Super Zoo

Chapter 34: 34: The Battle With The Hornets!

A few bees acting as little whirlwinds had just flown into the forest when two hornets appeared, one of them biting a bee in half and feasting on the bee's corpse with relish.

Hornets, scientifically known as Hufeng, also known as tiger head hornets, are larger than bees and have strong aggression and toxicity. A slight sting can cause allergic shock and even be life-threatening.

The hornets at hand were all grey-black, with deep black chests, looking downright sinister—they must be the type known as 'Asian Giant Hornets.'

What beekeepers fear most are these kinds of hornets. Asian Giant Hornets do not make honey themselves but are fond of it, as well as of eating bees, so they can be considered the natural enemy of bees. Although they are rare in numbers, with groups only consisting of a few dozen or even fewer, their large size and ferocious temperament mean that bees are no match for the Asian Giant Hornets. A small group of these hornets can cause a bee field to fail entirely and, over time, they may even consume all the bees.

If you were to take the perspective of playing a video game, bees would be a group of miners, while Asian Giant Hornets would be an elite fighting force!

Moreover, Asian Giant Hornets are highly retaliatory; if you can't exterminate them completely, the escaped hornets often come back for revenge.

Therefore, once beekeepers discover a swarm of Asian Giant Hornets near their apiaries, they typically choose to abandon their original beekeeping spot. If it's truly impossible to leave, they sometimes might keep a small group of bees not far from the hornet's nest, as a form of 'tribute' to the Asian Giant Hornets.

Suming suddenly understood why the swarm of bees had moved, fleeing haphazardly to the zoo—it turns out their home had been invaded by a gang of robbers!

As soon as the Asian Giant Hornets appeared, the bees wandering outside the forest immediately became restless, buzzing chaotically, as if they wanted to escape!

"Stop panicking! There are only two of them, and you're over a thousand..."

Before Suming finished speaking, a burst of buzzing came from the forest, and a large swarm of Asian Giant Hornets emerged, dense as a dark cloud, likely numbering over a hundred!

With individual combat power far surpassing bees and being their natural predators, bees inherently fear them. A group of over a hundred Asian Giant Hornets—let alone a thousand bees, even tens of thousands of bees might not dare to do battle with them!

Upon discovering a large group of 'delicacies,' the swarm of Asian Giant Hornets immediately buzzed towards the bees, who were already in a frantic state of disarray. The bees were unable to fly as fast as the Asian Giant Hornets and were quickly scattered.

But now the situation was different. Under Suming's control, the honeybees were divided into teams, each team led by a fierce quisling Asian Giant Hornet, effectively organizing a group of irregular soldiers into an army!

One honeybee had just plunged its stinger into the abdomen of an Asian Giant Hornet when the hornet turned its head and bit off the slim waist of the honeybee!

But immediately afterward, more honeybees swarmed it, sacrificing their lives fearlessly to plunge their stingers into its body!

In the blink of an eye, the hornet was surrounded and beaten by a group of little honeybees, its body filled with stingers!

An Asian Giant Hornet quisling captain flew past it and with a snap of its jaws, bit off its head!

If the little honeybees are considered ordinary warriors like cannon fodder, then these treacherous quisling Asian Giant Hornets are the generals leading the troops, the vanguards of the charge, the powerful warriors who can decide the outcome on the battlefield!

Wherever there was tough resistance, the quisling Asian Giant Hornets would strike, and wherever the situation on the battlefield was dire, there would appear the shadows of Asian Giant Hornets!

Under Suming's command, the one-sided battle quickly turned around; the honeybees went from being the slaughtered to the besiegers, continuously taking down one Asian Giant Hornet after another!

Of course, the Asian Giant Hornets would not just wait to be killed. Merely in terms of 'temperament,' they were even more ferocious than crocodiles and tigers, showing no intention of running away despite being at a disadvantage, instead, they counterattacked the honeybees even more fiercely!

Among them, several larger 'powerful warriors' inflicted heavy casualties on the honeybee troops, continuously taking down the charging honeybees, presenting the very image of a 'one man army'!

Seeing this scene, Suming's eyes darted around, manipulating several quisling Asian Giant Hornets to sneak up covertly!

Though the Hornet champions were fierce, they were not highly intelligent and could not distinguish which of their own kind were comrades and which were traitors. Often, seeing an Asian Giant Hornet fly by, they thought it was a comrade coming to join the battle...

Thus, the quisling Asian Giant Hornets quietly played the 'assassin', taking advantage of the unguarded battle-engaged Hornets, and secretly struck, precisely taking down one Hornet champion after another.