A Beekeeper in a Magical World Chapter 23: Witch’s Eye
"I know a place!"
The yellow-haired pseudo-flower spirit immediately flew out and said: "It's a lake. We all call it 'Witch's Eye'. It's surrounded by mandarin flowers. There's not much honey flowing now, but there will be more in a few days." Get up, it’s not far from here.”
Leather flowers...
"Isn't this the one I had my eye on before?"
What a coincidence.
The mantle flower is indeed a nectar plant, and I was right.
Hua Mi gave herself a thumbs up in her heart.
"Then, I'll ask you to lead the way tomorrow."
The sun is almost setting today, so we must come back at night.
Going out to explore at night is not a wise choice, and you can't count on these seven little ones to help when you encounter danger.
Before parting, Hua Mi filled their small wooden buckets with Moon Sleeping Flower honey.
The fake flower essence is so happy that it seems like hearts are popping out of its head.
If this is a game, the favorability level should be increased at least.
Before moving the beehive into the magic box, Hua Mi checked the cultivation progress of the new forest speed bee queen.
"It's almost mature."
Generally speaking, the new queen bee of ordinary bees will not mate immediately after maturing, but will fly away from the nest and hover for a while. The term in the circle is "test flight".
A few days later will be the "wedding flight", which is flying in the air to mate with the drones.
Forest Swift Bees reproduce faster than ordinary bees and do not need to wait as long.
Furthermore, as long as the gonads are mature and the conditions for laying eggs are met, Hua Mi can control the bees and force them to mate, without the need for cumbersome rituals such as test flights and wedding flights.
His instructions have the highest priority, even higher than the biological habits of bees.
His plan was to hybridize the new queen bee with the drone bees as soon as the gonads matured.
The beneficial traits of the Forest Swift Bee are speed and reproduction. Its weaknesses are that its survivability is not high enough and its ability to resist risks is poor. A normal honey gathering activity can cause a lot of damage, let alone other emergencies. .
The Armored Bee has high risk resistance, but its disadvantage is that it is too slow.
If speed, reproduction and resistance are brought together, then a brand new bee species will be born. With luck, maybe it can eliminate the forest speed bees and armored bees at the same time, integrating collection and combat capabilities!
Back on Earth, the sun is still high and it’s just afternoon.
"My work and rest are completely disrupted."
Fortunately, there is moonflower honey to help you sleep.
Close the curtains, put on an eye mask, drink a glass of honey water, and fall asleep sweetly.
At the same time, two customers outside who came to buy honey were rejected.
"Not here again?"
"Business is too bad, let's close it."
"I guess that's the case. Why don't you put a notice on the door or something, so we make several trips in vain."
"It's understandable, how can you still think about it after you've gone bankrupt? Hey, I think our Huayu Town used to be glorious..."
The two residents sighed and turned to leave.
……
"This is...not far from what you said?"
Hua Mi was carrying a survival backpack and holding a compound bow in her hand, leaning against the tree trunk and breathing heavily.
Fortunately, the temperature inside the black robe can be automatically adjusted, just like in an air-conditioned room, otherwise he would have been sweating profusely by now.
"It's really not that far. It's because you're walking too slowly." The yellow-haired pseudo-flower essence flew around him and said bluntly: "Human beings are in really bad shape."
"Don't fire the map cannon." Hua Mi said sternly, "My poor physical fitness is my personal matter and has nothing to do with race. People's physical fitness cannot be generalized. Some people can kill a bear with bare hands, and some can kill a bear with a sliding shovel. Feed the tiger."
"She did not mean to belittle the human race."
The red-haired pseudo-flower essence stared at Huang Mao: "Right?"
The latter stuck out his tongue: "I'm sorry."
Hua Mi took another deep breath and nodded: "Accept. Let's keep walking...you guys fly slower."
Actually, Hua Mi's physical condition is not bad.
Mainly because of the terrain...
The forest is different from the plains. The terrain inside is very complex. You have to climb when you encounter slopes, and you have to go around difficult places.
The same distance can be reached quickly on flat ground, but in the forest, it may take several times the time.
When walking in the forest, don’t just look at the straight-line distance.
Qi Xiao can fly, so of course he can fly with ease.
In order to keep up with their speed, he almost jogged all the way, which made him unable to keep up.
We walked and stopped along the way, and finally arrived at our destination near noon.
"This is the 'Witch's Eye', which is said to be one of the eyes of the Black Witch."
Hua Mi put her hands on her knees and looked up at the scene in front of her.
A large lake surrounded by blooming flowers.
The lake is so big that the trees on the other side have turned into small sticks about an inch long. The lakeshore has a spindle shape as a whole, but the lake water is not very clear, like a deep eye.
However, as a beekeeper born in Huayu Town, Hua Mi turned a blind eye to this mysterious lake, and her eyes were filled with flowers on the shore of the lake.
"This is the mandarin flower...it's beautiful."
Compared to the sketches drawn in his notes, he was more intoxicated by the actual scene.
The sketch only shows its features, but its beauty is less than one-tenth.
The whole flower is composed of red and white, with red as the main body and white as the edge. There are three curved flat structures on the periphery of the petals, like streamers.
When the wind blows, the petals sway, and it seems like you can really see the dancers wearing feathered clothes dancing gracefully.
Unconsciously, Hua Mi walked into the flowers.
Some small flying insects were disturbed and took off one after another.
Compared with the fragrance of the moonflower, the fragrance of the leopard flower is stronger.
"This is indeed a good honey source. If you find the magic box at Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com, you can easily bring the bees here..."
The only problem is that the journey is too bumpy and a lot of time is wasted.
If it was just a long distance but the terrain was flat, he could bring a bicycle from Earth to travel.
However, due to the terrain conditions, I am afraid that I will have to carry the bicycle most of the time.
Modern people are still very uncomfortable when they first enter a natural environment like the forest.
"However, there is nothing we can do about it, just treat it as a necessary transportation cost."
Those self-employed mobile beekeepers have to drive around.
This kind of business is generally better, and the honey output needs to be guaranteed. Compared with the profit, the freight is not much, and it is completely affordable.
How can there be such a good thing if you want to pursue honey sources but don’t want to pay extra?
Hua Mi decided to let the bees out first to test the water.
Out of the flowers, Hua Mi took out the magic box from the pocket under his black robe, pressed the button, and placed it on the open ground.
The entrance opened instantly, and a faint scent of honey wafted out from inside.
To collect honey under normal circumstances, you must move out the beehives and place them at a certain distance.
Stacking them all together like this will seriously affect the efficiency of honey harvesting.
But this time he just wanted the bees to come out to let the wind blow, so there was no need to waste energy moving the beehives out one by one.
Hua Mi was about to control a forest speed bee to fly out, when suddenly, there was a commotion behind him.
The flying insects in the flowers flew up one after another and fled in all directions, as if they were avoiding something.
At the same time, the water surface of the Witch's Eye trembled, like a broken mirror.
Along with the muffled sound, the soles of my feet felt the vibration of the ground.