"Da Lou, have there been any changes to your Esper abilities?"
"Seems like..." Da Lou scratched his head and said honestly, "I feel like I'm a bit stronger, and I'm more energetic too."
Lin Xian looked puzzled.
"When did that happen? When you were on the roof?"
"No. When I was chopping up that monster's corpse to look for the pearl, I felt like I absorbed a very fishy-smelling blood aura..."
Lin Xian frowned when he heard that.
Blood aura?
Kiki and Jiang Yun had both mentioned before that Espers with the Aberrant Form Proliferation ability could directly absorb the flesh and blood of Espers or Aberrant Entities to grow stronger.
After the White Monster and Red Bug died, that black smoke had also emerged from them, forming Eerie Blood Essence.
It seemed that whether it was him or an Esper like Da Lou, they could both gain a certain degree of improvement by absorbing that black energy.
Even...
He recalled how the White Giant Monster had rapidly changed after devouring Tang Hai.
If Lin Xian had guessed correctly, Tang Hai had already been an Esper at the Evolution level.
"Monsters eat people and grow stronger. People eat monsters... and can grow stronger too."
Lin Xian's eyes burned brightly.
"It sounds damn absurd, but it also seems rather fair."
The biggest problem troubling them was still how to evolve. Tang Hai had presumably been an Origin Seed-level Esper. Although he had displayed almost no combat power in the early stages, after evolving, he had become clearly stronger by more than one level.
However, looking at his neither-human-nor-ghost appearance, Lin Xian felt that it was very likely what Kiki had described as the appearance of someone whose evolution had failed.
"Da Lou, did you and your sister start fleeing after the