Sour Soup Hot Pot (continued)

When people go out to collect, they usually only take half of what they find.

The nests of the Green Downy Insect are relatively rare, but no one intends to take all of them away.

The person in charge of collecting the insect nests quickly collected half of them and told the others that they could fill the soil back in.

Once the soil is backfilled, and a tunnel is left for the Green Downy Insect, they will build their nests in the same spot again.

Next time people come back, they might find this insect nest and take half of it.

Jian Mo had been staring intently at the insect hive, watching everyone's movements, when she suddenly said, "Wait."

Everyone was puzzled. "What's wrong?"

Jian Mo pondered for a moment and said, "Don't you guys think this insect nest is unusually new? The outermost part is almost as new as the innermost part."

This viewpoint is quite novel. After observing it for a while, everyone agreed with his opinion, "It is indeed quite novel, but what's wrong with it?"

Jian Mo tried to reason. "The insect hive is so new, which means they probably only moved here recently. The entire hive was built at once and hasn't been expanded. Since they only moved here recently, there must be other insect hives nearby, otherwise where would they have moved from?"

Jian Mo was unfamiliar with Green Downy Insect, but she was familiar with bees.

While in school, as a veterinarian, he also took courses related to beekeeping, which would have been useful if he had worked in a veterinary station or similar place after graduation.

According to the habits of insects, even if they move, they will usually not go too far from their original place, but will find a familiar place to continue to settle down - if there are no natural enemies in the original place.

Everyone hadn't thought of this point, but after thinking about it, they realized it made sense:

"Shall we look around for any other nests of Green Downy Insect nearby?"

"Green Downy Insect so small, they're probably hard to find."

"Ya Zheng is here? Ya Zheng, aren't you from the Giant Armor Beast clan? With your sense of smell, you should be able to find us, right?"

"Let's split up and search. First, look for small holes in the ground. Once you find Ya Zheng, you can come over and smell it."

After some initial discussion, everyone decided on a search strategy.

Jian Mo, along with Qing Kuo and Ye Luo, led the way and continued searching for the nest of the Green Downy Insect.

During their search, they found a lot of wild vegetables, bird eggs, and insects. They unceremoniously collected any edible food into their baskets.

While they hadn't found anything, another group of orcs from the Riverside Tribe spotted a suspected cave and quickly called for Ya Zheng to come over.

Ya Zheng sniffed it and, sure enough, smelled the scent of Green Downy Insect.

Without any hesitation, everyone rushed over and started digging. Sure enough, they soon found another nest of Green Downy Insect. They took half of the nest, filled it back with the excavated soil, leaving only a tunnel for the Green Downy Insect to continue entering and exiting.

Having learned from their first experience, everyone quickly tried to find the third nest of Green Downy Insect. According to their observation, the nest of the second nest of Green Downy Insect was also quite new, and did not seem to have been there for a long time.

According to Jian Mo, this nest of Green Downy Insect was not as easy to identify as the first nest, and it didn't look very new.

However, since everyone said this insect nest was new, he didn't have any objections. Anyway, there was no harm in continuing to search with everyone, and he could also gather other spices or food along the way.

During the search, Jian Mo wondered, "The nests of the Green Downy Insect are so useful, why don't people raise some? If you've already dug up the nests, it should be easy to dig up the Green Downy Insect inside as well, right?"

Qing Kuo: "The various tribes did try raising them before, but not a single brood survived. As soon as people moved them, they wouldn't leave the nest; they would die inside, rendering the nest unusable."

Jian Mo curiously, "Don't they like the smell of humans? If the nest is broken in half like this, will they still want to live inside?"

Qing Kuo: "That's not a problem, I just don't know how they make that judgment."

Jian Mo: "That's certainly quite peculiar. Oh, and there's another question—"

Qing Kuo said helplessly, "Why do you have so many questions?"

Jian Mo: "The last one."

Qing Kuo had no choice but to say, "Go ahead and ask."

Jian Mo coughed lightly. "Exactly, is using an insect nest really useful for pregnant babies? Your two babies—"

Qing Kuo tapped Jian Mo on the head and refused to answer.

Ye Luo chuckled silently to herself, offering no reply.

Jian Mo guessed that it must have been used, otherwise it wouldn't have reacted this way.

While they were searching on this side, news came from the other two sides at the same time that they had found it.

After digging it open, there were indeed two more nests of Green Downy Insect, one of which was particularly large and old.

After that, they couldn't find any other insect nests.

There are probably only these four insect nests in this area.

The sun was high in the sky, and it was getting hot, so everyone hurried to the temporary camp.

On the way, the two tribes of orcs divided up the insect hives.

We found four insect nests today, two for each tribe, evenly distributed.

The two tribes then allocated the resources according to their own circumstances.

Back at the camp, both single and partnered orcs of the Riverside Tribe each took a portion of the insect hive.

Jian Mo also had two pieces in her hand.

Qing Kuo specifically instructed, "Use it after you return to the tribe."

Jian Mo's ears turned red. "Am I such an unreliable person?"

Qing Kuo shrugged. "Who knows? Young couples are all pretty impulsive."

Jian Mo: "We wouldn't come to that."

Jian Mo stuffed the insect nest into a clean jar, and then covered the mouth of the jar with a cloth, making sure it was completely sealed.

When the orcs returned, they noticed the atmosphere in the temporary camp was a bit strange and asked them about it, but were unanimously told by the sub-orcs to mind their own business.

Wu Jiong also asked Jian Mo in a low voice.

Jian Mo glanced at him and brought her hand to his nose.

He recognized it immediately by the smell. "Green Downy Insect?"

Jian Mo nodded mysteriously, tapped the jar lightly with her finger, making a soft "ding" sound, indicating that it was inside the jar.