Volume 5: Protracted War Chapter 90 "The Best of Pighead" (2)
A few days passed like this, and I was extremely anxious. I had everything ready, but the east wind just wouldn't blow, and I couldn't see any hope. The promotion task of the second profession was too torturous. Even if the development of the second profession of the necromancer was restricted, there should be a limit, and it couldn't be too much. After wasting so much time, if I had gone all out to earn qualification points, maybe I would have been qualified to advance to the seventh level of the necromancer profession, and I wouldn't be "hanging" here to suffer? The system might as well restrict it directly, stipulating that the second profession of the necromancer can only be promoted to the fourth level, so as not to provide us with a false hope that is tasteless and hard to give up.
I can think like this, just to vent my frustration. I have invested so much effort, I am unwilling to give up. Moreover, for the necromancer, the later the stage, the more basic attribute values can be improved, the more precious they are. I also understand the reason, so I can only grit my teeth and persevere. After several attempts, I finally successfully sneaked into the depths of Baihua Valley. Through Xiaobai, I found the location of a golden-bellied beehive. After further observation, I confirmed that it was a formed beehive hosted by the golden-bellied queen bee, and began to implement the "Wind Cover Plan".
The golden-bellied beehive is about five or six hundred meters away from where I am hiding. In addition to many golden-bellied bees busy going in and out, there are even more pig-headed bees, which are patrolling in large and small groups outside the hive, as if they are guards responsible for protection. An experienced "professional beekeeper" may be able to sneak up to the hive and use his nimble hands and feet to race against time with the pig-headed bee colony to collect more "royal jelly". I, a rookie, don't have that confidence. The "pig-headed bat" has done it many times and no longer has the courage to break into the bee colony. I can only hide in this relatively safe place and summon the Ghost King out. If I fail to take it by trickery, I have to take it by force.
Being in an extremely dangerous area, they dared not summon Tao Tao, who was easily exposed, in order to avoid alerting the enemy. They did not even use the "Touch of Death", so they had no way to quickly recover their mental power. They could only summon seven ghost kings at a time, and then drink a bottle of "mental potion" and slowly boil it there. Every time they summoned a batch, they tried to hide them close to the ground and carefully avoid the flying pig-headed bees to avoid physical contact and expose their tracks.
I summoned all fifty-three ghost kings to maximize the power of the "Wind Shield". In addition to the crystal bottle for completing the thief promotion task, I also brought a few more. "Royal jelly" is a good thing. If the plan goes well, I certainly can't waste this hard-earned opportunity and be satisfied with only getting the one bottle required for the task. Naturally, I have to try my best to gain time to collect the "royal jelly". The more the better .
Summon the Ghost King from his hiding place, and quickly connect the formation according to the drill, protect me in the center, and then start to accumulate strength, ready to launch the "Yin Sha Duo Po" formation. Xiaobai did not directly participate, but still guarded above the Golden Belly Beehive. With its ability, it can provide support here at any time.
As the Ghost King gathered, some passing pig-headed bees first discovered the abnormality here and lingered around. Then their numbers began to gradually increase, with a tendency to gather here. Fortunately, the Ghost King was in an invisible state, and the pig-headed bee swarm seemed to have not figured it out for a while. I turned into a bat, lying motionless in the flowers, and my target was not very obvious, so I was not exposed for the time being.
Seeing that the pig-headed bees were gathering more and more, some of them had even begun to expose their stingers and were stabbing the air. They might be close to the golden-bellied beehive, so they were extremely vigilant and would not let . No wonder "royal jelly" was so difficult to obtain. Many "professional bee collectors" failed in the last stage of their rush to the hive.
The situation was becoming increasingly critical. Fortunately, the Ghost King had already completed his preparations for accumulating power. I did not dare to delay any longer and issued an order to activate the "Yin Sha Duo Po" wind formation, which quickly formed a layer of "wind shield" around me. At the same time, I restored my human form and released a group of "blinding fog" in the direction of the three more densely populated pig-headed bee colonies farther away, slightly hindering the gathering speed of the swarms. Then I began to move the "wind shield" towards the direction of the golden-bellied hive.
The plan went smoothly. The fierce wind blew all the tiny pig-headed bees away, making it impossible to approach. I led the fifty-three ghost kings, kept the "wind shield" closed, and slowly and steadily moved forward. However, the pig-headed bees began to gather in large numbers around the "wind shield". Looking around, the sky was covered with black pig-headed bees, and they were crazy about the "wind shield". I couldn't tell the path at all, and could only rely on the spiritual connection with Xiaobai and follow my feeling.
I seemed to have underestimated the determination of the pig-headed bee colony to protect the golden-bellied beehive. After advancing two-thirds of the way, the number of pig-headed bees that gathered had reached a terrifying number. My behavior probably aroused public outrage. Perhaps no dared to openly provoke the pig-headed bee colony like me, and clearly intended to take the "royal jelly". The pressure on the "wind shield" was getting greater and greater, and every step forward was quite strenuous. I tried to transform into a bat and cast the "blood mist technique" to confuse them, but it didn't work because of the large number. I had to let Xiaobai take action. It sent out the "Banshee's Howl" with all its strength, which immediately made the pig-headed bees gathered between me and the golden-bellied beehive lose their minds and relax their impact on the "wind shield". Naturally, I didn't dare to neglect it. I seized the opportunity and rushed forward, step by step approaching the location of the golden-bellied beehive...
Although the method was rather clumsy, the result proved to be quite useful. Not only did I fill the crystal bottles required for the promotion task, I also harvested three and a half bottles. If I had not lacked experience in collecting "royal jelly" and my hands and feet were not quick enough, the harvest would have been even greater. Of course, the price I paid for this was extremely painful. Xiaobai, I, and the fifty-three ghost kings all became "super fat" in the end. I even broke the record of "World" for collecting "royal jelly". Under the siege of the angry pig-headed bees, my body became more than five times "fat". I died more than twenty times in total and it took me nearly half a month to recover. What's even more miserable is that in order to improve the basic attribute values as soon as possible, I had to go to the Thieves Guild with a "super big pig head" appearance to complete the promotion task. I was watched by many players along the way, and my "glorious image" was "honored" to occupy the most eye-catching position in the entertainment version of "Tianmei". Fortunately, except for some members of the Tongxin League who were "fortunate" to see me at the base, outsiders didn't know that the world-famous new version of "The Best Pig Head" was me, otherwise I would be really embarrassed.
