Natural God's Gift

#160 - Artemisia small bee queen

In the following period, Siyue and Danggui settled in Twin Peaks, leaving early and returning late every day, searching bit by bit according to the planned directions.

Only after personally searching did they realize how difficult it was to find a God-given Seed.

The area of a mountain range is at least hundreds of square kilometers, with thousands of plant species.

The flowers blooming in spring even reach hundreds of millions, and no one knows which flower has Origin Power fluctuations, so they must be explored inch by inch.

Even with the massive mental power of the Spider Queen, scanning back and forth would take a long time, and it would be easy to overlook. Moreover, it's normal to spend half a year searching thousands of square kilometers of land and not find a single God-given Seed.

Unless there was an extraterrestrial civilization creation like the radar in the kingdom, which could scan hundreds or thousands of kilometers at once.

Unfortunately, the radar was placed in the secret base in the center of the kingdom to monitor the territory currently controlled by the kingdom.

The radar can detect creatures within a certain range, but it cannot detect Origin Power fluctuations.

Otherwise, if they, the Flame Spiders, held the radar and walked from the east to the west of the Myriad Races Continent, sweeping all the way, they would not miss a single God-given Seed.

However, this was just wishful thinking. Even if the radar had this ability, the Flame Spiders wouldn't dare to do so. Otherwise, if the insects of the Myriad Races Continent knew that they had monopolized all the God-given Seeds, they might directly unite and destroy the Flame Spider Kingdom.

Fortunately, the little spiders had nothing to do anyway. Staying in their own territory was playing, and being here was also playing, so there was no loss.

Siyue and Baizhi gathered by the stream every seven days, discussing their search methods and whether they had seen plants not seen in their inherited memories, and incidentally (mainly) eating and drinking.

Nearly two months passed like this. Siyue and Danggui, as usual, after six days of busy work, ran to the stream to wait for Baizhi to have a meal together.

At this time of year, there were already some wild fruits to eat, such as raspberries, snake berries, and wild strawberries, which were delicious and loved by the Flame Spiders.

Siyue and Danggui picked a lot while searching for God-given Seeds, leaving a large pile for when they had a meal with Baizhi.

They stayed under a tree, with spider silk spread on the ground, and various fruits placed on it for easy access.

Danggui ate fruits relatively quickly. It was relatively busy. After the meal here, it had to fly back to the seaside to add some algae to Beichi as food for the shellfish.

Fortunately, it could fly, and its speed was even faster after advancing to an intermediate warrior, so it could quickly fly back and forth once or twice.

"Siyue, Danggui—" Baizhi ran out of the forest, constantly emitting mental thoughts along the way, calling Siyue and Danggui in a panic.

"What's wrong?" Siyue and Danggui immediately became alert, thinking that Baizhi had encountered danger.

Baizhi moved its eight short legs and ran to Siyue's side, panting and saying: "I, I—"

"Is there a beast?" Danggui flapped its wings and flew towards the direction Baizhi came from, to see if something was chasing Baizhi. Anyway, it could fly, and ordinary animals couldn't hurt it.

"No," Baizhi calmed down and communicated with Siyue using mental power: "I found a Zerg warrior."

"Zerg warrior?" Siyue and Danggui were shocked. The appearance of a Zerg warrior within the kingdom's territory had to be reported to Lord Ginkgo, otherwise, it would be troublesome if it developed into a tribe.

"What race is it? How old is it? Have you communicated with it?"

"Uh" So many questions.

Baizhi responded one by one: "What I found was a queen bee, I don't know how old it is, but I saw its hive and worker bees."

Baizhi explained: "I originally wanted to find some honey to eat in the forest, so I followed the bees to find where their hive was.

Then, under a stone cliff, I found a huge bee colony, and there were worker bees with Origin Power fluctuations mixed in, just like the worker bees of the Melissa Queen."

Siyue's eight eyes lit up. It had previously thought about finding a queen bee or ant queen as a symbiotic Zerg. It originally thought it was wishful thinking, but unexpectedly, Baizhi found the queen bee's traces not long after.

Then, it calmed down again. It had only heard Baizhi say that there was a queen bee, and it didn't know how many years it had grown here, how old it was.

But it subconsciously guessed that the queen bee's age probably wouldn't be too old, probably not more than five years old.

This place is not far from the kingdom's controlled area. Their intermediate and advanced warriors search for God-given Seeds in the vicinity every year. If the queen bee had lived here for a long time, it should have been discovered long ago.

Even if intermediate and advanced warriors couldn't find it, the kingdom's many mountain lords would also regularly inspect the kingdom's territory.

If a queen bee had stayed in the kingdom's territory for eighty or ninety years without being discovered, either it knew that this was the Flame Spider Kingdom's territory and was very cautious, or the mountain lords in the kingdom were too incompetent, or both.

It didn't know whether the queen bee was cautious or not, but the spiders in the kingdom who could be promoted to mountain lords were not vegetarians.

Ordinary Zerg warriors were fine, but bee and ant tribes were difficult to hide their traces. The Flame Spider Kingdom, from top to bottom, had many mountain lords and lords, as well as so many wandering merchants and caravans. So many spiders weren't sleepwalking every day.

Thinking of this, Siyue made a decision: "Take us to see."

"Okay," Danggui flapped its cicada wings happily.

"Danggui, don't make a sound, or you'll startle the insects later."

"Okay一一" Danggui honestly shut up.

The three insects quietly ran towards the territory that Baizhi had planned. Not long after, they came to the bottom of the stone cliff that Baizhi mentioned.

Under a stone wall, beehives full of honey hung like baffle plates, standing and connecting on the stones. The huge bee colony flew randomly in the air, looking like dark clouds, and the sky was dyed brownish-yellow.

Recently, it was the season when hundreds of flowers were in full bloom, and it was the busiest time for bees. Dense worker bees came and went, and the number was so large that Siyue and the others were a little frightened when they saw it.

"So many bees?" Danggui felt a bit of trypophobia. Although it had seen dense silkworm and spider colonies in Sangling and the Flame Spider Kingdom, they weren't so dense, and they didn't have their own lethality.

So many bees, even ordinary bees, have venom in their stingers. If one bee after another came up to sting it, it would probably die.

Siyue glared at it unhappily: "What are you afraid of with your thick carapace?"

Although there were many bees, their spiders were not afraid. In their eyes, no matter how many bees there were, they were just a dish.

Danggui weakly said: "There are also weak points, okay? Bees are so small, who knows where they will crawl in from?"

Siyue: "...—.

"Go see if there are any life seeds nearby."

"Okay," Danggui didn't want to stay here any longer, and quietly flew away to find life seeds.

Siyue looked at the bee colony outside, counting the approximate number. It estimated that there should be a huge underground space inside the stone wall, otherwise, the beehives seen on the surface alone could not accommodate so many bees living there.

Baizhi quietly patted Siyue with its front feet, gesturing towards the beehive: "Did you see? There are a few larger bees there, and they have Origin Power fluctuations on them."

Fourleaf nodded with a solemn expression. Its perception of Origin Power was more acute than Bai Zhi's. It had long since detected the Origin Power fluctuations of the worker bees, but it seemed that there weren't many Origin Power worker bees.

Bai Zhi: "What should we do now?"

"Don't worry, we'll talk about it after Danggui returns."

Danggui quickly flew back to report: "Report, no planted Life Seeds were found in the vicinity."

"No Life Seeds?" Hearing Danggui's report, Fourleaf roughly had an idea. Since there were Origin Power worker bees, it was impossible for there to be no Life Seeds.

Perhaps it was because the number of Life Seeds was too small or the plants were too young to be noticed, which also indicated that the queen bee's age-stage evolution wasn't high.

Thinking of this, Fourleaf and the others became a little bolder. A small queen bee couldn't possibly reach the heavens.

"Should we just charge in?"

"Charge straight in!" A little honeybee? Daring to establish a bee colony in the kingdom? Let's bring it into the fold!

"Fourleaf, you lead the way."

"Okay!" The intermediate Flame Spider's entire carapace was tough and not afraid of bee stings.

Danggui: "Should I stay here and wait for you?"

Fourleaf: "Weren't you going back to the seaside to add seaweed for Beichi? You can go back first and tell Lord Qingfeng about the queen bee here."

"Alright!"

Fourleaf took the lead and walked towards the stone wall. Bai Zhi followed behind. They ignored the bees flying all over the sky, approached the hive, and swept their mental power around, sensing that there were quite a few semi-Origin Power bees busily working inside the stone wall.

Fourleaf sent out a friendly mental message: "Is the queen bee here? We are Flame Spider merchants doing business!"

Under Fourleaf's mental perception, after the Origin Power bees inside noticed its mental message,

not only did they not come out, but they also shrank back inside with all their might.

Fourleaf: "...—."

Fourleaf said again: "We are Flame Spider merchants specializing in Origin Power food transactions."

It sensed a mental scan sweep over itself and Bai Zhi, but no bees came out of the hive. Only ordinary bees were flying around Fourleaf and Danggui.

They were quite patient, guarding outside the hive.

After a long time, a semi-Origin Power worker bee cautiously poked its head out to check. Seeing two large spiders guarding outside, it was so frightened that it shrank back.

After going back and forth several times, seeing that they were still guarding here, the queen bee inside, realizing that it couldn't hide any longer, flew out surrounded by a group of worker bees.

"Y-you, hello," the little queen bee was only a few centimeters in size (flying in the air, it was very timid, with a feeling that it would fly away at the slightest disturbance).

This queen bee was the most common honeybee in the Natural Star Realm. Only a few dozen worker bees surrounded it, and not a single Zuo bee.

This was also normal. It wasn't very old yet, and it might not even have Origin Power food to eat itself, so it couldn't afford to raise too many worker bees, let alone Zuo bees.

Fourleaf politely greeted and introduced itself: "Hello, I am Flame Spider Fourleaf."

Bai Zhi also hurriedly said: "My name is Bai Zhi."

Fourleaf continued: "What is your name? What age-stage are you at?"

The little queen bee said timidly: "I, my name is Artemisia, early second stage."

"Early second stage? When did you advance to become an Origin Power warrior?"

"Late autumn last year."

"Oh," from late autumn last year to now, it had been six or seven months. Spiders basically didn't run around in winter, so as long as the merchants didn't notice, the probability of being discovered was indeed small.

"Little Queen Bee Artemisia, is your first Life Seed Artemisia?"

"Yes, I picked up grass seeds in the meadow in late autumn."

"Did you plant them?"

Artemisia: "I planted them in early spring, but they haven't produced Origin Power food yet. Are you Flame Spider merchants? I don't have any Origin Power food to trade with you right now."

Fourleaf asked: "Have you seen Flame Spider merchants nearby?"

"No, I have been managing the territory and hoarding honey. You are the first Flame Spiders I have seen."

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Fourleaf: "Do you know where this is?"

The little queen bee looked a little confused: "Is this a valley?"

"Uh, you're not wrong to say that."

"This is the Flame Spider Kingdom. As the name suggests, this is our Flame Spider's kingdom."

Hearing Fourleaf say this, Artemisia immediately became nervous: "Are you going to drive me away?"

Fourleaf pondered for a moment and said: "Logically speaking, we should send you back to the Myriad Nations Continent to grow, but currently the Myriad Nations Continent and the Fang Clan Continent are not connected, so we can't send you there.

However, the kingdom does not allow other insect races to grow here."

"Then what should I do? I grew up here, and I don't know where I can go," Little Queen Bee Artemisia looked at the two big spiders. It definitely couldn't beat them. If they wanted to drive it away, it would have no way to resist.

Fourleaf: "There is a second way. You can form a symbiotic relationship with a spider in our kingdom and develop together in cooperation. This way, you can live in our Flame Spider Kingdom.

Moreover, if you form a symbiotic relationship with a spider in our kingdom, there are many benefits. Before you become a high-level warrior, our kingdom will provide you with Origin Power food for growth and evolution for free."

"Provide Origin Power food for growth and evolution for free?" Little Queen Bee Artemisia's eyes were full of suspicion: "Then what do I need to do?"

Although it had only awakened for more than half a year, it didn't mean it didn't have a brain. It didn't believe there was such a good thing.

Bai Zhi interjected: "It's just symbiosis with spiders, managing the territory together, planting tree seas, and harvesting God-given seeds."

"Oh," hearing Bai Zhi say this, the suspicion in Little Queen Bee Artemisia's eyes dissipated. It wondered how there could be such a good insect that would provide Origin Power food for free. It turned out that it was to find companions to manage the territory. This explanation made sense.

Little Queen Bee Artemisia tentatively asked: "Fourleaf, Bai Zhi, do you need symbiotic insects?

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Fourleaf pondered. Originally, it wanted a queen bee as a symbiotic insect, but Bai Zhi discovered Artemisia first.

Moreover, it already had Danggui as a symbiotic insect, and might have to cooperate with Yun Shi in the future, so it wasn't suitable to find too many symbiotic insects.

Besides, the kingdom also had quantity restrictions on symbiotic insects. Otherwise, if you dragged along a dozen or twenty symbiotic insects, would this still be the Flame Spider Kingdom or the Myriad Races Kingdom?

Fourleaf turned to look at Bai Zhi: "Bai Zhi, do you want a symbiotic insect?"

Bai Zhi excitedly moved its antennae: "Yes, yes, yes, Artemisia, you can be my symbiotic insect,

the treatment for symbiotic insects in our Flame Spider Kingdom is very good."

If it had a queen bee as a symbiotic insect, wouldn't it have endless honey to eat?

Artemisia: "Then Fourleaf, Bai Zhi, how can I become a symbiotic insect?"

Fourleaf: "We will tell the lord of the kingdom. Once it approves, you can become a symbiotic insect."

Fourleaf guaranteed: "Becoming a symbiotic insect not only has a free supply of Origin Power food, but also the best plant seeds as Life Seeds. There are many other benefits as well, and you will definitely not regret it."

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