Volume 1 Out of the Ring Chapter 12 The Hive Labyrinth
The two of them returned to the nest and looked at the remaining three passages.
"Choose one of three. Su Lingyu didn't say much, and jumped directly into the middle passage. Ye Xing followed a little.
In the new nest house, there are twelve nest walls and the same five passages. It's just that four passages are on the side wall, and the last one is actually on the nest wall above the head.
Ye Xing and Su Lingyu looked at the passage above, "Is this passage leading to the ground?"
"It doesn't matter anymore. Because we can't fly up. Ye Xing shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile.
"But the other three passages are still going down, haven't we been going to the inside of the hive like this?" Su Lingyu looked at the other three passages, and his tone was a little impatient.
Ye Xing sighed, "We have no choice." ”
Just as they were struggling with which passage to choose, they suddenly heard a buzzing sound from the passage above. One, two, three. In a few breaths, three blood star bees flew out of the passage above, and as soon as they saw Ye Xing and the others, they flew towards them quickly. And the buzzing in the passage above hasn't ended yet, and I don't know how many more are coming.
The faces of the two changed suddenly, and they raised their legs and ran towards the other three passages.
When he ran to the mouth of a passage, Ye Xing turned to face the Blood Star Bee above his head, held a long knife, and said to Su Lingyu: "You are advanced!"
Su Lingyu looked at his back and said loudly, "Let's go in!" After speaking, he grabbed Ye Xing's arm and dragged him to jump into the nearest passage.
As soon as they entered a new nest, the two heard an approaching hum from the passage behind them. They hurriedly checked the passage in the nest. Of the other four channels, three are downward and one is horizontal.
The two did not hesitate and ran directly to the three downward passages. There is a high probability that the horizontal passage leads to the ovarian room that I encountered before, and there is only one passage in and out, and once it is blocked, it will definitely die.
As soon as they ran to the side of the three passages, they saw five blood star bees flying out of the passage they came down. The hearts of the two sank, and there were more and more. They glanced at each other and continued to jump towards one of the passages.
In the passage, Ye Xing, who was sliding, suddenly stared at the passage wall below and exclaimed, "There is a fork there!"
Su Lingyu hurriedly looked, and sure enough, there was indeed a fork in the passage wall below, and the position was on the upper side. At their current speed, they'll be there in less than two seconds.
"Fight and get in!" made the decision in the fastest time, the two controlled the speed of the slide, and as they approached the fork, they jumped into the fork with a strong body.
The fork passage goes down in the same direction and has a steep slope. The two of them slid down quickly, looking nervously down, not knowing where they would lead.
The passage was extraordinarily long, and it took the two of them more than twenty seconds to reach the end. As soon as he reached the end, Ye Xing saw that the ground in the dim light was at a certain height away from the two of them, and he hurriedly reminded: "Be careful!" Su Lingyu released a circle of blue light at the feet of the two of them in time, and under the buffer of the blue light, they landed smoothly without falling injuries.
This nest was several times larger than the previous one, and the light emitted by Su Lingyu's star staff could not fully illuminate the panorama. There were twelve passages in the nest—one on each of the twelve sides. The largest passage was in the ground in front of them, a deep dark hole two or three feet wide
Ye Xing looked at the deep hole in front of him sluggishly, and said with a dry smile: "Jumping down from here, you won't see the queen bee directly, right?"
Su Lingyu was also shocked, she brightened the light of the star staff, looked at the nest wall with passages on each side, and said with an ugly face: "How to choose this?"
Before Ye Xing could speak, a humming sound came from all directions, converging into a sharp sound. Blood star bees flew out of the passages on all sides, staring at Ye Xing and the others with blood-red eyes in the air. Of the twelve hive walls, except for the one behind them and the one on the ground, a Blood Star Wasp flew out of the other ten passages.
Ten of them! Ye Xing and Su Lingyu's pupils shrank, and they took a deep breath nervously. Su Lingyu clenched the star scepter, and Ye Xing clenched the long knife, both ready to fight hard.
The two closest Blood Star Bees were the first to attack, followed by the other eight. It may be that the star power on Su Lingyu's body is more attractive, and the eight Blood Star Bees all rushed towards her, and the other two rushed towards Ye Xing.
Facing the eight Blood Star Bees, Su Lingyu took a deep breath and calmed down. Her eyes lit up, and the star scepter in her hand was raised. A large amount of blue light poured out, condensed into a light seed, and flew towards the nearest Blood Star Bee. As soon as it touched it, the light seed grew as quickly as a real plant seed, growing a cyan starlight vine that tightly wrapped around the Blood Star Bee. The Blood Star Bee struggled, but was unable to break free from the shackles of the green vine for a moment.
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The other seven Blood Star Bees also rushed up one after another. As soon as they got closer, green vines sprouted from the light seed, winding around the approaching Blood Star Bees.
One by one, the blood star bees were bound by the flexible green light vine and could not be freed. But as the number of Blood Star Bees increased, Su Lingyu's star power was also consumed rapidly, her face became pale, and her body kept retreating.
Ye Xing looked at the two Blood Star Bees that flew towards him one near and one away, his expression was focused, he didn't dare to blink for a moment, and he clenched his long knife and waited for it.
The nearby Blood Star Bee slammed into Ye Xing with its slender and sharp mouthparts, stabbing straight into Ye Xing's heart. In its eyes, the prey had no power to resist, just waited for death.
Looking at the Blood Star Bee that was flying towards him, Ye Xing actually closed his eyes, thinking back to the last time he killed the Blood Star Bee. He felt the wind current, and as the Blood Star Bee swept by, he turned downward, his back against the ground, and the long knife in his right hand slashed upwards with force. With a "bang", the blade sank into the belly of the Blood Star Bee, and blood gushed out, just like last time.
The Blood Star Bee frantically moved forward, trying to stab its mouthparts into Ye Xing's body, but failed to stop it with the long knife, instead causing the wound in his abdomen to expand and intensify. It began to struggle to get rid of the long knife, but it couldn't. Ye Xing wanted to pull out the long knife, but the blade was tightly stuck in the abdomen of the Blood Star Bee in front of him, and it was difficult to pull it out for a while.
Another Blood Star Bee had already arrived, flapping its wings, and swooping rapidly, its sharp mouthparts piercing the leaf star like a cone.
Ye Xing, who had no time to pull out the blade, looked at the sharply enlarged mouthparts in front of him, grasped the handle of the knife with both hands, and then pulled hard, and the blood star bee, which had been hit hard, was dragged in front of Ye Xing. The other Blood Star Bee was too fast to turn, and its mouthparts stabbed into its companion. Its oval head slammed into its companion's body almost as far as the wound opened by its mouthparts, blood flooding its vision, causing it to flap its wings almost frantically in an attempt to break free.
Ye Xing held on to the hilt of the knife, not giving it a chance to escape. The Blood Star Bee, whose strength was far greater than that of ordinary people, struggled hard, dragging the dead Blood Star Bee and Ye Xing almost together. Ye Xing leaned back, using the weight of his body and the strength of his hands to fight against the Blood Star Bee.
With a loud cracking sound, the body of the long-dead Blood Star Bee was finally torn into two pieces under the confrontation between the two forces, scattering a rain of blood in the air.
Ye Xing held the knife in both hands and sat on the ground with his buttocks, grinning in pain. But he didn't bother to rub it, he quickly rolled over from the ground, and rushed at the Blood Star Bee, who was also staggered and dizzy by the shock. Ye Xing sprinted, jumped up with both feet, and slashed at the head of the blood star bee with all his strength with the knife in both hands.
The head that was no harder than the shelled body was immediately split in half by Ye Xing's knife, and the Blood Star Bee that had lost its head stopped flapping its wings and fell to the ground.
Ye Xingwei squatted on the ground, covered in blood, panting for breath. This battle of life and death is quite difficult for him to win without star power. If it weren't for the advantage of the long knife and a previous experience, he might have died on the spot.
Ye Xing turned his head to look at Su Lingyu. Eight cyan vines grew from the cyan light species suspended in the air, firmly binding the eight Blood Star Bees in place. Su Lingyu held the star scepter in his hand and surged with light, trying his best to maintain the star power of the Qingguang vine.
It's really strong! It is worthy of being a genius girl of the ninth level star warrior! He tried his best and added a little luck to kill two, and the seemingly weak girl actually controlled the eight blood star bees by herself.
Knowing that Su Lingyu's star power could not support it for too long, Ye Xing was about to rush to help, but his eyes suddenly shrank and looked behind Su Lingyu.
Su Lingyu couldn't help but retreat because the star power was consumed too quickly. In the passage behind her, a slender and sharp mouthpiece suddenly stretched out, stabbing at the defenseless Su Lingyu insidiously.
It was too late to remind, Ye Xing threw away the knife in his hand, squeezed out the last trace of physical strength, rushed over wildly, and pushed Su Lingyu away.
Su Lingyu, who was maintaining the Qingguang vine, was suddenly pushed away by Ye Xing and fell to the ground. She stood up with some anger and looked behind her, only to see Ye Xing standing where she was, a slender mouthpiece piercing his right shoulder.
Ye Xing only felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder, as if he had been penetrated by a sharp weapon. Then a suction force came from the wound, and the blood on the right half of his body rushed uncontrollably to the mouthparts inserted in his right shoulder. The physical exhaustion, coupled with a large amount of blood loss, and severe pain, made Ye Xing directly unconscious.
"Ye Xing——!" Su Lingyu rushed over with a scream, and raised his star staff to release his star power and angrily struck at the sneaking Blood Star Bee. The Blood Star Bee was knocked out by the huge force, and Ye Xing's body lost its support and fell to the ground. A soft body held him up.
"Ye Xing, are you okay, wake up!" Su Lingyu anxiously called out to Ye Xing, who was in a daze, almost crying. Su Lingyu tried to inject the little star power he had left into the wound on Ye Xing's right shoulder, and the wound stopped bleeding, but Ye Xing didn't react at all. As a reserve member of the medical association, Su Lingyu knew that this was because of excessive blood loss, and the therapeutic effect of star power was useless.
The Blood Star Bee that had been knocked away flew back from the ground and continued to pounce on the two. The light seed in the air lost the support of star power, and gradually dimmed, and the green light vine wrapped around the eight blood star bees also showed signs of loosening.
Su Lingyu looked at Ye Xing, who was unconscious, with a look of determination in his eyes. Ignoring the Blood Star Bee that was flying in and about to get out of trouble, she picked up Ye Xing with both hands, rushed to the three-zhang wide passage on the ground, and jumped down.
As soon as they fell into the passage, the two fell on the wall of the passage and slid rapidly.
Su Lingyu hugged Ye Xing on his body, and he was below, sliding against the rough and cold wall. The glaucomian star force forms a protective layer on its back to mitigate damage caused by severe friction.
After sliding for a while, Su Lingyu breathed a sigh of relief. The passage was not a complete vertical fall, and the slope gradually smoothed down the road, so that she didn't have to worry about falling to her death at the end.
This passage is very long, and Su Lingyu has been holding Ye Xing for a long time, and there is still no sign of bottoming. In the dark passage, only the sound of rapid sliding friction could be heard.
Ye Xing's entire body was close to Su Lingyu's delicate body, and his head was jolting, landing on Su Lingyu's chest for a while, on her white neck, and on her face. Su Lingyu felt Ye Xing's face rubbing against her face and neck, and this intimate contact made her feel a strange tension, and the neck and above were flushed red.
Su Lingyu remembered the situation when she first fell into the hive, and she was so ashamed and angry that she was taken advantage of by Ye Xing, and she almost ran away. But at the moment, Ye Xing was already unconscious, and all contact was unconscious. This made her unable to generate anger, only shame.
There was another jolt, and Ye Xing's head, which was hanging low and leaning on the side of Su Lingyu's neck, suddenly lifted up and crashed into the top. The two faces are close together, and the two pairs of lips are pressed together.
Su Lingyu's mind was empty, and his breathing stopped briefly, almost letting go of the hands that were holding Ye Xing tightly. The strange sensation on her lips made her lose her mind for a while, and it took her a moment to react and quickly turn her face. The broad lips left his lips and were imprinted on his left cheek. She pushed Ye Xing's head away with her right hand even more nervously, moving gently, for fear of hurting him.
Su Lingyu looked down at Ye Xing who was leaning back to his neck in shame, his eyes were closed and his expression was painful on his young and handsome face, which was still a little immature. Looking at this young man who was one or two years younger than himself, the shame in Su Lingyu's eyes suddenly dissipated, and he became soft, distressed and worried. She gently stroked Ye Xing's head with her right hand and let him lean on her chest, and she gently leaned her head up.
The two of them snuggled up to each other and slid down the long dark passage.