One demon beast after another pounced on the enemy Bug Nest, splattering green liquid everywhere. The carapace outside the Bug Nest was already riddled with pits. This was a Third Order Bug Nest.
What puzzled Su Xiao was the sheer number of Bug Nests in the inner part of the base camp forest—so many that it was abnormal. As they had swept through the area, the demon beast army had already destroyed 56 First Order Bug Nests, 26 Second Order Bug Nests, and four Third Order Bug Nests.
This density was far too different from the density of Bug Nests near the base camp. In an area of the same size, there were only a dozen or so Bug Nests around the base camp, while there were at least forty in the inner forest.
All kinds of signs showed that Red Calamity had not lied before. The Bug Nests near the base camp had all been released by the Marg Bug Nest. That Fourth Order Bug Nest would clear them out once a year, then continue raising them, repeating the cycle.
The current density of Bug Nests was what could be considered normal. Aside from the Totem Tribe, Bug Nests rarely had natural enemies. As long as they did not provoke certain extraordinary creatures, they could develop at a steady, if not particularly fast, pace.
Only now did Su Xiao realize that the base camp had been placed in a somewhat wrong location.
Of course, placing the base camp there had its advantages. Its early development had been relatively peaceful. With the Marg Bug Nest suppressing them, the nearby Bug Nests did not wage war against each other for limited resources. There were many wild animals around them, which the Marg Bug Nest had deliberately left for them.
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