Volume 2 Chapter 103 Devouring

After leaving the snow layer and controlling the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragon that had been punished for a thousand years, the sun had completely lowered below the horizon when it advanced to the ice cliff. In fact, after it was completely dark, Shi Leiyin still controlled the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragon for nearly an hour, until they came to the place where the cliff had collapsed.

Presumably due to the recent collapse, the dense forest trees in this area were partially overwhelmed by the falling rocks and ice, and the whole area was wider and brighter than the surrounding area. Without the snow at the top of the tree, the moonlight can easily shine on the ground, illuminating the entire collapse, even clearer than the dense forest floor during the day.

Shi Leiyin chose the camp on the side of the cliff collapse, where there was a small cave composed of several falling rocks. The cave was low and shallow, about the size of an adult bent over and two lying side by side. However, it is spacious enough for Shi Leiyin.

The crevices in the cave were filled with ice and snow, and then half of the previous round hut was built against the mouth of the cave, and a comfortable hut that was not affected by the cold wind of the night was completed.

The two ice-armored herbivorous dragons were tied to one side of the hut by Shi Leiyin, where there was a place that looked like a natural stable, with a rock-made roof and enough space for the two ice-armored herbivorous dragons to lie inside, and the most amazing thing was that there were even a few stone stakes that could be used to tie the reins and stone troughs that looked like they could be put into the grain and grass, which was almost different from the real stables only in terms of building materials.

After calming the two ice-armored herbivorous dragons who obediently stayed in the natural stables, Shi Leiyin returned to the hut. Under the serious protests of Zird and Jie Liya, Shi Leiyin did not 'eccentric' to prepare Shi Leiyin's brand waterbed alone for Shuijing this time. However, it was also not as intended by Zilde and Jie Liya - the three of them enjoyed the Thunder Yin brand waterbed together. Instead, he drove the three of them directly to sleep in the cave, but he was studying the mutated snow slime controlled by the doppelganger.

It is a relatively common thing for slimes to devour each other, and high-level slimes devour low-level slimes to quickly replenish their energy, just like the slime kingdom when Slimin first came to this world. Slimes of the same rank will also devour each other, which is an evolutionary method of slimes, devouring slimes of the same species can enhance themselves in order to reach a higher level, and devouring different types of slimes can increase the possibility of mutation. However, due to the nature of the population, it is very rare for slimes to attack their own kind and devour each other for no reason, even high-level slimes will only devour them when needed. This kind of population nature Shi Lei Yin has not inherited, in fact, after he evolved into a devouring slime, those slimes with special abilities are even more attractive to him than other creatures, so Shi Lei Yin will naturally look for local special slimes whenever he goes, and if there is one that causes the devouring instinct reaction, it will be fused and devoured, and this time the mutated snow slime can cause the existence of Shi Leiyin's devouring instinct.

The mutual devouring between slimes looks much calmer and simpler than the devouring between ordinary creatures, after the two slimes are close to each other, the weak side will be completely integrated into the body of the strong party like a drop of water entering the sea, no fighting, no resistance, and quietly completed the process of devouring, in the eyes of others, this behavior is more like fusion than called devouring, because the devouring party will obtain 100% of the energy of the devoured party, plus the slime does not advance to the third order or above and even lacks the ability to think, it is impossible to distinguish who devoured whom of the two slimes。 Only the existence of Shi Leiyin who has traveled through clearly knows that the slimes are devouring rather than fused, and the body of the devoured party will completely become the energy of the devouring party, and the core will be quietly expelled from the body and wait to regain the slime's body later. This is also the reason why slimes are at the bottom of the food chain, but they can still become the largest number of monsters in the world, the most complex varieties - what is eaten or destroyed is the body outside the slime, the real slime core is not only small but also will not be digested, and if it is placed in a safe place for a day or two, it will slowly condense the slime body again, so that a slime that seems to be reborn but has been reborn countless times will appear again.

However, the devouring between ordinary slimes will exclude the weak core from the body, but it is not necessarily the case when Shi Leiyin devours. First of all, Slayin does not have the racial nature of a slime, and there is no need to exclude the core according to the instinct of continuing the race. Secondly, when Shi Leiyin fused for the first time, that is, when he swallowed the core of the slime kingdom, he carried out the core devouring and completely absorbed the core of the other party, and this time the devouring gave Shi Leiyin a very big benefit, and at the same time let him know that the real ability of the slime is hidden in the core rather than the slime body outside. As long as the core is not destroyed, even if the body is destroyed, although the energy strength of the body recovered through the core will be very weak, it can still have the special ability before the destruction, the poison slime is still a poison slime, and the snow slime will still be a snow slime. If Sleiyin wants to completely obtain all the abilities of this mutant snow slime, he must devour its core, otherwise, the abilities that Sleiyin has obtained by fusing the opponent's body may not be complete, or it will not be able to exert enough power at all.

The second-order Snow Slime, even if it has undergone two mutations, is still completely incapable of resisting in front of the fifth-order Shi Leiyin, it is extremely difficult for the slime to be promoted, and the suppression of the low-level by the high-level slime is almost absolute, of course, an outlier like Shi Leiyin is not counted in the normal range. In addition to the serious suppression of the level, Shi Leiyin's highly condensed body also caused the devouring process to enter the state of core devouring in an instant. The Snow Slime, which has also shrunk its body due to mutation but is still larger than the ordinary form of Shi Leiyin, did not cause any visible changes in Shi Leiyin's body in the process of integrating into Shi Leiyin's body.

In fact, after many advanced upgrades, Shi Leiyin's body has far exceeded the original slime kingdom, if Shi Leiyin uses all the energy to expand**, it can instantly become a huge slime group covering an area of nearly 100 square meters and a two-story building, comparable to a small villa. However, in that case, Shi Leiyin will also lose his flexibility advantage, so usually Shi Leiyin compresses his body size to the limit, that is, the size of an ordinary basketball, and most of the energy is also stored in a special liquid form inside the body. Shi Leiyin didn't know why his energy could turn into a liquid state so easily, but through a small experiment, he knew that his liquid energy, unlike those in those novels, was not completely composed of energy liquefaction, but a special body fluid that could hold more energy than the body of an ordinary slime. This bodily fluid first appeared near the juice that Shi Leiyin used as a reserve energy, and when Shi Leiyin used those juices, he found that this liquid contained dozens of times the energy of fruit juice. At first, Shi Leiyin thought that it was a change in the juice being squeezed in the body, but then he found out that his body was unconsciously absorbing the juice and concentrating the energy to produce this liquid. After that, Shi Leiyin deliberately strengthened that part of the body and retained the ability to concentrate and produce this body fluid. At the same time, Shi Leiyin is also constantly trying to increase the concentration of energy contained in this body fluid, until now, Shi Leiyin has been able to compress one-third of the body's energy into a drop of such body fluid, and such a body fluid, Shi Leiyin usually maintains about a thousand drops, that is, about five hundred milliliters of the amount in the body, so the energy of a second-order snow slime cannot cause changes in Shi Leiyin's body energy at all.