Chapter 528 - 507 First Update
The soldier only felt that with just a few of his brothers beside him, just as he was about to speak, the soldier in front had already turned back and reached out to grab his hand.
"Second Brother Chen, why did you put out the torch?" In the darkness that surrounded them, the soldier had only just noticed. When he spoke again, he had already noticed something strange. Not only had the torches behind him gone out, but as he looked around, all was dark, even the peaks of Mount Lihei hidden in the darkness had disappeared. This, this... impossible...
In an instant, his arm was tightly grasped back by the soldier called Second Brother Chen. The fingers gripping his arm couldn’t stop trembling, and the soldier immediately shut his mouth, the fear spreading contagiously. In the midst of the darkness, they seemed unable to hear a single sound.
The soldier could only vaguely see a few dark shadows around him, and just as he was about to grab another soldier beside him to console himself, suddenly, a buzzing sound started approaching slowly from afar.
This soldier had grown up in the wilderness, and recognized at once the sound of wild bees, a sound he was familiar with from childhood and often accompanied his eating of wild honey. These wild bees were twice the size of domestic bees, and their stings were very painful; a swarm could be deadly.
Before the soldier could recover from the familiarity of the sound, suddenly, the buzzing sound had already rushed in his direction. It wasn’t just one or two, but rather a sky-covering swarm, as if all the wild bees in the mountains had gathered in one place.
The soldier realized the danger and was about to duck and cover his head while shouting out loud.
"Duck, it’s wild bees—" But in the next moment, a bizarre thought suddenly emerged in his mind; it was deep in winter, how could there be wild bees, not to mention in such numbers...
But before this thought could lead to any conclusion, the soldier felt a sting on the back of his hand, identical to the sensation of being stung by wild bees he remembered. He screamed, and countless things collided wildly across his body in the darkness. The guard flailed his arms trying to knock away the bees clinging to his face; one of the bees had already crawled into his ear.