Law of the Swarm

Chapter 45 Higher Food Chains

The arrogant wolf man and the cowardly goblin are somewhat similar to the tax officials of the lords and the farmers who use the land.

The fact is the same, System found out that not long after, the group of goblins dragged a dilapidated wooden cart, which was filled with some plant fruits and a small amount of meat, which seemed to be half a head. Bovine creatures.

The dilapidated wooden cart was obviously old, and System saw rusty iron shafts on the cart's wheels.

This cart is obviously not made by goblins. I don't know where they got it.

Without thinking too much, System listened carefully to the conversation between the two parties.

Perhaps it is because of the two unique abilities of talent [perception] and [teleportation].

Although System couldn't understand the language of the Wolf Man and the Goblin, he also knew the general outline of the matter between the Wolf Man and the Goblin from the other party's actions, demeanor and tone.

After all, the intelligence of these two creatures is not too high in System's opinion, and the communication between the two sides is not as hypocritical as that of humans.

The purpose of the Gnolls coming to the Goblin Village was basically the same as System's first impression, that was to come here to collect food.

The goblin took out a cart of food, but the jackal thought that there was too little meat in the cart and too much fruit, so he roared dissatisfied.

The leading wolf man seemed to be saying: "You despicable and cunning green-skinned bedbugs dare to deceive the heroic wolf man warriors, I will kill you!"

All the surrounding goblins snuggled up together and shivered without daring to speak out.

The leader of the Goblin village seemed to be more intelligent. He showed a flattering smile, as if he was explaining to the Gnoll the reason why meat was so scarce.

However, the goblin did not agree with the gnoll in the end.

The Gnoll showed his slimy tongue and a greedy smile at the same time. He didn't know what he said, and the gathered goblins became even more flustered.

Except for the leading wolf man, the other two wolf men suddenly lay down on the ground and sniffed with their noses. They showed sinister smiles.

The two gnolls quickly went to a weed pile...

System thought that the gnoll had discovered the food hidden by the goblins, but unexpectedly, what the gnolls found in the haystack were three young goblins.

The Gnoll neatly wrung the necks of the three young goblins.

The leader of the jackals saw the actions of their companions, and also selected two older goblins.

Under the terrified eyes of many goblins, the wolf man pierced the heads of the two old goblins with his sharp claws, and bloodily licked the red and white spots on his paws in front of these goblins. liquid.

Under the watchful eyes of many goblins, the jackal threw the goblin's body onto the cart full of food.

Not long after, after the angry roar of the wolf man.

Three gnolls walked in front, while five young goblins appeared behind, pushing and pulling the vehicle full of food along the forest path. They seemed to be going to the grassland dozens of kilometers away.

When the remaining dozen or so goblins saw the Gnoll leave, they showed a more relaxed expression.

They knelt on the ground facing the same direction and made special gestures with their hands, as if they were performing a special ceremony, or a kind of prayer.

The same word was repeated repeatedly in the Goblin's sentences, and this word was mentioned several times in the conversation between the Goblin leader and the Gnoll.

"The lord of the glacier...?"

Connecting the tone and emotion of the conversation between the two parties before, and these goblins kneeling towards the glacier mountains thousands of kilometers away, this word appeared in System's mind unconsciously.

Maybe it's the Lord of Glaciers, maybe the Ice King, or maybe the God of Winter.

In short, it is a combination of a cold adjective and a noun such as leader.

System continued to observe the situation of these goblins for a while, and seeing that there was nothing special, he spread his wings and left.

……

The gnoll's killing of goblins was cruel and bloody, and System thought he would feel some discomfort.

However, there was almost no fluctuation in his heart.

If he had to describe it, watching System gnolls kill goblins was the same as watching frogs swallow mosquitoes, basically he didn't feel anything.

If he had to say some other emotions, it would be that he admired the Jackal man's seemingly rough, but in fact full of wisdom.

Using cruel and bloody means to captive goblins to provide food for them, and after finding that the food provided by the goblins was insufficient, in order to maximize the amount of food, the jackals did not hesitate to kill the old and weak among the goblins. .

Firstly, these old and weak goblins can be used as food, secondly, the consumption of these old and weak goblins can be reduced, and this terrifying and bloody method can be used to put pressure on the goblins.

The jackal method of raising goblins in captivity seems to be very successful.

System found that his emotions seemed to be very abnormal, but he did not reflect and doubt as before, and missed his human emotions in his previous life.

Since the old druid had killed a million locusts with his trap, his view of things had taken an unknown turn.

In System's view, goblins and jackals are nothing more than higher food chains in the forest. Although these two creatures have language and superficial wisdom, they have not produced civilization.

Gnolls might be better off, but goblins are nothing more than creatures struggling in the forest and higher up the food chain.

But for now, System basically won't have any interaction with the other party.

Just like mosquitoes will become food for frogs, frogs will be eaten by poisonous snakes, and eagles will eat snakes.

But eagles are not interested in mosquitoes.

After System returned to his temporary lair from the gathering place of goblins, he patrolled around his temporary lair while flying.

That old druid, he was temporarily incapable of liquidation, but System decided to find the mouse that broke in during the third molt.

There is his own hatred of being on the verge of death, and the unbearable feeling when he saw Shava being tortured by a mouse. He must find out this mouse and kill it!
With his degenerated strength, System felt that he should have an advantage against that mouse. He might be injured, but he still had a great possibility to kill that mouse.

Just didn't know if he'd be able to find the mouse.

System has discovered eleven mouse dens within a hundred meters of his temporary lair.

Because of the previous heavy rain, most of the mouse holes had no mice, and it was not known which hole the mouse lived in.

System didn't have the idea of ​​going to the rat caves to search one by one. It would be unwise to have a conflict with the rats in the rat caves.

After observing the sky, it was approaching dusk at this time, and it was estimated that after an hour, the sky would become dark.

A mouse is a typical nocturnal creature. As long as the mouse goes out to look for food at night because of hunger, with his current eyesight that sees the night as day, the mouse will definitely be spotted by him.

(End of this chapter)