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

As Firas's resentment grew, Lin Ming's resentment was no less intense.

At this moment, Lin Ming was still venting his anger on a demonic spider in the ruins, the dark cave echoing with screams and the sound of stones being struck. The demonic spider in front of him was already smashed into a pulp, but even so, Lin Ming continued to pound it, still holding mineral crystals in his hand.

"Beast Kingdom! Dead Kaido! Just you wait!" The angrier he got, the sense of security brought by the healing herbs made Lin Ming enter a rash phase of counterattack.

Should we focus on developing magic cannons, or continue developing slime bullets?

These are two areas where you can allocate skill points. The remaining area to upgrade is [Slime Web]. This ability needs to be continuously stacked until one day you can build a connection to that beast kingdom.

No... we don't need to extend it that way, do we? Forming an encirclement would also work...

Lin Ming began to have many dark thoughts of revenge. So he built a furnace out of stones and knocked off the black soot from the wall and threw it in.

The crooked furnace was ignited by Lin Ming. In the ruins bathed in warm yellow light, a slime could be seen struggling to carry fuel, then throwing in all the gold and copper coins it had previously obtained.

Since slimes can't melt minerals, does that mean external forces can't?

Lin Ming let out a wicked laugh, completely at odds with Little Gulu's adorable expression, casting a twisted, sinister shadow in the cave.

Soon after, the gold and copper coins were melted and purified at high temperatures, removing most of the impurities.

Lin Ming also used stones to build a small workshop on the first floor of the ruins, with various platforms and stone tools set up.

With villagers and Xiaobai guarding their hideout, Lin Ming felt much more at ease, allowing him to act with complete freedom.

Even if he can't find the antidote, he'll drink the healing potion and still fight his way back.

There is a white metal in this ruined mine that is particularly useful. It is less prone to breakage than stone, and has a very low melting point, melting instantly but becoming extremely hard after cooling, making it ideal for shaping.

Lin Ming crafted several cup-shaped objects and various research glass bottles in this cave, and he even melted down many pickaxes.

Although this thing is difficult to shape, shaping it with his slime is very easy. As long as he uses his slime as a mold to shape it in advance, there is almost no difficulty in making these small tools.

As for why he made these, it was because he knew that the Stone Age slimes were ultimately not enough to fight.

When he fought that bandit leader before, he knew he wouldn't only encounter low-level bandits for the rest of his life.

The opponent will receive a blessing, as well as various magical artifacts.

The saying "the rich rely on technology" is still relevant even in this alternate world. The other person's status means wealth, and the accumulation of wealth means the level of external power they possess.

If Lin Ming really wanted to go against that beastly kingdom, he would basically be facing nobles, including Kaido.

Even the poisoned dagger that Lin Ming was struck by was a special magical artifact. It would not leave any sword mark after entering a person's body, but the poison would pass through the body.

That sword strike left no time for emergency detoxification.

This is what Lin Ming needs to be most wary of. He hasn't encountered this situation yet, but if he does, it will still be difficult to handle.

Back when he was an alchemist, he could refine gold without even needing a furnace. But now, the slime has to start from the very basics, working his way up from firing glass bottles to synthesizing various metals and minerals.

This world has things like coal mines, but it doesn't have gunpowder.

Lin Ming dug in the ruins for half a day, and even became a mining slime.

He dug and dug, his face covered in dirt and grime, but he only managed to unearth a red crystal.

Lin Ming wasn't an expert in antiques, so he thought it was just ordinary glass shards like rubies and threw it away like trash.

To everyone's surprise, the crystal exploded violently the moment it hit the ground, shaking the entire ruins cave with a loud "bang".

Lin Ming was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and saw that his buttocks had been burned away by the explosion.

The mine tunnel he dug out was half-collapsed, almost burying him, and the tunnel was filled with a red magical energy.

But then, gunpowder became a substitute, didn't it?

During this mining operation, Lin Ming obtained six of these red crystals. These crystals seemed to explode immediately upon any violent impact.

If it were made into bullets, the effect would be far greater than the power of bullets that Lin Ming understood in reality.

Now we can finally say goodbye to Stone Age Slimes for a while.

"My god, there are so many good things in my mother's territory!" Lin Ming emerged from the mine tunnel covered in dust, his body filled with a large amount of ore of various sizes.

Some ores I've never seen before; I'll only know their nature after the slime is broken down. Not all ores are like red crystal ore, where you can tell what they are just by dropping them.

After this mining trip, the bronze ore in the furnace was almost completely burned off, and Lin Ming burned it into a gold bar and a copper bar.

Given the rudimentary environment, Lin Ming couldn't precisely control the thickness of the bars, resulting in extremely thick gold and copper bars that resembled turds.

What's the point of making this stuff? Of course, it's for conducting electricity; Lin Ming needs it to make electrical wires.

So Lin Ming threw the excess ore on the table, took the red crystal block with him, and bundled the red crystal and the rubble together to create a burst missile with the rubble as the projectile and the red crystal as the tail.

Lin Ming had a premonition that he would definitely mine this crystal mine in large quantities.

But before that, he had to see his mother. His mother, unable to bear the loneliness, kept calling him, and his phone kept ringing with excitement.

The little fairy poked her head out of the cave entrance: "Really, nephew, your big sister has been looking for you! What are you doing in a place like this? There's a burnt smell."

"Alright, alright, let's go now."

Lin Ming went to the Fairy Forest where Slime Mother lived, as usual. The first thing the other person saw was Lin Ming's face covered in dust.

"Child, did you go eat dirt?" Slime Mom couldn't help but ask with a light laugh.

Her smile was so adorable that Lin Ming was mesmerized for a moment.

"I went to dig some soil. I think it's okay if I use the resources from Mom's place, that little relic."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Mom's things are your things. Don't ask Mom about these things. Come here now, if Mom doesn't call you, you won't come back to see Mom?" Slime Mom spread her hands, a little annoyed, gesturing for Lin Ming to come over quickly.

Under the powerful maternal magnetism, Lin Ming reluctantly rolled over and, as always, let the slime mother hold him in her arms.

"Look how much weight you've gained! What have you been eating lately?" Slime Mom hugged the little gurgle, who was now as big as a pillow, all soft and fluffy. She no longer had to worry about filling it up properly.

Like the other day, it went out and its body was shaved down to the size of a fist, as small as a stone. It's rare to see it looking so chubby now.

Lin Ming didn't know why, but once he was hugged by the slime mother, he inexplicably lost his ability to speak.

It was so warm; he was immersed in this warm maternal love, as if he were melting into it.

"Look how tired you are. You've had a tough time these past few days." Slime Mom stroked Lin Ming's head. "Go to sleep~ Mom's here, nothing will disturb you."

With gentle soothing, she gradually fused Lin Ming into her beautiful, liquid belly, letting him sink once more into the shimmering liquid, like being immersed in a warm sea.

"It'll be soon, my child. Soon you'll be independent. That's about all the things Mommy can do for you. After that, Mommy might not be able to help you anymore..."

Slime Mom smiled wearily, as if she were holding her baby, and gradually fell asleep.

When Lin Ming woke up from the slime mother's lap, his level had already broken through to level 41, evolving from a small goblin into a large goblin.

[Learned: Compressing mucus]

[Learned: Elimination of mimicry]

[Fusion Stone Liberation: Multimodal Part Fusion]