"Slims, although they are far apart from each other and scattered all over the world, in fact we often get together to communicate, and we all know each other's situation...Compared with the superficial settlement of other races in the north, we have historically been Mum is a lot more united than it looks.”
Hearing Kexinin's words, Valentina nodded. It seemed that her guess was right. Although the slime species all dispersed from the north for unknown reasons, they still used some kind of The method maintained a tacit connection. Thinking of this, she knocked on her ring and asked Ke Xining,
"How...how do you keep in touch?"
"The border... We left the northern border as a family many years ago. We did business and performed outside. However, before we separated, we marked a very hidden place overseas. Many prestigious elders stay there, and then the rest will travel back every few years to gather and share their respective situations, and that place is called the Junction."
Ke Xining's pure green head raised a little. On her head, the tentacle-like hair was twisted slightly behind her. In fact, slime did not have such a thing as hair. It was their third hand. ,
"The mark you want is in our border area, but the problem now is that our family has not been back to the border area for a long time. The relationship between our family and other tribesmen is not good. Even if I want to help you, it will be difficult. Success...we will probably be kicked out by other slimes before we even enter the border area."
"But if you insist on going, that's fine. I can take someone to the junction. You can talk to them about the specific matters yourself, but in return, please let me and my daughter go."
Before Valentina spoke, Fisher had already pointed at one of Kozanin's daughters, and then said to Kozanin,
"You and I will return to the junction you mentioned to get the mark. The deal will be as you said, but there is one more thing to add. I will tell you later on the road that your daughter will stay here until then."
Ke Xining glanced at his two shivering daughters behind him, and had no choice but to agree to Fisher's request.
"Okay, you have to prepare some money for me to use to travel to the junction. I need to convert them into value... By the way, it would be better if you could prepare some food for us."
Fisher nodded in agreement, but when he turned around, he found that Valentina was holding a blunderbuss and hooking her hand at Fisher, who was taking over, motioning for him to come over. Fisher looked at Hedilyn behind her to prepare something. Then he walked to her side openly,
"What?"
"You just trust these slimes. They are very cunning. You may be in danger if you follow her to that border area that I have never heard of."
Fisher turned his head and looked at the three slimes leaning together in the distance, and said indifferently,
"It is indeed possible, but her two daughters are still in your hands. Although she did not show that she cared about her daughters very much in her space before, in fact it was not the case... I heard that Shrem They are both real money lovers, and even if she regards her two daughters as her own property, she will not let them go easily."
In fact, the most important factor is that the life level of slimes is generally not very high, and their combat ability is not much better than that of humans. Their racial talents are very useful, and they can store items and travel through space at will, which is very useful for them. It is an ability that many people dream of. Perhaps it is precisely because they have been blessed in this area that they are lacking in combat?
"Don't worry, I will bring the Slime Mark back for you... But if the other party has any requirements, I need you to give me certain authority to make a promise in your name."
"Haha, isn't it natural that you agreed to the other party's deal just now? Let me guess, is the extra deal you mentioned going to study one of her two daughters?"
"You also know?"
Valentina's little face slumped slightly, but on the surface she just slowly took back the gun in her hand, leaned on the wheelchair behind her and spoke to Fisher,
"Oh, does that mean I don't have to help you find the Ice Owl species I promised you before? Anyway, you already have a Slime species girl to study..."
"That's not the case. The more things like this the better, so I'd better trouble you to look for them."
"You guys are really..."
Valentina rubbed her brows with a headache. After Hedilin came back with some bread and northern silver coins, the two people who had been talking close to each other immediately separated a distance in a tacit understanding, for fear of being beaten by Hedilin. Discover the clues and come over to talk about them.
Watching the three mothers and daughters of Ke Xining wolfing down the bread brought by Hedilin, because the outer skin wrapped their bodies, the bread did not have a specific shape in their stomachs after eating it. Originally, Fisher was more curious about how Slims ate. According to his original imagination, they were like jelly and could clearly see everything they ate in their stomachs, but now it seemed that was not the case.
There are two copies of the Northern Territory silver dollars prepared, one is for going there, and the other is for returning and is for Fisher's keeping.
Fisher, who had withdrawn the money, walked up to Kexinin, pulled out the fluid sword from his arms, and said to her,
"Have you finished eating? We'll be ready to leave after eating."
"Eat... After you finish eating, you can leave now. There should be no slime at the junction at night, so that's good."
Kexining, who had eaten and drank enough, raised her head and smiled at Fisher. Then she gently took out the third hand from her head and gently placed it on top of the northern silver coins. Something strange happened. Obviously there was no change in those silver coins, but golden streams of light as fine as silk threads suddenly poured into her body.
And at the next moment, the golden stream of light suddenly became active, and Kexinin's soft body gently entangled Fisher, and their shapes in the real world instantly became distorted and molded, and the strange and cheerful song The sound began to echo throughout the hall again.
"Ke Xie Ning Ke Xie Ning Ke Xie Ning Ke Xie Ning!"
Fisher suddenly felt that his whole body relaxed slightly, as if covered by some strange space magic, and his whole body immediately rushed uncontrollably towards an unknown direction in the world.
...
...
"Buzz buzz!"
The fierce sound of breaking through the air mixed with the exciting and cheerful circus songs continued to reach Fisher's ears, but in fact the transmission process was very calm. He did not feel the world spinning. He just felt that standing in place, a few seconds later, magically The earth appeared in another place far away in the world.
When he opened his eyes again, what was in front of him was no longer the hotel where Valentina was staying, but a huge square wrapped in golden light. This seemed to be somewhere underground. The huge square was very quiet, and there were no people around. When I saw other slimes, there was a huge statue at the front of the square.
The statue was very strange. It was not the image of any race, but a huge tree that grew downwards from the sky. The tree was inlaid with many shining gems, which Fisher recognized at a glance. What exactly is engraved on that statue?
"Frost and snowy sycamore tree..."
Looking at the huge tree statue, Fisher murmured, and behind him, the green Slimko looked around and gave him a strange instrument that looked very huge, like an organ and a flute. After putting it away, the weird instrument attracted Fisher's attention, so he asked,
"What is this? The fact that we were able to teleport just now was not because of your teleportation ability, but because of this strange instrument, right?"
Ke Xie Ning smiled, raised the bagpipe in his hand and whispered,
"This thing is called [Boundary Bagpipe]. Normally, if you don't play it with value, it can only play a beautiful melody, but once you play it with value, it can transport many things to a designated place. Rather than talking about our history Laim's talent is to be able to store and transport objects. Rather, we are very sensitive to the value hidden behind the exchange objects and can use them to do many things..."
"So that's it?"
Therefore, this is why when they store and transfer, there will be that kind of weird music in the background. This music should not be fixed, and each slime is different.
Fisher touched his chin, and his understanding of the Slime species deepened. Fortunately, he had not directly bound her daughter before. It seemed that studying Kexinin would yield more results than studying her two daughters. With more knowledge about Slime, the research progress should increase very quickly.
"The mark is with our king...that is, the clan leader. My relationship with all the slimes is not very good, so I will most likely not be able to help you. I have to rely on you."
"...your king?"
"Well, we and the Trolls are both relatively immortal among the six races. Our clan leader has lived for a long time. I heard that his grandfather is the Slim race who followed the Phoenix race to conquer the country, so... wait a minute , he seems to be coming!"
Ke Xining's face changed as she spoke... Well, in fact, Fisher didn't know whether her face had changed or not. Although the Slime race has facial features, they are not used to distinguishing them. Anyway, After saying this, she quickly hid behind Fisher, and then the entire huge square began to tremble, like an earthquake.
"Winter! Winter! Winter!"
Fisher frowned and turned his head to look in the other direction of the square. He saw a huge purple gelatinous palm holding the wall tightly in the tunnel connecting the square to other places in the distance. That palm Although it was huge, there was a strange cuteness about it, which made Fisher frown deeper and deeper.
Soon, at the corner of the stone path, a slime that was more than ten meters tall and shaped like a baby suddenly appeared in front of Fisher and Kozenin.
Emhardt said before that the older the slimes are, the bigger they will be. Looking at the giant slimes that are more than ten meters high in front of him, Fisher suddenly felt like a hill, bringing him There was a complete sense of oppression. According to Koxinin, this slime should have lived for at least a thousand years.
"Who is it? You are traveling back so late. Do you want to sleep? Hey, why do you feel familiar? This color and tired look, are you Kexining?"
The giant slime, which looked like a baby, was crawling towards this side while squinting at Fisher and Kozanin hiding behind him. It was only then that Fisher discovered this giant slime. Slime also had a huge pacifier in his mouth, and his words were somewhat unclear.
"Oh? You also brought a human hybrid back. After your husband died, you also wanted to find a wife? But, do you have money? Do you know that your good son has caused us a lot of trouble?"
"Zu Zu, the death of that brat outside has nothing to do with me. Fortunately, it was you who came here and not other elders. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would be kicked back again. They are bothering me... Let's not talk about this for now. Bit..."
Kozanin got out from behind Fisher, pointed at Fisher next to him and was just about to introduce it to the huge slime in front of him, when Fisher already spoke first.
"I am Fisher Benavides from the Turan family. We are looking for the legendary Frost and Snow Sycamore Tree. We want to get the mark from the Slime Kind to open the door of the Sycamore Tree."
After hearing Fisher's words, the giant slime leaned back just right, and sat in the center of the huge square with a "winter" sound. He squinted and looked at the small Fisher in front of him. Scheer, the huge tentacle on his head circled and gradually turned into an oval crown,
"Things who don't know whether to live or die... I don't care what family you are from or what family you are from. Let me ask you first, do you know why the entire Slaim race has left the North and traveled around the world? Is the North a living thing? Can’t go down, or is it that the world in the north is too small to accommodate a group of weird guys like us who are born to do business?”
He smashed the pacifier in his mouth, tilted his head and looked at Fisher and Kozenin in front of him, and then his eyes gradually raised and fell on the frost-snowy sycamore tree hanging upside down behind them, with a flash of reminiscence in his eyes. ,
"It's all because the sycamore tree we once swore allegiance to is now killing us. There is a strange curse targeting us. Some of our tribesmen have gone crazy because of it. I also faced the strange curse, so I made a prompt decision to take advantage of the situation. He took the whole clan and fled the north before it was serious... Do you know about this situation?"
Fisher nodded, looked at the huge slime in front of him and said,
"We know that the curse nearly wiped out the Moon Rabbit species, one of the six races. We also faced the so-called cursed entity and had a conflict with it."
"Moon Rabbit..."
King Slime in front of him was slightly startled. The baby's expression on his face showed obvious astonishment. Even the pacifier in his mouth could not be held firmly, so it fell. As the pacifier fell, the deep purple sticky liquid in his body Thick body fluids flow out uncontrollably.
It turns out that the pacifier is more like the cork of a wine bottle. After Slime lives for too long, the body fluids in his body will expand to the point of being uncontrollable, and he needs external objects to help them not leak out and avoid vomiting out his internal organs. ...
After King Slime was slightly stunned, he gently reached out to pick up the dropped pacifier and put it into his mouth again.
"Oh, it's interesting. Do you dare to go forward even though you know that death is waiting for you... It's not that I can't give you the mark. After all, we are also one of the six tribes, and we have sworn loyalty to the Phoenix. This is The imprint flowing in our blood, so I am also very interested in what happened in the sycamore tree. But I can't make the decision alone on this matter. I want to call the other Slim species back to discuss it, and talk by the way Let’s talk about you...the Turan family’s reward for taking the mark.”
"...Aren't you a fan of Phoenix species? You still need to negotiate the price?"
The huge slime in front of him blinked and said slyly,
"We are the slime family who are very careful with their calculations, aren't we? You don't think that this embarrassing thing behind you is the slime family, right? This guy is the most embarrassing one in our slime family. The others are either selling coal , Either go into politics, or sell steam machinery, just such a shameful thing, create some kind of circus, it will really make Slime lose his face..."
King Shrem reached out and took out his butt, ignoring Kexinin who was almost shrunk into the crack of the ground, and took out a simple bagpipe from his back that was about to fall apart. Perhaps it was because he was too big. , so the current boundary bagpipe is as big as one of his fingers, which is quite mini in comparison.
"That good son of hers, Colin, right? Hehe, you haven't come to the border yet and I don't know your latest news. He actually stole your crappy circus and went to the southern continent to continue it. Come on, secretly you are smuggling some demi-human slaves to humans!"
"Isn't this...no money? If you don't have value, you can't travel back."
"Oh, then you probably don't know that the war there is fierce now. I heard from the tribesmen that he was captured by a dragon queen there, and the circus was also kicked off. He is Shi Lai Mu’s matter has also been discovered... Hey, demi-humans are selling demi-humans, just wait and collect the body of your good son."
Fisher and Kexinin raised their heads at the same time. Fisher touched his chin after hearing this and raised the corner of his mouth a little as he remembered something. On the contrary, Kexinin was a little dazed after hearing this. Unexpectedly, he heard Colin was caught by some kind of dragon queen. She didn't feel any pleasure at the other party stealing her property. She just shook the tentacles on her head with some distaste and watched King Slime turn the boundary bagpipe against Aim for your mouth.
As the golden streams of light in his body began to twist, an ancient voice suddenly sounded in the realm of Slime,
"Baleen, Balien, Balien, Balien!"
The weird flute sound suddenly spread far and wide. From the stone path behind the square, several colorful giant slimes walked out sleepily. Then, the space in the cave became distorted, and the world began to change. From everywhere, groups of golden figures kept shuttling through the air.
As the illusory flute sound continued to sound far away, the square where there were only three of them became more and more lively. One by one, they were covered in skin, either human or other demi-human figures wearing pajamas, duty uniforms, and heavy clothes. Robes, pirate costumes, sergeant uniforms, and priest robes appeared in this wide square.
Among them, Fisher even saw a familiar figure. He looked at a blond man in a white shirt among the crowd in the distance with some disbelief. This guy seemed to be a mayor of Nali and had returned there before. Saint-Nali held banquets and entertained many high-ranking people in Saint-Nali, and Fisher was of course among them.
No, isn't the slime species a bit too exaggerated?
Fisher looked at the slime species that came from all over the world, even the indigenous people of the southern continent and the New Dragon Court, not to mention the slime species that came from Kadu, Shivali and those small countries that were at war. , they have penetrated this world for many times without realizing it... and so far, Fisher finally understands why this place is called the so-called [Borderland].
"Okay, everyone! Please calm down. It's definitely not a simple matter to ask you to shuttle back to the border area so late. It's about the legendary Frost and Snow Sycamore Tree... This is Fisher Benavidez. The mixed-race kid said that someone from the Turan family in the north wants to borrow our Slime's mark to open the frost-snow sycamore tree... Let's discuss whether we should borrow it or not, whether we should borrow it for free or get paid. What’s the reward?”
"Hey, isn't this the concubine of His Majesty Yin Lisabai? No wonder the queen couldn't find you after searching for a long time. It turns out you are the Turan family who went to the north?"
The mayor from Nali folded his hands, and after seeing the "kid" King Shrem mentioned, he said this with some sneer.
"Yes, hey, our Black Chief of Pirate Harbor seems to have received Captain Alagina from the North before. Didn't she say that this guy is her man? How come she has become your Queen Nali's concubine again? "
"Damn it, our New Longting side..."
Seeing that the topic of the Slime border was getting more and more dangerous, Fisher interrupted them with a dark face to continue their dangerous words, then looked at King Slime sitting in the middle of the square and said,
"The Turan family is bound to get the mark. The so-called reward can be repaid. I will do my best to meet your requirements...but before that, I need to see your mark first."
King Slime smiled and nodded, then pointed at Fisher's back. He turned around and saw a soft Slime statue kneeling on the ground respectfully under the upside-down sycamore tree statue. The gelatinous tentacles hold a circular mark. What is it if it's not the Slim mark of the six races?
Looking at that scene, Fisher seemed to feel something, something that could be felt from the six ancient tribes... Yes, even though the years have changed, he still felt something from these Juan tribes. I feel my loyalty to the Phoenix species, otherwise the Slim species would not still have such a statue here after moving to the north.
"You have seen the mark. Next, we have to talk about the requirements, Dear Mr. Fisher."
King Slime sucked the pacifier in his mouth and said this to Fisher who turned his head.
