Chapter 84 Comfort: I don’t think so either.
Thanks to the mutant tree roots that had been dormant in the hive and could not help but show up, the humanoid bee swarm damaged their roots in advance while eliminating the threat.
The forest raiding operation went very smoothly. The mutant trees were too busy repairing their wounds to cause any trouble.
Although Lu Erya has awakened her special powers, she is still a mortal after all, and Wei will never let her leave the hive.
Fortunately, she can still take charge of the overall situation through the hive consciousness.
"Watch out for the shadows ahead, I think there might be danger there!"
"You nimble worker bees will serve as scouts. Fly higher, spread out, and focus your attention to give everyone a better view."
"I don't know if the talisman box looks like a box, but if you see anything square, be extremely cautious. Report it first, and Wei and I will decide whether to explore it."
In the blink of an eye, a week passed.
Without leaving home, Lu Erya was able to take in the entire southern forest environment through the vision unlocked by the humanoid bee swarms.
During this time, they found two things that looked like talisman boxes.
One is a swamp with many dead branches and leaves scattered around, which emits miasma in the early morning.
Because the worker bees themselves are poisonous, they have a certain resistance to miasma.
At first everyone thought it was just an ordinary muddy swamp, just like any other swamp in the forest.
They flew back and forth hurriedly over the swamp, but were not affected at all.
Unexpectedly, from the third day on, all the worker bees active in that area were infected with miasma.
Someone shouted "Long live the Queen!" and "Long live the humanoid bee swarm!" as they flew around in circles and performed a strange dance.
It didn't even realize it was stuck in a tree branch, and the membranous wings on its back were torn in half.
Some people became suspicious.
It mistook its companion moving in the dark for a giant black and yellow python, and raised its stinger to stab it, righteously demanding to expel the invader.
If Lu Erya had not discovered it in time and stopped it on the spot, both sides would have been injured and died in the beehive together.
Some people were infected by miasma and saw their companions falling to the ground one after another for unknown reasons.
At first I thought some kind of infectious disease targeting human-sized bees was spreading in the hive.
He was so frightened by the imaginary illness that he became listless, kept thinking about returning home, and completely forgot about the work at hand.
After noticing that the worker bees that were only active above the swamp were in an abnormal state, Lu Erya immediately called them back to the hive.
She doesn't have the ability as useful as Xinxue, which allows her to tell at a glance whether there is something wrong with someone's body.
So we can only use the stupid method, such as adding more water, feeding herbs with detoxifying function, and arranging everyone to stay in a place with good air circulation.
Lu Erya realized that problems only started after three days, so she shortened the time each worker bee spent exploring the swamp to one and a half days.
If the search lasts more than a day and a half, they will be sent to other places to conduct the search.
Replacing people in waves, exploring in waves.
Finally, as night fell, she saw the beginnings of the swamp.
As the light gradually faded, one could see the reflections of the mud above forming a strange and orderly spell.
This swamp is one of the talisman boxes they are looking for.
Lu Erya didn't expect the talisman box to be so big, but she accidentally thought of arranging worker bees to check the space areas that were specially separated in the forest.
She continued to assign the worker bees a day and a half of work, asking them to dig out all the mud in the swamp to see what was hidden underneath.
Soon, they found the second talisman box.
That place is actually quite special. It is a vast piece of land with no grass or trees growing on it. It looks like there is an invisible wall separating it from other places.
In the past, when worker bees passed by here, they loved to rest on this flat open space.
This time, Lu Erya asked them to continue digging down. After digging seven or eight meters, the worker bees found a dead rabbit in the thick layer of soil.
Buried at such a depth, it must undoubtedly have been dead for a long time.
But for some reason, the rabbit's skin felt soft and still very elastic.
The worker bees continued digging and found nothing special, so they took the rabbit back to the mother nest.
Lu Erya walked around the dead rabbit twice and felt that the gray-brown rabbit was still very alive and looked like it was asleep.
She tried to pry open its eyes and found that they were not gray and dead, but rather had a bright look in them.
The overall effect is a sense of life that is both dead and alive.
Lu Erya remembered what Xinxue had told her before they set out, and guessed, “This should be the second talisman box, and the energy inside has been transferred to the rabbit’s body.
But it looked like an unevolved rabbit, so it couldn't withstand so much energy, and then it suffocated to death in the soil...
It now looks like a zombie, its body is dead, but it still has a lot of energy.”
Wei nodded thoughtfully, as if remembering something. "Yes, that's exactly what would happen if an ordinary creature were infused with energy it couldn't handle."
Hearing this, Lu Erya's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
She turned her head and asked, "During your amnesia... could it be that you also absorbed the energy from the talisman box? That's why you were able to evolve into a humanoid bee swarm."
"I don't know, but I don't think so." Wei's pupils flickered, and the expression on her face was a little gloomy.
She hated the extra energy that emanated from the rabbit; just being near it made her feel uncomfortable.
If the energy comes from the same source, it should attract each other rather than repel each other.
Lu Erya didn't expect that her unintentional question would make Wei look like this.
She didn't like having such a sad expression on this face that looked exactly like Feng Qiang, so she subconsciously squeezed her hand and comforted her, "That's good, I don't think so either."
After taking care of Wei's emotions, Lu Erya immediately called the worker bees.
With a stern face, he made the arrangements: "Take this rabbit out of the southern forest and burn it in an open area. Leave no flesh, fur, or bones."
She had fought against the out-of-control evolved species so many times, and she was still frightened by their zombie-like cruelty and terror.
So I was very worried that the rabbit's body would not be handled properly and would be eaten by some carnivore, causing a series of chain reactions.
After carefully arranging how to destroy the body, Lu Erya inadvertently looked up at Wei.
Only then did he realize that she had been looking at him without saying a word, with her hand still placed where he had held it, looking as if she was lost in thought.
Seeing her like this, Lu Erya felt a little guilty for some reason.
It's like you've done something offensive to someone without even realizing it.
She coughed twice, hiding her embarrassment, and tried to appear calm and composed. "I wonder how many more talisman boxes there are? Let's enter the hive mind and continue searching."
"Okay." I heard Wei's honey-like voice ringing in my ears, as if nothing had happened.
Only then did Lu Erya finally feel relieved.
But for the next half day, she was a little absent-minded in commanding the worker bees.
She thought she could separate her spirit and body, but that didn't seem to be the case.
Since the mating, Wei has returned to normal. She no longer shows a covetous look on her face. She can interact and talk normally when they meet, and she no longer asks for kisses or hugs as soon as she opens her mouth.
But Lu Erya didn't expect that in her heart, her relationship with Wei seemed to have taken a big step forward.
Subconsciously, he saw her image overlap more with Feng Qiang's, and subconsciously treated her with an attitude that clearly exceeded normal friendship, and even began to feel distressed...
After finally finishing a day's work, Lu Erya lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
Her mind was in a mess.
After mating, she still lived in the nest, still sleeping in the same bed with Wei. But there seemed to be a huge barrier between them, sharing the same bed but having different dreams.
Wei is used to getting up early, so when she gets up every day, there is always empty space around her.
Lu Erya had been deceiving herself into thinking that this was just an ordinary roommate relationship.
But today she couldn't help but hold Wei's hand, which seemed to make Wei feel strange.
Now it seems that Wei took a step back, but I took a step forward.
Just as she was struggling over whether to propose mating, she decided that she should leave the nest after the tail was up.
When Wei went to Cui's place to wait for her teammates to pick her up, her body suddenly became stiff and her eyes lost their luster.
Lu Erya swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth. She murmured, "Which worker bee has it possessed again..."
In the nursery, a worker bee was anxiously checking nine bee pupae.
She put on a human expression and spoke in a human language that the worker bees were not used to using: "How could it be that the hatching stopped?!"
Wei was just about to go to sleep when she suddenly received the news that the bee pupae in the nursery had stopped growing.
She didn't have time to come in person, so she chose to possess the worker bees, which was the easiest and quickest way.
When the tree roots attacked the nursery that day, it was Lu Erya who threw the bomb and blocked their path.
But once everyone had cleared away the tree roots, they immediately melted the beeswax at the nursery door.
During this period, the bee pupae were soaked in the pulp pool, absorbing nutrients voraciously, changing day by day. The life inside was about to take shape and was about to break out of the shell.
Suddenly, the growth of the nine bee pupae came to a standstill.
Seeing this, the other worker bees responsible for raising the babies began to dance in front of Wei, using dance steps to convey the information they received.
"You mean these bee pupae contain half of human genes.
Humans are very weak when they are born and need careful care for a year or two to become healthy..."
Wei continued to speculate, "So they are completely different from the worker bees who look like six-year-old children when they hatch. They can't grow up just by relying on the nutrients in the pulp pool.
Now the bee pupa is getting more and more connected with the outside world, but still can't feel the connection with its mother, and begins to feel scared and frightened.
Do you need Miyabi to accompany you in order to continue growing?"
The worker bees raising the babies nodded in unison.
"Okay, I'll go back and talk to her. She already wants to leave, and it doesn't seem appropriate for us to force her to stay like this..." Wei's tone was depressed, but she couldn't suppress the smile on the corner of her mouth.
As agreed, she hid her feelings in front of Ya and pretended that she had no love or desire for her.
They all planned to let her go naked, and then wait for her to come see them next year like a wife-waiting stone.
Who knew that the bee pupae were so "competitive" and gave her a perfect reason to keep Ya.
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See you tomorrow, babes!
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: ppst25, 2 bottles of dry and charred salted fish; 1 bottle of Gugu and Yuanshangcao;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
Ngi mua: haroharo, 26/06/2024 22:40
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