Two people came to the beehive!
Sure enough, the mud beehive was completely dry, and there were many bees flying in and out of the reserved gaps.
The original honeycomb was also almost fully repaired!
Lu Zhe's mood improved a lot: "Look, they really did swarm!"
"So many bees!"
"This shows there are now two bee queens!"
Lu Zhe lifted the lid and took out a bamboo net covered densely with crawling bees. In some places honeycomb had already been built, and one bee slightly larger and darker in color than the others slowly crawled among the swarm.
"Look, that one is the queen bee!"
Ning Shu looked: "It doesn't have the obvious characteristics of a termite queen!"
"Just imagine, one teaspoon of honey requires 12 bees to gather pollen their whole lives. It's actually very precious!"
As he spoke, Lu Zhe carefully put the honeycomb back.
"Later we'll also need to build a fence here. If it's discovered by a sun bear, it could get wiped out in one go looking for protein."
Ning Shu nodded.
Then the two walked towards the lakeshore.
Passing the mountain stream, they went to check the hot springs again. The water temperature was still high, still no way to enter.
When they passed the marsh, the path was blocked by a resting crocodile!
The five meter long battery...no, estuarine crocodile lay there. Its upper body didn't move, next to it a basin-sized pit with a pile of white eggs inside.
Ning Shu was a bit worried: "It won't rush over and eat us, right?"
Lu Zhe shushed and shook his head: "As long as we stay quiet and don't disturb it, it won't take the risk to leave its nest."
Ning Shu nodded: "What if it gets hungry?"
Lu Zhe said: "After crocodiles eat they don't need to eat again for two or three years. It will keep waiting until the baby crocodiles hatch."
"That amazing?"
Lu Zhe nodded: "Although its eggs are very nutritious, and the taste is similar to chicken eggs, we still shouldn't take the risk to steal its eggs!"
Ning Shu frowned: "I never had any intention to do that!"
"Good that you don't! Let's go in from another direction."
The hot temperature had already dried out the originally wetland, the surface cracked into sections.
Stepping on it, people no longer sank in.
But you could still feel the softness underneath the dry surface.
Lu Zhe believed that by stepping on the dry surface and using the dense branches they could still get through.
"Let's try to get through from the other side, remember to step on the middle of each section!"
"No danger, right?"
"Don't worry, there's a lot of vegetation here too. If anything happens I can save you!"
As he spoke, Lu Zhe took out a rope and tied one end to Ning Shu's arm.
"Alright..."
The two carefully stepped on the dry mud, successfully passing through the marsh without incident.
Along the way they encountered many squirrels, snakes, and unknown birds.
Of course, also the annoying monkeys.
They didn't know if these were the same troop as the crab-eating macaques from before. Apparently the hot temperature had gathered them near the water source.
At this time, Lu Zhe didn't want to waste arrows shooting monkeys.
As his survival level increased, Lu Zhe preferred to look for more suitable animals to eat, like goats and pheasants.
But they weren't so lucky, and didn't encounter any!
They could only gather some nuts.
But they were intercepted by monkeys!
Ning Shu filled a small bag of nuts, just about to put it in Lu Zhe's backpack, when a monkey hiding nearby suddenly snatched it. Caught off guard, the plastic bag was ripped open by it, nuts scattering all over the ground!
The monkey didn't successfully steal any, and was very angry. But Ning Shu was even angrier!
The nuts she worked hard to gather were ruined by the monkey. She angrily stamped her feet!
The monkey that didn't get any nuts was also angrily beating the tree trunk!
"So annoying!"
But Lu Zhe wasn't angry at all. His long wilderness life had given him a detached and tolerant heart.
He believed he wouldn't fuss over monkeys anymore!
"Stealing is in the macaques' nature. Not only will they steal our things, they will also steal from each other, even their own children's things!"
"Too inhuman!"
"Why else would they be called monkeys?"
"What to do?"
"What can we do? Pick them up!"
Lu Zhe took out another plastic bag and started gathering the nuts on the ground.
"What if I can't vent my anger?"
"Hey, when will you be able to be as loving and tolerant as me?"
"Stop blabbering, lend me your bow!"
Lu Zhe sighed and handed Ning Shu the bow. Ning Shu tried pulling it twice but couldn't draw it back.
"Slingshot?"
"Didn't bring it!"
"Help me shoot it down!"
"Can't do that. Firstly we have too few arrows, secondly I'm a dad now, don't want to kill anymore."
Ning Shu was stunned, then felt a bit moved.
She breathed in deeply and glared at the monkey in the tree: "Consider yourself lucky!"
Then Lu Zhe gathered the nuts into the bag and handed them to the monkey: "We can't eat so many anyway, the rest is for you!"
The monkey was puzzled, and Ning Shu even more so!
"Hey, big bro what are you doing?"
"What do you understand? You have to give to gain!"
The monkey was confused at first, then suspiciously came over and snatched away the plastic bag.
Having freely obtained a bag of nuts, the monkey grinned from ear to ear.
Ning Shu angrily stamped her feet: "It doesn't understand gratitude at all, it's mocking us!"
"Ah, let it laugh if it wants, don't be so narrow-minded!"
After a while, the monkey was happy enough, and eagerly took a nut from the plastic bag and put it in its mouth!
Three seconds later, its expression changed!
Suddenly, it was as if scalded by boiling water, screaming "Eek eek eek" nonstop!
As it screamed, it even used its paws to scratch its tongue, but the more it scratched the redder its tongue got.
Its eyes bulged blood red, seeming like it would breathe fire at any moment.
Lu Zhe nodded and whispered to Ning Shu: "See, I told you monkeys can't handle spicy like you can!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
