Venomous Bee

Biodata

Background / History

Assassin career

Venomous Bee had killed at least eighty targets, possibly as many as a hundred. His specialties were stealth, poisoning, and coordinated killing strikes by the shadow venom-blade assassins raised in his divine kingdom. His career included surviving gunpoint threats and being hunted by high-level exotic beasts for three days and nights 20 22.

Five years before his encounter with Su Bai, his partner Mad Crocodile died covering his retreat during an assassination mission. Mad Crocodile was hacked to pieces by their enemies; the memory became Venomous Bee’s deepest emotional wound 22.

Contract on Su Bai

Venomous Bee accepted a three-million-yuan bounty on Su Bai and waited near the Night Owl Market for three hours. He dismissed reports of Su Bai destroying ten thousand berserkers, attributing the victory to a disposable high-tier artifact or trap rather than genuine strength. His plan was to kill Su Bai before the teenager could open a divine kingdom passage 20.

After following Su Bai through the market, he attacked from behind in a secluded alley. Su Bai opened a passage directly into his path, exposing him to 99.5-percent-purity dark matter contamination. Hongdou seized his wrist, and the brief exposure injured his internal organs. Once released, Venomous Bee deployed his Shadow Bewilderment Formation and fifty followers, but Su Bai’s domain overwhelmed the barrier and transported them into his wasteland divine kingdom 20.

Imprisonment and death

Venomous Bee ordered his followers to jump over a ruined staircase and attack Su Bai. Instead, its forced-path rule pulled all fifty onto the steps and trapped them in the Thirteenth Step’s labyrinth. Recognizing the danger, he abandoned his followers and attempted to escape through a spatial passage. Hongdou intercepted him and knocked him onto the staircase 21.

Inside the labyrinth, Venomous Bee confirmed that the stairs looped by marking a wall and finding the same mark after descending. When a voice called his code name, he answered and turned, triggering Roll-Call Response. His left arm vanished and became a flesh-and-concrete appendage on the wall 21.

He initially resisted further calls by covering his mouth. The maze then imitated Mad Crocodile, provoking an involuntary response that cost him his right leg. With his connection to his divine kingdom core severed, he could not carry out his intended self-detonation. Su Bai eventually sent Hongdou to finish him; her Death Gaze broke his neck, and she retrieved his spatial ring 22.

Aftermath

Su Bai absorbed Venomous Bee’s corpse, severed limbs, followers’ remains, and collapsed divine kingdom origin. The resulting growth raised the labyrinth to three floors and expanded Su Bai’s divine kingdom to twenty square kilometers 22.

The assassin’s notebook identified the bounty’s employer as “A Grain of Millet in the Vast Sea,” whom Su Bai judged likely to be Gu Canghai. It also recorded Warehouse No. 3 at an abandoned chemical plant in the eastern suburbs as the meeting place 23.

The shattering of Venomous Bee’s life tablet alerted the Shadow Guild to his death. Bai Lan treated his disappearance as evidence of Su Bai’s hidden danger and withdrew covert surveillance. Other guild assassins subsequently used his death to argue that the Gu Family’s intelligence was wrong and demand a higher bounty 23 27.

Appearance

• Clothing: A black raincoat and face mask, worn while waiting near the Night Owl Market 20.
• Voice: Hoarse and grating, compared to fingernails scraping against glass 20.
• Concealment: While standing in shadow, he appeared to merge with the darkness and breathed almost inaudibly 20.

Personality

Venomous Bee combined professional patience with contempt for an apparently weak target. He waited hours before acting and followed Su Bai without rushing, yet dismissed evidence of the teenager’s strength because of his F-rank wasteland divine kingdom. Even after suffering contamination injuries, he initially treated the setback as a trick rather than grounds to abandon the contract 20.

His ruthlessness had a practical limit: once his followers were trapped, he severed his connection to them to save himself. He remained analytical enough to recognize the staircase’s forced-path rule and test the labyrinth’s looping structure, but his unresolved guilt over Mad Crocodile undermined his resistance. Prolonged mutilation and hallucinations ultimately reduced him to pleading for mercy 21 22.

Abilities & Skills

Stealth and Poison Assassination

Venomous Bee specialized in approaching unseen and delivering a decisive poisoned strike 20.

• Used darkness as cover and moved along an alley wall to close on Su Bai 20.
• Carried a dagger coated in eerie blue venom 20.
• Targeted the back of Su Bai’s neck, intending to prevent him from opening a divine kingdom passage 20.
• His concealed approach failed against Su Bai, who detected him before the blade connected 20.

Shadow Assassin Followers

His divine kingdom supported fifty shadow assassins, also described as shadow venom-blade assassins 20.

• Wielded poisoned blades; the first two he summoned carried twin blades 20.
• Could be summoned rapidly to intervene in close combat 20.
• Blended into dark surroundings and attacked from multiple directions 20 21.
• Could not bypass the Thirteenth Step’s forced-path rule or regroup across its separated labyrinth spaces 21.
• Dissolved into energy and resentment after his death and the collapse of his divine kingdom core 22.

Shadow Bewilderment Formation

His trump card created a dense shadow barrier around a thirty-meter radius, turning the area into a pitch-black prison 20.

• Allowed his followers to become invisible and strike from concealed angles 20.
• Was described as capable of wearing down even a third-tier demigod lacking effective area attacks 20.
• Was overwhelmed by Su Bai’s Divine Kingdom Domain 20.

Spatial Passage Manipulation

• Attempted to form a spatial passage to escape Su Bai’s divine kingdom 21.
• Required hand seals during the attempt; Hongdou interrupted him before he escaped 21.
• Could no longer access his divine kingdom core once the labyrinth severed the connection 22.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Venom-coated dagger — his primary weapon during the ambush on Su Bai 20.
• High-explosive psychic energy gun — fired deep-blue projectiles; its shots passed through Hongdou without harming her 21.
• Silver spatial ring — taken by Hongdou after his death. Its spiritual imprint dissipated, allowing Su Bai to access the contents 22 23.
• Cash, medicines, and artifacts — the ring held more than two million yuan, potions, spiritual medicines, and magical artifacts 23 36.
• Second-tier miniature spirit vein core — recovered from the ring and later traded by Su Bai for materials 23 24.
• Black leather notebook — contained assassination records, liaison contact codes, underground black-market channels, and details of Su Bai’s bounty 23.

Relationships

• Mad Crocodile — former partner who died protecting his retreat. The labyrinth exploited Venomous Bee’s guilt by imitating his voice 22.
• Su Bai — assassination target who reversed the ambush, imprisoned him, and claimed his possessions and divine kingdom origin 20 21 22.
• Hongdou — Su Bai’s follower; prevented his escape and ultimately killed him 21 22.
• Gu Canghai — likely employer behind the bounty, according to Su Bai’s reading of the notebook’s employer code name 23.

Notable Quotes

“A bounty of three million just to kill a high schooler. Earning this money almost makes me feel bad.” 20

“No rule-based horror story can be absolutely invincible. It has to have a weakness, a way out!” 21

Trivia

• Su Bai later called out “Venomous Bee” during his battle with the Benevolent Heart Director. Although the director did not recognize the name, turning toward the voice triggered the Thirteen Steps’ Roll-Call Response 33.