Chapter 8 The Black Heart Plantation of Livy the Slime Slave Lying in the Silver Dragon's Nest
There is no sunlight all year round in the Underdark, and only some kind of faintly fluorescent fungi that are scattered all over the barren rocks bloom and wither in silent reincarnations as time goes by.
Three years have passed since I pinched my nose and reluctantly convinced myself to accept the surrender of the slime clan.
However, it turns out that it was a wise choice for Levi not to drive away the slimes at that time.
Although their combat power is weak, on average, catching a bastard fish will cost more than 20 tragic losses in battle. If it were in the past, the corpses that died in order to provide the food provided by Li Wei, the big eater, would probably be recovered.
If the cave entrance reaches the other side of the river, this slime tribe may die in less than three months.
But since Levi discovered that the evolved slimes among them could merge and use [True Transformation] to transform into some of the weak creatures they once devoured, there were countless ways to change this vicious cycle.
In Li Wei's view, as long as he has a brain and can understand dragon language, it doesn't matter even if he is mentally retarded. Since he was reborn as a silver dragon, at least he has a big heart and will not be so easily angered.
If you look down from above at this moment, you can see that the entire underground river and the dome area about ten miles away from the Silver Dragon's lair have now changed drastically. The originally barren river bank wasteland is now covered with a mixture of green and yellow fluorescent moss and some kind of...
The slightly poisonous fungi that resemble Enoki mushrooms look like a garden emitting light fluorescence at a glance, full of an alternative fairy tale atmosphere. If placed on the blue star of Levi's previous life, I'm afraid it would immediately become a must-see for Internet celebrities.
One of the attractions.
On this lovely 'crop', thousands of silver slimes are working tirelessly on it:
The moss dug up from the river bottom is mixed with mud and pasted on the rock soil, and then spit on it or excreted (all the same). The waste tissue fluid produced by the metabolism of the slime is very good for these moss fungi.
of fertilizer.
Such prosperous crops will naturally attract some unclean 'thieves' and poor little creatures sent by the 'friendly' neighbors to explore the bottom, but most of these are killed by the 'Kuo Tao fishmen' patrolling around.
It has become part of the fertilizer in the moss mushroom plantation. A small number of powerful monsters that cannot be eliminated will disappear mysteriously before causing more damage, making the neighbors who covet this place even more afraid.
When encountering some new ferocious species, Levi will not be stingy about sharing some of his trophies with the slime workers. After all, slimes can transform into more species, and the more the better.
It's a pity that Levi hasn't encountered any more powerful species in the past few years. After all, for slimes, the 'powerful monsters' are weak beings that can be crushed to death with one claw in front of Levi, and they don't even
Need to transform into the true form of the Silver Dragon.
In particular, Li Wei's kobold tribe, which looks forward to the stars and the moon, has never been too bold. This made Li Wei once wonder if these guys who followed their hearts were worried about being retaliated by him and ran away with their clan?
With all these factors in mind, Levi now has the 'Kuo-Toa' that is most useful. Although he doesn't know what the real Kuo-Toa's natural abilities are. After all, slimes don't have the ability to eat a murloc shaman.
But the natural scales of the kuo-toa can provide partial protection, and the fact that they can use weapons is much stronger than the slime's frail body.
The scene on the river bank is a bit eye-catching. You can see many kuo-tao fishmen transformed from silver slimes who are responsible for catching the increasingly overpopulated sawfish from the river and throwing them onto the shore.
The slimes took over these fathead fish. They leaned over one by one and aimed their mouths at the belly of the fathead fish and kept sucking until the translucent belly was filled with bright yellow fish eggs. Then they let go.
The female fat-headed fish, who was suspicious of the fish, turned to the male fat-headed fish with a frightened face but a hint of expectation.
It wasn't until a while later that some of the same mysterious liquid got into his stomach and he mixed it thoroughly, then he swayed his round body and jumped into the gentle river amidst the shouts of "Mugh!"
The fish eggs with the breath of life are sprinkled into the river water, and the little fat-headed fish that hatch after a few days will linger on the river bank, waiting to fall from the sky and be harvested by the slimes from the crops and sprinkled into the carpet of bacteria in the river.
It can be seen that these slimes have no consciousness of being enslaved at all. Instead, they seem to enjoy it. The hard work seems more like a kind of entertainment in the occasional flashes of thought waves in their barren cell fluid.
After all, for the slime tribe in recent years, the originally barren food source suddenly became inexhaustible under the operation of their great lord and their efforts, and they lost the containment of the food source.
The number also increases geometrically.
As for the serratus whose bodies have been hollowed out by the slimes, a small part of them will be rewarded to themselves, and the rest will be packed and sent into the unfathomable rock wall by the 'Kuo-Tao fishmen'
In the silver dragon's lair covered with a thick layer of frost.
This is a unique innate ability of the dragon clan. As long as the dragons stay for a long time, the surrounding environment will be slowly changed by its radiation. For example, the red dragon's lair is mostly dry and hot, while the black dragon's lair is often surrounded by smelly water and corruption.
Very.
Priests call this ability aura, but dragons prefer to call it domain. It is one of the absolute signs that a true dragon has been inherited.
Every once in a while, the kuo-toa would clean out tons of fishy-smelling dragon dung from their caves.
These dragon dung are like 'gifts' in the eyes of slimes. They will be enjoyed by the blue slimes who still have not evolved. Although the effect is more than a few levels worse than dragon blood, it is not that the large amount can't be tolerated.
What's more, it is unrealistic to bleed yourself every day. It will not only affect your development, but also easily make Levi fall into long-term weakness, which is also unseemly.
Although the number of slimes that are awakened and evolved every day is not large under such circumstances, you can basically make a little profit every day, which can be considered a net profit.
The evolved silver slime can transform into more kuo-toa fishmen and a small number of low-level monsters, such as ratmen, goblins and the like.
Such an efficient black industry chain directly led to a sudden increase in the number of the squid, which was almost extinct, and transformed it into a virtuous cycle industry that even Li Wei, the instigator, was surprised by.
Although the scale of such prosperous crops is small, in the Underdark, except for some mushroom fields cultivated by halflings and other slaves next to some main cities built by drow elves and illithids, it is difficult to compare with such a prosperous crop.
They can be found in remote areas, and behind these crops there are often masterminds like Li Wei secretly supporting them.
Therefore, before finding out the exact situation, the small lords who think they are not strong enough or cannot hold it even if they capture it will rarely take such risks. They will choose to lie dormant, waiting for some idiot or a powerful lord who is hungry and unscrupulous.
Go take the lead.
After all, taking the risk of being exterminated for a small agricultural industry is not a wise choice. However, in the past few years, due to the sharp increase in fish production in Hanoi, the upstream and downstream sectors have benefited from a lot of benefits.
A lot of bloody fights even broke out over this, but the center of the whirlpool was strangely calm.
In the surrounding area, there are not surprisingly many cottages integrating agriculture and fishery into ecological parks.
Of course, most of them cannot expand their industry because they do not have cheap amphibious unpaid labor like slimes. Their input and output can only meet their survival needs, but even so, many underground creatures are happy.
Flowers.
After all, survival is always the first pursuit of living things, and in today's dark place, just being alive is already a gift from God.
Therefore, many of the surrounding ethnic groups who have received such favors are also secretly curious about the existence behind these extremely intelligent slimes. However, they are secretly looking forward to the day when this balance will be broken.
Get some bargains.
It's another peaceful day.
In the lair that has been expanded several times, the silver dragon, Lai Lai, Blackheart Farmer, Slime Slave Levi, who has become a huge monster, is curling up in the cave that is already a little crowded.
As a giant dragon at the top of the food chain, it also has the disadvantage of a long growth cycle.
But in the past three years, his body has been fed uncontrollably by the entire slime clan. It is no longer comparable to the little silver dragon that could be filled in a hot pot in the past, and it has developed explosively.
Correspondingly, except for sleeping, Levi basically eats all the time in the cave. In addition to eating the fat-headed fish fed by slimes, Levi will also continue to eat minerals. There happens to be a small piece of mineral under his nest.
Rare earth minerals.
Because Levi found that swallowing these ores is very beneficial to the development of his scales, which will cause the growth of cuticles containing metal substances in his scales. He wonders if it will grow into a monster wearing "metal armor" if it continues to grow like this.
.
This made Li Wei very suspicious of whether he was sick.
Chapter completed!