Yun Xiuzhi thought she had figured out Li Xuan's background and felt extremely pleased, also believing she would become very powerful in the future—double the happiness.

Li Xuan looked at Yun Xiuzhi, who had suddenly become so cheerful, and felt completely baffled.

"If you get hungry later, help yourself to food. Don't change back to human form."

Yun Xiuzhi nodded. Having determined Li Xuan's background, she believed his advice must have deeper meaning. Could it be that her pigeon form would become incredibly powerful in the future?

What could a pigeon transform into?

Yun Xiuzhi racked her brains but couldn't think of any divine beast that evolved from a pigeon.

'Maybe transform into a phoenix? If carp can leap over the dragon gate to become dragons, it's reasonable for a pigeon to become a phoenix.'

Wait!

Yun Xiuzhi's spirits lifted as she remembered when Li Xuan first caught her!

He had known she was human from the very beginning!

And then he flipped through her feathers!

Pervert! Beast!

In her fury, Yun Xiuzhi managed to be furious for a moment, but one must bow under someone else's roof. She still needed Li Xuan to provide for her.

Most importantly, she couldn't defeat him anyway.

Expecting a pigeon to deal with something that looked like a cosmic monster was simply asking too much.

Even though Yun Xiuzhi guessed she might become powerful in the future, she didn't plan to escape. She was only speculating about her future strength—what if Li Xuan caught her not for her future power, but because he liked her human form?

That would be disastrous.

If this poor, helpless little pigeon ran outside, she'd face uncertainty every day, starving nine times in three days. Just thinking about it was despairing.

The probability was small, but not zero.

Besides, she felt that following Li Xuan would guarantee meat to eat. Since he returned from the future, he must know many secrets about the apocalypse—much better than struggling alone.

Even if Li Xuan originally wasn't as powerful as her in the future, now that he had reborn, could he possibly be weaker?

She was an otaku girl who had read many rebirth novels!

No one understood rebirth better than her!

Later, Li Xuan returned to bed, closed his eyes, and two pieces of intelligence from the system flashed through his mind.

Good luck today—two new pieces of intelligence had refreshed.

[Monster Origins] [Dark Fang]

He first checked the first piece of intelligence.

[Monster Origins: Three apricot trees in the green belt of Future Star Lake Shopping Plaza will bear fruit that mutates into Giantization Fruit during the second version's global mutation stage! Consumption increases body size, with corresponding improvements in strength, constitution, and vitality. (Can be harvested early, recommended consumption not exceeding ten fruits)

After version update, a crow consumed six Giantization Fruits, expanded to eighteen meters, was officially designated 'Black Shadow Giant Crow,' died from armor-piercing artillery when attacking human settlements/ Yang Taozi consumed five Giantization Fruits, expanded to eight meters, joined Black Earth Settlement, became third-in-command/ Termites consumed half a Giantization Fruit, expanded to one meter, later initiated ant tide that swallowed nearly half a city, perishing together with Azure-Striped Lesser Dragon.

Giantization Fruit!

Li Xuan's eyes gleamed—this kind of mutant fruit perfectly complemented transformation abilities.

Without technological or supernatural powers, bigger meant stronger, stronger meant bigger. Larger size directly correlated with greater strength and constitution, like an adult tiger king fighting a house cat—the cat stood no chance.

Even in the global mutation version, gigantic size still signified power to some extent.

His transformation was already enormous, far surpassing the former land dominator Tyrannosaurus Rex, joked about by netizens as a cosmic monster or Godzilla.

His current Prehistoric Colossus transformation definitely couldn't compare to Godzilla—both size and strength fell short. But after consuming Giantization Fruit, that might change. Not to mention strength, maybe his size could catch up to Godzilla.

Beyond the Giantization Fruit location intelligence, it also included information about future creatures that consumed them—undoubtedly excellent. Li Xuan could deduce some information from the additional intelligence.

Black Shadow Giant Crow ate six fruits, Yang Taozi ate five—only one fruit difference between human and bird, yet their expanded sizes differed dramatically. Black Shadow Giant Crow reached eighteen meters while Yang Taozi only eight meters—more than double difference.

Did animals gain greater benefits from Giantization Fruit? Or did the enhancement magnitude depend on biological talent?

Was Yang Taozi's talent inferior to Black Shadow Giant Crow's, resulting in smaller enhancement?

As for the termites at the end—not useful for reference.

Among the three creatures that consumed Giantization Fruit, the strongest was undoubtedly the termites. Half a fruit shouldn't provide such massive enhancement—the termites must have encountered additional opportunities after consuming the fruit to grow enough to submerge cities and perish together with a dragon.

What surprised Li Xuan was that a dragon would appear here in the future.

What animal mutated into the Azure-Striped Dragon?

Could he intercept it early?

Even if he couldn't tame it, consuming the Azure-Striped Dragon would certainly bring benefits.

'I hope future intelligence refreshes will include information about the dragon.' Li Xuan thought silently.

Then he checked the second piece of intelligence.

[Dark Fang: Auntie Yun's younger brother Scar is bringing people here. He has learned about Manager Yun's death from complex survivors and blames you for Manager Yun's death, believing you caused it. He plans to break down your door, seize your food and water, and feed you to the zombified Manager Yun.]

Scar

Li Xuan murmured the name twice—it sounded familiar.

Auntie Yun's cousin-in-law was the complex developer. Auntie Yun leveraged this connection to become property manager, while her younger brother worked for the cousin-in-law, reportedly handling dirty work.

During the complex's demolition phase, three households refused to relocate—no amount of money would convince them. After failed negotiations, all three households caught fire the same night. No casualties, but all their livestock died, and the houses became dangerous. Eventually, the three families took the relocation funds and left the city.

People suspected the developer was behind it, but had no evidence. Later, Scar got drunk and revealed some details—people learned he had set the fires.

"Since you care so much about Auntie Yun, I'll be merciful and reunite you." Li Xuan murmured.

Ding~

After version update, a crow consumed six Giantization Fruits, expanded to eighteen meters, was officially designated 'Black Shadow Giant Crow,' died from armor-piercing artillery when attacking human settlements/ Yang Taozi consumed five Giantization Fruits, expanded to eight meters, joined Black Earth Settlement, became third-in-command/ Termites consumed half a Giantization Fruit, expanded to one meter, later initiated ant tide that swallowed nearly half a city, perishing together with the Azure-Striped Lesser Dragon.

[Bai Lengning: Li Xuan, where are you? Can you bring me some food? I haven't eaten for three days.]

[Bai Lengning: I'm still at Honey Deer Café. A Yun and I encountered a zombie horde and got trapped here.]

[Bai Lengning: There are very few zombies outside now, fewer than before. It's safe if you come by electric scooter.]

Three consecutive messages that seemed like questions but actually directly demanded Li Xuan deliver food.

Li Xuan snorted and replied that he wouldn't deliver.

Bai Lengning was beautiful, but the world had many beautiful women.

In the apocalypse, beautiful women sometimes became sources of danger—without sufficient strength, you couldn't keep them even if you obtained them.

Li Xuan certainly had the strength to protect them, but his primary goal wasn't finding women—it was gaining greater power.

Besides, Yun Xiuzhi was also quite beautiful.