The monster is hungry.

He found that large chunks of food were becoming less and less difficult to hunt, but it could not comprehend what it meant without even thinking, and it would not comprehend anything at all. In fact, no matter what it eats, it doesn't feel even the slightest bit full, but it still keeps hunting, and keeps eating, as if it was programmed.

Creatures that are smart enough have reduced their activity frequency and reduced their range, but they will inevitably encounter monsters that take the initiative.

Take this poor stag, for example.

A near-demonic stag was nibbling on grass stalks, and every now and then it would raise its head and look around vigilantly. Already partially sapient, it knew that the forest had become more dangerous lately, and that it should have been hiding. But...... In that case, it would be easy for one's own weak child to die.

It looked at the fawn snuggling at its feet, struggling to swallow its food, and the uneasiness in its heart deepened. The deer demon is far less aggressive than the jackal, tiger and leopard, and what has helped her avoid countless killings is the superior perception brought by the race. Her perception didn't alarm bells, in fact she didn't feel anything, but her undeveloped logical thinking skills filled her with doubts.

The Shadow tossed and turned through the Magical Forest, wiping out parts of all the trunks it touched. It didn't disturb the air in its every move, as if it didn't exist. The monster locked onto its target and pounced on it.

The doe that was grazing with her head down did not notice it, but the fawn that happened to raise her head saw the shadow. It had just whistled an alarm when a tentacle the thickness of an index finger pierced its skull. The fawn's body immediately fell to the ground, convulsed a few times, and did not move.

The doe doesn't have time to grieve, which is a fairly common death in the Magic Forest. It took a step and ran, and the breeze held its four hooves, although it didn't really make it fly, but it also made the already agile and agile doe a little lighter.

The monster noticed that the large piece of meat it was targeting was trying to escape, so several tentacles wrapped around the fawn's corpse, and the monster silently chased after the mother who had lost her child.

No matter how hard the doe tried, it couldn't shake off the monster, and all the cordyceps trees it touched would be partially devoured, leaving a monster-shaped wound. The monster's running motion was unsightly, it fell to the ground on all fours, staggered, and often even tripped itself, and the wildly waving tentacles did not help it move forward at all. But this foolish and reckless way of moving is faster than anything else, and if it were not for the fact that it is often slowed down by its own faults, the doe would have become its mouth.

Even so, the doe's physical strength is limited.

The monster seemed to be enraged by its long-lost prey, and it opened its mouth and roared loudly.

“Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh！！”

The doe's ears were bleeding immediately, her eardrums were punctured, and even the semicircular canals were hit to a considerable extent. It felt like the sky was spinning and its pace was unsteady. And at this moment, the monster had already rushed behind him.

There was no trace of anger on the clean, pale face, and it stretched out its hands, ten black claws piercing deep into the doe's neck. The monster pulled out its fingers, and thick, bright red blood gushed out of the wound, but all the dirt could not stay on the surface of its skin, and the hands that were as stiff as dead men were spotless.

The fawn had been eaten and digested by the tentacles during the chase, and the monster was prostrate next to the doe's corpse, and it opened its mouth and measured the doe's head with its teeth.

Can't bite.

Just like an amoeba protozoa, the mandible of a monster without logical thinking automatically dislocated and disconnected from the middle, if the monster just now still had a human face, the current monster is a complete nightmare, and the face of Zhou Zheng was pulled into a funny and weird appearance by this action, like a python stretched large enough to swallow food the size of his own head.

But it didn't swallow the carcass, but put the first half of the doe's head in its mouth and closed its mouth. The sharp triangular teeth reached the level of a single molecule, and the sharp teeth that began to close from three directions cut through the food without hindrance, and the fur, flesh, and bones could not stop them, and were split in two.

Blood and brains flowed from the severity, and the monster chewed twice before swallowing the pieces into its stomach, but the matter was actually erased by its body, and it appeared to be eaten by it, but in fact it was only consumed by nothingness.

But the monster has no intelligence to understand this, it only feels that it will never have enough to eat, and it will always be hungry. This insatiable hunger prompted it to keep hunting, and the monster devoured the corpse, it was not a picky eater, it could eat any part.

In just a few minutes, the doe was only half a little smaller, but the monster's hunger was not relieved in the slightest.

The smell of blood attracted the youkai roaming in the Magic Forest, and very few youkai could realize how terrifying a target they couldn't detect anyway, so in the past three days, a considerable number of youkai have turned into monsters' dishes, and this youkai is no exception.

A black ball swayed towards the monster.

[It has a very fragrant taste...... It seems like...... I guess it's here. 】

The child's voice crept into the monster's ears, and it paused to eat, stood up and looked around, trying to figure out the source of the sound. But its eyes had long since lost its function, and it was impossible to tell where the sound came from, so the monster opened its mouth and made its own voice.

“Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh！”

[Wow!It's noisy!]

The monster couldn't see itself, but the sound it made helped the black ball to correct its position, and the black sphere, which was about two meters in diameter, flew straight and engulfed the monster without hindrance, but it didn't know anything.

"Puff"

A petite body crashed into its arms.

What is this?]

A pair of slender palms groped around its body.

[Seems to be a person? No, it's cold...... It's supposed to be a youkai!]

The childish voice seemed to become very happy.

[Then you're welcome~ Ah......]

For the first time, the monster, which had never known what it meant to be wounded, fought back, and before being bitten off the flesh, several strands of tentacles wrapped around the dark body like lightning and threw it out. The whole black ball flew upside down like an arrow from a string, slamming into a large tree, breaking it at the waist.

"Eh, ......"

The darkness cleared.