Chapter 961: Chapter 445: Say That Again, What Do You Want?
The Slime’s size was about half of a washing machine, presenting an overall dull blue-green hue, with a very faint bluish glow flickering from its depths, almost on the verge of extinguishing.
Lin Li couldn’t clearly see the material emitting this faint glow, as if it were wrapped in something, with only tiny gaps visible.
There were no discernible facial features on the Slime, nor any limbs or torso structure, unlike any animal Lin Li had known.
It lay sprawled on the ground, resembling a giant pudding just taken out of the fridge.
If there really were a pudding this big, even Bao Wei would probably need two meals to finish it.
At this moment, the Slime, which had been constantly illuminated by Lin Li’s flashlight, seemed to finally have "free time" to respond to Lin Li. Its body slightly bulged towards Lin Li’s direction, as if attempting the act of "looking."
Lin Li slightly moved his flashlight to avoid the potential of "directly shining into the other’s eyes," but didn’t speak.
His expression behind the protective suit remained unchanged, only his breathing was slightly louder than usual.
He had a bad feeling.
Lin Li lowered his head, staring straight at the Slime for a moment, finally breaking the silence: "Hello."
At this moment, Lin Li’s voice sounded calm and flat, but if the Slime could read his mind, it would hear:
Don’t answer, don’t answer, don’t answer——
You can’t talk, you can’t talk, you can’t talk——
Kid, you must be the underdog in this All-Women World, right? You must be their worker, this has to be the truth, huh wow, these women are so wicked to enslave you to drive the mech——
"Hello." The Slime replied to Lin Li’s question.
The voice was in Chinese, sounding sweet, with a female tone.
However, that was all it said, as if the Slime was also observing and contemplating, determining whether Lin Li was a friend or foe.
"Are you a female?"
"Female, what female..." The Slime hesitated upon hearing this question, seemingly thinking. After a few seconds, it emitted a voice with a tone of sudden realization: "Are you asking about the gender female? Of course, ah?
The other gender, hasn’t it already gone extinct?"
The words became hesitating towards the end again, the protruding part slightly tilted as if puzzled by why Lin Li would ask such a question.
Lin Li laughed.
System, fuck your mom.
If just now it was still barely possible to think this Slime was just a speaking entity, at this moment, after hearing the Slime’s rhetorical question, Lin Li was ninety percent sure, she is indeed a local of this world.
Lin Li suddenly realized something.
He thought he was at the bottom of a canyon, never having seen a local’s corpse.
But is there a possibility, that those discolored, decomposed, and foul-smelling Slimes inside the mech remnants’ cockpits, which he once thought were just intelligent adhesives connecting the pilot with the mech, are actually the locals’ corpses?
No remains... they’ve all evolved into this form. Whether they died falling or died inside the cockpit, or crawled outside the mech, naturally, there would be no so-called remains for me to discover.
Lin Li collected these complex thoughts and looked towards the Slime in front of him, concernedly asking, "How are you now, are you okay? Is there anything I can help with?"
The local in front of him was the only channel for Lin Li to explore this world, and also the most likely target to trigger system tasks. Lin Li was very worried about her condition after such an accident.
"How could I be okay? I’m about to die, can’t you see that?" The Slime gave a faint smile, shaking its head—if that thing could be considered a head.
Lin Li: "..."
How the hell am I supposed to see that!!
How do you expect me to determine the condition of a Slime when I haven’t even been informed enough to discern it!!
But Lin Li absolutely could not let this local die in front of him. At least give me some information about this world before you die!
"How can——"
[Ever since that cross-generation friendship with the old man ended, you’ve been alone in the real world, without another friend, but today, a beautiful girl suddenly barged into your world, bringing you a ray of light.
However, fate seems to be playing a joke on you. This beautiful girl’s condition isn’t well and she doesn’t have long to live.
As a returning Cultivator, how could you let such a beautiful girl perish just like that?]
[Mission Triggered!]
[Mission Two: Save this beautiful girl and heal her injuries.]
[Mission Reward: Physical Improvement: Comprehensive recovery ability increased by 50%; Random System Item*1; System Currency*100]
Lin Li’s words of concern were interrupted as the system popped up with its mission.
Having read it, Lin Li’s mouth twitched.
His gaze locked onto the words "beautiful girl."
The last hope was gone. This Slime is already designated by the system as a local.
System, fuck you with every name under the sun.
The torment from the last beautiful lady is still fresh in memory, and now, here comes a beautiful girl, is that it?
In the last world, it was at least nice of you not to call Shanqing Daoist a beautiful old man, huh!!
Goddammit, are all the missions in this world going to be romantic like the Doomsday World ones?
System, practice some restraint, don’t mess with me, I beg of you.
