I have an Apocalypse City

Chapter 539: Wild Bee Forest

Song Jian, judging by his own standards, always thought that such a precious honey wine recipe wouldn’t be sold by the tavern owner. However, he didn’t realize that the honey wine recipe he found so valuable was not as important to the tavern owner.

After all, in the garrison town, the honey wine of the tavern owner, although famous, was always sold as ordinary wine at a relatively low price that the average residents of the town could afford.

“How much does this recipe cost?” Song Jian felt he might have overestimated the importance of the recipe and was afraid he’d be at the mercy of the tavern owner’s pricing.

“Hehe, three thousand Doomsday Coins, how does that sound?” Old Boke asked with a broad smile on his face.

“What, three thousand Doomsday Coins?” Song Jian looked surprised. He thought not that the recipe was too expensive, but that Old Boke was selling it too cheap. In his view, as long as the price was under ten thousand Doomsday Coins, he would buy it.

“Yes, three thousand Doomsday Coins!” Old Boke confirmed, placing a rolled-up piece of parchment on the table.

Song Jian nodded without hesitation and paid three thousand Doomsday Coins, taking the recipe in his hand.

“Recipe: Honey Wine. Cooking formula. Use: Teaches you a more efficient way to make honey wine. Usage Requirements: Level 3 Cooking. Ingredients: Grains (3), wild honey (1), clean water (1);”

“If you want to make a higher-grade royal jelly wine, you just need to replace the wild honey in it with royal jelly.” Old Boke explained with a smile.

Song Jian nodded and, unable to wait, unfolded the recipe and used it. The requirement for making honey wine is only to have a Cooking skill level of three. Song Jian’s Cooking skill had long reached level three, naturally meeting the learning requirements of the recipe.

After using it, the recipe in Song Jian’s hand turned into a ray of white light and disappeared, and all the information about making honey wine instantly appeared in Song Jian’s mind.

Closing his eyes and going over the method of making honey wine in his mind, Song Jian found that its method of preparation was not complex, otherwise, a mere level three Cooking skill wouldn’t be sufficient for one to learn it.

Acquiring grains was not difficult, as they could be grown in Song Jian’s territory. However, the biggest challenge in making honey wine was finding “wild honey.” Without it, there would be no making of honey wine.

“Boss, where can I get wild honey?” Song Jian asked.

“Walk ten miles south from the garrison town, and there is a Wild Bee Forest. By killing the wild bees there, you have a chance to get this wild honey. Once a month, a wild bee queen appears there. If you kill it, it will drop royal jelly, which you can use to make royal jelly wine!” Old Boke revealed, without any reservation, the location and methods to obtain wild honey to Song Jian.

“Thank you, boss.” Song Jian nodded and said.

“Don’t mention it. But be careful when you go to the Wild Bee Forest. The bees there are all level twenty-five. The bee queen is even a level thirty elite BOSS. Moreover, there are a large number of wild bees there. If you attract too many, even a ten-person adventure team will suffer big losses.” Old Boke reminded him.

“I got it. I certainly won’t risk my life just for a bottle of wine!” Song Jian laughed.

The next day, early in the morning, Song Jian left the garrison town and headed towards the Wild Bee Forest.

In reality, the map he bought from Wang Chui clearly marked the location of the Wild Bee Forest, including the types and levels of monsters inside.

However, it only indicated the levels of ordinary wild bees and did not mark the bee queen. If he were to rely solely on this map, he would definitely suffer a big loss.

With still a bit of time before his meeting with Qi Yun, Song Jian decided to go to the Wild Bee Forest first to gather some materials for making honey wine. After leaving the inn, Song Jian only bought twenty bottles of honey wine. These bottles were just enough for his personal use and could not be sold for profit.

Although Song Jian has a fief in Doomsday City and a shop in the City of Hymns, and could earn nearly ten thousand Doomsday Coins a month even without doing anything, as his level and strength grow, the money would no longer satisfy his needs.

He planned to take advantage of this time to gather more wild honey. If he could get two or three thousand portions of ingredients, when he returned to Doomsday City, he could sell a large amount of honey wine and make a profit of at least a hundred thousand Doomsday Coins.

Song Jian, following the map’s guidance, quickly arrived at the Wild Bee Forest. Only then did he realize that the Wild Bee Forest was not a wood but a large stone forest.

Ugly stalagmites stood erect here, big and small, high and low. The distance between these rock pillars was very narrow, allowing only one person to pass through. The low buzzing sound emanated from the stone forest, and Song Jian saw fist-sized black wild bees constantly flying in and out of the forest.

When Song Jian looked at the wild bees at the edge of the stone pillars, he found that there were no lone bees. They all moved in groups of three to five, and the distance between each group was quite close.

“Thank goodness, these are only level twenty-five ordinary monsters. As long as I’m careful, there shouldn’t be a problem,” Song Jian reassured himself.

Taking out a banner with a red edge, Song Jian waved it vigorously. Immediately, two beams of light emerged from the Fifth Battle Flag, transforming into two fire elementals about a meter in height on the ground.

Song Jian put away the flag and directed the two fire elementals to lure the monsters. His own attack range was too short, and if he tried to lure the monsters on his own, he might attract too many. By using fire elementals to draw monsters, this situation could be avoided.

Even bees ten meters away could be attacked by the fire elementals, which would then lure them over.

Bzz, bzz, bzz~

The three bees that were attacked immediately flew towards the fire elementals. These bees could even use semi-ranged attacks. When they flew to a distance about a meter from the fire elementals, they suddenly stopped, lifted their tails, and shot venomous stingers at the fire elementals.

Shoo, shoo~

The black stingers, each about a finger long, looked like crossbow bolts fired at the fire elementals.

“These little guys, they have quite strong attacks!” Seeing the damage numbers floating above the fire elementals’ heads, Song Jian was taken aback.

Broken Wing Dance!

Song Jian could not afford to wait and see. The vitality points of the two fire elementals were falling quickly. It wouldn’t take long before they dropped to less than half. Once these two fire elementals die, it would take an hour to summon them again.

The Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword viciously cleaved into one of the bees, making it somersault backwards. These level twenty-five bees had a rather high defense. Even Song Jian could only deal two to three hundred points of damage per hit.

Having attracted the aggression of all three bees, Song Jian swung his sword and began to focus on one, dealing all-out damage.

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