"Here, the prison you just entered is actually a pilot project for breeding stone creatures." Chang Yin said with a heavy voice, "You should have seen the experimental creatures in the underground warehouse, right? Those are actually underground creatures that are in the experimental stage and have not yet fully become stone creatures."
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes slightly.
Is that really the case
The entire underground prison is, in fact, a breeding ground for petrified creatures.
"Cultivating stone creatures here?" Ji Chaoyang frowned slightly, "The stone creatures we encountered before were all cultivated underground?"
However, others were not surprised because they had heard this speculation a long time ago.
They all turned to look at Xu Xin.
"You guessed it right, Brother Xin!" Wang Lei said with admiration.
"I didn't expect it to be true!" Wen Guixin sighed.
Instead, Ji Chaoyang looked at them in surprise: "What did you... encounter underground?"
"The following things are a little complicated. I'll explain them to you later."
Xu Xin continued to look at Chang Yin and said, "So, what is the situation now, and what is your relationship with this underground prison?"
Chang Yin hesitated, but still said, "How should I put it? I... can be said to be a researcher in this underground prison. In fact, the petrification technology was provided by me. It can be said that everything about the stone statues that you encountered near the teleportation formation originated from me."
"What?!" Zhao Xiaochuan exclaimed.
"The technology you provided?!" Wang Lei was also a little bit unbelievable.
"... Are all those stone statues outside your work?" Wen Guixin couldn't help but be shocked.
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang also looked at each other and could see the surprise in each other's eyes.
The two had actually already made such a guess, but hearing such things come out of their own mouths was too shocking.
"Well... I can't say that I made all of them, but..." Chang Yin touched his chin with his hand, making a sound of stones rubbing against each other, "To put it simply, I am the only one who possesses the core technology. It can be said that without me, these stone statues would not have been made."
"So..." Xu Xin frowned slightly and looked at him, "Are you the mastermind behind this matter?"
"Of course not." Chang Yin pretended to sigh, but of course, his stone body had no breath to sigh out. "I was forcibly brought here to be experimented on by them."
Then, he began to explain their current situation and where this place was.
As he explained, the faces of the people present gradually became solemn.
The origins of the creatures in the underground world are basically the same as they had previously deduced.
These creatures have awakened their own consciousness because the blood of the giant beast is stronger than the blood vein mutation, making it impossible for the "Blood Vein Clan" to control them.
So, they simply threw all these huge guys into the ground.
This incident happened forty-eight years ago.
That is, before the first survivors appeared.
In this way, the prototype of the underground world was born.
This group of underground creatures were, from the very beginning, a group of mutant creatures. Moreover, they were mutant creatures that possessed the blood of giant beasts and had undergone blood pattern mutations.
These two variations coexist but conflict with each other.
This also results in the genetics of this group of creatures living underground being particularly unstable.
During the initial period, this group of creatures were undergoing individual mutations almost every day!
That’s right, it’s not group variation that is caused by reproduction, but individual variation!
Not only are the genes in the body changing rapidly, but even the body shape and traits are changing rapidly.
The same creature may look completely different one day and the next!
The entire underground world was in great chaos at that time.
It's so confusing.
Every day, there is genocide, and every day, new species are born.
And during this process, the "Blood Vein Clan" continued to send new Blood Vein behemoths into this underground world.
The underground world is undergoing earth-shaking changes every day.
This process lasted for more than ten years.
That’s right, when the first batch of survivors came into this world, the underground world was still a complete mess!
Of course, the entire underground world finally became stable after more than ten years, when the Blood Vein Clan no longer sent new Blood Vein behemoths into it.
In this way, after nearly fifty years of evolution, the underground world that they see now emerged, which looks somewhat vibrant and has a relatively stable ecology.
"Is this how this underground world was formed? Your logic doesn't make sense, does it?"
Zhao Xiaochuan asked with some doubt: "Just because they are disobedient, they dug out an underground world like this and put them in? This... is too much trouble, right? They are just looking for trouble!"
"Yes!" Wang Lei nodded. "This underground world is so deep. If we want to transfer the creatures down, we must first subdue them, right? Then killing them should be a piece of cake, right? If that's the case, why bother to go to so much trouble to get them down?"
"We don't kill them because they are still useful, right?" Lou Feier speculated, then glanced at Xu Xin.
She has a deep understanding of this.
If she had not been useful back then, the grass on her grave would probably be three feet high by now.
"You're right." Chang Yin nodded, "It's because they can't bear to kill these creatures."
He continued to explain.
"At that time, this group of aliens were surprised to find that if a creature with the blood of a giant beast had a blood pattern mutation, its strength would be far superior to that of an ordinary blood pattern creature of the same level."
Xu Xin nodded.
Indeed. Blood vein mutation can enhance the strength of a creature, but it is only based on the strength of the creature itself. If the creature itself is very weak, no matter how advanced the blood vein mutation is, it will not be much stronger.
He knew this very early on.
During the hunting activity, the intermediate mutant wild cat he summoned through the altar was defeated by an ordinary tiger.
It can be said that the ability of the organism itself is the basic value, and the blood pattern mutation is to multiply the basic value.
And this multiple is related to the level of blood vein mutation.
A rabbit with a basic value of 1, even if it is amplified a hundred times, cannot beat a tiger with a basic value of 200.
But if the tiger's power increased a hundredfold...
That's ridiculously strong!
Therefore, if the original body is a creature like a behemoth, and then undergoes bloodline mutation to increase its strength, its strength is truly unimaginable!
“So, if they can control the blood of the giant beast, the strength of their clan will be greatly improved.”
Changyin continued to explain.
If this kind of thing can really be achieved, it would be their greatest gain on this planet.
However, they soon discovered that the blood of the giant beast would not only increase the speed of the biological strength, but would also greatly enhance the mental strength, which was an all-round increase in physical ability.
One of the main reasons why they control blood-marked creatures is that after they mutate, their mental power will be greatly reduced, making them easier to control.
The blood of giant beasts can increase their reduced mental strength again, which makes the mutant creatures with strong blood of giant beasts difficult to control.
Even if they are successfully controlled in childhood, they will easily slip away from their control when they grow up.
However, the Blood Mark Clan did not give up.
After another period of cultivation, they discovered the biggest difference between the giant beast's bloodline and the blood pattern mutation: heredity.
"The blood of giant beasts can be passed down through heredity, but blood pattern mutation cannot." Chang Yin pointed at Lou Fei'er who was sitting next to him and said, "For example, although she has a blood pattern mutation, her offspring will not be affected at all and will still be ordinary humans."
"Ah?" Lou Feier was stunned. "Is that so?"
"I've already discovered this." Xu Xin nodded and said, "Bloodline mutations are not hereditary."
The simplest example is the three pangolins he tamed.
My beloved concubine is a mutant creature, but those two little guys don’t have even a single mutation in the blood lines on their bodies.
Chang Yin nodded: "However, the blood of giant beasts can be inherited. This is good news for the Blood Mark Clan who want to cultivate blood-marked giant beasts. Therefore, the plan for this underground world was born."
"They created this new underground world, threw giant beasts with rich bloodlines into this underground world, and let them mutate and develop on their own. This is what I mentioned before."
So, this is how the world was born...
but…
"How did you know about this?" Xu Xin looked at him and asked, "You didn't know about this when we met last time. And how does this relate to what you are doing now?"
Although he asked this, he had roughly guessed the result.
Moreover, Chang Yin explained everything to them in such detail, most likely because he needed their help.
"Of course there is a connection." Chang Yin answered Xu Xin's second question. He thought of something and smiled a little tiredly. "I just said that the Blood Mark Clan released these creatures into this world in order to control the Blood Mark Beasts and enhance their clan's abilities, right?"
"The blood-marked beasts are like extremely powerful genetic warriors. If they can be controlled, the strength of the entire race will be enhanced. Therefore, although this foreign 'blood-marked clan' has certainly invaded countless planets, they pay great attention to our world and our planet."
"Their original plan was to allow these giant beasts to continue to mutate in this underground world. While they were releasing new species into the underground world, they would also capture some of the mutated species in the underground world for experimentation."
"They want to see if they can mutate giant beasts with strong bodies but weak mental power in the underground world for them to enslave. Of course, at the same time, they are also conducting experiments on the beasts in various ways. This underground world is just a part of the experiment."
After saying this, Chang Yin paused slightly, allowing the people present to digest the information he had said.
The people present, especially those other than Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang, felt that they had received too much information and their faces were filled with shock and confusion.
Even Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang, who had long been exposed to the underground world and had various speculations, fell into silence, their brains working rapidly, integrating various previous information.
"... So, the stone creatures are also part of this plan." Xu Xin said.
"That's right." Chang Yin nodded.
"After decades of efforts, they found nothing, but they didn't want to give up such a powerful giant beast sample, so... they decided to find another way. So they set their sights on me, on... the stone creature."
Chang Yin's words became slightly heavy.
"They actually discovered me a long time ago, and found out that I have the ability to petrify living things while still keeping them alive. So, they deceived my family and tricked us into going underground to complete their plan."
"Plan? What plan?" Wang Lei's face was full of confusion and bewilderment at this moment.
Because for him, who had never heard of the underground world before this event, the amount of information was too much and he has not yet digested it.
"If the blood-marked mutant beasts cannot be controlled, then we can just petrify them and then control them after they are petrified. This is because the mental strength of petrified creatures will be greatly reduced."
Chang Yin said, opened his hand, looked at the palm, then clenched his fist and looked up at Xu Xin: "Do you know why we were unconscious and unable to move when you first met us?"
"... Need to restore mental strength?" Xu Xin guessed as he touched Coco's little head, who was sleeping soundly on his legs.
"That's right." Chang Yin nodded, "If we don't fall into a long-term dormancy and stay awake all the time, our mental strength will be very weak."
"So now are you..." Xu Xin frowned slightly.
"My mental strength is much weaker now than before." Chang Yin said tiredly, "If this continues, perhaps I will be completely controlled by them."
Is that really the case
No wonder, no wonder he always made Xu Xin feel a little tired.
It turns out that my mental strength has weakened a lot.
"That's the plan they developed around my abilities."
Chang Yin looked at the people around him and said, "The underground prison you explored today is actually my... laboratory. I am actually the warden there, but..."
He smiled bitterly: "It's just that I don't have any real power. Even bringing you out of there has to be done secretly."
"So... you just helped them conduct the experiment?" Zhao Xiaochuan was a little surprised, "You didn't resist?"
"Resist? Ha..." A sound of rocks rubbing against each other came out of Chang Yin's mouth, and it was obvious that he was gritting his teeth. "If I were alone, I wouldn't care, but they imprisoned Xue Lan and Xiao Hong, and threatened me with their lives. What else can I do?"
The people around were silent.
Xu Xin pondered for a moment.
Chang Yin told him last time that he used to be a human being of this world, a native of this world.
But later, after the first group of survivors entered his dungeon, he had some unpleasant experiences with them, and that's when he became what he is now.
As for the details, he didn't say it at the time. However, Xu Xin still remembered his expression of great hatred.
So... how did their family turn into stone statues
Wasn’t his petrification due to the Blood Vein Clan
Instead, his abilities were being coveted by the Blood Mark Clan
In other words, the ability to petrify is the third power besides the bloodline of giant beasts and blood pattern mutation
Where did you come from
Also, the altar with the mutant stone statue in the hilly resource area...
Does it have anything to do with Chang Yin’s stone statue ability
Who is the god worshipped on the altar
This situation seems a bit messy.
Xu Xin opened his mouth and finally sighed: "I didn't expect that you would play such an important role in the Blood Mark Clan's plan."
Chang Yin calmed down, smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "It's not that important. Perhaps, the part of the plan I'm responsible for is just a small plan that can be ignored. After all... At present, this is the only pilot site for this plan."
He pointed in the direction of the prison, then smiled helplessly and said, "But you guys are really lucky to be in this location."
"The underground prison where we conducted the experiment was originally connected to the energy supply device above through vines to absorb energy. As a result, your activities on the ground suddenly changed the terrain, and the device was directly pushed above the ground."
He shook his head. “At that time, this prison could hardly contain the beast below.”
"Wait, what's going on with those layers of stone statues in the teleportation formation?" Wen Guixin asked, "You seemed to have said just now that you can control those stone statues at night, right?"
"Those stone statues on the top of the snowy mountain are actually the first batch of experimental petrified creatures." Chang Yin explained.
"At first, they didn't ask me to attack the giant beasts, but petrified ordinary creatures, low-level, medium-level, and high-level normal mutant creatures. They probably wanted to see if the strength of the petrified creatures would decrease or increase."
"As for why the first batch of test subjects came to the surface, I have no idea. After they were petrified, they were taken away by a group of hairy blood-marked monkeys."
Chang Yin was obviously dissatisfied with the furry monster, and his tone became noticeably heavier when he mentioned the blood-marked monkey.
But then, the corners of his stone mouth curved up: "However, they may not have thought that I secretly did something to the stone statue."