"They actually evolved?"
Ethan remembered that when he brought the murder bees back, they were still just larvae.
Who would have thought that after Cook Four's careful feeding over this period of time, they had actually evolved and even gained communication functions.
If the citizens who previously escorted Daji back had also been able to have a "bee big brother phone" like this.
Then there wouldn't have been the need to sacrifice a citizen.
He hurriedly tried to communicate with the evolved murder bees and called out, "If you can hear me talking, please draw a 521 in the sky."
"After all, today is confession day. Since no one is confessing to me, you guys can confess to me instead."
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Immediately afterward.
Those evolved murder bees seemed to understand human language.
They actually neatly arranged themselves in midair into three numbers, forming 521, as if they were confessing to Ethan.
"Then can you do english alphabets?"
Ethan thought for a moment and gave the murder bees another instruction, "Thank you, big bosses. Can you do this?"
Sure enough, these mutated murder bees did not disappoint.
They immediately danced out various Chinese character trajectories in midair according to Ethan's request.
[Thank you, big bosses!]
[I love you all!]
[♥]
"Not bad! Not bad!"
Ethan was very satisfied with the performance of the mutated murder bees.
Right after that, he spread his hand out, and a palm-sized queen bee flew directly into Ethan's palm. Only then did Ethan notice how different this queen bee was.
[Intermediate Spirit Pet – Queen Bee: The leader of the mutated murder bees, it can even be said to be the brain of the hive. The hive's behavior and movement patterns are all formed under the command of corresponding pheromones released by the queen bee.]
[PS: The queen bee can be carried by your side to conveniently command the hive.]
"Can you talk to me directly?"
Ethan was thrilled and immediately wanted to test whether the queen bee could communicate with him directly.
The queen bee emitted intermittent sounds, just like when talking with the scarecrow, directly entering his brain.
["Yes… Master…"]
"You can communicate with me. Then from now on, you'll be my communication center," Ethan raised an eyebrow, "How far can you communicate with these bees?"
["Straight line… about… ten kilometers…"]
The queen bee seemed not very good at speaking, only trying hard to send brainwaves to communicate with Ethan.
But because it was direct mental communication, Ethan could easily understand what the queen bee wanted to express. A straight-line range of ten kilometers meant that within a diameter of twenty kilometers centered on the queen bee, he could easily make contact.
'That is more than enough.'
"Lord, I'm willing."
Cook Four stood to the side, and when she saw Ethan actually directing the bees to form confession numbers, her heart instantly bloomed with joy.
She had long fallen for the lord. Now that the lord was confessing to her, how could she possibly refuse? She was extremely willing, okay?
"What are you willing to do?"
Ethan turned his head and looked at Cook Four, whose face was flushed red, with a puzzled expression, "I'll handle the beehive matters here. Is dinner ready? Everyone is still waiting for dinner from your kitchen group."
"Huh? Lord, weren't you confessing to me?"
"I was confessing to you?", Ethan looked completely baffled, "I was just letting the bees confess to me (the reader big bosses). What does that have to do with you?"
"So that's how it is!"
Cook Four looked a little disappointed.
But Ethan still took out a bottle of vanilla milkshake he had saved earlier, froze it with ice magic, and handed it to Cook Four, "But you did a great job feeding the bees. This vanilla milkshake is for you."
"Really?", Cook Four's expression immediately turned from gloomy to sunny, her face lighting up with joy, "Thank you, Lord! I'll go prepare dinner right away!"
"Go on, go on!"
Ethan waved his hand.
Only then did he look at the beehive that had been burned somewhat black, and he immediately noticed that there was actually a red exclamation mark on it.
[Burned Beginner Beehive: Because the murder bees consumed too much fire-element energy, the fire-element energy level is too high. It needs to be upgraded to a medium beehive in order to effectively withstand the fire-element exhaust of the mutated murder bees! Upgrade requirements: Fire-element beast core 137/10, Advanced Mud 8700/10]
"Upgrade!"
[Fire-element beast core -10, Advanced Mud -10]
[Medium Beehive: Mutated murder bee reproduction rate +100%, growth rate +100%]
A flash of golden light and Ethan saw an oval-shaped sphere about one meter tall appear in the pet shed. It was almost embedded into the wall, and the widest part was actually about a meter across.
The whole thing was earthy yellow, with only a few red fire-element beast cores inside that occasionally flickered with red light.
Overall, it looked like a low-key yet luxurious alien lamp. It was quite pretty.
And the mutated murder bees also seemed very satisfied with the new beehive.
One by one, they hurried toward the palm-width entrance in the middle of the beehive and flew inside, not coming out again. Only the queen bee remained on Ethan's palm, reluctant to leave.
"You can also go."
Ethan didn't want to delay the queen bee's reproduction.
For him, a single mutated murder bee was basically equivalent to a wireless phone, and one that didn't cost any money at that. Naturally, the more the better.
And inside this beehive, the evolution speed of the mutated murder bees could also be accelerated.
Ethan was even hoping they could mutate another round.
Maybe they could mutate into something rare.
Ethan nodded in satisfaction at the new beehive. Then he took out some magma octopus eyes from his backpack, placed a portion in front of the queen bee, and said, "Eat more. The more you eat, the faster you'll grow."
["Tha… thank you."]
The queen bee replied softly.
Only then did Ethan leave the pet shed and head for the cafeteria.
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When he arrived at the cafeteria, Cook Four had already prepared dinner. Every table was filled with food.
As Ethan's abilities improved and the citizens' combat strength increased, the food in the villa also became more and more abundant.
On today's tables, besides dumplings stuffed with goblin minced meat, there were also bread fruits from the treant family, blood cow cheese from the dwarf race, and magma octopus meat.
It was extremely lavish.
But the treant family's fruit wine was only on Ethan's table.
Without receiving a reward from the lord, the other citizens naturally wouldn't have such a luxurious thing as alcohol to drink.
"Pretty nice! It really looks like a buffet!"
Looking at the table full of delicious food, Ethan suddenly had a thought. If this scene could be photographed and posted in the regional chat, that would feel amazing.
However, at this moment.
[Screenshot taken. Send it?]
[T/N: I have never tried, but apparantly, if you press brake and accelerator together, it takes a screenshot of the car.]
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