Troll? Back to Being a Link in the Food Chain

Chirp, chirp~

Chitter~ chitter~

Above the dense jungle, several birds flew over the treetops, while the faint sound of insects rang out now and then from every direction.

Tang Zheng hid behind a thick tree trunk and a screen of shrubs, calmly sizing up this small Goblin tribe.

There were no "old" Goblins. That was still normal enough.

After all, Goblins were omnivores. When food was scarce, the injured, disabled, or elderly Goblins would absolutely be treated as emergency rations.

But the absence of any young Goblins was rather strange.

Tang Zheng might not understand the Goblin race all that well, but he had learned quite a bit about the habits of Goblins as Monsters from Rock's team.

June and July were when Goblins were at their most active.

Because this was the period when the Goblin race reproduced in large numbers. So not only would they hunt large quantities of Monsters and wild beasts in the forest, they would even leave the Great Forest of Tob to prey on the surrounding villagers.

Inside the small Goblin settlement.

As the group of Goblins returned with five human corpses, the few Goblins that had originally stayed behind in the tribe immediately let out excited "waa waa" cries.

The Goblins in the rear who were carrying the corpses, panting for breath, did not set them down right away. Instead, they continued carrying them all the way to the low, messy thatched hut built in the center.

They placed the five human corpses at the entrance of the low thatched hut.

Right after that, the group of Goblins hurriedly retreated a short distance, looking toward the low thatched hut with both anticipation and fear.

When Tang Zheng saw this, the corner of his eye twitched.

Bang—

A tremor sounded from inside the low thatched hut, like the low growl of a wild beast.

The next moment!

A figure over two meters tall, with a massive, heavy body and dark yellow skin, staggered out of the low thatched hut.

A Troll!

Understanding flashed through Tang Zheng's eyes.

This was the Troll that had nearly wiped out Rock's team back then. There was no way his impression of it would be shallow.

"Hungry, hungry..."

As the Troll let out a vague groan, its two thick arms reached out first, bracing against the ground before it stood up.

Its hairless head was covered in lumps of flesh of all sizes. Just one look at it made a chill crawl over a person's skin.

As its head lifted.

On the Troll's savage, vicious face, a small Goblin was being bitten in its mouth.

The small Goblin made no sound at all, hanging limply from the Troll's mouth. It had clearly been dead for some time.

The next moment.

Screech—

A palm-sized tongue stretched out, rolled the half-bitten small Goblin into its mouth in one gulp, and began chewing with a crunching sound.

Pale green blood splattered out as the Troll opened its mouth!

All the surrounding Goblins trembled where they stood at the sight, even their breathing growing quieter.

Seeing such a savage, brutal scene.

Tang Zheng's brows furrowed deeply, and a wave of nausea rose inside him.

He finally understood why there were no young in this small Goblin tribe.

This Troll was injured!

Although there was some distance between them, Tang Zheng could clearly see that on the chest of the standing Troll, there was a huge wound even larger than a washbasin.

A large number of flies and insects swarmed around the wound!

No wonder this Troll's movements had been somewhat slow when it crawled out of the low thatched hut and stood up.

For a Monster like a Troll, consuming large amounts of food was the best way to recover from injuries!

"Food!"

The Troll's ferocious gaze fell on the five human corpses on the ground, and an excited expression appeared on its face as it roared.

Immediately after, it raised its hand, grabbed one corpse, and began eating it in huge bites.

The hard bones of the human body were like brittle cartilage in the Troll's mouth.

Seeing this, Tang Zheng withdrew his gaze and took a deep breath.

"This impact really is one hell of a welcome gift from the New World," Tang Zheng murmured under his breath. He opened his eyes again, and a deep chill appeared in them.

In the world of his previous life, humans were the undisputed masters of nature. All other living things were only divided into those that could be eaten and those that could not.

But the New World before his eyes.

Humans seemed to have become one link in the food chain again, hunted and eaten as prey. The sight sent an inexplicable shock through Tang Zheng's soul!

At that moment!

Aside from nausea, an indescribable fury and alarm rose in Tang Zheng's heart.

That anger did not come from the Troll devouring human corpses before his eyes.

It came from the depths of his soul from his previous life—from the wildness rooted in the deepest part of the human spirit, the instinct of mankind that had crawled step by step from drinking blood and eating raw flesh to the very top of the food chain!

Whoosh!

The Iron Sword rose and lay across his chest.

Tang Zheng's gaze was icy as he carefully observed the Troll in the distance. Its build was somewhat larger than the Troll that had attacked Team Rock back then.

Aside from this Troll, that group of Goblins was not a problem.

This Troll was injured. Right now was absolutely the best time to deal with it!

However.

Tang Zheng did not rush up at once. Instead, he quietly waited for an opportunity.

After any living creature had eaten its fill, its Reaction Speed and physical coordination would be somewhat worse than when it was hungry.

It was not that Tang Zheng was being overly cautious; he had no choice but to be careful.

Without any detection-type methods, Tang Zheng naturally could not see this Troll's exact level. He could only rely on the wilderness survival experience mentioned by Adventurers in this world to judge.

And as it happened, Tang Zheng had basically no experience in identifying Monsters.

After all, he only had one life. Tang Zheng certainly did not want to lose it because of carelessness or negligence!

For this kind of Demi-human-type Monster, which relied on its huge body and strength far beyond that of humans at the same level, it was safer to judge it as two or three levels higher than it appeared.

Tang Zheng recalled the racial information about Trolls in his mind.

Trolls had relatively unusual racial traits. Out of racial habit, most Trolls would stay together with Goblins.

The Trolls were responsible for fighting, while the Goblins provided food, forming a mutually beneficial relationship.

In this forest, most Goblin communities likely had Trolls present, and the larger the Goblin community, the more Trolls it should possess.

Mm!

Tang Zheng noticed that the Troll only stopped eating after devouring three corpses in one breath.

Its gradually bulging belly and the trace of laziness showing on its vicious expression all made it clear that this Troll had already eaten its fill.

Expressionless, Tang Zheng raised his Iron Sword and moved with light steps, quickly approaching this small Goblin community!

Since the Troll had finished eating, the other Goblins finally began cheering one by one and started eating tree fruits, the rotting corpses of small wild beasts, and some were even eating leaves.