Chapter 2705: Magic-Version Rubber

"Anything else?" Xia Duo continued to ask.

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you, Lord," Laidun chuckled, revealing a rare, honest smile, and then continued his report:

"In the process of de-acidifying part of the magic creature's tissue, we discovered that if it is over-de-acidified, the creature's tissue will harden, but that is relative; it is more like a tough, elastic leather."

Hearing this, Xia Duo suddenly understood a little, "Is the creature you discovered a type of Slime?"

"Yes! Yi Nu Wei Qi said that the tissue material after excessive de-acidification can be used as tires for a Bicycle, and that's not all! The reconstruction of Linshui Village involves a water supply and drainage system. We originally intended to fire ceramic pipes to use as water pipes, but the tissue material of this magic creature we discovered is actually more suitable than ceramic pipes!"

The Yi Nu Wei Qi that Laidun mentioned was one of the Territory Magic Affairs Officers. Xia Duo was no stranger to this name. Furthermore, Laidun had just mentioned Yatewude, whom Xia Duo had not seen for a while either.

Therefore, he proposed that he wanted to see the Slime discovered during the construction of the Linshui Village reconstruction project with his own eyes. Laidun naturally had no objections to this and immediately began to lead the way, further introducing the process of discovering the Slime along the way—

"Lord, we first discovered that Slime under the swill pool of the original Territory Canteen. It might have been attracted by the swill pool. After discovering it, we immediately contacted Elder Yatewude and several other Magic Affairs Officers to come and take a look."

"At the suggestion of Elder Yatewude, we temporarily transferred the Slime to the barracks in the south. That area has not been demolished yet, and now Elder Yatewude and Yi Nu Wei Qi and the others are all there."

According to the Linshui Village reconstruction plan, the barracks in the south were also to be demolished, and the new barracks would be moved a distance to the south, but the actual construction would also take time.

Furthermore, if the barracks were moved south, the corresponding buffer zone would also need to be moved south; one wouldn't build the barracks completely on the edge of the forest, after all.

……

Following Laidun south, Xia Duo noticed that the further south they went, the lower the level of land leveling was. Even at the location where the original Lord's Villa stood, a large amount of discarded floor tiles, demolished old building materials, and other debris had piled up.

And in the north they had just passed, more than half of the land had been leveled. People from the Territory Development Department were lifting heavy objects to re-compact the ground, and the underground parts built in the first phase, such as sewers, drainage pipes, and foundations, had also been marked with lime.

Perhaps because of the discovered Slime, the underground parts had not actually started construction; more of it was preparation before the official start, such as leveling the land in advance, positioning and drawing lines, preparing building materials, and so on.

Xia Duo did not have much of an opinion on this. If a more suitable material could be found, adjusting the original plan slightly was nothing.

Now it just depended on whether that Slime could become the living rubber of the magic world!

……

Soon, the rows of barracks were close at hand. After routine identity verification, Xia Duo and Laidun were able to enter the barracks area, and then the two of them came to the northeast corner of the barracks together.

That place was originally a confinement room built together with a toilet, but now it had become a temporary Slime Laboratory.

"Elder Yatewude, the Lord is here!"

Before they even reached the confinement room, Laidun shouted out loud. The next moment, six or seven people swarmed out of that small confinement room, and leading them was Yatewude, whom Xia Duo had not seen for a long time.

Seeing Jieyi in the crowd, Xia Duo immediately realized that it wasn't that the small confinement room could accommodate six or seven people and even conduct various experiments inside, but that Jieyi had summoned a Portable Laboratory there.

"Lord." *6

"Teacher."

Everyone paid their respects one by one. Xia Duo waved his hand to signal that there was no need for formalities, and then called everyone to enter the confinement room together, which was actually the Second-level Laboratory he had previously given to Jieyi.

The Second-level Laboratory contained one large General Laboratory, two small General Laboratories, two medium Spell Laboratories, one standard warehouse, one standard Reception Room, one small conference room, and three standard Xiu Xi Shi.

The total area was not small, but if it were built in a Semi-plane, it wouldn't matter if it were even larger. What truly limited its specifications were those few laboratories; the rest were incidental.

And once it was summoned to the Main Plane, it was truly a case of containing a huge room within a square inch. Looking from the outside just now, it was only a confinement room adjacent to a toilet.

Once inside, however, the space was far more spacious than most people would imagine.

……

Led by Laidun and Yatewude, Xia Duo came to Room 1, where the Slime was temporarily stored, which was the only large General Laboratory in Jieyi's laboratory.

Just after stepping through the door, Xia Duo saw at a glance a pool of black sludge churning in the center of the laboratory, and beside it, there were two other existences of similar form.

One mass was yellowish and greenish, lying limp on the ground, almost motionless; while the other was completely transparent, flowing slowly on the ground, occasionally arching up a small crest.

"Elder Yatewude, why don't you introduce it!"

"Yes, Lord."

From the moment Xia Duo arrived until they entered the laboratory, the smile on Yatewude's face had not disappeared. Now that he was named to give the introduction, he was so excited he almost pulled out his beard.

"Lord, please look! The largest one in the middle is the Slime initially discovered by the Territory Development Department, and the one on the left was initially part of the tissue we cut from the main body of the middle Slime."

"By feeding it household waste, it slowly grew to this size and has even become a separate individual. The tissue cut from this one, after de-acidification, is a very excellent fertilizer."

"And the one on the right, it was also originally from part of the tissue of the middle one, but the only thing we fed it was water. After feeding it more, this guy slowly turned transparent, and it seems to be more energetic than the one on the left."

"So we speculate that the main body of this Slime is actually a transparent colloid; it becomes whatever it eats."

So that's how it is!

Xia Duo stared at the transparent colloidal creature on the right that looked a bit like a Water Element but was actually not a Water Element, and asked Yatewude: "On the way here just now, Laidun said that the Slime's tissue could be used to make pipes; he must have been talking about the one on the right, right?"

"Uh—"

Yatewude was stunned for a moment. Upon realizing it, he immediately wanted to laugh out loud, but considering the occasion, he held it back, and then explained with a serious face:

"What Executive Laidun understands is already outdated. At the beginning, we did consider using the tissue material of the black Slime body in the middle to make pipes, but now that we have produced this transparent one on the right, it is actually better."

"Have you made any samples?"

"Yes."

There actually were! Xia Duo was truly a bit shocked now. One had to know that the Linshui Village reconstruction project hadn't started long ago, and the discovery of the Slime must have been after that, yet there were already results!

It was truly incredible!