Chương 31: Chapter 31 Anger

The atmosphere was tense and heavy, but for Kisha, it was good that everyone was reminded of the danger. They are being complacent just because they have found a place to settle down.

This tense atmosphere was interrupted by Hawk who came in a little later than Duke. With the frowning Duke, he could already imagine that some of the people in the conference room had rubbed him the wrong way. He accidentally made an eye contact with Eagle, if only eyes could speak. Eagle's eye would have already said. "Do something!"

Hawk cleared his throat to get Duke's attention, and once he did, he whispered something in his ear that made Duke's body turn stiff, he pursed his lips and the suffocating aura around him intensified.

He eyed Kisha to follow him outside, feeling that it was a piece of important information, she followed suit almost instantly. And before she left the room, she gave Eagle an order to take care of the rest.

When everyone thought that Eagle was a soft persimmon and was easier to deal with than Kisha, they started another bout of complaint and the room was in a moment of chaos, but Eagle who is a capable elite, did not take long to keep everything in order and did not care about anyone's dissatisfaction. He did not argue like Kisha did nor intimidate anyone like Duke but his killing intent was plain and simple, he let his attitude tell everyone that he would not hear any of them and he just followed one man, and maybe, an additional woman.

And Melody was not so stupid after all, they already heard Duke's stance so if she continued to make a scene, there was no telling when they were going to kick her out so she compromised. She retreated to advance. "I apologize Mr. Eagle for my narrow-mindedness and for giving you trouble. I will follow your arrangement and will learn with all my heart. And I hope that you will not hold this against me." She smiled gently.

Edward was glad to see his daughter going back to being sensible like she used to be and felt that he should take good care of her as much as possible. He subconsciously started comparing the sensible Melody to the cold Kisha and felt that the latter was too insensible.

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Duke led Kisha to his office, just like his office in Alpha Empire Corporation the big room had a black and wood theme which looked elegant and noble. The floor-to-ceiling window behind Duke reflected the dark and gloomy forest which added a hint of danger to the person sitting in the middle of the room with his cold aura permeating the room.

Kisha took a big stride and sat on the sofa in front of Duke and waited for him to talk.

"Sparrow had found a trace of the convoy." He exhaled and his aura turned colder before he continued. "He reported, out of the twenty elite guards. They encountered seven that turned into a zombie, those seven had severe wounds on their body and." He paused for a moment, trying to contain the heavy bloodlust and anger that wanted to come out of his body. And through gritted teeth, he continues. "Their limbs were intentionally broken while they were alive and were gnawed by the zombie as they struggled for their lives. They could hardly be recognized, if not for their dog tags."

Hawk, who was standing behind Duke had a tense jaw, veins bulging in his forehead and jawline. His eyes are red but he refuses to shed a tear, the hands behind his back are balled so tightly that his knuckles turn white. He could hardly imagine how much pain and suffering his brothers had to experience to turn out like that. He could not erase from his memory how they looked like from the pictures, Sparrow sent just now.

They all looked miserable, he could not imagine how much hatred the person who did it had for them. And because of it, they are more worried about the Old master, Mr. and Mrs. Winters's whereabouts, and hope that they have yet to fall into the enemy's hands.

Kisha felt the need to say something to console Duke, but she could hardly think of anything to say right now. She had already accepted this kind of outcome in the apocalypse and many such occurrences happened in her past life, those who have evil minds weaponized zombies like this against their enemies and only strength can determine what's right and what's wrong. She sympathized with the victims but her heart was not big enough to empathize with all of them. That's why, when it comes to consoling, she is useless. She and the Duke of her previous life, don't need to console each other, they have a tacit understanding of one's feelings and what matters is action, and that is where they are good at.

She knew how much anger was burning in Duke's heart right now and she couldn't blame him. His men are all ophan that he chose and nurtured with his own hard-earned money, it has nothing to do with the Winters, and he treated them as his own brothers.

[Ding....]

She was brought back from her trance by the system's notification

[Successful purchase of Scarlet Queen Bee.] She was baffled by this transaction.

"Host, I have found it!"

"Found what?"

Before 008 could answer, Duke received another report from Sparrow. He did not dilly-dally and quickly checked the content of the report only to find one sentence. But this sentence is enough to make him have a little hope and at the same time anxious.

"Boss, we've found one survivor but he's wretch." Sparrow seemed to be in a hurry to send the SOS signal to his boss for another instruction and only said what was important. He did not include any other findings about his investigation, since, they have no other traces or clues other than the survivor who was on the verge of death.

Sparrow and Vulture did a quick first-aid but they were afraid to move the survivor thinking that it would aggravate his wounds.

Duke understood their action and their meaning so he asked Hawk to call for Elios. Shortly after, Elios who was distraught was dragged by Hawk into the office, he did not know why he was brought in a hurry and sneakily. He was in the mini hospital checking the inventory and arranging his tools according to how it was in his hospital, it's just to make it easier for him to remember their location and for his convenience.

But who would have thought that he would be dragged without prior explanation, this is enough to make him think that something happened to Kisha, he remembered that Kisha was with Duke and Hawk, he was fidgety and anxious but when he entered the room, the first thing he saw was Kisha who was calmly sitting in the sofa like a willow tree that's slowly swaying in the spring breeze, elegant and beautiful.

He let out a sigh of relief and composed himself. He turned to Duke and asked. "Is there something I can help you, Duke?"

Duke did not say anything but instead, he video-called Sparrow and let him explain what was going on with Elios while showing him the wounds and status of the person.

Elios did not waste a second and jumped straight to explaining and showing some samples using Hawk as a mannequin and letting Sparrow follow his every action. Hawk silently played dead as his body was moved from time to time, dressed his invisible wounds with torn clothes, and many other more. With the four people's effort, they were able to put the survivor in the back seat of the car, secure his life that was hanging in a thin thread, and travel steadily back to the base.

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Chương 32: Chapter 32 Scarlet Queen Bee

Hawk assisted Elios in the mini hospital to prepare the equipment that was needed to operate on the arriving patient while they kept in touch with Vulture to check on the vitals of the patient. Kisha wanted to go and help them do the preparation to receive the patient but was shoved out of the hospital to do her own thing.

Getting bored of waiting, she sat at the bench and continued her conversation with 008 that was cut off earlier.

Kisha relaxed her body, rested her right leg over her left leg, and asked. "So, now that we have time, was the thing you found earlier related to the notification?"

"You asked me to find an item that will be able to track so I did." After 008 said this, it pulled the newly bought item out of its inventory. And a huge cocoon that was a little bigger than Kisha's face appeared out of thin air, it was just floating in there.

As if time had stopped, Kisha remained stationary until there was a subtle movement inside the cocoon and then a crack appeared and it slowly got bigger. When the crack was a finger long and two knuckles wide, a thick insect leg that was as thick as a child's finger slowly crawled out of the cocoon and then a palm-sized Bee emerged and steadily opened its 4-5 inches wings.

Kisha was shocked, the bee emerged a few inches away from her face and it was so big that it gave her a shiver. She subconsciously leaned back on the bench to keep some distance. The bee was just flying steadily in front of her, just staring at her, instead of the usual yellow and black stripes this Queen bee had an intense scarlet and black stripes and it had a big stinger the size of a fingernail.

Even though Kisha was not afraid of insects, however, this size was still enough to make her hair stand on end and make her a little nervous.

"Why is it staring at me?" Kisha asked 008 without taking her eyes away from the Queen bee.

"It was waiting for you to complete the contract so you can establish your connection with it as its master."

"Contract?" Kisha was confused and had never heard of this before. "Where did you even find this?"

"Host, I found this from the Murim world and a contract is to form of bond between the master and contracted beast but for newborns, it is a form of imprint as recognition of their parents. And for this Scarlet Queen bee, it's the latter."

"Wait, what?!" Her eyes turned into a saucer, she did not know if she would be astonished for having a big insect following her or if she would be amazed that the bee would treat her as a parent. "Is the Murim world different from the World of Immortals where you bought the territory pack and the immortal pills?"

"They are both from the higher realm but the World of Immortals is still a grade higher than the Murim, we could say that the World of Immortals is the end goal of everyone from the Murim World."

"If there are grades in realms, does that mean that there are worlds the same as Earth that are only a few grades higher?"

"Yes, although both worlds belonged to the lower realm, it is still separated by grade. And it is classified through resources. And since Earth is the youngest world, the resources we could gather here are still few and scarce."

The person and the system have their own thoughts, having enough of being ignored, the Scarlet Queen Bee flapped its wings to make a sound to catch Kisha's attention but Kisha was so engrossed in her own thoughts that the Bee had to do the motion multiple of times before it was noticed.

It even pointed its stinger at Kisha to show its dissatisfaction with its owner for not completing the contract right away.

"How do I complete the imprint?" Kisha asked.

"The imprint has been completed, and the Scarlet Queen Bee has recognized you as its parent but if you want to be able to communicate with it, you have to form a contract with the Scarlet Queen Bee. So it will be your contracted beast."

Kisha's interest was piqued. "What would be the benefit of contracting a beast?"

"In Murim World, they treat their contract beast as their companion and a battle helper. The stronger your contracted beast is, the stronger your overall battle score and the good thing is, if the master has good constitution and abilities, the more beasts they can control." 008 paused and continued after a while. "The only problem is, the higher the beast's grade and level, the prouder they are because at that point they have already formed a consciousness similar to humans, also the purer their bloodline, the prouder the beast will be. They could already understand human language and speak. And because of it, they would either not submit to humans or they would be very picky."

"That sounds troublesome." Kisha said indifferently as she monitored the bee's every action. "Show me its status window."

[Scarlet Queen Bee (Mythic Grade)]

Level 0

Strength: 30

Stamina: 22

Defense: 16

Agility: 45

Mental Capacity: 29

Charm: 20

Leadership: 34

Skills: Stinger strike, Modify

Description: A beast from ancient times that gave birth to Scarlet Bees that produces the scarlet honey that could strengthen one's constitution and command thousands of its kind. Due to the honey's miraculous effect on the martial arts practitioner and beast, it was hunted until none was left and was erased from the history of Murim.

Kisha was surprised to see its grade and description, but it also proved how problematic this beast would be. Luckily they live from different worlds or else she would be the target of everyone.

Hmmm. But wait, it shows 'Mythic Grade' just now. Kisha stared at the status window for a very long time before she snapped out of it. Rather, she was pricked by the Queen Bee.

Due to being ignored for a long time, the Scarlet Queen Bee became restless and just decided to prick Kisha using its stinger to complete the blood contract. An intricate Array formed under Kisha's seat and a blinding golden light flashed from the array, soon the array floated in the air and split into two and entered Kisha's head and the Scarlet Queen Bee.

A light and sweet voice of a girl resounded in her head and said. "Master."

Kisha felt amazed by the Queen Bee's voice and when she compared it to how it looked, she somehow felt complicated. She tried to adjust her thoughts and feelings. "Why don't I call you Bell instead? Your voice sounds light and nice, like the sound of a ringing bell in a spring wind, it is soothing."

"I love it, Master! Thank you!" Bell flew around Kisha, creating a buzzing sound. This constant buzzing is irritating Kisha. "Alright, alright. Don't be too excited and stay still."

Bell stopped flying and rested on Kisha's shoulder which made her very apprehensive, she felt her scalp tingles and butterflies fluttered in her stomach. She was too conscious of Bell's presence on her shoulder and her skin was feeling itchy.

"Hmm. Bell?" Kisha's broken voice sounds very uncomfortable.

Before Kisha could say anything, Bell already changed her size to a thumb size Queen Bee which is more acceptable for Kisha. Seeing Bell become a little smaller, she felt her uneasiness calm down. She could accept this size even though it's still a little bigger than a normal Bee, but for her, this is normal because in the apocalypse, animals, insects, and plant types will mutate and most insects will become bigger so seeing a thumb-sized bee is normal.

"Then let us get into business, 008 did you buy Bell's egg because of the description that states it can control thousands of its kind?"

"Precisely host, you know me the best!"

"But is the meaning of 'its kind' specified as Scarlet bees or bees as the majority? If it is the latter then it is good for us, but if it is the former, that means we still need to wait for Bell to give birth to more bees before we can send out some drones."

008 turned silent as it realized the problem, it is true that if it is the former then they can't immediately ask Bell for help and still need to look for other items to assist them later. it was getting nervous because 008 spent 200,000 points to buy Bell and was only left with 375, 000 points, it hadn't told Kisha about his spending and was afraid to divulge it so it was planning to keep it a secret for a very long time.

If 008 had a physical body, it would be sweating buckets now.

Bell's sweet voice interrupted their conversation. "Master, if there are normal bees nearby, I can communicate with them and ask them for help but my influence on them will be limited, however, I believe that it is enough to use as an information-gathering tool. We just need to be in a close proximity for me to receive their message."

008 felt relieved after hearing Bell's words and a huge boulder was lifted from its chest.

"Then Bell, do you know the exact range we need to keep so we will not lose contact with the bees?"

"I can only communicate with them with the proximity of 250M as I am still weak. If it is Scarlet Bees then I can send them for 500M away from me." Bell explained as she tried to move her antenna to detect bees nearby.

Kisha was still having some doubts because she did not know if the bees would have the capability to understand the basic instructions or how to describe what they saw or gathered. So she told Bell her doubts and worries.

"I understand your concern, Master, it is indeed hard for the regular bees to describe what they see or to distinguish complicated things like intricate facial features but it is not impossible, and in five days time, I'll have already laid my first hundred eggs and will hatch within the time frame but the Scarlet Bees would still be too young and needs to be nurse so we can't use them yet but in the future, I can also project in your head the information they will send to me, so you'll have a visuals."

Awestruck, Kisha looked at Bell on her shoulder. "Sounds like a nice plan. I'll leave this in your hands Bell."

"Don't worry Master. I'll do my best!"