Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse-Chapter 674 - 453: Stone Statue Plan (5000-word Mega - )
"Here, the prison you just entered is actually a pilot site for cultivating stone creatures." Chang Yin said with some heaviness, "The experimental creatures in the underground warehouse, you should have all seen them, right? Those are actually underground creatures that have not completely turned into stone creatures yet during the experimental phase."
Xu Xin squinted his eyes slightly. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
So it really is like this.
The entire underground prison is essentially a breeding ground for petrified creatures.
"Cultivating stone creatures here?" Ji Chaoyang frowned slightly, "The stone creatures we encountered before, were they all cultivated underground?"
However, the others were not too surprised because they had already heard this speculation before.
They all turned their heads towards Xu Xin.
"You guessed it right, Brother Xin!" Wang Lei said admiringly.
"I didn’t expect it to actually be true!" Wen Guixin exclaimed.
On the contrary, Ji Chaoyang looked at them in surprise: "What... did you encounter underground?"
"Things down there are a bit complicated, I’ll explain it to you later."
Xu Xin continued to look at Chang Yin and said, "So, what exactly is going on, and what is your relationship with this underground world’s prison?"
Chang Yin hesitated a bit but still spoke, "How should I put it, I... can be considered a researcher in this underground prison. The petrification technology was actually provided by me. You could say, everything related to the statues you encountered near the Transmission Array originated from me."
"What?!" Zhao Xiaochuan exclaimed.
"The technology you provided?!" Wang Lei was also somewhat incredulous.
"...All those statues outside are your handiwork?" Wen Guixin’s eyes couldn’t hide the shock.
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other’s eyes.
They had already suspected this, but hearing it directly from him was truly startling.
"Well... I can’t say I created all of them, but..." Chang Yin rubbed his chin, producing the sound of stone grinding, "To put it simply, only I possess the core technology. You could say, without me, these statues could not have been created."
"So..." Xu Xin frowned slightly, looking at him, "Are you the mastermind behind this?"
"Of course not." Chang Yin made a gesture as if sighing, although his stone body didn’t allow for actual sighs, "I was forcibly captured and made to conduct experiments for them here."
He then began to explain the current predicament they were facing and what exactly this place was.
As he explained, the expressions of those present gradually became more serious.
The origin of the creatures in the underground world was exactly as they had previously speculated.
These creatures awakened their consciousness due to bloodline mutations overpowering the Blood Pattern Race, rendering them uncontrollable by the Blood Pattern Race.
So, they simply threw these giant beings underground.
This happened forty-eight years ago.
Before the first batch of survivors appeared.
Thus, the embryonic form of the underground world was born.
These underground creatures were, from the beginning, a group of mutated creatures, possessing the giant beast bloodline and having undergone Blood Pattern mutations.
These two mutations coexisted yet conflicted with each other.
This led to the especially unstable genes of the creatures living underground.
During the initial period, these creatures underwent individual mutations almost daily!
Yes, not group mutations due to reproduction, but individual mutations!
The genes inside their bodies changed crazily, and even their physical features and traits changed rapidly.
The appearance of the same creature might be completely different from one day to the next!
And the entire underground world was extremely chaotic at that time.
Incredibly chaotic.
Every day, species were going extinct, and new species were being born.
And during this process, the Blood Pattern Race continued to introduce new Blood Pattern Giant Beasts into the underground world.
The underground world was undergoing earth-shattering changes every day.
This process lasted for decades.
Indeed, when the first generation of survivors arrived in this world, the underground world was still a complete mess!
Of course, the entire underground world finally stabilized about a decade later, after the Blood Pattern Race stopped introducing new Blood Pattern Giant Beasts into it.
Thus, after nearly fifty years of evolution, the underground world they now saw, which appeared to have a somewhat unusual vitality and a relatively stable ecosystem, emerged.
"Is this how the underground world was formed? What you’re saying doesn’t seem very logical, does it?"
Zhao Xiaochuan asked in confusion, "Just because they didn’t obey, you dug out this underground world to put them in? That’s... too troublesome, isn’t it? Making trouble out of nothing!"
"Yeah!" Wang Lei nodded, "This underground world is so deep, if you wanted to transfer creatures down here, first you’d have to subdue them, right? Wouldn’t it be easier just to kill them? If that’s the case, then why bother going to such great lengths to bring them down?"
