Slime Immortal.

Chapter 16 The Importance of Food

“Crack—hiss!”

The moment Sergash's teeth pierced the cold and slippery gelatin, the plump and elastic insect flesh burst in her mouth like the fattest swamp leech.

"Um?!"

This moss monster was much more delicious than she had imagined.

It is juicy and has a unique swampy aroma.

Mmm...it's the taste of happiness.

Sergash felt as if he had forgotten all his troubles and turned into a slime, bubbling happily.

It was like returning to the midsummer in her memory, when she was not even as tall as the other wolf teeth on her father's waist, she grabbed a moss monster with both hands and bit it clumsily, and the delicious taste of the plump insect meat still lingered.

She was intoxicated by it, feeling her body warm, even her wounds itchy, and the breath of life was sprouting.

When she came to her senses, she found that the moss monster Chen Yu was hunting had been eaten by her without her noticing.

Sergash suddenly felt his face getting hot.

She understood the importance of food better than anyone else, especially in the dangerous swamp, where food was another life for the lizardmen.

Look what she has done.

He actually ate up all the food stored by the messenger.

She felt humiliated and ashamed.

"How's it going? Is it delicious?"

"If it's not enough, I'll go hunting for more."

Chen Yu felt that she was not full, but it was normal for the little girl to be shy and embarrassed to say it.

Finally, a friend who can talk has come to the swamp, and we can't let her go hungry.

Segash waved his hands.

"No, thanks. I just feel like eating so much food is a bit..."

"is it a lot?"

Chen Yu muttered to himself, he estimated that this was less than half a day's food intake for him.

"It's okay, there are moss monsters everywhere here."

"Eat it today and it will grow again tomorrow."

Under this oak tree is the breeding farm of stinging bees. Once the number of moss monsters decreases, his diligent neighbor will catch moss monsters from other places and raise them.

Can't finish it, can't finish it at all.

If it’s not enough, just go ask the sting bee for some more. It’s free anyway.

But recently a group of beetles came down from the tree, and they seemed to be trying to steal his food.

He plans to find some time to have friendly exchanges with his new neighbors.

Sergash breathed a sigh of relief, but when she thought that the Lizardman Tribe was still starving while she didn't have to worry about food in the swamp forest, she couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in her heart.

It seems that living in the swamp forest with slimes is also a good choice?

but……

She glanced through the misty woods.

This place is far away from the reedy riverbank, and when night falls, some wild beasts with dark vision will come out to hunt.

She had to set up camp and shelter as quickly as possible before dark.

Sergash told Chen Yu his thoughts.

Chen Yu's soft body bounced, as if nodding.

"It's best not to stray too far from here."

"Otherwise, if a wild animal comes, I won't be able to reach it."

Although Sergash didn't understand what "out of reach" meant, he nodded obediently, rested for a while, and went to find materials for building the camp.

Chen Yu also had something to do, so he quietly dived into the water to observe the movements of the stinger beehive and the beetle swarm.

He is gathering intelligence.

The archery skill is incredibly powerful and has a long range, but the skill level is not high enough and the triggering time is long, making it a bit troublesome to deal with groups of monsters.

He planned to devise a perfect attack plan and find an opportunity to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Originally, Chen Yu planned to fight the stinging bee bit by bit.

But the arrival of Segash gave him new ideas.

Perhaps becoming the Lord of the Oak Tree won't take so long. Chen Yu half-submerged in the swamp, bubbling occasionally, and after a while, drowsiness overcame him, and he drifted off to sleep.

When he woke up again, it was already afternoon.

Someone knocked on the door of Xu Xuantian's thatched hut. Chen Yu woke up from his nap, opened the door and saw Shao Qingsong coming over.

"Brother, please come in and sit down. I'll go get the medicine."

Shao Qingsong waved his hand.

"You're welcome, Junior Brother."

"Actually, my main purpose this time is to say goodbye to you."

"Goodbye? Are you leaving the sect?"

"Cough cough..."

Shao Qingsong looked embarrassed.

"Junior brother's imagination is so wild that I can't figure it out."

"Actually, I was just planning to go out and gain some experience. I happened to hear that there were rare monsters in the forest outside the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, so I planned to go and take a look with my fellow disciples."

"If you are interested, you may go with me."

Chen Yu was not interested and was not very interested in the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons.

Shao Qingsong was good at observing people's expressions and when he saw that he was not interested, he changed the subject.

Before leaving, Shao Qingsong said that he would send his junior brother to the Green Bamboo Forest to trade on his behalf every day. After a few polite words, his figure disappeared around the corner of the bamboo forest.

Chen Yu put the previous conversation behind him. Feeling a little hungry, he cooked some rice and ate it with pickles. After filling his stomach, his consciousness immersed itself back in the swamp forest.

A pitch-black shell emerged from the swamp, and Chen Yu woke up with a blink of his eyes.

He searched for Segash's figure and finally his eyes fell on an oak tree not far away.

In just half a day, the originally messy leaf litter had been cleared, a shelter covered with thick leaves had been built under the oak tree, and a pile of collected firewood was placed on the side.

Segash was squatting in the middle of the camp, apparently making a fire.

Chen Yu became curious, swam ashore, jumped behind Sergash, and gently bumped her tail.

"What are you doing?"

The sudden sound startled Sergash, and she heaved a sigh of relief when she turned around and found it was the familiar slime.

"Make a fire."

"The monsters of the night are terrible, but they are afraid of fire."

"Monsters are also afraid of fire?"

Chen Yu thought that only wild beasts had the instinct to fear fire, but he didn't expect that even powerful monsters were afraid of fire.

Sergash was stunned. She seemed to have never thought about this question before.

Are monsters afraid of fire? Of course they are.

But when asked why, she couldn't explain it.

"But, maybe the power of fire is very conspicuous in the darkness, and the monsters mistake it for magical light..."

She spoke in an uncertain tone, of course this was just her guess.

Chen Yu stood by and watched, and saw Sergash hitting two sharp stones in his hands, and the sparks fell on the bark of the tree.

But it was quite humid in the forest, so it was not easy to start a fire, and it would not light even after one or two attempts.

After watching with interest for a while, Chen Yu turned around and returned to the tall oak tree to hunt moss monsters and prepare dinner.

The setting sun casts a twilight hue over the forest, which gradually returns to an unsettling darkness.

At this moment, Sergash's cry of surprise was heard from the camp.

Because they were far away and had no telepathy skills, Chen Yu couldn't understand what she was saying at all.

Thinking that they were attacked by wild beasts, they hurried back.

But fortunately it is not.

He floated in the swamp and looked up.

There was only the light of fire swaying in the darkness, filling the gullies between the wrinkled oak bark and bringing a touch of warmth to the surroundings.

The first spark of civilization was lit in the swamp forest.

It was also the first time that Chen Yu saw fire in the swamp forest.

(End of this chapter)