Most of the trees only contained the evolutionary substance and didn't produce any fruit. But they also looked like those dead trees and will explode in a few moments. So he will swallow them to use the evolutionary substance. Only in this monkey pit, did he find two subjects that successfully condensed fruits and condensed more evolutionary substance than the previous experiments.

Even these aren't very useful for him, as he's looking for something that can strengthen him many times and in less time. So he's not looking for a failed subject like this that only has a one-time use and vanishes within a few seconds.

John looked at the ball of roots that was turning into ashes slowly and without wasting time. He took a bit of tree from the upper part and devoured it. It turned into an evolutionary substance which then he used to strengthen his heat sense organ.

His sensing range expanded and he can sense better now. After the process, John looked at the slightly shrunk red drop and muttered(It's finally consumed a little bit, otherwise I would have thought it has unlimited evolutionary substance.)

Then he gobbled back the red drop and started traversing toward the east following the sun. On his way, he began to experiment with some seeds and tree branches. But all of them failed without exception.

With one or two successfully grown thus providing him with the evolutionary substance that he needed. This process of strengthening also demanded more energy in the process. So the stored energy in his body declined rapidly and he began to hunt now and then at a moderate pace to keep the energy full, in case he needed the energy in some unexpected situation.

During his travels he came upon numerous different types of animals he never heard of in his previous life. But he still didn't find any civilization signs and another red drop in the vast forest. From this, he concluded that finding another red drop is not gonna happen anytime soon.

There are many animals he found on the way which are much larger than what he knew from a previous life. These animals all have certain territories and don't traverse out of them. Even though they are huge and most of them are only half the size of him. Which he didn't have any trouble in defeating.

A month later, the large black snake slithered and wandered in the middle of the forest. Which caused panic among the animals as they flew away from the way of the snake. John as usual didn't care about these small animals, as he moved forward. He used the heat sense organ to sense the heat of any animal with heat in a three-hundred-meter range.

As he didn't find anything threatening animals he moved forward at a speed that didn't deplete his physical strength rapidly. Just as he crossed the swallow pit, a high-pitch-penetrating sound came from the sky. Which caused even the poor-hearing snake's ear to ache.

~Screeeeeech~

John looked up to the sky with annoyance. As he's ready to hunt down the creature that had hurt his ears. But his eyesight is poor and he can't see much, his heat sense also covers only three hundred meters which is not as good as normal eyesight.

John tried to find the animal that screeched. But he suddenly felt a burning feeling on his face. So instinctively he covered his head with his body and formed a defensive posture to protect himself.

~Screech~

Another pitch sound came clearly as another wound opened on his body. John finally glimpsed an animal that was reflecting injury in his body. That's none other than beasts that usually hunt snakes as a living, the 'eagle'.

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It's a golden eagle that's five meters in height and ten meters wide without spreading out its wing. It has golden feathers that shine brightly under the sun with sharp talons and a beak. Which can easily open up his scales and injure him severely. The golden eagle is so fast that he can't even sense it in one place. The heat organ senses heat everywhere in the sky making it hard to pinpoint the eagle's location because of its swiftness.

So evading becomes harder and he can only become a live target under the mercy of the eagle without having a chance to attack. The eagle is much faster than him thus making it harder to attack. After a few seconds with several injuries on the body.

With no other choice, John began to eject poisonous fog into the surroundings at a rapid pace making the hundred meters surrounding him covered in dense misty poisonous fog that concentrated on the extreme.

Most of the small animals and insects in the surroundings began to die. John consumed energy without considering anything and released a large amount of poisonous fog he could release in the surroundings. Only toxic fog can help him in this situation.

With his reaction time, he can't attack the eagle with poisonous liquid nor can he support the large amount of liquid poison. So the fog becomes the only thing that is best and practical for this situation.

Finally, the eagle stopped its continuous assault on the snake and circled over the fog with low screeching sounds. John finally has time to think about how to survive this crisis. John looked at the eagle that was circling in the sky with cautious analysis. The pain from the wound numbed, as his thought process raced his thinking and made the second seem like years.

John began to camouflage himself to the surroundings and held his breath. Making him no different from the surroundings. Then he began to move lightly out of the coverage of the fog, but the next moment he got a burning feeling on his head again. So he retracted the head and returned to the fog without a second thought. The eagle also stopped its attack and maintained an attacking stance.

John looked at the eagle and began to think of a way to survive(The poisonous fog will only last up to fifteen minutes. With my current energy, I can release poison of this level up to fifteen times. Before energy bottoms out. So.. )

Johns looked optimistic as he generalized a plan. John began to use smell sense to locate a water source nearby. But to his dismay, his smell range is smaller than the heat sense range and it isn't any help to the current situation.

With no hope, the snake's cold crimson vertical pupil flashed with murderous intent and it launched itself from the ground straight to the golden eagle that was flying low in the sky to attack the snake.

By using every ounce of strength, the snake flew into the air. The golden eagle easily avoided the snake's attack. The snake used this chance to fall back into the poisonous fog to avoid the attack of the golden eagle. John is running out of chances and plans to escape from the hand of this golden eagle.

With a do-or-die mindset, John began to slither toward the water source he found in the morning at the fastest speed possible. Just after crossing a hundred meters, John is again attacked heavily back of his head. But he avoided it narrowly.

~Swish~

And continued to move at a rapid pace, while sometimes attacking the eagle that was following him. But he still got many injuries, and even so, he didn't stop as he moved at a rapid pace without stopping. A few kilometers ahead, a black snake with numerous injuries fled at a rapid pace with a screeching golden eagle in its pursuit.

With a blood trail on the ground, the snake dragged its body into the forest as the large lake appeared before its eyes. Joy surfaced in its eyes upon seeing the lake and entered the lake as its tail got caught by the eagle. The snake entered the water without stopping ripped the tail end and left it in the eagle's claws as it entered the water.

~Screech~

~Screech~

The eagle screeched loudly for a few minutes and swallowed the snake's tail which made its stomach full. So it left from there, a snake's head surfaced as it looked at the sky with its poor vision and heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing the sky free of the golden eagle.

John looked at the orange-yellow sun in the sky and thought(I finally felt what it feels like being hunted down and not able to do anything about it. Other than running away. Maybe I should strengthen my disadvantages first then strengthen my advantages. So, not to be as miserable as I am now. I also should grow bigger without caring about lifespan depletion. If I die all the lifespan will be wasted. So it's better to be strong and have less lifespan than dying. )

The snake concentrated on its retina as it said to itself"First of all let's see the data panel."

[ Bloodline Creature(1/4).

Age: 1/100 years.

Race: Snake(adult).

Talent: Endless growth(50%) ]