"Rinkaichū!"
Suzumebachi I saw the insect lying on the tree trunk from a distance, and my eyes lit up instantly.
The insect was dark brown all over, and its wings were thin and transparent, reflecting a faint glimmer in the weak light.
The appearance was exactly the same as the description she had seen in the fragments of the ancient books of the clan.
She could barely suppress her excitement and was about to call Kai to come over and take a look.
Shibi, who had been following behind him silently, suddenly walked up, looked at him for a few times, and then slowly shook his head.
"No. This is Fake Bikōchū."
Suzumebachi's smile paused and turned to look at him, "How do you know?"
Shibi was not in a hurry to answer.
He took two steps forward, squatted down, and carefully observed the insect's wings and abdomen.
After a moment, he pointed to an easily overlooked detail and said in a calm tone:
"Look here. The real Rinkaichū has a very thin golden vein on the edge of its wings, which is only revealed in the sunlight."
"And this one's wings are uniformly translucent, without those veins."
"Also, the rear section of its abdomen is slightly wider than the real Rinkaichū, and the number of tentacles is also different."
"They are all different in very small details, but they can't fool anyone who looks carefully."
Suzumebachi pursed his lips.
She wanted to refute, but after reading it carefully several times, it was clear that the details did not match the description in her broken memory.
She didn't want to admit it in her heart, but she had to admit it.
Aburame Clan records Rinkaichū in much more detail than Kamizuru Clan.
This systematic observation and classification experience has been accumulated by them over countless generations.
Suzumebachi lowered his eyes, his mood visibly lowered.
Shibi suddenly said, "Rinkaichū is extremely difficult to find, don't be discouraged, keep looking."
Suzumebachi made a dull sound.
Kai stood aside and watched the two communicating without interrupting.
He could feel Suzumebachi's unconvinced and helpless energy, and he could also see that there was no ridicule or showoff in Shibi's tone.
Just stating the facts.
Just when Suzumebachi was about to take back the last scout bee.
In the distance, deep in the dense forest, there was suddenly a dull but huge buzzing sound.
The sound came from far to near, like some kind of huge cloud moving at high speed.
The three of them raised their heads almost at the same time and looked around.
In the gap between the tree crowns, a large black shadow was rushing towards this direction, overwhelming the sky.
The moment he saw the thing clearly, Kai's eyelids twitched slightly.
A swarm of huge venomous mosquitoes!
Each one is about the size of a knuckle, and its mouthparts are as sharp as needles.
Thousands of them were densely packed, blocking out the only ray of skylight in the forest.
Several people had different reactions.
Shibi almost subconsciously stepped in front of Suzumebachi, slightly opening his arms to block the girl behind him.
The swarms of insects on his body have silently flowed out, forming a protective insect curtain around him.
Suzumebachi was so frightened by the swarm of mosquitoes that he turned pale.
But when he saw the back of Shibi standing in front of him, he was stunned for a moment.
Then she gritted her teeth and took a step forward to stand side by side with him.
She didn't want to show her timidity in front of the Aburame Clan people.
As for Kai--
He stood there, looking at the swarm of poisonous mosquitoes that blocked the sky, but suddenly a very complicated expression appeared in his eyes.
That is, remembrance!
"Mosquitoes..."
He recalled the days when Eight Gates fought mosquitoes in Giant Beast Forest.
That was a rare time.
At this moment, looking at the mosquitoes in front of me, I felt inexplicably eager to try.
But soon, Kai suppressed the impulse and quietly took half a step back.
"Perhaps it would be good to let these poisonous mosquitoes help the two of them develop a better relationship."
He thought to himself.
The hatred between the Aburame Clan and Kamizuru Clan is a matter of the older generation.
In their generation, Suzumebachi is destined to become the patriarch of the Kamizuru Clan, and Shibi's status among the Aburame Clan is not low either.
If these two people can get along well, there may be cooperation or even a deeper relationship between the two ethnic groups in the future.
How long the days will last, who can say for sure.
Shibi didn't notice Kai's thoughts. All his attention was focused on the swarm of poisonous mosquitoes in front of him.
He stretched out his arms, and a large number of black insects poured out of his sleeves like thick smoke, roaring towards the mosquito swarm.
But his bugs are better at sneaking, parasitizing and sensing.
Facing such swarms of venomous mosquitoes with hard carapace, the attack effect is not ideal.
The black bug bites some poisonous mosquitoes, but it cannot cause fatal damage quickly.
Swarms of poisonous mosquitoes covered the sky, and although the number of insects was large, they still seemed a little thin compared to the number in front of them.
Shibi decisively turned to Suzumebachi and said, "How many bees do you have? Can you stop them?"
Suzumebachi didn't hesitate.
She bit her finger and quickly Hand Seals:
"Summoning Technique!"
White smoke exploded, and hundreds of fighting wasps, three times larger than ordinary bees, appeared out of thin air, fluttering their wings to face the mosquito swarm.
Each wasp is one size larger than a poisonous mosquito, its fangs are sharp, and its impact force is extremely strong.
But the quantity is ultimately too small.
There were thousands of venomous mosquitoes, and the fighting wasps were quickly divided and surrounded, falling into a war of attrition.
Shibi frowned and said in a deep voice:
"No, this would be too much of a loss. Do you have any other moves that can cover a wide area?"
"If not, I will use self-banaling bugs to clear the area."
Suzumebachi heard this, his eyes tightened, and then he immediately said:
"Yes!"
She Hand Seals again.
With a bang, a huge bee appeared in front of her.
The wingspan is a foot long, and the whole body is glowing with golden brown light.
There is no poisonous needle at the end of its tail.
Instead, there is a thick tubular mouthpart, facing forward like a gun barrel.
"Get out of the way!"
Suzumebachi shouted to Shibi, and then directed the giant bees to aim at the mosquito swarm and spray out fiercely.
A stream of rich golden honey shoots out from the mouth like a waterfall.
It spreads out high in the sky and turns into a thick rain of honey, spreading overwhelmingly among the mosquitoes.
Shibi was slightly startled. "Honey?"
His doubts were soon answered.
When the honey falls on poisonous mosquitoes, its stickiness is much stronger than ordinary honey.
The venomous mosquitoes can still flutter a few times after their initial struggle, but the harder they struggle, the more tightly the honey becomes entangled in their wings and limbs.
The strands of venomous mosquitoes were pulled and adhered one after another, and soon the large group of poisonous mosquitoes were glued into lumps.
Thousands of mosquitoes lost their ability to fly and fell from the sky.
It rolled and struggled on the ground piled with rotten leaves, but could no longer fly.
Shibi's eyes lit up.
He doesn't know much about the Kamizuru Clan, after all, this family has been in decline for too long.
But the scene in front of him made him get to know this group of bees again.
The stickiness of honey is no less than that of binding ninjutsu.
Used in battlefield coordination, the effect is excellent.
Shibi no longer held back, and immediately commanded the remaining black insect swarms to cooperate with Suzumebachi's wasps to strangle the poisonous mosquitoes that had not yet escaped one by one.
One side is tied with honey, and the other side is harvested with insect swarms.
The two sets of insect envoy methods complemented each other and produced an unimaginable eradication efficiency.
The originally overwhelming swarm of poisonous mosquitoes, with the cooperation of the two men, turned into a pile of slimy corpses scattered in the forest in less than a quarter of an hour.
The air seems to be a little purer.
After the battle, Kai Cai walked up to Earth Flow and patted Shibi on the shoulder:
"Okay. Let's continue looking."
Shibi smiled and didn't say much.
Suzumebachi stood aside, the expression on his face was much more natural than before.
The way she looked at Shibi's back showed a change that even she herself was not aware of.
The previous competitiveness has faded a lot unconsciously.
In the next three days, Kai and the others kept traveling through Miasma Insect Valley.
When you are hungry, chew Soldier Pill; when you are thirsty, drink the water you carry with you.
The terrain in the valley is complex, the miasma is sometimes thick and sometimes light, poisonous insects are everywhere, and there are almost no truly safe places.
They have discovered traces of Fake Bikōchū many times.
Stop every time to carefully identify and confirm before moving on.
Several battles broke out during this period.
Bewitching Colorful Butterfly's Bewildering Butterfly Wings once made Suzumebachi and Shibi in a trance, almost losing their way.
The most thrilling one was a ten-meter-long Earth Mole Cricket.
The opponent suddenly burst out of the ground and bit Suzumebachi with a bloody mouth.
Suzumebachi had no time to escape.
Just as he was about to be bitten, at the critical moment, the Explosive Bug arranged by Shibi in advance exploded in Earth Mole Cricket's mouth.
He blew up the giant insect and knocked it backwards, saving Suzumebachi.
Then Shibi relied on Explosive Bug's continuous bombing cover and Suzumebachi's bee restraint to finally eliminate the behemoth.
Since that time, the cooperation between the two has become more and more tacit, and they also talk more.
Suzumebachi is no longer so tit-for-tat, and Shibi is no longer so reticent.
Kai watched from the sidelines the whole time and hardly took any action.
Occasionally a thought pops up in his mind:
Shibi... It seems like you don't have a girlfriend yet?
Hehe.
An insect envoy of Aburame clan, an insect envoy that flows through the water.
They are all from the insect-controlling clan.
If we really want to be together, they are quite a match.
Kai had some small expectations.
But he didn't push this idea deliberately.
You can't force fate, just let it take its course.
Besides, they obviously don't have that awareness yet.
But it's about the future, who can say for sure.
Until the evening of the third day.
Shibi's originally steady steps suddenly stopped, and he looked steadily in the direction of an old tree, with a flash of light in his eyes:
"Found it."
Kai perked up.
In the past three days, Suzumebachi has discovered many suspected targets, but Shibi has never spoken.
With Shibi's temperament, he will never jump to conclusions easily until he is sure.
When he says he has found it, he really has found it.
The three of them quickly approached the old tree and saw a palm-sized insect lying quietly on the trunk from a distance.
The whole body has a translucent luster, and the golden veins on the edge of the wings are clearly visible in the twilight.
Kai controlled his breathing and asked in a low voice, "Really?"
Shibi was not in a hurry to answer.
He stared at the bug for a long time, repeatedly observed several details, and finally nodded slowly:
"Yes, it's Rinkaichū."
Kai was about to take action, but was stopped by Shibi.
Shibi's face looked a little excited, but his eyes tried to stay calm:
"Wait a minute! We are just in time. This Rinkaichū has reached the spawning period and will lay eggs soon."
Kai's eyes lit up. "Spawning period?"
Shibi nodded heavily:
"Rinkaichū can only lock on the tracking target through the first scent it smells when it is born."
"We must wait until the moment it lays eggs and the larvae hatch, and then hand over your scent source to it."
"If we miss that window, we'll have to find the next one."
"Are your things ready?"
Suzumebachi After hearing this, he immediately became nervous.
She quickly and carefully took out the old and broken fragment of the silk scroll from her arms.
Shibi nodded and lowered his voice:
"In this case, let's just wait."
"I will use my bugs to drive away the unstable factors around me so that it can give birth safely."
"As for your bees, put them away for now."
"The bees are making too much noise."
Suzumebachi heard this and rarely refuted.
She was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.
He took the surrounding wasps back into the psychic space one by one.
Shibi quickly dispersed a large number of tiny insect swarms, which were arranged on the surrounding tree trunks, among fallen leaves and in the gaps between rocks.
A silent warning net was formed.
Kai also restrained his breath and half-crouched in a bush three feet away.
The view is facing the old tree to prevent any accidents.
The three of them just waited quietly.