My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS Chapter 513 - 317: Su Wei and Qiao, Bee Prince of the Bookst

It was late at night when the Great Bee Lord Qiao departed from the hive on the Naless Island, unfurling a pair of hexagonal wings. He flapped them, rising to the highest sky, then swiftly flew towards Osaka, Japan.

Soon after, Su Wei’s bookstore welcod a guest.

Su Wei was slightly startled, lifting his head, narrowing his eyes, and peering through his lenses at the bookstore’s entrance.

From the dim street, a slender, pointed tail suddenly crossed the threshold as if greeting him.

Two seconds later, that strange creature finally stepped into the bookstore.

Su Wei silently scrutinized the visitor, who undoubtedly was a half-human half-bee being.

The creature had a slender tail, its entire body hued dark, with human-like facial features. There was a terrifying golden glow coming from its vertically extended pupils. It had two pairs of hexagonal wings on its back, each resembling a beehive.

A Bee Prince, perhaps? Su Wei wondered.

"A rare guest indeed..." he murmured.

"This is the only bookstore open late at night," Qiao slowly walked in, pausing before the bookshelf.

"I see. I was wondering why you would seek out my small shop," Su Wei said, "After all, yes, I’m the only bookstore open at such a late hour."

Qiao extended his palm, taking a book off the shelf, then gently scratched open the protective film with his claw. He sat down right there, legs crossed, silently flipping through the pages.

Su Wei did not attempt to stop him; he rely took a sip of coffee, glancing at the ti on the wall.

It was three o’clock in the morning. At this hour, even if Osaka’s streets were scarcely populated, his bookstore welcod a Light-Eating Bee; if not for the fear of offending, he would have taken out a cara to capture the mont.

Monts later, Qiao suddenly spoke, "You are not a Superpower User. I have eaten Superpower Users; your taste is different. Yet I can perceive... you are strong."

Su Wei adjusted his glasses and smiled, "Is that a complint from another race? That doesn’t particularly make happy."

"You didn’t attack imdiately; are you waiting for companions?" Qiao asked, keeping his eyes low on the book.

"No, I welco every guest who cos to read, as long as they don’t cause trouble."

"Interesting... there are still such humans," Qiao murmured, then said without lifting his head, "Also, I can tell you indeed harbor no hostility towards ."

"You can sll it?" Su Wei said, "The nose of a Light-Eating Bee is indeed unusual."

"Lower beings should not attempt to understand the structure of higher beings," Qiao sneered.

"Are you interested in human knowledge?" Su Wei put down his coffee cup, casually asking.

"In fact, not much."

"Hehe, you don’t quite seem uninterested, flying over dozens of kiloters from that Naless Island in the middle of the night just to find a bookstore to read."

"I am rely seeking aning... creatures like us mostly know only reproduction and slaughter, but what is the aning of reproduction and slaughter?" Qiao said slowly, "Humans have existed far longer than us Light-Eating Bees, so I believe I might find so inspiration from human knowledge."

"I see," Su Wei said, "Then there is still much for you to learn."

"Is that so, I do not deny that point."

"I thought Bee Princes ought to be arrogant beings, given that you produce the next generation of Bee Kings," Su Wei sighed, "But it seems the truth is contrary to my understanding."

"I have no interest in becoming a king," Qiao said, suddenly turning to look at Su Wei, "But do you... truly understand your own situation? I consu humans, or rather, only humans can et our nutritional needs, allowing us to evolve further."

Su Wei silently lifted his head, eting Qiao’s gaze. This non-human creature’s eyes were hollow and cold, the golden glow in his pupils like a beast ready to devour, nearly bursting from its sockets.

"Do you know..." Su Wei suddenly removed his glasses, retrieving a glasses case from the drawer.

"What do you want to say?" Qiao asked.

Su Wei squinted, taking out a lens cloth from the box, quietly cleaning his fraless glasses.

"Humans eat humans too," he said softly, his voice still calm and steady.

Qiao was silent for a mont, quietly observing Su Wei’s expression, and then suddenly rested his hand on his chin, "I understand now. You want to use the conflict between our race and those Superpower Users to achieve so purpose."

"You’re quite perceptive," Su Wei was slightly taken aback, then put on his glasses, smiling as he asked, "Is this a superpower? Or is every Light-Eating Bee’s sense of sll as sharp as yours?"

"No, just my probing," Qiao sneered, "And you fell for it."

Su Wei raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Oh, I just never thought a bug could possess such wisdom."

"I hope you have self-awareness. When bugs as a whole surpass humans, humans are the bugs in our eyes."

Su Wei chuckled, seemingly not intending to argue further, "Since you’ve figured out my purpose, we can now sit down and quietly read."

"If I’m not mistaken, in the basent, you killed over a hundred of our Light-Eating Bees," Qiao said expressionlessly.

Su Wei was stunned.

He originally thought that Qiao would chat with him so calmly because Qiao didn’t know about the incident in the basent. But now it seed he was wrong.

"Ah... I thought I could keep it from you. After all, having just moved here, seeing bugs in the basent, anyone would think of cleaning it up," Su Wei scratched his head, speaking with a headache, "So what are you planning? To fight with ?"

Qiao was silent for a mont.

"No, it was they who offended," he said, "Human, I apologize to you on their behalf. You’re a reasonable person. There’s nothing to pity about you slaughtering them."

Su Wei also fell silent for a while, "I never thought, among the Light-Eating Bees, there would be an anomaly like you."

"Right back at you," Qiao said coldly, "Before entering the bookstore, I had anticipated that if the owner panicked and scread because of my arrival, I would slaughter him and then eat him, as a supplent to book reading."

"I see, that’s why you paused with your tail extended for two seconds."

"Otherwise... I would slaughter you."

"Alright, alright." Su Wei laughed.

One person and one bee sat down and silently read for a while. The bookstore was quiet, with only the fan buzzing as it rotated. Qiao seed annoyed by the fan’s noise, extended his tail over, and pressed the off button. The fan blades ceased turning.

"If you’re interested in philosophy, I don’t recomnd the book you’re holding, I’d suggest putting it back and getting the fifth book on the second shelf row, that’s a more systematically written and ticulous beginner’s book," Su Wei suddenly said.

"Human, don’t teach how to read..."

Qiao said coldly, but shortly after, he used his slender tail to take down the book Su Wei had ntioned.

"And the seventh book on the third shelf row, it introduces the history of the developnt of philosophy, comparatively more interesting," Su Wei nonchalantly continued.

Qiao remained silent, using his tail to hook the book from the shelf, placing it by his leg.

"Let ask you, what is the aning of your life?" Qiao asked.

"I’m already dead."

"What do you an?"

Su Wei smiled, "When I heard the news of my daughter’s death, my heart was already dead. Right now, I’m just a walking corpse barely dragging on. But if I can’t give an account to my daughter, I can’t rest my eyes peacefully either."

"Revenge, huh..."

Qiao, expressionless, pondered for a long ti, retrieving such a term from the human concept.

"Indeed, your Bee Race probably can’t understand the pain of losing those you care about, right?"

"Don’t be too arrogant," Qiao said while turning a page, "Our emotions indeed aren’t as complex as yours over short periods. But after consumption and evolution, in the future, whether it be emotional or rational thinking, we will far surpass you..."

"At least you must admit, as it stands, compared to humans, you are just infants learning to walk awkwardly. Even with great ability, you’re rely children playing with rocket launchers," Su Wei said lightly.

Qiao ignored his mockery, suddenly closing the book in his hands, "Looks like... I should go."

"Seems you have quite a bit of self-awareness too, so there’s no need for to see you off," Su Wei said.

Just now, he had received a notice from the Exorcist Association, that the Superpower Association had reported the sudden nightti invasion of a human city by the Bee Race’s Great Bee Lord. But the instrunts they hastily created still couldn’t detect the Bee Prince’s location.

So, Japan had already dispatched a group of Superpower Users. They were searching around the city for the Bee Prince’s location.

Presumably, it wouldn’t be long before the fact that Qiao was reading in this bookstore would be exposed. The Light-Eating Bee didn’t seem to want this trouble to extend to the bookstore, so it intended to leave.

"Human, I’ll take these books with ," Qiao turned his head, expressionlessly said.

"If it were a bookstore in China, I’d have you write a loan slip; after all, running a bookstore isn’t easy," Su Wei said, "But this bookstore was a gift to , so it doesn’t matter, take any book you wish to read."

Qiao glanced at Su Wei, seemingly confirming whether or not he was telling the truth.

A mont later, Qiao quietly stood up, using his tail to coil the stack of three introductory philosophy books on the ground, and then hooked them up.

"Qiao, that’s my na. I will co again next ti," he said as he walked out of the bookstore.

"Su Wei." Su Wei replied without looking up, sipping a cup of coffee.

Qiao snorted indifferently, already stepping out of the bookstore. In the dense night, he unfolded his huge hexagonal wings, then vibrated his wings, soaring upwards with a thunderous roar, disappearing into the night sky.

Su Wei rose from the counter and silently walked to the store entrance, pulled down the shutter. After closing the store, he headed towards the hallway, glancing at the direction of Gu Zhuo Case standing at the staircase.

Gu Zhuo Case looked serious, his eyes still fixated firmly on the store entrance direction.

"Is it necessary to be so tense?" Su Wei asked.

"Father-in-law, I’m just worried that insect might do sothing to you," Gu Zhuo Case murmured while holding his shoulders, "So this is a Light-Eating Bee? It seems different from what I imagined."

"Indeed, for an insect, it’s quite polite," Su Wei dismissed with a laugh, patting his shoulder, "There’s still work tomorrow, get so early sleep tonight."

Having said that, Su Wei bypassed Gu Zhuo Case, headed upstairs first, his figure swallowed by the shadow of the second-floor corridor.