The Cannon Fodder Real Young Master is a Slime?! - Chapter 18

Shi Yunmu, who had been ordered to stay at home, was feeling a bit restless.

“Defeat!”

Facing the red “defeat” announcement for the tenth time, the young man angrily fell backward onto the bed, causing Xiao Wei to jump up in startle: “Master, what’s wrong?”

Shi Yunmu shouted fiercely: “I’m in a bad mood right now!”

Xiao Wei asked cautiously: “Is it because you ran into the ten-legged spider?”

“…No.” After a moment of silence, the young man answered gloomily.

Xiao Wei was completely bewildered; it really couldn’t fathom the reason why its boss was angry.

It was hard for Xiao Wei to rack its brains trying to figure out why Shi Yunmu was angry. Its daily focus was entirely on what to eat and how to survive, so how could it know that its boss had already begun to obsess over emotional entanglements with humans?

Shi Yunmu lifted his eyelids, his eyes, green like a deep pool, flickering with a hint of bewilderment.

He regretted a little telling Lu Que the news about those thugs.

Even if human police officers had guns, if they ran into a ten-legged spider, could they really handle it?

Shi Yunmu remained skeptical about this.

He had no answer, nor could he judge.

His chest felt stuffy, and Shi Yunmu touched it in confusion. Logically speaking, Slimes did not have organs like hearts and lungs. Even though he could transform into a human, the organs inside his body actually had little to do with his Slime self and merely served a decorative purpose.

But now his chest felt suffocated, and the Slime didn’t understand why.

However, there was a famous saying that went well: “If you encounter a problem you can’t solve, go out and buy a cup of milk tea before solving it.”

Although the founder of this famous saying was Shi Yunmu himself, he deeply practiced it.

Patting the black fur ball on the bed, Shi Yunmu quickly got up, put on his clothes, and prepared to go out: “I’m going out for a bit, you guard the house.”

With that, the young man flew out like a gust of wind, leaving the black fur ball staring blankly on the bed: “Boss, boss! Don’t leave me behind!”

“What if your husband suddenly comes back?!”

“What if the ten-legged spider comes over and eats me?!”

“…No way, did the boss really leave?”

Responding to it was the sound of the house door slamming shut with a loud “bang.”

Shi Yunmu quickly skipped down the stairs, thinking beautifully to himself: he would pretend to go out to buy a cup of milk tea, casually pass by that alley entrance, and he should be able to see Lu Que’s situation.

If he ran into Lu Que and was asked why he hadn’t stayed at home properly, he could also use the excuse that “my stomach said it craves a cup of milk tea” to explain.

Feeling guilty after all, Shi Yunmu didn’t forget to put on his baseball cap when going out. Although the effect was better than nothing, it was a blatant cover-up.

Following his memory through seven twists and eight turns to the vicinity of the alley entrance, Shi Yunmu’s footsteps stopped in front of a milk tea shop.

He lifted his baseball cap slightly, his luminous green round eyes looking tanglingly at the queuing milk tea shop.

Just now, he hadn’t even gotten to drink that cup of milk tea from Lu Que. How about buying a cup before going?

Shi Yunmu was still familiar with the ten-legged spider; the other party wouldn’t stay long at the crime scene. It was just that Shi Yunmu was rather worried that Lu Que might happen to run into the opponent, which would be terrible.

Thinking this way, Shi Yunmu did exactly that, not forgetting to buy two cups: one for himself, and one for his husband.

He still loved his husband very much ^^

“9702, is 9702 here? Your milk tea is ready!”

Fifteen minutes later, the milk tea shop clerk held the receipt and began to summon the user of number plate 9702.

With the baseball cap pressing down on his fluffy, upturned hair, the young man snatched the packed milk tea into his hand with lightning speed and left.

It appeared slightly sneaky.

Seeing the milk tea disappear from the counter in a split second, the clerk couldn’t help but freeze, subconsciously looking at that figure re-merging into the crowd… especially since he was wearing a baseball cap and deliberately lowering the brim, making him even more suspicious.

Associating this with the case that happened in Mafu Lane, after pondering for a long time, the clerk still handed the work over to a colleague and dialed the emergency police number with a grim expression.

Knowing nothing about the clerk dialing the police, Shi Yunmu inserted a straw into his own cup and took a forceful sip, sweetness making his eyes narrow slightly.

He walked out of the milk tea shop leisurely, lowered his head to look at his phone, intending to send a message to Lu Que first to test if he was alive, when the voices of nearby passersby chatting also drifted into his ears:

“I heard something happened over at Mafu Lane…”

“It seems someone died. The police have cordoned off the area, and a whole bunch of people came.”

“Just now I wanted to go join the crowd to watch the excitement, but I was directly driven out.”

“You really are something, it’s better not to join in on this kind of excitement!”

Shi Yunmu was pricking up his ears to listen when another gentle inquiring voice also came over: “It’s you.”

Not expecting to be recognized so quickly, Shi Yunmu froze for a second.

…The hat really was useless; no matter what, he would be easily recognized.

Biting the straw, the young man looked sideways in bewilderment. Light blonde hair tied in a small tuft, gray-blue eyes still smiling.

Searching slowly within his small brain, Shi Yunmu remembered the other party’s name: “You are Zhou Shuyan.”

The man was wearing a light-colored jacket today, and the faux twin-set inner layer brought out his good body shape. Shi Yunmu secretly compared them it probably wasn’t as good as his husband’s.

Not knowing what Shi Yunmu was comparing in his mind, Zhou Shuyan smiled slightly: “I didn’t expect to meet you here.”

Shi Yunmu gave an “uh” sound, warily not telling the other party that he lived nearby: “I’m shopping, that what, uh, city walk.”

He had no intention of chatting much with the opponent, his eyes glancing toward the direction of Mafu Lane, anxious to walk over there.

As if not seeing the anxiety overflowing from Shi Yunmu’s face, Zhou Shuyan put one hand in his pocket, his eyes curving: “I see.”

“Then I wish you a happy time,” he said politely, “Just like… your strange bird prank succeeded.”

…What?

Shi Yunmu was stunned, suddenly raising his eyes to look at Zhou Shuyan, but after leaving such a inexplicably strange sentence, the other party turned around and left, seemingly having friends nearby.

The young man stared fixedly at Zhou Shuyan’s back, gulping down the milk tea completely.

This human was very strange; he had to pay attention to him. But why did he say a sentence that was obviously very strange?

It was as if he was testing something.

Temporarily suppressing his doubts in his heart, the matter of confirming the position of the ten-legged spider was more important. Shi Yunmu lifted his leg to walk toward Mafu Lane. Sure enough, it was surrounded by police tape, and police prohibited people from entering.

Standing at the edge of the cordon, the young man sniffed gently.

The smell of blood, the smell of humans… only there was no smell of the spider.

It seemed the ten-legged spider was indeed not in this vicinity.

Feeling slightly relieved, Shi Yunmu lowered his head to send a message: Husband, are you okay? Are you working properly? Cat-worrying.jpg]

After five minutes, the other side replied: Don’t worry, stay at home properly.

Shi Yunmu only replied to the first half of the sentence: No problem, husband, then I won’t worry~

Taking another look into the depths of the alley, Shi Yunmu pocketed his phone and left, carrying the milk tea he brought for Lu Que.

Just after the young man left, a young man’s head wearing a mask popped out from behind the cordon.

“Huh? Wasn’t that the sister-in-law just now?”

Another girl’s head holding a mineral water bottle also poked out: “Don’t say, it really seems to be.”

“Aren’t you supposed to be resting?” While they were poking their heads around, the captain who allowed them a short rest appeared behind them out of nowhere.

Startled together, Ming He said sheepishly: “We seemed to see sister-in-law just now…”

On his phone, the message from the other party stating confidently “I won’t worry” was fresh out of the oven. Lu Que’s eyes turned sharp: “What?”

Jin Yuan didn’t expect things to go so smoothly.

After undercover for a long time, his colleagues all let their guard down, giving him the opportunity to take away the medicine suspected to be a collaboration between He Lai and the Safety Bureau.

The box was hidden in his backpack, making the man inevitably a bit cocky: So what if He Lai covers the sky with one hand? Once their company thoroughly researches this medicine, who knows who will unify the biological medicine industry!

As an undercover planted by He Lai’s rival company in the Safety Bureau, he had endured humiliation for so long and finally achieved a great merit!

However, although Jin Yuan worked for his company, he personally thought nothing of magical creatures.

Their intelligence is about the same as animals, could they surpass humans?

While beautifully planning his future happy blueprint of going abroad by relying on the company in his heart, Jin Yuan heard a strange sound that he couldn’t understand: “Goo… strange… smell…”

The man turned his head back abruptly to look: “Who? What sound?”

Responding to him was a piece of shadow silently cloaking over.

“—Bang!”

Shi Yunmu followed the traces he could find and came to the vegetable field at the back gate of their residential area.

The reason why this place was a vegetable field was that this area had been forcibly occupied by an old lady in the neighborhood, who ripped up the grass and insisted on using it to plant vegetables.

Usually, the old lady would stand here with her hands on her hips maintaining her vegetable patch, facing anyone who wanted to come up and look at the vegetables with a fierce countenance. Today she happened to be away: she had to go to school to pick up her dear, beloved grandson.

Shi Yunmu’s gaze fell on the freshly laid insect eggs on those vegetable leaves, his eyes narrowing as he sighed: “Fortunately, that old lady isn’t here, otherwise she would break down…”

It was hard to imagine that the ten-legged spider would actually lay eggs in this kind of place.

But this also indicated that the other party must be nearby.

Searching for a while, Shi Yunmu heard the sound of chewing drawing closer.

The young man sighed softly: “Alas, the gap in strength is a bit large…”

Placed in the past, did he, the Great Slime King, need to care about this kind of small spider?

Now he still had to deliberate on how to defeat the opponent; it was truly a tiger displaced to the plains being bullied by dogs.

“Kill… kill…” In the woods, accompanied by the chewing sound, there was also a mechanically repeated murmur.

Shi Yunmu stood in the shadow, tilting his head to observe the ten-legged spider that was chewing a corpse: “Why does its state feel very strange?”

Did it drink something it shouldn’t have drunk? Shi Yunmu also seemed to smell a bit of a scent; the scent was very faint, but he didn’t like it.

The young man stroked his chin and arrived at an answer: regardless of what the ten-legged spider drank that it shouldn’t have, its strength now must be greatly reduced because of it, which was a good opportunity for him to strike.

Thinking this way, he did exactly that.

The slender figure stood in front of the spider. Ignoring the cruel and bloody scene, the young man’s lips curled up, revealing a bright smile: “Hi, I’m here to inform you that your time of death has arrived.”

All of the spider’s compound eyes locked onto him, beginning to grow restless: “Smell, familiar… kill… kill!!”

After a sharp screech, the spider pounced straight forward!

But it also pounced into thin air: the young man originally there disappeared, and a round, plump Slime easily evaded its attack.

Feeling puzzled by the fact that the human in front of it turned into a jelly again, the spider’s movement stagnated for a moment before it quickly acted again.

But this moment of stagnation had already given the opponent an opportunity the Slime jumped onto its back, and the corrosive liquid continuously eroded the spider’s body.

The spider let out wails, trying desperately to drive away the annoying fly on its body, but it was completely unable to succeed. Even one of its legs was eroded by the continuously overflowing liquid from the opponent, causing it to separate from the body.

Feeling boundless pain, the spider grew angrier and more frantic. The liquid in that smashed bottle it had licked up began to exert its effect inside its body; rage accumulated within it, crashing wildly, making it completely unable to think.

Jumping and continuously shifting positions, the Slime’s tentacles hooked onto that missing leg of the spider, its bead-like eyes staring tightly at the cephalothorax of the spider below: “Hmm… there should be no problem striking from here!”

After aiming well, the Slime made the best use of everything, directly using the spider’s leg to pierce fiercely into the spider’s cephalothorax!

“Zhi—” The spider let out a miserable shriek, while the Slime ignored the violent shaking, continuing to slice open the flesh of the cephalothorax until it was completely gouged open, forcibly swallowing the spider’s organs.

Malice rising, he even tortured this giant magical creature bit by bit, deliberately devouring slowly to make the other party die very painfully.

“Plop.”

Full of food and drink, the Slime jumped down from the spider that crashed to the ground, its bead-like eyes staring at the giant magical creature, its tentacles scratching its smooth surface.

“Ah, it’s so big, how should I digest it?”

The Slime fell into distress, comforting himself: “Forget it if I can’t eat it all, what if I can still eat the meal cooked by the human when I go home?”

Besides, this spider seemed to have turned into a madman; if he ate too much, he would also turn into a madman!

Shi Yunmu coaxed himself into feeling better.

“Erol, the detector detected magic fluctuations!” Shen Xiangyu walked over in a hurry, taking a deep breath, “The position is… the back gate of your neighborhood.”

Chen Fangshu said in a low voice: “I’m afraid this magical creature is targeting you again.”

Lu Que didn’t speak, turning around directly and heading toward the direction of home.

Shi Yunmu had best not have sneaked out; if he was at home, how was that lump of Slime supposed to resist a huge spider-type magical creature?

It wouldn’t even be enough to fill the spider’s teeth gap.

The more he thought, the more frozen the man’s expression became.

He didn’t want to worry about the safety of a Slime, but if B-025 was truly coming for him, he didn’t want the Slime to die because of him.

…Nothing more than that.

By the time he came back to his senses, he was already downstairs at his apartment building.

Shen Xiangyu also called him: “Just now Ming He and Qi Tao went to confirm the position. That spider somehow only left an empty shell, not ruling out the possibility of shedding its skin… Lu Que, you have to be careful.”

His handsome brows pressing down, the man said aloofly: “Understood.”

He put down his phone, walked closer to his home door step by step, entered the password, and then pushed it open.

“Crunch, crunch.”

His hair was still wet and dripping with water, the pajamas on his body clean and ironed. The young man poked his head out from the living room, holding a bag of potato chips, blinking his eyes as he looked at the man who returned wrapped in cold air.

His voice was soft and cottony: “Huh, husband, you’re back?”

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