She hated most bugs, but mostly those that reminded her of aliens. On the other hand, if the bug was useful enough, she wouldn’t mind it.

Without thinking, she took it inside the space and then headed inside. She watched as it flew around the soil areas, as if studying its new home, before flying over to her.

Naia wondered if it would attack her, but the space was practically her domain, and she couldn’t be in danger here.

Sure enough, it stopped in front of her face and hovered there. She wondered what it wanted to do, but...it did not do anything.

She blinked and lifted her finger. "Sit here," she said. Surprisingly, with a few buzz, it really did land on it.

Her eyebrows rose in interest.

It could understand her?

After a few trials, she figured out that it could not understand language, but it could understand her will. For example, as long as it was within her space, her thoughts and unspoken instructions would be sent out.

She tested this by telling it to go to, say, a strawberry plant without saying which of the plants it was. It would go to whichever piece she had been eyeing at the time.

She decided to experiment and check if, once outside her space, it would still be in her control. If they were, then it’d feel a bit spiritual.

She took the bee outside, giving it an order to go around once. Before it could fly a meter away from her, a swift shadow approached, and Naia saw a beak opening, intending on eating the bee whole!

!!!!

Cluck!

"Big C, Stop!" she yelled, covering the bee with one hand and grabbing the rooster’s feet with the other.

She gasped, looking at the rooster struggling while hanging upside down.

Goodness gracious—her bee almost got eaten!

While protecting the bee in her palms, she went out of the fence area, and only then did she let the rooster go.

Cluck! Cluck!

Naia ignored the hot-tempered rooster and looked at the bee floating in front of her. Its flight was a bit shaky now, though, obviously shocked by all the action.

"Take me to your hive," she said, and she followed the bee into the forest, entering and heading deeper into the forest.

Naia had been running along the edges of the forest during her exercises, so she knew it was safe. Even if there were wild animals, she wasn’t afraid of them.

Surprisingly, it took several minutes before they actually reached it. Natural beehives could form in various places, whether it was on cliff sides, trees, and so on.

A relatively common place would be trees, but not any tree would do.

According to the internet, they liked large hardwood trees, or old trees with hollow trunks, trees with strong horizontal branches, and trees with dense canopies. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

When the bee stopped, she found out that the beehive was on a mango tree! The tree itself was just over 4 meters, and the beehive was somewhere 3 meters above ground.

She could see the hundreds of bees zooming around their hive. She wanted the beehive, but she also felt bad to disturb them.

Should she get a beekeeper? She heard there was one in a neighboring village.

Or...she could just take the whole tree.

Look...it was even flowering now. Wouldn’t she get mangoes within a few weeks if it grew in her space?

The tree was relatively young, only 5 meters high, which would fit in her space. It was just that its crown and root system were a bit broad, so it would take over quite a bit of space.

In the end, she decided to take the whole piece of land it was on, including the shrubs, ferns, herbs, and so on. She killed the parasites (and there was a lot), but kept almost everything else.

She got a bit dizzy with this action. However, she noted that it was less intense than when she took a shrub for the first time.

Thinking of this, she smiled in relief. It looked like with the constant practice of her abilities and the more the space ’ate’, the lesser the strain she had to suffer.

...

She got back right before dinner. It might also be the final dinner she’d have with her grandmother for a while, so she decided to make the most of it. She was really coquettish, and Grandma cooked all her favorite dishes. He-he.

She had to admit that her time pn the farm was the happiest she had been in a long time. She not only learned a lot, and she also found the long-lost unconditional warmth from family.

Somehow, their conversation went to the twins, and then which prospective colleges they could go to. And then it went over to Naia’s university life.

"College is overrated," she said, shrugging. "Besides, I can enter a local university if I feel like it. I just want to take a break for now."

Grandma looked reluctant but nodded in the end. While thinking of topics, she seemed to have remembered something.

"Ah, yes, College is indeed overrated," the old woman nodded. "You know, there’s gossip today. We had a neighbor who went to college several years ago. The family spent their entire savings so they could send him to the city.

"They hadn’t heard from him for a while and were worried something had happened. They even reported to the police! But then the police said he was fine, and they went to check on him instead.

"They just came back today. Apparently, they were shunned! Tsktsk! A pity, such a pity. Sacrificing so much for a child like that is really bad luck.

"Of course, some parents don’t deserve such filial piety," Grandma couldn’t help but add, thinking of that dastardly former son-in-law of hers.

"In some cases, parents owe their child. What about your father’s wealth? Your mother worked hard for that, and you’re the one who deserves it, not that mistress and her spawn."

Had she known how Nadia was treated in that house, she definitely would’ve made a scene long ago.

"Speaking of this, Grandma," Naia said, remembering her itinerary the next day onwards. "I might have to go and take a look at one of my future properties."