NOVPUBThe strongest places are often also the greatest fatal weaknesses; the human brain controls all actions, and an army’s command center directs hundreds of thousands of troops. Just a single bullet or a shell can bring down a person or paralyze an army.
Therefore, for Suming’s side, the most dangerous and weakest link was actually Suming himself, as the commanding officer.
If the Indigenous Alliance Army was just a bit smarter and directly sent hundreds of thousands of bees to attack Suming himself, Suming wouldn’t even have a chance to escape and would immediately be dead as a doornail. Even if the Indigenous Alliance Army wasn’t smart enough to think of a decapitation strategy, just like today, with random attacks and a small portion of bees swarming, it was enough trouble for Suming!
"Mother..." The thought of being stung by hundreds of thousands of bees made Suming’s skin crawl, and he shivered involuntarily.
"Mother... Mother..."
"So itchy... So itchy..."
The Diamond Parrot not only mimicked speech but also imitated Suming’s shivering motion, convincingly trembling a few times while squawking strangely and shaking its feathers. A number of dead bees were sandwiched in its feathers, and they fell like rain showering a large swath of bee corpses as it shook.
"Shut up, are you shaking fleas off!" Suming glared at them, and then his eyes rolled around aimlessly.
Actually, it wasn’t entirely without a solution!
The greatest weakness of the Bee Allied Army was their low intelligence; so far, even after being defeated today, there was not the slightest indication that they would deploy their entire force. Hence, they were virtually incapacitating themselves, relinquishing their greatest advantage: numbers. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
If Suming was willing to take it slowly, subduing a portion of the bees today, taking out a squad of the Alliance Army tomorrow, gradually wearing down the enemy’s strength, the tide would turn in his favor, and he could eventually eliminate the Alliance Army.
The problem was that this approach was too time-consuming; it certainly couldn’t be resolved within ten days or half a month. Suming had only taken a few days off, and he had brought out several protected animals from the zoo; if he didn’t return after half a month, the zoo would surely file a missing report. The police, accompanied by sniffer dogs, would surely search the mountains, and it would be no good if they stumbled upon this place by mistake.
Not to mention anyone else, after being missing for over ten days, they would definitely notify my mother. My mother is already in poor health; she mustn’t get so agitated that she passes away – that would mean gaining a wife while forgetting one’s own mother...
Wait? Did I just say something strange...?
"What should I do? Decapitation? Wait, I’ve got it!"
Suming thought for a while, and his eyes lit up – if the Bee Allied Army didn’t know how to use the decapitation tactic, why shouldn’t he?!
Although the Queen Bee of the Alliance Army wasn’t as crucial to them as Suming was to his command, she was still the leader of the swarm, having a significant impact on the whole swarm’s combat strength!
If he could eliminate the Queen Bee from each group within the Alliance Army, their combat strength would drop drastically, and it was very likely that many of the Indigenous Bees would defect to the Su Army, which had a Queen Bee. Suming didn’t believe that bees had any racial pride or a never-surrender integrity; for most animals, the saying "He who provides is mother" wasn’t derogatory, but a rule of survival.
Then, with his support from the sidelines, maybe it would only take a few days to resolve the Alliance Army’s issue and subdue them completely.
Ever since acquiring the ability to communicate with animals, Suming had mostly encountered lone animals and was used to overpowering them with his spiritual power; he seldom faced being overpowered by them, so much so that it took him a while to remember precision targeted strikes.
"I’m so itchy... I’m dying from the itchiness..."
The two Diamond Parrots were still shaking their claws when Suming gripped their necks, one in each hand, and lifted them out, "You two, go ahead with me to scout the enemy’s position and figure out the exact location of the Queen Bee! Haidong Qing, stand by in the air!"
To carry out a counter-headhunting strategy, the first step was to ascertain the position of the enemy’s Queen Bee; otherwise, searching for the nine Queen Bees amidst the vast Hundred Flowers Valley and countless protective bees was almost like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Huiya leaped forward a few steps, ready to follow, but Suming quickly released a burst of spiritual power: Stay put.
Huiya’s thin layer of downy hair was no match for the attacks of a swarm of bees, not to mention itself, even its father, the Wolf King, surrounded by so many bees, would meet his end.
The animal kingdom has its peculiar rules, one thing suppressing another; wolves dare to clash with Haidong Qing and even more so dominate the Diamond Parrots, yet ironically they stood no chance against little bees. On the contrary, even the smallest bird species, as long as they are feathered, are not afraid of bees, having a dead grip over them.
Leaving the beehive forest where the Queen Bee’s headquarters was located, Suming headed towards the depths of the valley with his three bodyguards. The Diamond Parrots, being too large, hardly flew and hopped along on either side, while Haidong Qing circled overhead, observing the overall situation.
Not far along the way, they neared the territory of the Allied Army, and just by looking from afar, Suming’s heart skipped a beat!
It was a vast forest that was almost impossible to see across at first glance. Inside the forest, dense beehives hung like fruit on the branches. From a distance, the forest looked like a witch’s dwelling in a magical world’s Black Forest, completely shrouded in a black mist, swarming with countless bees.
"How many could there possibly be!" Suming’s scalp tingled at the sight, and he didn’t dare to get too close, but from such a distance, it was impossible to see where the Allied Army’s Queen Bee was.
Fortunately, the world never lacked traitors. Suming lay in the bushes, controlled a few passing Indigenous Bees using spiritual power, and instructed them to scout the forest.
The forest was dozens of times larger than the small woodland where the Su Army was stationed, looking like a small forest itself. After the traitor bees flew in, they casually wandered around and only an hour later did they fly back, lazily.
Even so, they hadn’t figured out the positions of all the Queen Bees, only finding four large beehives.
"Four is still four, one less for every one killed!"
Suming lay in the bushes, using a Diamond Parrot as a shield, and gave instructions to Haidong Qing, "Follow the guidance of the traitor bees to perform targeted strikes, behead the Queen Bee!"
The informant returned to the large wooded area and flew about twenty meters into the grove, finally stopping beneath an old elm tree!
On the branches of that elm tree, there hung a beehive the size of a basketball, twice as large as the others – clearly, a Queen Bee resided inside!
"Now’s the moment, take it down!" Suming commanded Haidong Qing to carry out the beheading!
Haidong Qing let out a long cry, its wings clamped tightly against its back. It dived at a diagonal angle from mid-air like an arrow, fiercely plunging into the grove towards the large beehive!
