Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

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A dark figure fell from a height, crashing heavily into the sewer filled with foul water and sludge.

The loud noise instantly attracted the attention of many sewer residents, who turned to look at the figure struggling to get up in the mud.

With each struggle, the figure emitted a painful and suppressed roar, but even so, the figure barely managed to stand up.

"Cough... cough... Did I manage to escape?"

His whole body was covered in wounds, and even the shape of his arm was noticeably twisted and deformed.

Despite the pain, Dieri struggled to raise his head and look around.

His swollen face made it difficult for him to see his surroundings, but the stench filling his nostrils and the slippery mud beneath his feet told him where he was.

"I have to leave quickly, or those monsters will definitely catch up soon!"

Even saying that, the fear and despair in Dieri's eyes were evident, despite the fact that he had been supporting himself with his tattered body.

He struggled forward into the dark sewer, having barely escaped from that hell.

Even if he had to die, he would never be caught again.

Or rather, even if he died, he wouldn't want to die in that hell... After all, dying there didn't mean losing his value; those monsters in human skin would deliberately kill many beings like him every so often.

Just as Dieri was thinking about how to escape this place as soon as possible, a rustling sound came from all directions.

The sound was fast and urgent, and Dieri noticed that the water surface beneath him was constantly rippling.

The situation on the water's surface, combined with the sounds coming from all directions, made it clear that the things rushing towards him were not just one, but a group... a very large group.

Upon realizing this, the horrified expression on Dieri's face became even more obvious.

He leaned against the wall with his shoulder to gain leverage and speed up his progress, even as the flesh on his shoulder was constantly worn away by the rough, uneven wall.

However, even with Dieri's efforts, it didn't help much.

Soon, in the bottomless darkness ahead, pairs of scarlet eyes lit up.

In the blink of an eye, Dieri found that not only in front of him, but also behind him, above him, and below him, were pairs of scarlet eyes.

In the darkness, Dieri could clearly hear his own accelerating heartbeat, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.

The rustling sounds all around grew closer and closer, and finally, with the faint light of the sewer, Dieri could finally see what was surrounding him.

Giant rats, one of the lowest-level magical creatures, only slightly stronger than slimes, and even that was only in a few cases.

Now, Dieri saw countless giant rats emerging from the darkness like a tide, and in a few seconds, everything before him was submerged by the rats.

The last thing Dieri saw was the overwhelming swarm of giant rats engulfing him in an instant.

When everything was over, all that could be seen was something wrapped in giant rats being carried by them into the deeper part of the sewer.

"Another human, and a seriously injured one at that, plus those strangely behaving giant rats."

In the shadows not far away, Lu Minghao's figure gradually emerged, calmly watching the tide of giant rats leave.

Lu Minghao had heard the noise of Dieri falling into the sewer, even though it was separated by several culverts.

Because he had just finished a hunt, there were a large number of low-level magical creatures being digested in his body.

With nothing else to do, Lu Minghao secretly came over out of curiosity.

Fortunately, his cautious nature had always kept him hidden in the shadows, allowing him to safely witness the scene of the giant rats engulfing everything like a tide.

In that situation, let alone that already seriously injured human, even if Lu Minghao, who had successfully advanced to a lower-level magical creature, were to take his place, there would be no other way but to release poison to delay time and escape by merging into the shadows.

"However, what are those giant rats planning to do with that human?

Are they engaging in human farming?"

Looking at the package in the center of the rat swarm, which was nearly two meters in size and completely formed by giant rats, Lu Minghao felt more and more puzzled.

Despite the fact that the giant rats had previously submerged that human like a tide, they had not actually harmed him.

They had simply wrapped him completely in their bodies to restrain him, even leaving space for him to breathe before carrying him away.

But this was also the most puzzling point for Lu Minghao.

He knew that because of the hunger after his advancement, Lu Minghao had hunted many magical creatures living in the sewer in the past few days, most of which were giant rats, which were everywhere in the sewer.

At most, those giant rats were only slightly smarter than ordinary rats.

They probably had the intelligence of a five- or six-year-old human child.

Although they showed some intelligence, their instinct for eating and killing still dominated them.

It was impossible for them to act like those giant rats before, carrying away that human without harming him at all.

In addition, although the sewer environment was indeed suitable for low-level magical creatures like giant rats to survive, there shouldn't be so many of them, right?

The amount of food consumed by so many giant rats every day was a terrifying number.

Furthermore, the fact that those giant rats had clearly captured that human with some purpose in mind led Lu Minghao to believe that they were taking him back to farm him.

Just like humans would raise animals, if a human was allowed to grow up, he would be enough for many giant rats to feast on.

With reasonable farming, it might really be possible to solve the problem of food for these giant rats.

"... Forget it, it's not worth thinking about this kind of thing.

After all, the time and food needed to raise a human are completely outweighing the gains."

In the next second, Lu Minghao threw the completely unreliable conjecture in his head aside.

After all, he used to be a human, and he knew a little about how long it took for a human to grow up and the food they needed.

Compared to the giant rats, which had several litters a year, with seven or eight pups in each litter, humans had no cost-effectiveness in this regard.

"However, the more unusual the situation, the more interested I become in those giant rats."

As he said that, Lu Minghao's body gradually merged into the shadows beneath him, and then began to move in the direction the giant rats had left.

This time, his goal was to find out what the giant rats were doing, and to harvest some food along the way.

After all, with so many giant rats, as long as he relied on Shadowstep to sneak attack, and cooperated with Gluttony's instant devouring, he could carefully and quietly hunt a large amount of food.

In the eyes of Lu Minghao, who had advanced to a lower-level magical creature, so many giant rats were completely like a huge granary.

So, as these giant rats' good neighbor, he would of course take good care of them.

After all, there was a saying, 'The neighbor stores grain, I store guns; the neighbor is my granary.'