In a high-rise building, Li Xuan transformed back into human form and hid in a room prepared in advance.

"Hurry, give me food." Li Xuan tore open chocolate wrappers, frantically stuffing them into his mouth.

Huo Lingling stood nearby holding mineral water, feeding him a sip every now and then, while Yun Xiuzhi helped tear open wrappers for Li Xuan.

After eating who knows how much, the hunger in Li Xuan's stomach finally subsided. He collapsed onto the floor, breathing heavily.

"How much did I eat? I'm exhausted from eating."

Huo Lingling counted on her fingers but got confused after reaching ten. Finally, Yun Xiuzhi reported that Li Xuan had eaten seven 400-gram chocolate bars, two cans of yellow peach preserves, three cans of eight-treasure porridge, ten packs of potato chips, twenty-six packs of instant noodles, and drank four bottles of mineral water.

"The giant beast's evolution through transformation makes my main body hungry too. If it's about supplementing nutrition to promote the giant beast's evolution, the food I ate isn't enough." Li Xuan said.

"The apocalypse and transformation abilities have already appeared. No matter how strange things get, it's not worth being surprised." Yun Xiuzhi said.

Li Xuan nodded and glanced at the time. "Rest until tomorrow morning, then we continue our journey."

Suddenly, he thought of something. "We're not going to Kunlun Mountain first. We're going to S City's zoo instead."

Yun Xiuzhi gasped in surprise. S City was very far from H City. Even at full speed, it would take them several days to get there.

"What good thing is there that's worth traveling so far for!"

Li Xuan grabbed Yun Xiuzhi and rubbed her bird head. "There's something good, though not as valuable as this time."

He only wanted the Mutated Tiger's body expansion characteristic, not the chaotic evolution of the mutated zombie.

Chaotic evolution was full of unknowns. With his Intelligence System, his biggest advantage compared to others was foresight. Abandoning foresight to choose the unknown would be putting the cart before the horse.

R City

Official Survivor Base

Huo Shuangshuang received intelligence from the neighboring city's officials and angrily slammed her hands on the table.

"How did he escape!"

Recently, she had been resting only five hours per day, spending all her remaining time searching for traces of the Prehistoric Colossus and her younger sister.

She had finally found some clues and narrowed down the Prehistoric Colossus's hiding place to about four residential complexes. Just when she thought she would soon recover her sister, unexpectedly, the Prehistoric Colossus had escaped.

"Was there anyone with the Prehistoric Colossus?" Huo Shuangshuang asked.

The rescue team leader shook his head. "No one. You must stay calm. It might be good that Huo Lingling isn't with the giant beast. She might have been left behind. If we continue searching, we'll eventually find your sister."

"If the Prehistoric Colossus took your sister with him, that would actually be worse. The Prehistoric Colossus has become stronger. As soon as he appeared, he seized two supernatural powers. Even before seizing them, his form was different from before, suspected to already have one or three supernatural powers. Combined with the supernatural power obtained in H City, he has at least three, possibly even five!"

Five supernatural powers!

Huo Shuangshuang was shocked. That was simply too many.

She also knew about supernatural powers. Since their discovery in H City, the information had been shared with other official survivor bases.

R City's survivor base was vigorously searching for traces of mutated zombies, but unfortunately hadn't found any so far.

Combining this with the new intelligence, she boldly deduced that R City's mutated zombie had already been killed by the Prehistoric Colossus!

No wonder they couldn't find the mutated zombie!

"He must be hiding a great secret!"

"Everyone knows he has secrets, but what's the use if we can't catch him? He's not an ordinary transformer. His scales can resist zombie bites, and combined with his massive size, ordinary firearms can hardly harm him." said the rescue team leader.

Huo Shuangshuang suddenly stood up. Since she couldn't capture the Prehistoric Colossus in the short term, the urgent priority was finding her sister first.

"I'm going to search the residential complexes!"

"What's the name of the complex you want to search?"

"Yuefu."

"Be careful."

Several days later

S City Zoo

After arriving, Li Xuan found no traces of the Mutated Tiger. The number of zombies nearby was also very small.

Going deeper into the zoo, he discovered some animal remains that had already begun to rot.

After searching around, he concluded that the Mutated Tiger had encountered the mutated zombie. The Mutated Tiger had already seized the mutated zombie's supernatural characteristic and left this place.

He had arrived one step too late.

Just as Li Xuan was about to leave the zoo, a beautiful goldfish appeared in his vision, swimming slowly.

"A goldfish? I didn't expect there to still be goldfish in the water now." Li Xuan said in surprise.

This goldfish was quite bold. Upon seeing Li Xuan, it didn't flee but instead actively swam toward him.

As it approached Li Xuan, it instantly transformed into a venomous snake, baring its fangs.

At the critical moment, Li Xuan transformed into the giant beast. His massive body directly broke through the water surface. The snake's head crashed against his scales, nearly breaking its fangs.

"So it was a venomous snake with goldfish transformation ability." Li Xuan's eyes flickered. This snake was the second animal he had seen with transformation ability.

Learning from experience, he would need to be more cautious when encountering weak-looking creatures in the wild in the future. They might be other fierce beasts or poisonous creatures in disguise.

The venomous snake was frightened by the aura released by the giant beast. Its body twisted frantically as it quickly swam away.

Li Xuan swung his tail. The massive tail carried enormous force as it swept out, creating a sound of tearing air.

In the blink of an eye, the venomous snake became snake paste, scattered throughout the water.

After leaving the zoo, Li Xuan still didn't give up. He searched the nearby area for traces of the Mutated Tiger for several consecutive days without any results.

At night, Li Xuan and Huo Lingling leaned against each other. The little girl's head rested on his shoulder, a trickle of drool at the corner of her mouth, as if dreaming of some delicious food.

Yun Xiuzhi nestled on Li Xuan's leg. "Are we still going to search?"

Li Xuan's finger drew circles on Huo Lingling's leg. "No more searching. If we stay here any longer, the officials will eventually find us."

"Why don't we cooperate with the officials?" Yun Xiuzhi asked curiously.

"It's not the right time yet." Li Xuan shook his head.

The opportunities in the first version were scarce, and he felt they weren't enough even for himself. Joining the officials would inevitably affect his own strength growth.

Only in later versions, when opportunities became numerous and some couldn't be obtained alone, would he consider cooperating with the officials.

For example, the second version had many opportunities, several of which would be obtained by mutated animals in the future.

The second version was the version of the lucky ones. With good luck, one could awaken powerful special abilities and possess considerable combat strength. The third version was different—that was the version of the prodigies.

Li Xuan wanted to be both a lucky one and a prodigy!

Ding~ Intelligence refreshed!

【Crocodile King's Rise】【White Flood Dragon River God】

No intelligence about mutated zombies!

Li Xuan felt somewhat disappointed. It had been a long time since he had obtained intelligence about mutated zombies.

After checking the first piece of intelligence, Li Xuan was surprised to find that the second piece was actually closely related to him.

Intelligence 【Crocodile King's Rise: The rescue team member codenamed Crocodile from H City was originally supposed to be influenced by rescue team member codenamed Alligator Gar while seizing the Strength supernatural characteristic, letting his guard down and unfortunately getting infected by the mutated zombie. Due to your appearance, Crocodile rewrote his fate.】

【During the second version, Crocodile's main body awakened the water control special ability. Combined with his crocodile transformation ability, he could explore the underwater world, search for aquatic spiritual items, and gradually grew from a minor character into one of H City's strongest special ability users.】

【Later, when H City was attacked by the Ghost Face Dandelion Tree and the survivor base collapsed, Crocodile fought to hold back the Ghost Face Dandelion Tree, buying escape time for other survivors. He ultimately died at the hands of the Ghost Face Dandelion Tree, becoming a tree-bound evil spirit.】

He had changed Crocodile's fate, allowing him to survive until the second version, indirectly giving H City's survivor base another powerful special ability user.

However, H City was ultimately destroyed, and Crocodile couldn't prevent the disaster.

"Did I change someone's fate so easily?" Li Xuan looked down at his hands.

If the Ghost Face Dandelion Tree was defeated in advance, could Crocodile survive until the third version?

Changing fate didn't seem that difficult.

Li Xuan lowered his hands, no longer thinking about fate, and focused on considering the information revealed in the intelligence.

A very powerful mutated tree demon would appear in H City in the future.

It single-handedly destroyed a human survivor base—this level of strength shouldn't be underestimated.

Unfortunately, he didn't know where the Ghost Face Dandelion Tree was, so he couldn't destroy it in advance.

The Ghost Face Dandelion Tree would be very powerful in the future, but right now, it was just an ordinary tree that any human with a weapon could easily destroy.

【White Flood Dragon River God: During the second version, a small white snake in N City awakened the dragon transformation special ability, evolving into a white flood dragon that could ride clouds and mist. Survivors mistakenly believed it to be a river god and worshiped it day and night.】

【The white flood dragon was intelligent and communicated with survivors. With an agreement of daily offerings of one thousand kilograms of blood food, the white flood dragon became the survivors' river god. Later, relying on the white flood dragon, the survivors established the River God Survivor Base.】

【During version 2.3, some survivors took advantage of the white flood dragon's slumber to ambush it, bathing in dragon blood to promote their special abilities and greatly increase their strength. After the incident spread, special ability users from various places targeted the white flood dragon. Eventually, the white flood dragon escaped the River God Survivor Base with its battered body. While hiding at the bottom of the Yangtze River to recover, it unfortunately encountered a giant mouth catfish and became fish food.】

Li Xuan pondered. According to the intelligence, the white flood dragon had considerable strength and a relatively kind temperament; otherwise, N City survivors couldn't have relied on it to establish a survivor base.

To establish a survivor base, one must possess considerable power.

"If there's a chance, I could subdue the white flood dragon, or sell it to the officials. It should fetch a good price." Li Xuan thought to himself.

Survivor bases formed by independents had weak order, unlike official survivor bases. Even if they knew about the miraculous effects of white flood dragon blood, they wouldn't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

At daybreak, Li Xuan transformed into the giant beast. Carrying Huo Lingling who had turned into the Little White Snake and pigeon-formed Yun Xiuzhi, he left S City and headed toward Kunlun Mountain.

After traveling for several days, while passing through a small county town, a man and woman driving a simple small boat blocked his path while he was in Prehistoric Colossus form.

"Wait! I have something to tell you! There are benefits!" The woman shouted loudly through a megaphone.

"Are you from the officials?" Li Xuan said.

"We're from the officials, but I'm not here representing them! I want to cooperate with you!" The woman shouted with great effort, her small face turning red.

"Not interested." Li Xuan prepared to continue forward.

"Supernatural characteristics! I know you're looking for supernatural characteristics! I know the location of a mutated zombie! I can take you there!"

The giant beast stopped. Its head, comparable to a house, lowered and approached the woman. The enormous beastly eye reflected the woman's figure.

"I hope you're telling the truth." Li Xuan said.

Gulp~

The woman swallowed hard, a smile appearing on her face. "It's true! Absolutely true! We've been waiting for you for a long time!"