Whole School Transmigrated: I Have 3 Daily Intel

It showed no reaction, which meant the area was safe for now.

It also allowed Chen Chong and the others to press on without worry...

Time trickled by, and an hour and a half passed before they realized it.

The dense, sky-blotting trees around them began to thin out, and the thickets of bushes and wild grass grew sparser.

Finally, after the group crossed a dry, leaf-strewn clearing, a grove of short trees appeared ahead...

Whether it was due to different tree species or the soil itself, the vegetation in the two areas was starkly different.

Aside from a small clearing covered in rotting leaves that separated them, the area behind them was filled with dense weeds and tall trees. Ahead lay short, three-to-four-meter-tall trees of some unknown species.

The grove stretched as far as the eye could see; it was immense...

Chen Chong and his companions stepped inside, moving cautiously since it was their first time here.

That included Zhang Meng. Though he’d been here before, he had only ever foraged for food along the perimeter and had never ventured this deep.

No one knew where to find the poisonous bees that had stung so many people.

As unique creatures they had never seen before, native only to this world, they knew they couldn’t judge them by the behavior of ordinary wild bees...

As they ventured deeper into the grove, the group got a clearer look at their surroundings.

The half-meter-tall weeds and sight-obscuring bushes common to the Primitive Jungle were gone. All that remained were sparse, stalky plants and a few piles of dead grass.

They walked for a long time. Aside from some dark, unremarkable fruit scattered on the ground, they saw no sign of poisonous bees or mud pits.

Nor had they found a single trace of the Vermilion Fruit!

"Brother Chong, are you sure that classmate you ran into told you there were mud pits in here?"

"Yeah, Chen Chong, we’ve been wandering around for so long we’re almost lost, and we still haven’t found any Vermilion Fruit. We haven’t even seen a single poisonous bee. This grove is massive. Searching like this is getting us nowhere..."

Huang Mao and Zhang Meng voiced their concerns one after another.

Chen Chong thought for a moment before saying, "Alright, let’s split into two teams and check different directions. Wang Biao and I will be one team. You and Huang Mao will be the other."

"Deal!"

The four of them split up and headed in two different directions...

After they had walked for some time, the Tiger Striped Dog, which had been trotting closely at their heels, suddenly lifted its head and stared deep into the woods as if watching something.

Chen Chong stopped. He knew this usually meant the Tiger Striped Dog had found something.

"Hu Zi?"

The Tiger Striped Dog shot forward, its legs pumping furiously, and quickly vanished from sight.

Chen Chong stared, dumbfounded.

’It wasn’t just the Tiger Striped Dog’s appearance and size that had changed. Its speed was ridiculously fast now, too.’

Just as Chen Chong was about to take Wang Biao and follow, the Tiger Striped Dog, which had been gone for less than ten seconds, came running back.

It was carrying something in its mouth...

"A tuft... of brown fur?"

Chen Chong took the fur from the Tiger Striped Dog’s mouth, his brow furrowed. ’From a wild boar?’

’Doesn’t seem like it.’

’Aren’t a boar’s bristles supposed to be stiffer?’

"Take a look and see what kind of beast this is from."

Chen Chong couldn’t identify the animal, so he handed the fur to Wang Biao.

Wang Biao took it and observed it carefully, then held it to his nose and sniffed.

"Sir, if I’m not mistaken, this is bear fur!"

"Bear fur?"

Chen Chong froze. Looking at the fur’s deep brown color, he wondered, ’Could it be a brown bear?’

There was an old saying about the most dangerous animals: first the boar, second the bear, and third the tiger.

In the jungle, these three animals were the undisputed apex predators, the beasts humans feared encountering most.

’For the Tiger Striped Dog to bring this fur back... is there a brown bear carcass up ahead?’

"Come on, let’s go check it out. Hu Zi, lead the way!"

WOOF—

The Tiger Striped Dog took off, but this time it slowed its pace, as if waiting for Chen Chong.

A short while later, after running less than five hundred meters, a grayish figure appeared before them.

It was the carcass of a brown bear!

However, it wasn’t the mountain-like body he had imagined. Instead, it was shriveled, looking like a tattered fur coat tossed on the ground.

As Chen Chong and Wang Biao approached, a powerful stench assaulted their nostrils, and their faces contorted in disgust.

The brown bear was dead, and it was impossible to tell for how long.

Its flesh had long been devoured by some unknown beast, its organs hollowed out, leaving only a skeleton draped with bearskin on the ground.

Scattered on the ground around it were the shriveled bodies of several fist-sized creatures.

Despite their desiccated state, it was still possible to make out their former appearance.

They had black, ring-like stripes, two pairs of transparent wings, black compound eyes, enormous pincers, and a massive stinger at their rear.

They looked remarkably similar to hornets, but they were larger, and their pincers and stingers were far more terrifying...

"Sir, could these be... the poisonous bees?"

Chen Chong nodded. "Most likely. This brown bear was probably stung to death by them."

Wang Biao’s face fell. Only now did he truly realize just how terrifying these poisonous bees were.

It was one thing for the bees to sting a person—after all, without proper protection, humans are fragile. Even an ant could injure them.

But a brown bear was different.

As an omnivore, its diet was incredibly broad, and it included honey, a food rich in energy and nutrients.

In the wild, brown bears use their sensitive sense of smell to locate beehives.

Their naturally thick fur and heavy layers of subcutaneous fat offered maximum protection against the stings of wild bees.

Furthermore, their high pain tolerance and natural resistance to venom allowed them to shrug off most stings...

The larger the bear, the stronger its resistance!

This brown bear, though now just skin and bones, had a skeleton indicating it was over two meters long in life. Its weight had likely exceeded a thousand pounds.

A brown bear of this size was something even a tiger wouldn’t dare to provoke. It was an undisputed apex predator, second only to Extraordinary Creatures.

And yet... it had been stung to death by a swarm of poisonous bees.

’The power of these bees is just too terrifying, isn’t it?’

Compared to Wang Biao’s shock, Chen Chong was much calmer. He already knew a bit about these bees.

Information about them was recorded in his Jungle Atlas...

[Name: Fierce Poisonous Bee]

[Type: Insect]

[Description: A fist-sized, omnivorous bee. It possesses pincer-like jaws capable of tearing flesh and a finger-length stinger. When encountering an enemy, it will first pounce and bite frenziedly before injecting its stinger. The venom from a single bee can knock a wild wolf unconscious, a creature many times its own size. An overdose is fatal. After stinging, the Fierce Poisonous Bee will die. They do not typically initiate attacks unless their hive is attacked or its territory is invaded, at which point they will indiscriminately attack all living things in the vicinity.]

[Hint: While dangerous, the Fierce Poisonous Bee is extremely fond of harvesting the Fire Silk Flower. The Fire Silk Honey produced in their hives is edible, incredibly delicious, and has properties that strengthen the body and act as an antidote to poisons.]

Recalling the information on the Fierce Poisonous Bee, Chen Chong looked back at the bear’s corpse and couldn’t help but be amazed.

’The venom from a single, fist-sized bee could knock out a wolf hundreds of times its size.’

’There were at least forty or fifty dead Fierce Poisonous Bees on the ground. With that much venom pumped into it, no wonder this thousand-pound brown bear croaked.’

’The big lug probably tried to raid their hive. It got what was coming to it...’

’Then again, as terrifying as the Fierce Poisonous Bees are, at least they aren’t impossible to handle. We just have to avoid attacking them or stepping into their hive’s territory.’

’The only problem is... how large is that territory? The description is a bit ambiguous.’

’And that Fire Silk Honey sounds like good stuff.’

The Jungle Atlas didn’t just have an entry for the Fierce Poisonous Bee; it also had information on the Fire Silk Flower.

This flower was another one of this world’s unique plants. It typically grew in dangerous, hard-to-reach places where only birds and insects could get to it.

True to its name, it was brilliantly colored, like a blossoming flame.

It was also as dangerous as a flame.

If the temperature grew too high, or if it was struck by lightning, the Fire Silk Flower would spontaneously combust.

It would then eject flaming, downy seeds that would drift far and wide.

The fire would burn away the seed’s outer shell, helping it land and take root. It would also incinerate the surrounding vegetation, creating a nutrient-rich ash that provided a more favorable environment for the new plant to grow.

Most of the time, they were the cause of the majority of fires in the Primitive Jungle...

Chen Chong had been stunned when he first read the entry for the Fire Silk Flower.

’This thing’s reproduction method is so devious! Not only is it a form of suicidal seeding, but it takes a whole patch of vegetation down with it.’

’You’d only find something like this in the world after I transmigrated. Back on Earth, a plant like this would have been eradicated on sight.’

’Still, the Fire Silk Honey made from its nectar... now that’s a real treasure.’

’It strengthens the body and can even cure poison!’

’If I ever get the chance, it would be great to have some of that stored at home...’

"Sir, there’s something here!"

Just then, Wang Biao seemed to have found something and quickly called out to Chen Chong...

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