Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

Beehive, lower wasp nest.

At this time, the nest was empty, with only a few wasps staying in the numerous chambers.

The bee clan is different from the ant clan in that they do not separate the soldier bees among the worker bees, a species that focuses on combat. This means that each of their individuals is both a producer and an absolute warrior.

On the occasion of group hunting, the hive dispatched about 90% of its worker bees, and half of the remaining 10% were responsible for guarding the upper hive and the surrounding flower sea.

The other half is responsible for various tedious tasks such as collecting nectar from the sea of ​​flowers, brewing honey, and feeding larvae. Therefore, the lower hive, which is mainly used as a dormitory for wasps, has become strangely empty.

After all, the core resources of the bee family, whether it is larvae and pupae, honey reserves, or the core queen bee crown, are concentrated in the more important upper area, and the lower hive has no value worthy of too much attention.

Therefore, this place very reasonably became the defense gap of the hive, and in this corner that was not noticed by all the bees, a mutation that was about to affect the entire hive was quietly happening.

In the empty chamber where 9527 was once held, a small mirror that was well hidden in the corner suddenly trembled, then automatically floated to the center of the room and began to expand.

After a moment, the magic mirror, which was originally only the size of a palm, quickly expanded to the point where it filled all the gaps in the room. Ripples appeared on the smooth mirror surface, and soon a mysterious mirror transmission channel quietly emerged.

Xu Yue stepped out from inside the mirror, swung his halberd horizontally, and the metal fence in front of him suddenly turned into a ball of fine debris scattering. Looking around, he saw a dense but mathematically beautiful hexagonal chamber. The surrounding gray-brown environment was empty and extremely quiet.

"Very good, the bee hive has arrived. The guard regiment is marching forward to level this place!"

As soon as he finished speaking, countless black tides surged out from behind him, branching out to both sides with him as the center, rushing towards all directions of the hive. These soldier ants guarding the legion would be the first to set off, giving this group of arrogant and arrogant A big surprise for the cowardly bee swarms, the ant tide will eventually engulf everything.

The roar of countless dense footsteps was deafening. In this roar, the ground trembled and the walls shook, as if the entire nest was trembling under the trampling of the ant tide. This was the first time in the four epochs that the hive was trampled. The ants launch a deadly attack from within.

They ignored the vast endless sea of ​​flowers on the outside, ignored the guard bees patrolling around all the time, ignored the powerful external defense of the Beehive Mountains, and penetrated directly into the enemy's most deadly heart area as soon as they appeared.

This is also the reason why Xu Yue launched a group hunt in advance. What he wanted was not a bee tribe that would suffer both sides after a forced confrontation. This was his goal to capture the queen alive while minimizing losses.

Only group hunting is when the bee clan is the most powerful externally, but the weakest internally. This is the best time to make a surprise attack. His original plan was to teleport near the sea of ​​flowers through the magic mirror, but in 952 The appearance of Seven gave him a more perfect surprise plan.

The noisy flapping of membrane wings came from behind, and a huge figure with a height of four meters flew out of the mirror. It was the male ant commander of the ant tribe and the leader of the most elite guard army of the ant tribe.

The broad membrane wings set off a roaring hurricane. The commander lowered his eyes and looked at Xu Yue, who was standing in front of the magic mirror. He nodded slightly, then the tentacles on his forehead trembled slightly, and the majestic spiritual wave swept the entire ant wave in an instant.

"All troops up, target, Hive King Tower!"

When the order was given, all the soldier ants turned around. Under their insect limbs covered with sharp barbs, there was no difference between the so-called wall and the ground. The black tide surging outward suddenly rolled and changed direction, running straight along the perimeter of the hive. of walls to climb up.

The fine rustling sound caused by the friction between insect limbs and the wall gradually spread, and the number of more than 100,000 soldier ants suddenly dyed the original gray-brown surroundings into a terrifying blackness.

The tide pouring out of the mirror portal had come to an end at this time. Xu Yue turned around and looked. On the other side of the magic mirror was the Queen Ant Crown, who was leaning on the throne and looked slightly haggard.

To expand such a huge portal in a short period of time, even with the support of stored queen honey, the queen ant still consumes a lot of money, but these consumptions are not worth mentioning compared to the possible harvest next.

"I will bring back your intended prey, Your Majesty the Queen Ant Crown."

"Waiting for good news, our allies."

As soon as he finished speaking, the huge magic mirror in front of him shrank quickly, and soon returned to its original form. He put the small magic mirror back into his pocket, and the flame wings several meters wide behind Xu Yue suddenly spread out, and little sparks escaped, just passing by. , the terrifying temperature caused raging flames to ignite everywhere in the chamber.

Surrounded by the blazing flames, the wings on his back flapped, and he immediately turned into a golden-red phoenix bird and soared into the sky. The barrier above his head was opened layer by layer by pure sun flames. The boiling flames continued to spread along the way, like a roaring and boiling road. Path of Fire.

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A few minutes ago, when the spiritual wave of the great commander broke out, the queen bee who was resting in the upper royal platform suddenly woke up. In her perception, a tyrannical spiritual force that did not belong to the bee clan appeared strangely in the hive. .

Her sluggish body tightened instantly, and her spiritual perception expanded rapidly like a vast ocean. After noticing countless individual soldier ants suddenly emerging from the lower layer of the hive, the queen's complexion immediately turned pale.

"The ants are attacking, all worker bees will immediately return to defend against the enemy!!"

The spiritual wave originating from the queen bee burst out from the royal platform and spread throughout the hive in an instant, and even to the endless sea of ​​flowers outside. The guard wasps near the royal platform were the first to receive the queen bee's message, and they paused briefly. After that, they all pounced fiercely towards the lower area where the ant tide was located.

In the surrounding flower sea, Fengyu, who was guarding 9527 after completing the task of flower birth, was stunned. He suddenly turned around and looked back. At this time, he saw that the entire hive began to tremble abnormally, and the lower area was even more ablaze. The particularly familiar golden-red flames.

"Ant tribe, old people, you are seeking death!"

Panic and rage filled his heart at the same time. Fengyu roared angrily, flapped his membrane wings rapidly on his back, and immediately prepared to rush to the hive to rescue him.

But just as it was setting off, an extremely cold word came from behind.

"Crow Card·Sword—The seal is lifted!"

Bone-piercing murderous intent emerged from behind. Before Fengyu could turn around, severe pain was felt in the back of his heart. A dark sword tip protruded from the front chest, and 9527 hung on its back. The long sword transformed from the scepter in his hand The sword has penetrated the drone severely.

"You stupid flesh bug with wings, let me, your grandpa, teach you what torture is."

"Pfft!"

The long sword was pulled out, amber blood splashed, and Fengyu's insect eyes composed of thousands of compound eyes emitted light. Under the influence of overclocking vision, everything slowed down, but even so, the fatal crisis coming from behind The feeling does not decrease but increases.

The beast, which had been enslaved by it with a collar and chain for four days, only now revealed its ferocious fangs, and its throat was sealed with blood.

"You damn old people!"

………

Twenty minutes later, the sea of ​​​​flowers was in a mess, covered with the broken corpses of the bees. Among them, Feng Yu’s death was particularly miserable. His body was basically turned into a puddle of rotten flesh that was difficult to identify, but the strange thing was that the opponent’s head But it was still intact, and there was even an obvious look of fear in his eyes.

It was obvious that its body was dead, but its head was eerily alive.

With blood flowing all over his body, 9527 held the drone's head, which was one size larger than a basketball, with an extremely sick smile on his lips.

"Hornet, have you felt it? Physical pain is just the worst method, mental despair is the real torture, hahahaha..."

After laughing nervously for a while, he carefully placed the head in his hand on the pile of rotten meat and said happily:

"Don't worry, you are still far away from death. Just wait until I finish my business and then come back to you to continue discussing the true meaning of torture."

After saying that, he turned around and looked at the Beehive Mountains behind him. At this time, the Beehive was already on the verge of crumbling. The golden-red flames all over the lower area were burning fiercely, while the upper area was noisy, roaring, trembling, and vibrating from time to time. A large number of wasps and soldier ants entangled and fell from the top, making it look like the building was about to collapse.

"Burn, destroy, I like this style, we really match each other, haha!"

After muttering softly, he grabbed the water bag at his waist and drank it all in one gulp. Then he summoned a brand new card and threw it out, tapping the long black sword in his hand quickly.

"Crow Card·Jump—The seal is lifted!"

The card in front of him turned into two beams of white light and flew downward, forming a pair of small black wings on 9527's ankles. After moving his legs penetrated by magic, he slowly squatted down.

The next moment, the ground cracked open, and a large amount of smoke and dust exploded on the spot. A figure jumped directly to a height of tens of meters and appeared on the outer wall in the middle of the hive. With his feet on the ground, 9527 once again used his strength. He jumped up and fell straight towards the top of the hive.

"Queen bee, right? Labor and management are here!!"

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The upper layer of the hive, which used to be orderly in the past, has become extremely chaotic. The golden beeswax inner wall has been damaged to pieces, and the precious honey stored inside flows freely.

But now no bee has time to feel sorry for this huge loss. They are all busy fighting and resisting. If the ant wave breaks through this last barrier, let alone the honey, the entire bee family will be devastated.

In the wide passage near the royal platform, two waves of black and yellow were entangled, one after another. Each wave rising was a bloody fight between dozens or hundreds of worker bees and soldier ants.

There was no roar, no begging for mercy, only the hum of flapping membrane wings and the clicking sounds of jaws. The silent fighting contained the most tenacious will. They were all fighting for each other's race and king. This was survival. There is no retreat from the battle.

As a result, the entire battlefield became particularly bloody, with stumps and broken wings falling down like rain. From time to time, worker bees deliberately broke the inner wall of the hive, and escaped from the battlefield with these soldier ants who had lost their foothold through the breach.

But the price is that the two are entangled and fall straight from a height of 100 meters, and eventually turn into puddles of minced meat in the sea of ​​​​flowers, and they can no longer distinguish each other.

In just twenty minutes, the ant colony had lost at least about 50% of its population. Of course, the loss to the bees was definitely much greater. After all, destruction is always much easier than protection.

Moreover, in such a closed space, the powerful strength and strong carapace of the ants can be fully utilized, but the flight advantages and dexterous speed of the bees are limited and unable to be used.

Under this increase and decrease, they relied entirely on their desperate fighting style and slightly superior numerical advantage to barely block the ant tide's surprise attack.

But even so, after losing a large number of soldier ants, the ant tide still succeeded in rushing to the point where it is only one step away from the throne. As long as this last layer of barrier is broken through, the bee queen will be completely exposed to the ant guard legion. Under the jaws.

Swinging the halberd horizontally in his hand, the heavy halberd end swept up a hurricane, shredding more than a dozen worker bees in front of him into debris all over the sky. After finishing the enemy in front of him, Xu Yue quickly raised his left arm, just in time to block it. The sharp tail needle stabs from the left side.

"Kaka..."

There was no powerful penetration, only the weird clicking sound. In the somewhat dull eyes of this sneak attack drone, the tail needle, which used to be indestructible, was now shattered inch by inch in the collision with the silver arm. The only thing left was The traces are the tiny, undetectable wounds on the skin.

The wound was so small that even blood could not flow out, and the bee venom injected from the broken tail needle was completely purified by the pure Yang Yan rushing in the body before it could even spread.

"Uh-huh!"

There was a scream in the air, and while the drone was stunned, the exaggerated wings on Xu Yue's back suddenly fell like a flaming sword. Just when it was about to hit, the drone's pupils shone with light, and it successfully avoided the attack at the critical moment. The long knife fell, but the terrifying high temperature of the tip still left a long and narrow scorch mark on its chest and abdomen.

As its membrane wings flapped, the drone quickly pulled away, but before it retreated much, a Fangtian painted halberd with Xuanhe flames wrapped around its pupils was smashed down.

"boom!!"

Flames exploded along with the stump of the limb, and after the drone was chopped into pieces with one blow, Xu Yue withdrew his halberd indifferently, glanced at the healed wound on his forearm, and raised his eyes to scan around.

He is stronger now than when he commanded the Black Armor Legion. The blessing and strengthening of the Guard Legion not only increased his strength to the extreme, but also stretched his body defense to an extremely exaggerated level, even for the elite drones of the bee tribe. , even under the waving halberd, he was as vulnerable as a chicken or a dog.

Looking around, in the last passage in front of the throne, almost all the space directly in front is crowded with dense worker bees. Together they form a thick yellow wall of flesh, completely using their lives as consumables. to stop the influx of ants.

In the tide on the right, the leader of the ant clan was fighting to the death with a drone that was slightly larger than him. This drone was the highest-status person in the bee clan besides the queen, and was named Jin Huan.

King versus king, general versus general. Since the commander-in-chief took the initiative to pick this opponent, Xu Yue had no intention of intervening. He withdrew his gaze from afar. He casually smashed a few worker bees without eyes, and then headed straight ahead. The wall of flesh looked up.

According to the current progress, it will take at least twenty minutes to break through the barrier and reach the throne. But something will happen later, and he does not have so much time to waste it little by little. Once the swarm hunting outside returns, there will be a magic mirror. Although he would not be surrounded and killed because of his body, this raid would undoubtedly fail completely.

In fact, he killed not a thousand but eight hundred bees along the way. As long as he was willing, with the fire and the red lotus blooming, he could evaporate all the worker bees in this passage together with the royal platform behind. .

But the goal of his mission this time is not for pure destruction, but to capture the queen alive, which limits his violent methods to a certain extent, not to mention the red lotus under the blessing of fire, and even the normal version. He didn't even dare to use the red lotus.

In this mountain lair made entirely of beeswax, open a way with the terrifying temperature of the red lotus? Don't be ridiculous, Red Lotus will directly destroy this road, and at the same time, it will also completely collapse the entire hive.

Looking at the stalemate in front of him, he sighed, hoping that this hive would be stronger.

Then Fang Tian's painted halberd in his hand transformed into a Xiaoyun long bow, the string opened, the arrows condensed, and the exploding finger on his thumb that appeared at an unknown time emitted a faint white light, let go!

There was a subtle sound of breaking through the air three times in a row, and three beams of golden light appeared almost at the same time, and penetrated deeply into the center of the wall of flesh directly in front.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Three consecutive roars exploded inside the flesh wall, and flames and flesh flew everywhere. A huge cavity was torn open in the center of the flesh wall by the violent explosion. The bees on both sides quickly reacted and began to close quickly. fill.

At this moment, an oval metal ball about two meters high broke through the air from the front and rushed into the cavity before closing.

The wall of flesh then closed, which also meant that the metal ball went deep alone and was completely surrounded by the swarm.

Inside the flesh wall, the shell of the metal ball cracked into pieces, and countless small cracks spread on the surface. Through the small cracks, one could clearly see a silver figure located inside the ball.

His cold gaze swept across the opaque yellow bee shadow outside the crack, Xu Yue's eyes were filled with purple, and his throat was rising and falling.

The next moment, a majestic demonic shadow appeared in the passage, and the vast fighting spirit of the primitive wilderness swept out like a storm. Suddenly, the entire battlefield fell into silence, and the brutal fighting came to a standstill, as if in front of such existences. , Their small killing intent seems so ridiculous and vain.

In the royal hall behind the flesh wall, at the moment when the devil's shadow appeared, Queen Bee, who was already a little panicked, stood up in an instant, with a look of horror on her face.

"This kind of power is no good. We must retreat. At worst, abandon the hive!"

But as soon as the thought came into his mind, a roar erupted, and instantly suppressed all the distracting thoughts in the hive. Wherever the sound wave affected, the brains of all intelligent creatures became blank.

"Roar!!!"