Chapter 286 - 170: Extraordinary Beehive! Taming the Fierce Poisonous Bees! Suddenly Understanding the Bloodthirsty Vine King

Chapter 286: Chapter 170: Extraordinary Beehive! Taming the Fierce Poisonous Bees! Suddenly Understanding the Bloodthirsty Vine King

[Daily settlement initiated. Based on your gains and performance over the past day, you will be scored, rated, and automatically given Card rewards corresponding to that rating.]

[Over the past day, you have: cultivated superior crops and reaped a large harvest; refined some of your team’s rules; had your subordinate Lion-headed Goose advance and mutate; captured a small amount of prey with traps; explored the lair of the A+ Class Extraordinary Creature, the Bloodthirsty Vine King; eliminated the last group of Parasites within the school’s vicinity; and successfully helped the A+ Class Extraordinary Creature, the Stone Claw Eagle, escape its confinement...]

[Score: 193 Points]

[Rating: A+]

[Rewards: Building Card: Extraordinary Beehive, Ability Card: Petrification, Building Card: Fence]

[Note: Excess points have been automatically exchanged for lower-level Cards.]

The A+ Class Rating and the high score of 193 points were already enough to surprise Chen Chong.

But when he saw the rewards, his astonishment gave way to a pleasant surprise.

’An Extraordinary... Beehive?’

Gazing at the three Cards that had appeared before him—one purple and two blue—Chen Chong picked up the first one without hesitation.

[Card Type: Building Card: Extraordinary Beehive]

[Rating: A-Level]

[Description: A box where bees can nest and live. It possesses an innate power of Extraordinary transformation. Over time, it allows the bees inside to absorb trace amounts of Extraordinary Power, gradually turning them into Extraordinary Creatures. The honey they produce will also be rich in Extraordinary Power.]

[Note: The Extraordinary Beehive can forcibly turn a hive’s queen into a vassal, but it has no effect on the other individual members of the hive.]

After reading the information about the Extraordinary Beehive, Chen Chong was secretly amazed.

’As expected, A-Class Cards are on another level. I’ve always said that no B-Level Card is useless, and that’s even more true for A-Class Cards.’

Practically any Card that reached this level was related to the Extraordinary in some way.

’This Extraordinary Beehive... its effect is simply insane!’

’A beehive...’

Chen Chong looked at the image of the Extraordinary Beehive on the Card. It looked no different from a traditional beehive, only larger and emitting a faint, ethereal glow. An idea suddenly sparked in his mind.

Since it was a beehive, it was obviously meant for beekeeping.

There were many types of wild bees in the Primitive Jungle, and a good number of them produced honey, such as mountain bees, rock bees, and ground bees.

Many students, while out searching for resources, had even risked harvesting honeycombs from cliffs and tree branches to sell at the trading market.

Although they usually ended up covered in stings, the high price fetched by the precious honey made many other students envious.

If he were to start beekeeping and transfer a colony into the Extraordinary Beehive, rock bees and ground bees would undoubtedly be good choices, but...

Chen Chong, however, had no intention of choosing them. Instead, he thought of another type of bee: the Fierce Poisonous Bee!

Fierce Poisonous Bees could also produce honey.

The Fire Silk Honey they produced was particularly special.

Although Chen Chong had never tasted it, he knew from his Jungle Compendium that it was incredibly delicious and had effects like enhancing one’s physique and acting as an antidote.

The only drawback was that Fierce Poisonous Bees were extremely aggressive. Their size, far surpassing that of normal wild bees, and their venom were potent enough to be lethal to humans.

Forget trying to tame and raise them; even many of the jungle’s large animals didn’t dare to approach their nests.

The bear carcass he had once seen near a Fierce Poisonous Bee nest was the best proof of that.

However, this wasn’t a problem for Chen Chong.

Others feared the Fierce Poisonous Bees, but he knew their weaknesses.

He had thought about taming them several days ago, but had been sidetracked by the Blood-tooth Python and the Parasites.

Now that he had obtained the Extraordinary Beehive, his desire to tame them grew even stronger.

According to his Jungle Compendium and other intel, Fierce Poisonous Bees were extremely aggressive. Despite being ordinary creatures, they showed no fear even toward weaker Extraordinary Creatures.

If anything entered their nesting area or threatened them, they would launch fearless, suicidal attacks.

But these ferocious creatures had two weaknesses: birds of prey and rainy days.

Birds of prey... like the Rock Armor Eagle.

And as for rainy days...

The rainy season would be arriving soon.

With these two weaknesses to exploit, no matter how ferocious the Fierce Poisonous Bees were, they could be subdued.

Most importantly, there was the Extraordinary Beehive’s unique effect: the ability to forcibly turn the queen bee into a vassal.

A beehive is like an ant colony. The individual members have extremely simple minds, acting almost purely on instinct. Returning to the nest and gathering nectar were all done for the sake of the queen and the entire hive.

In other words, controlling the queen was equivalent to controlling the entire hive.

Compared to ordinary bees, a unique species like the Fierce Poisonous Bee would surely have an easier time evolving into an Extraordinary Creature.

After all, while the Extraordinary Beehive allowed a hive to absorb Extraordinary Power, the amount was minuscule—much like when the students at school ate the meat of the Blood-tooth Python.

Whether or not one could become a Transcendent depended entirely on the amount of Extraordinary Power absorbed and an individual’s unique constitution.

The potential of a Fierce Poisonous Bee hive was clearly greater than that of an ordinary wild bee hive.

’If they become Extraordinary Creatures...’

’The effects of honey produced by Extraordinary Creatures would probably be off the charts.’

Even before that happened, the honey they produced would still be rich with Extraordinary Power, which would be of considerable benefit to ordinary people and Transcendents like himself.

No matter how he looked at it, taming the Fierce Poisonous Bees would be hugely beneficial for his future survival.

With this in mind, Chen Chong mentally designated the subjugation of the Fierce Poisonous Bee hive as one of his next primary objectives.

Then, he turned his attention to the other two Cards...

[Card Type: Ability Card: Petrification]

[Rating: B-Level]

[Description: Allows the user to turn their entire body to stone, greatly increasing their defense. However, the user cannot move while the ability is active.]