A Beekeeper in a Magical World Chapter 7: Uninvited guest
Hua Mi continues to transform the Forest Swift Bee.
This time, 13 bee colonies were transformed in one go, leaving 7 bee colonies that have not been transformed.
I am obviously much more proficient than the first time.
"My mental power seems to have increased. It seems that this can also be improved."
He had a vague feeling that although he could only control one swarm of bees at a time, he was about to reach the threshold of controlling two swarms of bees...
After the transformation was completed, Hua Mi took a few mouthfuls of honey, rested for a while, and selected 500 bees as experimental subjects. After drinking the mutation attractant, they each returned to the beehive and entered the cocooning state.
The success rate is low. Fortunately, the mutation process is very fast and the results will be available soon. The time cost is not large.
After doing this, Hua Mi went back to the house and continued to clean up.
I just did some preliminary cleaning yesterday to make it look more comfortable.
Today we need to be more careful and restore this cabin to a habitable state.
Usually he still has to go home to live, but if there is any emergency that requires him to stay here, he can also spend the night here.
Hua Mi is very knowledgeable about general cleaning. The ancestral house and the flower field behind it occupy a large area. He lives alone. When business is not good, he does not hire any assistants. He does all the work by himself. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
Cleaning is not difficult, as long as you have some hands. However, there are opinions on how to do it most efficiently and save time.
Hua Mi followed the steps he had summarized, cleaning up from corner to corner, and the entire wooden house had a brand new look.
The backyard weeds were also cleaned up.
As for the underground alchemy room, let’s not clean it now. It won’t be needed for a while anyway.
Finally, I put the bedding I brought over on the wooden bed, which felt like the finishing touch. The whole cabin suddenly became popular. Sure enough, no matter where you are, the bed is the haven of the soul. What is a sense of security?
"Then it's a matter of going out and exploring."
When a bee collects honey, it is basically fully automatic, and it spends most of its time idle.
When the equipment he bought online arrives, he plans to take a walk in the forest to familiarize himself with the environment and look for new nectar flowers.
He wants to build this place into his own beekeeping base.
But there is a problem that must be considered.
If you want to build an apiary, you have to expand it and deal with the surrounding trees first.
Although these trees are far apart from each other, they are far from blocking the sky and the sun like a rain forest.
But if it is not treated, it will definitely affect the growth of flowers.
The reason why the Moon Sleeping Flower is not affected is because of its own characteristics. It can absorb the moonlight essence to be self-sufficient at night, which is equivalent to opening a small stove for yourself.
But flowers without this characteristic are more uncomfortable.
These trees are generally more than twice as tall as trees on Earth, and cleaning them up is not as easy as just talking.
He could only draw a wormhole that could allow one person to pass through, and some large machines must not be able to bring it through.
Also, you have to consider whether too much movement will attract any dangerous beasts.
In this magical world, any monster that comes in is enough to kill him.
Hua Mi looked at the alchemy notes and found that there were many dangerous magical creatures in the Black Forest. There were dozens of them recorded, and there must be more in reality.
"Again, if you can breed combat bees with magical abilities, you will feel more at ease."
Hua Mi looked at the sea of Yuemian flowers in front of her, and suddenly wanted to do an experiment to see if the flowers here could be sustained on the earth.
So he carefully dug out a moonflower, opened a wormhole, and planned to take it back to his ancestral home and plant it in the flower field.
The results confused him.
The person passed through, but there was nothing in his hand. The Moon Sleeping Flower he was holding just now disappeared out of thin air.
Hua Mi went back and found the Moon Sleeping Flower lying quietly on the floor.
He picked it up and tried again, but still couldn't carry it.
"Strange, I've tried it before, both living and dead animals..."
Hua Mi thought for a while and suddenly realized that he had only brought bees with him from the beginning and had never tried other living animals. It was not accurate to conclude that he could bring living animals through time.
Maybe we can only bring bees.
After all, he was given this ability by a blue bee, and there may be some mysterious restrictions.
Hua Mi tried several other creatures, including animals and plants. The results proved that no matter which side he came from, he could only take one living creature, the bee, across the two worlds.
Forget it, let’s not get into trouble and get back to the topic.
"I have to contact you and buy 10 more bee colonies."
Two of them are specially used for mutation experiments, and the other eight are for spare use.
The price of buying a bee colony is actually not expensive. The number of bee colonies owned by a beekeeper mainly depends on the sales of honey. If the honey is not sold well, there is no point in raising more bees.
"By the way, one of the experimental bee colonies, would you like to try Italian bees?"
Different species of common bees may have different mutation success rates.
Both types of bees have their own advantages and disadvantages. Italian bees have relatively strong ability to collect honey. Generally, Italian bees are used in mobile beekeeping. The medium bees have relatively strong survival ability in the wild and are highly resistant to harsh environments. Medium bees are usually used in fixed-point beekeeping.
But Hua Mi thought about it and decided not to buy Italian bees for the time being, but to buy Chinese bees instead.
On the one hand, there are different species in the bee colony, which can easily cause infighting and even affect reproduction. Even if he has the ability to control the bee colony, he cannot control them all the time, so don't do anything else. .
On the other hand, and the main reason is that although Apis mellifera and Apis cerana belong to the family Apidae, they are reproductively isolated from each other.
It is reasonable to infer that the mutant bee species based on Apis cerana and the mutant bee species based on Apis mellifera are likely to have reproductive isolation.
As a result, subsequent hybrid evolution plans will not work.
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On the same day, Hua Mi contacted the merchant and placed an order for 10 bee swarms. They were all old acquaintances and the credibility of both parties saved them a lot of trouble. At least they didn’t have to worry about quality issues.
The next step is to wait for the swarm to arrive.
A day flies by in a blink of an eye.
Coincidentally, the length of a day in another world is similar to that on Earth.
It is spring on the earth at this time, and the days are longer and the nights are shorter.
There are no seasons in this other world.
According to the records in the alchemy notes, a year in the other world is divided into "Wind Moon", "Fire Moon", "Water Moon", "Ice Age" and "Chaos Period".
Except for the Ice Age and the Chaos Period, the other three periods are divided into four stages: "rising", "going", "prosperity" and "rest".
For example, the water is in full moon right now, and the days are short and the nights are long.
In order to prevent disorder in his work and rest, he decided to arrange his work and rest according to earth time as much as possible.
But today he stayed up for a while, waiting for the results of the more than 500 experimental bees to come out before leaving.
The results frustrated him.
There are more than five hundred of them, but not one of them has successfully evolved.
Big loss.
He knew that the probability of a mutation producing beneficial traits was low, but he did not expect it to be so low.
"Very good, you play with probability, right?"
Hua Mi decided to suspend the experiment first. No matter how rich his family was, he would have to pay for it. He decided to wait until the 10 bee colonies arrived.
The next day, the equipment purchased online arrived.
Hua Midu moved into the cabin.
After converting the remaining seven swarms, he was adjusting the compound bow according to the instructions when he suddenly heard a strange movement in the yard outside.
He immediately released his consciousness to sense the bee swarm and found that the worker bees had stopped collecting honey and assumed an offensive posture.
Like a formidable enemy!