Chapter 13: The Hive
"Butler Buck, right? On behalf of all the members of the Hurricane team, I thank you for your generosity. If it is convenient for you to leave the location of the castle of Degrat and if we find good prey, we hope that the castle of Degrat will be generous. Oh, by the way, don't worry that we can't remember the address, the drone is equipped with a video function, forget it, you can watch it again. Sa's cold voice came down from the drone.
The blue-clothed Buck butler was a little unhappy, was this a disguised threat to fulfill his promise, okay? I can't remember the address, but I'm telling myself that the latter sentence is the point!
"It's about a month's journey in the southwest direction here. At that time, I hope that the wind convoy will bring more prey to our castle to barter. β
"That's nature!"
The two sides reached a preliminary agreement, and Buck Butler and the lead guard exchanged glances and said goodbye to Hachi and Sa, "It's getting late, and if we don't go on the road again, we may not be able to get to the next hive before nightfall." β
"Slow down and don't send it." For Sa who has already achieved his goal, Buck's group of people are now superfluous existences, and people who have no use value, Sa has always been polite.
Looking at the backs of the five people who were gone, Hachi touched the earphones that he had put on again, "Sa, what is a beehive?" β
Sa in the command car of the wind team was stunned for a moment, and smiled, "Hachi has never entered the hive." β
"Nope."
The first ...... she's seen since she's conscious Well, it should be the first wave of people, that is, the captain Lucy and Sa, all the knowledge about this world comes from the partners of the wind team, as a person who has never gotten off the car except for a mission, this world is still very strange.
Sa thought for a while, leaned back, and gracefully cocked Erlang's legs, "Hachi, you know the history of this world now." β
Hachi nodded, "I know a little bit." β
Although Captain Lucy is unreliable, he still gave her a little science about this world.
"In the last years of the century, there was a protracted war in the world, which killed many people and destroyed many cities."
"That's right. That war left many people displaced and homeless. Let many cities become abandoned cities and abandoned cities. But war not only destroys the cities inhabited by humans, but also destroys the world. Sa Qing's cold voice brought solemnity and solemnity for the first time, as well as helplessness to this world.
"We don't know exactly how that war happened, but we know that after that war, the world became what it is now. Humans stay outside for a long time, their bodies get sick, they die. There is no clean water source for human consumption. Exposed land does not produce food for human consumption. Even the animals in the forest cannot be eaten by humans until they have been processed. Humanity has produced an unprecedented existential crisis. β
Listening to Sa's explanation, Xiaoba frowned slightly, and a feeling of regret rose inexplicably in his heart, as if the world should not be like this.
"It was in the midst of this crisis that someone created an area where human beings could live with some technology that was not destroyed by the war, which is what we now call a castle. Since then, the world has entered a new era, the New Yuan Era, also known as the New Law Era. β
This Hachi knew that Lucy had told her that the castle was the last straw for humanity.
"A castle is far from being able to solve the problem of survival for all mankind, and soon the technology to build castles spread, and many castles have been built one after another on the mainland, and human beings have been scattered in all corners of the continent."
"After humanity has solved the basic existential crisis, castles must communicate with each other in order to live a better life. For example, the group of people who just left, didn't they also go to other castles to barter and exchange for the materials needed in their own castles. With this, Sahu smiled sarcastically, cleared his throat, and continued, "But how big the world is, and how far away the castles are, some may have to walk for years to see the next castle. But the world is full of deadly crises, even if the problem of human bodies being exposed for a long time without getting sick is solved, any one of those mutated animals that can flood all corners of the world can kill just humans. β
Hachi remembered that the animal that was split in two by himself on the road had some black lines, was that dangerous?
"Hachi, don't underestimate those animals, all you have encountered so far are some docile and low-level animals, and some fierce beasts generally sleep during the day and come out to forage for food at night. Some even come out in groups to forage for food, and once humans encounter it, there is almost no possibility of escape. β
"Am I not okay with me?" Hachi asked curiously. In the absence of outsiders, she quickly revealed her true nature, directly and without knowing anything.
"......" is such a confident child! Sa smiled slightly, "Maybe you can still win alone, but if you meet a crowd, Hachi remembers, one word, escape!" β
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Hachi was silent, he didn't expect the mutated beast to be so powerful.
"To solve this crisis, beehives were created, where people could hide at night and avoid becoming food for wild beasts."
ββ¦β¦ Can't even the beasts find the hive? "Didn't you say that some mutated beasts have very smart noses? It's impossible not to find a hiding place for their 'rations'.
"If you find them, you won't dare to enter."
"Huh? Why? β
"The hive is called a hive because it used to be the nest of the serrated queen bee."
"The Jagged Queen Bee?" What is it?
"It's a three-star animal. Although the level is three-star, because it is a group, the general combat power can be upgraded to five stars, and as long as the queen bee is undefeated, the worker bees will fight to the death, so the general animals will not take the initiative to provoke them. β
ββ¦β¦ So powerful! So how can humans get into their lair? Don't they eat people? β
Sa sneered at Hachi's naΓ―ve thoughts, "Hachi, I finally understand why Lucy likes to pester you." You are simply a stimulant that inflates his vanity. β
Pure and direct, innocent and curious, with a refreshing worship, this is simply the catalyst for the captain of the brain to show off his poor knowledge!
Well? Hachi tilted his head a little incomprehensibly, and smiled warmly at the screen he was looking at.
"The Queen Bee likes the human body the most, and it is said that the nutrients provided by a human body can allow the Queen Bee to lay more than 20 eggs. You say, does it eat people or not? β
Wow, man, it looks like it's worth a lot......
"It's powerful, but it has a weakness. The sawtooth queen is extremely afraid of fire, so the sawtooth queen, whose weakness is known to humans, was robbed of the nest in this way. Soon, humans who were not satisfied with robbing the nest began to raise the serrated queen bee in captivity, which was used to build burrows between castles and castles for them, and then provided them to passers-by to earn living materials. This is the hive where people now settle. β
"Hachi, do you want to go to the hive."
"Nope." Hachi shook his head, his eyes becoming hollow, "I'm still not going." β
What's so nice to see is nothing more than a lair where a pack of wild beasts lived.