Chapter 87 - Chapter 87: Chapter 82: Capturing a Special Bumblebee i (1/2)
Chapter 87: Chapter 82: Capturing a Special Bumblebee i
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Qin Niu waited patiently, but the wasp never showed up.
This left him somewhat disappointed, as he had made ample preparations.
Wasp liquor and fried wasp larvae were both excellent nourishing ingredients.
He planned to first feed the freshly caught insects to the termites.
Spiders, scorpions, and centipedes all contained potent toxins that could help the Ant Queen enhance her venom attribute.
The offspring she was currently producing were only mildly toxic, which was still somewhat weak.
Fourth evolved the ability to produce venom after consuming poisonous centipedes and spiders, which was truly miraculous. At least so many worker ants had eaten them, yet none seemed to have evolved the venomous ability.
On the other hand, worker ants and soldier ants that drank bear blood accidentally evolved a strong physical attribute.
Qin Niu speculated that for adult termites, whether they consumed poisonous insects or bear blood, the chances of evolving strong physical or venomous attributes were probably slim to none.
What might truly trigger their metamorphosis could be feeding them these foods during their larval stage, and then as they transform into adult insects, they might evolve special abilities.
At that moment, an abnormal humming sound came from overhead.
The sound of a bee flapping its wings is fairly uniform and pleasant to the ear. However, the buzzing sound from above was like a bomber, particularly powerful, with a hint of a sonic boom.
“Could it be the wasp has arrived?”
Insect Trace Identification +0.01, Insect Identification +0.01.
Qin Niu couldn’t help but smile.
So this also increased the proficiency of his insect control skills?
Interesting!
Looking up into the sky, he indeed spotted an extremely ‘massive’ silhouette.
It was much larger than a bee.
And precisely because of its larger size and greater weight, it required much more powerful wing flapping to fly. Otherwise, it couldn’t take off at all.
That was why the buzzing sound it made was much louder than that of a bee.
This great wasp in the sky was quite crafty; it flew around in circles high in the air but did not approach the beehive.
“Is it calling for reinforcements?”
Qin Niu quietly guessed.
That was even better; take down one if one comes, eliminate a whole group if they swarm in.
With him, their master, present, he would not allow these great wasps to run wild.
In fact, as long as the first batch of eggs laid by the Queen Bee hatched successfully and the larvae metamorphosed into adult insects, there would basically be no need for him, their master, to take action anymore.
Just look at how fierce the termite colony is now.
A few Grade Two Tiger-striped Soldier Ants alone had the power to wipe out the entire army sent by the black stinking ants.
Fourth was even more terrifying.
He estimated that once it entered Demonization Mode, it could single-handedly take on an entire stink ant nest by itself.
The combat power of ordinary bees was far inferior to that of wasps.
But once they evolved special abilities, that changed everything.
Qin Niu climbed up the pine tree nimbly in two or three moves, agile as a monkey.
Freeing one hand, he held a net bag, ready to deal with the great wasp in the sky at any time.
Under normal circumstances, whether bees or wasps, the first to be dispatched were always scout wasps.
In the hive, their role was very similar to scouts in human armies.
Simply put, they were pathfinders.
After circling a few times, the great wasp dove down.
It must have left new pheromones in the air to call the wasp legion.
“Bring it on!”
Watching its readiness for a fierce battle, Qin Niu couldn’t help but reveal a sinister smile.
It wasn’t that he wanted to bully an insect, but this ‘bandit’ was just too arrogant.
The net bag, timed perfectly, traced a beautiful arc through the air.
The obnoxious great wasp disappeared, and the next second, it was buzzing and scrambling inside the net bag.
Qin Niu watched as it occasionally extended a long venomous stinger from its tail and thought to himself, the wasp’s reputation as a killer was not unfounded.
Its stinger was much longer than a bee’s.
To imagine it piercing prey, with venom rapidly injected, that must be terrifying!
Moreover, compared to a bee, the wasp’s stinger did not have barbs, which meant it could quickly pull out its stinger after stinging its enemy.
A bee’s stinger, on the other hand, would remain inside the enemy’s body.