Inside the honeycomb, which was a full five stories high, the light was not too dim when Su Xiao had just entered the entrance, but the deeper he went, the darker the surroundings became.
Countless elite tiger-eye bees blocked Su Xiao from both ahead and behind, moving along with him. The vibrations of their wings buzzed incessantly.
Su Xiao had dared to enter the honeycomb alone because he naturally had something to rely on. The tiger-eye bees' strength lay in their numbers, and Apollo perfectly solved that problem.
With just one Apollo, even if the Queen Bee did not die, all the tiger-eye bees under her control would be burned away. By then, the Queen Bee would become the weakest seventh-tier overlord creature, and even Bubu Wang could deal with her.
Conversely, the Queen Bee, who could control countless tiger-eye bees, would not be actively provoked by anyone in this lush forest. No matter whether they won or lost, the price would be too terrible.
The paths inside the honeycomb were extremely complicated. The surrounding walls were grayish-white and contained a rare metal that could partially block perception.
If there had only been one or two layers of these grayish-white nest walls, the effect on perception would have been limited. However, after dozens of layers were stacked together, it was impossible to sense the Queen Bee's presence from outside the honeycomb.
Led by a large swarm of tiger-eye bees, Su Xiao went around in circles inside the honeycomb more than a dozen times before reaching its center, a place resembling a karst cave. Bubu Wang had once infiltrated this place.
The gems embedded in the nest walls emitted white light, keeping the place from becoming dim. The bee cocoon he had seen earlier had disappeared without a trace, while a