Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1251 - 648: You Also Experienced Time Travel

At this moment, the petrified creatures were already under Chang Yin’s control.

Chang Yin ordered all the petrified creatures to wait outside Crystal City, while he himself followed Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang into the World Tree.

The sight inside the World Tree left him so shocked that he was momentarily speechless.

When he learned that the flow of time inside the World Tree was a hundred times faster than outside, he was even more shocked, beyond words.

”There’s actually such a miraculous place...”

Xu Xin even vaguely saw the stone pupils in Chang Yin’s eyes trembling.

This really was quite the spectacle.

It was currently activity time inside the World Tree; many people were outside working or playing.

Although Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang didn’t take Chang Yin through the most crowded areas, they were still seen by quite a few people.

These people were all dumbfounded, but they didn’t approach; instead, they stayed at a distance, talking among themselves.

Some of them had seen petrified creatures before. In their minds, petrified creatures were supposed to be on the enemy’s side, so they didn’t dare approach rashly, even with Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang right there.

The two also realized that Chang Yin had caused quite a stir.

”Let’s go to my place,” Ji Chaoyang said.

”Alright.” Xu Xin nodded.

Ji Chaoyang’s residence was closer.

Soon, the two of them brought Chang Yin to the villa where Ji Chaoyang lived.

”Come to think of it, this seems to be my first time here. I heard Sister Xuefei is living with you?”

After the three of them sat down, Xu Xin looked around Ji Chaoyang’s room as he spoke.

”Yeah. Xuefei should be in the treehouse right now, busy with her new type of potion,” Ji Chaoyang replied.

”I see.”

Xu Xin really wanted to ask what Qi Xuefei’s new potion was, but this wasn’t the time.

By now, Chang Yin had been so shocked by everything inside the World Tree that he could hardly speak.

”This place of yours... what on earth is going on?”

Seeing Ji Chaoyang and Xu Xin both looking at him, Chang Yin finally came back to his senses and asked with some difficulty.

He felt as if his heart was trembling, because this place gave him the feeling of his homeland.

”Here’s the situation...”

Xu Xin briefly explained what had happened since they parted ways last time, and finally concluded, ”At least for now, this place is safe.”

”You actually... you actually have your own territory now. This is really...”

There was still a clear note of disbelief in Chang Yin’s voice.

”Tell us your story.”

”...Alright.”

Chang Yin’s story wasn’t complicated.

Back then, when Xu Xin and the others left, he stayed behind in the underground world.

At that time, Xu Xin and the others had helped him find Xue Lan, but they hadn’t found Xiaohong, so he had no choice but to remain.

After that, he hid Xue Lan away and continued his work.

His experiments broke through step by step, but he never got any news of Xiaohong.

This made him extremely agitated, to the point that when his experiment reached the final stage, the last step simply wouldn’t progress, as if he’d hit some kind of bottleneck.

Clearly, he only needed one more breakthrough and he would be able to control the Stone Giant Beast.

And it was at that moment that the monster appeared.

That’s right, the monster came to him in person.

The monster, in somewhat clumsy human language, told him that Xiaohong was with it. As long as he successfully completed this experiment, it would release Xiaohong and let them reunite.

At the same time, it had another request: that Chang Yin work for it for a period of time, replicating and expanding the petrified creatures.

Upon learning that Xiaohong was safe, Chang Yin ultimately agreed to the monster’s terms.

The monster also warned him that it knew where he had hidden Xue Lan, so he shouldn’t try anything funny.

The experiment had long since entered its final phase. After Chang Yin calmed down and focused on his research, it took only one day for the first petrified giant beast to be successfully brought under control.

And the monster fulfilled its promise, sending Xiaohong back and reuniting the family of three.

At the same time, once it realized that Chang Yin truly had skill, the monster’s attitude toward them also became very friendly. It was no longer as threatening as before, instead ”asking” him to continue his experiments here.

The monster also promised to guarantee his safety.

Even though it was the monster that had tricked them down underground, and it was the source of everything, Chang Yin still agreed.

Because the monster’s strength was unfathomable; if it turned hostile, he had no idea what the consequences would be.

Since the monster’s attitude at the moment was still relatively friendly, and he had nowhere else to go anyway, he figured he might as well stay for now.

In his view, as long as he was with Xue Lan and Xiaohong, it didn’t really matter where they were.

This vast underground world was much better than that previous underground city, at least.

So, Chang Yin continued his petrification experiments on giant beasts.

Petrified giant beasts that could be completely controlled began to be mass-produced.

And during this period, Chang Yin and his family were indeed entirely free; they weren’t asked to do anything else.

However, this relaxed state didn’t last long.

Something happened that shocked them.

For some unknown reason, the flow of time in the region they were in suddenly sped up dramatically.

The bizarre flow of time made everything outside this area seem almost frozen.

...

Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang exchanged a glance.

The timelines matched up.

The moment when time in the underground world started flowing extremely fast should have been when the World Tree matured.

Back then, when Xu Xin entered the World Tree for the first time and went down into the underground world with Lou Fei’Er and the others, a few petrified pterosaurs came to attack. When they left, they also saw a petrified beast horde in the distance.