Zhang Heng opened the panel and found that the 0/1300 after the level bar had turned into 400/1300.
This change made Zhang Heng feel both worried and happy.
The worry is that all animals can gain evolution points and upgrade through fighting, so the opponents will gradually become stronger.
The good news is that other animals only gain stats after leveling up, but he can also gain new talents. His combat power increases much faster than other animals.
"I will do my best and seize every opportunity to upgrade so that I can go further. In this case..."
Zhang Heng turned around, licked his lips and looked at the big white-feathered rooster that was still warm.
“Tear!”
Zhang Heng climbed onto the rooster and used his sharp teeth to tear the chicken into strips, devouring it with relish. But the chicken was so huge that it took Zhang Heng a full hour to finish it, leaving a mess of chicken bones and feathers on the ground.
"Burp~ 300 points! I ate a whole chicken and I actually got 300 evolution points!"
Zhang Heng burped and sighed. He didn't expect the gap between hunting cockroaches, earthworms, and toads to be so huge.
"It's a shame I only have 700 evolution points stored in my body, but I'm already feeling quite full. Am I approaching the level cap?"
Zhang Heng scratched his ears with a gloomy face. The less he ate, the fewer evolution points his body could store at once. And if his evolution points fell short of what he needed to level up, his level would be capped.
This is the tragedy of animals at the bottom of the food chain.
“I envy their appetite!”
Zhang Heng ran to the light curtain and looked eagerly at the life-or-death duel outside. Over an hour had passed, and most of the battles had concluded. The winners earned the right to survive, while the losers were mostly eaten by their opponents.
Looking around, most of the animals outside were ten times larger than Zhang Heng. He did not find any animal of similar size alive.
The most common species among the winners were cats and dogs. After all, the Iron City War Zone was once a human-inhabited area, so wild beasts were naturally rare, and most of them were cats and dogs.
"If the opponents were cats and dogs..."
Zhang Heng couldn't imagine how, with his current means, he could defeat these opponents whose strength and reaction far exceeded his own.
Time passed as he was thinking. Three hours later, all the life and death arenas were closed and Zhang Heng was teleported back to his own platform.
As soon as Zhang Heng stood firm, he heard a familiar humming sound.
"Hmm...Hmm, you...you're still alive?"
He turned his head and met Zhu Jianqiang's eyes full of disbelief.
"Why can't I live? You want me to die, right?"
Zhang Heng raised his chin and glared at Zhu Jianqiang fiercely.
"Sorry... I don't mean any harm, I'm just curious. Because during the match, there was a gray rat bigger than you on the ring next to me, and it died at the hands of the cat in one blow."
Zhu Jianqiang shook his head like a rattle, apologized repeatedly, and stretched out his left hoof to gently touch Zhang Heng.
"Don't take it seriously, I was just joking."
Zhang Heng shook his head as he carefully examined Zhu Jianqiang. This red, black, and white spotted pig, which had smelled of barbecue yesterday, had now recovered from its injuries, the red and black discoloration gone. It even seemed to have grown in size, its plump body standing there, looking particularly plump and strong.
"What a healthy, delicious pork belly! This piece is perfect for dumplings, and that piece is perfect for stir-fried pork and green peppers..."
Unconsciously, tears began to flow from the corners of Zhang Heng's mouth until his two silly big eyes met his gaze blankly.
"Ah! Hahaha, I don't know why, but I suddenly feel a little hungry."
Seeing this, Zhang Heng could only laugh to hide his embarrassment.
"Hungry? Didn't you eat your opponent after he died?"
Zhu Jianqiang asked in a gruff voice.
"'Also?', who was your opponent? Didn't you eat it?"
However, Zhang Heng grasped the key point in Zhu Jianqiang's words.
"My opponent is a cat with a thick tail, a pointy face, and a strong smell. I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat meat."
Zhu Jianqiang shook his head in denial.
"That's a fox, right? If you eat it, you can gain evolution points, which will allow you to level up faster. Otherwise, other animals will level up faster than you, and it will be difficult for you to survive to the end."
Zhang Heng kindly persuaded Zhu Jianqiang.
"Uh-huh..."
Zhu Jianqiang shook his fat head ambiguously and nodded. Zhang Heng knew from the moment he saw him that he hadn't listened.
Forget it, everyone has their own destiny. No, every pig has its own destiny. Zhang Heng said no more.
"They're not dead?"
On the other side, the Tibetan Mastiff, which also survived, kept rubbing its eyes with the back of its paws.
He was fine with the fat pig surviving, given its size. But what about the little mouse? How did it survive?
"What a stroke of luck! I must have encountered some small bug as my opponent. Humph, you expect to survive to the end by relying on luck? I think..."
Just as the Tibetan Mastiff was muttering to himself, the platform under his feet began to tremble without warning, and then began to disintegrate bit by bit.
"What's wrong?"
Zhang Heng was also shocked and rolled on the ground. The sudden change left him confused.
Just when he was confused, the familiar mighty and majestic voice appeared again.
"The ladder test begins now. You must choose a stone ladder and climb to the next area. When 50% of a species reach the target first, the remaining individuals will be eliminated."
As the resounding voice had predicted, Zhang Heng looked down and saw the inverted mountain he was standing on was constantly disintegrating into dense, square rocks. The rocks then rearranged themselves, forming three stone staircases that extended diagonally upwards before him.
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