On the blood-soaked earth, the red light faded from the eyes of the black giant ape.
So hungry! As it exited the state of anger, the black giant ape immediately felt a strong sense of hunger, the kind that made its chest stick to its back.
Ignoring the injuries on its body, the black giant ape struggled to bend over, picked up a remnant beast corpse, and began to tear and devour it.
This beast's corpse was somewhat preserved, with only the head and front half of the body smashed.
However, because the creature was only over a meter long, the remaining part was covered with cyan spikes, aside from the dark messy innards, the giant ape only managed to scrape out a little meat!!
Moreover, this beast's level wasn't very high, just like the Black Ant Ferocious Beast, it was only at One Tier.
Of course, while the Black Ant Ferocious Beasts were also tier one, they were roughly at Early-tier One, whereas these cyan ant beasts were at Late-tier One, especially their pincers.
Therefore, the meat of the cyan ant beasts was chewier and contained more energy.
Throwing away the shell in its hand, the giant ape picked up another shattered beast corpse, dug out the edible meat like scraping shells, and stuffed it into its mouth.
One carcass, two carcasses... as a large amount of beast flesh and blood went down its stomach, the hunger after its anger quickly vanished.
Meanwhile, the wounds on the black giant ape also stopped bleeding and healed rapidly due to adequate biological energy, including its physique growing slowly.
Unfortunately, these cyan ant beasts had too little meat, and most of their bodies were smashed and ripped apart by the black giant ape.
More than two hours later, the black giant ape finished eating all the edible meat, its size grew from seven meters three to eight meters, a height equivalent to a three-story building full of oppressive presence.
After eating and drinking the wounds recovered, the black giant ape looked towards the distant cave.
It was always curious about how these beasts 'maintained' themselves. Without 'herbivores,' how did these creatures form a food chain?
Slightly pondering, the black giant ape walked towards the cave.
Inside the cave, roughly two hundred meters deep, there were scattered stones and narrow black holes. The black giant ape also discovered the food of those beasts.
On the edges of those narrow earth holes were scattered some black ores excavated from deep underground.
The giant ape picked up a melon-sized piece, put it directly into its mouth, crunching it down like chewing on jelly beans.
Soon, a faint warm current spread from the giant ape's stomach, the energy conversion roughly equivalent to one percent the size of black ant beast meat.
Bah Bah!! The giant ape spat out some mineral residue from its mouth, somewhat disdainful.
Obviously, besides 'hunting,' these beasts relied on these ores with faint energy to grow, resulting in the flesh containing ample energy.
But this stuff lay deep underground, troublesome to excavate, and tasted bad with low conversion rate, so the black giant ape lost interest altogether.
Walking out of the cave, the giant ape found a hundred-meter-high tree and quickly climbed its trunk, shrinking in size rapidly.
Returning to human form, Jiang Hou first took out a pre-prepared old towel from the package, simply wiped off the bloodstains on his body, put on his clothes, and disappeared.
In the real world, Jiang Hou's figure appeared in the room.
The phone showed it was almost six, much later than yesterday, but it didn't matter, Qin Siyu in the next room hadn't woken up yet.
Silently opening the door, Jiang Hou went to the bathroom, soon hot water sprayed out from the shower.
While showering, Jiang Hou called forth the attribute page with a thought, ready to check the changes this time, helping to speculate the real strength of the giant ape form.
Strength 61→98, increased by 37 points, equivalent to ten times the ordinary person, this value and the speed of growth made Jiang Hou take a deep breath.
Too fast, considering a few days ago he was just a slightly unhealthy ordinary high school student.
Besides, Jiang Hou also found that as the size of the black giant ape kept evolving, the strength disparity between the beast form and human form seemed to widen further.
Unfortunately, without any measuring equipment, he's unsure of the exact values of the beast form, and compared to the strength attribute, agility only rose from 35 to 47, while defense only increased by 8 points, from 22 to 30.
"Defense is a bit low." Jiang Hou frowned.
The human form's basic data is many times the miniature version of the beast form.
And today's battle made Jiang Hou understand the importance of defense, even if your strength surpasses the opponent by many times, if your defense can be breached, you might still end up overwhelmed.
However, defense isn't something he can increase just because he wants to since the giant ape's skin is skin, not Scale Armor.
Unless the essence of life is changed, like... evolution.
Jiang Hou's attention fell to the bottom of the attribute page at the Evolution Value, currently having accumulated 42 of the required 100 points, nearing halfway.
Probably after entering the ruins two or three more times, he can initiate the first evolution.
Jiang Hou's eyes revealed a hint of anticipation, curious about what changes would occur then, whether it'd be a transformation of form or becoming larger?
Soon Jiang Hou finished showering, picked up a towel to dry his hair, but at this moment his gaze swept past the mirror, pausing slightly.
In the mirror, the young man's expression was indifferent, his gaze sharp, even the originally gentle facial lines appeared angular, adding a touch of coldness.
Subtly, a faint oppressive aura seemed to emanate from his body.
After repeatedly slaughtering hundreds of ferocious beast monsters, Jiang Hou not only gained an uplift in strength but also had transformations in demeanor and mindset.
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Morning, the dining room
Qin Siyu looked at the dark circles under Jiang Hou's eyes, somewhat puzzled: "Jiang Hou, did you stay up all night playing on your phone?"
"...No, just some insomnia," said Jiang Hou as he yawned.
Though his physique was getting stronger, he hadn't slept much recently, especially today having barely slept for half an hour before getting called awake, inevitably causing dark circles on his face.
Nevertheless, despite feeling a bit mentally exhausted, the rapid enhancement in power over these few days still felt invigorating.
"You were just saying to sleep early and wake early the other day, and now you're already sleepless last night." The girl shook her head, not knowing what to say.
Today, Qin Siyu also ate quickly as she had agreed to get to school earlier with her classmates.
After Qin Siyu went to school, Jiang Hou swiftly finished breakfast, then looked at the black watch on his left wrist, eagerly pressing the left button.
Beep Beep!! The screen showed Jiang Hou's current data.
'Body strength 8.6, no traces of power route inside the body, comprehensive level Late-tier One.'
"Late-tier One, nice." Jiang Hou nodded contentedly.
Just overnight, the human form elevated a small realm, needless to say the beast form, encompassing greater improvements in various aspects.
At this rate of growth, soon the beast form could ignore missiles and such heavy weaponry, roam the city, roar over the land.
Of course, that's granted there's no world suppression, allowing free transformation!