So how did he die? Xu Xin did not ask this question.
"How do you want to cooperate?"
Since we are looking for a survivor to cooperate with, he must be able to do things that these stone statues cannot do.
"Let's sit down and talk about the cooperation. You can come to our room." said the female stone statue.
Xu Xin would not be so stupid as to follow them. He raised the spear in his hand, pointed it at the two stone statues, and said coldly, "Just talk about it here."
"You don't have a choice."
The male stone statue suddenly stomped his foot, and the ground began to shake instantly.
Then, accompanied by a loud "boom", two stone walls at least ten centimeters thick emerged from the ground in front of and behind Xu Xin, and hit the stone ceiling of the corridor with a "clang", trapping him directly in this small space.
Even the spear in his hand was stuck diagonally between the two walls.
This stone statue actually has such ability!
Xu Xin immediately drew out his iron sword and chopped at the stone wall, leaving several deep marks. However, the stone wall was very thick, and these few centimeters of marks were useless. Instead, the two walls were getting closer and closer, as if they were going to squeeze him to death.
"I advise you not to speak to her like that. Otherwise, even if you have to wait another twelve years, I will kill you directly." Chang Yin's voice became cold and came from the other side of the wall.
Fuck, he’s also a wife-protecting maniac.
But, twelve years... What does that mean? It seems that what he meant was that if he killed himself, he would have to wait another twelve years
Xu Xin felt relieved at first. It seemed that these two gargoyles would not attack him for the time being.
Xu Xin heard the dissuading voice of the female stone statue outside the stone wall.
The two walls slowly lowered and sank into the ground again. The ground returned to being flat, and there was no sign that there had ever been two stone walls at these two locations.
Chang Yin regained his lazy smile at this time: "Well, I am very strong, so there is no need for me to lie to you. If I really wanted to kill you, I would have done it a long time ago."
Xu Xin took a deep breath, laughed, and stretched out his hand, saying, "Aren't you going to discuss cooperation with me? Lead the way."
Let's do what they think first. Right now he doesn't have the ability to fall out with the two stone statues in front of him.
The two stone statues asked Xu Xin for the small windmill and handed it to the little boy, asking him to go back to his room and play by himself. Then they took Xu Xin to the first room, which was the room where Chang Yin wrote.
The wooden chairs and wooden table were almost rotten, so Chang Yin swept them aside and stomped his foot. A square stone table and three stone pillars rose in the room.
"Just sit like this for now. It's been twelve years, and this place is almost rotten." Chang Yin was the first to sit down on the stone pier. The stone butt and the pier made a "click" sound. The female stone statue was gentler and sat down gently next to Chang Yin.
Xu Xin's stone stool was opposite the two of them. He glanced at the stone stool and finally sat down.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Changyin and this is my wife, Xuelan." Changyin said.
They both look like oriental people, but I didn't expect that even their names are Chinese.
"… My name is Xu Xin. How do you want to cooperate with me?" They were so strong that Xu Xin couldn't think of how he could help them.
"First of all, we want you to take us out of this dungeon. We have stayed here long enough and want to see the sunlight." The male stone statue looked up and said with some melancholy.
"Take you out of here? You want to go to the surface?" Xu Xin was a little confused. Didn't they live in this underground city? Aren't they conducting experiments here
"That's right. This year marks the forty-ninth year that we have been trapped underground."
Trapped... underground
Then, the stone statue named Changyin told him a story.
Forty-nine years ago, there was a prosperous world. According to Chang Yin's description, the technological level of this world was almost the same as that of Earth.
But a catastrophe changed everything.
The unknown red light illuminated half of the planet like the sun. Although it only lasted for five minutes, it caused great changes to half of the creatures in the world.
Whether it was land animals or plants or creatures in the ocean, they all became extremely large and deformed, lost their will, and began to fight each other based on their aggressive instincts.
The other half that were not exposed to the red light still had half of the human population alive, and they began to resist tenaciously with their own technology.
It started with an attack by mutant marine creatures.
Marine life is highly mobile, and before humans could react, countless mutated marine life landed on the coast and began to slaughter all living things wantonly.
There are turtles as big as houses, giant octopuses that only appear in movies, giant shells that can bite humans in two, and giant killer whales that roam everywhere in the ocean. Human warships are vulnerable in front of mutated killer whales and various behemoths in the ocean. Even if the most powerful weapons are used, they still have little effect. There are too many mutant creatures in the sea.
Humanity has lost all control of the sea.
After paying a heavy price, humans finally drove most of the landed marine mutant creatures back into the sea and guarded their land territories.
But then, as if receiving an order, the mutated birds and mosquitoes flew collectively across the entire hemisphere and launched an attack on human cities.
The individual combat power of mutated birds and mosquitoes is actually not very strong. Compared with marine mutated creatures, they are much smaller in size. After all, those that are too big cannot fly.
But the dense and overwhelming numbers were simply impossible to stop, and weapons of mass destruction could not be used in densely populated cities. If only one or two cities were attacked, perhaps they could have abandoned the attack to save the enemy, but there were too many cities under attack, and finally, humans had no choice but to collectively hide in underground air-raid shelters.
When humans appeared on the ground again, everything had been razed to the ground. Before humans could even think of rebuilding their homes, groups of mutated beasts arrived on land.
Countless giant beasts rushed into the human habitat as if they were entering a buffet restaurant.
However, the biggest harm to humans is not the giant beasts, but the giant... humans. Those giant mutant humans are invulnerable to weapons and even have a little bit of intelligence left. They specifically attack crowded places and even go to destroy weapon bases and air-raid shelters.
Humans once again used their most powerful weapons, but the effect was still too little. There were simply too many mutated beasts to kill them all. In the end, there was no suspense, and it ended with humanity's complete defeat.
Changyin and Xuelan's family are the few humans who survived, and they can only choose to live underground.
They did not tell the subsequent story, nor did they tell Xu Xin how they became what they were now. They only told him that they wanted to return to the ground where they once lived.
"As a sign of sincerity for cooperation, I told you the truth that I know. We were once human beings just like you, so you don't need to be too hostile to us." Finally, Chang Yin concluded in one sentence.
Xu Xin was silent for a while. Although he felt that there was no need for the other party to deceive him, he still held a reserved attitude.
In Chang Yin's story, those huge mutated monsters were mutated by light on the ground and occupied the land and sea, but Xu Xin discovered them underground, and those on the ground were basically ordinary beasts.
There are only three giant monsters he has seen on the ground: the giant anaconda in the center of the lake, the giant crocodile at the bottom of the stream, and the blood-marked troll. None of them will attack him and they all have their own consciousness. The troll will communicate with gestures, and the giant crocodile even has great goodwill towards him.
The giant anacondas and giant crocodiles do not have blood markings on their bodies, but the trolls have blood markings like the mutant beasts.
However, the monsters underground that Xu Xin had seen seemed to have really lost their minds and were constantly fighting each other.
And... this world is too similar to their Earth. If what he said is true, then Xu Xin can't help but doubt the connection between the two worlds.
At present, except for the huge monsters underground, all creatures on the ground are of the same species on the earth, just slightly larger in size. Even the stone statue in front of him speaks the same language as him.