Although androids had no ki, beings such as Android 16 through Android 20, as well as Cell, all needed to kill and absorb others in order to evolve.
As long as he could detect places where life energy was rapidly disappearing, he could determine whether the androids had begun moving.
Looks like everything is normal. Nothing's happened.
After repeatedly sensing all the life energy on Earth and confirming that everything was normal, Son Gohan finally relaxed.
But just as he was about to withdraw his senses and stop searching, an unusual occurrence caught Son Gohan's attention.
In one area, several life energies that had originally been present in considerable numbers suddenly vanished in succession.
Those life energies did not belong to humans, but to animals. If Son Gohan had not known Cell's traits, he would certainly have overlooked them.
But things were different now. The sudden disappearance of life energy was enough to fully draw Son Gohan's attention.
Normally, a living being's energy would gradually weaken upon death, but these life energies had vanished instantly, as though they had died sudden violent deaths. That was very strange.
Without hesitating for even a moment, Son Gohan vanished from Kami's Lookout and, in the next instant, appeared beside a rabbit closest to where the incident had occurred.
The moment he appeared, Son Gohan saw a thin figure finish absorbing an animal into a dried corpse, which then crumbled into ash.
"Cell?!"
Son Gohan blurted it out instinctively. The figure shuddered upon hearing his voice, then immediately turned and ran without hesitation.
Son Gohan could not have been mistaken. That distinctive shape and green skin covered in black spots unmistakably belonged to Cell!
Before he could think through what was wrong, Son Gohan burst into motion at full speed. Amid the roar of