25: Chapter 25 The King of the Scorpions

Having just eaten a scorpion, while Lin Sheng was still surprised that a scorpion provided so many evolution points, the surrounding scorpions had already encircled him.

In close contact, Lin Sheng saw more details on these Zombie Scorpions.

He discovered that the tips of the scorpions' tails were not sharp barbs; they looked more like cannon muzzles.

Indeed, these scorpions had just launched an attack on Lin Sheng through the muzzles at the tips of their tails.

After Lin Sheng landed, the scorpions did not use that kind of attack on him again.

They switched to another method of offense, planning to rely on their numerical advantage to devour this behemoth.

Surrounded by an endless sea of scorpions, even with Lin Sheng's massive size, he couldn't help but feel a bit flustered.

Although it seemed for now that the scorpions' tail stingers were not poisonous, there was no guarantee that other parts of them wouldn't contain toxicity.

For instance, the areas corroded by unknown liquids.

Soon, the scorpion swarm had surrounded Lin Sheng layer upon layer.

Out of necessity, Lin Sheng had no choice but to fly into the Sky again.

However, as soon as he flew into the Sky, the scorpions would use their tails to launch long-range attacks at him.

This method of attack annoyed Lin Sheng to no end.

He wanted to leave and find another place to obtain energy.

But if he really did that, Lin Sheng felt somewhat unwilling.

Because he discovered that many creatures in the desert were not afraid of the nuclear radiation on his body.

Take the previous "Devil Ray" for example; it could actually actively suck Lin Sheng's blood.

This blood was full of intense nuclear radiation; any creature from the rainforest would have likely fled far away.

If Lin Sheng were to return to the rainforest now, he would probably have to spend all day devouring plants to replenish his energy.

Moreover, at the same size, these scorpions provided Lin Sheng with several times more evolution points than other creatures.

Although biological resources in the desert were scarce, Lin Sheng really didn't want to give up this treasure trove.

“Roar!”

Lin Sheng let out an angry roar and dove down from the Sky, landing once again on the outskirts of the scorpion swarm.

Fortunately, those scorpions lacked intelligence and could only act on instinct.

Seeing Lin Sheng descend, they swarmed toward him once again.

Seeing this, Lin Sheng didn't hesitate.

After taking advantage of the chaos to eat a few scorpions that weren't too large, he flew back into the Sky.

...

Lin Sheng went back and forth like this several times.

When he flew into the Sky for the sixth time, he was surprised to find that the energy fired by the scorpion swarm was significantly less than before.

In an instant, Lin Sheng's mind raced, and he quickly came up with a possibility.

He guessed that, just like his “Acidic Breath,” the number of rays each scorpion could fire was limited; after firing them all, they had to replenish their energy.

To confirm this guess, Lin Sheng launched several more surprise attacks on the scorpion swarm.

By the ninth time Lin Sheng flew back into the Sky, even the largest scorpions in the swarm could no longer fire rays.

Having lost their long-range attack capability, the scorpion swarm actually stopped paying attention to Lin Sheng and all ran in one direction.

Seeing this, Lin Sheng chuckled inwardly and followed directly behind the swarm, enjoying a buffet.

While “fleeing,” the scorpions paid no attention to Lin Sheng following behind them, which allowed him to feast to his heart's content.

In this way, nourished by these scorpions, Lin Sheng's severed right arm was recovering at an extremely fast speed.

“Thump! Thump!”

A dull roar from ahead caused the scorpions to speed up.

Hearing this dull roar, Lin Sheng's entire body shuddered.

At this moment, he felt a sharp pain all over, and the scales on his body stood on end without warning.

Facing this familiar situation, Lin Sheng's Six Wings flapped rapidly; the moment he sensed the crisis, he had already flown into the Sky.

Just as he left the Ground, the position where he had been standing was burst open from the inside out by a giant scorpion tail in the next second.

A beam of light thicker than Lin Sheng's body shot out from the tip of the tail, dispersing the clouds in the Sky, and the shockwave directly blew Lin Sheng away.

After tumbling several times in the air, Lin Sheng barely managed to steady himself.

Because the sudden situation just now was too urgent, Lin Sheng hadn't clearly seen what the creature that attacked him looked like.

After increasing his distance from the Ground with lingering fear, Lin Sheng looked around and realized he had unknowingly arrived in front of a giant sand pit.

This sand pit sloped downwards, and countless scorpions wandered around it.

Some scorpions had relatively intact bodies, showing few signs of “zombification.”

But others were in a serious state; Lin Sheng felt that besides their shells, their flesh and blood had likely long since vanished.

Looking into the interior of the sand pit, even with “Clear Sight,” Lin Sheng couldn't see the specific situation inside clearly at all.

Lin Sheng observed his surroundings; finding that the Ground nearby was relatively safe and nothing else was about to burst through the sand, he slightly lowered his flight altitude.

Then...

“Whoosh.”

A pillar of fire spread into the interior of the sand pit, and Lin Sheng took the opportunity to see the situation inside.

But this sight caused Lin Sheng's scales to stand on end once again.

At the same time, he hurriedly extinguished the flames in his mouth and flew into the Sky at his fastest speed ever.

At this moment, Lin Sheng didn't care if there were any terrifying monsters in the clouds of the Sky.

Saving his life was the priority right now; besides, no matter how terrifying a monster was, could it be more terrifying than that thing in the sand pit?

Of course, that thing with several bodies was an exception.

The reason Lin Sheng was so afraid was entirely because the scene inside the sand pit was truly a bit too terrifying.

The number of scorpions inside probably couldn't be measured in numbers; countless scorpions were piled on top of each other, making the massive sand pit look bloated in Lin Sheng's eyes.

But Lin Sheng didn't have trypophobia; if it were just this, it wouldn't have made his scales stand on end.

Besides these densely packed scorpions, Lin Sheng also saw a scorpion tail in the sand pit.

That tail was no different from the tails of other scorpions, having all the corrosion it should have.

But the problem was that the length of that tail was more than ten times Lin Sheng's own length.

Lin Sheng's current body length was a bit over 25 meters; if it was more than ten times longer than Lin Sheng, it would be at least over a hundred meters.

In other words, inside the sand pit, there was a giant scorpion whose tail alone reached a hundred meters; including its body, the scorpion's size was at least a thousand meters.

At this moment, Lin Sheng finally realized what kind of thing had just attacked him.

He should have thought of it long ago; in the territory of these scorpions, what else could there be besides a scorpion?