Chapter 86 Bee Pupa: Come and spend more time with the bee pupa.
Lu Erya looked away, trying not to see Wei's expression. "We...we've temporarily solved the problem of the humanoid bee colony's reproduction. So there's no need to continue living together. It would be inconvenient to do anything."
When Wei heard this, she immediately regretted letting Lu Erya speak first.
She tried her best to suppress the emotions in her heart and continued to maintain a gentle expression on her face.
Wei uttered an "Ouch," and said with some embarrassment, "I'm afraid not. I was just about to tell you that the reason I hurriedly possessed the worker bee last night was because the bee pupa had stopped developing."
The worker bees said that these children had merged human genes, and their constitutions would become weaker, but their perception of the outside world would be clearer. They needed to feel the presence of both mothers in order to continue growing.
These words successfully silenced Lu Erya.
She lowered her eyes, her expression gloomy.
Now she had no time to worry about moving out of the mother nest and sleeping in separate beds, let alone whether she could return to the Free Base.
Fortunately, Wei didn't push her too hard, and after saying this, she just sat quietly by the side.
But Lu Erya also knew that this was the calm before the storm.
If the bee pupa had not stopped developing at this time but died, Wei would probably have been unable to sit still.
The current situation is not urgent.
After calming down for a while, Lu Erya got up from the bed and said, "Let's go check on the nursery first."
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This was Lu Erya's first time officially entering the nursery. It was very close to the mother's nest, but she had never been there before.
After entering the door, there is a small semicircular hall, which is furnished with sofas, coffee tables and other daily necessities.
There are six passages surrounding the small hall. On both sides of each passage are countless hexagonal honeycombs with a diameter of more than three meters. They are stacked together in an orderly manner, like a super-enlarged version of a conventional honeycomb.
The passage seems to have no end in sight, but it feels very deep and wide. When bees could reproduce naturally, this place must have been very prosperous.
Only the first nine hives contain anything.
Through a layer of translucent beeswax, you can vaguely see the jade-white bee pupa and the worker bees taking care of it.
Sensing someone coming, the worker bees tore open the beeswax, stuck their heads out and watched intently.
The worker bees responsible for taking care of the pupae have several pairs of eyes on their faces, which allow them to better observe the condition of the pupae.
At this time, many people were silent, and they all showed their heads and looked at him, which was quite scary.
Lu Erya swallowed and suppressed the goose bumps on her body. She turned her head and focused her gaze on Wei's warm face: "Is your bee tail here?"
For some reason, Wei had some archetypal shame in front of Lu Erya. She just didn't want Lu Erya to see her inhuman side.
I was worried about scaring her, and even more worried that she would look disgusted.
Wei made an excuse: "It's at the very back, quite far away. Let's not go and see it today. Let's go and see the bee pupae first."
Then he walked towards the nearest beehive with his long legs.
The worker bees inside knew the situation and picked up the pupa, tore open the beeswax, and placed it in front like a treasure.
Lu Erya knew that worker bees could take care of themselves after hatching and were almost able to go to elementary school.
She was also mentally prepared to see the flesh worms that were more than one meter long.
But when she actually saw the bee pupa, she found that it was completely different from what she had imagined.
The whole body of the bee pupa is smooth and white, which is very different from the fleshy worms.
A mini version of a worker bee is sleeping quietly inside, with the child's delicate face sleeping soundly.
Its hands and feet are curled up into a ball, its membranous wings are wrinkled and stuck to its back, and its black and yellow tail on the lower body is short, round and quite cute.
Compared to the bee pupae she imagined, the little worker bees looked more like they were soaked in artificial amniotic fluid, giving them a wet feeling.
The little worker bee seemed to sense the approach of Wei and Lu Erya. She clenched her little hands and her eyelids trembled slightly, as if she was about to wake up.
But the child tried for a long time but failed to open his eyes. His face was wrinkled, which made people feel distressed.
Lu Erya's resistance also subsided a lot. She turned to Wei and asked, "How can we help the bee pupae grow?"
To be more precise, her special abilities are monitoring, marking, and commanding, which can be very effective when combined with swarm consciousness, but unlike Xinxue or Xiaoye, they cannot be exerted on other people.
"I don't know either. This is the first time developmental suspension has happened..." Wei turned to look at the worker bees sitting beside them, staring at them. "Do you have any ideas?"
I saw the worker bee raise its hands, and its fingertips danced quickly in the air like playing.
When space is tight, worker bees use their hands to perform their dance.
It seems that they often stay in the cramped nursery, so they are used to using this "language".
Lu Erya had long been able to understand the dance of most human-shaped bee colonies, but at this time the worker bee's fingertips danced too fast, and she still couldn't keep up.
Fortunately, Wei saw her confused look and immediately relayed to her, "As soon as we arrived, the previously silent bee pupae reacted. This is a good thing.
So they think we should spend more time with the pupae, or take them back to the mother nest directly, which should be more effective."
Lu Erya poked the bee pupa's resilient shell and asked, "Which plan do you think is better?"
As long as she was willing to help, Wei would be satisfied.
She immediately replied: "It depends on which one you can accept."
Lu Erya calculated the days and guessed that the Free Base might have already set off.
Although I don’t know whether Weisheng’s bee pupa will also need her mother’s company in the future, and whether I can successfully return to the Free Base.
But at this time she still wanted these bee pupae to hatch quickly.
Pressing her brows, she decided, "Then let's go with the second option. We can move to the mother nest and stay with them 24 hours a day. That might be more effective."
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Three days later.
Before dawn, Lu Erya suddenly felt a little crowded in her sleep. She opened her eyes and took a look. It turned out that it was Xiao Si who was leaning against her tightly.
With such a squeeze, she was almost encroaching on Wei's sleeping space. She frowned and moved the bee pupa to the side.
But in less than five minutes, the thing that looked like an artificial womb flipped over to her back and squeezed her closer to Wei.
The little girl in the bee pupa saw that she was completely awake, and waved her hands happily, pressing her cheek against the bee pupa, with her nose and eyes squeezed into a ball.
Lu Erya pinched her brows, observed the characteristics of the little worker bee, and said coldly: "Xiao Si, if you squeeze again, go down and sleep."
The worker bee responsible for taking care of Xiao Si heard the sound, knocked on the door, ran into the mother nest quickly, and moved the bee pupa to the far corner of the bed.
In order to allow the bee pupae to better sense their mother's breath, they moved all nine bee pupae back to the mother nest.
The worker bees responsible for taking care of them were worried and lived outside the mother nest.
Lu Erya regretted countless times the decision she made on a whim that day.
On the first day the bee pupae moved in, they were all very well behaved because they had not yet fully recovered from their suspended development.
Even if he woke up, he would just roll his eyes around, staring at her and Wei's movements, observing secretly.
Like a cute doll.
But after a night, their conditions all improved and the situation changed dramatically.
First, they rolled the bee pupa on the ground like a ball, and then began to fight for the position closest to the mother, fighting through the bee pupa's shell.
If the stingers of these little guys had not yet developed, Lu Erya deeply suspected that they would inflict their first sting in their lives on each other.
At night, the nine bee pupae were desperate to go to bed, but there was not enough space on the bed, so another round of disputes broke out.
The search for the talisman box came to an end, and the mutant trees began to run rampant again. Wei couldn't sleep at night.
I'm busy giving orders and have no time to take care of these things.
The worker bees who take care of them are more attached to the pupae they are responsible for.
Whenever the children made a noise in the middle of the night, they would knock on the door and come in, moving other people's bee pupae to the floor and their own bee pupae onto the bed, going back and forth more than ten times.
Lu Erya was woken up several times during the night, but she couldn't lose her temper.
The worker bees tiptoed in and knocked on the door in advance. Everything was for the good of the children, and she could not find any fault with them.
Lu Erya was anxious and felt deeply powerless. The door of the mother nest was just a decoration, and she almost had a nervous breakdown.
The next day, she promptly worked out a rotation schedule so that three bee pupae could go to bed each day and nine bee pupae could rotate back and forth.
The eldest, second and third mistresses who went to bed that day were fine. Even though they woke up early, they just stared at her, putting an invisible pressure on her.
Compared to sleeping on the floor, they were very happy to be able to lie with their mother.
But the three children, Xiaosi, Xiaowu and Xiaoliu, have different personalities.
Each one was more lively than the other, and Xiao Si even learned by himself the skill of rolling inside the bee pupa in order to get closer to her.
Lu Erya was squeezed so hard that she had a nightmare that she was buried alive all night.
This interruption made her lose her sleepiness.
So he put his hand on Xiao Si's bee cocoon shell and turned his head to see how Wei was sleeping.
Seeing the fatigue and tension on her face, Lu Erya sighed softly.
The scale of the mutated trees this time was not large. They had not recovered from the previous serious damage. This time they were just secretly attacking the lone humanoid bees when they were searching for the talisman box in the southern forest.
But Wei remembered the last time the mutant tree roots attacked the beehive, and she became furious and decided to settle both old and new grudges.
He persevered for two days and one night, commanding the swarm of bees to burn all the suspicious dormant mutant trees on the ground.
The mutant tree has both above-ground and underground parts. It can disguise itself as thin and weak mycelium, and can also grow a thick trunk that requires several people to hug.
Their vitality is as tenacious as weeds, and it may be impossible to completely eradicate them.
But for Wei, she would never let go of any opportunity to suppress or burn the mutant tree.
I've been staying up really hard lately. Even though the bee pupae were squeezed so tightly on the bed, it didn't affect Wei's sleep.
Suddenly, Lu Erya saw Wei move, her brows furrowed tightly, as if she was about to wake up.
She quickly looked away guiltily, not wanting her to notice that she was staring at her sleeping face so impolitely.
Unexpectedly, Wei actually talked in her sleep this time.
Her voice, which was usually as sweet as honey water, now had a faint cry tone, and her voice was small and desperate.
"Xiaoya, my dad is gone. Will the First Squad, the First Squad, be disbanded..."
This is what Feng Qiang said to her in person when Uncle Feng passed away. Wei absolutely could not know it.
A basin of ice water was poured on her head, freezing Lu Erya into a lump of ice that was unable to think or move.
The problem that had troubled her for many days was suddenly solved.
Not only do they look alike.
Wei is Feng Qiang!
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See you tomorrow, babies! Boo Boo!
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Ngi mua: haroharo, 26/06/2024 22:45
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