Chapter 52 Scavengers

Just as he was annoyed, his instinct told him that something was approaching behind him. So he continued his original sigh and troubled movements, carefully turned his head, and looked behind him with the rest of his eyes.

I don't know when a half-dead leaf like an apple tree leaf landed on the mushroom, but Diarlandor was sure that the leaf didn't exist a moment ago. You must know that it is rare to have an apple leaf the size of your own face, and you will never forget it when you see it.

At this moment, the apple leaf was moving carefully, covering the movements of the creatures beneath the leaf. Dearlando pretended to hold his head in contemplation, and quieted down without making any sound, and sure enough, he heard the sound of gently cutting things from the direction of the leaves.

He bounced to his feet and pounced, crushing the creature beneath the leaves as if he had just grabbed the elf. The thing immediately struggled and attacked itself with a tiny weapon.

Dearrando lifted the leaves, revealing a human underneath that was slightly larger than the elf. The little man was about half the height of his palm, brown hair, healthy wheat-colored skin, gray-green eyes, and looked not much different from the humans of his own world.

"Hi. Don't be afraid, I'm just a passing by, caught you just to ask you a few questions. Diarrando gently comforted the little man as he frantically poked his hand with a small blade hewn out of stone.

Although there was a slight pain in his hand, this attack really had no effect on himself, but the villain's own hand was broken.

Hear Dearlando's words. The villain looked at him suspiciously, and then said cautiously, "What do you want to ask?"

"I'd like to ask how long a time unit is, I'm going to wait for the scavenger to pass by so he can take me to check all the zones here, I need to find a bad sample that is infesting other species. Dearlando tried to explain his needs by the strange name that the elf had just used, after all, the individuals here didn't know any of Fellalen, they didn't seem to even have their own name, only their own type and number.

"Oh...... Time unit, every time a scavenger passes by, it's counted as a time unit. The little human raised a hand and picked up an hourglass hanging from his chest and looked at it. Then he said, "You're in luck." There is still fifty sand to go, and the scavengers are about to pass by. ”

Curious, Diarlando leaned over to see the timer around his neck. It was an hourglass made of two translucent shells shed by some insect, and there were some small grayish-white grains of sand inside. The sand particles fall very slowly. He did the math, about a hundred times faster than his heartbeat. will drop one.

Right now, there's only a little sand left on top of the hourglass. Visually estimated to be fifty, no wonder the other party said that it was the time of fifty sands, and it seems that they all use this method to record the length of the day (if this is a day).

"Oh. Thank you, you can do what you were supposed to do, and I can help you get some of these mushrooms if you need my help. Dearlando put the little man down, then picked up the little basket he had knocked over and handed it back to him.

The villain lifted the basket, looked at the large mushroom that had been destroyed, and asked, "Is this the elf who did it, or did you do it?"

Diarlando touched the back of his head embarrassedly, and then admitted: "I ate it, I didn't know that the food you have here is limited." ”

"Hmph! That elf likes to make a fuss the most, always like to say that this can't eat more, that one destroys the balance. I see that you are a good person, so I will show you a way to get food, and my requirements are not high, and when I get food, you can give me a tenth. ”

Instead of blaming Diarlando, the little human generously handed Diarrando his basket: "You can eat as much as you want, and when you are full, help me pick honey and steal bee pupa." ”

Diarlando politely declined his kind invitation, and then asked curiously, "If you steal honey and eat bee chrysalis, won't it ruin the balance here?"

The little man grabbed the mushrooms he had cut, ate them in large gulps, and then replied vaguely: "There are so strict rules, there are many bees, in fact they will always be a little more than needed, because there are birds and beasts that prey on insects." Elves just like nervousness, in fact, so many creatures devour each other, and it won't be worse than one or two of us. Will you help me?"

Diarlando looked at the hourglass hanging on the little man's chest, and there were forty-nine of them, which is about half an hour to fifty minutes, and asked, "How much sand is there in a time unit, how long is it to collect honey, I don't want to miss today's opportunity." ”

"It's right next door to the lily, I'm going up very slowly, you'll be there soon. I've been observing that hive for a long time, and there are at least a hundred bees, so there should be a lot of honey. The villain pointed to a large bamboo-like plant next to the mushroom, and his eyes lit up as he made an introduction.

Diarlando stood up and looked, and under the highest leaf node of the stout plant, there was indeed a large black fruit-like thing. If he hadn't been reminded, he wouldn't have thought it was a hive, because it looked more like a square.

He looked at it for a while, and sure enough, he noticed that a giant bee had flown up and burrowed into a hole in the center of the hive. It's true that I'm getting hungrier and hungrier, and I can't eat mushrooms or anything, so it shouldn't have much impact if I get some honey......

He scooped up the villain and put it on his shoulder, and said, "You hold on, I'll climb up." The little human immediately grabbed the collar of his coat and shouted happily, "Oh yes, that's great! The last time I ate honey was more than 5,000 units ago." ”

Diarrando followed one of the lily's outstretched blades and climbed up to its trunk. The main trunk is as thick as a tower, at least more than 30 feet in diameter, but fortunately there are many vertical lines on it, and it is not too difficult to climb up with both hands and feet all the way.

By the time he reached the hive, thirty sand had passed. There is still a short time before the scavengers are coming. Dearlando stood outside the hive, gasped for a moment, and asked, "What the hell are the scavengers?

The villain anxiously urged him: "Hurry up, hurry up, take advantage of the small number of bees in the nest now." You'll know when you see it, I can't describe it. ”

Diarlando frowned and looked at him, why did the two say that the scavenger knew it when he saw it, but now that the delicious meal was in front of him, he had better hurry up and not miss the last chance to eat.

He grabbed the edge of the hive, pulled himself up to the top of the hive, and ran to the entrance in the middle. The hexagonal entrance is five feet wide on each side, making it easy to jump on. There are complex passages after going down. But because the bees here are the size of cows. Therefore, as long as you bend down, you can easily walk in the passage. He looked at the ground, smelled the air, and followed the direction where the sweet smell was strongest.

Walking around a corner, a large honey warehouse appeared in front of me. This is not the kind of small honey storage lattice that I usually see that is only the size of my fingertips. Instead, there are huge five-foot-long honey ponds on each side.

Diarlando walked the half-foot-wide beeswax to the side of a honey barn. Then squat down. I dipped my finger in honey and tasted it. The taste of this honey is different from what I have eaten before, with an indescribable rich fragrance, sweet and not greasy. It's delicious.

The little man on his shoulder also jumped down with cheers, lying on the beeswax and eating the honey with both hands. The viscous honey gathered into a round liquid drop by drop on his mini's hand, and it looked like he was eating honey dumplings.

Dearlando didn't delay, although there was only one kind of food, honey was an excellent source of energy, and the sweetness was enough to support the trials he was going to face. While the two of them were feasting, there was a sudden jolt on the beeswax floor, and then a buzzing vibration was heard.

The two of them turned around and found that it was a worker bee that had just finished collecting honey and had returned to its nest. The bees that spotted the intruder flapped their wings and sounded a warning sound. And it's still blocked at the exit, so Deirrando can't get out.

"What should I do?" Deirlandor didn't dare to fight them because he couldn't defeat these bees, but he was afraid that his casual action would cause the death of a world-wide bee colony.

"What else can I do, run away!" said the little man, trying to fill his basket with honey, he had just picked some leaves to lay out the basket, and now it seemed to be a small jar, and the honey was very viscous, but he was not afraid of dripping off halfway.

Dearlando quickly fished up a handful of honey as well, then grabbed the villain and fled away from the worker bees. As he ran, he found that the honey barn had been replaced by a lattice covered with a thin layer of wax. The little man pointed to the lattices on the ground and said, "There are bee chrysalis in it, and one is enough for me to eat for more than half a month." Time is tight, you hurry up and pull your legs down, I just need a little bit of meat. ”

"No, they are going to turn into bees, but I'd better listen to the elves and don't kill them. Diarrando licked the honey from his hand as he ran, although he knew that the pupae of the bugs were good food with high protein, but now that he was full, he should not destroy the developing pupae.

The villain was about to complain about Deirlando's mother-in-law, when he found that there was no way to escape. He pointed to the translucent black-brown beeswax in front of him and shouted, "Oh no, there's no way!"

Deirlandor raised his arm in front of him, then slammed into the wall, smashing the beeswax in front of him with all his strength.

"Ah!!!!!!!!!!h If you don't grab something, the two of you fall down, and it's just over.

Fortunately, Dearlando's momentum was relatively large, and the two of them continued to fall forward in a parabolic manner after they fell out. Diarrando paddled hard as he flew, as if he were swimming in the air. I don't know if it's an illusion, but he always feels like he's getting closer and closer to the leaves of another lily near his lock.

Eventually, he landed on the tip of the target leaf, slammed it down and bounced off again, this time flying much shorter, landing on the leaf of another unknown plant, sliding down the veins of the leaf directly onto the trunk of the plant.

A dozen bees the size of cows buzzed overhead, searching for intruders. In order not to be discovered, the two of them stood tightly against the leaf stalks of the plants.

At that moment, a sound that made the eardrums swell sounded overhead. Dearlando poked his head out behind the leaves and looked around, noticing a large tubular object flying overhead.

He understood why the elves and humans had just said they would understand when they saw it, because there really wasn't anything similar to it. It looked like a metal tube, but it was huge. When he had seen the city of Klayati before, Dearrando thought it was the greatest flying object he had ever seen. But compared to the thing in front of him, the city of Klayati is a small stone.

This huge cylindrical flying object, at least dozens of miles long, is silvery-white all over, and countless slender cracks are evenly distributed on its surface, cutting each other to form a uniform grid. Blue arcs of lightning burst out of the junction of the rifts, stretching out into the surrounding egg-shaped space filled with creatures.

As the cylinder rotated itself, blue arcs swept through the space like a brush. It seems that this is called an inspection.

"How can I go up?" said Dearlando, looking at the scavenger, and counted the distance, which was several miles away, though it flew very slowly. But I don't have wings, how can I cross this huge chasm?

"Huh, you're going up, are you looking for death?" exclaimed, "The creatures that are swept away by the scavengers are dead, and you still want to fly up by yourself?" ”

"But I don't know where the target I am looking is, such a large area, I can only have a chance to find my target with the scavengers who patrol the whole territory every day. Diarrando looked at the blue arc net that was getting closer and closer, and his heart was a little apprehensive, after all, it looked dangerous, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he was swept away. (To be continued......)