Ye Han shook his head slowly: "It's too dangerous, you can't get out of the car!"
To retrieve the poison sacs, one must cut open the bee corpse and someone must get out of the car, and this is an ant-occupied area. Not only are giant ants infested, but there are also all kinds of mysterious giant insects that have not yet appeared. It is simply not worth taking the risk for the hope of not having any certainty.
"It's okay. Look, besides bees, are there any other bugs here?" the veteran insisted.
"Look here!" Ye Han pointed the camera at a bee corpse.
"What are you looking at?" The veteran was puzzled.
Ye Han explained: "This giant bee has begun to rot. The rot starts from the internal organs and then spreads to the body surface. Its stomach has long been rotten into a ball. It will take three to five days to reach this level of rot."
Bee venom cannot be stored well, so what will happen even if you find the venom sac?"
Under normal circumstances, dead bees will not rot, but will slowly dry out, and finally turn into an empty shell. However, giant bees are too large, have too much water in their bodies, and require too much time to dry. This gives
Bacteria have the opportunity to multiply, causing decay.
"Can I still give up the money I got?" The veteran blushed and his neck was thick. He knew that Ye Han was right, but he just didn't want to believe this fact. "Take a look at the nest, you might gain something!"
"Huya, drive over and have a look!"
Huya started the engine without saying a word, and the armored vehicle slowly drove to the vicinity of the broken hive.
The broken hive was extremely barren, and all the cells within sight were empty. The beeswax that made up the cells looked like orange peels that had been exposed to the sun for several days.
Ye Han's gums grinded loudly: "Boom, blast them all away!"
The veteran immediately followed the instructions and blasted away the large chunks of hives one by one. Most of the broken hives were empty. A few larvae that had been dead for a long time rolled down from a few hives. It can be seen that they should have been fat and big, but
Now it has become shriveled and dry, like dehydrated dried meat.
Ye Han didn't quite understand what a normal hive looked like, but he knew that this shriveled hive was definitely not normal. At the very least, the cells housing the larvae should not be so dry.
Dry up?
Thinking of these two words, Ye Han slapped his forehead: "I know, they are starving to death!"
The veteran and Huya were stunned at the same time. The veteran stared at Ye Han with incredible eyes: "Ye Pai, how do you know how they died?"
"Season!" Ye Han breathed out softly, "It's autumn now. It rained a few days ago. It's getting cooler day by day. The flowering period of spring and summer has passed. This season is nothing.
Flower. A giant bee is so big, so it must eat a lot of food. How much honey does a giant bee eat every day?"
The two looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.
"It's definitely indispensable." Ye Han concluded, "If the flowers don't bloom, we have to eat the reserved food. This swarm of giant bees has probably eaten up all the honey, and they all starved to death."
The veteran's eyes went straight: "Isn't it possible?"
"That's right. Wasn't it fine a few days ago? We all starved to death when we found the hive. Isn't it a coincidence?" Huya agreed.
The veteran looked at the giant bees all over the ground and said unwillingly: "Ye Pai, I still can't let go. Let me go out and take a look. Maybe I can find some poison sacs!"
"Are you crazy about money?" Ye Han was furious.
"I'm not willing to give in!" The veteran's chest heaved.
"Okay, okay, go ahead if you want, Huya, let's cover it!" Ye Han shook his head helplessly, "I lost to you!"
The veteran smiled, drew out his saber, opened the top cover, and jumped out nimbly.
Ye Han also leaned his upper body out of the car and carefully observed the surroundings - the viewing angles of the car windows and cameras were too narrow to effectively ensure the safety of the veteran.
The veteran excitedly jumped into the broken hive and walked towards a giant bee. Before he could reach out his hand, a stench hit his face, causing him to take a few steps back and quickly switch to another target.
This time, the situation was better, and the smell was not too strong. However, the veteran held the wings of the giant bee and lifted it up, and a pair of wings immediately fell off the bee corpse.
The veteran immediately turned around and left. When he found the next target, he simply stopped carrying it. He directly found the finger-thick tail thorn on the giant wasp's butt and pulled it out hard... The poison sac of the thorn root was not pulled out at all.
There was only a solitary bee stinger in his hand.
This happened several times, and each time the veteran returned with hope and disappointment. Finally, after looking at the bee corpses scattered nearby, he finally gave up and returned to the car dejectedly, as listless as an eggplant that had just been beaten by frost.
Ye Han patted the veteran's shoulder wordlessly, feeling very depressed in his heart. He finally found the nest of the giant bee, but in the end he couldn't even catch a single hair. The grief and anger in his heart could not be described in words.
"Let's go." Thousands of words turned into two words, which came out of Ye Han's mouth with difficulty.
"Don't leave!" The veteran's eyes were red, "We finally found a place, we can't go back empty-handed!"
"That's right!" Huya said, "Let's bring a few giant bees and a few hives. No matter whether they are dead or alive, we have to let everyone know that we have found a hive!"
"Okay, let's do it!" Ye Han agreed without thinking, "Start now, pack your things and leave immediately."
"Bring the queen bee back!" the veteran said bitterly.
"It's up to you to decide." Ye Han completely delegated his power and continued to patrol with Hu Ya, leaving all the decision-making power in the hands of the veterans.
The veteran first selected a few relatively intact hives and sent them to the car, then selected a few dried larvae. Finally, he suddenly discovered that the queen bee had not started to rot, so he had an idea and dragged the one-meter-long queen bee onto the car.
"Ye Pai, do you think this thing has a poison sac?" the veteran asked with his last hope.
"Probably...no?" Ye Han said uncertainly, "Usually the worker bees do the work. They know how to lay eggs all day long. Do you want that thing to be in the way?"
The veteran suddenly got into the car like a deflated rubber ball and said, "Let's go."
"Why don't we wait?" Huya said unwillingly, "What if there are still people alive who haven't come back?"
"Let's go!" Ye Han gritted his teeth, "Even the queen bee has starved to death. There is no way there are still worker bees alive."
Hu Ya said a silent farewell in his heart, turned the car around and headed towards the highway.
Ye Han put away his lonely mood, picked up the microphone and called the camp headquarters to report the discovery of the hive, and detailed the process of checking the hive, emphasizing that all the giant bees were dead, even if there were other giant hives in the Black Mountain area.
Sooner or later, you will starve to death.
Long Jianguo listened to Ye Han's report without saying a word, and only said one sentence: "I know, come back as soon as possible." After that, he cut off the communication.
Ye Han's heart skipped a beat. Long Jianguo's attitude was so strange. Something must have happened!
