Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 302: Dangerous scent

Not expecting the answer to reach her soon, Whisper decided to leave the cover of the place from where she sent her reports—Farini's hat.

By now Farini got so used to keeping Whisper inside that his hat had windows for Whisper to look or exit through. If she brought wax tablets with her, she had enough light to read or write.

And Farini washed his hair more often.

Whisper crawled through the hat's window-hole and looked outside. Farini was still kneeling near the building temple, and his thoughts were still full of heavy concerns.

He also hoped that building this temple would miraculously heal the plague—this was why he spent so much time there. Whisper didn't like that, but if she discouraged him from praying, Farini ended up acting nervously and erratically all day.

So Whisper let him. He was more useful when calm, anyway.

How Farini could concentrate when there was a noisy building site around, she had no idea. Just several hundred meters away, several dozen humans were carrying materials, mixing mortar, laying bricks and shouting at each other, while B666666's bees buzzed around, checking that the work was done well.

The noise carried all the way to Whisper's position. It scared away all small beasts—even the little colorful dragons and feathered lizards, which were usually as bold as they were stupid, ran away from the noise. The large insects also either fled or were chased off by a dozen of patrolling Beemarines.

Other buildings and humans inhabiting them were also far away, even if visible from here. The temple was being built closer to the edge of the city Farini's army camped at, simply because there was space—a chunk of wild forest growing right in the middle of humans' settlement.

Well, it was a forest for bees. Humans hardly noticed it.

Now the forest itself was trampled by their hands or destroyed by the temple's foundation.

Only things like gnats and worms remained near the building site, since they were too numerous and not dangerous enough to bother with unless they evolved into something aggressive.

This was why it was so shocking when a builder laying bricks in the roof's dome suddenly screamed and fell, kicking down a stack of bricks and falling from the scaffolding. The bricks scattered around and fell to the ground, almost crushing another builder below.

As he fell, the man was convulsing in pain with his jaws trying to grasp air, as if stung by Father himself! Then his pain ended as he landed on his neck and broke it under the weight of his body.

Shouts and gasps ran over the other builders. People dropped or set aside their things to run toward the body splayed on the ground.

Farini shot to his feet so fast, Whisper almost fell off his head.

'What's going on?!' he thought. 'An accident?'

Whisper already was asking the head of Beemarine patrol and B666666 the same. However, only one of them could actually answer her from this distance.

'One of us saw the human scream, then fall, but we saw no one who could've wounded him, Agent Whisper,' the Sergeant Beemarine replied. She was about Whisper's age and had long-range telepathy. 'I already asked for reinforcements from Commander Bloodimina's camp and prepared to search the area for the enemy.'

Whisper flew higher from Farini's head and stretched out her antennae.

Although Agents were just called Agents thanks to their unique "system" titles, they had a genetic morphotype of a Beehound. Whisper had an excellent sense of smell (because of which she was very grateful for Farini's increased hygiene).

Now that a human's smell didn't overpower any others, she could catch whiffs of dozens of other scent trails. Most of them belonged to other humans.

With their ability to sweat, they filled *everything* with their scent, to Whisper's annoyance.

But below that, she could feel more. The bravest of small beasts, the most harmless of insects… and a sharp scent that made Whisper's hackles rise even though she never felt it before in her life.

'There's someone dangerous nearby. An unknown enemy! So watch out,' Whisper messaged both to Farini and the bees that gathered in one place near the unfinished temple. 'Farini, calm down your people! They must look out to find this creature, or a least stay quiet so *we* can do it.'

Thankfully, Farini was already on his way to do it. Their lord's authority made people quieten even before he started to speak in sharp, hissing and clicking sounds.

In less than a minute, the fearful humans went quiet and bowed their heads to him. Farini ordered a couple men to get a wheel cart (previously used to move around bricks) and take the body to the dead house.

Whisper messaged Explanatory and asked her to send a Physician to find out what stung the dead human.

But she knew it would take some time before any reinforcements or new information arrived. The temple was too far from Bloodimina's and Explanatory's main position.

Whisper waved her antennae and felt this dangerous scent again. The creature that carried it was still in the vicinity.

'Farini, stay near my sisters. The enemy might attack again until it's not found. I sense it nearby.'

The man crossed the distance to swarming bees in several long steps, stopping a hundred meters away, then looked around tensely while holding one of his hands on the hand of his sword. Other humans copied his movements by pure human instinct.

The swarming bees were mostly Builders. The Beemarines spread around, searching for the enemies in a spreading spiral.

'But what kind of enemy is this, holy Whisper?' Farini asked in alarm. 'A venomous snake? An evil spirit?'

Whisper landed on Farini's shoulder and shrugged, even though he wasn't looking at her.

'Perhaps my sisters will find out soon. It's—'

Whisper paused, seeing B666666 suddenly bolting toward her. A few other Builders waved their arms in agitation.

'B666666?' Whisper asked telepathically, but the Builder was *still* too far to even shout back.

Then, the wind blew the dangerous scent toward Whisper again. From way too close!