"That's it? Cleared already?"
Ethan glanced at his attributes and was stunned by his own efficiency.
If possible, he could catch a few Fart Bees and bring them home.
Then let the residents come and eat farts too. Wouldn't that mean everyone could max out their poison resistance?
'That's not a bad idea.'
Ethan's eyes instantly lit up.
Another little money-making idea popped into his head, for example…
Package these Fart Bees up, change the name to something like [Poison Resistance Upgrade Cheat Device]. Doesn't that sound kind of high-end? Then sell the Fart Bees to other players.
There probably aren't many players who could resist the charm of a "cheat device" like that, right?
"Hehehe!"
Ethan stroked his chin and laughed slyly. Then he asked the Queen Bee, "Queen Bee, I want to take all these Fart Bees away. Do you have any good ideas?"
["It's possible, but they would need to build a portable hive,"] the Queen Bee said. Her tone was calm, but her thoughts were very clear, ["That would take about ten hours."]
Hearing that, Ethan immediately frowned.
It had already taken him nearly two hours to travel from the villa to this treasure site. There were only six hours left until dark.
If it took ten hours to build a movable hive, there definitely wouldn't be enough time.
And based on all the adventure and sci-fi movies he had watched, those experiences were telling him, any secret realm would definitely collapse right after the male lead got the treasure.
As for why it always had to collapse after the male lead got it… Who the hell knows?
So, Ethan didn't want to pin his hopes on tomorrow.
These Fart Bees were a huge business opportunity. Who knew if he would ever run into such a good poison-resistance "medicine" again.
"Ten hours is a bit long. Is there any way to speed it up?"
["There is,"] the Queen Bee said, ["If I stay here to command the worker bees and periodically release hormones to keep them in an excited state, it can speed things up by more than double."]
"Alright, you stay here and handle the hive," Ethan said, "I'll come back for you later."
["Understood, Master!"]
At this moment, Ethan had Daji activate her stone statue form before pulling open the stone door.
Daji didn't have poison resistance, but as long as she turned into stone, she didn't need to breathe and was immune to poison damage.
So Ethan simply carried her inside.
The moment he stepped through the stone door, sure enough, everything was covered in a vast green haze, just like walking into a gas chamber.
And after entering, he realized that dizzy, lightheaded feeling had appeared once again.
Earlier, when he was outside the stone door, he had been inhaling a mouthful of poison gas every so often. By the end, he was basically immune.
But the concentration of poison gas inside this stone chamber was no joke.
[Poison Resistance +2]
"Blergh~"
Ethan vomited violently.
Only after he got slightly used to it did he take another step forward.
"Ugh!", Ethan felt like he was about to break down, "Again?"
[Poison Resistance +1]
[Poison Resistance +0.5]
[Poison Resistance…]
At the beginning, he gained two bars of poison resistance at a time. Later on, it gradually dropped until he couldn't even gain 0.1 anymore.
Ethan knew his poison resistance must be maxed out again.
Sure enough, one look confirmed it.
[Poison Resistance Level 2 → Level 3, obtained title: Poison Man]
Awesome, he had officially become a Poison Man.
But looking at the room full of green mist, it seemed like he had already inhaled quite a bit of it away.
And he was actually getting stronger the more he inhaled.
'Truly, a real Poison Man indeed.'
Finally, Ethan passed the test of the poison gas room.
When he reached the very innermost part of the stone chamber, the so-called hive of the Fart Bees, he finally understood why the Queen Bee needed to build a portable hive.
Because this entire poison gas room was actually one gigantic hive.
There was a massive hive hanging on the cave wall, stretching upward into darkness. Everywhere Ethan could see, the surface was uneven, like the surface of the moon, all made of hive material.
At this moment, the Fart Bees were all resting on the hive or flying in and out of its entrances.
Not a single one flew outward.
It seemed they were indeed under the Queen Bee's control.
On the ground beside the hive, countless Fart Bee corpses, two to three centimeters long, were scattered.
These Fart Bees were mostly a glossy green, not like the green of plants, but more like metallic green, with a reflective sheen. They looked extremely poisonous.
Good thing the Queen Bee had led the bee soldiers in to fight.
If Ethan had come in alone, he probably wouldn't have been killed by the poison gas, but he definitely would have been stung to death by these toxic bees.
Ethan picked up a Fart Bee.
Then, he stared at the faintly glowing green stinger for quite a while.
[Fart Bee Venom Stinger: Its toxicity is three times that of the toxic gas, and it also has a mild pain effect. It is a very good weapon for defending against enemies.]
[PS: You didn't know Fart Bees can shoot their stingers, right? But they can only shoot once in their lifetime, because they die after shooting. Scary, huh? If it were you, would you still dare to shoot?]
"Hmm..."
Ethan took another look at the stinger.
Then he did a bit of mental math. The slight poison gas that leaked out through the crack in the door had allowed him to reach Poison Resistance Level 2.
And after entering the stone chamber, relying on the dense poison gas inside, he had raised it to Level 3.
But once Level 3 was full, it wouldn't go up anymore.
And this stinger was exactly three times as toxic as the poisonous gas!
So that means…
≖‿≖✧
"Screw it, stab me!"
Ethan pulled out a long stinger and viciously stabbed it straight into his own thigh.
"Ahhh!"
He screamed in agony.
His thigh instantly felt like it had been pierced clean through by a sword.
Or like when your balls get crushed in a door. Anyway, it was definitely not some "mild pain." Ethan felt like the damn system had tricked him.
The stinger looked small, but its destructive power was truly...
"It hurts so bad!"
But very soon, that dizzy, lightheaded sensation swept over him once again.
"Here it comes! That feeling is back!"
[Ding! Poison Resistance +3]
'Hahaha! Just as I thought.'
It started leveling up again.
At this moment, Ethan truly felt pain and happiness at the same time. Even though the sting from the stinger was hard to endure, the sense of leveling up afterward was unbelievably satisfying.
And, Ethan also realized that the pain from the stinger was actually only temporary.
When it first pierced in, maybe because it carried venom, it hurt quite a bit. But afterward, it wasn't that bad anymore.
It was probably about the same level of pain as getting a shot.
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