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Suddenly, a ray of light shone through the crack in the door, and the Tyndall effect formed a clear pillar of light that swept over Anchen's head and projected onto the tangled pipes and supports behind her, revealing that her current location was actually an abandoned factory building. The rusty, massive metal shelves stretched to the twenty-metre-high roof, and the glass windows of the roof were already covered with stains and could not let in a single light.

The door of the factory opened, and a woman in a white coat with long silver hair walked in. She was about the same age as An Chen, with a slender figure and a beautiful appearance, with a pair of charming green peach blossom eyes and light pink lips.

"Paanka." An Chen called out to her briefly, crossed his arms and winked at her.

The silver-haired Bai Anka scratched his head helplessly and sighed, "You are actually here, and you are the only one who can sleep in the factory." Alas, how could I be so unlucky to have such a friend as you...... An Chen, I searched the whole town for you, and you have to compensate me for the mental damage. ”

"I can't afford it, what if I make a promise?" An Chen raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a smile, "For your sake, I don't want you to look for money." ”

Greco Boanca, twenty-nine years old, ostensibly a wine dealer, is in fact the daughter of Greco Eliza, a close friend of His Majesty Xinqi and the Supreme Prosecutor, and one of the main masterminds of the "Shield of the Emperor". And the "Shield of the Emperor Sky" is what An Chen is currently doing for the Bee Kingdom.

In the palace thousands of miles away, An Jin doesn't seem to care much about the development of aerospace technology, which is exactly what An Chen is worried about. At present, the bee kingdom's control technology for itself and the underground space is quite advanced, but it lacks the ability to explore the vast universe above them. The most basic means of air transportation for people is still to ride a domestic animal called a "hornet".

And compared to the aviation technology that can compete with the hornet, the exploration of deep space seems to be more like a business with no significant short-term benefits. Civilian businessmen are reluctant to invest, but they are very valuable in the long run, so An Chen can only unite the "second generation of officials" of His Majesty Xinqi's old acquaintance family to establish the "Emperor Sky Shield" group to develop the aerospace industry of the Bee Kingdom.

By now, they have semi-secretly launched seven ordinary satellites and one strategic satellite into space, established a global positioning system known as the "bee net", and discovered a phenomenon in which the clock becomes "fast" at high altitudes. Anchen is currently studying this miraculous phenomenon, which researchers call the "extraterrestrial time difference effect."

In addition, the "Imperial Sky Shield" has established 17 research stations throughout the Bee Kingdom, not only with more satellites waiting to be launched, but also at the same time researching the technology of high-altitude flight in the atmosphere with the help of mechanical equipment.

"Get out!" Bianca said angrily, she didn't have the slightest pedantic respect for the eldest lady, who was supposed to be the Holy Lady of the Pope. Anchen never cared about this, and Boanka knew that too much reverence would annoy her, which was why she had always had a bad attitude towards the palace servants when she was a child. "You're done?"

"Yes, the fuel pipelines here are completely sealed and the waste is buried. Except for those secondary two teenagers who dig for treasures, no one can find out. An Chen said as she walked towards Bo Anka, her steps as graceful as a crane, and the lines of her legs in her light purple trousers loomed.

I have to say that after getting rid of her demonic personality when she was a child, An Chen is actually a very attractive person. It's just that compared to the generally weak and noble α women, she is more like a β woman similar to ordinary men. This is thanks to the physical labor that began in adolescence, which allowed her body to be exercised like an ordinary citizen.

Fortunately, in this place far away from the palace and many nobles, it is obvious that β women who can do all kinds of labor are more in line with the aesthetics of the common people, so Anchen is also quite popular with ordinary boys here.

Bai Anka is not a boy and cannot be called "ordinary", the corners of her mouth twitched uncontrollably, but she also had to say: "Your efficiency is really ridiculously high." ”

"Whew, each other." An Chen smiled as he passed by her, and walked straight out of the abandoned "Emperor's Sky Shield" factory, walking towards the disproportionate black hornet parked next to the dilapidated factory.

This wasp is a pure "Black Hawk" species, more than two meters tall, with a black and shiny body, and its wings are pure and transparent, and its wide, sharp chewing mouthparts can swallow a whole person. The "Black Hawk" is a ration mount at the level of the general of the Bee Kingdom, but it is not impossible for the common people to use it, but it is basically unaffordable for non-rich families and uncontrollable for non-superb riders, so it is rarely seen.

An Chen's head was given by His Majesty Xinqi back then, the same age as her, and the big name is "Black Arrow", but An Chen likes to call it "Black Arrow".

When human society was not fully developed, wasps were originally natural enemies of humans, and they were of a wide variety of species, but without exception they fed on mammals, pollen, and nectar. The reason why the people of the bee kingdom call their homeland "bees" is because of this animal that once dominated the land and the sky, but was domesticated by their more fierce ancestors.

The social structure of the hornet is also very similar to that of humans (in the bee kingdom), with a queen with absolute authority and the only α female bee with reproductive ability, while the rest of the β female bees are ordinary members who are not capable of reproduction. But hornet societies do not have as many males as β females as humans do, and drones are actually only three or four times more numerous than α females. However, compared to the normal haploid males in human society, who have the same full labor capacity as the diploid β females, the drones in the hornets are only half the size of the β females, and they cannot be used as mounts.

Like humans, hornets are also highly dependent on their queen, who appeases all members through exohormones, just as the human Virgin Pope needs to make regular rounds of the country. Therefore, if people want to use hornets as a means of transportation, most of them do not raise them themselves, but rent hornets from hornets stations. Each hornet station needs a queen bee to manage the hornets in the coordination station, and the queen to which Anchen's Kuroko belongs is based in the Black Eagle Stables next to the palace, and Kuroko visits him once a week.

"Kuroko, catch the rat and eat it again?" An Chen smiled and touched the smooth exoskeleton on the top of the black hornet's head.

Hornets are very intelligent and have a wide hearing range, have their own ultrasound language, and can be trained to understand all human languages, but whether they want to listen or not is their own business.

Kuroko only listens to the words of its queen and An Chen, and the power is equal. And the queen bee called "Sita" just listened to Anchen selectively, probably half the probability. So essentially, there is about a 75% chance that Kuroko will completely obey Anchen - which is actually quite high compared to those ordinary hornets.

Kuroko shook his head, scraped the blood from his lip with his appendages, and when An Chen sat firmly on the back of his chest, he flew into the sky with a "poof".

On the ground, Bai Anka complained: "I only said two words and left, didn't I go to work so anxious......"