Me? A slime? A villain who destroys a nation? Fine!

Tire slime is rolling out of the prairie.

"Oh dear! Nephew, are you really going on a long trip? It's so dangerous out there, all polluted and murky," the little fairy called out worriedly from the road.

"Huh?" Lin Ming stopped, wondering how this figurine could talk. Was this the language of fairies?

"What does nephew mean?" Lin Ming asked curiously.

"Hehe~ Literally, you're my sister's child, so naturally I'm your aunt, right?"

"But you two are from different breeds." Lin Ming asked a pointed question.

"Gurgle..." The little fairy's arrogance vanished instantly.

This was Lin Ming's first time leaving the forest, but he discovered that half of the forest was a black, corroded area, just like the situation behind the slime mother.

Although I had heard that the slime continent had stopped producing slimes, now that I see it, the main cause of the production stoppage and extinction is inseparable from this black pollution; the ecosystem has been completely destroyed.

These black substances... Lin Ming remembered extracting them during experiments in the kingdom, but no one knew where they came from. However, they were essential for creating fusion stones...

The more Lin Ming thought about it, the more unbelievable it became.

The scarlet road sign in his eyes had faded considerably, which meant that Lin Ming didn't have time to deal with the pollution. He had to catch up with the thieves first, as that was where Lin Ming obtained the healing potion and clues related to humans.

Perhaps, there might be something there that can help Lin Ming detoxify...

The feeling of leaving the village for the first time did not make Lin Ming feel free; on the contrary, the alluring atmosphere of the outside world made him even more uncomfortable.

The little fairy flying nearby also felt sorry for him. After all, Little Gulu didn't seem too happy to come out. Sure enough, this filthy outside world was not as beautiful as the Slime Plains, since there, his older sister was suppressing the Black Eclipse.

Just as Lin Ming was hurrying along, a loud rattling sound suddenly came from behind him.

He noticed a blue, ostrich-like creature chasing him.

[Corrupted High-Speed ​​Bird.lv22]

As the tire rolled, Lin Ming turned his face to the back of the tire, thinking that it couldn't possibly peck him, could it? He wasn't tasty anyway.

The little fairy noticed something chasing her from behind and immediately cried out in fright, "Nephew! It's a polluted creature, stay away!"

As a result, the bird immediately activated its [High-Speed ​​Movement], moving so fast that it outpaced Lin Ming in his tire mode and directly knocked the little tire flying.

"Whoa!! Nephew!" The little imp was terrified, fearing that Little Gulu had been hurt.

With a thud, Lin Ming was thrown back to his original form and landed on the ground, bouncing around but unharmed.

"Huh?" Lin Ming was stunned for a moment. What kind of speed is this?

What came into view was a tall, ostrich-like shadow.

"Gah—!!!"

The high-speed pecking bird's eyes were so red that it looked like a raging, crazed bird. After blocking the road, it immediately began to hiss and screech at Lin Ming.

The opponent had blue feathers all over its body, and its legs were long and powerful like an ostrich's, but with bulging, glowing red veins, and its feathers were stained with a black dye like a corrupted wolf.

However, its pollution is even more severe.

Its eyes were an abnormal red, not the red of ordinary monsters, but the murky, irrational red unique to corrupted creatures. At least the previous corrupted wolf still had some sense.

Having hunted in the forest for so long, Lin Ming could tell which monsters were normal and which were not.

"Get out of my way!" Lin Ming fired a slime ball, but the high-speed pecking bird immediately kicked up dust on the spot, dodging the ball with exaggerated speed and then drifting back to peck at Lin Ming.

"No!?" Lin Ming was startled. He immediately swatted the little imp away and was then shoved into a tree by the high-speed pecking bird.

The shockwave shook the trees violently, causing the air to circulate and leaves to scatter wildly.

This attack pinned Little Gulu to the wooden stake, and the bird kept pecking at the tree. The bird's peck was just a little short of the fusion stone, but fortunately Lin Ming moved the core away in advance.

"Wow, it's that fierce?" Lin Ming twisted the little bird's face behind its back, and six tentacles suddenly burst out, wrapping around the high-speed pecking bird and making it even more frantic as it stabbed the little bird, trying to peck it to death.

As the tentacles gradually wrapped around the opponent's head, Lin Ming launched a missile at point-blank range—

With a bang, green blood splattered.

The bird, which was pecking at the ground at high speed, fell to the ground and its head was gone.

Little Gulu also fell from the tree and landed next to the high-speed pecking bird.

"What an extraordinary bird."

As Lin Ming complained, a kill notification popped up:

[Slay the high-speed bird-pecking creature]

[Slime level must be at least lv22]

Lin Ming unceremoniously grabbed the high-speed bird and started eating it, while still keeping on his way, carrying the bird carcass in his mouth.

The little fairy rushed over worriedly, but when she saw that Little Gulu turned around and left as if nothing had happened, she breathed a deep sigh of relief.

"Hey, wait for me, nephew!"

On the way, Lin Ming decomposed the following into [High-speed movement 65%], [High-speed bird claws 50%], and [Long bird beak 20%].

One ability, two parts.

It was a strange bird. Lin Ming even found many more in the forest when he left. He didn't dare to provoke them, nor did he have the energy.

However, as the guide drew closer, Lin Ming discovered that the ape scent marker had broken after passing through an abandoned village.

Huh? What the hell? Where did they go? Did they hide in the village?

Lin Ming twisted and turned, his big eyes scanning everywhere, but he still looked around the abandoned village with a strange expression. There were dilapidated wooden and mud houses everywhere, showing signs of severe neglect. Was he hiding here? Or was this the lair of thieves?

Lin Ming pinched the slime missile, intending to kill any thieves he saw.

But at that moment, as Lin Ming turned his head, a frail old man and a child appeared behind him.

Lin Ming almost couldn't stop the bullet.

"Ahhh... The Earth Fairy has finally come to help us..." The old man was so excited when he saw Little Gulu that he pulled the girl down to kneel and began to kowtow to Lin Ming.

"Huh? What's going on? Are there any indigenous people here?" Lin Ming asked curiously as he approached the old man and looked him over.

[Commoners] [Commoners]

The data is very ordinary, and there are no job levels.

They were terribly thin, like famine refugees. Both the elderly and children were skin and bones. The elderly were pale and haggard, and the children looked sickly.

"What? You've mistaken me for someone else? By the way, have you seen a shifty-eyed thief?"

As Lin Ming asked the question, the old man sat up excitedly, hugged his granddaughter, and pleaded again, "Earth Fairy, please help us! My granddaughter is dying... Please, please... Earth Fairy, have mercy! I am willing to offer my life and soul in exchange for my granddaughter's safety."

As the old man continued to pray, the sickly little girl in his arms also prayed along, but her weak voice was completely inaudible, as if she only had her last breath left.

"Why is it so hard to communicate?" Lin Ming twisted around in confusion, noticing that refugees were gradually appearing in the abandoned huts around him, peeking out. Most of them were in the same situation: tattered clothes, emaciated, haggard, and filled with fear in their eyes.

"How pitiful... Are all humans like this nowadays...?" The little fairy also felt pity, not expecting that after so long of not being out, the outside world had become like this.

Let's try to save him first; it looks like he's barely hanging on.

Lin Ming first stretched out his long little hand and placed it in the girl's mouth, beginning to moisten it with the healing liquid.

He decomposed all the healing bottles he had previously acquired, and then, by transferring nutrients to himself, he delivered the monster protein, various mixed nutrients, and a little healing potion into the girl's stomach.

Before long, the girl in the old man's arms regained her color, and Lin Ming cut off his own little hand, letting the girl swallow the small piece of slime to satisfy her hunger.

The recovered little girl blinked, then grabbed the old man's sleeve in a panic and shook it, crying, "Grandpa, Grandpa!"

"Ahhh! Thank you, Earth Fairy, for your generosity! Thank you! Thank you!" Upon seeing this, the old man was so moved that he kowtowed repeatedly, pulling his child along as he continued to kowtow.

"Oh my god!? Nephew, how did you do that!?" The little fairy's eyes lit up in shock. She never expected that even though she couldn't help him, her nephew would still maintain his performance.

At this moment, another old woman also knelt down excitedly:

"It's absolutely true! It has the support of the Earth Fairy!! And it's surrounded by fairy light! Please! Please, Earth Fairy, help us!"

All the able-bodied people in the village have been kidnapped by thieves, pollution disasters keep raging, and many people have already died from black erosion disease. Please, Earth Fairy, save our village!

"No, no, no, slimes are born by earth fairies. You must be talking about the Mother of Slimes, not me..." Lin Ming had a headache.

"It's the language of fairies—! Absolutely! Everyone, quickly offer your divine will!"

One after another, villagers and refugees knelt before Lin Ming, which gave him a major headache. Was it another language barrier?

I never imagined that what I was communicating with my mom was actually a directional language.

"Uh...you guys wouldn't mind getting nourishment from monsters...right? Of course, I won't just give it to you for free, you know?"

Of course, Lin Ming no longer cared whether they could understand or not. Since there were so many villagers, it would be much easier to exchange information. What he needed most now was manpower.

Lin Ming first roughly tied up the old man who was kowtowing, then tied his hands and began to gurgle and inject various nutrients mixed with healing molecules into him.

"Gurgle!!" The old man twitched, his pupils rolled back and rolled back, which made his granddaughter look at him with great concern.

Before long, the old man felt the world being elevated. He suddenly roared, his muscles burst open, his body grew larger, and he began to exude violent energy. All the little white hair he had left on his head grew back.

"I feel an immense power; the earth spirits are with me—!!!"

The villagers were all dumbfounded, and the granddaughter, who had been worried, was so stunned that she couldn't close her mouth.

Uh, is that too much?