"So, you think that if I went to Egypt, I might run into this... 'Sand-Sinking Giant Worm'?"
"Not might. You definitely would," Candle Dragon said seriously. "Or rather, Egypt as a country was destroyed by the Sand-Sinking Giant Worms."
"Worms?" Sun Hang immediately caught the issue. "Are there a lot of these 'Sand-Sinking Giant Worms'?"
"According to the information Cairo provided at the time, there were more than eight thousand confirmed sightings of Sand-Sinking Giant Worms in Egypt, Libya, and Sudan alone. Although there might have been duplicate records, judging from the extent of the destruction suffered by those African cities, the total number of Sand-Sinking Giant Worms active in the Sahara Desert was at least thirty thousand," Candle Dragon said.
"Thirty thousand... That's not that many." Sun Hang was unconcerned. "The Sahara Desert is so huge. Toss thirty thousand worms into it, and that works out to just one every three hundred-plus square kilometers."
The Sahara Desert was roughly the same size as the Xiazhou Federation's former complete territory, both covering nearly ten million square kilometers. Thirty thousand sounded like a lot across such a vast region, but once diluted by the land area, it was merely a drop in the ocean.
"Do you know why the name 'Sand-Sinking Giant Worm' contains the word 'giant'?" Candle Dragon's tone remained serious. "A mature Sand-Sinking Giant Worm can exceed three kilometers in length and over a hundred meters in diameter... In Sudan, someone once discovered an unnatural underground tunnel with a diameter of five hundred meters. Large amounts of Sand-Sinking Giant Worm meme reactions remained inside that tunnel..."
Candle Dragon swallowed and continued, "The Sand-Sinking Giant Worm's mouthparts are extraordinarily sharp. Not only can they carve paths through compacted sand, but they can also move through hard bedrock without obstruction... If