Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

“Speaking of these adventurers, they're quite strong. At least, the current me would definitely be stomped to death if I didn't hide in the shadows and use poison.”

Beside the corpse of the Hobgoblin, Lu Minghao looked at the body covered in wounds. Based on the beast trap on the Hobgoblin's foot and the black blood flowing from the wounds, Lu Minghao was absolutely certain that the adventurers had used traps and poisoned them. They probably even coated their weapons with poison. Because of this, Lu Minghao instantly raised his vigilance towards these adventurers to the extreme.

After all, adventurers who know how to use traps and poison definitely have working brains. You see, Lu Minghao had always been puzzled when he watched manga and anime and saw those adventurers knowingly approach the monsters' lairs and inevitable paths, yet insisted on facing them head-on or sliding into their mouths as food.

Clearly, you already know the monster's lair and its inevitable path, so why not choose to poison them and set traps? Or, even more outrageously, just prepare a bunch of bombs and throw them into the lair while the monsters are sleeping, sending their entire family to the afterlife. Wouldn't that be better?

Why insist on frontal combat, or even more absurdly, a one-on-one fair duel? Since you already know they're enemies, the right approach is definitely to kill them by any means necessary.

Therefore, Lu Minghao had always been perplexed by the adventurers' confusing behavior. However, after witnessing these adventurers' battle today, Lu Minghao's previous misunderstanding of adventurers completely changed. Sure enough, real adventurers are completely different from those in manga and anime.

These people are the real adventurers! Manga artists and anime creators simply don't understand what a real adventurer is!

“However, although you are indeed real adventurers, I'll be taking your spoils now.”

As he said this, Lu Minghao looked at the Hobgoblin's corpse in front of him and the monster corpses scattered all over the ground and smiled. The originally hideous corpses and the sewage filled with blood and mud all looked so lovely.

So many monsters. If he had to hunt them himself, not to mention whether he could successfully kill them, just that Hobgoblin alone was not something he could deal with at his current stage. With Lu Minghao's small frame, he'd probably be smashed into nothing by the Hobgoblin's club.

However, now all of this belonged to him. As expected, freeloading (meow) is the best.

“Gluttony!”

In the next second, Lu Minghao's body leaped high into the air. His liquid-like body writhed in mid-air, instantly enveloping the entire Hobgoblin's body. The familiar soaking sensation reappeared, and with the supply of a large amount of nutrients, Lu Minghao's body and magical power began to grow rapidly.

A few minutes later, Lu Minghao's body landed on the ground again. The Hobgoblin's nearly two-meter-tall body had completely disappeared, and the magical power within Lu Minghao's body had also grown by nearly double. It was just a pity that he didn't acquire any new skills this time.

Regarding the Hobgoblin's sudden berserk state and greatly increased strength, Lu Minghao was actually quite envious.

“Forget it, it's just a skill. There will be opportunities next time. The most important thing now is to eat all these monsters before those adventurers come back. What's eaten is truly yours.”

As he said this, Lu Minghao looked at the remaining monster corpses, about a dozen goblins and seven or eight giant rats. For Lu Minghao, this was definitely a veritable feast. There were actually a few slimes, but perhaps the slimes were too weak and were all stomped to death.

It made Lu Minghao want to eat them but he couldn't, which was simply too wasteful!

As for the fact that these slimes were of the same race as him, then sorry, but apart from the slimes in the sewer where he was born, there was nothing Lu Minghao couldn't eat. To borrow a phrase, it would be... Those who gave birth to me are off-limits, but everything else is fair game.

“Let's eat, let's eat.”

In the next second, Lu Minghao hopped towards the monster corpses. His appearance was like a farmer at harvest, full of joy. As Lu Minghao devoured the monster corpses one by one, the magical power within his body grew again, and his body became stronger and stronger. Correspondingly, the power of his talent also increased, and he ate faster and faster.

In less than five minutes, all the goblin corpses were swept away, and he also ate two giant rat corpses. Just as Lu Minghao was hopping towards the third giant rat, he faintly heard footsteps and voices behind him.

“Hmm? They're back so soon? Those few goblins who escaped are simply too useless!”

Looking at the giant rat corpse close at hand, although his heart was full of reluctance, Lu Minghao's body was still honest and jumped into the corner where he had been hiding before. Then, the magical power in his body began to flow, and his originally sky-blue body turned pitch black, merging into the shadows like a liquid.

In an instant, except for the missing monster corpses, the sewer was quiet again. The footsteps from afar were getting closer and closer, and soon a few rays of light appeared in the dark sewer.

In the light, Tuka walked over holding a glowing magic stone in one hand and a blood-dripping longsword in the other. Behind him, the other three were chatting with smiles on their faces, but they still held their weapons tightly, and their positions ensured that they could immediately counterattack if they encountered danger.

From this, it could be seen that they were indeed good adventurers, still maintaining vigilance even when they knew that the monsters had been cleared, even in a sewer where only low-level monsters existed.

“Wait!”

Suddenly, Tuka, who was walking in the front, shouted and stopped his teammates. The originally relaxed expression on his face became extremely solemn, and he raised the sword in his hand in front of his chest in a defensive posture, vigilantly looking around. The other three behind him instantly formed a circle back-to-back upon hearing Tuka's voice, entering a battle-ready state.

“Captain, what's wrong?”

After a few seconds, finding nothing amiss, Gordon looked vigilantly into the dark corners ahead while asking Tuka.

“That Hobgoblin's corpse is gone, and not only that Hobgoblin, but the rest of the goblins and a few giant rat corpses have also disappeared.”

Tuka looked at the empty ground in front of him with a serious face. The black mud still had traces of the monster corpses left behind after their death, and the blood that had not yet dried proved the battle not long ago. But at this time, those corpses had inexplicably disappeared, and judging from the traces left by the corpses, they had not been dragged away by monsters attracted by the scent of blood after they left.

“The monster corpses disappeared....”

Upon hearing Tuka's answer, the expressions of Gordon and the other two became even more solemn. They had never encountered such a thing when clearing the sewers before, but they had heard similar situations from other adventurers, and according to the descriptions of those adventurers.

In this situation, there were only two possibilities. One was that a weak monster came to steal food, and the other was that a powerful monster was attracted by the scent of blood, not only eating those monster corpses but also hiding in the dark, planning to kill the adventurers.