Chapter 1: The Bee Catcher

"Black Blood Orchid!! This is the Black Blood Orchid! Professor Lussen leaned his head in front of a plant with magnificent dark red flowers, looked at it intently, and couldn't wait to shout out to his niece and assistant not far behind him, completely oblivious to his own hair and beard, which were more messy than the weeds under his feet, and how miserable the childlike smirk on his face was at the moment......

Alicia is leaning against a big tree with two people hugging together, panting heavily, while wiping the beads of sweat that keep sliding down her forehead, and carrying a huge backpack nearly 1.5 meters high and 1 meter wide on her back, although it is equipped with a booster device, it reduces the weight by 85%, and still makes Alicia who walks for 3 hours in a row a little unbearable.

"I'm so tired, if only I could take a hot bath, it's best to take a royal water sink queen SPA, and then have a Luconel's oversized cup of "Ice Sea Journey", and then a hundred flowers and plums from the wind saucer workshop, and ...... And ......" Alicia, who was thinking about it, was interrupted by a strange cry from Professor Lucerne in front of her, and instantly fell back into the western wilderness of the "birds and flowers" from the royal water sink in the middle capital of the poor and luxurious.

Alicia's mood was like a spring girl who was disturbed by the princess's dream, and looked angrily in the direction of the "noise", but the smirking face that greeted her eyes was a person who was separated from her and the team, had to walk on foot, and was likely to sleep in the wilderness, and her eyes, which were originally a little red because of the long journey, were like burning flames at the moment.

"Alicia, come and see! Black Blood Orchid, living Black Blood Orchid! Lusen, who was in the excitement, didn't feel Alicia's gaze at all, and was still waving desperately.

The daydream had just been interrupted, and Alicia, who had not yet awakened her morality and had not yet returned to her humanity, could not tolerate letting this stupid face with hair fly in her field of vision, and the noise in her ears actually repeatedly mentioned the "damn plant" - the "damn plant" in the story of "a goddamn archaeology professor who caused his beautiful niece to miss the return time and go into the wilderness in order to collect the damned plant specimens".

"Alive?"

"Yes! Still alive! ”

"Dead in a moment!!" Alicia took out a cylindrical transparent object from the side pocket of her backpack and threw it directly at Professor Lucson.

"Ahh My General's Disc !! Professor Lucson exclaimed, trying to catch the bioculture flask that Alicia had thrown.

But the angry Alicia used too much force, and the cylindrical object drew a graceful arc, passed over Professor Lusen's head, and smashed on a piece of bluestone impartially, and after a pop, a palm-sized cyan butterfly slowly rose and flew towards the blue sky.

"Ahh Yes! My baby!! My baby!! Don't go! Professor Lu Sen quickly pounced on the broken biological culture flask like a cheetah, but he could only watch the dancing general butterfly on the one hand, and cry heartbreakingly at the butterfly's far back like a mother who was reluctant to let her child go away.

Alicia, who regained her senses, also regretted her impulsiveness a little, although she majored in ancient mechanical applications, but the preciousness of the general butterfly she had heard from her uncle many times since she was a child.

Alicia watched her uncle squatting in front of the bluestone that broke the biological culture bottle, and was silent for a long time, then walked behind Lu Sen with her head down, and said in a coquettish tone: "I'm sorry, it's a big deal that I'll stay with you for a few more days, you can look for it again, anyway, there are so many strange creatures here." ”

"Something is wrong with this stone."

"What's wrong, isn't it just a broken stone!" Alicia listened to her uncle's answer in a calm tone, and immediately became arrogant.

"Huh? It's a fake rock with something in it! Lu Sen didn't care about his niece's tone of change like the weather in Zhongdu, and broke it hard along a crack that was smashed open by the culture bottle, and the bluestone that was originally the size of a football was like a large easter egg, split in half, revealing a mechanical device.

"What is this?" Alicia was also attracted by the sudden appearance of the mechanism.

"I don't know, it's like a signal transmitter."

"This thing is not a thing of the Common Era civilization at a glance, it must be made in modern times? Who put it in this wilderness and wanted to pass it off as an antique? ”

"I don't know, huh? There seems to be a switch here. ”

"Hey, don't press it!!" ……

"Tick! Drip! Drip! The rapid siren sound from the portable energy detection radar hanging on his waist ended Nanbo's short rest.

Nanbo turned on the constantly sounding radar, confirmed that the location of the signal source and the energy reflection level were his prey for many days, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although he was very confident in his calculations, but after all, this is located on the edge of the shadow area, and many things are uncontrollable.

Nanbo quickly climbed to the top of the canopy of a tall tree, like a falcon, and quickly locked onto its prey, a whistle bee.

The Sentry Bee is a more common puppet in the Western Wilderness, according to the anti-level Lv.2, according to the division of the Chasseur Association, the puppet of Lv.1-Lv.3 is called the Puppet Beast, the puppet of Lv.4-Lv.6 is called the Puppet Demon, the puppet of Lv.7-Lv.8 is called the Puppet King, and the puppet above Lv.9, which basically only appears in legends, is called the Puppet Emperor. The Sentry Bee is only a Golem, and its weapon strength and body hardness have been evaluated by the Chasseur Association as Tier E, and it is only the last in the Lv.2 Golem class, but none of this prevents it from entering the shortlist of the most valuable and dangerous Golemmons in Lv.2.

In terms of danger, as a small and medium-sized flying puppet beast, the flight speed of the sentry bee of 250km/h combined with super flexibility is already a nightmare that most people can hunt, and it is a combination of "swarming", "anti-early warning" and "attack locking", which are the three most disgusting skills of the puppet beast. Even high-level hunters above Lv.3 rarely target sentry bees, and generally only target them when large hunting regiments or military hunting groups are hunting in the paddock.

Needless to say, Lv.2 can be said to be the ultimate goal of human hunting machine puppets, and it is an international hard currency that is sharper than ancient currency, and it is also the only standard to measure the level of all machine puppets.

The number of whistle bees is not a lot, and it has been confirmed that there are still a considerable number of whistle bees on standby, because after years of hunting, some of the puppet beasts in the shadow area have begun to decrease or even become extinct, after all, the puppet beasts are made by the pre-civilization - the AD civilization, not natural creatures, it is impossible to regenerate, but the number of some puppet beasts including the whistle bee has not decreased, and some modern scholars believe that there should be multiple puppet hangars of the AD civilization in the unknown fog area, whenever these types of puppets are damaged, The standby puppets in the Golem Arsenal will automatically activate, keeping the number of such Golems in the area constant, and the reason for this phenomenon is the same as the demise of the Common Era civilization - a puzzle that all archaeologists want to solve. More extreme scholars have proposed that there are factories in the Misty Region that are constantly making machine golems, and if the speed at which humans kill machine golems is lower than the manufacturing speed, human beings will usher in the third wave of machine monsters and thus destroy, of course, these claims have never been confirmed, and no one cares about these except scholars and ancient civilization enthusiasts, such as hunters and merchants, who are more concerned about the value of machine golems than the source of them.

Nanbo is no exception, and the whistle bee in front of him has already been decomposed by Nanbo in his brain and began to settle the use and value.

The ordinary Lv.2 energy core is about 100,000 four-leaf coins, the current price of light alloy 350Kg is 50,000, and the pair of complete soft film energy wings is 300,000, and the anti-detector can be handed over to the old man to be processed into a high-precision energy detection radar for at least 500,000, and the old man of the high-density soft metal energy device has already booked it, and other parts can probably be sold for 3 or 50,000, and this single order can earn 1 million leaves, which is comparable to the income of an ordinary corps for a month.

Nanbo is not a nuclear hunter in the strict sense of the word (i.e., can hunt), only 11-year-old Nanbo has not yet met the minimum certification and registration requirements of the Chasseur Association over 14 years old, and Nanbo's method of hunting machine puppets is also very different from other hunting. Almost all puppets follow the Red Cross pigeon rule and will not actively attack humans under the age of 12, which is an important reason for the continuation of human beings and the basis of Nanbo's hunting methods.

Although the lone whistle bee is a rare prey, like Nanbo at this time, except for a small mechanical sniper rifle with an automatic shooting rack and a pair of non-recognizable nuclear power-assisted mecha boots, there is no other power-assisted mecha or weapon, which can be said to be completely naked hunting for ordinary hunting. In this case, not to mention hunting for the top mechgol beasts of Lv.2, they don't even have the qualifications to escape, after all, the significance of equipment for hunting is like money for businessmen, and power for politicians, the more the merrier and indispensable.

"Didi!"

When Nanbo only saw the mung bean sentry bee flying over the preset red line, and the constantly flashing triangular cursor also happened to reach the red line of the radar light frequency mark, the energy detection radar emitted a machine sound.

"Error 0.167 seconds......

"The error has been corrected."

Looking at the prompts flashing in the lower left corner of the reflective radar light screen, the corners of Nanbo's somewhat chapped mouth kept turning up, and his eyes were still firmly locked on the sentinel bees in the distance, completely unaware that the originally pale red blood in the crack had slowly gathered into scarlet blood beads and was crumbling. Just slowly raise the right hand holding the radar to the position in front of your face where you can see the light screen and the prey at the same time, and wait quietly.

When the slowly flying sentry bee crossed the second preset red line, Nanbo, who was as stationary as a statue, suddenly pressed the red button on the right side of the radar.

"Toot!"

The radar sounded as if to remind that time had stood still and the clock was flowing again. The two bluestones under the tree, as if awakened, suddenly exploded, revealing two strange mechanical devices that suddenly rose, like flower buds blooming in an instant, spitting out the stamens that had been pregnant for a long time. It's just that the stamen is a red crystal that keeps flashing.

Nanbo was not attracted by the sudden rise of the mechanical device at all, and with a leap of flight, two light blue energy flames erupted from the power assist shoes under his feet, and they flew like arrows from the string to the fork of the tree pre-installed with automatic shooting racks on the opposite side.

In the distance, the whistle bee galloped towards the two flower-shaped machines like a real bee seeing the sweetest nectar.

Nanbo quickly took off the small mechanical sniper rifle from behind and fixed it on the automatic shooting rack, and then took out the wind test device from his waist and inserted it at the tip of the branch, while observing, he began to set the angle parameters of the automatic shooting rack, after everything was ready, Nanbo carefully took out a light yellow transparent rubber bullet with only the thickness of wheat straw from his waist bag, gently unscrewed the bullet, carefully injected 1 ml of red liquid into the bullet heart with a syringe, and then tightened the bullet and shook it left and right twice. The original pale yellow bullet suddenly turned into an almost transparent white, and if it weren't for the violent tumbling of the liquid in the bullet, it produced dense small bubbles that made the bullet swell, and it would be difficult for the naked eye to detect the existence of the bullet.

Nanbo put the bullet into the chamber of the gun, turned on the automatic fire sensing device, and quickly sank into the dense foliage behind him, slowly moved to the root of the fork, sat down against the trunk of the tree, and quietly waited for the arrival of the prey.