Reincarnated As A Chameleon And Eating Everything To Evolve

Chapter 160 - Forest Troll Data Completed

At the start of dawn, Matthew had just arrived back to the area near the wolf's den with a belly so full that he was afraid that it would accidentally explode if someone poked a needle to his stomach.

Matthew had spent the whole night running away from the troll village as far as he could while dragging along the mutilated troll body that he planned to consume to finish the troll monster data. And when he was already running for a few hours nonstop while dragging the considerable weight in his hand, he finally started to feel tiredness creeping up in his body.

Matthew didn't know whether he should thank his metabolism for being able to digest things fast that he already felt some room opening up in his stomach after he ate a whole troll or whether he should be concerned that his metabolism worked too well and he would be hungry all the time in the future.

However, Matthew didn't think much about it since a space opening up in his stomach means that he can fill it in again which means that he could consume the troll body faster and complete the troll monster data sooner than he expected.

It was a fortunate event for him as he was quite conflicted on whether he should bring the cursed-looking lump of flesh back to the wolf den where the three kobolds would be able to see it.

Matthew knew that blood and gore is not something the three kobolds would be freaked out to, but he didn't know if they wouldn't get a slight psychological trauma or even a sense of wary towards him if they saw him eat another demihuman as if he was eating ordinary boar meat.

'I mean, it's not like I can completely hide my ability when they see me completely changing my body shape or maybe adding another one or two new body parts after my fourth evolution. But I don't think showing them a mangled troll corpse would be a good introduction to my ability and how it really worked.'

'Wait a minute, since when did I don't have a problem with these kinds of things…?'

Now that Matthew thought about it, he started to wonder why he never felt disturbed by eating raw meat that was still fully coated with fresh blood straight from an animal that he killed.

Of course, it wasn't his first time eating red meat. He even liked to eat medium-rare steaks instead of the well-done ones. And even though he was quite unsure at first when he needed to eat his first raw spider, he didn't have that much hesitation anymore for his next meals even though he ate straight from a dead animal carcass. If it was him when he was still a human, let alone eating raw meat with fresh blood on it, he would feel sick the moment the meat-coated blood entered his mouth.

'Maybe it was the chameleon brain and natural instinct that overwhelmed my ex-human way of thinking. But I still think the same way as back when I was still a human though… Wait, do I really still have the same way of thinking?'

Thinking how he could easily kill other creatures and naturally consider them as his food, his source of improving his strength, or only as something that just needed to be killed, a series of questions started to appear in Matthew's mind.

Killing and eating the troll who is actually just another demihuman like himself without feeling any remorse other than feeling a little sorry for them as if it was only natural since he needed their strength is a little disturbing for Matthew after he thought about it.

But then he repeated his earlier words and realized something,

'Am I really a demihuman though…?'

His appearance might look like one and his intelligence was also on par, or even above the ordinary demihumans. But Matthew himself knew that he was essentially a beast. His supposed demihuman limbs were taken from a monkey and his face that looked familiar to the kobolds were taken from a wolf. His current body were all parts of a few beasts' body parts.

'Maybe I'm more of a beast than I thought I was a demihuman…'

'Meh, whatever, it's not like it matters much whether I'm a human, a demihuman, or a beast when living in this forest. As long as I'm strong enough then I can be anything that I want!'

'Except for a human maybe. My appearance is too unique for them to handle. They even differentiate themselves with only a slight difference in skin color. How can a walking wolf-headed creature with crocodile scutes covering his back ever be considered a human?'

Matthew then put aside his thoughts for now as he made sure that he had no huge bloodstains on his body before going back to meet the three kobolds. It wasn't really a problem if they saw him with blood all over his body, but the more blood covering his body might make them think that he had done something big rather than just a casual night stroll. So using his tongue as a wet wipe, Matthew tried his best to clean as much blood as possible.

Fortunately, when he arrived at the wolf den, the three kobolds who had already woken up early in the morning just as usual didn't question the few remaining bloodstains on his body and instead asked about something else.

"Brother Matthew, I remember you said that you'll be getting a complete makeover. But I didn't realize what you meant back then was to eat so much that your belly had bloated up twice the normal size."

"Is this your new everyday look brother? A pregnant kobold?" Ethan asked Matthew.

Hearing Ethan's tease, Matthew walked over and launched a flick aiming at Ethan's forehead. Surprisingly, Ethan didn't stay still and let Matthew's finger hit his forehead, he tilted his head sideways while saying,

"I'm already far stronger than I used to, brother! A slow attack like that won't be able to hit me!"

Matthew raised one of his eyebrows in amusement as he raised his hand once again as if wanting to flick Ethan's forehead once again.

But contrary to Ethan's expectation that was already locking his eyes on Matthew's fingers, Matthew suddenly opened up his mouth and swiftly launched his tongue forward.

The speed of Matthew's tongue was still as fast as Matthew remembered, if not faster and there's no way Ethan was able to dodge the unexpected swift attack from Matthew's tongue, causing him to feel a small sting and a slight wet feeling on his forehead from being hit with Matthew's chameleon tongue.

"It seems that Mr.I'm Stronger Than Before here still lack some experience. Are you slacking off and letting your siblings fight more of the deers?"

"Of course, I'm not! We've been doing it fair and square as always! And it's not because I was lacking experience, using your tongue is cheating!"

Matthew then opened up his mouth and let out his tongue, shaping it to a question mark shape, and said,

"This ghuy rhight here? It dhit it fhair and sqhuare!"

Matthew then pulled back his tongue before drinking some water from the water container as running for almost an entire night was quite tiring for him and drinking clear water, albeit not cold and fresh from the lake, still gave him a comforting feeling for his body.

"Oh and by the way, I'm not joking about the complete makeover. It might be sooner or later, probably soon. But you might see my body change drastically. It's to a point where I could maybe grow 6 additional arms on my body. I've told you this beforehand so when you see a weird creature sleeping beside you in the morning, make sure you three don't bash its skull because it's probably me after finishing my evolution. And I don't know how the change will work, but I don't think waking me up before the process is finished is a good idea. Just leave my body alone until I wake up on my own. Understand?"

"Understand, brother Matthew!" The three kobolds said in unison.

"Brother Matthew, how did you know your body will change so much after your evolution?" Ethan suddenly asked.

"Well…"

'Because I will be controlling the evolution process and I plan to add more things to my body?' Is what he thought in his mind, but didn't let it out of his mouth.

What he said instead was,

"It's because I have already evolved a few times and my body always changes tremendously after each evolution. So I expect that there will also be a huge change on this one. But it's not certain so don't think too much about it."

"But brother Matthew, I don't know whether we wouldn't freak out if we saw you growing 6 arms out of nowhere. Can you not do that, if possible…?" Valda said to Matthew.

"Don't worry Valda, it's not like I would really be growing 6 arms or legs on my body. But do note that the change will probably be that drastic, so just expect that you all would be surprised. If the change happens to be only a minuscule change then there's nothing for you to worry about."

The three kobolds then nodded once again before saying goodbye to Matthew as they prepared themselves for their hunt today. Matthew then told them to be careful and he will also be skipping today's deer and told them to apologize in advance to the deers that were uneaten before he went back inside the wolf den to catch some sleep.

But before that,

'System, please open the basic info tab.'

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Name: Matthew

Level : 20

Bionutrients : 16364

Monster Data Collected:

-Common Wandering Spider (100%)

-Brown-Tailed Deer (100%)

-Lupus Wolf (100%)

-Scrofa Boar (100%)

-Porosus Crocodile (100%)