Chapter 3 Mutant Attractant
Quickly transported thirty beehives.
I didn't feel much discomfort after traveling back and forth continuously, but I was a little dizzy and nauseated. I rested for a while and ate a few mouthfuls of honey and recovered.
Thirty beehives were neatly placed in the backyard. At first, most of the bees were huddled in the boxes.
Hua Mi did not use his will to give instructions to let them come out. He felt that this trick could be used, but it could not be used casually. Experience told him that if you should not violate the biological habits of bees easily, it might cause some bad consequences and the gain would not be worth the loss.
This is a suitable place to collect honey, just wait for the little bees to discover it on their own.
After a while, several "pioneer bees" flew out from each beehive, hovering in the air for a while and then flew straight to the white moonflower.
After discovering the nectar source, the first team of bees returns to the beehive and dances in a circle dance in the air. This is their way of transmitting information. Through the amplitude and direction of their twisting, they accurately convey the location and distance of the nectar source, and even the taste of the nectar. , quality can be contained in dance movements.
Don’t doubt the intelligence of bee colonies. Bees are amazing creatures. They may not be smart individually, but as a whole they operate very efficiently. Many beekeepers actually treat a bee colony as an individual, and each bee in it is like a single cell.
Another example is the honeycomb they built. All obtuse angles of the honeycomb chassis are 109°28′, and all acute angles are 70°32′. This angle can consume the least material to create the largest space. What a genius designer.
After receiving the message, the bees swarmed out and flew towards the moon sleep flower bed.
For perhaps the first time, the world is ringing with the buzzing sound of a swarm of bees, like a baby's first cry.
"I will let bees fly to every corner of the world."
Hua Mi is ambitious.
The road must be walked step by step.
Although the enthusiasm of bees has increased due to the stimulation of new nectar sources and excellent environments, some habits cannot be changed overnight. Changing to a better environment has an effect, but the effect is limited in the short term.
In essence, this is still 30 weak bee colonies.
Seeing the little bees starting to work hard, Hua Mi smiled happily like a capitalist, went back and brought a recliner over, and lay under the eaves to read notes comfortably.
Under normal circumstances, it takes about a week for bees to collect nectar to fill the honeycomb of the entire beehive. What's more, for a weak bee colony, it may take ten days to fill it. After the wax is secreted and sealed, it takes another ten days to brew.
The brewing process is actually the bees flapping their wings to evaporate water, increase the Baume concentration of honey, and use digestive enzymes to break down sucrose into simple sugars such as glucose and fructose.
Overall, it will take more than 20 days to complete the production of this batch of moonflower honey.
Not in a hurry.
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The records in this alchemy notebook are all strange things, unheard of magical creatures and materials, involving all over the world, including mountains, lakes, forests, swamps, canyons, deserts, Gobis, ice fields and other terrains, which is very taxing on the brain. , and soon the brain became a ball of mush.
I can’t remember it after reading it, so I’d better look it up when I need it and use it as a reference book.
"Let's clean up."
Hua Mi decided to combine mental work and physical work alternately. No one has been to this place for who knows how many years. It is not an ordinary mess.
I will come and go more often from now on, and it will make me feel better to clean it up a bit.
The owner of the cabin didn't know where he had gone or if he was still alive. He probably took most of the supplies with him because the room was too empty and there were no daily necessities.
The possibility of moving is high.
But the strange thing is that this alchemy notebook, which contains his painstaking efforts, was not taken away. Is it simply forgotten or is there some other reason?
Hua Mi traveled back in time to get a broom, rags, buckets and other tools, put on cleaning clothes, folded a newspaper into a temporary hat and put it on her head, and started cleaning.
Although this wooden house is not big, it is quite time-consuming to clean every corner.
First, clean out all the accumulated dust, and finally reveal the true nature of the wood.
The building materials of this wooden house are made of hardwood, which may have been specially treated, so there are no signs of rot or insects, and the cleaning work is actually not that troublesome.
The main thing is to use a small spatula to remove the old dirt in the gaps between the wooden boards. This work has no technical content, but it is tiring.
Fortunately, the cabin is not large.
When I was cleaning up next to the wooden bed, the wooden board suddenly clicked under my hand, and I actually pried open a crack, and I felt a weak air blowing out of the crack.
Hua Mi took a closer look and saw that it seemed to be a trap door.
It was filled with dirt before, so I didn't notice it.
Hua Mi moved the shovel along the gap, found the best point to bear force, pried it hard, and sure enough, she pried open a wooden door that could allow one person to pass through!
The moment it was opened, a stream of cold air hit his face.
A stone staircase leads down, and there is darkness one meter away, making it impossible to see anything clearly. It turns out there’s still space down there.
Hua Mi went back to her house and brought a flashlight over.
When I looked down, it was too dark to see clearly.
"There shouldn't be any danger."
This magical world was still completely unfamiliar to him, and he didn't dare to take risks.
What if there's a demon spider lurking underneath?
This also reminded him that it was best to bring some weapons for self-defense. You can buy many good things at online wilderness survival stores.
But right now, he didn't have any self-defense tools at hand, so he really didn't dare to go down rashly.
And really curious.
After thinking about it, he used his mind to control the worker bees of a swarm to stop collecting honey, fly into the wooden house, hover in the air for a while, adjust their formation, and swarm into the underground passage.
He can only control the bees and sense the status of the bees, but he cannot share the field of view, so letting the bees serve as the line of sight is simply overthinking.
This is simply to explore the path. If there are any dangerous monsters underneath, the swarm will definitely cause a commotion if it flies down.
There is no need to worry about losing this bee colony.
Individual bees are very weak, but the bee colony as a whole is very powerful and can kill a honey-stealing bear until it runs away with its head covered.
Coupled with the fact that Hua Mi is on top to assist in the control, at most some bees will be lost, but the whole army will not be wiped out.
The buzz gradually began to echo.
Soon, the bees arrived at a larger space, probably at the end.
After hovering for a while, I roughly figured out the size of the lower space, which was smaller than the cabin above.
There should be no living creatures.
Hua Mi felt relieved and walked down with a flashlight.
"Alchemy workshop."
The word popped into Hua Mi's mind the moment he saw the scene below clearly.
The layout is quite simple, with a shelf placed against the wall and some glass bottles scattered here and there.
There was a dusty black robe hanging on a clothes rack nearby.
There was a strange-looking pot-bellied black pot on the ground in the middle.
There are several lines of raised inscriptions on the pot, also written in the language of another world:
Semi-automatic alchemy cauldron - built with Mr. M's efforts, good news for lazy cancer patients.
Note: Only potion-type alchemical creations can be refined. The refining results can only be of medium quality, and there is a possibility of failure when refining advanced potions.
"Semi-automatic..."
If this means the same thing as a semi-automatic washing machine, doesn't it mean that you only need to put the alchemy materials into it and press the switch to automatically complete the alchemy process?
Although there are many restrictions, for an earthling without any knowledge of alchemy, this is definitely a good thing.
But where is the switch?
Hua Mi walked around and saw a groove at the bottom, with many stripes extending from it, covering the entire pot body.
"Where to put the battery?"
There should be a material that can release energy, just like the battery in the original world, but looking around the entire basement, I didn't see anything similar.
But even if there is a battery, it is useless without the alchemy formula, and there is no point in struggling here.
Hua Mi turned her attention to the shelf aside.
Most of them were empty bottles, but there was a small palm-sized bottle lying in the corner, with half of the transparent liquid inside.
After righting it, read the words on the label clearly: Primary mutagen (ordinary type).
(End of chapter)