9: The military captures the beast!

“Hahaha, it really is like this.”

After Xia Fan devoured and digested the Thunder Giant Bear's crystal and flesh, he found that his strength had indeed improved, directly reaching the late First Order.

This change filled him with joy, as he realized that as long as he continued to devour, he would become stronger and stronger, perhaps even becoming a powerful existence like the Beast Emperor of his previous life.

At this moment, he not only gained a boost in strength but also saw his physical attributes improve severalfold.

Now, his body length has reached over ten meters, and his physique is even more robust, making him an absolute behemoth in the entire mountain forest.

Bang—

The next moment, Xia Fan unleashed the ability he had just acquired—King Kong Transformation.

After a dazzling golden light flashed, Xia Fan's entire body was enveloped in a golden hue, especially his tiger claws, which transformed directly into incredibly hard golden claws.

He had just tested them on a nearby boulder; not only were his claws incredibly hard, leaving no trace after colliding with the boulder, but they also shattered it.

“Not bad, not bad. Although King Kong Transformation is only an A-grade ability, for me right now, it’s a very useful one.”

“At least, with a body as hard as King Kong, even if I encounter a fierce beast stronger than myself, I’ll have the power to fight, at least enough to protect myself.”

Xia Fan was very satisfied with his current state.

It had only been four or five days since the blood rain, yet he had transformed from an ordinary Siberian Tiger into a late First Order fierce beast, with his strength increasing by countless times.

Now, although there are a large number of fierce beasts globally, awakened by the blood rain with their unique abilities and becoming stronger, with his current strength, especially in this early stage of evolution, he can completely swagger among the fierce beasts.

First, his SSS-grade ability—Devour—can devour the primal power of billions of living beings in the world and convert it for his own use!

This terrifying ability is extremely important for a fierce beast, as it means his potential is limitless in the future, as long as there are enough living beings for him to devour.

This was also Xia Fan's first SSS-grade ability, which he had snatched from the Black Tiger back then.

As for his awakened talent—Berserk—although it is only A-grade, it still cannot be underestimated, as it can instantly enhance one's physical attributes tenfold.

This ability only fails to have a significant impact in the early stages because the host's strength is too low.

The stronger the host, the greater the assistance Berserk provides.

This was also why Xia Fan dared to attack the Thunder Giant Bear after it used King Kong Transformation.

Currently, there is no fierce beast he cannot deal with.

If there is, he will deal with it after going Berserk.

Of course, among the A-grade talents, there is the newly acquired King Kong Transformation. Having already understood its convenience, Xia Fan only regarded it as an ability that provided him with defense and did not research it too much.

In addition, he has another ability—a B-grade talent, Frost Breath.

This ability allows him to spew out the power of ice, but because its grade is too low, the help it provides will diminish further down the line.

But Xia Fan did not dislike it; no one would dislike having more methods at their disposal.

“Devouring is truly the path most suited for me.”

Xia Fan wandered through the Dali Mountains, preparing to look for other spiritual objects like Thunder Fruit, or to find fierce beasts with good talent abilities to continue his path of growth.

He was confident in facing all fierce beasts currently.

And even when facing humans, he believed he could ignore ordinary firearms.

Of course, the premise was that humans did not use highly destructive means like missiles.

“In my previous life, as a human, I naturally had to find ways to survive among fierce beasts, which was an irreconcilable enmity.”

“But in this life, I am reborn as a Siberian Tiger, and I can rely on my Devour ability to gradually grow stronger until I reach the pinnacle. Therefore, the humans of this life have little to do with me.”

Thus, even though Xia Fan knew that after some time, even missiles would be ineffective against fierce beasts, he wasn’t particularly excited.

Anyway, humans would then be completely at a disadvantage, and this would continue for a very long time.

With his experience as a human in his previous life, Xia Fan deeply agreed with the idea of 'those not of my race are sure to have different hearts,' and this idea applied equally to him now.

Since he had become a member of the fierce beasts, from the moment he began to grow stronger, Xia Fan abandoned the idea of befriending humans.

Interacting with humans was an extremely dangerous thing.

He further understood that if he were to show goodwill to humans, or even communicate with them, there was no guarantee he wouldn’t be dragged onto an operating table for dissection to uncover the reason for his transformation.

If things developed to that point, it would be extremely dangerous; he did not want to die again.

And just as he was strolling and pondering various issues, suddenly, his tiger eyes narrowed, and a great commotion reached his ears.

Xia Fan looked in that direction and saw that above the Dali Mountains, several helicopters had appeared, seemingly searching for something.

He immediately stopped, crouching slightly, but a huge wave surged in his heart, “It’s humans! But logically, they shouldn’t have come so quickly.”

“Or is it that my rebirth has altered the original timeline?”

Xia Fan did not know that just a few hours earlier...

In a military base in the capital, Professor Professor Xia Xinyu, accompanied by two assistants and escorted by over ten soldiers, had arrived at this location.

This was because the Dali Mountains were the largest forest in the entire country, containing many extremely primitive areas.

The number of wild beasts living in this mountain range was countless.

At his suggestion, the commander had approved his idea of coming here to capture fierce beasts and take them back for research.

“Quick, quick, turn around, then everyone disembark, the prey has been found.”

On the helicopter, Professor Xia Xinyu glimpsed a moving patch of yellow in the forest and mistakenly thought it was a group of fierce beasts, as the color patch was simply too large to belong to a single fierce beast.

Under his command, the accompanying soldiers sprang into action.

In the mountain forest, Xia Fan was still pondering why the country had organized personnel to come to the Dali Mountains so quickly when he suddenly saw that after the helicopters hovered in mid-air, their cabin doors opened.

Then, fully armed soldiers rappelled down the ropes, one by one.

“Are they coming for me?”

Xia Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking about his escape from the Jianghai City Zoo. News of it should have spread by now, but... it shouldn't warrant such a large commotion.