Ling Xingjian could not help asking, "How do you replenish them?"
"As you can see." Dr. Chu extended a slender hand, grabbed one of the insects above him, and crushed it with a pop. A mass of mixed solids and liquids came pouring down, cascading over the brain like a waterfall.
The brain writhed and swallowed all of it. A look of enjoyment appeared on Dr. Chu's huge face. "Eat. That's all."
"Eat other creatures carrying Heavenly Revelation Particles. The stable particles will return to an active state, equivalent to replenishing Evolution Points."
"This base has already been eaten clean. Otherwise, I wouldn't be without a single guard."
No wonder there were no other monsters in this base. This Big Head had eaten them all.
Shi Tie Zhu immediately thought of something else. "Every monster I've encountered had the habit of cannibalizing its own kind. Is that also because of an instinctive need to devour and evolve?"
"Of course." Big Head said with certainty, "The law of the jungle is the core of evolution, and it is also an instinct our entire species cannot shake off."
Shi Tie Zhu spotted a blind spot. "If the Heavenly Particles' infectious ability isn't that strong, you'll soon eat up everything you can devour. What happens then?"
"Then we keep spreading." Big Head looked as though it were only natural. "Following the instinct for survival, when there is enough to eat, we enjoy fine food. When there isn't enough, we make fine food. The Heavenly Particles' infectivity itself is not limitless, but when the need to devour and evolve cannot be satisfied, organisms will naturally evolve the ability to infect and spread their population outward."
In other words, the hungrier a monster population became, the more likely it was to evolve the ability to