The scorpion swarm is around seven thousand, which is quite a lot, but the fortress can still deal with it.

Since the storm began to change, the number of people in the fortress had reached more than 3,000 at its peak, and now those who have been vacant are all sacrificed in the battle to protect the fortress.

There are monks, and there are mortals.

As Fang Zhen and the others expected, even in Middle-earth, there will be existences that do not treat mortals as two-legged cows, but there are too few such people to affect the overall situation of Middle-earth.

Chen Jing has always been quite gentle towards mortals, and although the mortals under his rule also have to do coolies, they are at least doing it as a human being.

In this fortress of Chen Jing, mortals at least have the qualifications to fall in love and come and go freely.

It's just that the outside is a place where mortals are treated as two-legged cows, so naturally there is no reason for mortals who come here to leave.

And the monks who were willing to follow Chen Jing naturally agreed with his concept, and many of them even directly combined with mortals to form families, and the entire fortress was not gathered together by interests, but by affection and common ideas.

That's why the situation is so difficult at the moment, and the morale in the fortress is still so high.

Fang Zhen really felt that he had seen a pattern of war that could only be seen under the mortal state system of the Northern Continent.

The monks rushed to the front line, and the mortals were interspersed throughout the defense line to provide all kinds of help within their means, some monks were injured to save the mortals, and some mortals fought desperately to protect the monks.

Here, Fang Scar finally saw that it was no longer the absolute hierarchy of monks and mortals in the rest of Middle-earth.

"Brother, the slave is starting to like this place a little!" Xian Nu'er was obviously very satisfied with this place, and said, "If the people here will not become our enemies, then we can help them!"

Fang Zhen smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the top of Xiannu'er's head, and said, "Okay!"

With that, he turned his attention back to the defensive line and said, "It seems that they can easily defend this time, but why do I always feel that something is wrong!" He didn't know enough about the dinosaur, but he still intuitively noticed something wrong.

"There is no scorpion queen!" Jun Zhiping said after observing for a long time, "I didn't see the scorpion queen, no matter how big the scorpion group we encountered outside before, no matter how big the population became, they still survive according to their own racial characteristics, each scorpion group will have a scorpion queen, and when the scorpion group attacks, the scorpion queen will definitely command nearby, the scorpion queen is a red species, have you seen it on the battlefield now?"

Fang Zhen finally reacted when Jun Zhiping reminded him like this, he recalled that all the scorpion swarms encountered before, whether in the mysterious ruined castle or on the way here, all had a scorpion with a red body and an extraordinarily huge body in the back of the scorpion group, once he killed the scorpion in advance, but all the scorpions scattered in a hurry, and they no longer died in the first battle to the last one without retreating.

"What does it mean to have no scorpion queen?" Liu Xueji keenly grasped the key to this, so she asked Jun Zhiping softly.

Jun Zhiping's face sank, and he said, "With my understanding of the dinosaur, this means that the scale of this scorpion group is much larger than we imagined, and now the number of these scorpion scorpions only accounts for a small part of the entire scorpion group, they are not the main force but the vanguard, the scorpion queen and the main force are together!"

Xiannu'er couldn't help but exclaim, and said, "More than 7,000 scorpions are not the main force, and we only encountered more than 5,000 scorpions in the ruined castle before, right? That's already a lot." ”

Even Wangshu couldn't help but make a voice in his heart, and said, "I have communicated with all the plants around me, and I can be sure that there is no scorpion queen hiding within the visual range, and there is no underground!"

Jun Zhiping's face became ugly, and he said, " I've read the research report on the dinosaur in the sect before, although it is only a theoretical value, but according to the research, there will be no pioneer when the number of scorpion groups is less than 1,000, but when the number exceeds 1,000, they will send one percent of the number to act as a vanguard, and the largest number of scorpion scorpion gatherings recorded before this time was 3,000, and the scorpion group at that time sent 30 scorpions as a vanguard to attack Shak City, and the defenders of Shak City did not take it to heart, and relaxed their vigilance after eliminating those scorpions, but after that, they were attacked by more than 2,000 dinosaurs！”

Fang Zhen's faces changed.

"According to what you say, that means the true number of this scorpion group should be about 700,000?"

Seven hundred thousand second-order primordial beasts gathered together, even if the Origin Realm Supreme saw it, they had to take a detour.

"Is there really so many? How is this possible? What the hell are these guys used to breed so much? Even if they do, how can they survive? Could it be that they have eaten all the people in the entire storm and sand sea?"

Jun Zhiping shook his head and said, " The entire Storm Sand Sea is only about 100,000 monks except for the mortals who are not counted, and this number is still the number of statistics twenty years ago, including a large number of foreign monks who came here for a period of less than five years, and the environment of the Storm Sand Sea has actually been getting worse over the years, even the monks are quite difficult to survive here, except for those monks who were born and raised here, there are fewer and fewer monks who have come to practice, if you only count the monks who were born and raised here, I believe it will not exceed 70,000。 ”

Fang Zhen spread his hands and said, "That is to say, even if everyone in the entire Storm Sand Sea is dead except here, it is impossible to supply 700,000 scorpions, so either we scare ourselves or someone is feeding the scorpions!"

The last possibility made the rest of them think of several not-so-good possibilities, which made their faces even more ugly, and at first they thought that the change in the storm and sand sea was more likely to be a natural change, and the worst thing was that some of the things that the Heavenly Dao of Destruction and his subordinates of the Necromantic Corpse Lake had caused a vision.

But now it seems that the situation here is much more complicated than they thought.

"The scorpion swarm has retreated, it seems that the situation is developing towards a bad situation, only the order of the scorpion queen or a large number of deaths will make the scorpion swarm retreat, but the latter situation will definitely not be such an orderly retreat!"

Jun Zhiping shook his head as he looked at the scorpion group that began to retreat in an orderly manner after losing all the ranged scorpions, and said, "We're in big trouble!"

"Then we're going to have a good talk with Chen Jing!"

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