The camp on this side had not suffered an attack from the Soldier Bugs as Dong Tianyu had anticipated. Instead, the days passed as usual without any significant change.

At the time, when the survivors in the camp saw the strange phenomena in the sky, many began purchasing supplies within the camp. With the newly opened road to Pengville City, many believed that the defenses at Saxon County Camp were inadequate and prepared to move their families into the camps on the Pengville side.

However, they did not know that there indeed was a highly defended camp in Pengville, but that camp belonged to the Officials and did not accept ordinary survivors. The ordinary camps, where they could freely relocate to, had defense facilities that were not as complete as those in Saxon County.

After a few days of calm, the unrest that had arisen within the camp gradually subsided. The survivors in the camp were still somewhat worried deep down, but because there had been no insect tide attacking the city as imagined, the situation inside remained relatively stable.

What no one knew was that the Soldier Bugs had not stopped expanding since their arrival.

Initially, near Bug Mountain, because of the anomalies in the sky, many ancient creatures fled the area. Only a few ancient creatures that did not flee and some immobile mutated plants became easy prey for the Soldier Bugs nurturing their bodies.

However, as the area of the Soldier Bugs’ expansion gradually increased and their forces became more dispersed, and the ancient creatures that had been driven away began to fight back, the expansion rate of the Soldier Bugs was temporarily contained.

This containment could not last long, however, because the unique communication methods of the Soldier Bugs meant that they would massively summon others when encountering tough ’bones’ to chew on.

The reason the Bug Race is known as a natural disaster is due to their disregard for life and death, and their habit of leaving no vegetation wherever they go. Thus, even when faced with large, medium-sized ancient creatures, the Soldier Bugs would fight them without regard for their own lives.

Although the rift in the sky had closed and the Soldier Bugs no longer had reinforcements, during the time the rift was open, no less than a million Soldier Bugs poured out from a single rift.

Thus, even if the ancient creatures temporarily contained the Soldier Bugs’ expansion, as soon as the Soldier Bugs changed strategy and concentrated their forces in one direction, their expansion speed began to increase again.

The Saxon County Camp was fortunate not to be on the route of the Soldier Bugs’ forward expansion.

Watching the direction of the Soldier Bugs’ advance, Dong Tianyu knew that Pengville could not avoid this insect disaster.

After a year of peace, Pengville’s development was better than Dong Tianyu had imagined. While the Soldier Bugs marched toward Pengville, drones patrolling around the city had already discovered their route.

Once they confirmed the route of the Soldier Bugs, they immediately informed all the survivor camps on the path, ordering them to move swiftly.

Unlike the high walls of Saxon County Camp, the camps around Pengville, despite naturally forming into a few larger camps due to an earthquake, mostly had only simple wooden walls.

They had not, like Saxon County, spent a great cost to build steel-reinforced concrete walls after acquiring funding.

So, upon confirming the route of the Soldier Bugs’ march, they quickly arranged for the survivors within those camps to relocate to other camps.

The marching route of the Soldier Bugs was not a straight line but rather a mode of advancing while hunting on the sides. Sometimes they would change direction upon encountering powerful ancient creatures or fierce mutated plants, but overall they advanced towards Pengville.

Perhaps the Soldier Bugs had discovered the towering ancient tree in the center of Pengville City. Regardless of how twisted and deviated their route became, their eventual direction of advance was always towards that massive tree.

Because the camp had not been attacked by the Soldier Bugs, Dong Tianyu could not help but take to the skies to observe, wielding his Sword Control.

In the past, Dong Tianyu had flown in the sky many times without spotting many other aerial vehicles, but this time, as soon as he took flight, his Divine Sense detected various types of flying machines.

Common unmanned drones or helicopters aside, the more peculiar flying machines, mostly visible by their appearance, were clearly the products of craftsman geniuses. In addition, some Awakeners with the ability to fly due to their unique treasures were also flying, monitoring the army of Soldier Bugs. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

This blatant surveillance was naturally noticed by the Soldier Bugs on the ground. However, they lacked the ability to fly and their jumping power was not strong, so they could only howl to the sky in threat at the creatures or things monitoring them from above, then continue to advance.

The march of the Soldier Bugs involved clearing trees from their path. All the trees in front of them were bitten off and dragged back to Bug Mountain. Combined with battles against the ancient creatures in the woods, this slowed down the march.

The earthquake had caused countless giant trees to rupture from the ground. With these giant trees, the survivors could swiftly recover their technological level; after all, with these trees, at least the raw material for fire-powered electricity was no longer a concern.