Chapter 89 - Chapter 89: Chapter 84 Raising a Green Giant Bumblebee 1 (1/2)

Chapter 89: Chapter 84 Raising a Green Giant Bumblebee 1

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Under normal circumstances, whether he is cultivating insects or birds and beasts, he would tame them first before breeding them.

Because if they’re not tamed, they’re uncontrollable.

The stronger they are, the harder they are to control.

Even Qin Niu himself could be killed by them.

Such tragedies have occurred several times. Some bold Insect Masters or Beast Tamers, overly confident in their abilities, capture wild beasts or poisonous insects which they continuously fail to tame. So, they think of first showing goodwill to build a relationship.

It will then be much easier to tame them later.

But after they’ve nurtured the creatures to become more powerful, the creatures break out of their enclosures and turn on their ‘masters’.

Qin Niu conducted this experiment to see if he could pave a new way for wealth.

Based on his experience with cultivating termites, just feeding them Banyan Tree Blood or Thousand Eyes Tree Blood could almost certainly help them evolve some special abilities.

Even the weakest wind worker ants possess powerful special abilities.

After capturing a worker bee from an ordinary hornet, to prevent accidents, he specially made a more robust cage and isolated it inside.

He then fed it a bit of its favorite, honey.

However, this small piece of honeycomb was mixed with just a little Banyan

Tree Blood.

According to the size of the hornet, this was about one-twentieth the safe dosage.

At first, it didn’t eat.

Instead, it climbed and flew around frantically, trying to find an exit.

Qin Niu didn’t pay it any more attention.

After about an hour, he checked on the hornet again and found that it had eaten the honey.

After struggling for half the day, it must have gotten hungry.

That’s one advantage of worker bees.

They can feed themselves when they’re hungry, whereas the queen bee needs to be fed by the worker bees.

He carefully observed the hornet that had just consumed the Banyan Tree Blood; its evolution wasn’t much different from that of the termites.

Its body began to swell rapidly, especially its entire abdomen, like an inflating balloon.

Gradually getting fatter before his eyes.

Because the dosage was very small, its abdomen only grew fatter by two rings before it stopped.

It lay there motionless, shivering with discomfort, trembling its two antennae and wings.

This result was just what Qin Niu wanted.

Without being tamed, it was definitely not possible to cultivate it into a Grade TWo hornet.

The night passed quickly.

In the morning, he checked again on the hornet that had been fed the Banyan Tree Blood to see if there were any changes.

He found that its body size had increased by about a third, which would make it equivalent to a major figure among the swarm of hornets.

A layer of pale green appeared at the tip of its abdomen, progressively lightening as it extended upward, until it vanished.

The protective plates on its chest seemed significantly strengthened, faintly gleaming with a metallic luster.

Its already powerful mandibles had become even more powerful.

And they too shone with a metallic sheen.

Additionally, its stinger’s deployment speed had increased; it could extend quickly and retract just as fast, like lightning.

Moreover, the luster of its stinger was almost equivalent to that of refined iron.

Because it wasn’t tamed, he couldn’t check its attributes directly.

Qin Niu used his Insect Identification skill on it directly.

[Green Giant Hornet, a species from the Hymenoptera Vespidae family, female (not fully developed), with a lifespan of about 5 years, and special abilities including enhanced biting strength, strengthened stinger, and increased stamina.]

“How strong!”

Qin Niu silently congratulated himself for using a clay pot to cage it.

Otherwise, with the beast’s current powerful biting force, an ordinary cage made of vines or bamboo would likely be unable to contain it.

As he had expected, the hornet hadn’t successfully advanced to Grade Two.

But its body, mandibles, and stinger had all been enhanced.

This result was very good.

And surprisingly, its lifespan had increased by about five years.

Long-lived queen bees also only live for about five years, whereas the shorter-lived ones usually only have a one-year lifespan. It would live even longer than a queen bee.

“If I could sell this for a good price in the city, that would be perfect.”

To Qin Niu, creating such an impressive Green Giant Hornet so easily was just like crafting a piece of trash.

But for other Insect Masters, it might be priceless treasure.

He took out the Treasured Sword from the stone trough and quickly made a trip to the mountain.

He hadn’t brought back the Ant Queen with the Fourth and other termites yesterday because the entire ant nest had to be manned by them to ensure safety.