NOVPUBBees are not prone to warfare. Apart from natural instincts, there’s another important reason: their intelligence is quite low.
War, politics, or, in other words, the actions of grabbing money, food, women, or territory are mostly exhibited by higher life forms. Creatures like bees, who are almost brainless, will not engage in a life-or-death struggle unless other beings threaten their survival. Their tiny brains certainly don’t entertain thoughts of ’honor,’ ’conquest,’ or ’progress.’
In fact, except for humans, the vast majority of animals do not attack other animals unless their lives are threatened or for the sake of hunting to survive.
If the Su Army Bees were still like ordinary bees, there would, of course, be no issue, and what Suming would have seen today would have been a beautiful scene of colonists and Indigenous Bees living harmoniously together. Unfortunately, the new bees had been baptized by spiritual power, and both their intelligence and other abilities far surpassed those of the Indigenous Bees. 𝓃𝓸𝓿𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝓬ℴ𝓶
The Queen Bee was among the best of them, even beginning to develop a rudimentary thinking ability. In a sense, this Queen Bee had already transcended other bees by a whole level of life, becoming a different species entirely. The gap might even be greater than that between human ancestors and apes.
When the newcomers’ civilization far exceeds that of the natives, yet the natives occupy the richest lands and endless resources, war is almost inevitable.
But it is only ’almost’ inevitable, not absolutely so.
Although the Queen Bee was large, it had little combat ability and was, in fact, the least warmongering among the bee colony. The existence of the Indigenous Bees did not threaten the survival of the Su Army Bees. Under normal circumstances, fighting might not occur.
But the problem just had to lie with the Queen Bee!
Since acquiring rudimentary thinking ability, the Queen Bee was no longer on the same level as other bees, even those from its own tribe. Despite the size of the colony, there was not a single bee capable of communicating with it.
In the vast valley, the larger the bee colony grew, the more intensely the Queen Bee felt its solitude.
People cannot be idle; too much idleness leads to mischief, and this is even more true for women, whose idle thoughts run wild over time. Granting women the same rights to work as men is indisputably one of humanity’s most creative legislative acts. By channeling women’s excess energy into work, it has liberated countless male compatriots...
"I digress!" Suming continued to organize his thoughts.
Idle and bored, what could an idle woman do? Shop and buy clothes? Clearly, the Queen Bee was not in such a condition; gossip with girlfriends? Please, there wasn’t any other bee worthy of being her girlfriend here!
So that left only one option: think about men!
Therefore, within her secluded chamber, the lonely, cold, empty, and helpless Queen Bee increasingly longed for her spiritual and life mentor, Comrade Su Ming.
She had tried several times through Er Gouzi to send a message, wishing to see Suming, but Suming had been too busy lately, barely touching the ground with his feet, and thus, visiting the bee colony in the mountains had been on hold.
When a woman has too much idle time and starts to indulge in wild thoughts, it is already a very dangerous omen, and if this woman wields power, it often leads to big trouble!
Bees are the same, with the Queen Bee feeling bored, she actually started entertaining the thought of "expanding her territory", turning her longing for Suming into the drive to increase her tribe’s domain.
In her simple mind, an unsophisticated idea emerged: since the swarm could provide honey to help Suming, then expanding the swarm’s territory and bringing more bees under her command would produce more honey and better help Suming.
And so, a fierce war thus unfolded!
In the valley, there were originally twelve groups of Indigenous Bees, with even the smallest group outnumbering the Queen Bee’s followers; however, the bees led by the Queen Bee, in both individual and team fighting strength, surpassed the Indigenous Bee groups. Not to mention they also had a large group of fierce hornet enforcers. Thus, during the initial days of the war, the Queen Bee’s troops took the Indigenous Bees by surprise, quickly annexing two small tribes!
As a result, they had now provoked collective fury!
Bees, with their low intelligence, don’t think much and don’t have any schemes in their bellies, but precisely because of this, they have a natural and accurate instinct for danger. The behavior of these foreign bees posed a huge threat to the remaining Indigenous Bee groups in the valley, and they decided to join forces to completely eliminate this group of invaders.
The remaining ten groups of bees joined hands, outnumbering the Queen Bee’s followers by dozens or even hundreds of times, and within just a few days, the Queen Bee’s troops were forced into a retreat, suffering heavy losses. Not only did they lose all the gains from their conquests, but they also had most of their original territory snatched away, leaving them only with this small forest as a base, struggling to resist the Indigenous Alliance Army.
Luckily, the Indigenous Alliance Army did not have a commander like Suming and only acted on instinct. After gaining a good position, they did not press on to annihilate the Su Army completely but, every day, sent a large group of bees to attack the forest.
Sometimes they sent more, sometimes less; even at its smallest, the enemy forces outnumbered the Su Army Bees by one or two times. Fortunately, the Indigenous Bees were not smart, and within their own groups, there was hardly any coordination, let alone combined arms across tribes. Meanwhile, the Queen Bee had a large group of hornets, which, at critical moments, could serve as a surprise weapon, enabling her to barely hold on up until now, though each day the ranks were thinning.
"So you’re saying it’s all my fault? It’s because I’m cold-hearted and uncaring, failing to show concern, that we’re in this situation?" Suming asked the Queen Bee, pointing at his nose.
The Queen Bee dared not make a sound, which amounted to an admission.
"Damn it! Since the battle has started, why didn’t you notify me earlier?"
Suming was a bit annoyed. Since the war had already begun, the Queen Bee should have informed him earlier. If he’d known there was a war of annihilation going on in the valley, he would have dropped everything to come here on a two-day leave.
A feeling of distress emerged from the spiritual power of the Queen Bee, as if afraid of being punished by Suming. It had started the war and if it had won, of course, there would have been no issue; but with the current situation of being passively beaten and suffering heavy losses, it seemed hesitant to ask Suming for help, fearing his punishment.
Or rather, it worried that Suming, who rarely visited as it was, might distance himself even more because of this incident.
Suming almost burst into laughter at the absurdity: "Good grief, you aren’t even a real woman, can’t you be a bit less delicate in your thoughts? Big sis, as the Queen Bee, don’t you think you should have the imposing presence of a mother of the world? You’re making me scared here. If in a few years you really develop human intelligence, won’t I be tormented to death by your gloomy grudge?!"
