The old man nodded, "That's it. No one can say which side we will meet first. Therefore, in order to deal with emergencies, those sand bandits who scavenged waste usually have convoys with them and equipped with sophisticated weapons."

"Excellent weapon?"

Joyner froze for a moment, and then thought of the old-fashioned point gun on Brother Hui, the bandit.

She sneered in her heart, are those two broken guns considered good weapons? If you count the powerful trolls, it seems that their most sophisticated weapon has been completely ruined by her.

"How many armed people are there in Hidden Sand Castle?" Joyner asked after thinking about it.

"The devil knows..." The old man rolled his eyes, then closed his eyes and said while recalling, "The world is changing, and the armed gangs are also constantly changing. Who knows how many people they have now?"

"At the time I was there, it could be said that all the people were soldiers. Although the gangs were changing, but after all, who didn't have machetes, axes, and sticks? As long as the residents of a hidden sandcastle may have weapons. They are life-saving things. But if it is serious, organized, and able to merge with other gangs, I am afraid there are only a few hundred people. With these people, it is considered a big gang.”

"You mean... a few hundred people can rule a large settlement of nearly ten thousand people?" Joyna was a little bit unconvinced, and kept muttering in her heart.

"Hey, a hundred farmers with hoes can't beat a thug with a gun. Scattered soldiers and organized troops are completely different things!" The old man squinted again.

"And now?" Joyner asked again.

"Now? I don't know what's going on there now. The number of people alive is probably less than half of the original number..."

half?

So there are only a few thousand people...?

Just a few thousand people, Joyner didn't think so.

Although these are all things in the past, according to what the old man said one after another, Joyner can roughly deduce the basic situation of this place.

For example, the core area of ​​Hidden Sandcastle is nothing but the ruins of a pre-civilized city, with a radius of only two to three kilometers, and a permanent population of about 4,000 to 5,000 people, making it the most populous area. Several big gangs form a coalition to stick to it, and the thugs may only account for a few hundred people.

Most of the outside is reclaimed land, slave areas and breeding farms, and the number of people is very small, so their entire sphere of influence is probably less than five kilometers.

If you count the guards guarding several traffic arteries, the sphere of influence of the armed personnel may be expanded, and due to the limitation of supply lines and transportation capacity, it will never exceed fifteen kilometers.

According to Joyner's speculation, these strongholds are distributed in a line, about 20, guarding different directions, and it seems that they are the strongest guards outside the hidden sandcastle.

The guards are divided into fixed sentry posts and mobile sentry posts. Each fixed sentry post is equipped with a few to a dozen people to guard the contact line. If there is any situation, the mobile sentry post will be notified in time. Mobile sentries generally maintain around ten people, and the patrol area may be about a few kilometers in the west and north, and the total number of people can reach two to three hundred.

Joyner thought for a while, breaking through the fixed stronghold is not a big problem, but patrolling the sentry post is more troublesome. But such a long patrol distance just means there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

So, a plan formed in her mind.

—As long as you hide from the guards at the fixed base and avoid the patrolling guards, it is not difficult to sneak into the hidden sandcastle.

Just as Joyna was thinking about it, she suddenly smelled a slight stench, the hairs on her body stood up immediately, and a strong sense of crisis hit her.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Seeing Joyner's expression change instantly, the old man looked around nervously, not knowing what happened.

"There's something nearby!"

Before she finished speaking, Joyner flew up to a big tree vigilantly. It didn't take long for the other people to smell the stench, and they suddenly panicked, covering their mouths tightly, not daring to breathe, curled up and hugged each other.

I only heard a rustling sound coming from the dark tunnel, and then the sound became louder and louder. The weeds in the depths shook violently, and then thousands of mice sprang out!

Countless mice had red eyes, their fur was filthy, and most of them were bald and fell off. They were as big as cats, and they were madly running out of the cave.

"Oh my god!"

Joyner was startled by this horrific sight, her hands and feet were cold, and her heart was shocked: Could this be what the old man called Violent Rat?

The black swarm of rats is like an army crossing the border!

They passed through the woods non-stop, and the sound of "swish, swish" could be heard endlessly in the whole valley, merging into a huge sea of ​​turbulent waves.

But the more frightening thing was yet to come. A few seconds later, the grass behind began to shake again, and countless **** and yellow snakes swam and followed. Not long after, there was a nauseating stench all over the mountains and plains.

"Quick, drive!"

"Snake, it's a snake! Let's go!"

Someone among the refugees yelled in fear, Joyner came back to her senses, and hurried to the cab of the truck.

The snakes all over the ground swam quickly, as if ignoring Joyner's existence, they only cared about chasing the rats without stopping for a moment.

Just when Joyner was full of doubts and was about to open the car door, her super-strong senses immediately felt that something was wrong. From a certain direction, a strong sense of crisis struck again!

"No, there's something else around!"

Just hearing a "whoosh", a black shadow hovered and descended from the sky.

"Snapped-"

The ground was trembling, and after the thing hit the ground, its figure suddenly rose!

It was as if a big tree suddenly grew out of the flat ground, standing upright under Joyner's eyes.

"Hiss—"

A big colorful snake stood upright in front of the truck.

Is this really a snake? !

A huge sense of oppression hit—Joyner didn't dare to move a step.

The body of this monster is more than ten meters long, twice as thick as the thickest tree trunk nearby. It looked extremely strange, with an ugly huge head shaking, with a cauliflower-like red and yellow flesh crown on the top of the head, and the **** mouth opened wide enough to swallow a cow. The bright red snake letter rapidly expands and contracts between the two pointed long teeth~lightnovelpub.net~ It is like a nightmare.

"Snake, Snake King!"

"Yes... it's a legendary monster!"

Everyone present was stunned.

Joyner had never seen such a huge snake, her body seemed to be frozen, her scalp tingled, and she instinctively swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

She was even more terrified, and immediately thought that no wonder the rats ran away in panic. It turned out that this tunnel was the lair of terrifying monsters!

Compared with the fleeing Rat, the big snake is obviously more interested in Joyner and the car full of humans behind her. But for some reason, the two sides miraculously stalemate.

Her tiny figure pales in comparison to the huge enemy, and her courage to live is on the verge of collapsing as soon as she condenses it.

The refugees behind him wept uncontrollably. Even with their backs turned to them, Joyner could feel the terror in her eyes.

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