Beside the Bug Nest in the base camp, fifteen thousand Demon Beasts stood ready. This was already a formidable force. An ordinary third-stage Bug Nest could withstand them for only a few minutes at most, provided those Zerg queens did not produce more troops.
With the Thorny Flower Bug Nest developed to this extent, it had already hit a bottleneck. To continue growing, it could only venture deeper into the base camp forest.
Su Xiao had explored only about a third of this forest. He had barely explored the inner regions. A great river at least a hundred meters wide ran through that area, cutting the entire forest in two.
The swamp to the south had already been fully explored. Beyond the swamp lay a poisonous fog zone. Even with the Demon Beasts' resistance, they would be corroded by the poisonous fog within a few minutes.
It was not that the area could not be explored, but that there was no need. According to Bubu Wang's observations, a gigantic red frog lived deep within the poisonous fog. With that poisonous frog there, no other Bug Nest could exist in the nearby area.
To the north lay the vast grassland where the Sacrificial God Bull resided, so that area was not under consideration for now. To the east was the territory of the Sun Tribe. With the Thorny Flower Bug Nest's current size, it clearly could not go up against the Sun Tribe.
In other words, to continue developing, they could only venture deeper into the base camp forest and cross the river afterward.
Just as Su Xiao was planning the route, a Demon Beast stationed two kilometers away issued an alert. The area within a ten-kilometer diameter centered on the Bug Nest was all territory of the Thorny Flower Zerg.