"Second Granduncle, I have a question," Chen Xiaojun said earnestly, looking at Chen Cong.
"What is it?" Chen Cong looked at Chen Xiaojun, curiosity stirring within him.
"The Soul Masters from the government and military, together with those conscripted, numbered thirty or forty thousand this time," Chen Xiaojun said. "What I want to know is, just how many Soul Masters are there on the continent?"
Chen Xiaojun had always been curious about this. He had long felt that the original Douluo I novel offered only a small glimpse of this world.
In the original novel, the Douluo Continent had only around a hundred thousand Soul Masters, but the situation here was entirely different.
Vast Sea City, one of the continent's ten largest cities, alone had thirty or forty thousand Soul Masters. Yet the continent had over a hundred major cities, not to mention small and medium-sized cities as numerous as the hairs on an ox. How, then, could the total number of Soul Masters across the continent be calculated?
"Uh..." Chen Cong had not expected Chen Xiaojun to ask this question, but it was also a good opportunity to teach him about the current state of affairs.
"The number of Soul Masters depends on the continent's total population, and the population depends on the continent's land area and food supply," Chen Cong began explaining.
"I understand that." Chen Xiaojun nodded. It was a perfectly ordinary proportional relationship.
"Then do you know how large the Douluo Continent is?" Chen Cong asked.
"No." Chen Xiaojun shook his head. He had made some guesses before, but he had no definite answer, so he simply admitted that he did not know.
"According to information previously published by the Spring and Autumn Pavilion, their measurements and calculations put the Douluo Continent at roughly fifty-five million