Lu Zhe looked in the direction the sun bear had escaped and let out a sigh of relief: "Damn, that was close!"
"How was it close? As a bystander, I can confirm that from start to finish, you were the one beating it up."
"That's because I couldn't give it any chance to fight back, otherwise the one getting injured could have been me."
Lu Zhe then picked up the beehive and peered inside through the damaged opening, trying to find the largest queen bee, but couldn't find it.
"Crap, the queen bee might have been eaten!"
"Is there only one queen bee in a beehive?"
"Usually just one. Almost all the bees in a beehive are its descendants."
"If there's no queen bee, can the bees continue to reproduce?"
"Hard to say! Typically if they lose the queen bee, the worker bees will build queen cells and feed the larvae left by the queen bee royal jelly. When those larvae grow up, they become new queen bees. After mating with drones, they can continue breeding."
"Drones...I remember worker bees are all females..."
"That's right. Worker bees are all females, but some females give birth to babies. When those babies grow up, they become drones!"
"Heavens! So don't bees marry their grandmas?"
"Well, if you insist on putting it that way, I can't stop you."
Lu Zhe let out a sigh, somewhat worried: "But if the queen bee dies without leaving any larvae behind, this colony might face extinction. I hope these little creatures can create a miracle to continue propagating, providing us with a steady supply of honey."
"But how do we take this?!"
"Hang on, I'll weave a basket!"
Lu Zhe chopped off a bunch of branches and spent 20 minutes weaving a simple bamboo basket. He carefully placed the beehive inside and wrapped it with his clothes before putting it on his back.
"Don't get stung!"
"Honey bees aren't as aggressive as wasps. They usually won't attack people if left undisturbed. Even if stung, it's not a big deal. Just pull out the stinger, wash with soap, and it will be fine in a few days."
Jiang Yao was a bit puzzled: "What kind of person would disturb honey bees?"
"Yao Yao, sometimes I really can't answer your questions."
The two continued walking upstream along the creek. After another dozen minutes, they encountered that sun bear again.
At the moment, it was sitting on a rock, rubbing its face, and whimpering. It would occasionally slap the boulder, full of pent-up anger.
"How did it run here?"
Lu Zhe's first thought was to find another stick. This thing coming over spelled danger.
However, the sun bear didn't give him that chance. The moment it saw Lu Zhe, it let out a terrified cry and fled without a trace.
"I wasn't here to beat it up. Why did it run when it saw me?"
Jiang Yao said, "Wouldn't any creature be stricken with fear after being inexplicably tortured by a sudden stranger while sleeping?!"
"Who said so? Not me!"
"You? Who tortured you while you were sleeping?"
"Humph! Last night until this morning!"
Jiang Yao tilted her head. "Oh that. If it counts as torture...keep gloating. Oh, what a nice little flower."
"Want me to help you put it on?"
"Why don't you pick one for me yourself!"
Lu Zhe sighed. What could he do with a girl like Jiang Yao?
After walking another 10 minutes, as luck would have it, they encountered that sun bear again.
Lu Zhe lamented: "Thrice now. Why so persistent?!"
It was probably a bit hungry now, gnawing on tree bark. Still rattled, it saw Lu Zhe appear again.
This mood could no longer be appeased with a few words.
The sun bear let out a mournful cry, slammed its head despairingly against the tree three times, changed direction, and fled again, rolling and crawling.
"It doesn't think you came specifically to beat it up, right?"
Lu Zhe sighed. "I'll have to properly explain to it someday that I only wanted some honey that time and didn't mean to disturb its sleep. It wouldn't have come to blows if it didn't yell at me."
Jiang Yao smiled thinly. "It probably has a psychological shadow now."
"As neighbors on this volcanic island, some bumps and scrapes are inevitable. But if we keep a compassionate and friendly heart, we'll eventually gain the understanding and support of the little animals here."
After walking another half hour without encountering that frightening sun bear again, they arrived at Lu Zhe's destination.
Lu Zhe's guess was completely accurate.
Sure enough, about 300 meters from the campsite upstream on one side, he found the bend.
Along the way, Lu Zhe discovered countless dried gullies. These gullies were very narrow, usually without water unless there was heavy rain.
But they could divert the flow during downpours.
Lu Zhe carefully observed where these gullies flowed, and indeed found one leading towards the campsite.
Lu Zhe put down the beehive.
"Let's see if we can divert water towards the campsite through this gully."
"How do we do it?!"
"Like this. I'll open the water source here and divert the flow. You move some rocks to block the gullies to the west so the water flows towards the campsite."
"Got it!"
"Remember, don't block everything. It's enough for some of the water to flow towards the camp. I'm worried a downpour might impact the campsite too much."
Although he said this, Lu Zhe was secretly worried about something else.
It had rained continuously in July, but in August, not a single drop had fallen. Could they be facing another long drought?
But there was no need to worry too much!
After all, they had two mountain streams, a lake, and two ponds at the volcano's bottom. Even if it really didn't rain for months, they wouldn't starve.
Jiang Yao rolled up her sleeves. "Alright, I'll block first. Come check if it works later."
Lu Zhe observed which way those dried gullies flowed and determined one. Then he chopped a handy wooden stick to dig open the mountain stream, diverting the water flow to the diversion channel.
The clear mountain stream babbled towards the campsite.
"So now the campsite will have a steady fresh water source?"
"It should work, but I still feel a bit uneasy without seeing it myself. Let's go down and take a look,"
The two happily headed down the mountain, bringing back grass feed to the campsite.
Upon arrival, they saw Tang Xiaoguo beaming as she said:
"Brother Lu Zhe, Yao Yao,"
She then pulled them both by the hand to near the campsite and mysteriously said: "You definitely won't believe what I'm about to say. I sneezed twice in a row today and somehow felt the gods' favor. So I made a wish that it'd be perfect if a mountain spring flowed down, guess what happened?!"
"Then...a spring really flowed down?!"
Tang Xiaoguo excitedly exclaimed: "Yes, yes!"
"Xiaoguo, I suddenly feel you're more amazing than Little Zhe!"
"I know, right?!"
"Little Zhe went through so much trouble to snatch honey from the bear. But you, with an effortless sentence, snatched away our two hours of labor from northern water diversion!"
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
