Chapter 3: Spider Bug Nest
The Spider Bug Nest had been paying a mining share to the Raging Armor Bug Nest all along, which was why the fifth-rank Spider Bug Nest hadn't been wiped out. These lower-rank bug nests all had their own backers, and the Spider Bug Nest's backer was the Raging Armor Bug Nest.
The Priest must have known this, so after Su Xiao destroyed the Spider Bug Nest, he immediately sought out the Insect Race Leader, Raging Armor, and commissioned him to destroy Su Xiao's bug nest.
Raging Armor had one of his sources of life ore cut off, so of course he wouldn't let it go. Combined with the Priest's commission, Raging Armor decided to act.
The name Raging Armor sounded fierce, but in reality, Raging Armor was cautious and insidious. He showed sufficient caution toward the suddenly appearing Jila tribe, and recognized that Jila wasn't a native insect race but an outsider.
Therefore, Raging Armor cultivated insect races with the same form as the "Horned Hounds" and left such corpses at the battle site, hoping to make Jila, who had just arrived here, touch the authority of the "Kara Bug Nest."
It was well known that the "Kara Bug Nest," as one of the major eighth-rank bug nests, had strength that needed no elaboration. Moreover, the Insect Race Mother Queen, Kara, was famously cold and vengeful. Any slight touch from their side would surely invite thunderous retaliation.
Considering that their side had just arrived in this world and was in a state of knowing nothing, Raging Armor's tactic of using a borrowed knife to kill had a high success rate. What was even more clever was that their side had previously captured the Spider Mother Queen alive, and could extract from her mouth that the Horned Hounds were one of the representative combat insect races of the "Kara Bug Nest."
Thinking of these things, Su Xiao temporarily set a small goal: first stabilize the situation and develop, then destroy the Insect Race Leader, Raging Armor.
As Su Xiao was thinking this, one of the nearby pseudo-Horned Hound corpses rose, driven by Raging Armor's consciousness.
"I can selectively forget about this attack. How about we cooperate?"
Su Xiao spoke. Upon hearing this, the pseudo-Horned Hound corpse controlled by Raging Armor narrowed its eyes and asked, "How... cooperate?"
"Our side has just arrived in this noble land and needs a large amount of biological energy to recover from damage. You should be able to imagine what kind of damage occurs after crossing a long journey."
What Su Xiao said was not false. Most of the previous activation rent had been used by Jila to recover mental damage. Pure lies won't be believed, but lies built on truth can be easily accepted.
"All insect races... need... biological energy. Not just... you."
Raging Armor's tone was cold and indifferent, but he didn't show any intention of turning hostile. Su Xiao had been forceful enough just now, making Raging Armor momentarily unable to gauge the strength of Su Xiao's side.
"I'm mining a life ore vein. This will be a long process. If I'm not mistaken, that vein originally had a share for you?"
"Yes."
Raging Armor no longer concealed it and directly stated that he was the Spider Mother Queen's protector.
"How much did the Spider give you?"
"Four-fifths."
Hearing this, Su Xiao understood. No wonder the Spider Mother Queen, sitting on such a vein and mining for a long time, was still so poor. It turned out she had been paying protection fees.
Su Xiao had felt something was wrong before. How could a bug nest as weak as the Spider Bug Nest survive here? And even possess a vein.
That was why, after occupying the Spider Bug Nest, he didn't directly attack the next fifth-rank bug nest neighbor. Now it seemed this decision was very correct. If that fifth-rank bug nest happened to be an affiliate of the "Crimson Queen Bug Nest" or the "Kara Bug Nest," things would be very bad.
At this stage, their side still couldn't directly confront eighth-rank bug nest forces like the "Crimson Queen Bug Nest" or the "Kara Bug Nest."
"Our two sides split fifty-fifty. In the first few days, our side urgently needs resources, so we'll have to wait 8 days before giving you the first batch of life ore shares."
Su Xiao spoke with a calm expression. His words could be interpreted in different ways. The normal interpretation was the literal meaning. A deeper interpretation was: 'Raging Armor, you wait first. In 8 days, I'll destroy you.'
"At most, I'll wait... 3 days."
Raging Armor spoke. To be honest, this was the first time Su Xiao had seen someone in such a hurry to die.
"6 days."
Hearing Su Xiao say this, Raging Armor's aura on the other side began to turn hostile.
"At most 5 days."
Raging Armor's voice had already shown anger.
"Deal."
Su Xiao finalized this 'deal.' As soon as it was settled, the pseudo-Horned Hound corpse driven by Raging Armor fell to the ground, turning into dark red blood.
Thus, the deeper interpretation of Su Xiao's earlier words changed, becoming: 'Raging Armor, you wait first. In 5 days, I'll destroy you.'