Deep Within the Nest

Meng Chao nodded.

He had graduated from Agricultural University, known as "Monster University."

Agricultural University's most important research task was breeding Biochemical Pet Beasts—implanting Control Chips and neural electrical stimulation devices into monsters' brains and central nervous systems, and embedding Crystals Bombs into their vital points, thereby taming these vicious beasts and making them serve human civilization.

Many of Agricultural University's technologies had originated from the Primordial Civilization.

The so-called "monsters" had originally been production tools and low-level soldiers of the Primordial Civilization—this made perfect sense.

"In fact, rather than imagining the 'Mother' as a large-scale Gene Factory that manufactured monsters, it would be better to imagine this place as a super-sized 'laboratory,' or even a 'university.'"

Wu Haibo continued, "Here, the 'ancients' extracted the genetic essence of tens of thousands of monsters, cutting and splicing it over and over, trying to fuse the traits of different monsters and breed the most efficient, most formidable production and combat tools.

"Whenever a brand-new species of ferocious beast was successfully bred, they released them into the Mist Hidden Forbidden Zone and let them slaughter one another, allowing the fittest to survive and the weak to perish, to see whether their survival and combat capabilities were powerful enough.

"The failed specimens unfortunate enough to be eliminated would be recycled through the 'Green Tide,' becoming food and fertilizer. Not a shred of energy would go to waste.

"The victors of these survival contests, meanwhile, would undergo deeper modification. Then their reproductive capabilities would be unlocked, and they would be released into the boundless Monster Mountain Range and even the entire Otherworld, where they could multiply on their own and clear away every obstacle for the Primordial Civilization.

"Of course, many monsters released into the wild would also undergo Gene Mutation as they absorbed the