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Does solving disasters mean you don't care about the lives of ordinary people like us?!
Haha, you wouldn't understand any of this! You've never had to work since you were born! You've never had to worry about losing your jobs since you were born!
A bunch of pampered young masters and ladies! How could they possibly understand my good intentions?!
"But...! We are fighting the demons for the survival of all humanity!"
At that moment, Lycorina suddenly said excitedly.
"All of humanity?" Marcy raised an eyebrow, his wrinkles almost reaching his bald spot. "You're talking to a nobody like me about all of humanity?!"
"Without slimes, we wouldn't even have enough to eat! What's the point of talking about all of humanity?!"
After the words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
Yes, he was a little selfish, but as he said, he couldn't consider the affairs of all humanity; unemployment was his biggest problem at the moment.
Layton listened to the whole thing from the side, gritting his teeth as if he wanted to say something.
Finally, he spoke up.
"First of all! I'm not some young master! I'm just an ordinary porter!"
then!
I cannot understand your selfish behavior!
Unlike you, who make a living by cleaning up slimes, my family and I have been harassed by demons!
Therefore, I believe that eliminating the demon race is necessary!
If I lose my job, I can simply find another one. Why should I hurt others to keep my own job?!
I don't understand!!
Masi sneered: "Ha, you can't understand, of course you can't understand!"
You can change jobs easily, but where are I and so many other employees supposed to find work?!
What do you mean by "for the sake of humanity"? What do you mean by "eliminating the demon race is necessary"?!
He's been talking to himself the whole time, without considering our situation at all!
"Well then, let's consider it from your perspective."
Suddenly, a cold, emotionless voice came from among the believers.
The worshippers turned their attention to the spot and made way for the other person.
With everyone watching, An Yi walked to the front of the crowd and looked down at Ma Xi.
"Let's start from the beginning and talk about the meaning of the word 'life support'."
"Life support" refers to maintaining life and making a living.
This is a farming village where most people have made a living by farming for generations and are mostly self-sufficient.
So you think that without your job cleaning up slimes, you can't survive and make a living?
"This..." Masi was speechless for a moment.
An Yi didn't intend to give him more time to say: "Of course, you can make a living and sustain your life."
But the only difference is that you've gone from the comfort of your office back to the backbreaking labor of the fields.
The days of being able to make a living simply by sitting around have turned into having to grow food themselves to survive.
It's great, isn't it? You can get wages from the government and food from other villagers just by sitting in your office and pointing fingers.
You're unwilling to simply return to being a farmer, making a living by farming like other villagers, and living the same life as them for generations.
Then they throw a tantrum like children, trying to find a plausible reason for their childish behavior. Even kneeling here, they still think they are right.
Can't everyone tell whether it's right or wrong?
Massi immediately broke out in a cold sweat, frantically trying to figure out how to refute the statement as if he had been hit where it was supposed to be.
Then he quickly yelled, "I want to keep my job! Is that wrong?!"
"That's right, but..."
"Get the priorities straight!"
An Yi took a step forward, grabbed Ma Xi's collar, and glared at him.
At that moment, Masi suddenly felt a chill emanating from his very soul envelop him. An Yi's face appeared magnified countless times in front of him, while he himself huddled on the ground like an ant in fear.
"Is the survival of all mankind less important than the work you use to make money?"
"Not to mention all of humanity, you don't care about the lives, property, or food of the entire village at all, you despicable wretch!"
"Well said!!" Layton shouted excitedly.
The villagers and believers were also enraged!
"Yeah, the survival of all humanity isn't worth as much as your few measly coins?!"
"If you create such a huge slime, where will you work if the village is gone?!"
"If the higher-ups investigate and hold you accountable, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to have you executed!"
"You bastard! You're a complete bastard!!"
This time, An Yi was truly angry.
Masi wanted to interfere with their work, and he was right to realize that the hero would be fine even if he ate the slime, so he didn't bother to expose him.
But when he deliberately gathered slimes, causing a disaster that even they couldn't stop, An'i couldn't tolerate it anymore.
If he were standing here at this time in his previous life, the destruction of this village would have been inevitable.
In his previous life, when he first obtained the system, he didn't have such strong group attack capabilities and could only watch helplessly as these slimes destroyed the village.
Everyone looks out for themselves, and it's normal for Masi to want to protect his own rights, but it's wrong for him to gamble the entire village's interests.
He's gambling the survival of the entire village on the hero's ability.
If it weren't for An Yi, any other hero would have been unable to prevent a disaster of this magnitude.
As night fell, the village chief decided on how to deal with Masi.
In short, we'll stay here for a few days to assist the Theocracy in their investigation of the slime.
Then he was taken to town, where the nobles would decide his fate, or put him in prison.
"The Sword Hero said that to solve the slime problem, we must address the root cause. (Three-∮lin'5,)"
Do you know where slimes originated?
In a room, the believers interrogated Massi.
"In...the forest, the forest over there."
Massi sat blankly in the chair, pointing in a certain direction.
Chapter 32 Sleeping in my bed again?
That evening, the four heroes received the best hospitality in the village. When it was time for them to rest, a wealthy merchant in the village offered them one of his houses to stay in.
They learned the results of the believers' interrogation of Massi before they went to sleep.
After waking up, they will continue their investigation deeper into the forest.
The other three went to bed early, while An Yi was still lying in her room, staring at the ceiling above her head.
[Creature: King Slime]
Wow! The hero has already met the Slime King! That's amazing!
The Slime King is a level 3 monster, a loving mother who continuously gives birth to ordinary slimes in the forest! Or perhaps a father? Or maybe both parents?
If a level 1 hero encounters it, please escape from the Slime King's attack range as soon as possible!
It will actively devour all the animals around it as food. Unlike ordinary slimes, the Slime King is a highly aggressive and large-sized demon.
Recommended level for solo play: Lv10
Recommended average level for team strategy: Lv5
If your level isn't high enough, hero, you'd better run!
The Slime King isn't actually the most powerful type of slime; it's just called "King" because it splits into many forms.
However, for a novice adventurer, the Shrek King is an absolute nightmare.
Actually, it's not really suitable for An's team to go deep into the forest to defeat the Slime King.
But...
Things progressed smoothly, and An Yi couldn't suddenly and absurdly stop the investigation from continuing.
He can't just suddenly say, "Don't bother investigating, there might be a very powerful demon in the forest," can he?
Young people need to experience some setbacks to realize that this game is actually non-linear.
The progression is not [fighting mobs → finding the boss → defeating the boss].
Instead, it's a process of [fighting small monsters → discovering the BOSS → switching to a different type of small monster to accumulate experience → discovering the BOSS → choosing whether to continue fighting small monsters or attack the BOSS based on your level].
The initial support wasn't actually aimed at pushing deeper into the demon realm, but rather at prioritizing resolving the disasters in the border regions.
The encyclopedia will warn the heroes to run away, precisely to discourage them from taking the risk of challenging the BOSS.
Of course, this first mini-boss killed quite a few heroes.
Whether it's slime goblins or imp skeletons, the corresponding level 3 demons are all killers of newbies.
Well, you could call it a kind of screening process.
Those who are reckless will be naturally eliminated, and those who remain will be more cautious and able to survive to a higher level.
Incidentally, a new hero will be born among humans immediately after the hero dies.
An Yi's team, for example, will be known as the first generation of heroes in later generations because they were chosen along with the "Holy Heroes".
The second hero who appeared after the death of the first two heroes was the third hero. The fifth hero who appeared after the death of the second hero was the third hero, and so on down to the fourth, fifth and sixth heroes.
They don't realize yet that the number of heroes is fixed, and even their professions are fixed.