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Chapter 337 Ruins, Shadow of the Queen Bee (Fifth Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets)
Upon hearing what Melvitt said, Gu Qiye and Yu Ruier both showed slight surprise.

They could see, of course, that the queen bee had been seriously injured for some reason, which was why she was placed in that huge cocoon to quietly rest and recuperate. But they had never imagined that the queen bee had been injured so badly by a sergeant bee.

The culprit was none other than Melvitt, who was standing right in front of them at that moment.

Melvitt's head was reduced to half, half a head and half a face, his expression brutal and ferocious, his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets, black arcs of electricity still lingering in his cracked flesh.

He spread his thin, transparent wings high on his back and let out a roar, each word distinct and deliberate:

"You know what... I also hid the conditions for the birth of the queen bee from the other queen bees. One reason is that I don't want to die, and the other reason is that I don't want to see them killing each other. So you should thank me, humans!"

"What do you want us to thank you for?" Gu Qiye asked casually. At this moment, due to the layers of tightly sealed mirrors around Melvitt, he did not dare to approach him rashly. He could only stay with Yuriel and wait for the opportunity to attack.

"What are you thanking? Do you even need to ask? If the queen bee is born, you have no chance of winning. In front of the queen bee, you are not even as good as pigs or dogs. Only when that moment comes will you know what despair means."

Melvitt suddenly laughed hoarsely, “Among the queen bees, only Joe knows something… because he can sense parts of the other person’s memories and emotions through his sense of smell, so… he knows I’m hiding a secret, and he also knows that the queen bee’s injury is related to me.”

“In the eyes of the bee clan, my behavior was tantamount to a capital offense, and could even affect the future of the entire clan. But Joe did not expose me. He just played cards with me without saying a word, and occasionally he would try to probe me but only to a certain extent.”

"Joe is such a funny friend. If he knew that he had to devour his own kind to become king, he would be heartbroken and give up, wouldn't he?"

“Joe is not suited to be the queen bee. His destiny is different from ours. I want him to leave here. With his intelligence and abilities, he can live well even in the human world.”

Yuriel remained expressionless, staring directly at Melvitt as he approached, and interrupted him, "I have no interest in listening to your ramblings."

She paused for a moment: "But I must make one thing clear: if you think anyone would be so naive as to let you off the island, you're overthinking it."

“She’s right,” Gu Qiye said. “Including you, all four of the Four Bee Lords will die on the island, and so will your queen. If you think your words will garner sympathy, you’re mistaken.”

In fact, both of them were buying time. They couldn't see any flaws in Melvitt's defenses at this moment; the layers upon layers of mirrored barriers were simply hopeless.

This is an absolutely comprehensive, three-dimensional defense. No matter which angle an attack comes from, it will be blocked instantly. They have just tested it, and whether it is a close-range or long-range attack, it will be absorbed and reflected by the mirror.

However, at that moment, they suddenly realized a blind spot. That's right... there was a place outside the coverage of the mirror.

The next moment, Yu Ruier and Gu Qiye exchanged a glance, seemingly understanding each other's thoughts.

Immediately afterwards, Yuriel took a forward thrust and shot forward, creating a huge ice wall on the ground that was ten meters long and wide, blocking Melvitt's way.

Gu Qiye bent down and placed his palms on the floor. Dark electric light surged from his fingertips and piled up on the ground.

Now that Melvitt's eyes had recovered, he could see clearly what was in front of him, where the annoying ice wall had blocked his view.

"Useless! Useless—!" Melvitt roared, raising his fist and shattering the ice wall. The ice shards rained down, but the white-haired girl was no longer behind the ice wall.

At that very moment, a bolt of pitch-black lightning suddenly pierced through the floor, weaving into a giant net that spread layer by layer from the ground toward Melvitt's feet.

Melvitt was stunned. The mirrors surrounding him could block attacks from all angles, but attacks from his feet were a blind spot in his defense, because he couldn't create a mirror under his feet; otherwise, he would be swallowed up by the mirror.

In an instant, the violent lightning burned his feet to ashes. He suddenly knelt in the electric grid, the surging lightning raging over every corner of his body. Then, the mirrors surrounding him shattered one after another.

Seeing that the hexagonal mirrors surrounding Melvitt had disappeared, Yuriel naturally wouldn't let this opportunity pass.

A terrifying cold current blew in his face. Melvitt looked up and more than a dozen ice spikes tore through the air and shot towards him, hitting his body one after another and sending him flying dozens of meters away, crashing into the huge cocoon.

The exoskeleton covering his body shattered layer by layer, leaving his body in an unprecedentedly vulnerable state. Gu Qiye transformed into a streak of black lightning, leaping up from the ground and instantly appearing directly in front of Melvitt.

He raised his arm, used the momentum of a punch, and then his hand formed a knife. The dark lightning was as sharp as a sword, and in an instant it pierced through Melvitt's chest and then through his heart!

"Pfft—!" Blood spurted out, and Melvitt howled in pain, spitting out a mouthful of thick, foul blood.

“That’s right, that’s right…” Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, his empty eyes drooping as he stared at his chest, pierced by lightning, where no heart was beating. “Kill me, then kill the other two queen bees, and Joe will gain true freedom. He doesn’t belong here…”

Gu Qiye frowned and pulled out a lightning-cracked hand blade from the other's chest. His right hand was spotless, as the blood and internal organs had been burned away by the lightning and disappeared before they could remain on his hand.

Melvitt coughed and collapsed onto the cocoon.

He leaned against the membrane of the cocoon, his body slowly sliding down until he collapsed to the ground. A trail of blood remained on the cocoon, flowing down like a bloody river and spreading to Melvitt's hunched back.

Not long after, Melvitt, who had lost his heart, stopped breathing.

Gu Qiye kept her distance from him until she was sure that Melvitt was dead, then took a deep breath and looked up at the queen bee trapped in the cocoon with Yuriel.

The queen bee remained in a deep slumber, showing no sign of waking up despite the commotion outside.

“Once the queen bee is killed, the light-eating bees will lose their ability to reproduce,” Yuriel said in a low voice.

Gu Qiye nodded silently. Almost without hesitation, he raised his hands, palms facing each other, and strands of black electricity shot out from his fingertips. The electric arcs pulsed and hissed silently, then quickly coalesced into a huge ball of electricity.

His bangs obscured Gu Qiye's eyes. He let out a long breath, controlling the restless lightning. As he retreated, he flicked his fingertips forward, pushing the jet-black ball of electricity toward the giant cocoon in the center of the palace.

He then swiftly scooped up Yuriel's body and retreated to the palace entrance. The Icelandic girl remained silent for a moment.

"Do you really have to carry me?" she asked expressionlessly. "I can walk this distance myself."

"I'm sorry, I just got used to it without realizing it."

The two fell silent, and as if to ease the awkwardness, they looked up at the scene directly in front of them.

The moment the electric ball touched the cocoon, it first contracted to its limit, then suddenly expanded, and finally burst open, turning into a destructive black current that expanded outwards endlessly.

Just like the scene that destroyed more than a dozen high-rise buildings in downtown Lejing on that day.

A violent black current tore through space, spreading out ravines that ravaged and ravaged the entire hive. At that moment, the palace dome cracked open, and moonlight streamed through the gap, illuminating the disintegrating cocoon.

The cocoon shattered, and the queen bee was engulfed by the surging lightning, her body disintegrating layer by layer in the flashes of lightning.

Meanwhile, the palace was rapidly collapsing, and layers of honey flowing from the ceiling fell down like melted oil.

Gu Qiye took one last look at Melvitt. Soon, the Four Bees would be destroyed along with the hive, and there was no need for him to stay here, lest he be caught in the lightning strike along with Yuriel.

He was about to leave with Yuriel in his arms when he suddenly turned around, his pupils slightly contracting.

A deafening sonic boom resounded, and then a completely black figure suddenly descended from the broken ceiling of the palace, passed through the gap and entered the palace, retracted its hexagonal wings, and landed next to the shattered cocoon.

Without a doubt, it was the Great Bee Marquis – “Qiao”, Gu Qiye recognized him instantly.

Black lightning flashed all around him, threatening to engulf his body at any moment, but Joe remained silent, only lowering his eyes to look at the queen bee's corpse and then at Melvitt, who was slumped on the ground.

After a while, Joe bent down and raised his right arm to block the violent lightning.

The lightning roared and swept across, instantly obliterating Joe's entire right arm, but his face remained expressionless.

At the cost of his right arm, he gently lifted Melvitt's body from the ground.

“Melvett, I’ve let you down…” Joe murmured as he looked at him.

The next moment, the entire palace collapsed. The brightly lit beehive plummeted straight down from the sky. Feeling weightless, Gu Qiye didn't stop. He carried Yuriel towards the exit of the beehive, and then leaped into the sky.

Yuriel condensed the air, forming layers of ring-shaped ice surfaces that extended downwards in mid-air, stretching for hundreds of meters all the way to the ground.

Gu Qiye transformed into a swift black lightning bolt, speeding along the ice surface and reaching the ground in the blink of an eye. He put Yuriel down and looked up at the team members who had been waiting for them.

"Well, you've finally decided to come out." Fan Dongqing landed on the ground, having already put away the Azure Boat.

“Newcomers, you guys are the slowest. We took care of Erfenghou a long time ago,” Jiujiu said, as she descended from the sky using her flying backpack and came to the three of them.

"Is it over?" Fan Dongqing asked.

Gu Qiye remained silent, recalling the scene he had seen before leaving: Joe, who had lost his right arm, lowered his eyes, picked up Melvitt's body with his left arm, and stood quietly in the raging lightning, without sorrow or joy, as silent as a statue.

That's not the expression a creature that wants to live should have.

"It should be over by now," Gu Qiye said, looking up at the sky.

The hive disintegrated, turning into countless fragments that fell straight down and crashed onto the earth. After a while, the entire world was once again enveloped in the deathly silence of night. The deserted island was eerily quiet. The extermination mission was fully completed. All four queen bees were wiped out, and all the worker bees on the island were also exterminated without exception. Looking across the entire island, it seemed that only members of Rainbow Wing remained.

"What about Garfield?" Gu Qiye asked.

"He went to find Liuli, but Liuli suddenly disappeared for some reason," Fan Dongqing murmured. "Could it be that she doesn't want to go on a date with me? She said she would spend two days with me after the mission was over."

Ninety-nine tilted her eyebrows and looked at him speechlessly.

But the next moment, their expressions suddenly changed. An unprecedented pressure suddenly appeared on the ground. Gu Qiye was stunned for a moment, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead.

He stiffly turned his head and slowly looked at the ruins of the beehive.

At that moment, a figure slowly emerged from the ruins. He was entirely black, with empty and cold eyes, and a long tail that curled upwards.

It was indeed the Great Bee Marquis "Joe", but at this moment he looked completely different. His body was slowly changing, and a bright red color, as vivid as blood, was gradually covering Joe's entire body, which was a layer of hard exoskeleton.

At the same time, a gloomy dark red appeared in Joe's golden pupils, and its tail transformed into a sharp blade with a pointed tip protruding outwards.

A whole new pair of hexagonal wings appeared on his back, and now he clearly possessed two pairs of wings, with the enormous wings that blotted out the sky spreading outwards at the same time.

Gazing at this figure, so like a ghost or god, a single word slowly surfaced in the minds of every Rainbow Wing member present:

—Queen Bee.

(End of this chapter)