Chapter 168

“Room 247?
Ming Hu looked at the man with a puzzled expression. He had never seen the man before. But the man was referring to himself as No. 247. There must be some misunderstanding.
“You’re… a failure!”
The man shouted and thrust his spear at Ming Hu. Ming Hu stepped back, dodged the spear, and then looked at the man and said, “I’m sorry.
“Excuse me, you’re misunderstanding me.”
“Please. die.”
But Ming Hu’s words didn’t stop him. He continued to thrust his spear with fearful eyes.
Whiz Whiz
“No, I’m not 247.”
“…”
Stop
Ming Hu’s words stopped the man in his tracks, but Ming Hu saw the change in the man’s eyes and knew something was wrong.
“Die to the lie, die to the lie!”
With an angry glare, the man began thrusting his spear at Ming Hu again.
“This is crazy.
This was a tricky situation. Based on the situation so far and the man’s reaction, it was clear that Sana was an NPC that shouldn’t be killed. Ming Hu began to ponder how to resolve this situation.
“Should I just wait until I burn out?
Sana was slowly getting tired. Soon he would tire of the weeds and stop attacking, and then they could talk.
“Oh, so you’re going to believe it?
Ming Hu thought about waiting until he was exhausted, but then a thought occurred to him and he dodged the spear and opened the pet window.
“These are the guys, can you believe it?
He didn’t know who 247 was, but judging by the man’s spear, he wasn’t a high-level fighter. However, he did have a pet, Knight Prominence, who was a high-level monster, as was Lich Karot, who was also a high-level monster. Thinking that showing him his pet might clear up the misunderstanding, Ming Hu paused to consider who to summon.
“Let’s summon them both.
Realizing that there were no restrictions on summoning and that he didn’t have to choose who to summon, Ming Hu decided to summon both Karot and Prominence.
Suk
Ming Hu summoned Karot first.
“Don’t kill him!”
Fearing that Karot might kill the NPC, Ming Hu shouted as soon as Karot was summoned, and then summoned Prominence. However, after summoning Prominence, Ming Hu couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed.
Suk
[Prominus has awakened].
[Prominus has awakened].
.
.
[Prominus has awakened].
[Prominus has awakened].
I got a bunch of messages telling me that Prominence had awakened, like the leveling up message I got when I killed my first monster fox.
“Caution… Don’t kill me!”
Ming Hu, who had been slightly puzzled by the message, quickly exclaimed as Prominus drew his sword.
-Yes, my lord!
Ming Hu’s cry was answered by Prominus lowering his sword. As Prominus lowered his sword, Ming Hu breathed a sigh of relief.
“But why is she smiling like that?
Prominus was smiling broadly, wondering what was so good. Ming Hu wondered why Prominus was smiling, and turned to look at the man who had been attacking him. Sure enough, the man had stopped and was looking at him in surprise.
“…Who are you?”
The man opened his mouth to ask, and Ming Hu smiled slightly at the thought of finally being able to talk.
“I’m from outside, and I heard there’s something strange about this place, so I’m here to find out what’s going on.”
“I see.”
At Ming Hu’s words, the man muttered with a mixture of relief and bitterness. Seeing the man’s expression, Ming Hu quickly opened his mouth to speak.
“What is this place?”
“That’s…ha…”
Sana seemed to consider Ming Hu’s words for a moment, then sighed. Then he opened his mouth to speak with a fierce expression.
“Did you see any slime on your way here?”
“Yeah, there were a lot of them.”
“You see… this is the lab. Our lab was working on the humanization of slimes, and it was a slow process. We succeeded in implementing legs, and then arms.”
“I see…
As Ming Hu listened to the man, he remembered the slimes he had seen on his journey here.
“And so as we continued to work on it, the slime began to take on more and more of a human form, and…”
The slurred words continued.
“The stone is made.”
“Room 247?”
“Yes, he is more perfectly human than any slime we’ve ever made. We were overjoyed to create him, but our joy was short-lived as we realized he was a failure.”
Sana smiled bitterly as he recalled the incident.
“He’s got the perfect human form. He was so different from the slimes I’d made before. The slimes were gentle, but this one was ferocious, able to change into the human form he saw, and most importantly… he could think.”
“…No way.
Ming Hu frowned slightly at the thought that came to mind when he heard the man’s words.
“We realized that 247 was thinking, and we realized it was dangerous, but we couldn’t stop researching it. We couldn’t stop studying him, so we couldn’t destroy him. And then one day… he did something… he did something… he turned the meek slimes against themselves. He turned the gentle slimes into fierce creatures like himself. They turned vicious and started attacking us in the lab, and that’s all I know. That’s all I know.”
When the man finished, Ming Hu could only shake his head.
“Something’s missing…
What he needed to know was the identity of someone. From the sounds of it, it was someone named 247. But something was missing. Or, more precisely, there was something more to hear, but the man didn’t seem to have anything more to say.
“…paper!
Just then, a thought struck Ming Hu and he quickly opened his inventory. There were eight pieces of paper in his inventory that he had gotten on his way here. Ming Hu quickly took out the papers.
“…?”
As he took out the paper, the man looked at Ming Hu with a puzzled expression. Ming Hu handed the man a piece of paper and said, “Here.
“It’s a piece of paper I got when I got here… it looks like a password.”
“…!”
The man looked surprised at Ming Hu’s words and quickly took the paper and began to read. As he took the paper, a message appeared saying that the paper had been destroyed.
“I guess…
The message convinced Ming Hu. The paper was an item that should be handed to the man. Ming Hu looked at the man reading the paper with a serious expression. After reading the paper for a while, the man finally opened his mouth to speak.
“This is bad…”
“What’s wrong?”
“Yes, 247 is out and about as the Earl of Lawton, the mayor of Ryde.”
After hearing the man’s words, Ming Hu realized what had happened and smiled. But the man wasn’t done yet.
“And… they say that the Earl of Lawton is being held here.”
“Yes?”
Ming Hu, who was smiling, was slightly surprised by the man’s words. In response to Minghu’s question, the man spoke again.
“It is said that the Earl of Lawton is imprisoned here.”
“…That’ll be quick, won’t it?
I thought he was dead, but he wasn’t. When the man told him that he was imprisoned, Ming Hu realized that the quest might be over sooner than he thought.
“Where is that?”
“Well…”
San’a looked a little puzzled by Ming Hu’s words. Then he continued, “I’m sorry.
“There’s a building that’s connected to this one, and it says they’re incarcerated there.”
“How do I get there?”
“The pathway to that building is also here. It’s just…”
The stuttering man glanced at Karot and Prominus, then continued.
“There are a lot of slimes there, nothing compared to here. It’s probably overrun by 247, but do you still want to go?”
At the man’s words, Ming Hu nodded immediately, as if he didn’t even have to think about it.
“Yes, I’m coming.”
“I see… Can I ask you a favor, then?”
“Please?”
“Yes, I want you to kill all those slimes… I want you to kill them all.”
<Defeat the vicious slime!
Mr. Sasa, a researcher at the Arpachi Institute, wants you to kill all the slimes in Building 2. Defeat all the Slimes in Building 2, as Mr. Sasaki wishes!
[Ferocious Human Slime: 0/100]
Difficulty Level: C
Quest Reward: ???
"Only 100?
I thought there would be hundreds of them, but there were only a hundred. Ming Hu, who was on his way anyway and had no reason to refuse, nodded and said, "I'll take it.
"I see."
[You have accepted the quest].
"Thank you. This way."
After accepting the quest, the man began to walk away. Ming Hu followed the man's steps and soon arrived in front of a bookcase.
Swoosh swoosh
Arriving at the bookshelf, he pulled out a few books.
Rattlesnap
As I pulled the book out, I heard something move behind the bookcase, and then the bookcase moved to the side, revealing a new aisle.
"You can go here. Oh, and if you press this, the bookshelf will reopen, and I'll be waiting for you."
"Yes, I'll see you later."
Ming Hu glanced at the button the man pointed to as he spoke and headed down the hallway to the second building. When Ming Hu entered, the man put the book back on the shelf. Then the bookshelf moved, blocking the passage. That was it.
Jab… κΈ°λ¦¬.
"…!"
He heard footsteps behind him. Sana turned around in surprise. The gate was currently open. He quickly moved to close the gate, but the person behind the footsteps was one step ahead of him. A sharp-faced man entered through the iron gate.
"Ugh!"
The boss was very surprised to see a sharp-looking man enter through the iron gate. He knew the sharp-looking man.
"Lampatz, you're alive! Thank God. Thank God!"
With a smile, the man walked over to Lampatz. Lampatz looked at the man and smiled slightly.
"You're still alive."
"…?"
As he approached Rampartz, the man sensed something strange in his words and stopped walking. Rampartz chuckled and said, "I'm sorry.
"Now please die."