Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?

Youlesa has left.

Her expression when she left was quite subtle.

The parasite turns people into ghosts, while the Sain Dungeon turns people into...

Neither human nor ghost?

Once Youlesa was completely gone, Gong Qiying finally replayed the video with a similarly subtle expression. Watching the survivors who had become even more insane than nutcases, he found it extremely difficult to suppress his emotions.

Originally, he intended to show Youlesa how the survivors had grown into Hunters filled with the aesthetics of violence under Sain's guidance. But as soon as he opened the Crystal Ball, the people inside gave him a feeling that they could shout out magnetic field rotations at any moment.

What else could he do, but to send Youlesa away first, hoping that no strange remarks regarding Sain would appear in the future.

"How did you all become like this...?"

Gong Qiying remembered that he had thoroughly engraved all the precautions into Fanen's mind. This young man was supposed to serve as a kind of instructor for these newcomers, a seemingly reliable youth who should have been able to restrain people's behavior.

Wait, could it be that the problem lies with how he's instructing them?

The video reversed little by little, frame after frame flashing by until Gong Qiying finally discovered the source of the problem.

"A residual shadow in this Dungeon warned me to maintain a reverence for all hunting, only then can one resist the beast-like nature brought by Blood Therapy."

In the video, Fanen seriously advised people about the matters needing attention. The survivors appeared to have undergone Blood Therapy at this moment, but they were missing a few people, with ten gathered in total, all listening attentively.

However, Fanen suddenly changed his tone, saying:

"But I have also discovered something: when I gradually find pleasure in hunting, I can feel the hidden powers within my body being awakened, these potentials eventually materialize into actual strength stored within the body, that is to say, the more addicted one is to hunting, the stronger they become!"

"But I discovered something else: with the assistance of the Puppet Lady, as long as we transform Blood Echoes into our own strength, especially intellect and endurance, by upgrading these two aspects, we can improve our addiction resistance to the pleasure of hunting. I've even tested that if we upgrade more than three levels at once, the craving in the mind for hunting will essentially be thoroughly suppressed!"

"So everyone, while we still need relatively few Blood Echoes to become stronger, let's indulge ourselves heavily in hunting! We absolutely cannot miss this great opportunity!"

"Go on everybody, kill, kill, kill!"

Gong Qiying fell into silence after watching.

It turns out the problem really was his damn fault, it's Fanen!

Who would have thought that this seemingly honest guy would come up with such a twisted path to strength!

Gong Qiying opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but paused and finally closed his mouth.

He truly didn't know what to say.

So how did this twisted path to power emerge? It sounds like they've taken Beast Balls. Blood Therapy won't give people this capability, could it be due to some special physiology of the Reid people?

No matter what the reason might be, from the actual results on-site, this twisted path is indeed effective.

Even an elderly woman, who would be out of breath after running for a bit, could use her cane to fiercely stab Beastified citizens, leaving them nothing to counter with—those with better constitutions showed even more noticeable progress.

Gong Qiying watched as these people screamed and hacked like Beastified citizens even more ferociously than the Beastified citizens themselves, then were forcibly tied one by one in front of the puppet by Fanen for upgrades. After the upgrade, they basically woke up and continued their hunt.

So, Fanen served as the last insurance in this process...

"There must be something wrong."

From the good citizens' perspectives, the training path of these survivors absolutely seems unlike the righteous way—it could be easily believed if claimed to be some cult's hardcore approach.

But upon closer thought.

Fanen and their current situation, from their own perspective, perhaps were truly at the depths of Hell.

Insufficient clothing and food, the parasitic mutant species continued emerging, the number of survivors was decreasing, the Kingdom's reinforcements were uncertain, even the existence of the Kingdom remained unknown.

They were extremely lacking in security, having finally found the Dungeon as the only beacon of hope in Hell, naturally exerting all efforts to elevate themselves, boosting their survival chances in Hell, striving to reclaim the city.

Seeing it this way, their behavior seemed entirely normal, even reasonable—they were incredibly rational to have restrained themselves to this extent.

Should I intervene?

Gong Qiying thought for a moment, but ultimately didn't choose to interfere with the survivors' behavior.

The path was for them to choose, and so far, it hadn't shown any significant harm, so let it be.

At most, he would ask Gilbert to speak more about the dangers of over-indulging in hunting.

The Meat Mountain entering Sain Dungeon today is definitely not the last mutation; in future, more mutations would emerge, and diminishing these powerful mutations by Sain would be the biggest help to the survivors.

As for those scattered among those infected, let the survivors full of passion solve it in order to reclaim the city.

Gong Qiying waved to erase the Dungeon scenes on the Reid side and opened the scenes on the Yanor Kingdom side.