Bloodfang Road:

"This kind of energy transmission occurs about once every ten years or so. However, as far as I know, the previous energy transmission was limited to opening two or three energy nodes at the same time to transmit energy to the central laboratory. The situation of opening all the energy nodes and transmitting energy to the central laboratory at the same time has never happened before. Considering the various abnormal movements in the test field in recent times, it is possible that something big is really going to happen."

Du Yuqi now completely regarded this Blood Fang as a highly intelligent creature on par with himself. It was a rare opportunity to learn the inside story from the local natives, and this Blood Fang seemed to have a good impression of him, so he simply asked:

"So what exactly is in the Central Laboratory? Is the secret of the Bull-Headed Mechanical King's repeated rebirth related to this place?"

Hearing Du Yuqi's words, Xueya suddenly raised his head, his two eyes shining with blood-red light looked extremely scary. Du Yuqi was also surprised, thinking that his question touched some taboos, and instinctively took a step back to defend himself. Unexpectedly, Xueya did not take the next step, but after a long while, he said in some pain:

"...The question you asked reminded me of some things that happened in the past, some secrets that can only be known after becoming the leader of the bloodthirsty cat demon and wearing the Hanik mask! The central laboratory is the holy land of all creatures living in this imperial test field. Although it has been abandoned for hundreds of years, it is still full of vitality and maintains inertia. The holy land will send people to repair the Hanik mask every few years, and of course, the Bull-Headed Mechanical King can be continuously manufactured."

"Originally, I shouldn't have told you these things, but now I've been considered a traitor and exiled. They don't even acknowledge that I'm one of them, and they've killed and devoured all my bloodline descendants. So what reason do I have to keep this secret? I'm going to destroy them, destroy everything these damn guys have!!"

Although Bloodfang's words were somewhat incoherent, Du Yuqi quickly understood the meaning of his words, and then said in shock:

"I've heard people say that in the Imperial Test Field, there is a leader who can make all cat demons submit. His name is Stubborn Hanik. He always wears a mysterious mask and never shows his true face. He is very powerful. From what you said, you have been this leader, Hanik?"

Bloodfang roared in a low voice, full of pain:

"Yes, I am the previous Hanik, but I was betrayed by my most trusted subordinate. It used a trick to make me take off the Hanik face guard, and then it put it on and attacked me, killing all my descendants. This terrible scar on my body was left by it. If I hadn't found a biochip and implanted it into my body when I was escaping, I would have rotted into mud long ago, and even my bones would have completely decayed and become the building materials of the anthill!"

Du Yuqi thought to himself, "The guy who replaced you is really good at being thick-skinned. He used all kinds of tricks, such as deceiving the world, rooting out the evil, and pretending to be nice. No wonder you lost to him!" Then Du Yuqi continued to ask the bloody tooth a few more questions, and found that it didn't know whether it had been holding it in for too long or the Poison Cat King mark on Du Yuqi was particularly attractive to it. It actually told him everything it knew, like pouring out beans from a bamboo tube.

It turns out that the information Bloodfang knew was not innate or passed down by word of mouth, but was obtained when the old cat demon leader Hanik died of illness. After it defeated all competitors and took the throne, it put on the mask of the stubborn Hanik. The information that naturally emerged in its mind should be the memory that the stubborn Hanik mask forcibly injected into its mind, requiring it to lead all the cat demon tribes to guard the holy land, which is the central laboratory of the Imperial Test Site.

The function of this stubborn Hanik's mask is not just to convey information, but also to stimulate the potential of the bloodthirsty cat demon, allowing the wearer to gain extremely powerful enhancement. According to Blood Fang, there are three special effects in total!

The first is to allow the wearer to absorb the enemy's mental power (MP) while attacking and causing damage to the enemy. The second is to enable the wearer to fully activate the non-consumption dominance after suffering a certain amount of damage. The third is that after being knocked down, the wearer will automatically release a shock wave to the surroundings. Although this shock wave will not cause damage, it can make people around lose balance and fall to the ground like the fruit of the thunder tree.

Du Yuqi was also astonished after hearing this. These three special effects were all extremely abnormal. Of course, the most outrageous one was the second special effect, which activated the hegemony when suffering a certain amount of damage. According to Blood Fang, the so-called certain damage was probably about moderate injury. The subsequent hegemony without consumption throughout the whole process was too abnormal. Combined with the cat demon's dexterity and agility, it was really a nightmare.

No wonder once Blood Fang fell into the trap, his entire family was killed immediately after his subordinates put on the mask, and he himself almost died. This mask is really unstoppable! !

However, according to Bloodfang, this mask also has side effects, which is brainwashing, or to be more precise, mind control, and this kind of mental control is gradual and not achieved overnight. It only felt this after losing Hanik's mask.

Wearing Hanik's mask for a long time (more than one year) will almost completely make one a slave to it. Apart from the instinct for survival, the only purpose will be to protect the central laboratory. Apart from that, all other emotions will become indifferent, like a walking corpse.

It was precisely because of this discovery, coupled with his own tragic experience, that Bloodfang began to change his temperament drastically. He became anti-heaven, anti-earth, anti-society, and anti-race. He felt that the entire race of bloodthirsty cat demons was full of sin, so he became an out-and-out "cat traitor" and wanted to cooperate with external forces.

The request it made to Du Yuqi couldn't be simpler, that is, to help it "save" more tribesmen. Of course, Du Yuqi had just witnessed the so-called rescue method. As for those who refused to be "saved" by it, the fate was also very obvious...

Du Yuqi said that he could accept its cooperation conditions. This kind of thing was not difficult for him. It was nothing more than releasing his own breath and acting as bait to attract more bloodthirsty cat monsters. It was a good deal to exchange such a small price for a powerful local snake, and he was still weak at this time.

Next, Du Yuqi started a fire and called these bloodthirsty cat demons over. He first washed the mud stuck on their bodies with water, and then let them roast their fur dry. Cat demons are originally social creatures that like cleanliness, so they were happy to have Du Yuqi's help.

Although animals are naturally afraid of fire, Du Yuqi's fire was surrounded by a half-foot-high wall made of stones to prevent the flames from being blown out by the wind. The bloodthirsty cat demon, which was soaked all over, leaned its body against the warm wall. It felt very comfortable and cozy without direct contact with the flames.

So with the bloodthirsty cat demon on guard that night, Du Yuqi had a safe and sound night and slept peacefully. The next day, he asked Xue Ya to take him to the ruins of the laboratory yesterday, hoping to find his companions with the help of the bloodthirsty cat demon's sensitive sense of smell and excellent hunting ability. Xue Ya didn't have any big objection to this, so he walked forward while sniffing along the way, and soon found a clue two kilometers away.

In this clearing in the woods, there were obvious signs of fighting, as well as a lot of bullet shells left behind. There were also holes on the ground left by the summoning of the demon flower Woso. Obviously, this was where Duize and Holmes encountered the enemy. However, the final result should be very regrettable. Both of them were knocked down and captured, and it seemed that the enemy had overwhelming strength. The battle did not last more than ten seconds...

Next, Du Yuqi asked Xue Ya to continue looking for suspicious traces around. After circling the laboratory ruins twice, they found Jet's whereabouts again. This time it was Du Yuqi who discovered it again - because the clue was a small pile of melon seed shells. It could be seen that Jet waited here for a while and finally reunited with Mei Mei. They seemed to be escaping from the pursuit of the enemy behind them!