not fit to be the Queen Bee. His destiny is different from ours. I want him to leave here. With his wisdom and abilities, he can live well even in the human world."
Uriel stared blankly at the approaching Melvit, interrupting him. "I'm not interested in your ramblings."
She paused. "But I must make one thing clear. If you think someone would be naive enough to let you go from this island, then you're overthinking it."
"She's right." Gu Qiye also said, "Including you, the four great bee queens will die on the island, and so will your queen. If you think your words can win sympathy, you are wrong."
In reality, both were trying to buy time. They couldn't see any flaws in Melvert at this moment, and the layers of mirrored barriers were simply hopeless.
This is an absolute all-round three-dimensional defense. No matter from which angle the attack comes, it will be blocked by him in an instant - they have just tested it. Whether it is a close-range or long-range attack, it will be absorbed and rebounded by the mirror.
However, at this moment, they suddenly realized a blind spot. Yes... there was a place outside the coverage of the mirror.
The next moment, Yuriel and Gu Qinye looked at each other and seemed to understand each other's thoughts.
Then, Yuriel took a leap forward and created a huge ice wall on the ground that was ten meters long and wide, blocking Melvit's way.
Gu Qiye leaned over and placed his palms on the floor. Dark electric light surged out from his fingertips and accumulated on the ground.
Melvit's eyes had recovered by now, and he was able to see clearly what was before him, the annoying wall of ice that had obscured his vision.
"It's useless! It's useless--!" Melvitt roared, raised his fist and smashed the ice wall. The broken ice scattered forward like a rainstorm, but the white-haired girl was no longer behind the ice wall.
At this moment, a dark lightning suddenly flashed across the floor, forming a huge net that spread from the ground layer by layer to the soles of Melvit's feet.
Melvert was stunned. The mirrors surrounding him could block attacks from all angles, but attacks from beneath his feet were a blind spot. He couldn't create a mirror beneath his feet, or he would be swallowed by it.
In an instant, the violent lightning burned his feet to ashes, and he suddenly knelt in the electric net. The surging lightning ravaged every corner of his body, and then the mirrors surrounding him shattered layer by layer.
Seeing that the hexagonal mirrors around Melvitt had disappeared, Yuriel naturally would not miss this opportunity.
A terrifying cold current blew towards him. Melvitt raised his head. More than ten ice cones tore through the air and shot out, hitting his body one after another, sending him flying dozens of meters away and crashing onto the huge cocoon.
The exoskeleton covering his body shattered layer by layer, and his body became weaker than ever before. Gu Qiye turned into a black lightning, suddenly rose from the ground, and in the blink of an eye he was right in front of Melvitt.
He raised his arm, swung a punch to gain leverage, raised his hand like a knife, and the dark electric light was as sharp as a sword. It pierced Melvitt's chest in an instant and then pierced through his heart!
"Puff!" Blood spurted out, Melvit wailed in pain, and spat out a mouthful of thick, dirty blood.
"That's right, that's right..." Blood oozed from the corner of his mouth. He lowered his hollow eyes and looked at his chest, which was pierced by lightning. There was no heart beating there. "Kill me and then kill the other two queen bees. Then Joe will have true freedom. He doesn't belong here..."
Gu Qiye frowned and pulled out the lightning-flashing knife from the opponent's chest. The five fingers of his right hand were spotless. Both the blood and internal organs were burned clean by the lightning, and disappeared before they could remain in his hand.
Melvit coughed and fell onto the cocoon.
He leaned his back against the membrane of the cocoon, and his body slowly slid down and collapsed to the ground. A line of blood remained on the cocoon, flowing down like a small river of blood, spreading to Melvitt's hunched back.
Soon, Melvitt, who had lost his heart, stopped breathing.
Gu Qiye kept a distance from him until he confirmed that Melvit was dead. Then he took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked at the queen bee trapped in the cocoon with Yuriel.
The queen bee was still in a deep sleep. Even though there was so much noise outside, she showed no sign of waking up.
"As long as the queen bee is killed, the light-eating bees will lose their ability to reproduce." Yuriel whispered.
Gu Qiye nodded silently. He raised his hands almost without hesitation, put his palms together, and strands of black electric current popped out from the fingertips. The arcs jumped and hissed silently, and then quickly gathered into a huge electric ball.
The drooping hair covered Gu Qinye's eyes. He took a long breath, controlled the restless electric light, and while stepping back, he raised his fingertips and flicked forward, pushing the black electric ball towards the huge cocoon in the center of the palace.
Then he quickly picked up Uriel's body and retreated to the entrance of the palace.
The Icelandic girl was silent for a moment.
"Do you really have to hold me?" she asked expressionlessly. "I can walk this short distance by myself."
"I'm sorry, I got used to it accidentally."
The two of them fell silent, as if to ease the awkwardness, and looked up at the scene in front of them.
The moment the electric ball touched the cocoon, it first shrank to the extreme, then suddenly expanded, and finally exploded, turning into a destructive black electric current, expanding outward endlessly.
Just like the scene of more than ten high-rise buildings being destroyed in the center of Lijing that day, it was reproduced.
Violent black currents tore through space, creating gullies and ravines that ravaged and destroyed the entire hive. At this moment, the palace's dome cracked, and moonlight streamed through the gap, illuminating the crumbling cocoon.
The cocoon shattered, and the queen bee was swallowed up by the surging lightning. Her body disintegrated layer by layer in the lightning.
At the same time, the palace was collapsing rapidly, and the honey flowing on the ceiling fell down layer by layer like melted oil.
Gu Qiye took one last look at Melvit. Soon, the Four Bee Queens would be destroyed along with the hive, and there was no need for him to stay here, lest he and Yuriel be affected by the lightning.
He was about to leave with Yuriel in his arms, but the next moment he suddenly turned around, his pupils shrinking slightly.
A deafening sonic boom was heard, and then a pitch-black figure suddenly fell from the sky above the cracked ceiling of the palace, passed through the gap into the palace, retracted its huge hexagonal wings, and landed next to the broken cocoon.
There was no doubt that it was the Big Bee Marquis - "Qiao". Gu Qiye recognized the other party's identity in an instant.
Black lightning was raging around him, and it could affect his body at any time, but Joe said nothing. He just lowered his eyes and looked silently at the queen bee's body, and then at Melvit who was slumped on the ground.
After a moment, Joe leaned over and raised his right arm to block the violent lightning.
The lightning roared and swept past, and Joe's entire right arm was destroyed in an instant, but there was still no expression on his face.
At the cost of his right arm, he gently picked up Melvit's body from the ground.
"Melvitt, I disappoint you..." Joe looked at him and murmured softly.
The next moment, the entire palace collapsed. The brightly lit beehive plummeted from the sky. Feeling weightless, Gu Qiye didn't hesitate. He hugged Yuriel and shot towards the hive's exit, then leaped skyward.
Uriel condensed the air, forming layers of circular ice in mid-air that extended downward. The ice surface spread for hundreds of meters and reached the ground.
Gu Qinye turned into a swift black lightning, running along the ice surface, and reached the ground in the blink of an eye. He put Yuriel down and looked up at the team members who had been waiting for them for a long time.
"Wow, you finally decided to come out." Fan Dongqing landed on the ground. At this moment, he had already put away the Liqing Boat.
"Newbie, your side is the slowest. We have killed Er Fenghou long ago." Jiujiu said. She also landed from the sky with a flying backpack and came to the side of the three people.
"Is it over?" Fan Dongqing asked.
Gu Qiye was silent as he recalled the scene he saw before leaving. Joe, who had lost his right arm, lowered his eyes, picked up Melvit's body with his left arm, and stood quietly in the raging lightning, without any sadness or joy, as silent as a statue.
That wasn't the look a creature that wanted to live should have.
"It should be over." Gu Qinye said, looking up at the sky.
The hive crumbled, breaking into countless fragments that plummeted to the ground, landing with a thunderous thud. A moment later, the entire world was enveloped in the dead silence of night. The uninhabited island was completely still. The extermination mission was complete. The four major bee queens were completely annihilated, along with every worker bee on the island. Looking across the entire island, perhaps only the members of Rainbow Wing remained.
"Where is Garfield?" Gu Qinye asked.
"He went to look for Liuli. I don't know what Liuli did, she suddenly disappeared." Fan Dongqing murmured, "Could it be that she doesn't want to go out with me? She said she would stay with me for two days after the mission is over."
Jiujiu raised his eyebrows and looked at him speechlessly.
But the next moment, their expressions suddenly changed, and an unprecedented pressure suddenly appeared on the earth. Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
He turned his head stiffly and slowly looked towards the ruins of the hive.
At this moment, a figure was slowly walking out from the ruins. He was dressed in black, his eyes were empty and cold, and his long tail was curled upwards.
It was undoubtedly the Big Bee "Joe", but he looked completely different at this moment. His body was slowly changing, and a bright red like blood gradually covered Joe's entire body, which was layers of hard exoskeleton.
At the same time, a hint of gloomy dark red appeared in Qiao Jin's golden pupils, and its tail turned into a sharp blade with the sharp tip protruding outward.
There was an extra pair of hexagonal wings behind him. At this moment, he seemed to have two pairs of wings, and the huge wings that covered the sky and the sun spread out at the same time.
Looking at this ghostly figure, a word slowly emerged in the minds of every Rainbow Wing member present:
——Queen bee.
(End of this chapter)
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