Chapter 46 The Strength of the Beast King

"Hiss...so fragrant..."

Li Tianran's mouth was full of oil. This large pot of stewed meat was rapidly nearing its end under the combined assault of him and Hanhan.

The evolution of evolved beasts wasn't just limited to strength; their taste improved as well.

Ordinary crocodile meat was tough and didn't have the soft, tender quality of fish, but the meat of this evolved beast king was different. It was supple, white, and jade-like, far surpassing the meat of the lv3 livestock that Li Tianran raised!

The stewed soup was also incredibly delicious. Sprinkle on some scallions and cumin, and the taste... it was unbelievably tempting!

Xiao Hei was beside them, tearing into a crocodile leg. Since evolving, its interest in cooked food seemed to have diminished greatly. It had begun to favor the taste of bloody, raw meat. Li Tianran was a little worried that it might start to enjoy slaughter, but after a second thought, in the current situation, it wasn't a bad thing to be fierce!

Moreover, due to Xiao Hei's dramatic increase in size, the cattle and sheep that Li Tianran was raising on the farm weren't even enough to feed it, and he didn't have a pot big enough to cook for it.

This giant crocodile had temporarily solved Li Tianran's immediate problem. Nearly ten tons of flesh and blood were enough to provide Xiao Hei with about ten days' worth of food.

"Crunch!"

Xiao Hei hugged a two- or three-meter-long crocodile leg, its fearsome teeth easily tearing open the crocodile hide and scales that even a rifle could hardly penetrate, crunching loudly as it chewed on the flesh, looking both savage and formidable.

After eating nearly twenty kilograms of meat, Li Tianran felt a bloated sensation in his lower abdomen. After swallowing the meat, he felt his whole body heating up, as if he had taken some kind of tonic, and his blood was constantly boiling!

"My strength seems to have increased a bit..."

Li Tianran had a very strange feeling. He quickly opened his data panel.

"Strength: 110"

"Field Control Range: 3.1 meters!"

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows. It was indeed effective!

His strength had increased by a few points, and most importantly, his evolved skill had also been enhanced. Although the amount of this enhancement wasn't too much, it was still a pleasant surprise for Li Tianran!

Initially, Li Tianran had always believed that only by constantly consuming lv4 fruits could he enhance the power of his evolved skill, but now it seemed that there was more than one way to develop his evolutionary path. Devouring the flesh and blood of evolved beasts could also achieve beneficial effects!

This was a major discovery that was worth recording...

At the same time, Li Tianran also felt a sense of crisis. The flesh and blood of an evolver could provide benefits to other creatures that were also evolvers, so in the near future, there would definitely be perfectly mutated beast kings who would learn of this and begin to kill each other.

Moreover, although there were only three human evolvers in the world at this time—Li Tianran, Hanhan, and Bai Jingyan—it wouldn't be long before new human evolvers appeared.

The shortage of water and food would eventually change the world. Humans would eventually be infected with the V-virus in large numbers, and many would die, but eventually, some lucky humans would survive with a very small probability and discover a completely new path!

What's more... Li Tianran now held the key to evolution in his hands. He had decided to usher in a new era, so in the near future, new human evolvers would definitely be born from his hands.

In this way, the evolvers in the world would not be just a few people.

As everyone knew, humans were at the highest position among all the creatures in the world. They were the most benevolent, the most moral, and the most civilized, but at the same time, they were also the most violent, the most cruel, and the most unscrupulous. If some evolvers knew that devouring their own kind would increase their strength, then Li Tianran had no doubt that some evolvers would become cannibals...

When an ordinary person suddenly possessed a power that they had never imagined before, they often couldn't control their desires and behaviors! And when they knew how to enhance this power, ninety-nine percent of people would dare to ignore all the moral laws of the world and do anything crazy!

Li Tianran didn't want to create some crazy, violent, and unscrupulous demons from his own hands.

"It seems that when choosing the candidates to grant evolutionary qualifications, I have to go through a very strict review..." Li Tianran narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself.

He was already preparing to build his own power, so the choice of his future subordinates naturally had to be stricter. Choosing evolutionary qualifications wasn't like hiring a handyman, where you could just ask a few questions to qualify.

Character, personality, and mind—the three most important aspects were indispensable!

If Li Tianran didn't check carefully and allowed some psychologically twisted people to become evolvers, then he would no longer be the creator of the Age of Gods, but the devil who opened the gates of hell...

For such a world that was already scarred, it would be a fatal blow!

...

The piercing sound of an alarm circled in the sky above Nancheng, and an extremely tense and solemn atmosphere enveloped the city.

The internet and television stations were constantly broadcasting emergency transfer messages, requiring all residents of Nancheng, whether they were residents of villages, towns, or urban areas, to actively respond to the call to leave their homes and go to emergency shelters!

As soon as this order was issued, countless voices of opposition immediately sounded in Nancheng.

Many people thought that the upper echelons were overreacting!

But soon, Nancheng Television released news of a tragedy in a certain town that had been attacked by monsters, in which more than a thousand residents had all died.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The people of Nancheng rushed to the shelters with their families like crazy, for fear that if they were a step slower, the same terrible thing would happen to them.

Under the joint action of the military police and the council, ten hours later, most of the residents of Nancheng were safely transferred to the stadium in the city center.

Rumble...

Huge chariots were parked around the stadium, and cold guns were neatly arranged, facing outward.

This stadium had become a fortress, difficult to shake.

"Still haven't found the whereabouts of that monster?"

Yu Cheng stood next to a chariot at the entrance of the stadium and asked in a deep voice.

"It disappeared without a trace. Judging from the traces at the scene... it suffered very serious injuries, a lot of bleeding, and its scales were broken! But we didn't find any traces of it crawling away! There are two explanations for this: one, this monster can fly!" Yang Yong, the chief of the military police, said in a deep voice, "But according to the public surveillance near the attacked villages and towns, it obviously doesn't have this power."

"Then there is only the second explanation: it was killed, and another creature took it away by other means."

"Other creatures?" Yu Cheng raised his eyebrows.

"Perhaps a biological research company... or perhaps another, more powerful beast king." Yang Yong pondered for a moment and said, "If it's the former, then we don't have to worry in the short term, but I'm more inclined to the latter, because we found the monster's torn scales at the scene, which looked... like they were bitten off by sharp teeth."

Yu Cheng's heart sank, and he felt a terrifying chill enveloping his whole body.

A monster that had slaughtered a village was already extremely terrifying, so what kind of hideous demon would be the other beast king who had killed this monster?

He didn't dare to think about it, feeling that his spirit had reached the verge of collapse.

"God, if this is a nightmare, please wake me up quickly..." Yu Cheng muttered to himself.

...

At this time, the "demon" that Yu Cheng feared was lying flat on the ground, exposing its soft belly, its face full of grievance, its eyes full of helplessness and pitifulness.

A little girl was treading on it barefoot, using its belly as a trampoline. Every time she jumped, its belly made a "duang, duang" sound...