Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire

Chapter 233 - 233: To boldly go

On that day, the Bee Empire entered a new wave of expansion, larger than the ones we had before.

Humans, despite my fears, didn't try to act out again. The gifts of gold must've been more than valuable to calm people down and make them eager to trade more.

I couldn't be there, watching their every move, so I passed this to Explanatory, who was studying humans anyway. B568-114 took a semi-permanent position under Explanatory's wing. There, she was going to learn how to sneak around Commando-style, and then spy on humans and their thoughts, while also transferring my trade requests.

She also finally chose herself a name, which she proudly announced when I came to see her off.

"I liked to make beasts listen to me, but it feels better, more right, to carry other's voices. It's hard to have my own voice—I don't want it. I'd rather be Carries-Voices instead, and I hope this will stay with Re

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These technologies, besides being great on their own, gave me 400 development points together—but it was still not enough to reach the development level 8.

So one of my first orders was to prepare the founding of new hives all the way to the borders of humans. Of course, the closest hives will have to be well-fortified, just in case.

I didn't plan to mix with humans at this stage—just be close enough to conveniently transport their items.

Hundreds of thousands of bees began building work camps that would lately become waypoints for the railroad or their own hives. One of them would be Rulia's new hive, while the rest belonged to Queens that I and Ambrosia made together.

The old-fashioned way, of course, which meant they would have to spend a month growing and learning.

Undecided and her Oracles were an unexpected source of help with establishing new hives. Their probability assessment—or finding the most solid points in dreams, as they called it—helped immensely with finding best and worst spots.

It felt very much like cheating—I basically stole knowledge from myself from the future, thanks to them! The time fuckery involved... I didn't want to even think about it.

They also could make weather forecasts now—about as reliable as weather forecasts on Earth. This was useful, too, since work had to slow down or stop during storms.

In just two weeks since the humans accepted my ultimatum, twenty large new camps have been built, and Worker Bees eager to work for the Empire or explore new grounds have settled in there.

During this time, a few humans from the village took horses left from Zash's people and rode toward distant human lands. I'd be worried about it, if Carries-Voices didn't read the thoughts of humans beforehand and told them to me.

A few days later, the humans returned without all their horses but one; instead, they had an entire cart of foodstuffs. The villagers won't go hungry this season. I was sure that my gold had bought a notable part of this cart.

(By now, I really wanted to get one human and interrogate him about their culture and politics, but despite working with us, they still prayed in their temple so that their gods would protect them from spirits' ill temper. The more mysterious and knowledgeable we appeared, the safer it was for us.)

Craftsmen, besides iron rails, were making iron tools, too. Steel tools would be even better, but iron tools were cheaper to make. With more Craftsmen Bees being trained than ever before, they could smith hundreds of thousands in record time!

And with each created tool, the development level 8 approached.

But it wasn't until two more weeks passed that I got it at last…