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Inside were dozens of objects shaped rather like peanuts, each no bigger than a mung bean. Some were pale white, some faintly yellow, and a few were even slightly translucent.
However, they were not peanuts at all. Fortunately, his eyesight was excellent. He peered closer and let out a small sound of surprise. “Bee pupae?”
That was exactly what they were—tiny bee pupae, their bellies, claws, and limbs all clearly visible, though already half dried and none of them alive.
“This device is refined from brood-guarding bees,” Li Qingge explained. “Have you heard of them?”
“Of course.” He Lingchuan smiled. “Back in Heishui City, I once saw a man who’d provoked a brood-guarding bee colony into revenge. They stung him until his whole body swelled up, and his throat seemed to close off so he could hardly breathe. He only survived because the physician treating him was exceptionally skilled.”
Ever since then, he had known brood-guarding bees to be one of the notorious killer bee species. A single female and male pair was enough to establish a hive. They cherished their young with unusual ferocity, always cradling the pupae beneath their abdomens at the slightest disturbance, which was how they got their name.
If an enemy stole the pupae, they would pursue the thief to the ends of the earth.
Li Qingge pointed to the two needles...
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