Chapter 70: The Giant Slime
The murky river produced by silt and sludge surged, and a large number of green bubbles burst out of the water, followed by green figures crawling above the dirty, muddy water. The figures seemed to have no fixed shape. Their bodies could be thick or thin, round or flat. Xiao and the others could see a mass of colloidal jelly form in the blink of an eye, but they couldn’t distinguish the monster’s facial features.
Through their translucent bodies, they could see the internal conditions of these creatures, although their body systems were still in the process of digesting. Fish, birds, water plants, and the like, as well as the two individuals who were dragged down just now, have been dismembered, and their limbs have emerged in the bodies of five to six monsters simultaneously, displaying symptoms of digestion.
When Jiang Xiaowen saw these extremely dirty, disgusting monsters appearing like a mass of mud, she felt nauseated for a while, and her expression turned very ugly.
Seeing this, a member of the Hawk team immediately took out his bow, pulled the bowstring, and shot an arrow at one of them. The monster’s reaction seemed to be quite slow; it didn’t dodge, and it didn’t even react at all as it let the arrow submerge right into its body. Then a surprising scene happened. The arrow was shot directly into the monster’s body and lingered there. The hole in the monster’s skin gradually mended, and it crawled onward as if nothing had happened. The arrow swimming inside its body was squeezed out bit by bit until it emerged from behind and dropped to the ground.
“Shit, why didn’t I spot them when I came here? These are swamp slimes!” Xiao Yu recognized these loathsome monsters with one glance and shouted, “Don’t engage; these are elementary monsters; physical blows almost have no effect; they use acid attacks, so maintain a distance of at least 50 meters!”
Du Tao was stunned. He never thought there would be monsters with such strange shapes in this world, but he didn’t dare slack as he commanded the three teams in a hurry, “All teams, hear me out. The Tiger and Hawk teams retreat first, and the Bear team erect your shield cover; don’t let them get close!”
Slime creatures were exceedingly tricky elementary monsters to defeat since they had a semi-liquefied body and no definite shape, making physical attacks nearly useless. In the early stages, this was a dangerous monster; even Xiao Yu would fall into a perilous predicament once he got entangled amidst a bunch of these creatures at the same time.
The region was inundated with slimes; there were about a hundred of them!
This low-level slime monster had almost no intelligence and relied entirely on instinct to take action. It fed mainly on aquatic plants, plankton, small fish, shrimp, and birds, although it also occasionally hunted larger species that were passing by. They reproduced the subsequent generation by dividing, and their reproduction rate was heavily dependent on the nutritional situation. No one knew how many slimes could be found in this swamp land since, in this small region alone, there were about a hundred of them.