Xia Maomao's mouth opened wide. Even before the disaster, he had never seen such a big beehive. He had never seen it with his own eyes, nor had he seen it on social networks.

"Meow." He called softly, scratching his brother with his claws.

This beehive was too scary. They couldn't afford to mess with it. They might as well run away.

Xia Huoqu lowered his voice, "It's okay. Go back and discuss with your old brother what to do. To get honey, you need fire."

"Meow." Forget it.

Xia Maomao looked at the beehive with his round emerald eyes, full of worry.

Xia Huoqu didn't say much, just held the cat in his arms, "Let's go back first."

As he said that, he stepped out step by step.

After retreating several dozen meters and making sure that the bee would not attack, Xia Huoqu lowered his head and asked his brother, "Can you catch me in cat form?"

"Meow?" Xia Maomao nodded and shook his head, his expression very hesitant.

Xia Huoqu put him aside, took off his clothes, rolled them up and stuffed them into a sack, and said, "Try it first. If it doesn't work, you can get into the sack again."

"Meow."

Xia Huoqu stood in place and turned into a huge white wolf. Xia Maomao looked up at his brother. When his brother's transformation was completely completed, he jumped up and climbed along his brother's front legs to his brother's back.

Compared with the human form, the cat form is much smaller, and when squatting on his brother's back, it is very wide on both sides.

Xia Maomao hooked his brother's long wolf hair with his four claws and bit his mouth, "Meow."

All right!

"Roar!" The white wolf moved his limbs and trotted on the spot.

The two brothers had long fur, and the wind blew over, blowing their fur and taking away the warmth.

This feeling was very wonderful. Xia Maomao sat on his brother's back and couldn't help squinting his eyes, "Meow."

When the two brothers returned to the base, Yan Xinian and Kong Zhi had already returned.

The two had already put the peanuts on the small square to dry, and they thought that the moisture on the surface of the peanuts could be dried in half a day today.

Yan Xinian said: "We won't collect them tonight. I told Lao Huang and the others who were on guard to call us if there were signs of rain at night."

These days are sunny, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse at night, and the probability of rain is very small.

Peanuts are exposed to the sun day and night, and the moisture can be dried in a few days, and then sent to be pressed for oil.

Xia Huoqu said, "That's fine. See who in the base is free during the day, and let them look after it during the day. If it rains, just help us collect it."

"I'll ask."

Xia Huoqu finished drinking the water and said, "Xiaonong just found some honey outside, but the bee is too big. I wonder if we can go get some."

"Honey?" Yan Xinian asked, "How big is the bee?"

"Almost as big as a ping-pong ball."

Yan Xinian thought for a moment and said, "That's okay, there are no ants that mutate so badly. Are there a lot of bees?"

"Quite a lot. From a distance, it looks like a big round table. It's very scary hanging on the tree."

"Then let's take it." Yan Xinian made the decision, "There are many plants nearby, and ants and bees are multiplying very quickly. If we don't take it, it might harm the base again."

The two discussed it and decided that it was better to do it sooner rather than later, and to take down the beehive in the afternoon.

Xia Maomao immediately meowed to show that he also wanted to go.

"What are you going to do? It's so dangerous." Xia Huoqu lowered his head and looked at him, "You can't even change back to human form. Even if you go, you can only watch the excitement. Such a dangerous place is not suitable for watching the excitement."

"Meow." Xia Maomao shrank his head in fear. If he really didn't go, he would be unwilling.

After thinking about it, he ran to the side with a pen and paper and wrote: If I go, I might find other

Xia Huoqu stood there, neither saying yes nor no.

Xia Maomao looked at his brother, then at Yan Xinian and Kong Zhi, then ran to Kong Zhi and rubbed his feet, motioning Kong Zhi to help talk.

Kong Zhi gently pushed Mao away.

Xia Maomao came over and rubbed again, looking up at him, his round eyes full of accusations: Are we still brothers? !

Kong Zhi met those eyes, strangely understood what he meant, and his mouth twitched.

Xia Maomao glared again.

Kong Zhi had no choice but to say, "I'll take Xiao Nong with us, we'll watch from a distance, and if he encounters danger, I'll take him to fly higher."

Xia Huoqu looked at his brother.

His brother buried his two cat paws under his body, tilted his head and meowed at him obediently, "Meow."

Xia Huoqu paused, "Okay."

If the four of them went together, there would be no need to look for other people in the base.

Yan Xinian specially prepared a small bottle of oil and carried two wooden barrels, intending to put the honey into the barrels after harvesting it.

Xia Huoqu took a look and went back to pick out two wooden barrels.

Yan Xinian was surprised, "Is there so much honey?"

Xia Huoqu recalled the size of the huge bee ball and said, "I'm afraid we can't finish it even with two barrels."

"Not really? How big are the bees? Can they be smoked down?"

Xia Maomao's heart moved when he heard this, he looked up and meowed at his brother, then ran on all fours, ran quickly into the kitchen, and meowed loudly again.

His brother approached the kitchen and saw him jump onto the stove. He pushed the chili powder in the seasoning jar with his claws, "Meow."

"Let's go." His brother took the jar of chili powder down, put it in his pocket, shook it at Yan Xinian and said, "Add some chili powder."

Yan Xinian laughed as soon as he saw it, "You want to use chemical attacks, are those bees really that fierce?"

Xia Lunong gave him a sympathetic look. Whether they are fierce or not, they will know when they get to the destination.

This time they didn't drive a car or change into beast form. They just carried the bucket over the mountain and walked out.

The sentry on the mountain was surprised to see them and asked a few questions. Yan Xinian just smiled and said that everyone would know when they come back.

The riverside is not far from the base. It took them more than an hour to walk to their destination.

Yan Xinian and Kong Zhi both showed shocked expressions in their eyes.

Yan Xinian: "I didn't expect there to be so many bees so close to the base. Fortunately, they are relatively docile."

Xia Huo said, "It's a hazard after all. It's safer to clean it up early."

Yan Xinian observed from a distance for a while, "It's strange that this group of bees rarely come into the base."

"We don't farm often, so we may not have seen them." Xia Huo said, "Besides, not all bees have mutated so much. Some breeds that have not mutated so much don't look so scary. Maybe everyone won't care."

"That's true."

There are relatively few mutated plants and animals in the base.

Take plants for example. The most common plants in the base are the crops and crops planted in the fields. Before each planting, the seeds are screened manually. If the mutation is too obvious and does not seem to be changing for the better, the seeds will be pulled out as soon as they germinate and will not have a chance to grow.

Not to mention animals. In addition to the fish and livestock raised in the base, some mutated animals that look scary will be killed as soon as they appear.

Yan Xinian and Xia Huoqu turned around.

Xia Huoqu turned to Kong Zhi and said, "You guys step back a little. We are going to start fumigating the bees. If anything goes wrong, you immediately turn into a golden eagle and take Xiao Nong to the sky."

Kong Zhi nodded, "You guys should be careful too."

"Well, if anything goes wrong, we will change back to beast form in time."

This bee is very big, and Xia Huoqu and his beast form is even bigger.

Thinking of this, Xia Maomao heaved a sigh of relief and let Kong Zhi hold him back.

There were many dead branches and leaves under the big banyan tree.

Yan Xinian and Xia Huoqu dug up a large pile of firewood and cleared a firebreak nearby.

They built four piles of firewood, deliberately broke some live branches and placed them on top, and sprinkled chili powder on them.

Xia Huoqu turned his head and looked at Kong Zhi.

Kong Zhi made a gesture that it was all right, and Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian took lighters to light these piles of fire.

Live branches were placed on these piles of fire, and as soon as the flames started, thick smoke immediately billowed.

Yan Xinian pulled Xia Huoqu, "Hurry, hurry, let's get away from it, otherwise it will be bad if these bees hold a grudge against us."

The four of them gathered together and looked at the smoked beehive from a distance of more than 100 meters.

Even at such a long distance, they still smelled the smoke and the pungent spicy smell.

Xia Huoqu sneezed several times in a row.

"Let's go further away." Yan Xinian said softly, "There shouldn't be any problem this time."

Xia Huoqu sneezed again.

The most important thing to smoke bees is patience.

When the beehive was surrounded by thick smoke, the bees had no choice but to fly away from the nest, but they were still circling nearby.

When the smoke became thicker and the pungent smell became more acrid, the large group of bees, like a dark cloud, began to buzz and fly away.

The smoke continued, and they were afraid that the bees would come back, so they did not go there for a while. They waited for more than an hour, and there was no trace of bees at all. The three people and the cat finally went to the banyan tree .

Yan Xinian sniffed and sniffed hard, and said, "I don't smell any bees. There shouldn't be a lot of bees nearby."

"Meow." Xia Maomao made a sound of agreement.

The three people and the cat climbed up the tree with buckets. There

were still bees that were stunned by the smoke crawling around on the trunk of the tree. Several people killed them one by one with hatchets.

Xia Huoqu warned, "Even dead bees can sting people, don't step on them."

"Meow."

The beehive was more than ten meters above the ground. The three people and the cat climbed up and soon found that the entire beehive was larger than they imagined.

Yan Xinian, the tallest one, stood next to the beehive, and his height was not even as long as the beehive.

"It was a mistake." Yan Xinian said, "We should have brought a few more buckets."

"That's enough." Xia Huoqu looked around and cut off a large piece of the beehive with a hatchet. It was full of yellow-brown honey. The hatchet was even squeezed when it was cut, and the blade was covered with honey.

Xia Huoqu divided the beehive between Kong Zhi and Yan Xinian, and broke off a small piece for his brother. He then dipped the honey on the blade and licked it gently.

Instantly, an extremely sweet taste spread across his tongue, and it was so sweet that his throat became hoarse.

This sweetness was followed by a slight sour taste of natural honey, and the sour taste, accompanied by a faint fragrance, spread across the tip of his tongue.

Xia Huoqu turned his head to look at the huge beehive next to him, and felt that this trip was not in vain.

When Xia Maomao ate the sweet honey, his expression became much more vivid. His round emerald cat eyes narrowed, his furry face was full of joy, and even the tip of his tail moved.

"Meow!" Xia Maomao called to his brother.

Kong Zhi guessed that he liked it, so he lowered his head, broke off a piece of the beehive in his hand, squatted down, and fed it to Xia Maomao's mouth.

Xia Maomao opened his mouth wide and bit the honeycomb into his mouth with a "wow".

Under the pressure of his mouth, the honey inside, which was almost in a paste, quickly flowed out and spread throughout his mouth.

Sweet!

Delicious!

Xia Maomao squinted his eyes again, feeling the beauty of the honey flowing over the tip of his tongue.

It was just a little too choking. He could feel the honey slowly flowing through his throat and then slowly falling into his stomach, stirring up a little warmth.

Wait!

Warmth?!

Xia Maomao's eyes widened.