So without wasting time, he began to eat all the fruit on a tree and concentrated the energy from the fruit towards his horn to increase the range he could sense. Information is the first advantage in any hunt and he can hunt with ease or drop the hunt if there are any ambushes according to him.

After eating all the fruits John looked at the crimson tree and decided to find the reason for the cause of the phenomenon in this tree. As it's one of the reasons he embarked on this journey. Then he began to sleep to recover energy.

Next morning.

After waking up from his sleep, John began to eat the carcasses of the animals on the island. John looked at the water that had returned to its blue color and the life of animals in the lake also returned to normal with the absence of the ruler of the lake.

There are many carcasses John left while hunting the crocodiles to reduce the time he spent hunting. But to his surprise, there are no animal carcasses remaining in the lake. Because these are all eaten and cleaned through by the other aquatic animals.

John then focused his concentration on the red tree that was covered with many blood-red lines like human blood vessels and he didn't find that tree absorbing any blood or animal carcasses as nutrients and was confused at this process and the reason for the blood red color.

He found there were not even leaves in the tree which is used for photosynthesis. The tree looked like a dead tree with no signs of life other than blood-red vessels and crimson fruit growing on it.

The tree is ten meters in height and he can look down at it with little effort. John then compared other trees in the surroundings with it and couldn't notice any differences from other trees, other than noticeable ones.

John slithered around the tree and cleared everything else on the island leaving only the red tree. Which stands eerily under the sun, John looks at the tree and mumbles within himself as he can't speak (What happened to this tree to evolve in this direction and abandon most of the positive evolutionary traits?)

After finding no answer to his question John decided to take drastic measures, he began to use his tail end to smack around the tree lightly with enough force to open up the mud. Then slowly using the tail end he began to open up the mud on the ground.

An hour later, with a delicate process and control of the tail, John opened up around the five meters of the tree but still didn't find any tree roots. So he began to excavate the soil till he got near the tree. But he still didn't find any roots. So after losing a meter or two near the tree. John coiled his tail around the tree and pulled it hard with all his strength.

~crack~ ~crack~

The land cracked for a few meters and the entire tree was pulled out. Then John looked at the bottom of the tree in surprise as no tree root system spread all over the land to provide water for the tree. Strangely the tree roots all coiled around and formed a ball of roots that's tightly enveloping something inside.

The tree showed no movements after he pulled it up. So he confirmed the tree had no active consciousness to respond to these life-threatening circumstances. Then he began to spray purple liquid poison all over it. The round ball of tree roots is corroded and shows a small ball of crystal clear ball containing a drop of red crystal.

Upon seeing the red crystal, John's every doubt is clarified, and the reason for the unknown mutation in the tree is probably related to the red crystal. The crystal clear ball containing red drops fell on the ground and made the following sound.

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~Thud~

John took the crystal ball into the mouth to see if he could absorb rapid evolutionary substance directly from the ball into his body. But to his dismay, he can't access the energy straight up from the red drop. So he swallowed the crystal ball into his stomach to keep it safe from other animals stealing them. He can control what to digest and what not.

John then looked at the world filled with animals that were evolving bizarrely and rapidly and said to himself(Maybe the reason for this situation is a substance in the red drop. If so I also need to find more of these things and it will be worth pondering over it.)

Then he looked at the destroyed island with nothing present and thought in his mind(Perhaps, I've overdone it!).

Then the snake left from there as there was nothing more interesting there and what he needed to do next also could not be done there. In a deep forest beside a cliff, are group of monkeys are gathering together and doing their things. A smaller monkey with a dark brown color meter height and black eyes ate a large fruit in its hand and threw away a fist-sized fruit core down the cliff like always.

The monkeys are used to throwing away the remains of what they ate down the cliff from animal carcasses, and fruits to their fellow dead bodies. To keep their living area clean without knowing why. Even so, their living area is still dirty with their wastes lying here and there.

Down the cliff, a large pit mainly consists of fruit cores, tree branches, and carcasses. An unexpected guest arrived at this place looked at the pit and spit out a fist-sized crystal into the pit. In a few seconds, numerous plants grew out of the seeds and died before they even grew fully. After the pit full of seeds and tree branches turned into ashes.

Two plants grew out of one seed and a tree trunk. Both of them grew crimson lines on their trunks and they didn't grow any leaves on the trunks. The trunks in the tree were also less than what they usually grew. It's like they grew specifically to accommodate the substance in the red drop.

John looked at all of this and showed a smug expression on his ferocious snake face which looked like he's gonna swallow something for a snack. He already experiments along the way with many plants and trees. But no already-grown plants or tree shows a reaction to these red drops. Only broken trunks or seeds of plants react to the red drop vigorously.

This is all he concluded with his experiments on his way. The snake's body may be useful for hunting and overpowering others but it didn't provide him with research of the red drop.

John looked at the rapidly grown two trees with blood color lines and condensed crimson fruits. John ate fruit from both of the two trees and found one tree converted more energy per fruit and had more fruits than the other tree. These trees have a root system that is inserted into the land that is used to absorb water, but most of their root system still fights with each other to cover the red drop completely.

So they only absorb water and condense fruits from the red drop. John bites the one tree that is not as efficient as the other tree and swallows the tree. He can absorb the evolution substance from the tree this way. So the whole tree is better than the fruit it provides. While eating the tree, another tree slowly inserted its root into the soil anchored itself, and then covered the red drop into a ball-shaped root system.

It's like life can't bear to be far away from the red drop. Even if it's failed evolution, it still holds the red drop dearly with its instinctual desire. Then the tree began to absorb energy from the red drop as the blood color lines covered all parts of the tree making it look like less tree and more blood vessels of animals. In the meantime, John finished absorbing the evolutionary substance from the tree and strengthened the heat sense organ making his range exceed two hundred meters.

He looked at everything within his scope of heat sense organ with the feeling that nothing dangerous could approach him without his knowledge and then he looked at the newly grown tree that was much redder than the usual trees he experimented with and came to a conclusion(The tree is a failed experiment and gonna explode in a minute.)

He already experimented with numerous trees on his way and concluded that he needed more experiment subjects to successful tree species that could accommodate the evolutionary substance.

That's why he came here to this monkey group's garbage dumping area. To find more experiment subjects with his current situation. As a snake, he can't collect small seeds of plants and trees effectively with his large body size. On his way here he already experimented with multiple subjects and none of them survived the evolution substance for long and produced fruits.