Chapter 449: Challenges (1/2)

These scarlet bees ventured into the forest in different directions. The silence of the forest was overwhelming; the darkness swallowed up the scarlet bees as soon as they entered.

Xue Wei and the others waited for around five minutes before the Scarlet Bee Queen began frowning.

”I am losing contact with them, one after another,” she said with a trembling voice. Although she had numerous bees in her beehive within the Beast Tag, the truth was that each and every one of them had hatched from her eggs.

Losing contact with them would only happen if they had died. But before their death, the only thing she had seen was a silent and empty forest. There were no signs of hostile creatures, no sounds, and no smells. Everything was eerily quiet.

The Scarlet Bee Queen informed Xue Wei of what she had encountered, but her heart was trembling. What if he made her send another batch of her children to their death?

But Xue Wei did not order her to call out another batch of Scarlet Bees. Although he did not care much for them, the fact that all of them had died so inexplicably showed that even if he sent more inside, their death would be guaranteed.

He would rather keep the bees for when a battle was needed, or to create scarlet honey since Scarlet Honey was a very rare and essential resource for him.

The Scarlet Bee Queen heaved a heavy sigh of relief when she saw Xue Wei in deep contemplation.

It was not only Xue Wei who was thinking about what happened, but also the others. The only one who was casual and carefree was Lan; he was standing against a tree, leaning with his back against the trunk, and smiled leisurely at the thinking group.

The group, who was deep in thought, understood certain things. Lan had led them here intentionally, but as to why, they did not know.

He had made them encounter this forest with a purpose, but asking him would be useless.

Since they were here, there was only one reason. Lan wanted them to suffer, but knowing him, he would not kill them.

If he wanted them to die, there was no reason for him to play with them like this, he could just think, and their lives would be forfeited.

Reaching this conclusion, Xue Wei and the others were still alert and vigilant, but they also knew that they had a chance of survival if they entered the forest.

Since it was not certain death, they could not back down. If they backed down, the entire purpose of the trip would be lost, and they would have wasted a long time, and much preparation, not to mention the mental blow it would bring to them.