"This mutated vine had evolved to a very high degree!"
Meng Chao thought, It can automatically detect the strength of a prey's Life Magnetic Field, judge its power, and restrain its predatory instincts. This isn't something ordinary mutated plants can do. I've never heard of such intelligent mutated plants growing deep within the Raging Wave Mountains before.
As he continued forward, Meng Chao successively discovered dozens of highly evolved insect monsters and mutated plants.
These included Longhorn Beetles with shells so hard their strength rivaled composite armor.
Giant centipedes covered in dazzling, multicolored patterns that slowly writhed forward, leaving behind trails of deadly poison, gradually using those toxic trails to restrict their prey's escape routes before finally strangling them.
There were also Man-eating Flowers with delicate, lush buds blooming all over them, behind which hid gaping bloody maws and blood-sucking thorns.
There were even things in perfect symbiosis with plants, impossible to distinguish as either earthworms or Tree Root.
Many of the malformed, twisted insect monsters were entirely new species that Meng Chao had never seen before.
Yet most of these new monsters seemed more like crude, brutal amalgamations of several monsters' traits—for instance, a mantis's Blade Limbs combined with a spider's abdomen sac and a ladybug's shell. At first glance, they bared their fangs and brandished their claws, looking ferocious and grotesque, but in truth, they possessed little survival capability.
This indicated that they had only recently suffered external stimulation that triggered genetic mutations.
They had not yet been eliminated in the brutal contest of natural selection, where the weak were prey to the strong.
When Meng Chao stepped into a swamp, a leech-like insect monster covered from head to tail in purple patterns finally let out a shrill "hiss" and attacked him.
When this thing lay dormant in