"Wasn't I hit by a car and killed?"
Ye Que, an orphan, groggily woke up.
He raised his hand.
Why did it feel like his arm was being pulled?
He turned his head and saw...
Holy crap!
It had turned into a claw!
Ding!
"Soul successfully merged with the tortoise, meeting the system activation conditions! Host, do you want to activate the system?"
A pleasant voice rang in his head.
Ye Que shuddered, his shock turning to joy.
Even if he was stupid, he should understand that he had transmigrated and obtained a system.
"Host, do you want to activate the system?"
That pleasant voice echoed in his mind again.
"I'm willing to activate it!"
Ye Que said excitedly.
"Ding! Devouring Synthesis Evolution System successfully activated!"
Swish—
a panel appeared in Ye Que's mind.
Host: Ye Que
Realm: 0/10 (None)
Evolution: Tortoise (Ordinary Monster)
Talent: Counterattack (When attacked, returns 50% of the attacker's damage)
Speed: 0.1/10
Defense: 1/10
Attack: 0.1/10
Experience Points: 0
Martial Arts: None Realm, cannot be activated
All of this is real!
He looked up and scanned his surroundings.
It was a patch of dry bushes.
He started crawling out of the bushes.
"Host is moving. Activate map scanning?"
The voice in his mind made Ye Que overjoyed.
"Definitely!"
"Ding! Map scanning activated!"
"Ding! Map scanning started!"
"Ding! Scan information loading 10%...20%...30%..."
"Ding! Information loaded 100%!"
Some unfamiliar information appeared in Ye Que's mind.
It turned out he was in the Monster Forest, inhabited by many monsters.
"Map scan prompt: A Level 1 monster has appeared 200 meters ahead!"
Ye Que checked his panel.
Realm: 0 (None)
That is to say, he had no realm.
The monster in the map scan had a Level 1 realm.
Stronger than him!
He then assessed his own size.
The size of a palm, he probably couldn't even defeat a monster of the same level.
Let alone a Level 1 monster.
His life was more important; he had to escape.
However, his crawling speed almost moved Ye Que to tears.
A snail's pace!
After climbing for a while, he had only moved about five meters.
"System notification: A level one demonic beast is rapidly approaching. Please take cover!"
Ye Que shuddered. Was it coming to eat him?
In the Demonic Beast Forest, the strong preying on the weak was a given.
Someone as weak as him was practically food.
Looking at the panel in his mind, it flashed a dangerous red light.
Clearly, it was a serious warning!
That demonic beast would kill him even if it didn't eat him. This
was awful!
He had clearly detected the danger beforehand, but he could only watch helplessly as it approached!
How did I end up in this body?!
It truly lived up to the saying, "Incredibly slow!"
Roar!
An excited roar came from behind.
Ye Que instinctively pulled his head and limbs into the tortoise shell.
He had been picked up!
His life was over!
"Ding! Congratulations, host, for triggering a mission! Devour a level one demonic beast. Reward: Can be devoured, synthesized, and evolved!"
Ye Que was about to collapse!
He was lucky to avoid being devoured!
"Map notification: A Level 1 demonic beast has appeared 200 meters ahead!"
"System notification: A Level 1 demonic beast is rapidly approaching, please take cover!"
Another demonic beast appeared.
The demonic beast carrying him stopped moving.
Bang!
He was thrown to the ground!
Swoosh—
the demonic beast beside him accelerated and charged forward!
Roar!
The roar of the beasts rang out, followed by the sounds of flesh and blood tearing apart.
Ye Que stuck his head out and saw two demonic beasts fighting.
One was a gorilla the size of an adult, and the other was a wolf the size of an adult.
These two guys were huge and fought fiercely, neither giving an inch.
But what did it matter to him!
If he didn't leave now, when would he? Time
to run!
When he quickly advanced ten meters, the fight between the two ended.
The gorilla let out a mournful howl and then fell silent.
Ye Que's heart tightened, and he turned to look.
The wolf was covered in blood and limped towards him.
Its eyes revealed a gleam of desire.
It was the desire to eat him.
This guy wanted to eat him to replenish his strength and heal his injuries.
Ye Que desperately wanted to escape, but he couldn't.
The wolf, panting heavily, walked up to him and stared at him for a second.
If he could, he would be willing to stare at the wolf like that forever,
until it bled to death.
Roar!
The wolf growled and opened its mouth to bite him.
It wanted to crush his shell and eat him on the spot.
Damn it!
"Ding! Host's talent triggered, counterattack!"
*Crack!*
It was the sound of teeth breaking!
Awooo—
the wolf howled, spitting out the shell and turning to flee.
But its injuries were too severe, its stamina exhausted, and it was already at its last gasp.
Now, counterattacked by the shell, its injuries were compounded. After running a dozen meters, it collapsed weakly to the ground.
Ye Que was speechless
. He peeked out and saw the wolf lying on the ground.
"Did I cause this?"
He remembered something and looked at the panel in his mind.
Talent: Counterattack (When attacked, retaliate with 50% of the attacker's damage)
Speed: 0.1/10
Defense: 1/10
Attack: 0.1/10
Experience Points: 0
"Hahaha, my defense is the highest, plus the counterattack talent, I managed to hurt the wolf."
Ye Que laughed.
Tortoise-type monsters are usually weak in attack.
But as long as they utilize their strengths, they are absolutely dominant.
Now that the wolf was dead and the danger had passed, Ye Que didn't leave.
He remembered he had triggered a quest:
devour a level one demonic beast.
The wolf was a perfect opportunity!
Finding that chance again would be extremely difficult!
"Ding! Host has killed a level one demonic beast, the Wild Forest Wolf! Gained 0.5 experience points."
In Ye Que's mind, the experience points on the panel changed from 0 to 0.5.
"The wolf was too badly injured, lost too much blood, and died!"
This was Ye Que's first reaction.
But how should he use these experience points?
After some trial and error, he finally understood their purpose.
"Speed increased by 0.5!"
Experience points changed from 0.5 to 0.
Speed changed from 0.1/10 to 0.6/10.
"Killing a demonic beast grants experience points, which can be added to speed, defense, and attack."
He understood, and his heart pounded with excitement.
He'd test his speed first!
In no time, he reached the Wild Forest Wolf's corpse.
So fast!
"Next, all that's left is the devouring, synthesis, and evolution."
He saw the evolution option on the panel flashing. He
clicked on it with his mind.
Evolution: Tortoise (Ordinary Monster)
Devouring Target: Wild Forest Wolf (Level 1 Monster)
Selected Synthesis Points: Wild Forest Wolf's Keen Vision, Wild Forest Wolf's Keen Hearing
Synthesis Evolution Target: Wild Forest Tortoise
Ye Que pondered for a long time.
"I choose to synthesize the Wild Forest Wolf's Keen Hearing."
Tortoise-type monsters have vision, but their hearing is very poor, almost like being deaf.
He wanted to remove this deficiency.
With hearing, he could be more confident in surviving in the monster forest.
"Please contact the devouring target!"
Ye Que stretched out his claw and touched the corpse of the Wild Forest Wolf.
"Devouring, synthesis, and evolution begin!"
The Wild Forest Wolf melted away at a speed visible to the naked eye.