However, after they grew stronger, their range would certainly become longer and their abilities would become more lethal. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

In fact, the abilities of the mutant dogs were already higher than the abilities of the zombies that they had first seen, which is also the same with the abilities of the people who had used their abilities for the first time; so the mutant dogs in front of them probably had their abilities for a longer time and they had just encountered them this time.

"Hey, you guys—are you going to keep attacking? If you do, we are really going to kill all of you," Derek said while looking at the dogs in front of them.

They hadn’t dealt with the four mutant dogs yet, but they had already injured the two mutant dogs that don’t have any abilities. If they continued fighting, all the mutant dogs would certainly die by their hands.

When Derek asked, the mutant dogs—especially the two who had abilities—stopped attacking. While the two who don’t have abilities only hesitated and planned to attack again, they were stopped by the two who have abilities.

"It’s the first time we’re seeing mutant dogs with abilities; the base would certainly be interested in your corpses, so we won’t let you guys go if you keep attacking us," Derek continued after seeing that those dogs had stopped.

Afterwards, the dogs stayed a bit and then all of them barked before disappearing.

"Woah, I’m just testing if they could fully understand what we are saying, but they really do understand, and those that have abilities were certainly more intelligent," Derek said in amazement after the mutant dogs left.

"It’s amazing, but it’s also more troubling," Myla said.

"Yes, it’s more troubling as they could fully understand our words but we don’t even understand what they mean," Nathan said and then added, "Should we look for an animal language expert next time?"

"We should consider finding someone and adding them to the team. We also have to inform the base about what just happened.

Then inform Zam and Bryan to start looking for animal experts if there are any in the North Base.

Let them try to recruit someone who’s really good; they could try offering better than what the base would offer.

We only need one, so the base probably won’t feel too bad even if we compete with them, as we are the ones who informed them about it," Treyton said.

"I’ll relay it later," Yang said after Treyton spoke.

They had already encountered some mutant animals that already had strong abilities, so there are probably more mutant animals that already have abilities.

However, according to the novel, the number of mutant animals having abilities was few—unlike humans, where there are still a lot of people that wake up with superpowers, and most of the people would also have superpowers after absorbing a lot of energy in their bodies, so it’s only a matter of how many years it would be.

But for the animals, they only had a few mutant animals that have abilities like fire, water, and other abilities.

The mutant animals already evolved into bigger creatures than their usual size; most have already developed thick fur that could withstand zombies, and they had also already enhanced their senses and intelligence.

So, for balance, it seemed that only a few of those mutant animals could have such abilities.

Thus, seeing two mutant dogs with abilities was actually already rare, as there were only four of them who had attacked them.

So, Treyton and the others really don’t have to worry too much about the mutant animals having abilities too.

However, they should indeed worry about the intelligence of those mutant animals because most of them would still continue improving their intelligence, even if it isn’t as fast as those that have abilities. So, they indeed need to have someone who could understand most of what different animals wanted to express.

They don’t need someone like the one in the novel who could control a lot of animals. They just need someone that could understand those animals so that they would also have an easier journey in the future.

And since the animals had already left, they also went back and Samuel already started setting up their own communication device to contact the base again to inform them about what they just encountered.

When they reached the base, they emphasized the intelligence of the mutant animals and not really their abilities, because they had already seen zombies with abilities, so having mutant animals with abilities wasn’t that surprising anymore. But what they emphasized was that those with abilities seemed to be more intelligent than other mutant animals.

After talking to the one in charge of receiving the call, they also left a message for Wes about looking for a suitable talent.

"That communication device could still reach the base? How far can it reach?" Luciel asked while looking at the one that Aldo and Samuel had set up for their calls.

"They had modified it so it had a range that could reach twice as far as most of the cell towers.

We could only use it even here because we had already finished setting up the first cell tower.

If we hadn’t fixed it, the tools that we were using probably won’t be effective at all as we are already far from the North Base."

Luciel just nodded after hearing what Treyton had said. He really wasn’t well-versed in such things, so he would only ask when he got curious.

Even when they were fixing the cell tower before, he didn’t pay much attention because he didn’t understand what they were fixing and connecting to the cell tower.

And he’s also not interested in learning how to do it as they already have people who could clearly do the work.

If he was still working alone, he would probably be a bit interested in learning more about it, but since he doesn’t need to learn it anyway, he didn’t bother about it.