"Look, friend, look! Doesn't it look great?"
Layla pointed excitedly to a strange honeycomb as she dragged Apollo along.
As for Apollo, he simply blinked a few tis, stumbling because of Layla's tug.
"That looks like sothing, that's for sure."
The strange honeycomb was very large. The entirety of it was roughly thirty ters high and fifty ters wide. The honeycomb was slanted to the side and consisted of various hexagonal cells that were nearly overflowing with so strange viscous translucent green substance.
These shapes were not the most perfectly made. They were not only irregularly shaped, like what a hexagon would look like if drawn by a child, but also cracked. There was even a section that looked sowhat like a teacup, while one in the middle of the honeycomb was half draped over.
In fact, certain sections of the comb had directly broken off.
Whoever or whatever made them, did a really sloppy job.
The honeycomb itself was a deep brown color. Paired with the viscous translucent green liquid coming out of them, they seed far from appealing, prompting Apollo to question if this was really sothing they wanted to try.
However, the two-headed dog tasted fine, so he imagined this wouldn't be too bad.
Countless dark green locust-like insects sward around the honeycomb. So of them seed to be adding to the honeycomb, while others were consuming it.
As Layla continued pulling Apollo towards the honeycomb, sothing else approached from the opposite side. It was a massive light green insect, nearly five ters long.
It was the queen.
The queen settled down on top of the honeycomb, causing it to let out concerning creaking sounds. As for the surrounding dark green insects, they imdiately fled, getting far away from the queen.
Apollo looked towards Layla, who continued to go forth as though nothing was wrong. Then, he pointed to the large queen insect in front of them.
"What do we do about that thing?"
Layla looked towards where Apollo was pointing, then waved her hand dismissively.
"Friend is overreacting! It may bother you for a little bit, but there is nothing it can do!"
The queen insect began inspecting the honeycomb, but not without sticking out its straw-like tongue and greedily sucking at the green contents within. However, once it found the strange part of the honeycomb that seed to be draped over, it froze.
Without warning, it let out a high-pitched roar and smashed that part with its arm.
Layla gasped.
"Ah! It's not okay!"
She let go of Apollo and dashed towards the honeycomb. The queen insect repeatedly slamd its arm against that section of the honeycomb, until it directly burst and the honeycomb itself collapsed into multiple pieces, causing quite a bit of the dark green liquid to splash into the air.
The queen raised its head to let out a roar, but before it could...
A deafening bang reverberated, shaking the air.
Layla had leaped upwards and pulled back her hand before slapping the insect queen, turning it into green sludge that splattered across the floor. Although there was the occasional insect arm within that green sludge, it would be hard to figure out that it used to be an insect queen.
Apollo slowly walked over to Layla, who let out a sigh of relief. She turned around and showed off a big smile.
"It's ok now! The tasty stuff is saved!"
Layla proceeded to pick up several of the overturned hexagonal cells from the honeycomb and set them upright to prevent its translucent green content from slipping into the ground.
During this ti, Apollo walked over and inspected the hexagonal cell that was draped over and had been slamd by the queen insect. What remained of it was only several pieces and so dark green liquid that splattered across the floor.
Apollo narrowed his eyes.
...Actually, there was sothing else. It was sothing that remained within the green liquid and was moving. As for what exactly, Apollo couldn't tell since he only saw a fuzzy black figure.
He proceeded to stick his hand into the green liquid and pull out whatever was inside with far less hesitation than what a normal person would have.
It was a relatively small light green insect.
The insect had black beady eyes that looked at Apollo and blinked curiously. After only a few monts, Apollo lost interest.
He set it back down into the green liquid, but it crawled back out and touched his foot.
Apollo's face twitched.
Was this thing feeling attached to him?
However, he had bigger problems than being considered a mother.
Because the surrounding dark green insects began swarming him.
Apollo imdiately slashed the few that got near him, causing them to burst into green fluid. However, that was only the beginning.
The number of insects quickly beca too much for Apollo. So of them even landed on his body, but burst into green fluid right after. As ti passed, more and more of them landed on his body, until he had to focus all of his attention on the bugs covering him.
As for Layla, she was simply idling away, sticking her finger into the green liquid housed by the hexagonal cells, then sticking that finger into her mouth.
"Mm, tasty!"
Layla herself was not being attacked by any of the bugs, despite eating their food right in front of them. She looked over to Apollo who, on the other hand, was being sward by them.
"Hm, friend seems to be having fun!"
Then, she went back to her own business, eating so more of the green liquid.
As for Apollo, unlike how Layla put it, he was not having fun.
The bugs landed on his body faster than he could kill them. As such, so of them had enough ti to open their tiny jaws and bite down.
Apollo grit his teeth from the sharp pain of having pieces of his flesh being torn off.
However, even with grit teeth, he did not forget to laugh.
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