Chapter 108 The Battle in the Valley (Part 2)
With the experience gained earlier, the battle went much more smoothly.
Although there were many enemy bees, they were not like the Su Army Bees, which were directed by Suming and resembled more a group of scattered soldiers. On the Su side, they already had their own bridgehead. The Su Army Bees trapped in the center were like a huge bait, attracting the enemy bees to surround and attack. A few big birds charged together, with spiritual power coming to the rescue from all around.
The trick to surrounding a point and rescuing is to have enough strength to defeat the reinforcements, but the enemy bees clearly didn\'t possess this strength. The reinforcements they attracted were not of the weak kind like in the Meng Lianggu Campaign with Li Tianxia and Huang Baitao\'s troops, but rather the heavenly soldiers and generals of the animal kingdom. The besieged Su Army Bees were no less than the American Mecha Ace Division. Despite the huge numerical difference between the two sides, their actual combat effectiveness was exactly the opposite.
As time passed, the enemy bees\' living strength dwindled, with most of them dispersed, and they couldn\'t even maintain a numerical advantage over the Su Army anymore.
After fighting for over an hour, Suming suddenly realized that despite the vastness of the woods, there were no more adversaries left—the enemy bees had completely collapsed.
"It\'s so lonely..." Suming looked up at the sky, making a goose-like gesture, his eyes even squeezing out tears of loneliness born from being at the top.
Actually, it was because he had been carelessly bitten on the back of his neck, and it hurt.
"Stupid idiot..." came the parrot sisters\' weak but mocking voices from within the forest. After a big battle, although the three birds weren\'t injured, they were exhausted! Of course they were, even slaughtering a hundred thousand pigs bound up without resistance would require half a day of exertion, let alone in combat.
"Why didn\'t anyone kill you two smart mouths?" Suming rolled his eyes, spat on his hand, and rubbed it on the big lump where he was bitten on the neck—another jolt of pain—before he entered the woods to observe the aftermath of the battle. Read latest stories on m_v-l\'e|-NovelBin.net
A fierce battle had been fought, and the woods were strewn with dead bee corpses everywhere, among them a few wasps as well. The grass was thickly carpeted with them, making a crunching sound when stepped on, guts and fluid oozing out—it was disgustingly revolting.
"I heard that roasted bees are delicious. I should have brought a grill, to avoid wasting them!" Suming thought wickedly.
The enemy\'s casualties were too many to count, nor was there a need to. But based on previous observations, the Su Army bees and wasps had suffered casualties up to 30% of their total numbers, with almost no injured survivors, all dead in battle.
It was a good thing Suming arrived in time. They\'d just about managed to win the battle. If he had been even half a day later, he would not have been able to see his subordinates, the bees he had painstakingly raised.
"What the hell is going on! Damn it, what exactly is happening!"
Although he had won, Suming still had his head in the clouds. Bees were peaceful creatures, and large-scale battles like this were rare, even among different groups. What on earth was going on? It was not easy to grow a large group of bees and hornets that could provide a stable supply of honey, and now so many had died all at once. Suming felt as if his heart was aching—this was all his property!
The bees in the colony were explaining to Suming through \'mental power\' in a buzz of voices, but these creatures\' intelligence was so low that it took forever to express a simple word or phrase, let alone clarify such a complex event. Suming had questioned them for a long time and not only had gotten nowhere but also ended up with a headache from the incessant buzzing of these bees.
"Where\'s the leader, Queen Bee, you tell me!" Suming directly contacted the Queen Bee with his spiritual power.
When Suming was not around, the Queen Bee was the highest authority in the bee colony, with most of the hornets guarding her. So the Queen Bee was relatively safe. Likewise, in Suming\'s absence, she was the only one who could command all the bees and hornets.
"You little wench, if you don\'t spill the beans today, I..." Suming threatened fiercely but stopped mid-sentence. Even if the little wench couldn\'t give a reasonable explanation, he couldn\'t really force himself on her, could he—whatever comes before or after?
Although he couldn\'t really impose any terrible punishment on the Queen Bee, she could still clearly sense Suming\'s anger through his spiritual power and shrank back into her hive in fright.
The Queen Bee had grown bigger since their last encounter and now resembled a small kitten, huddling pitifully in her nest, too scared to respond to Suming\'s words.
"Honey, running away is useless! Come clean, and for the sake of our past affection, I won\'t make things difficult for you!" Suming changed his strategy, beckoning the Queen Bee with a finger and saying with a flirty smile.
The Queen Bee wasn\'t stupid; the problem was that the spiritual connection was too direct, and facial expressions couldn\'t lie. She could still detect Suming\'s rage beneath his rogue-ish grin.
After repeatedly questioning her several times, the Queen Bee finally sent several weak strands of spiritual power, like a child who had done something wrong, somewhat hesitantly explaining to Suming the cause and process of the event.
To say she \'explained\' it wasn\'t quite right; the Queen Bee didn\'t have the language skills for that, but through the direct exchange of spiritual power, Suming finally figured out what had happened!
This valley was flourishing, and before the Queen Bee led her troops here, there were already more than a dozen groups of indigenous bees thriving. Each group\'s numbers far exceeded that of the Queen Bee\'s.
As Suming knew, bees were not belligerent and the valley was big enough to accommodate even several times as many bees, so when the Queen Bee\'s troops settled here, the local indigenous bees didn\'t show any hostility. Of course, there was also no sort of communication between them. Both sides went about their own business and lived their own lives; initially, they got along just fine.
If anyone is to be blamed, it would be the Queen Bee for stirring up trouble and causing a big mess.
Strictly speaking, it wasn\'t entirely the Queen Bee\'s fault for causing trouble—in the end, it was Suming who had created the chaos.