48: Poisonous Bee Swarm and Assassin Girl

This time, they hadn't walked far.

Jiang Yuan caught a whiff of a strange fragrance.

The strange fragrance smelled extremely pleasant, sweet and mellow, like a delicacy that could pierce straight into the depths of the Soul.

Curious, he walked in the direction from which the strange fragrance came.

A golden honeycomb, the size of a villa, hanging from a giant tree, came into view.

A swarm of giant bees, as big as water vats, flew and circled around, their sharp stingers emitting a terrifying cold light.

[Abyssal Beast]: Yellow-striped Poison Bee.

[Grade]: Common.

[Rank]: Lv6.

[Skill]: Stinger, Summon Companions.

[Evaluation]: Low individual combat power, but they move in swarms. Once they lock onto a target, they will not give up. Especially, do not touch their honey, otherwise the whole swarm will mobilize. Their stingers can pierce steel, making them quite dangerous and troublesome.

Jiang Yuan cast Appraisal on the golden honeycomb again.

[The honeycomb where the Yellow-striped Poison Bee Queen lives]

[Topaz Honey]: Intermediate ingredient. In addition to its incomparably smooth and refreshing texture and exquisitely delicious rich aroma, it can also enhance the consumer's Physique, restore Vital Qi, and prolong life.

Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up.

It truly was a good thing.

He couldn't afford to not get his hands on it now.

Not far away.

A girl, completely clad in black assassin garments with her face concealed, hidden invisibly behind a giant tree, wiped the non-existent cold sweat from her forehead and breathed a sigh of relief,

"I didn't expect there to be a Yellow-striped Poison Bee swarm here. Good thing I wasn't discovered by them, otherwise it would have been disastrous."

"I better slip away right now."

Just as she was planning to leave, she heard the crunch of a twig breaking behind her.

Curiously, she turned her head to look.

A young man carrying a green sickle and wearing a black and white school uniform was swaggering toward the honeycomb.

This scene almost scared her Soul right out of her.

"What does that guy want to do? Is he planning to provoke that group of Yellow-striped Poison Bees?! Is he crazy?"

"Even thinking about it, that's impossible, right?"

The assassin girl looked around,

"Right, there must be other teammates hiding in the shadows."

[Aura Detection]

"None, there isn't even the aura of anyone else!"

"He's really alone, how could he possibly dare?!"

The assassin girl's heart was greatly shaken as she looked at the figure walking toward the honeycomb as if looking at a fool.

"If he goes over like that and draws the aggro of the Yellow-striped Poison Bee swarm, without a doubt, he will definitely be eliminated."

"If he can hold on for a few seconds, maybe I'll still have a chance to get a jar of Topaz Honey."

"But..."

After struggling in her heart for a few seconds,

the assassin girl still couldn't get past her inner barrier.

At this time, Jiang Yuan had already walked into the territory of the Yellow-striped Poison Bees. A Yellow-striped Poison Bee flying close to the ground flapped its wings and flew over, making a warning buzzing sound.

"Suppress Aura."

"Flash Step!"

A dark figure flashed, appearing in front of Jiang Yuan, and grabbed his hand.

"Stealth Synchronization!"

Their figures instantly became transparent and invisible. That approaching Yellow-striped Poison Bee flew over their heads, failed to find any intruders, and after buzzing in confusion twice, flew back near the honeycomb.

The assassin girl breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

If he hadn't wanted to see whether this assassin hiding in the shadows wanted to kill-steal or do something else, he would have made a move just now.

As a result, her actions really stunned Jiang Yuan for a moment.

The assassin girl put one hand on her hip and said angrily to him:

"You're still asking me what I'm doing? Are you an idiot!"

"Once you provoke a single Yellow-striped Poison Bee, it will attract a swarm that will relentlessly pursue you. A swarm of Yellow-striped Poison Bees can even wipe out a Tier 2-transferred Martial Artist. Do you want to be eliminated that badly? Think more about your family and parents cheering for you outside, jeez!"

Jiang Yuan reacted, feeling a bit surprised inside,

She... wanted to save me?

The assassin girl placed her hand on Jiang Yuan's shoulder and warned:

"I see that your strength is not bad either, so don't be foolish."

"..."

"Understand?"

Seeing Jiang Yuan nod, a smile of approval appeared on her face.

"You're not too stubborn after all. My name is Pei Jia, from Beijiang No. 1 Middle School. What's your name?"

Looking at her outstretched hand, Jiang Yuan reached out and shook it.

"Jiang Yuan, Nanjing No. 1 Middle School."

Jiang Yuan could sense that the assassin girl in front of him was already a Martial Practitioner, and she was probably a somewhat famous Genius in Beijiang City. Most assassins didn't have that skill to make others invisible along with themselves.

And the most crucial point is...

She seemed... like a pretty good person.

"Jiang Yuan... I've noted it down. You're a pretty good person, just a bit too reckless. Be more careful in the future."

The assassin girl Pei Jia said, then planned to turn and leave.

And right at this moment,

the Yellow-striped Poison Bee swarm made a commotion, gathering together one after another, and as if sensing some danger, blocked the front of the giant honeycomb.

"What's wrong?"

The assassin girl looked over in that direction.

A giant spider, its entire body seemingly cast from black iron, but with a snow-white back and exuding a frigid metallic aura, slowly crawled down from the upper trunk of the giant tree where the honeycomb was located.

[Abyssal Beast]: Black Iron Poison Spider.

[Grade]: Common

[Rank]: Lv16 (Tier 2)

[Skill]: Eight Spider Spikes, Venom Spray, Web Bind.

[Evaluation]: Its appearance is harder than steel, and its stingers are sharp, possessing extremely high damage and toxicity. However, slaying it will drop a large number of Materials, and its whole body is a treasure.

"Hiss..."

The assassin girl drew a sharp breath, not expecting to run into a Tier 2 Vicious Beast in the outer periphery.

"What are you still standing there for? Run quickly!" she shouted at Jiang Yuan.

The speed of a Tier 2 Vicious Beast was no joke.

Jiang Yuan stood unmoving, looking over and saying: "It seems to be going for the honey."

"They might start fighting."

The assassin girl was startled and looked closely.

The bee queen, whose size was clearly a circle larger than the other Yellow-striped Poison Bees, flew out from the honeycomb, issuing a shrill and sharp warning toward the crawling Black Iron Poison Spider above.

"Hiss hiss hiss!!"

The Black Iron Poison Spider was completely unaffected, continuing to move its eight legs as it crawled downward, and spat a mouthful of spiderwebs at the bee swarm. Two Yellow-striped Poison Bees were hit, falling to the ground not far from Jiang Yuan and the other, struggling desperately in the incomparably sticky spiderweb.

Before the assassin girl could react, she felt a figure flash beside her.

Jiang Yuan arrived in front of the two struggling Yellow-striped Poison Bees on the ground, swinging the green sickle in his hand down.

"Swish slash!"

A green blade light flashed.

This Yellow-striped Poison Bee, as big as a water vat and covered in fuzz, was instantly sliced open, its HP bar emptied.

[Ding! You killed a Yellow-striped Poison Bee (LV9), EXP + 90]

[Ding! You killed a Yellow-striped Poison Bee (LV7), EXP + 70]

[Ding! You obtained Yellow-striped Poison Bee Stinger * 1]

[Ding! You obtained Yellow-striped Poison Bee Stinger * 1]

[Ding! Points + 1]

[Ding! Points + 1]

...

"Such high damage!"

The assassin girl was shocked in her heart,

"Wait, the poison bee swarm..."

She looked up, only to find that the poison bee swarm had no time to deal with this side at all; they were charging wave after wave toward the Black Iron Poison Spider.

The spear-like sharp stingers fell like raindrops on the back of the Black Iron Poison Spider, yet they could hardly pierce the hard shell of the Black Iron Poison Spider, and under its web-spitting and spider-spike attacks, they fell down one by one.

Every time one fell, a green blade light would flash.

Only then did the assassin girl react.

Isn't this an excellent leveling opportunity?

"Leave a few for me!!"

She took out her dagger, flashed to the side of an injured Yellow-striped Poison Bee, and emptied its HP bar with a single Thrust.

Jiang Yuan didn't stop her either.

The two of them continuously scavenged kills like this, wantonly eliminating the falling Yellow-striped Poison Bees.

Often, by the time Jiang Yuan killed four, the assassin girl could only empty the HP bar of one Yellow-striped Poison Bee.

Before long,

the corpses of more than thirty Yellow-striped Poison Bees had already appeared on the ground.

"Swish!"

A white light flashed, the assassin girl's Rank increased, and joy couldn't stop showing on her face.

"Great, I'm finally LV5. I've really made a huge profit!"

"It's about time," the young man's voice came from the side.

The assassin girl looked at him in confusion.

Jiang Yuan, who picked up the last stinger material, looked up at the battle situation above.

The Black Iron Poison Spider only had half of its HP bar left, the opposite bee queen had two-thirds of its HP bar left, and only a little over thirty Yellow-striped Poison Bees remained guarding around it.

It was time to wipe them all out in one go.

"What do you want to do?"

Seeing the young man's legs bend, the assassin girl Pei Jia instantly had a bad feeling in her heart,

"You couldn't possibly be thinking of—"

"Bang!"

The ground trembled, shockwaves exploded, and the young man's figure shot toward the sky like a cannonball.