Slimes are very magical creatures.
In the magical realm, many mages have spent years researching how slimes are created, yet they still haven't reached a convincing conclusion.
First of all, this thing is so common, just like stray cats and dogs on the roadside, or bigleaf birds in the trees. It seems that wherever there are people, there are these soft, slimy creatures.
Secondly, although this thing is incredibly weak—any child without magic could kill it with a tree branch—its reproduction rate is quite astonishing.
A magician once conducted the following experiment:
Place a sexually mature, attribute-neutral slime into a large, empty cave, and feed it every seven days.
In the first cycle, apart from a significant increase in size, this non-attribute slime did not undergo any changes.
But on the second day of the experiment, the magician was surprised to find a second, attribute-less individual in the hole, which was not artificially created and was only half the size of the first slime.
The magician continued to feed them, and as he predicted, the two slimes began to split uncontrollably, constantly producing new slime balls: one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, eight becomes twenty-four...
Even though the magicians tried every possible method, they couldn't stop these slimes from continuing to multiply.
By the twenty-first day of the experiment, the entire cavern was overrun by slimes that could be seen everywhere—ultimately, the magician was forced to end the experiment.
This is also the origin of the "Slime Underground Palace" in the Dark Forest.
— Slimes can never be destroyed. As long as there is a parent organism, it can multiply infinitely until the population reaches a critical value.
Therefore, in the eyes of the residents of West Cope County, slimes are equivalent to cockroaches on Earth—they can't be killed, they simply can't be killed.
However, in Xu Milu's opinion, slimes that can continuously reproduce on their own are simply a great "magic weapon"!
The first point is its edible value. Slime can be eaten directly after processing, and it can also be stored in large quantities as a storage resource after being dried.
Secondly, there's energy decomposition. Although there's no magic in this plane, slimes still have a remarkably astonishing digestive capacity.
A single slime can process a ton of household waste every day, not to mention a complete slime colony.
If the residents of the underground city could choose to keep one, it would definitely alleviate the pressure of garbage disposal in the underground city.
Furthermore, slimes can be used for cleaning or medical purposes. They basically eat anything, including dust and bacteria in the room, so people in the magical world sometimes use them to clean toilets.
When Xu Milu heard this news, she still shed a tear of sympathy for the slime.
But if this characteristic is utilized properly, she believes that the people in this dimension can develop some more practical and interesting high-tech gadgets.
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"Teacher Xu is absolutely right. Slime has extremely high research value. Currently, the research institute is conducting research in areas such as cleaning, medicine, pharmaceuticals, food, and waste disposal. Of course, we have already analyzed its components..."
The female professor in the white lab coat smiled; the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes hinted at the passage of time, yet she remained an absolute beauty.
"Then guess what this slime in front of us is made of?"
In front of her was a large aquarium five meters long. Through the thick protective glass, she could see translucent spherical slimes jumping around.
These slimes vary in size, with the largest being the size of a basketball and the smallest just the size of an adult's fist.
— Each slime has an exceptionally smooth surface, with a jelly-like texture and excellent translucency; if you're not careful, you might mistake it for a large water droplet.
When they are not moving, they lie quietly in place, like a melting ice ball, almost unrecognizable from its original shape.
Xu Milu waved her hand on the glass, and immediately two slimes came over as if begging for food.
Although they lack the organ of "eyes," they can still accurately determine Xu Milu's location.
"have no idea."
She shook her head very honestly, and Xiao Zhuang next to her couldn't help but be curious, waiting with wide eyes for the professor to give an answer.
"It's water."
The professor looked at Xu Milu with the gentle gaze one would give a junior, and after revealing the answer, he began to explain with a beaming smile:
"This is truly amazing. We dissected the slime and found that it can't actually be considered a living thing, or rather, it doesn't belong to the category of living things as defined by us humans."
We magnified the slime slices 10,000 times under a microscope and discovered that it is not a single-celled organism as previously thought; it belongs neither to fungi nor plants, and its body contains only water.
Xiao Zhuang couldn't help but gasp:
"Water? How is that possible?! Didn't you just say it can decompose garbage? If it's just water, how could it decompose that garbage so quickly in such a short time?"
Although she wasn't a biology major, she understood that water absolutely couldn't do those things.
“Come and take a look.”
The professor waved to the two students, signaling the student next to him to grab a slime the size of a volleyball from the aquarium.
"That's right, it's water. We also find it incredible that slimes don't have any digestive organs. Whether we extract and analyze samples while they're alive or after they're dead, the result is always the same:"
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