Fifty kilometers outside Hope City.

A thin mist shrouded the endless forest.

The trees here are tall and sturdy, with wrinkled bark of an eerily dark color and branches and leaves as deep blue as the sea, easily reminiscent of alien creatures in science fiction works.

A breeze blew by, as if some order was being passed on, and a rare silence appeared in the forest.

Then, accompanied by bursts of rustling sounds, groups of trees began to wriggle strangely, like pupae that had lost the protection of their cocoons.

Invisibly underground, the roots of countless plants are wriggling, transporting most of the nutrients that have solidified over the past few months.

These nutrients moved deeper into the forest, some of them entered the body of a towering tree, and the rest were transported to several potholes near the tree.

This tree is nearly a hundred meters tall, and its wrinkled skin is covered with expanding and contracting tumors.

The bluish-purple fluorescence flickered as the tumor expanded and closed, as if something inside was about to break out.

And in the sky a hundred meters high, the crowns of the towering trees were swallowing and reveling in the increasingly thick fog.

Along with the intake and exhalation of mist and the supply of nutrients to the root system, the tumor on the tree gradually swelled.

Finally, after a tumor emitting a light green glow swelled to its maximum, the already translucent membrane was suddenly penetrated by a sharp claw.

The sharp claws continued to slide downwards, and the membrane parts they passed through were cut silently like butter encountering a hot knife.

Finally, the gap in the membrane became one meter long, the claws were retracted, and two heads as big as watermelons poked out from it.

The strange beast with two heads is gray all over, and looks like a combination of a cat and a canine.

After it squeezed its head out with force, its entire body slid out as well, falling straight to the ground.

The expected collision did not happen. The newly born beast quickly gained balance in the air and successfully landed its seven legs of varying thicknesses on the ground together.

But since it was just born, it was a little top-heavy. One of its heads hit a tree root on the exposed ground, and it let out a cry of pain.

The other head looked around, carefully scanning this strange world.

The cry of the young strange beast seemed to awaken the giant tree beside it. Its branches began to tremble slightly, and a gentle light emanated from the roots, guiding the young beast forward.

The two heads continued to move forward, following the light spots on the ground, and came to a small puddle with clear water.

Instinctively he lowered his head and stuck out his tongue.

The moment it comes into contact with the liquid, its dependence on this sweet taste is forever imprinted in its body.

No one told it that it was just a young alien beast of the first level, a cannon fodder used to test humans, and a vanguard of higher-level alien beasts.

The strange beast, only half the size of a human, sipped the sweet juice and its body began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But such good things did not last long. After a few minutes, more green "cocoons" on the towering trees burst open, and one strange beast after another fell from the trees.

They have one to four heads, and their limbs are also different.

If human scholars observe them, they will find that the only thing they have in common is that they all have some mammalian characteristics.

Most of the strange beasts were able to nimbly grab the folds on the tree trunks, or use their multiple legs to land steadily, but a small number of them fell directly to their deaths under the towering trees.

In corners where no one could see, dark brown tree roots slowly emerged from the soil, rewrapped the corpses and digested them.

The two-headed baby didn't monopolize the nutrient pool for long, as more animal heads soon squeezed in from the side.

At this time, the advantages of the strange beasts with multiple heads and more legs were shown.

Each head has a mouth, and those beasts with three or four heads can drink the nutrient-rich liquid much faster than other beasts.

More legs can help the monsters win in the competition for nutrition.

The gap between them was revealed from this moment on.

As the first child born in Dashu's batch, the two-headed cub had nearly five minutes more exclusive development time than the others.

Seeing that the nutrient pool was already filled with strange beasts, it, with only two heads, could only try to be squeezed out as late as possible.

As for those guys who were born late and only have one head, now they are either squeezed into thin slices or can only stand aside and watch the show.

But those strange beasts with multiple heads apparently did not remain rampant for long.

Less than an hour later, the blue "cocoons" higher up began to burst one after another as the giant tree trembled. This time, what pierced the cocoon membrane were not sharp claws but thick and hard limbs.

These limbs, with obvious insect characteristics, are covered with dark carapaces and are much stronger than the tender limbs of the strange beasts below.

They crawl out of their cocoons, grasp the tree trunk firmly with at least six limbs, and crawl down little by little.

These young strange beasts that could grow to the second energy level were also attracted by the nutrient pools formed by the rotating roots, and began to slowly approach the nutrient pools. The squeezing and collision sounds between the shells and limbs added a bit of terror to the forest.

A strange beast with three heads raised its head from the nutrient pool, its six ears moved and then it turned its body alertly.

Looking at the insect-like monster that was almost the same size as itself, the monster slightly arched its body and assumed a posture as if it was about to attack.

"roar!"

Its three heads growled.

"Hiss~"

Although the insect-like beast didn't even have anything that could be called a face, it also made a threatening sound. Its huge jaws opened and closed, and they collided with each other, making a banging sound.

The two were in a stalemate for less than ten seconds, and finally the strange beast that hatched from the green cocoon chose to retreat.

It hunched its body, stared at the strange beast opposite, and slowly retreated. The instinct derived from its genes told it that this was not an opponent it could defeat.

Seeing that almost the strongest green cocoon beast began to retreat, the other beasts also stopped eating and began to follow suit and give up the nutrient pool.

The insect-like beast walked forward calmly, and its tubular mouthparts continued to extend forward, reaching into the bottom of the nutrient pool and began to eat voraciously.

More and more blue cocooned beasts with insect characteristics gathered, and they eventually occupied all the nutrient pools, while the poor green cocooned beasts could only stand aside and watch them have their feast.

Among the many strange beasts watching the show, a strange beast with two cat heads but a wolf-like body stared silently at everything in front of it.