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Chapter 316 Working Hours, the Possibility of Two Queen Bees (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

It was late at night at the Tempozan Aquarium in Osaka, Japan.

In a dimly lit and deserted sightseeing corridor, the shimmering blue light reflected from the water tank illuminated the faces of every visitor.

Although they were supposed to be tourists, there were only two people in the passageway.

Fan Dongqing crossed her arms and leaned against the wall of the corridor, playing on her phone.

Ke Qing adjusted his glasses and looked up at the huge tank, where a beluga whale was being devoured by light-eating bees.

The scene before my eyes was exceptionally gruesome and brutal. The enormous beluga whale was curled up at the bottom of the tank, its body covered in bloody gashes from bee stings and claws, and it had even lost the strength to let out a mournful cry.

A large swarm of bees lay on its bloody mouth, greedily sucking its blood.

The wisps of blood-red vapor spread out, turning the dark blue water tank a deep crimson.

Ke Qingzheng walked over and sighed softly, "These things don't even spare the marine life in aquariums."

"Just kill him," Fan Dongqing said without looking up. "Stop babbling. That Japanese restaurant will close down if we stay any longer."

As Ke Qingzheng raised his hand, the air condensed into a sharp arc, and the glass of the sightseeing tank shattered.

In an instant, the bodies of the bees were precisely cleaved in two. The sharp blades of air not only killed them but also dissipated the bloody aura spreading in the pool.

The glass shattered, and the water in the giant tank squeezed out, roaring and sweeping like a flood.

Ke Qing remained expressionless, an air wall spreading out in front of him, blocking all the liquid rushing towards him.

"Let's go, that's all." He slowly turned and walked towards the exit of the aquarium corridor. Fan Dongqing followed.

The two had just stepped out of the aquarium when they suddenly heard a loud bang in the night, followed by a burst of flames shooting into the sky and a series of explosions.

"What's the situation over there?" Fan Dongqing asked.

"It seems that the light-eating bees hid in the factory, so Ninety-Nine blew up the entire factory," Ke Qingzheng said.

"That pink-haired girl is really something... she doesn't know her own strength. She'll probably get punished again after the mission." Fan Dongqing laughed.

In the distance, the blue smoke that shrouded the sky slowly dissipated, revealing a pink-haired girl with twin ponytails wearing a Russian military uniform and cap. She had a backpack-like metal flying device on her back, which allowed her to fly by shooting flames and air currents—this was developed for her by Garfield.

At this moment, floating sniper cannons glowing with a ghostly blue light were hovering above her head, firing missiles from their barrels and turning the entire abandoned factory into a hellish inferno.

As if a volcanic eruption had occurred, molten lava swept across the land, obliterating everything except for a giant crater a hundred meters in diameter. The lingering heat and rising white gas almost turned the scene inside the crater into a mirage.

Ninety-Nine noticed the gaze from afar, turned her head, and arrogantly raised her eyes from under her military cap to look at Fan Dongqing and Ke Qingzheng, her pink twin ponytails rising and falling in the night breeze.

Fan Dongqing put one hand in his pocket and used his other hand to send her a text message on his phone.

【Fan Dongqing: Cool.】

[Fan Dongqing: Pink Hair, do you want to eat Japanese food? It's on me.]

[Ninety-nine: Get lost, you narcissistic man.]

After sending the message, Jiujiu raised her middle finger and stuck out her tongue. Then, the flight device on her back emitted a stream of air carrying flames, propelling her to another corner of the night sky.

Fan Dongqing shook his head. "How about we invite the old lady? I feel like it would be too boring if it were just the two of us. Bai Mao has been spending all his time with that famous person lately, so we can't get him to come out."

“Esther is still busy.” Ke Qing said expressionlessly. “It seems she’s in charge of… the Light-Eating Bees’ base at the LEGO Discovery Center.”

Meanwhile, at the LEGOLAND Discovery Center in Osaka, there is an indoor children's playground.

The lights in the children's playground flickered on and off, and the bodies of the boys and girls were hanging from the ceiling.

The bees hate human eyes, so their eyes are the first thing they eat. Their eye sockets are gaping holes, from which blood flows down their pale cheeks.

Most of the children's organs become food on a gourmet assembly line, sliding down the slide piece by piece into the mouths of the guests.

The light-eating bees were having a feast around the slide, except for one smaller one, which was forced to spread its wings and fly below the ceiling, guarding the children's corpses.

When the light-eating bees clamor for more food, the light-eating bee on top will use its claws to cut open the corresponding parts of the corpse.

Then the piece of meat falls onto the slide and slides smoothly to the ground, where it is enjoyed by the light-eating bees sitting on the ground, just like the thoughtful service of a conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Japan.

A short while later, a girl in a gothic dress with black hair and red eyes walked into the children's playground.

Her eyelids drooped, and she looked drowsy. Her pale face was expressionless.

"I'm sleepy... Making me work so late is practically elder abuse," Esther muttered.

She hugged the little rabbit doll in her arms tightly, when suddenly invisible lines appeared above her head. Then the lines suddenly drooped down, and human-shaped dolls tied to the ends of the lines fell from the sky.

They woke up one after another.

They were a group of dancers dressed in colorful skirts, their mouths sewn shut with silk threads, their lips curving upwards in a sweet smile. Suddenly, pulled by the threads, the dancers' bodies tensed, and their heads stood upright.

The light-devouring bees realized something was wrong, and they all looked up from the chunks of meat they were gnawing on, squinting as they stared at the swarming doll.

Some of the dancers performed the elegant Swan Dance, while others danced the graceful Tango, gliding from the ground towards the Light-Eating Bees, their figures moving as fast as streaks of colorful light.

Even with their exceptional dynamic vision, the bees couldn't see their movements clearly at all.

Then, amidst a series of elegant yet dangerous dance moves, they bound the light-devouring bees together with invisible threads. Then, with a tremor of countless threads, they shattered their bodies into countless blood clots.

Silently, blood fell like snowflakes, followed by chunks of the Light-Eating Bee's flesh hitting the ground with a soft thud. Esther had already walked out of the paradise without looking back, her pupils flashing a ghostly red light in the darkness.

Late at night, in a secluded hotel in Osaka's Minato Ward.

After receiving a huge sum of money from Jack the Ripper, Caesar is now a rich man.

So after Black Chrysalis was kicked out of the bookstore by Su Wei for being too obnoxious, Caesar accompanied Black Chrysalis to this hotel and rented two rooms in one go for a week.

He shared a room with Agubaru, and Black Chrysalis shared another.

Gu Wenyu had been traveling all day, so after taking off his restraints and trench coat, he took a shower, drank a bottle of hot milk, and lay down on the bed, turning his head to look at the brightly lit port area.

As the evening breeze blew gently, carrying the salty scent of the sea, disoriented seagulls flew through the city's power cables and wire mesh.

A moment later, his phone on the bed suddenly vibrated. He picked it up and saw a voice message from Su Zimai.

Gu Wenyu raised an eyebrow, answered the call, placed his phone on the bed, and waited quietly for the other person to speak first—he was so tired that he didn't even want to open his mouth.

"Is she still alive?" Su Zimai's voice came out, as clear and melodious as ever.

"What?" Gu Wenyu asked.

“I’ve decided to call you every night to make sure you’re still alive,” Su Zimai said.

"What if I don't answer?" Gu Wenyu rolled his eyes.

"Don't you dare ignore me," Su Zimai snorted. "Otherwise, if you don't answer my calls one day, I'll assume you're dead. Then I'll tell my older brother and dad that you've been wearing a mask all along, pretending to be a giant moth to fool them!"

"Whatever, do whatever you want. Whether I answer or not depends entirely on my mood." Gu Wenyu yawned. "Goodnight, little sister. I'm a bit sleepy, I've been traveling all day..."

"Don't go to sleep yet, I have a question for you."

"what?"

"Will you come back to school after summer vacation?"

"Come back! What are high school students doing not going to school?"

"That's good..." Su Zimai breathed a sigh of relief, then said resentfully, "Speaking of which, we went to the same high school, but you went to school with that Qingping guy every morning, leaving your little sister all alone. How could you be so shameless?!"

Gu Wenyu was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and remained silent for a while. "It's okay, I won't go to school with him anymore."

"Really?"

"Really? After school starts, I'll set my alarm for 5 a.m. every day to wake you up on time. If you don't get up, I'll use a restraint belt to unlock the door, then hang you outside the window and stick a sign on it that says, 'This is our sleeping pig, Su Zimai.' Aren't you happy?"

"You dare?" Su Zimai said angrily. "If you bully me, I'll tell my older brother. I may not be able to beat you, but surely my older brother can beat you?"

"Alright, alright, you've already resorted to threatening me with Lord Blue Arc, so I surrender." Gu Wenyu chuckled softly. "I'm going to sleep now, we'll talk tomorrow."

After saying that, he hung up on Su Zimai. She seemed to want to say something, but Gu Wenyu didn't listen and simply switched to Do Not Disturb mode.

Gu Wenyu put down his phone and stared blankly at the empty ceiling for a while.

Then, she slowly closed her heavy eyelids.

The night passed in silence. When Ji Minghuan woke up again, he was awakened by a cold female voice.

"Restricted-level psychic, number 1002 - 'Ji Minghuan', quickly get up and get ready. The instructor has a message for you."

He had just opened his eyes when a familiar voice came to his ears: "You're awake."

Ji Minghuan turned her head and looked over. The source of the sound was, of course, her mentor, who was sitting at the table drinking tea.

"Professor, why did you come over without issuing a notice again?"

Ji Minghuan sat up, looking speechless. "Who are you trying to scare to death?"

“The prophet sent us another letter saying he would arrive here within ten days,” the mentor said.

Within ten days?

Ji Minghuan was taken aback, thinking to himself that by August 20th, the prophet would definitely come to the Salvation Society base to see him.

But who exactly is this prophet? And what is his purpose in coming to see me in person?
Ji Minghuan was lost in thought, completely baffled.

"You seem to be in a bad mood?" He sat cross-legged on the bed, turning to look at his mentor. "It's just a prophet, why are you looking so grim? Is there some good news?"

The mentor was silent for a moment. “Indeed, we have obtained new information from the natives of the Whale Garden. They say that the birth of the queen bee… must rely on devouring her own kind.”

"Devouring one's own kind?"

“That’s right. If one of the four queen bees can devour the others, it will become the queen bee,” the mentor said slowly. “Furthermore, the Light-Eating Bee clan has spent 30 years in the outside world, and every queen bee born from the queen is stronger than the one from 30 years ago.”

He paused for a moment: "And the queen bees born from this should be far stronger than we imagine."

Ji Minghuan raised an eyebrow, giving an expression that seemed to say, "It's none of my business."

"That sounds like a lot of fun." He thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, since you said that when a queen bee devours another queen bee, a queen bee will be born, then theoretically speaking, is it possible that a queen bee could be born in this generation of Light-Eating Bees...?"

The instructor interrupted him, "That's right, two queen bees."

　Ask for monthly ticket orz
　　
　
(End of this chapter)