The Cannon Fodder Real Young Master is a Slime?! - Chapter 17

“Uh, don’t worry, they didn’t get off easy either.”

Even though he was a slime who had been through hundreds of battles, Shi Yunmu was still startled when he met the man’s icy gaze. He quickly scratched his cheek and hurriedly clarified to smooth things over.

Lu Que seemed to believe him, yet at the same time, he didn’t: “Mm. So, where are they?”

He is a monster after all… How did he still manage to get bullied by humans?

Shi Yunmu quickly relayed the information about the small alley near the residential complex. However, as for which specific road it was, the slime who only knew how to use navigation systems could not say for sure.

Fortunately, Lu Que knew the roads well. He was able to deduce exactly which location the youth was referring to from his intermittent, hand-gesturing descriptions.

“I’ll go take a look,” Lu Que said.

“What if they’ve already left?” Shi Yunmu proposed such a hypothesis though only he himself knew that this “left” meant something entirely different.

But it was also possible they were alive: the Ten-Legged Spider was clearly looking for someone, so it definitely wouldn’t stay long, and it probably wouldn’t notice the people on the ground.

Lu Que stared at him, his gaze sweeping across the red marks on the youth’s hand: “I still need to confirm.”

Shi Yunmu nodded: “Alright.” A subtle wave of emotion stirred in his heart. This human in front of him…

It seemed like he cared about him quite a lot.

“Be careful.” Opening his mouth, Shi Yunmu stammered and struggled to squeeze out such a sentence.

Meeting the slime’s round, green eyes, Lu Que pursed his lips and let out a soft, “Mm.”

Still worried that the Ten-Legged Spider might be nearby and hadn’t left, Shi Yunmu felt a flicker of anxiety. Hesitating for a moment, he thought about simply telling Lu Que that he would tag along too.

But before he could open his mouth to speak, the man suddenly received a phone call.

The ringtone was urgent and rapid, as if there was something of vital importance.

Lu Que had no choice but to say, “Wait a moment.”

He walked to the side and answered the phone: “Brother Shen?”

On the other end of the line, his teammate Shen Xiangyu spoke in a rushed tone: “Captain, something happened. A fatal incident occurred in an alley near your residential complex. The lower department made a judgment and transferred the case to us. Right now, you need to get over here immediately…”

The small alley?

The man instinctively glanced at Shi Yunmu, who was standing obediently not far away. The youth was currently looking back with a seemingly innocent and dazed expression.

Shi Yunmu pretended not to hear the contents of the phone call. However, since his hearing was simply too good, he heard everything crystal clear. Amidst his shock, he still had to act as if he hadn’t heard a single thing.

Lu Que said in a deep voice, “Hold on, I’ll be right there.”

Hanging up the phone, Lu Que looked complicated. He said probingly, “The people who bullied you, were there ten of them in total?”

“Yes,” Shi Yunmu displayed a very textbook expression of surprise, “Hubby, how did you know?”

Lu Que: “……Seven of them are dead, and three are severely injured. All of them have been sent to the hospital.”

This time, Shi Yunmu genuinely revealed a look of astonishment: “Dead……?”

It seemed that the Ten-Legged Spider was indeed irritable today, not wanting to leave a single survivor.

The man observed for a moment. The youth’s astonishment between his brows did not seem fake. Perhaps the deaths of this group of university students really had nothing to do with his spouse.

Muttering “How did they just die,” Shi Yunmu naturally raised his arm, intending to feed the milk tea Lu Que had given him into his mouth.

Lu Que’s expression turned stern: “Don’t drink it!”

Shi Yunmu was startled, his mouth nearly touching the straw. He asked in confusion, “Why can’t I drink it?”

The man took the milk tea away, a hint of gloom pooling between his brows. Softening his tone, he said to Shi Yunmu, “The straw of this cup just fell on the ground earlier. It’s a bit dirty, so you can’t drink it.” To make it more believable, Lu Que added, “I was just about to throw it away.”

Shi Yunmu nodded blankly: “I see.”

Lu Que had lied.

It wasn’t that the straw had fallen on the ground at all. Rather, something else had been added to this cup of milk tea for instance, a drug that could cause monsters to become violent.

The agent itself was given to Lu Que by Director Wen, the head of the inspection department, who wanted him to find some monsters to test the drug on: “This was jointly developed by our department and the R&D department of Herai Life Technology. They seemed to want to use this opportunity to continue cooperating, but I refused.” The middle-aged man chuckled, but his tone carried a profound meaning, “I don’t think they are a good partner to cooperate with.”

“Is there a problem with the agent?” Lu Que asked.

Director Wen shook his head at that time: “There is no problem with the agent. The problem lies elsewhere.”

Without asking further, Lu Que said, “Alright, I will find some monsters to use the drug on.”

Just then, Chen Fangshu walked over holding a cup of milk tea: “Director Wen, Captain, what are you chatting about?”

Director Wen displayed the medicine bottle: “Something that we don’t know whether it’s good or bad, capable of making monsters violent.”

Chen Fangshu took a glance and lost interest, turning instead to Lu Que: “Captain, Ming He begged me, hoping I would take over his shift to monitor Shi Yunmu.”

Lu Que said, “If it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to go. I can handle it today.”

“No need,” thinking of something, the woman’s gaze fell on the medicine bottle, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, “But if Captain is still worried about your partner… why not let him try this?”

Lu Que paused.

Before he could say anything, Chen Fangshu had already taken the agent. She cleanly and decisively poured it into the milk tea, snapped the lid back on, shook it evenly, and stuffed it into Lu Que’s hands.

The woman’s face was completely calm, but her eyes were deep and dark: “If you want to confirm something, Captain, I advise you to do it as soon as possible.”

“You are rarely this indecisive.”

Lu Que had indeed accepted it at that moment, but now…

He also truly did not want to give this agent to Shi Yunmu.

Hesitating for a few seconds, Lu Que locked eyes with Shi Yunmu again and said, “I have to head over there right now. Stay at home by yourself, pay attention to safety, and go out less.” Fearing that this weak and easily bullied slime might cross paths with stronger monsters, the man continued to instruct uneasily, “There are prepared dumplings in the fridge. If worst comes to worst, just follow the tutorial to boil some. Wait until I come back before discussing going out.”

Shi Yunmu: “.”

He felt even more complicated inside. The instructing tone of the other party sounded more and more like he was looking down on him.

But on the surface, the youth showed nothing. He nodded obediently: “Okay, Hubby, I will wait for you.”

Giving Shi Yunmu a deep glance, Lu Que said, “I’m leaving.”

“Okay, bye-bye.”

Shi Yunmu stood still and didn’t move, and Lu Que didn’t move either.

The man said calmly, “I want to watch you go up.”

Shi Yunmu, who originally wanted to search the surroundings for the Ten-Legged Spider: “……Oh, alright.”

Only when he saw Shi Yunmu walk into the building entrance, and then waited until the other party opened the balcony window and waved, did Lu Que leave the residential complex.

Before he even reached the mouth of the alley, all the information regarding the victims found by Shen Xiangyu was transmitted over.

They were all students from C University. Their reputations were quite terrible; they had dabbled in prostitution, gambling, and drugs, and every single one of them had rumors of bullying classmates and detention records.

The surroundings of the residential complex where Lu Que lived belonged to the old city district, so the surveillance network was not very developed. Even though the Special Security Section had installed additional surveillance, this small alley was not within their scope of consideration.

Shen Xiangyu sent a message: According to the available surveillance footage, this time they probably wanted to bully a classmate or engage in a gang fight. They probably didn’t expect to encounter a monster in such a secluded place.

Shen Xiangyu then sent a second message: But among the victims’ information, I didn’t find the ‘victim’ of this gang fight.

The victim of the gang fight didn’t even need to be searched for; Lu Que naturally knew the answer.

While quickly rushing toward that small alley, he texted Shen Xiangyu back: No need to look for the other victim. Find out which monster it is first.

It is highly likely coming for me.

Shen Xiangyu: Speaking of which, it might be an ‘old friend’ we’ve encountered before.

Lu Que: Mm.

Once they finished communicating, he happened to enter the mouth of the alley.

A police cordon had already been set up here. Lu Que put on his mask and showed his credentials to the police officers standing outside the line before entering inside.

Several people from the Abnormal Investigation Squad of the Special Security Section were already present. Shen Xiangyu and Chen Fangshu were examining the corpses.

The woman, with her hair tied in a low ponytail, checked the items on the corpses. Without raising her head, she said, “All were killed with a single blow. There is residual magical energy. The opponent didn’t intend to toy with the prey.”

Shen Xiangyu bent his waist to cooperate with the inspection and added, “It can also be seen that this monster was very irritable.”

Holding a pair of tweezers, Chen Fangshu began to flip through the massive gaping holes on the corpses. The brownish blood spread across the ground, looking exceptionally striking.

Qi Tao wore a black mask. This kind of mask from the Special Security Section could excellently ward off a certain amount of foul odor, but it couldn’t block the impact brought by the tragic state of these deceased individuals. After all, she was just a young girl who had been working for only a year or two. Qi Tao’s face turned pale. Clutching her stomach, she reported to the approaching Lu Que, “Captain, I want to go to the side first to look for other clues, blegh…”

Ming He also wanted to follow suit and report. He was also terrified of these gruesome manners of death, his face completely miserable: “Brother Erol, I also…”

Before Lu Que could speak, Chen Fangshu made a discovery over there: “Hmm?”

“What’s wrong?” Shen Xiangyu asked.

Chen Fangshu used the tweezers to pick up a strand of spider silk. It was discovered inside the already completely empty chest cavity of a deceased: “Left behind by the monster.”

Lu Que narrowed his eyes. A monster shaped like a spider that also possessed a certain amount of intelligence and a language system there was only one: “B-025.”

The other teammates thought of it too: “It can only be it.”

“Have the colleagues from the inspection department arrived at the scene?” Without committing to an opinion, Lu Que asked faintly.

Qi Tao nodded: “They’re here, they’re here. They are over there.”

Chen Fangshu placed it into a sealed box: “Momo, take this to them for testing.”

It just so happened that she didn’t have to suffer here looking at the tragically dead people anymore.

Qi Tao breathed a sigh of relief and cast a grateful glance at Chen Fangshu: “Great, I’ll go right away!”

As Qi Tao ran off, Chen Fangshu stood up to stretch her muscles. The woman’s gaze landed on the milk tea held in the man’s hand, her eyebrows arching slightly: “Erol, you didn’t give it to him to drink?”

“……” Lu Que looked down at the milk tea in his hand and said, “No.”

The woman smiled faintly: “Then just report to Director Wen that this sample is invalidated. He told me not to care too much about this.”

Lu Que glanced at her: “Alright.”

Shen Xiangyu, who was completely in the dark, looked at this one and then at that one, his face filled with blank confusion: “What kind of riddles are you two playing at?”

Chen Fangshu said lazily, “Exploring the possibility of monsters turning good.”

Shen Xiangyu: “Huh??”

His face was still entirely written with bewilderment, unable to understand why his teammates had turned into riddlers one by one.

Lu Que coughed lightly: “It’s better to focus attention here.”

As the words fell, Qi Tao along with Ming He who had stubbornly tagged along returned with a colleague from the inspection department: “The test results are out. It is indeed B-025.”

Lu Que looked over. It was an expected result.

However, the expression of the colleague from the inspection department was not good.

She hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth: “Captain, I have a piece of bad news…”

“What is it?”

“The colleague from the same group who came with me seems to have run into trouble.” The face of the member from the inspection department was somewhat pale. Her body swayed slightly, and she said trembling, “He took away the agent that Director Wen gave us before we left, and his whereabouts are currently unknown!”

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