From the data on Tyrant Zhongli Yi after turning into the Tyrant, as long as you give it enough time, its overall combat power can still increase several times over.
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Skill 2: Devour Ability - Tyrant, LV.20
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Current Bonus HP: 0 (Max is Skill Level × 100, current highest is 2000);
Current Bonus Body Defense: 0 (Max is Skill Level × 10, current highest is 20);
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Just looking at Zhongli Yi's Skill 2 after evolving and mutating into the Tyrant, you can see that Mu Bei gained a huge advantage.
Because it had just turned into the Tyrant and hadn't had time to devour virus crystals, there was no bonus HP or bonus body defense at all.
If, when the Tyrant fought against Mu Bei, it had an additional 2000 HP and 20 more body defense, could it have beaten Mu Bei?
No. Because for Mu Bei, it would just mean hitting a few more times; even if the sandbag became more resistant to hits, it wouldn't change its essence as a sandbag.
Too low Agility was one of the two main reasons the Tyrant lost to Mu Bei.
The Tyrant's Agility was a full 21 points lower than its Strength, which made its attack wind-up and recovery time longer than its life when attacking with full force.
Of course, the Tyrant could choose not to attack Mu Bei with full force to shorten its attack wind-up and recovery.
However, the cost of not using full force was a decrease in attack speed. The Tyrant's attacks couldn't hit Mu Bei before, and if it didn't use enough strength, it would hit even less.
Zhongli Yi's skill in techniques significantly decreased after transforming, which was the other main reason it lost to Mu Bei.
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Skill 3: Close Combat Proficiency
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(Due to significant body mutation, this skill has been downgraded from Specialization level to Proficiency level.)
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Significant body mutation caused much of its previous experience to become unusable. This was reflected on the skill panel as Close Combat Specialization being downgraded to Close Combat Proficiency.
If Tyrant Zhongli Yi, this World Child, were given a few months to fully adapt to its new body, its close combat ability would very likely recover to the Specialization level.
If the Tyrant's bonus HP and defense were maxed out; its Agility increased to 50 points; plus Specialization-level close combat ability;
Then, the gap between it and Mu Bei in actual combat power would not have been so huge.
Coupled with its identity as the World Child, the Tyrant would have been very likely to defeat Mu Bei.
But reality has no 'ifs'.
To avoid turning into another species, Zhongli Yi chose to suppress his body's evolutionary instinct and stopped devouring virus crystals.
So he died.
Even the identity of World Child could only disgust Mu Bei after its death; it couldn't save its life.
Mu Bei felt fortunate about this, glad that this person had just turned into the Tyrant and didn't have much strength.
However, besides feeling fortunate, Mu Bei also had some doubts:
Zhongli Yi could have evolved long ago, why did he delay?
Evolution is such a wonderful thing; if Mu Bei were him, he would have chosen to evolve long ago without the slightest hesitation.
Could it be because after evolving, the species could no longer be Human?
If that were the case, then this would be too foolish, too ridiculous.
Non-human does not mean non-self. The principle is simple, but not many people truly understand it.
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Actually, Mu Bei guessed part of it correctly; the real reason Zhongli Yi didn't choose to evolve was related to the species no longer being Human after evolution, but it wasn't the whole picture.
It wasn't that Zhongli Yi valued his identity as a Human so much, but rather that he was worried he wouldn't be able to 'play with' women after evolving.
That's right, the real reason Zhongli Yi didn't choose to evolve was his worry that he wouldn't be able to 'play with' women after evolving.
What if, when doing things related to reproduction with women after evolving, the women get infected with the virus and suddenly turn into Zombies?
What if, when doing 'love-making' things with women after evolving, there is no pleasure?
What if reproductive isolation occurs between him and the Human species after evolving?
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Zhongli Yi had many worries, but his biggest worry was whether he would lose his sex drive after evolving.
More accurately, losing his sex drive towards female Humans.
Zhongli Yi originally planned to evolve only after he had played enough, played until he was sick of it, played until he had no sex drive left.
In fact, two years ago, Zhongli Yi reached the threshold for evolution. So, within these two years, Zhongli Yi transformed into a diligent 'seed-planter'.
Every day, he would sow his seed inside at least 50 women, controlling the time for each 'sowing' session to be between fifteen minutes and half an hour.
The time could be extended; if Zhongli Yi wanted to, an hour would be easy. However, there were too many women who needed 'sowing', and if he spent too much time on one woman, he couldn't complete his daily quota.
Within these two years, Zhongli Yi made extremely outstanding contributions to the reproduction of Humans, doubling the number of newborns in Jinzhou City compared to before through his personal efforts.
If the 'sowing' frequency remained unchanged, Zhongli Yi himself felt that in another two years, he would lose interest in the opposite sex.
By then, he could consider matters related to evolution.
But plans couldn't keep up with changes; before this big stud could 'play with' enough women, he died.
If Mu Bei knew the real reason this World Child didn't choose to evolve, would he think the other person was even stupider?