At noon on a sunny day, the three of them had lunch and continued their afternoon trip.

According to the map, it would take them about fifteen days to reach the outermost part of the Bell Wetlands. This means that they will soon be out of danger.

This good news made everyone a little excited, and the speed was much faster.

Along the way, they watched for the movements of nearby magical beasts, looking for herbs with healing effects.

Under Kevin's instructions, Du Yuhan confronted a green wood lizard entrenched near the pile of herbs. Although the attack power of the green wood lizard that had become manic had been raised to a higher level, it was still easily eliminated by him with a few swords.

After nearly a month of adventure, Du Yuhan's use of fighting spirit has become much easier, and his swordsmanship has become more and more proficient. In order to save his body and concentrate his strength to the maximum, he abandoned many useless moves in his previous moves, and emphasized defeating the enemy with one move. Now his swordsmanship has a bit of a mercenary's ruthless taste.

Already familiar with cleaning the battlefield, after a cramping meal, he crouched down to dig herbs with Kevin.

And Heywood, who was standing on the side and was in charge of letting off the wind, was bored and kicked the small stone on the ground with the grass in his mouth.

Suddenly, his ears moved, and he looked into the depths of the jungle with a wary expression.

"Did you hear anything?"

"Voice?" Hearing this, Du Yuhan stood up with a solemn expression.

Everyone listened intently, and the whole jungle was unusually quiet, except for the rustle of the leaves of the breeze and some insects and birds, there was also a barely audible sound of wings vibrating at high speed.

"Buzz-"

"What's that sound?" Du Yuhan turned his head strangely. He hasn't been here for a long time, and he hasn't had much contact with other types of demonic beasts, except for the common big road goods.

"Let's go check it out." After thinking for a while, Kevin packed up the herbs he had just picked and walked towards the source of the sound with a light foot.

The closer you get to the source, the louder it becomes. I don't know if it's an illusion, but the sound waves emitted from the vibration of the wings are not too loud to be unbearable, but they make people feel dizzy.

What's going on? Du Yuhan frowned deeply, but seeing Kevin's calm expression, he didn't think that this demonic beast was very dangerous.

After a while, the crowd sneaked up near the source of the sound.

It was a huge beehive, three or four meters in diameter. But this was different from what he had seen before, the previous beehives were hung from trees, but this large beehive was placed directly on the ground, and the back was close to the mouth of a huge cave.

This large cave also looks very strange, obviously it looks like a solid rock, but the shape is twisted and intertwined branches, and there is a big tree of seven or eight people connected to it. From a distance, I thought it was a big tree coiled around the boulder, inseparable; But when I looked closely, I found that this strange boulder was actually a part of the big tree, just like its roots.

Giant bees flutter around the hive, each the size of a fist, with a yellow-brown body connected to a crimson tail, and you can see how wonderful it would feel to be stung.

Looking at the diligent giant bee, Du Yuhan once again sighed in his heart at the magic of nature - sleep! It's so big, what big do you eat?!

"It's a black bee." Kevin whispered in a low voice.

Refining black bees, fire attributes, and ranks are only a mere third order, but no professional dares to underestimate it. The attack mainly relies on the poisonous needle on the tail, and the attack power is not strong, but when it stings, the body will release a toxin, although it is not fatal, but it will make people hurt for several days.

The social attribute does not actively attack unless disturbed.

There are not many valuable materials on this refining black bee, and the only thing that is useful is that the toxins in the body can be used for special medicinal purposes, but unfortunately usually the bees have not caught them, and the toxins have already been obtained - in the body.

Just as Kevin was about to leave, he was gently pulled by Du Yuhan.

He looked at Du Yuhan's face that was a little red with excitement suspiciously, his smart eyes stared straight at him, and his hard lip line opened slightly, revealing the tender red tip of his tongue inside, and he was a little in a trance. Just when he couldn't help but want to kiss him directly, Du Yuhan spoke.

"Let's eat stir-fried bee pupae tonight!"

Kevin:......

Haywood:......

"Are you stuck in your brain? It's up to us to get such a big hive!? Heywood looked at each other with an incredulous expression.

Kevin didn't speak, but there was an equally puzzled look on his face.

Du Yuhan is full of confidence, although the size of the refining black bee is very large, the habits of the bee are still the same. When he was a child, he and his eldest brother went back to their hometown to play during the holidays, and at that time, he often ran all over the mountains with his friends, and poking the honeycomb was one of the entertainment programs. Because of his greedy mouth, he was stung a lot, but he also practiced the ability to poke a honeycomb.

Licking his fingers in the air to measure the direction of the wind, Kevin took out the leaves of the Cordyceptic Herb, and dug up several pieces of damp moss on the ground, Du Yuhan ran to the upwind with a lot of things.

Pile the cordyceps repellent at the bottom, light it with a fire, and cover it with wet moss and large leaves as soon as the fire appears. In an instant, billowing smoke rose into the sky and swept towards the honeycomb in the direction of the wind.

Cordyceps repellent has a pungent smell when burned, and the smoked area will be relatively clean, and adventurers will generally use it to repel poisonous insects to ensure that the camp area is free of poisonous insects.

Afraid that the medicine was not enough, Du Yuhan covered his head with a damp cloth and squatted next to the pile of herbs to blow the wind so that the smoke would be more violent.

The black bees that were still flying outside the hive were smoky, and even the black bees in the nest were smoked out by the pungent smell, flying around like a blind man, and finally couldn't resist the toxicity of Cordyceps repellent emitted, and one by one was smoked and fell to the ground.

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At this time, in front of a swampy river seven or eight meters wide, several men dressed as mercenaries squatted on the ground, holding a few broken vines in their hands, thoughtful.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in the originally empty place, "Captain, the footprints of three people have been found on the other side of the river." ”

The man in the lead nodded, and his subordinates continued.

"Looking at the footprints, they walked in a hurry, as if they were being chased by some wild beast."

"Hmm." Near this is the area where the moonless wolves are active, and these monsters are nocturnal. According to the strength of the three of them, it is impossible to rush at night, and it seems that they took this route to escape at night that night.

Due to the soft soil of the wetland, it is not possible to search on horseback on a large scale, so they can only send teams to search for it, so it has been twelve full days since the night they escaped, and everyone still found nothing, and only now has they finally found traces here.

According to their pace, if they speed up now, it is estimated that they will be able to catch up in another eight days.

Just as he was thinking, another thief suddenly appeared next to him.

"Captain, it has been reported that there is unknown black smoke in the depths of the wetland!"

The man's eyes flashed, he threw the vines in his hand, and ordered in a deep voice: "Continue to monitor, and the others will chase after it immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

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The three of them watched in the grass in the distance, and after a long time, they saw that there was no active black bee near the hive, so they tiptoed over.

As he was about to approach the hive, suddenly, a powerful sound wave spread rapidly outward from the center of the hive, and a black object swooped out of the hive. Du Yuhan's figure suddenly froze, and he pressed the two people beside him and threw himself forward.

"Buzz! ――”

A gust of wind blew overhead, and after the flying sand and rocks, everyone could lift their heads.

A pitch-black black bee landed slowly in the air, its body was only the size of a walnut, but its six pairs of wings were three times the width of its body. Bean's compound eyes were blood-red, staring at the three humans in front of him.

"Oh no, it's the queen bee!" Kevin's face was a little ugly.

In the group of black bees, there is only one female bee that can lay eggs. After birth, the queen bee will continue to consume an energy secreted by other adult worker bees until it has completed its development. Because she has been absorbing energy, the queen bee has a fourth-order level.

Generally, the queen bee is responsible for guarding the safety of the nest and directing the worker bees to carry out strategic attacks, rather than just rushing to the nest. A colony guarded by a queen bee will be much higher in combat effectiveness than a colony without a queen bee.

Seeing that his home was destroyed and his subordinates were slaughtered, the wings behind the angry queen bee fluttered faster, and the momentum was in an instant, and Du Yuhan, who was affected by the frequency of sound waves, couldn't help but cover his ears with his hands.

Suddenly, Queen Bee swooped down and lunged towards Heywood, whose pupils shrank and rolled on the spot to dodge. And where he was standing was knocked out of a pit the size of a basketball.

After missing the blow, Queen Bee turned around and slammed into Kevin, who was next to her. But there is a natural gap between priests and other professions in terms of physical reflexes, so even if the brain gives the command to dodge, the body is still half a beat slower.

Seeing that the sharp tail needle was about to hit his face, he immediately flipped his palm.

"Divine Light Shield!" In an instant, a white translucent barrier stood in front of him, which was able to block the queen bee's brave blow.

Kevin knew in his heart that third-order magic couldn't low-grade fourth-order attacks at all, so he took advantage of the fact that the attack was blocked, and immediately took a few steps behind him. Soon, the off-white shield of light was pierced, and with a crisp sound, the divine element dissipated into the air.

"Drink!" Luckily, Du Yuhan picked up the big sword and slashed towards the queen bee in a few arrow steps, forcing the distance between it and Kevin.

The queen bee who was blocked no longer entangled Kevin, who was farther away from him, and began to attack Du Yuhan fiercely, and the sharp chela needle on his body bit his figure to death.

Although after a few days of training, Du Yuhan's fighting spirit has improved, the gap in rank is still difficult to eliminate. In terms of strength, it may be comparable, but Queen Bee's attack speed is very fast, not only dodging his attack lightly, but also seizing the opportunity to counterattack him with a tricky angle, so that he can only stand left and right, gritting his teeth to support.

Rising from the ground, Heywood pulled an arrow from behind him with his backhand, and his eyes were locked on the queen bee's position. But because Du Yuhan was already in a stalemate with the queen bee, he couldn't find the opportunity to start for a while. "Tsk!"

Sensing that Du Yuhan had begun to gain the upper hand, Kevin immediately placed a layer of light shield in front of the other party. Then he chanted the incantation lightly, pinched his fingers, and a cluster of milky white light dots flowed quickly on Du Yuhan's body. "Speed of Light!"

Du Yuhan, who was blessed by divine energy, attacked and moved a lot faster, and the heavy sword in his hand did not stop for a moment, while blocking the queen bee's attack, he was constantly looking for an opportunity to kill with one blow.