Chapter 47: Communication with the Slime
Hunting rats, Systham's original plan was to sneak up on the rat's eyes with [Corrosive Slime], and after the rat lost his vision, he kept harassing it with dead branches and rubble, and when the rat was exhausted, he knotted the rat with his chelicera.
But after Systm tested his flight strength and realized that he could fly with a tentacle grip on a half-meter-long stick, he did what he had just done.
Take the rat to a high altitude and let the rat fall to its death.
However, although the weight of the mouse is slightly lighter than that of a wooden stick, the constantly struggling mouse is obviously much more difficult to handle than the wooden stick, and it is more laborious to fly.
Fortunately, the previously conceived plan has basically been achieved, and the rat has successfully fallen from a high altitude.
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Perhaps because of the fallen leaves and dead branches in the forest, the rats that fell from the sky did not die immediately, but their bodies twitched on the ground and lost their mobility.
Some blood flowed from the corner of the mouse's mouth, and it saw Sistem's arrival, and its only remaining eye showed a look of fear.
"Huh? After being so badly injured, you haven't lost consciousness yet? ”
Systm opened his chelica to give the rat the final finish, but he quickly stopped.
Remembering the way the rat had eaten Shava's limbs, Syst dipped the three remaining tentacles into the blood that flowed from the corners of the mouse's mouth, tasting its blood in front of the mouse.
The rat's blood tasted similar to the bird's blood he had tasted a long time ago, and after the milky taste, it had a tea-like flavor that lingered in the mouth.
It's just that after tasting the blood on the three tentacles in a row, Syst found that the blood on the three tentacles tasted different.
One of the tentacles had a very thick coffee taste, and while tasting the coffee, he felt a slight tingling in his stomach and an indescribable feeling of comfort.
The experience of blood on this tentacle is four times that of other tentacles.
"Why does it smell like this?"
Systham dipped his three tentacles in the blood that flowed from the corners of the mouse's mouth again, and then put it in his mouth to taste it one by one.
Systham found that the blood on the tentacle from before tasted different, and there was a coffee taste, but this time the coffee tasted much lighter than the last time.
As Systm stared at the rat's eyes, which were losing their light, he suddenly figured out why he was able to taste the coffee.
Sisstem's body unconsciously quivered slightly.
Although it has been decided to be cautious.
But the liquid in the spider venom gland, he still mixed it with the blood of the mouse through his tentacles, and accidentally ate it into his body.
He even had a feeling that he was about to die after ingesting rat poison.
Fortunately, as far as his body feels now, it is difficult to say about the more toxic spider venom, but no matter how much he takes this black and gray spider venom, it will not cause problems, and it will also have a lot of benefits for his body.
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Seeing that the rat's body had stopped twitching, Heatham grabbed the rat's carcass and began to return to its makeshift nest.
If Systran had to pick one of the best candidates to eat the rat, it would be Sava the Soldier Ant.
However, when Systm expelled the worker ants patrolling the nest and struggled to stuff the rats into the nest.
Shava still hasn't woken up from her slumber, it seems that he used his tentacles during the day to consume a lot of Shava's energy, and she still needs to rest for a while.
Heatham moved the rat carcass to an empty chamber and checked Shava's condition before he emerged from the makeshift nest again.
Spreading his wings, Systham flew in the direction of the mire he remembered during the day, where there were two slimes.
While cleaning the lair of shimmering mushrooms, Heatham suddenly had an idea.
He can sense the mushroom's emotions now, so can he sense the slime's emotions?
Slimes can split into several individuals, each of which is independent of each other.
Systham felt that the slime was essentially a collection of fungal or bacterial organisms, and could theoretically be sensed by his [telepathic transmission].
Maybe we can also communicate.
Celestium flew quickly, as if he were near the mire seen from the clouds during the day, and Sistemm spotted the slimes waiting in the mire.
The gelatinous texture of this slime's body is dark green, which is a little different from the brown slime that Sistemm once had.
Heatham continued to look around, but did not notice the other slime he saw at that time, and did not know where it had gone.
After searching for nothing, Systm abandoned the search and returned to the mire where the slime was.
Grabbing a dead branch on the ground, Systm flew directly above the slime and threw it down.
Systm was going to test the slime's reaction.
In the same way as Sisttm's old slime friend, the gelatin on the slime's body shook violently, swallowing the stick that Sistmutem had dropped.
As the slime swallowed the branches, Systm felt the slime's desire to swallow the food.
It seems that with the ability of [Teleportation] and [Psychic Connection], he can indeed feel the emotions of the slime.
The emotions produced by slimes seem to be a collection of many faint consciousnesses that interact with each other and eventually form a common emotion.
Obviously, slimes are supposed to be like fungi, bacteria, or microorganisms that are a collection of life.
Compared to mushrooms, slimes emit more intense and concentrated mood swings, which are emotions that are integrated by countless faint consciousnesses, unlike fungi within mushrooms, which do not have overall consciousness.
Systm went on to throw a few more twigs to test the slime.
He discovers that slimes seem to be simpler than he had imagined.
When swallowing the branch, the slime clearly emits excitement, which lasts for about 3 seconds before disappearing.
After a few seconds, the slime will have the emotion of having a foreign body in its body, and after a while, the slime will expel the indigestible dead branches from the body.
Heatham discovers that slimes possess even lower intelligence than insects, and only act on their body's instincts.
After testing the slime for a while, Systham began to try to communicate with the slime.
"Bounce!"
As Systm delivered the spiritual message, two seconds later, the slime literally jumped.
This slime is a complete replica of the original soldier ant Dasha, and when Sistemm sends out a mental command, the slime will react to Sistem's command.
But unlike Soldier Ant Dasha, who simply believed in him, the slime followed Systham's orders and only tended to his instinctive reaction.
The slime's body is similar to the collection of many tiny life consciousnesses, when Systm transmits a spiritual message to the slime, as long as one of the many consciousnesses of the slime's body responds, the other consciousnesses will be affected, and then a chain reaction will be formed to complete the message conveyed by the slime.
Therefore, Systm was able to use the [Teleportation] transmission to control the slime.
However, controlling slimes in this way is not so ideal.
Slimes are creatures that cannot comprehend the overly complex commands of Sistm, who can only make him move and jump.
Moreover, slimes only seem to have memories for a few seconds, and even if they are ordered to move in one direction all the time, after three or five seconds, the slime will stop voluntarily due to the loss of memory.