NOVEL WEB Chapter 189: The Poli Race
"Two tigers love to dance."
"Hey!"
"Little bunny pulls the carrot obediently."
"Yeah!"
"I learned to walk from a duckling, childhood is the best gift."
"..."
Li Zheng watched the scene of chaotic dancing before him, with only one thought in mind: I regret it, let me go back!
These were a bunch of soft creatures, most of them were light blue and semi-transparent, without a definite appearance, and with bizarre looks.
The remaining ones were pink and semi-transparent, humming tunes in a weird rhythm on the side, obviously providing a soundtrack for the other chaotic group.
The above music was something Li Zheng imagined in rhythm, because he couldn't understand the language of these creatures at all, to be able to imagine such complete music, even Li Zheng admired himself...
Why didn't I realize how boring I used to be?
These creatures weren't surprised at Li Zheng's arrival, they didn't even bother to pay attention.
Dozens of light blue guys twisted around in their respective areas, their movements extremely absurd.
Li Zheng even noticed a few muscular men among them, arms revealing circular patterns, with expressions of allure and provocation, doing hip-thrusting actions.
[Blue Poli/Pink Poli
Tier: Black Iron~Platinum
Description: The Poli Race distinguishes gender by color, considering light blue as male and pink as female.
In fact, they are asexually reproducing species, and each individual can produce new Polis.
Ability: Mimicry
Weakness: True strength is determined by mimicry, with extremely difficult upper elevation.
Old Pu: The Poli are a peace-loving race, skilled in song and dance, existing as a neutral entity.
Moreover, their nature is extremely peculiar, leaving nothing but a cup of ordinary water once killed, thus the hunting value is virtually none.
Try to communicate with them, perhaps you can entice... ahem, take one with you on the journey.]
"Poli, mimicry, only water after death, asexual reproduction..." Li Zheng carefully pointed out the key points, then after two seconds of silence furiously said: "This is freaking just a Slime!"
After all this, the so-called "cute little things" turned out to be the most disposable entities in various games.
If I had known, would I have specifically come here to mess with them!
In other games, killing slimes could yield Gold coins, but in the Matrix, the Poli Race just leaves water behind!
Even if I stop thinking like a human and kill every Poli in this room, it won't be more valuable than going to a hot spring!
At least over there, besides water, there's even a Gold-level crop!
Speaking of which, this room besides a few small ponds, just has bare mud!
What's this environment got to do with a "farm"?!
At that moment, one Blue Poli seemed to have danced till exhaustion, found the nearest pond, and placed its hands in it.
Immediately, the Blue Poli's body visibly became more robust.
The water level in the pond decreased slowly.
Before long, it had already reached the bottom.
Getting closer, Li Zheng discovered that clear water beneath was flowing out, and the lowered water level was gradually rising again.
"An underground spring?" Li Zheng glanced at Old Pu, seeing no hint.
Looking up, the Blue Poli walked over to the mud not far from the pond, its robust body suddenly softened, turning into an adorable large round ball.
Duang, duang~
The Blue Poli wobbled like jelly a few times, suddenly jumped up, and slammed into the ground.
Splat!
The Blue Poli shattered itself with the motion, like a big jelly falling to the ground, trampled hard.
Just when Li Zheng thought it was suicidal.
Those "jelly" pieces crawled together, merging into one.
When all pieces finished merging, two much smaller Blue Polis appeared where it had been.
The strangest thing was, one of them turned pink within a mere three seconds.
Li Zheng was stunned: "Isn't this like a guy splitting himself in half, and one half turns into a girl?"
What kind of magical development is this?
Do all slimes reproduce like this?
"Hmm? Wait a minute!"
Li Zheng acutely realized something.
If the Poli Race reproduces like this...
Doesn't that mean this room initially might have had only one Poli?
The reason there are so many now is entirely due to its slow self-replication?
A true immortal body?
As long as there's a single Poli individual, it can develop into an entire race on its own?
This is way more impressive than "give me a girl, I can create a whole race"!
And Li Zheng checked, the room had no food resources besides the ponds and land consumable for creatures.
This indicates that the Poli don't even need to eat, as long as they periodically hydrate themselves, they can survive indefinitely?
At this time, one Blue and one Pink Poli found a pond each, drained the water and rapidly grew to average size.
They then split, blending into the two groups.
Apart from one extra Pink Poli, it was as if nothing had happened here.
Absurd music, absurd dance...
Li Zheng couldn't watch anymore. Although taking a Poli equated to having a Poli army, he had no desire to take one along.
He didn't want to watch such an eyesore dance every day.
"Xiaoying, let's go!"
Li Zheng shouted but got no response.
He turned, finding the little guy holding an Earth Dragon Crystal Core, dancing amidst a bunch of Blue Polis, thoroughly enjoying itself.
With a black line on his face, Li Zheng grabbed Xiaoying's tail, forcibly dragging it away.
"Let's consider this exploration a glimpse of yet another race in the Matrix."
Given the Poli Race's ridiculous nature, presumably few, if any, players in past games managed to make it into the Outer City with them.
Reaching the endpoint was even rarer.
Unless someone lost their mind and tried taming one to the endpoint.
[Beyond the door are some materials, if you are short on Power Cores, you might choose here.]
[Beyond the door is a research data table, with blueprints urgently needing study, you might choose here.]
[Beyond the door is a "Treasure Chest," beware of the traps within the room, don't accidentally trigger them.]
[Beyond the door are two Bronze Level creatures, low threat, low value, not recommended to choose.]
[Beyond the door are two players, one of which is Bloody.]
All five doors thoroughly examined, Li Zheng's gaze slightly deepened as he looked at the top door.
"Not bad, encountering a red-named player so soon, let's go here."
Without hesitation, he chose to swipe the card and entered with Xiaoying.
As the light membrane dissipated, Li Zheng caught a whiff of a swooshing sound.
"Short Distance Teleportation!"
He activated the teleportation feature of the Eye Demon War Boots decisively, shifting two meters in the air, dodging the attack, avoiding a surprise assault.
Turning to the attacker, Li Zheng smirked, then raised his sword and charged!