"After decades of effort, they found nothing. But they didn't want to give up on such a powerful specimen of the behemoth, so... they decided to find another way. That's how 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 discovered 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 had not yet digested it.

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"If the blood-marked mutant beasts cannot be controlled, then we can just petrify them and then control them after they are petrified. Because the mental strength of petrified creatures will be greatly reduced."

Chang Yin said, opening his hand, looking at his palm, then clenching his fist and looking up at Xu Xin: "Do you know why we were unconscious and unable to move when you first met us?"

"...Need to recover mental strength?" Xu Xin touched Coco's little head who was sleeping soundly on his legs and guessed.

"That's right." Chang Yin nodded. "If we don't fall into a long period of dormancy and stay awake all the time, our mental strength will be very weak."

"So now you are..." Xu Xin frowned slightly.

"My mental strength is much weaker now than before," Chang Yin said tiredly, "If this continues, I might be completely controlled by them."

Is that really the case...?

No wonder, no wonder he always gave Xu Xin a feeling of tiredness.

It turns out that my mental strength has weakened a lot.

"That's the plan they've 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'm actually the warden there, but..."

He gave a faint, bitter smile. "It's just that I don't have any real power. Even getting you out of there has to be done in secret."

"So... you just helped them conduct the experiment?" Zhao Xiaochuan was a little surprised. "You didn't resist?"

"Resist? Ha..." A sound of rocks scraping against each other could be heard from Chang Yin's mouth, and he was clearly gritting his teeth. "If I were alone, it wouldn't matter to me, but they've imprisoned Xue Lan and Xiao Hong, and are threatening 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.

He didn't reveal the details at the time, but Xu Xin still remembered the immense hatred on his face.

So...how did their family turn into stone statues?

Wasn’t his petrification due to the Blood Mark 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 the giant beast and the blood pattern mutation?

Where did it come from?

And that altar in the hilly resource area with the stone statue of a mutant creature...

Is it related to 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 himself down, smiled wryly, and shook his head, saying, "It's not that important. Perhaps the part of the plan I'm responsible for is just a minor, last-ditch effort. After all... at this point, 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 cell where we conducted our experiments was originally connected to the power supply device above via vines, drawing energy. However, your activities above ground suddenly altered the terrain, pushing the device directly above ground."

He shook his head. “Back then, this prison barely contained 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 that you could control those 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.

"Initially, they didn't have me attack the giant beasts. Instead, they petrified ordinary creatures, low-level, mid-level, and high-level normal mutants. They probably wanted to see if the petrified creatures' strength would decrease or increase."

"As for why this first batch of test subjects ended up on the surface, I have no idea. They were petrified long ago and then 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 probably didn't expect that I secretly did some tampering with the stone statue."