Arriving at the environmental organization, Li Cunxu accepted the task of handling the accumulated garbage at the landfill.
In the blink of an eye, the sun set, and the moon rose.
Li Cunxu returned with six overfed Slimes.
"Sigh! No mutation."
Slimes injected with the Slime Mutation Needle could mutate based on their environment and diet.
For example, placing a Slime near a volcano could cause it to mutate into a Fire Slime or a Lava Slime...
Similarly, feeding a Slime thunder-based Spirit Food could lead to mutations like an Electric Slime or a Thunder Slime...
By feeding the Slimes garbage, Li Cunxu hoped to mutate a Garbage Slime.
Among the known Slimes, there were Garbage Slimes.
However, those Garbage Slimes lived on floating garbage islands in the ocean.
These islands were inhabited by high-level monsters, and only Gold-level Beast Tamers could venture there. And why would a Gold-level Beast Tamer care about weak Garbage Slimes?
Since obtaining a Garbage Slime from the garbage island was impossible in the short term, Li Cunxu had to rely on the Mutation Needle.
Returning to the ranch cabin, Li Cunxu stared at the ceiling in astonishment.
Among the four Slimes left in the room that had been injected with the Mutation Needle, one had actually mutated.
Under the dim light, a Slime with a pair of pure white wings fluttered around, seemingly unaccustomed to its new appendages, bumping into the ceiling like a headless fly.
[Pet Beast]: Winged Slime
[Talent]: Light Wings (White)
[Skills]: Charge, Gust
[Light Wings, White Common, reduces the weight of the wings.]
"The talent has changed too. I remember this one originally had the Conspecific Division Talent."
"Although the Winged Slime is quite weak, it looks cute and could be sold as a companion toy for children."
Li Cunxu's eyes sparkled with greed.
That very night, he registered an online store for children's toys.
There was a small issue: this Winged Slime didn't have the Conspecific Division Talent, so it couldn't reproduce other Winged Slimes.
But for Li Cunxu, this wasn't a problem—he had a solution.
"How did it mutate into a Winged Slime?"
"Could it have been that bag of Flying Bird Cookies from last night?"
He had specifically bought the Flying Bird Cookies for the Recording Parrot, but the parrot hadn't eaten them due to regulations. Upon returning, Li Cunxu, not wanting to waste them, fed the cookies to the four Slimes in the room.
The ingredient list of the Flying Bird Cookies included Flying Bird Grass, a wind-based Black Iron-level resource, which could indeed induce a Slime to mutate into a Winged Slime.
The next day, Li Cunxu rode his bike back to the environmental organization.
"Yesterday's mission earned me 80 points, plus the 50 points from the day before, so I have 130 points now. And the Mud Monster Breeding Potion only costs 10 points."
Li Cunxu said to the receptionist, "Give me thirteen Mud Monster Breeding Potions."
Like Slimes, Mud Monsters reproduce through cell-like division, but Mud Monsters rarely possess the [Conspecific Division] Talent.
As a result, Mud Monsters reproduce slowly, though this slowness has its benefits—Mud Monsters with ample food supplies are less likely to overpopulate.
People found the Mud Monsters' reproduction rate too slow, so they asked scientists to develop the Mud Monster Breeding Potion to increase their population.
The Mud Monster Breeding Potion allows Mud Monsters without the Conspecific Division Talent to reproduce and speeds up the reproduction of those with the talent.
The body of the Sludge Monster is somewhat similar to that of a Slime. The Mud Monster Breeding Potion can also be used on Slimes, and its effect is even better than on Sludge Monsters.
Then, Li Cunxu went to the garbage dump and threw six Slimes onto the garbage mountain, asking the Recording Parrot to keep an eye on them.
Returning to the ranch, he put down a large bag of promotional plastic bowls from the supermarket and unloaded the blue water barrel from the back of his bicycle.
He dragged the barrel to the riverside, filled it with water using a ladle, poured in a Mud Monster Breeding Potion, and stirred it with a wooden stick.
He arranged the plastic bowls and filled them one by one with water.
Li Cunxu summoned Xiao Ruan and released the Winged Slime from his Pet Pouch.
"Xiao Ruan, let the Winged Slime drink the water."
Next, Li Cunxu had Xiao Ruan direct the other Slimes to drink the water.
The Slimes with the Conspecific Division Talent immediately split into another Slime after drinking the diluted Mud Monster Breeding Potion, then fell into a weakened state.
Seeing this, Li Cunxu brewed some Slime Nutrient Solution to replenish the energy and nutrients of the weakened Slimes.
After four or five hours, the Slimes that had split once before split again, producing new Slimes.
The newborn Slimes didn't need to be marked with the Subject Mark; they were born with it.
With nothing else to do, the Mech Hunter and the Home Guard Dog joined in, helping Li Cunxu distribute the water.
Ten hours after drinking the water, the Winged Slime split into a small Winged Slime.
Li Cunxu specifically checked the talent of this small Winged Slime—it had the Conspecific Division Talent.
"Now selling Winged Slimes is a sure thing."
Good news kept coming.
One of the six Slimes that had been eating garbage at the dump mutated into a Garbage Slime.
[Pet Beast]: Garbage Slime
[Talent]: Rapid Digestion (Blue)
"The mutation actually evolved the talent. What a stroke of luck."
The original Digestion (Green) had evolved into Rapid Digestion (Blue).
Li Cunxu also fed the Garbage Slime the diluted breeding potion to expand the Garbage Slime population.
The Mech Hunter said, "The number of Slimes has increased again. The grass in the ranch might not be enough for them to eat. We might need to release some."
"No need."
Li Cunxu shook his head.
"Xiao Ruan, have the Slimes that haven't drunk the breeding potion fight to the death."
And so, a grand Slime battle began.
Water Slimes spat water balls, and Grass Slimes threw Grass Blades.
But how to put it? They were too weak; their skills did no damage.
Water balls and Grass Blades flew everywhere, but there were zero casualties.
Li Cunxu couldn't stand it anymore and intervened in the battle.
"Xiao Ruan, give the Slimes the Conspecific Fusion Talent. Let them fuse with other Slimes to become bigger Slimes and fight."
"If they can't find a Slime to fuse with, have them charge."
The battle lasted three hours, with thousands of Slimes participating. By the end, only a few hundred remained.
However, the benefits were immense. The surviving Slimes had leveled up.
Most of them had risen by two or three levels.
The highest had reached Black Iron Level 5.
Their skills were now more effective and could even harm Li Cunxu.
This was the magical rule of the Deity Taming Continent: as long as you fought and defeated your opponents, you could exchange potential to raise your realm.
Previously, the Slimes had only quantity, not quality. Even if Xiao Ruan collected taxes, it wasn't much.
Now, the quantity had decreased, but the quality had improved, and Xiao Ruan's tax collection had actually increased.
The number of Slimes had decreased, but it didn't matter. With the breeding potion and Xiao Ruan's reincarnation and revival, they weren't truly dead in the literal sense.
The number of Slimes wouldn't drop too much.
This was also why Li Cunxu had joined the environmental organization.
Only the environmental organization could exchange for the Mud Monster Breeding Potion; it couldn't be bought anywhere else.
After the Slime melee, the ground was left covered in sticky Slime Gel, grass clumps, and Pure Water Orbs.
Slime Gel was a material that would always drop when a Slime died.
It could be used to make glue or synthetic rubber.
The grass clumps could be fed to cows and horses, as they were high-quality fodder.
The Pure Water Orb was a round water sphere with a thin film on the surface. Bite through the film, and you could drink the clean water inside.
Li Cunxu checked the purchase price of Slime Gel and exclaimed that it was too low.
"One piece of Slime Gel can only sell for 0.1 jiao. Even thousands of Slime Gels left behind by the deaths of thousands of Slimes can only fetch a few dozen yuan."
"Might as well not sell it. I remember Slime Gel can also be used to make Spirit Food."
Li Cunxu searched online.
Slime Gel could be used to make a Spirit Food called 'Slime Jelly.'
The effect of Slime Jelly was quite niche—it only worked on Slimes, slightly enhancing their physique and Spirit Energy capacity.
The method for making Slime Jelly was incredibly simple, the easiest Spirit Food recipe Li Cunxu had ever seen.
Add water to Slime Gel, soak it overnight, grind Ice Jelly Seed
s into powder, pour it in, add limewater, mix well, refrigerate for an hour or two, and it's done. No skill required at all.
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