Chapter 122: Attracting the Swarm
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It was already the second half of the night, and following the traces left by Lin Chen, Liu An had unknowingly entered the trap set by Lin Chen for him, and led his men to the bottom of the cliff.
Lin Chen, who was hiding behind the corpse of the beast, sensed their arrival, pressed his body lower, and the aura on his body was extremely constricted, preventing himself from being discovered by them.
As soon as they appeared here, Liu An and the others naturally noticed the strangeness here, especially for those of them who had become outlaws, who were particularly sensitive to the breath of death.
The first time they saw the bones of the beasts all over the ground, they thought that there would be unimaginable dangers here, especially after seeing the holes on the cliff, a deep chill poured out of their hearts involuntarily, and they all stopped outside the skeleton range, just looking inside and retreating, even Liu An was a little hesitant to glance inside several times.
"Captain, look there, it looks like there's something there"
As one of them exclaimed, everyone noticed what Lin Chen had placed on the edge of the largest hole, but soon the person closed his mouth and secretly scolded himself for being stupid.
As a powerhouse in the Innate Realm, Liu An's eyesight was far above them, and others might only be able to see vague outlines, but he saw the existence of two blood characters on the rag.
"You all look for me more carefully, since he dares to put things here, then he must not have gone far, maybe he is hiding somewhere here, and your eyes are all bright spots for me"
Saying a word to his subordinates, Liu An looked at the things at the entrance of the cave uncertainly, but he didn't choose to walk over by himself, and his subordinates couldn't help but be nervous and defensive while investigating Lin Chen's traces.
It's just that no matter how they perceive it and how they investigate, except for the bones of the beasts all over the ground, and the organs of the purple jade queen bee that Lin Chen left behind at the entrance of one of the caves and was tied up in broken steps, no trace related to Lin Chen was found, as if Lin Chen disappeared out of thin air after coming here.
"Captain, it's too weird here, I'm afraid there will be danger, I guess that kid knows this too, so he deliberately planted this to attract our attention, he must have left"
One of them couldn't bear this heavy depression and whispered to Liu An about the current situation.
However, after seeing Lin Chen's difficulties and his constant contingency methods, Liu An could hardly believe that this was just what Lin Chen used to show off to him after his men fled.
"Since you're so smart and analytical, it's up to you to go over and check what's there."
Liu An squinted at his subordinates who opened their mouths for analysis, and pointed to him at what Lin Chen had placed at the entrance of the cave.
"This"
Feeling Liu An's gradually cold expression, this person couldn't help but swallow his saliva, his eyes gradually panicked, and finally gritted his teeth and looked at the bones in front of him, and walked to the entrance of the cave with fear.
After he jumped up to the entrance of the cave tremblingly, his eyes were always looking at the dark and deep entrance of the cave, in case there would be any danger in the hole, until he stood in front of the entrance of the cave and nothing happened, and he felt a lot more relieved.
Under Liu An's urging, he carefully grabbed the mouthparts and tail claws of the purple jade queen bee in his hands, found that there was no mechanism left, and quickly took it to Liu An.
Liu An naturally noticed the broken steps full of blood, and the words "thank you" were written on it, which was like a huge stone smashed into his heart, so that his whole face was distorted with anger.
And under the violent fluctuations in his heart, even his own breath began to be uncontrollable, and he waved his hand angrily and slapped the subordinates who were standing in front of him nodding and slapping them out, this person died without blinking his eyes, and there was disbelief in his eyes.
"Find, keep looking for me, since that kid has appeared here, then he must not have gone far, and he must not leave any discoveries"
Liu An crushed the tail claw of the purple jade queen bee fiercely, not caring at all about the purple liquid splashing out of it, and yelled gloomily at the subordinates behind him, with a deep loss on his face in addition to being anxious.
"Yes, yes, Captain"
Under the panic and worry of the subordinates, they did not dare to disobey Liu An's order, so they had to look carefully again.
Regarding Liu An's reaction, Lin Chen, who was hiding behind the corpse of the beast, also saw it all, and naturally only knew the reason, and this also strengthened his plan not to use the white long sword in a crowded place.
Their search this time was even more serious than before, and Lin Chen couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he saw that the search range of one of them was gradually coming towards him, but he still lay on the spot, and he restrained his breath even more.
Fortunately, this person couldn't stand the smell of decay coming from the corpse of the beast, and only took a symbolic look at it from three meters away, and then turned his head and trotted back, so that Lin Chen's tense heart was relaxed, and he continued to observe them secretly.
"Captain, we have searched all over the place, but we have not found any trace of that kid, that kid seems to have disappeared out of thin air, and now there is only one place that has not been found", one of his subordinates carefully reported the result to Liu An, who was in deep thought.
At this time, everyone's eyes looked at several holes on the cliff, and under Liu An's gloomy face, he slowly walked to the bottom of these caves and looked at them, and in Liu An's eyes, there was also a solemnity.
In the dark cave passage, as the little squirrel gradually deepened, the height of the cave passage, which was originally only one person high, gradually became higher, and the cave that was originally just a passage began to appear more and more forks, becoming like an ant's nest, becoming more and more intricate, if there is no special means, it is easy to get lost in it.
But for the little squirrel, these are not problems, with its unusually sensitive little nose to sniff the smell in the air, it just held the fruit in its arms in the passage and moved quickly, along the way to avoid some of the purple jade bees warning in the dark, the goal is very clear.
It wasn't until about half an hour later that Dot, who was still holding the fruit, suddenly slowed down and stood there with some hesitation, while its small eyes kept turning, as if measuring something.
But soon its small body moved again, and this time it took less than five breaths before it stopped again.
Now in front of it, a huge hole tens of meters high appeared, and bursts of purple light flickered in it.
And looking into the hollow, you will find a terrifying scene, only to see that on the wall of the hollow cave, hung with dense purple jade bees of different sizes, a rough count is not less than two thousand.
Beneath the cavity, there is a huge funnel-shaped depression, and the surface of the depression has a layer of resin-like solidification.
At the edge of the sunken funnel, there are no less than ten Acquired Realm Purple Jade Queen Bees, which surround them in a ring.
Looking down further, there were two purple jade bee queens exuding the aura of the early stage of the Innate Realm, one on the left and one on the right, in half of the funnel.
At the bottom of the funnel depression, there is a small protrusion, forming an irregular stone platform half a meter high and more than a meter wide, and around the stone platform is a beehive flowing with thick purple jade honey, even in the dark, you can see the faint purple light emitted from it.
As soon as Dian Dian appeared here at this time, his little eyes looked nervously at a giant purple jade queen with the size of an adult on the stone platform, which was also the most powerful and threatening to him in the purple jade bee colony.
After seeing that they were all sleeping and resting, they breathed a sigh of relief very humanely, and their small bodies also ran, appearing on the top of the stone platform in the blink of an eye, and then when the Purple Jade Bee Queen did not find it, the aura of the rare beast belonging to the innate realm on his body was instantly released.
Its originally small claws also changed, and it slashed fiercely on the purple jade queen's stomach, and as the purple blood splashed everywhere, three scars deep into the body also appeared on it.
The Purple Jade Queen, who was awakened by the severe pain, let out a terrified cry, a fierce light appeared in her compound eyes, and her huge mouthparts continued to bite, and then looked at the little squirrel that appeared beside it.
After recognizing the little squirrel Dotted as the hateful thief, the huge terrifying mouthparts headed for Dot's thin body.
However, after waking up all the purple jade bees and injuring the purple jade queen queen of purple jade bees, Diandian did not make any stops, and the small body quickly flashed the huge mouthparts coming towards it, and then quickly broke off a basin-sized piece from the beehive on the edge of the stone platform, and the small body jumped again, past the purple jade bees that gradually blocked every entrance, and headed towards the direction of the hole.
Seeing the dots that came and went freely, the roar in the mouth of the Purple Jade Bee Queen was even worse, and all the other Purple Jade Bees were as if they had been ordered, their bodies were shrouded in a tyrannical and crazy aura, and their compound eyes flashed with a fierce light that was not afraid of death, and they chased from all passages to the dots like a fish, until only the Purple Jade Bee Queen was left in the entire void.
And outside the entrance of the cliff, under Liu An's arrangement, at this time, there was a person standing at the largest entrance of the cave and looking inside, looking at the dark and deep passage, this person couldn't help but be a little scared.
Especially when he first came up, he seemed to hear a terrifying beast roar coming from inside, so much so that he was still wondering if it was an auditory hallucination.
It wasn't until Liu An's somewhat angry urging voice came that he put away the fear in his heart, comforted himself quietly, and then carefully walked into the cave.
It wasn't until dozens of breaths later that Liu An, who was waiting patiently, frowned, because he felt a slight breeze from the entrance of the cave, and he also vaguely heard the sound of very dense wings flapping, and it became clearer and clearer.
Then he saw a humanoid object thrown out of it, and landed less than a meter away from him, this person was the person who had walked into the cave, and was now dying.
Liu An can clearly see here that his body is swollen of different sizes everywhere, and his body can't move at all, and there is extreme fear in his eyes.
At the first glance of seeing this subordinate, Liu An unconsciously remembered the Eagle Peng Bird who was also unable to move under Lin Chen's sword, and secretly scolded for being bad.
It's just that the moment he came to his senses, a thin figure left the entrance of the cave in an instant, and threw a foreign object the size of a basin at him in mid-air, and it was still coming towards his front door.
In a fit of rage, he yelled and threw a punch at the object, only to be smashed into his body by scattered pieces, and even a small piece hit his mouth, and a strong sweet taste followed.
"Is this the honey of the purple jade bee?" This is actually the nest of the purple jade bee", Liu An, who tasted a hint of familiarity from the sweetness, was shocked, with an incredible look in his eyes.
However, he soon came to his senses, and his eyes were again aware of the dots that appeared behind him, and he tried to catch them, but then he was startled by what he saw in front of him.