"What does Peng Peng think we should do?"
"Hmm…"
Egui Peng: "Peng Peng will listen to Bai Luo."
Peng Peng knew that she was a bit silly.
As a Pokémon, it's not embarrassing to listen to your trainer's commands.
"As for me, I still plan to be cautious."
Bai Luo just said it casually; he didn't really expect Peng Peng, this little silly one, to have any insights.
"Cautious?"
"Yes."
Bai Luo nodded: "The camp being destroyed makes me angry too; I want to go directly and kill all those disgusting bugs."
"But we don't know their numbers, nor do we know the combat strength of the strongest Insect Monster."
"Rushing in is not wise."
Hearing Bai Luo say this, Egui Peng felt a little guilty: "If only Peng Peng could be stronger."
That way, Bai Luo wouldn't have to feel so frustrated.
They were the ones being bullied, yet they had to swallow their anger in the end.
"Peng Peng is already very strong."
Bai Luo was telling the truth; with Egui Peng's B-rank evaluation, if she really fought, even A-rank monsters might not be her match.
Such strength, placed in the Jura Great Forest, would definitely put her at the top of the food chain.
Only those A-rank monsters with a disaster evaluation were qualified to make Egui Peng avoid their edge.
"How about this."
Bai Luo made up his mind and said: "No matter what, we have to find the source of these Insect Monsters and determine the distance between their main camp and ours."
Whether it was for finding a new base or for better dealing with the Insect Monster attacks.
Determining the target location was crucial.
In addition, Bai Luo also set his sights on these Insect Monsters.
Before Egui Peng became a Demon Lord Seed, her Unique Skill 'Growth' required a large number of monsters as food to accelerate her Growth.
Defeating or slaying them could make Peng Peng grow rapidly.
'I don't know how many Insect Monsters there are, but there must be quite a few.'
'If we can wipe them all out, Peng Peng's Existence Value might break through 10,000, directly achieving an A-rank evaluation.'
With an A-rank Egui Peng by his side, Bai Luo's safety in the Jura Great Forest would be completely guaranteed.
Similarly, this would also give Bai Luo more options when traveling to other worlds.
So, Bai Luo told Egui Peng his plan: "Simply put, we first find their lair, and then assess their strength."
"If we can beat them, then let's be decisive and treat these guys as wild monsters, turning them all into your experience points, Peng Peng!"
"If we can't beat them, we'll leave first."
As the saying goes, where there's life, there's hope.
We're not cowardly, it's a strategic retreat.
"Wait until you break through to A-rank, Peng Peng, then we'll come back," Bai Luo said, "and crush them!"
"Mhm!"
Egui Peng was not afraid of fighting: "Peng Peng will listen to Bai Luo!"
"Haha."
Bai Luo couldn't help but smile; he gently patted Egui Peng's small head, then crouched down and cast the Ranger profession's skill 'Tracking'.
The next moment, with Bai Luo at the center, magic power transformed into layers of ripples, spreading in all directions.
'Trees, bushes, rocks…'
A large amount of information surfaced in Bai Luo's mind.
At this moment, Bai Luo felt as if he had immersed himself in a gray-white world.
And he was, by some perceptual method, carpet-searching for traces of everything.
"Found it."
Three minutes later, feeling the information transmitted back by the skill, Bai Luo opened his eyes.
His expression was a bit strange.
"What's wrong, Bai Luo?"
"A group of presences is approaching the insect nest."
Bai Luo said so, raising his hand and casting several spells.
"Fade Away"
"Conceal Presence"
"Erase Traces"
After three consecutive Konosuba Hunter skills landed, Bai Luo called out to Egui Peng: "Let's go take a look."
"Bohne!"
Just like that, Bai Luo and Egui Peng concealed their aura and followed the traces left by the Insect Monsters.
The two walked for about half an hour.
At their speed, they had covered at least 200 kilometers along the way.
"Bai Luo, it's the smell of insects."
Egui Peng's nose twitched twice: "There's also a smell I haven't encountered before, I don't know what kind of monster it is."
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
"Squeak, squeak, squeak~~"
Bai Luo's sense of smell was not as keen as Egui Peng's, but he also heard the sounds of fighting coming from ahead.
"The insects are fighting someone."
"It seems we're not the only ones in the forest who have been attacked by these insects!"
Not immediately revealing his whereabouts, Bai Luo was very cautious.
Egui Peng even displayed the stealth techniques she had honed on Ghost Mountain.
The two silently leaped onto the treetops, using the cover of the leaves to look at the two sides engaged in a fierce conflict in the distance.
What they saw were more than thirty tall humanoid creatures, muscular in build, with horns on their foreheads, and skin that, unlike humans, was purple, red, or green.
"Great Ogre Clan?"
Almost immediately, Bai Luo recognized the identity of these humanoid monsters.
These humanoid monsters fighting the Insect Monsters were none other than the B-Rank monsters living deep within the Jura Great Forest—the Great Ogre Clan.
Not only that, Bai Luo's gaze fell upon the red ogre wielding a blade and the purple-skinned, one-horned female Great Ogre Clan raising a long sword.
"Hong Maru, and Zhu Cai?"
The appearances of the two were not the same as in the anime Bai Luo had watched, only very similar.
This was normal.
The two had not yet been named by Rimuru and were still in their Great Ogre Clan forms.
Moreover, from 2D to 3D, there would naturally be differences in art style.
"The ones fighting the Insect Monsters are the Great Ogre Clan."
Looking at the scattered Great Ogre Clan corpses on the ground, Bai Luo quickly analyzed the situation: "It's likely these Insect Monsters attacked the Great Ogre Clan village, and then the Great Ogre Clan sent out a team to find the Insect Monster nest, eventually clashing."
"However..."
Bai Luo was a bit strange: "Was this part in the original work?"
"Or, because of my appearance, has it caused a butterfly effect?"
Bai Luo wasn't sure which it was.
He didn't think much about it, but rather focused his attention on the current situation.
"There are at least 500 Insect Monsters below."
"Over three hundred C-Rank monsters, over 100 C+ Rank, and dozens of B- Rank."
Looking at the dozen or so broken Great Ogre Clan corpses that had already fallen, it was clear that in this engagement, the Great Ogre Clan had fallen into a disadvantage.
"So many Insect Monsters besieging forty Great Ogre Clan, no wonder there's such heavy losses."
Bai Luo was tempted to intervene in this battle and make contact with the Great Ogre Clan.
He looked at Egui Peng, wondering whether or not to let Peng Peng make a move.