Although System's first encounter with a slime had resulted in him being lured in by its herbal scent and almost losing his life, ever since his [Mental Transmission] ability's level had increased, he could sense the emotions of mushrooms and bacteria and communicate with them.

  In his eyes, a slime was no longer a slime, but a moving mushroom. He had always regarded slimes as yogurt-fvored mushrooms that he could harvest at any time.

  However, after seeing the giant Abyss slime, his original impression of slimes was completely broken.

  The giant slime was still an aggregate of microorganisms, and all of the microorganisms that made up its body still emitted weak emotions.

  However, unlike ordinary slimes, there was a dark purple getinous core the size of a basketball inside the dark green slime's body. This slime core produced slightly complex emotions that were used to control the giant slime's movements.

  Just now, System had used his [Mental Transmission] ability to order the giant slime to split as usual, but his attempt had failed precisely because of the giant slime's core.

  Also, because the purple slime core itself was also an aggregate of microorganisms, the emotions it produced were mixed with those of an ordinary green slime, making it difficult for System to understand them. If he had to describe it, it would be like two market managers whispering something in a noisy vegetable market, and he could barely hear it at all.

  It was also because of this that System hadn't noticed the slime's movement before it had suddenly bounced toward him.

  However, System wasn't limited to only perceiving emotions. With the help of his [Intuition], he had dodged the giant slime's movements in advance before flying into the sky.

  "Food...food..."

  Although it had a purple getinous core, the giant slime's intelligence was still not high, and the emotions it produced had a long dey.

  It was like giving someone a sp in the face, then saying to that person, "I'm going to give you a sp in the face."

  The giant slime's body moved faster than its emotions.

  After the giant slime bounced toward System, it began sending him intermittent mental messages. Its words made it clear that it wanted to absorb him as food.

  "We are the same, we are the same, we are the same, we are the same..."

  While flying, System sent a mental message filled with a stream of lies to the giant slime below while also using [Probe and Analyze] to inspect it.

  For this kind of low-IQ slime, System felt that his many years of experience in deception gave him more than a ninety percent chance of making the slime believe his lies. He might even be able to make the slime voluntarily offer up the purplish-bck slime at the core of its body.

  However, he had no idea how long the slime would keep believing his lies.

  ...

  Species: Giant slime (renameable)

  Diameter: 2.2-2.3 metersWeight: 2500-5000 kilograms

  Estimated Combat Power: 15-1200Special Talents: -

  ...

  Soon, the slime's information was dispyed by [Probe and Analyze]. The estimated combat power column surprised System. The range of 15 to 1200 was a difference of eighty times, which made him more cautious against the giant slime.

  At the same time, his [Intuition] also gave him a slightly uneasy feeling.

  He had cimed that he and the giant slime were of the same kind, causing the giant slime to be stunned for a short time, apparently thinking about the mental message.

  "Same...kind..."

  After a dozen breaths, the giant slime sent out a calm mental message, as if it had agreed with System's words and had been successfully deceived.

  However, just when System felt that he had won, he decided to further deceive the giant slime, wanting it to split on its own initiative and provide him with its purplish-bck slime core.

  The surface of the giant slime's body suddenly trembled like a wave, then surged violently.

  The two-meter-diameter slime instantly stretched out more than a dozen slime tentacles as thick as human thighs, then swung them at System in the sky at a very fast speed.

  Shava, who had discovered the giant slime's abnormality, immediately rushed toward the slime's stretched-out tentacles and unched a ssh.

  Seeing this, the nearby Meatball also changed the shape of his body and turned into a two-meter-long giant mosquito, appearing as if he was going to use the mosquito's proboscis to start drinking the slime.

  As for Ying, she also hid her figure and tried to attack the slime.

  Bang!

  Despite the advance warning from [Intuition] and Shava helpfully cutting off several of the slime's getinous tentacles, the giant slime's attack was still too fast.

  As System dodged, the slime's getinous tentacles changed direction to follow him. He wasn't able to avoid its attack completely, and one of the slime's tentacles smashed into his own carapace-covered tentacles that he'd wrapped around his body for defense.

  System was knocked more than ten meters away in the air.

  In fact, if he hadn't actively adjusted his body's state before coming into contact with the slime's getinous tentacle, he most likely wouldn't have been knocked away, but would instead have been enveloped by the slime's tentacle and pulled into its body.

  The bits of slime stuck to System's carapace possessed a strong corrosive effect, and the carapace on his tentacles dissolved slightly, causing him to feel bursts of pain.

  After mastering [Corrosive Mucus] and [Pgue Slime], his body had been immune to every acidic substance that he'd encountered. This time, however, his body was being corroded.

  This giant slime was extraordinarily corrosive, which meant its body was definitely not something as simple as ordinary slimes aggregated together.

  While System was feeling the giant slime's corrosiveness, [Probe and Analyze] showed that the giant slime's combat power had changed again, rising from 15-1200 to 1100-1800.

  "Same...kind, absorb..."

  The giant slime stopped moving and sent out another mental message, as if wondering why System, as a friend of the same kind, hadn't taken the initiative to be assimited and absorbed by it.

  System realized that although his previous lie had been successful, the lie itself had been a mistake.

  This giant slime treated its own kind even more cruelly than food.

  After reorganizing his body, System took advantage of the giant slime's inaction and immediately flew high into the sky. At the same time, he used the gnds in his throat to spray purplish-bck [Pgue Mucus] onto the slime's body.

  System could control his [Pgue Mucus] within ten meters, and even if he was dozens of meters away, he could still tell if the [Pgue Mucus] was still active.

  Within a few seconds of System's [Pgue Mucus] hitting the giant slime, the [Pgue Mucus] became inactive.

  His [Pgue Mucus] might not possess strong corrosive power, but it was extremely active, which was an extraordinary level ability.

  The giant slime's strength was self-evident, since it was able to absorb his [Pgue Mucus] in such a short time.

  "Extraordinary!?"

  System's throat made a hoarse sound unconsciously. It seemed that he had still underestimated his giant slime friend...