With a piercing sound of breaking through the air, dark red tentacles pierced the creeper's body like lightning.

The black-blooded jaw let out a hoarse roar, trying to break free from the tentacles. Soon, however, another tentacle galloped through its brain.

Black blood splattered.

The brain, which was hard enough to jam a 7mm warhead, was pierced by this seemingly soft tentacle.

Luo Yu was stunned to look at Xiao Yu, who was covered in black blood, and the creeper who had been stabbed into a bathroom shower by it with its tentacles, and his gaze gradually changed from surprise and surprise to fiery.

The way of fighting is a little strange.

But it doesn't matter!

Awesome and that's it!

"Hahaha! My big boy! You've finally grown up! Luo Yu stepped forward overjoyed, reached out and touched Xiao Yu's head.

was touched by someone close to the blood, Xiao Yu's mouth made a cute "babbling" sound, and rubbed his hand.

It's like a spoiled cat.

This slippery touch does feel a bit like a hairless cat.

Although Luo Yu couldn't accept the avant-garde shape of this "SSSR-level god pet" at first, he got used to it after a long time.

Kill a creeper single-handedly!

It's already strong, okay!

Next time, you can try "Tyrant"!

Just when Luo Yu was happy that he had found the trick of bringing a baby, Xiao Yu had already pounced next to the creeper he had just hunted and began to feast.

And before that, it had eaten a full three!

"This guy's meal seems to have increased again."

Remember that the first two creepers were enough to feed it.

Now I have to eat four or five a day.

Luo Yu touched his chin with interest, took out his notebook and flipped a few pages back, and wrote down this clue.

[On the 11th day, the amount of food doubled, and there was no significant change in volume. 】

And at this moment, he suddenly made an even more astonishing discovery.

I saw that on the surface of the scarlet fungus in the shape of the skirt of Xiao Yu's lower limbs, a gray-brown hardened cuticle had grown at some point.

The largest piece was about half the size of a palm, and the smallest one was only the size of a thumb, like a knight's armor.

Since the area where the stratum corneum grows is not very large, it is impossible to even notice it without looking closely.

Luo Yu reached out curiously and touched it, and then used the dagger to make a tentative stroke.

Xiao Yu, who was just eating a big meal, didn't react, obviously didn't feel any pain. No matter how hard he tried, there were still no scratches left on the surface of the cuticle.

Feeling the strength of this "organic armor", Luo Yu's eyes quickly appeared with a hint of surprise, and he excitedly recorded this discovery in his notebook.

[On the 11th day, grow organic armor!] It is suspected that the area of the armor will continue to increase with development! 】

Closing the notes in his hand, Luo Yu looked at Xiao Yu's eyes, like a very pleased old father.

"Xiao Yu...... Grow up! ”

"It's up to you to be promoted to the top of T0!"

……

B4 Floor Browsing Room.

Someone's face also had an old fatherly smile.

However, it was not because of Xiao Yu's changes, but because of the books sorted out by the merchant union.

With the help of the little princess of the Honey Badger Kingdom, the work of the Merchant Guild has been significantly quickened lately.

These books, written in the era of prosperity and beyond, have not only been of great help to his work, but also to the rest of the Alliance's management.

As the size of the alliance grows larger, the problems that need to be considered are also multiplied, and although many things can be covered in one sentence, the specific process of solving the problem is difficult to describe in detail even in the length of the previous book.

The contents of these books on the shelves are the experience of the predecessors on "what to do" and what can happen after that.

The era of prosperity has come to an end.

But these more valuable treasures than gold should not be buried.

Standing next to the bookshelf and flipping through the books that had just been sent by the merchants' union, Chu Guang suddenly found a sticky note paper inside.

There is a line of graceful handwriting on it.

It was supposed to be Avne's stay.

[It is written in the book that people distribute goods through the market, and the market makes people slaves to money. Why don't we take a more efficient approach to allocating the resources that everyone needs? 】

I didn't expect that the little girl with the picture book would be interested in such a boring academic question.

Chu Guang couldn't help but smile when he was surprised, picked up the pen casually, and wrote his notes in the blank space of the sticky note paper.

[People can become slaves to anything because of their abundance, not just money, but also beauty, health, faith, honor, or power...... But that doesn't mean it's absolutely wrong. If we were satisfied with satiation and reproduction, no one would have crossed the mountains in search of fire, let alone discovered how to make fire with flint and sticks, and our civilization would not have appeared. 】

[The distribution of resources through clerical power and royal power is not more noble than the distribution of money, and of course the reverse is also true. Essentially, they are all tools for allocating resources, and people will always find better things on the way to the future, and then discard the old ones that are no longer useful. 】

[But your vigilance is right, I'm surprised that you can think like this at your age.] Even if prosperity is not necessarily a bad thing, one should always be vigilant not to indulge in it to the point of forgetting the original purpose and igniting the whole forest in order to perpetuate the hard-won fire. 】

[Especially when you have the fire in your hands, or when you have power in your hands.] 】

If Sommer asked himself this, Chu Guang probably wouldn't have told him all his thoughts without reservation.

It's not that I'm worried about being learned by him.

If he can really reform himself and make some kind of restoration in the Honey Badger Kingdom, it will be a good thing for the survivors there.

I'm afraid that this guy is like a chameleon, who has figured out the alliance's way of thinking but still uses the same old routine, and plays with himself against the yang and yin, which is really unguardable.

As for Avne, it's different.

She's only eighteen, and she's a girl, so she might be appointed in the Alliance, but after returning to the Honey Badger Kingdom, it's probably the fate of a vase.

Even if she learned something, Chu Guang was not worried about any negative impact, but might influence the next generation of the royal family through her.

The economic and educational transformation of the province of Luoxia was itself part of the Alliance's post-war reconstruction plan.

Several kingdoms in the desert have not declined to the point of hopelessness, and will even have a period of prosperity due to post-war reconstruction, so mild reforms are more suitable for them than radical changes.

Clip the note back into the book.

Chu Guang was about to stuff the books back into the bookshelf, and suddenly thought that this was not a place to borrow books casually, so he patted his head and reached out and clicked on the VM.

Soon, footsteps rang from the door of the browsing room, followed by a crisp bell.

"Please come in."

At the same time as Chu Guang spoke, the alloy door opened.

Lu Bei, the captain of his personal guard, walked in from the outside, put his right fist on his left chest, and gave a military salute cleanly.

"Administrator, what do you command?"

Chu Guang walked over and handed the book in his hand to him.

"Take me to the Honey Badger Kingdom's office on Embassy Street, and hand it over to Miss Avnee Honey Badger there."

As soon as Lu Bei heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his waist straightened, as if he was holding a treasure, and took the book with both hands.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Chu Guang was sure that his feelings would not be wrong, this guy must have wanted to go to his grandmother's house, so he coughed lightly and asked.

"I don't want to hear strange rumors."

Lu Bei stood up straight with a serious face.

"I swear to you with my life! If there are any rumors about you and Miss Avne, you're going to kill me! ”

"It doesn't have to be that way."

Chu Guang looked at Lu Bei with blazing eyes with a smile.

This young man doesn't have any hair himself, but he cares about other people's gossip.

Perhaps, he should change to a more mature and stable captain of the guard.

Recently, the number of survivors and players in the alliance has grown quite a bit, and he is considering forming a third legion of the alliance to contain lone wolf players who don't want to join the player legion and prefer to hang out with NPCs.

Chu Guang planned to transfer Lu Bei to the Third Corps.

Although he is a little younger, his loyalty is obvious to everyone in the alliance.

Seeing his personal guard captain go out, Chu Guang was about to return to the bookshelf, when Xiao Qi's voice suddenly came from his ears.

"Master, there seems to be a new change in the mother body you let the player Luo Yu cultivate."

"Xiao Yu?"

"Uh-huh!"

Hearing the affirmative reply, Chu Guang's heart moved slightly, and he returned to the computer and sat down.

Almost as soon as he sat down on the couch, the pale blue holographic screen was already open above the computer pen.

The footage captured by the hummingbird drone was also presented in front of him at the same time.

Looking at the murderous matrix on the screen, Chu Guang showed a surprised expression on his face, and after thinking for two seconds, he spoke.

"Tell Hea and arrange a medical examination immediately! Get ready to check on Xiao Yu's evolution stage! ”

Solving the slime fungus on the B6 floor requires Xiao Yu to devour the mother nest there, and the prerequisite is for Xiao Yu to understand the concept of hunting and master the ability to hunt.

Now it clearly fits the bill.

However, further research is needed to determine whether other conditions are met.

Xiao Qi, who was sitting on the coffee table, shook his calves, learned from the captain of the personal guard who had just come in, and playfully saluted the military salute of the alliance.

"Roger!"

……

The office of the Honey Badger Kingdom is located on the corner of Embassy Street, which is a bit larger than the office in Boulder City due to its distance from the core.

Its main building is a small three-storey bungalow with two palm trees common to oases planted in the courtyard – gifts from the merchants of the Honey Badger Kingdom to the royal family.

Although Oasis 3 has been relegated to occupation and the Honey Badger royal family has gone into exile, it is still home to the people who once lived there.

As a result, survivors who had been exiled from there to the southern part of the province of the Valley would donate money or goods to the Honey Badger royal family.

Although most of them were worthless items, Acting King Summerer ordered the staff here to take them.

After all, that's what everyone wants.

What's more, they are now under the fence, and the people who can still think about them at this time are loyal and good fellows.

Hearing the knock on the window, the old janitor in the janitor kiosk yawned and lifted his sleepy-eyed face from his elbow.

Glancing at the book in the man's arms, he thought that he had come to donate something again, and it didn't look like it was valuable.

However, thinking of Lord Summer's order, as a loyal servant of the royal family, he still replied vaguely.

"Name?"

"Commander of the Alliance Guards Corps, Lu Bei!"

Although he lowered his voice, the old man of the guards still heard the words "Guards Regiment and Regiment Commander" clearly.

Sleepiness swept away from his face in an instant, and the old man stood up from his chair with a pout, his eyes widened.

"You, you're from the Guards—"

Seeing that he was suddenly speaking so loudly, Lu Bei hurriedly stopped him.

"Shhhh Why are you yelling so loudly, quietly! ”

Suddenly realizing his abruptness, the old servant hurriedly said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, it's my old fool who offended, excuse me...... What is the reason you are here? ”

The Guards Regiment is the personal guard of the managers, and it is the shadow of the managers, which is a well-known thing in the Alliance.

The commander of the Guards Regiment appeared here, and whatever it was, he was sure that it was not a trivial matter.

"It's not a matter of offense, it's the manager who told me that my coming here must be kept secret, otherwise why would I change my clothes and come here!"

Tightening the brim of the hood, Lu Bei looked at him with a serious face and corrected his statement, and then showed the book in his arms.

“…… In addition, I was entrusted with the task of placing the book in the hands of Miss Avenne Mibadger. ”

The old servant seemed to understand something, and his face suddenly showed an excited expression, and he hurriedly reached out to pick it up, but Lu Bei took a step back and stepped away.

"Where's Miss Aphne?" He asked solemnly, "The administrator told me to be sure to hand it over to her, and she had better come down and get it." ”

The old servant hurriedly said.

"Miss, she hasn't come back from the trade union, it's a task that the manager has taught her. Don't worry, when she comes back, I'll hand over the adult's things to her immediately! ”

Lu Bei hesitated, but thought that it was not appropriate for him to stand here and wait all the time, and he was afraid that he would miss it if he went directly to the merchant union, so he nodded.

"Then you can remember, be sure to hand it over to her!"

As soon as he finished this sentence, Lu Bei suddenly thought of something again, and hurriedly added a sentence later.

"Also, don't tell anyone I've been here today!"

"Yes! Rest assured! If I dare to say a word, even if you don't blame me, His Majesty will not spare me. ”

Looking at Lu Bei with a serious face, the old servant was even more convinced of the guess in his heart, and nodded vigorously, the corners of his mouth were so happy that he couldn't close them.

If it's a serious matter, do you need to be so secretive?

It must be because it's not serious!

That's why I'm embarrassed to let others know!

Not daring to tamper with the book, the old servant did not even dare to look at the cover, but carefully placed it in a drawer to protect it, intending to give it to the young lady as soon as she returned.

Seeing Lu Bei leave, he clenched his fists excitedly, and his shoulders trembled uncontrollably.

Kingdom!

There is salvation!

……

Vault 404, Infirmary on Level B3.

After being anesthetized, Xiao Yu was lifted to the scanning table, Luo Yu stood next to him and looked at it with a worried face, and then looked at Chu Guang nervously.

"Is it going to be okay?"

The dogs on the forum shouted and slashed every day, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to bubble during this time.

Although he complained that he couldn't go where he was glued by this little guy, if the dog planner really listened to the advice of those guys and balanced it, of course he was reluctant in his heart.

My Healing Game

"Rest assured, the inhibitor only has an anesthetic effect and will not affect its health." Chu Guang comforted him and patted him on the shoulder, "It will take a while for the experiment to end, so you can go back first." ”

Luo Yu asked in a low voice.

"Can I wait outside?"

Chu Guang thought about it and nodded.

"Yes."

The alloy door opens.

As the feather left, it slowly closed again.

Xiao Yu, who was lying on the scanning bed, let out an unconscious "babble", like the purring of a sleeping cat.

The voice sounded like coquettishness.

However, Chu Guang could sense that the emotions flowing in the sound waves were clearly accompanied by a trace of anxiety.

It doesn't like that feeling.

Chu Guang looked at Heya, who was busy in front of the console, and asked.

"Can I do it without anesthesia?"

Without taking her eyes off the screen, Hea replied casually.

"Absolutely...... But can you guarantee that it won't suddenly storm and attack the two of us? ”

"I can protect you."

Hea curled the corners of her lips and said teasingly.

"Oh, while that sounds safe, why bet on that probability?"

Chu Guang shrugged his shoulders.

“…… Well, what are the results of the analysis? ”

"You're really asking, the scan data has just come out......"

Stretching out her index finger and tapping a few times on the holographic screen, Heya folded her arms, stared at the chart in front of her for a long time, and said in a sure tone.

"At present, the progress has reached 51%, and if this trend continues, it should not be long before we can enter the next stage."

Chu Guang suddenly asked curiously.

"What if you go straight to the next stage?"

Heya said without hesitation.

"It will in turn be devoured by the brood on the B6 floor. After all, it's like a kid now, and even if we give it a lot of resources, it's not going to be the kind of old guy who slaughtered an entire floor of the Vault...... It's like putting a kid with a shotgun in the same room as a ruthless murderer, what do you think will happen. ”

Chu Guang frowned.

"What if this murderer is incapacitated? For example—"

"Do you inject a lot of inhibitors?" Seeing through his thoughts, Heya said in a teasing tone, "If I could, I would like to do this." But phagocytosis is a long-term and ongoing process, and it's hard to be sure that it's only effective against a certain slime mold...... Anyway, it seems to be waking up, and you can call that the lad is back. ”

Chu Guang nodded, gave up the sudden brain hole, nodded to the camera in the corner, and let Xiao Qi open the door of the infirmary.

At the door of the infirmary at this moment, Luo Yu was anxiously pacing back and forth.

Just then, the door opened.

Hearing the movement, he immediately looked towards the door of the infirmary, but before he could see anything, he was hit by a scarlet figure and fell directly into the corner of the corridor.

Almost didn't come up in one breath, and Luo Yu stared at the culprit lying on his body.

"What are you doing, do you want to kill me-"

"Hmmm!"

The face that was becoming more and more like a human had a pitiful expression.

Looking at the "pitiful" appearance, I was about to reprimand its falling feathers, and suddenly remembered that I had sent it to the laboratory for so long for the task to be studied.

With a hint of guilt in his heart, he sighed softly and reached out to touch its head.

"Well, I don't want to, but the mission...... There's no way around it, let alone for your own good. It's hard to be alone in there for so long! ”

"Let's go, take you to eat candy!"

"Babble!!"

Maybe it was because he understood his comfort, or maybe it was because he heard the sugar, Xiao Yu's face suddenly showed a happy expression, and the tentacles on the back of his head fluctuated like seaweed.

However, instead of coming off his body, it came closer, and the skirt-like mass pressed up like a track.

Luo Yu's face turned blue, his eyes rolled, and his round eyes were eager to fall out, and he almost died on the spot.

Boy!

You can't see it at all just by looking at the outside!

That's 200 kilograms, to say the least!

Looking at Xiao Yu and Luo Yu who were "glued together" outside the door, Heya, who was holding her arms, frowned slightly, and a sentence suddenly popped out of her mouth.

"Will he ...... Let's develop feelings. ”

Chu Guang's expression was subtle.

"It's hard to say."

Normally, after getting along for a long time, even a fishing rod will develop feelings, let alone a living thing.

Hea sighed and scratched her silver-white hair.

"Better not like that, mutant slime mold...... At least as far as I've observed, the minds of these creatures are as unstable as their DNA. They do not have a series of complex concepts that can only be found in human society, such as parents, relatives, friends, etc., and the so-called closeness is probably just an illusion. You should have noticed, it doesn't even shy away from preying on its own kind. ”

"Well," Chu Guang nodded, "but the blood closeness is also a fact, and so far, it has not shown strong aggression towards people." ”

Hea glanced at him.

"But what about after devouring the brood on the B6 floor? It will always absorb some of the things that originally belonged to that brood...... You know what I'm talking about. ”

It's not just fragments of genetic material that are absorbed.

It also includes parts of the memory, knowledge, experience, and instinct of the devoured...... Or something that the organism abstractly calls a "soul" or something.

In fact, the reason why Xiao Yu was able to learn to hunt was not because he taught it by constantly hunting creepers, as Luo Yu believes.

Rather, it's a more primitive and straightforward approach –

That is, through its digestive system, digesting the flesh and blood of those prey.

In fact, Xiao Yu's attack method is to use tentacles to imitate the bullets of a rifle to inflict piercing damage on creepers.

Even the shooting habits of the feathers are almost the same as the aiming position.

And this part of the knowledge comes from the memory fragments of the "devoured" about death. Those evolved "armors" also come from those memories-

'The prey died because they couldn't defend themselves against penetrating damage. ’

So it needs armor that can resist bullets. ’

That's the scariest thing about slime molds.

They learn from the carcass of their prey, and they learn both the experience of survival and death.

They can survive in a vacuum for as long as they need to, and can even withstand metal fragments hitting at several times the speed of sound!

And as long as some of the organizations survive, no matter how badly harmed, no matter how they are used, there will always be a way for them to come back to life.

It is no exaggeration to say that they have mastered evolution and soared into a realm that is not yet known to human civilization.

Chu Guang pondered for a moment and said.

"What's your suggestion?"

Hea shook her head.

"I don't know...... The project to clean up the B6 floor will of course go ahead, I need the research equipment there, and the slime mold must be cleaned out of it no matter what. However, I would suggest that it is better to abandon the idea of domesticating them. ”

Chu Guang immediately asked.

"Is there a scientific basis?"

Hea shook her head again.

"There's no evidence that it's impossible, but the probability of success is low."

This time, Chu Guang pondered for a little longer.

Looking at the two figures outside the corridor, he thought for a long time, and finally spoke slowly.

"I believe in my residents."

"It's like they trust me."

Hea couldn't help but ask.

"But what if something goes wrong?"

Suddenly, as if he had figured it out, Chu Guang smiled faintly.

"Just solve the problem."

"Wiping their butts is also part of the manager's job."

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