Chapter 227
In the Misty Cloud Mountain Range, Sector C, on Peak Number Thirty-Six.
Before a courtyard built by Qi Ping and Old Man Zhou with their own hands, over a hundred varieties of flowers were blooming vibrantly. A colony of Green-Nu Bees and a colony of Small Black Bees were each busy gathering nectar.
When some of the Small Black Bees noticed Qi Ping’s arrival, they buzzed over and greeted him.
These Small Black Bees were the very same colony that Qi Ping had first raised back on Peak Number Seven in Sector D.
This colony had been with Old Man Zhou for half his life, then raised by Qi Ping for a long while. They had followed Qi Ping through several moves and twists and turns, only to eventually return to Old Man Zhou’s care.
But so many years had passed that the Small Black Bees had gone through multiple generations, from the queen to the workers. Those two stubborn bees that had first led Qi Ping deep into the Misty Cloud Mountains to search for Gold-Marrow Bees had long since grown old and passed away.
The one truly heartening change was that their colony had grown much larger than before and had become the finest strain among the Small Black Bees.
As Qi Ping stepped into the courtyard, he saw three people sitting around inside.
One was an elderly man with a full head of white hair, radiating an air of frailty, yet his face was beaming with a cheerful smile.