Chapter 1352: Smell the bees and move
However, this sweet aura is also mixed with some dangerous things, but this aura is a little ethereal, and Lou Yi can't lock its location for the time being, which makes him can't help but raise his vigilance.
Since he couldn't detect the existence of the other party for the time being, he could only hide himself first, he slowly cast the Spirit Swallowing Technique, erased his breath again, and at the same time held his breath to prevent his breath from flowing out, and only after everything was prepared and secure, Lou Yi began to start the adventure.
The beehive, which is hundreds of zhang long, can be said to be like a labyrinth inside, and the passage here is relatively narrow, and every time Lou Yi explores a passage, he needs to curl up before he can pass.
Most of these passages are only about one meter in size, and they seem to be prepared for drones, and those soldier bees that are about the size of a foot are generally not qualified to set foot in them.
Changes in the airflow can be felt at the top of the tunnel from time to time, when the ventilation holes opened by the worker bees, like capillaries, provide fresh air to the huge hive.
Every few steps, you can see many branches of the passage that are only continuously wide, and they are densely packed on the left side of the entire passage.
But looking through the sight, the barracks is empty at the moment, and all the beehive holes are like this, Lou Yi didn't stop and hurriedly passed here, but he was thinking, if he didn't have time to get out of this hive, when he came back, wouldn't he have to collide with the other party?
With this thought, which made him a little creepy, he soon came to the end of the passage, which seemed to be clinging to the shell of the hive, and it was surprising that when he looked out from here, he could see that the hive was translucent and light brown, and there was a bright light through the shell to illuminate the place, and here Lou Yi found four passages leading to the upper and lower sides, and the passage back to the way he came.
He did not hesitate to choose the upper passage, after all, for him, the nests of soldier bees and worker bees did not attract him in the slightest, and the upper layer would appear something worthy of his expectation, carefully walking up the upward passage, and suddenly there was a biological probe above to look down.
Lou Yi found that it was actually the soldier bees responsible for guarding the beehive, there were not many of them, and at this moment a pair of compound eyes covered with a grid were examining his location, as if the sound caused by Lou Yi climbing up had alarmed them.
However, spirit bees do not perceive sound, and what they rely on most is their unique sense of smell, which allows them to distinguish the fragrance of flowers within a range of tens of miles, and also to determine the location of the enemy.
And the reason why they choose to check instead of attacking directly is because when Lou Yi passed through the passage just now, the vibration generated by the soldier bees reacted, and their legs stepped on the hive, and they could judge the situation outside the hive with subtle vibrations.
At this time, Lou Yi was a little nervous, because these soldier bees happened to be blocking the top of the upward passage, although they would not find themselves, but he was going to climb up after all, so he stopped, controlled his breath not to let go, and quietly waited for the opportunity.
Buzz Buzz......
The soldier bees suddenly began to vibrate their wings, and the sound waves were transmitted downward through the channel, Lou Yi's face changed, knowing that the situation was going to be worse, but who would have thought that this was not a signal used to investigate, but that the soldier bees were communicating with each other.
Lou Yi breathed a long sigh of relief, watching the head of the soldier bee slowly retract, Lou Yi did not act immediately, he waited for a while, and then confirmed that there was no situation, then slowly climbed up again, the upward passage was narrower than the previous passage, so Lou Yi climbed very carefully, for fear of making a noise again, alarming these soldier bees.
As he slowly approached the top of the passage, he stopped again, adjusted slightly, and slowly poked his head out of the passage, and everything around him suddenly became clear.
The first thing Lou Yi saw was a lot of busy figures, and the passages that led in all directions, and out of these passages were the worker bees with a brown glow, and these worker bees were extremely numerous, and they came to a pool with beautiful light, and sent the nectar in their mouths into the honey pool.
Lou Yi raised his head and looked around, in addition to these worker bees, directly above here, there were about more than 100 soldier bees at this moment, vigilantly scanning the worker bees entering and exiting the passage, as if supervising their every move.
Correspondingly, in the honey pool, there are also many busy figures, their bodies are maroon-red, about half the size of the worker bees, and they are standing in the honey pool, constantly swallowing the nectar in the honey pool.
Lou Yi knew that this was the process of making honey, but it would take a long time, and he would not waste time on it, so Lou Yi slowly drilled out of the passage and looked at the passage leading to the upper floor.
Lou Yi knew that further up was the domain of the drones, as long as they reached a certain place, there would be no more soldier bees, but the area where the same drones were located was isolated from the hive, so Lou Yi gave up the intention of going up directly.
There must be an extremely precious royal jelly in the drone's residence, but he thinks that the most important thing at this moment is to find out if there are queen bee eggs here, and when the royal jelly comes back, he can take the sheep with him.
The main consideration was that when he first entered this place, the aura of nothingness was enveloping, and he looked at the passage leading to the hive, which was similar to the passage he had just climbed up, but it was still difficult for him to go up.
After all, there were not so many busy figures in the previous passages, and those tending bees who had completed the task were transporting the prepared nectar to the nurturing hives and the drone's residence through these passages.
Those are the special transportation channels for the tending bees, Lou Yi's size, naturally he is not blessed, he slowly approached the main passage, and then carefully avoided the tending bees, and began to climb up with difficulty.
The upward passage is not straight, but crooked and uneven, with large and small holes appearing in the walls of the passage every few meters, which are the living spaces of the nurse bees.
After some struggle, he finally got out of the passage, and here a mushroom-shaped dome appeared, and Lou Yi faintly saw a figure far larger than the other five-ringed belly bees, pacing back and forth on it.
Lou Yi's instinctive reaction was that it should be the queen bee, the only female in the hive and the queen of all the five-ringed belly bees, she has supreme power, but only the male queen bee is qualified to reproduce and mate with her.
Their situation is actually similar to that of man-eating sand ants, both are matriarchal social forms, Lou Yi looked at the looming figure above the dome, for some reason he had an illusion, he seemed to feel the other party's urgency, this feeling was very strange.
But he didn't care at all, because it was most likely just his own speculation, and if he was wrong, the other party was very likely to make him pay for this mistake, and he didn't want to bet and didn't dare to bet.
And there wasn't much time left for him, and the short-legged pine bear had most likely lost its bait, so he had to scout the entire hive to see if there were any queen eggs before all the soldier bees and drones returned.
He slowly crawled out of the passage, and the floor of the passage was a little sticky, caused by the beeswax accumulated over the years, and the place was full of beeswax, exuding an enticing aroma.
These beeswax are inlaid with countless diamond-shaped grids, this is the beehive, you can see the dense nursery bees, tirelessly put the honey in their mouths, send it into the hive, and then quickly return to the honey pool to continue making honey.
Lou Yi suppressed his emotions, because at this moment he really wanted to move this place in its entirety, it was so precious that he had to have the idea that this place was an indescribable treasure house, and its value was incalculable.
Lou Yi felt sorry for the stupidity of the palace master of the Beast Control Palace, he put such a treasure house but didn't know how to develop and use it, no wonder the Beast Control Palace would become weaker and weaker, they obviously didn't appreciate the good intentions of the predecessor who created the Beast Control Palace......
After sighing, Lou Yi began to carefully observe those tending bees, judging from the honey content in their mouths and the smell they emitted, where the queen bee eggs might exist, even if there were no queen bee eggs, then he could also look for some drones with strong breath.
After a short period of observation, his gaze slowly moved upwards, and before he knew it, he fell somewhere above the dome, where there was a separate hive, and at this moment, the nursery bee in his sight was carrying the purest spiritual nectar he had identified.
Lou Yi fiercely suppressed the excitement in his heart and slowly approached the past, but at this moment, the entire hive suddenly shook, Lou Yi's face changed instantly, and the moment he heard the sound of vibration, he knew that he was in trouble.
The soldier bees and drones that had gone out to chase the short-legged pine bear had returned, which meant that he was stuck in the area, and the only way to escape was to destroy the hive, make a hole in it, and then escape.
However, this position is the upper center of the hive, and he has seen the structure of the beehive of the five-ringed belly, and it is said that the beeswax used to defend the hive is so strong that it can be said to be as hard as iron and difficult to destroy.
If he uses magic to forcibly open up a way to escape, it is very likely that the entire hive will be destroyed, and then he will be hunted down by the five-ringed belly bees, and this kind of pursuit will inevitably be endless.
Once this happens, the short-legged pine bear will definitely not sit idly by, but I am afraid that he will inevitably kill the killer at that time, and in this way, the mountain worship ceremony will definitely fail, then his plan and all the preparations will be in vain, and the most terrible thing is that his master and predecessor Tu Xiao are afraid that they will die and be helpless.