Chapter 512: Chapter 512

"Two Bee Kings." As soon as this concept appeared in their conversation, the prison room fell into silence.

Ji Minghuan tilted his head, curiously looking at his mentor. But the mentor seemed unwilling to say more.

"Ji Minghuan, I’ve come to play with you!" The metal door suddenly opened, and a red-haired girl dressed in a hospital gown walked in, greeting with a broad smile.

Following close behind was another girl with black hair, also dressed in a hospital gown. She didn’t speak, quietly entering.

The two girls stepped over the threshold, and the technologic metal door slowly closed, taking away the bright light that streamed in from the corridor.

The red-haired girl wrinkled her nose, moved her hand from blocking the strong light off her forehead, and slowly opened her eyes;

The black-haired girl crossed her hands behind her back, squinting for a moment with her head low before gently raising it, the teardrop-shaped mole at the corner of her eye making her look like a wary little cat.

"Why did you come so early?" Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, tilting his head towards them.

"Aren’t you happy we came early?" Sun Changkong asked.

"Traitor..." Shang Xiaoqi muttered.

Sun Changkong suddenly blinked, realizing the room had two people. She curiously looked at the mentor and Ji Minghuan, witnessing them alone for the first time.

"Ji Minghuan, what were you talking about with the mentor?" She asked as she walked, exposing her small canine teeth.

Shang Xiaoqi silently followed behind her, occasionally glancing at the mentor, then Ji Minghuan. Shang Xiaoqi disliked the mentor the most, she slightly frowned, lowering her face, hesitating whether to draw near or not.

"So what are you doing?" Sun Changkong asked while pulling up a chair for Shang Xiaoqi, "Hey, Little Qi, sit here."

Shang Xiaoqi saw the chair was closer to Ji Minghuan and farther from the mentor, so she sat down.

Sun Changkong saw no empty chairs were left, so she summoned the Somersault Cloud.

The red light on her chest flashed, her hospital gown was gently blown by the wind. Then a soft white cloud descended rapidly at her feet, like a ninja always ready.

Sun Changkong sat on it, cross-legged, resting her hands on her ankles, commanding the Somersault Cloud to align with the three.

"What exactly are you doing?" She raised her fiery red eyebrows, looking at Ji Minghuan, then at the mentor.

The two seemed like statues, unwilling to speak.

Ji Minghuan rested his cheek on his hand, hung his eyes low, silently tapping his fingers on the tabletop.

The mentor took out a pack of cigarettes from his white coat pocket, pulled one out, placed it in his mouth, retrieved a lighter with his other hand, tilted his head closer to the lighter and lit the cigarette.

He took a deep drag of the cigarette and then held it between his index and middle fingers, remaining silent.

"The mentor said his stress has grown to the point he’s about to get depression, so he’s here to relieve it with me," Ji Minghuan said, "He might want to use my reality influence ability to eliminate such troubles completely, who knows?"

"If your ability really helps me achieve these things, that would be great." The mentor smiled, blue smoke swirling at his fingertips.

"So you don’t deny it then?" Ji Minghuan asked, "You’re sending me messages because you want to use my ability to accomplish certain things."

"How could that be?" The mentor said, "I’m simply confiding my troubles to you."

"You might as well remove the suppressant on me; if I truly had such ability, it would only take a second to make the Light-Eating Bee disappear from this world."

"You know that’s an impossible task..." The mentor sighed, shaking his head.

"Are you referring to ’unable to remove my suppressant,’ or ’I can’t make the Light-Eating Bee disappear in a second’?" Ji Minghuan disdainfully asked.

"We’ve never doubted your ability, otherwise, there wouldn’t be a need to bring you to our base." The mentor said, then suddenly changed topic, "By the way, I’ve got some issues to attend to recently, someone will temporarily take my position."

"Koajenna," the mentor said.

Ji Minghuan muttered, pretending not to know, but his heart stirred slightly.

He certainly knew the name, just not very impressed by it.

Back when the Whale Terrarium hadn’t been destroyed, Cezar had introduced his number three to Ji Minghuan, saying Koajenna was a member of the Royal Court Team.

Moreover, she was the one who abandoned the Great Prince, Second Prince, and Empress when the White Crow Travel Brigade invaded the Whale Terrarium, fleeing alone. As he thought of this, a figure slowly emerged in Ji Minghuan’s mind.

A lazy girl clad in Royal Court Team’s white gown, hair tied into a bun, constantly drooping eyelids.

The mentor nodded, "Yes, Koajenna was once part of the Royal Court Team and is the holder of the Generational-level Anecdote Fragment ’Bermuda Triangle.’ Ever since the terrarium was destroyed, she returned to the Salvation Society."

Ji Minghuan rolled his eyes at him, "Didn’t you lie to me saying, ’Because the Whale Terrarium is a closed environment, it’s impossible to infiltrate,’ turns out that was all bluff?"

The mentor apologetically smiled.

He continued, "Then I’ll soon let Koajenna meet with you all. She’ll temporarily take over my duties, chatting with you... While I settle other matters."

"Does other matters refer to the Light-Eating Bee?"

"No, this is just one of many." The Mentor took a drag of his cigarette.

Shang Xiaoqi and Sun Changkong watched them curiously from beginning to end, glancing at both the Mentor and Ji Minghuan.

The two of them were chatting in gibberish for ages, but they couldn’t understand a word, even though it was all in Chinese, it sounded like alien language.

"What are you two whispering about?" Sun Changkong crossed her arms, puffing up her cheeks slightly.

"A traitor... colluding with the Mentor. I’ve noted it down." Shang Xiaoqi mumbled quietly, nearly on the verge of tears.

She had thought she had made real friends, but even Ji Minghuan was so close to the Mentor. Perhaps Ji Minghuan was the Mentor’s spy placed beside her, secretly planned all along. Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖·𝙣𝙚𝙩

"Alright, alright." Ji Minghuan raised his eyes to look at the Mentor, "Two bee kings, huh? That does sound quite tricky, good luck to you."

The Mentor nodded, "I’ll leave after I finish this cigarette."

Shang Xiaoqi silently sat on Ji Minghuan’s bed, laid down, and suddenly pulled the quilt over her head. "Strong people... don’t inhale secondhand smoke." Her voice slightly choked with sobs.

Sun Changkong was momentarily stunned, and also silently made the Somersault Cloud fly higher, she didn’t want to inhale secondhand smoke either.

"Letting children inhale secondhand smoke, you really are a sinful man." Ji Minghuan yawned, finally finding an excuse to attack the Mentor.

"Sorry, I’m human too. Occasionally I have some bad habits." The Mentor grinned with a cigarette in his mouth, looking downward.

Ji Minghuan looked at him speechlessly, pondering, "Speaking of which, how strong can a bee king really be?"

The Mentor took one last drag of his cigarette, then snuffed the butt, pausing in silence, "The power of a bee king is terrifying enough to rival a Mythical Level Anecdote Fragment holder."

"Of course, this is just our speculation, after all, the bee king hasn’t been born yet."

"Oh my, since things are so serious, why don’t you just send the boss and Shang Xiaoqi over?" Ji Minghuan said, "Can Rainbow Wings’ little minions really handle two bee kings?"

"No." The Mentor shook his head, "Since no bee king has been born yet, it means the Bee Princes haven’t started killing each other. Perhaps it’s because they still don’t understand the real way to birth a bee king, so... we have no need to expose ourselves yet."

"So you all can be afraid too, afraid of being discovered by the outside world." Ji Minghuan said, "Or do you only take action when the situation becomes unmanageable? Can’t you show a bit of the determination you had when you captured me? I haven’t even started to destroy the world, and you were already so anxious."

"I’m leaving." The Mentor put the snuffed-out cigarette in his pocket, "She’s here too."

He finished, smiled slightly, got up from the chair, and turned around to walk out of the confinement room.

The metal door opened, and the Mentor glanced up at the bun-haired girl in the white coat, greeted her, and then passed her by, walking into the brightly lit hallway.

Koajenna approached slowly. Her dark circles were as heavy as ever, and a bun was still tied on top of her head.

"Little brats." She yawned lazily and said, "I’m your Mentor from now on, you can consult me for any psychological issues, but no puberty-related troubles."

With that, she moved closer to the table under the curious gazes of the three, sat down on the chair, and tilted her head to look at Ji Minghuan.

Meanwhile, it was already late at night in Japan.

In the meeting room on the fifteenth floor of the Osaka Mutants Association building, there were only two figures, one was a blue-haired, blue-eyed boy wearing a black sweater, and the other was Commander Chen Qian, dressed in a uniform.

Garfield was lying on a swivel chair playing with his phone when a flash of blue light suddenly appeared in front of him.

He said, "Ah... I’ve received a notification from a few small drones I left on the island."

"What notification?" Commander Chen Qian asked.

"It says a Bee Prince has left the Nameless Island." Garfield replied.

"Left the Nameless Island?" Chen Qian frowned, staying silent for a while, then turned to look at him, "Which Bee Prince?"

"I checked, it seems to be the Great Bee Lord." Garfield said, creating a lens with his superpower, which replayed a surveillance video.

He enlarged the image and slowed down the playback by a hundred times, barely capturing a black silhouette, the only one of the four Bee Princes that was entirely pitch-black, was the Great Bee Lord ’Qiao.’

"The Great Bee Lord?" Chen Qian said, "The Bee Prince you encountered before?"

"Yes... its name is ’Qiao.’" Garfield said, "Its flying speed is too fast, the drone has already lost track of it. But it seems to be heading towards Osaka."

He paused, "Which means, it’s very likely targeting us."

Chen Qian gasped, "But given the intelligence of a Bee Prince, they shouldn’t do something so self-destructive, launching an attack on enemy territory alone in the middle of the night doesn’t seem logical."

"So, should we put the building in alert status?" Garfield asked.

"No, no need to rush." Chen Qian shook her head, "No need to alert them unnecessarily, let’s see what the Great Bee Lord intends to do first."