Stellaris from the Automata Era

If it can bring survival expansion to its own tribe, then the special talent of the slime to change its shape is not just as simple as changing the appearance.

In a sense, their changes are to assimilate or be assimilated into other species, not only in appearance but also in their internal structure.

In other words, if you show them a picture of a cat girl and tell them to transform, they will actually transform. Even if you add a complete diagram of a human's physiology and internal structure, they might even be able to overcome reproductive isolation.

I suggest that this group of slimes be renamed Druids.

In short, Yan Luo, who was far away on Earth, was a little stunned when he heard that the mud had such a talent.

The only pity is that because the style of the universe is rather serious, he is so busy that he probably doesn't have the time and energy to see the magical alien life.

But to put it another way, this group of slimes seems to be very suitable for being spies, especially organic creatures.

At least there won’t be people who look different and become internet celebrities from other civilizations.

"Eat! Eat! Gulp!"

"I find it hard to believe that they are intelligent higher life forms..."

In fact, when the YoRHa models saw the slime eating, they all expressed their questions at the same time.

The main reason is that the slime's eating manners are really not very good. In the early days, when there was no one supervising it, don't expect the order to be good during meal time. But it is as docile as some kind of animal.

However, this does not apply to all slimes. Even among the ruled class, some unusual individuals will emerge from the slime.

For example, some slimes that were the first to complete humanization.

"The human body is so amazing! Guh!"

To the slime, the human body is probably a highly complex work of art, not to mention the simulation of the brain and various nerves.

The mere need to manipulate 20 'tentacles' (fingers and toes) required of a human body pushes the slime's neural functions to their limits.

In addition, various systems in the body prioritize supplying the brain, while other places try to save as much as possible.

The slime, which has always valued the body in the direction of biological evolution, has been severely stimulated in its intellectual development.

This is like Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, allowing some slime to open the door to the new world first.

From this perspective, the stubbornness and eccentricity of the slime in some of its decisions may be due to innate factors. How did it rush into the universe in the first place?

In short, these slimes have become the current upper class being ruled, serving as puppets and servants of the Earth to manage the slimes.

Of course, intellectual progress does not mean that you will have some different little thoughts.

At least for now, although these soft muds cannot be made into the Zhengbai Banner, they can at least be used as the Yinbai Banner after the Earth enters the Pass, and they will not starve to death in terms of treatment.

Now, Yan Luo wants to recruit some experts in slime, and the humanoids stationed there think of these humanized slimes first.

Chapter 280: Isn’t there a fleet?

"Goo!"

"Cuckoo!"

Looking at the human-shaped slimes in front of him, Yan Luo couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"Are you sure you've got a bunch of experts here, and not just a bunch of pigeons?"

To be honest, even though the twins who had the mud transported from afar just to help pass on the message to Yan Luo were still confused themselves.

Although as a mechanical being with an efficient processor, he had read other humanoids' observation reports on the slime race a long time ago.

But I was still shocked when I actually saw it.

Especially because of their strange evolutionary direction, except for a few outstanding individuals, many slimes are temporarily unable to adapt to the movement patterns of human hands and feet, so the lower half is directly changed into a liquid that can wriggle.

This description may be a bit abstract, so just think of it as a feminine version of the slime monster.

Anyway, at the moment they look much better than those fellows with mushroom bodies and human heads during negotiations.

Even their current appearance may be acceptable to many humans with strange preferences.

Of course, now is not the time to talk about this.

As a vassal of the White Banner that had just been conquered by Earth, the humanoids were originally very opposed to the slime meeting with humans.

The main reason is that before these slimes are completely assimilated, it is difficult to guarantee whether they will have any other strange thoughts.

However, Yan Luo did not seem to care much about this matter. These slimes looked like they could not be beaten. If Yan Luo could be assassinated successfully while being protected by a group of humanoids, all the humanoids would be killed one by one.

And he is not a weak human in the traditional sense! With the blessing of psychic energy, Yan Luo is also capable of self-protection.

This is how the slime was able to successfully step onto the Earth's soil.

"What do you think about the currency mechanism? Gulp..." Finally getting to the point, the slime, which looked like a little girl, purred. "Isn't currency something everyone will use if they have a gun? Gulp."

"??"

Yan Luo still had too many expectations for Soft Slime, even though Soft Slime's social ideology bore the name of a global giant.

But in essence, they should be regarded as victims of the cyberpunk trend of high technology and low life.

In a sense, it is a miracle for the planet that they can break out of the universe. Of course, it is also possible that some strange universe region matching mechanism has come into play, putting some strange races together.

In short, the slime does not have any sophisticated micro-management on the system and establishment of currency.

They have been a unified civilization for thousands of years, and the credit of their currency may just be a matter decided by some big shot on a whim.

Ultimately, this is just a clever way to exploit people.

"Ultimately, this is just a means of exploitation. The so-called economy and currency only make us starve to death faster, while no one will be disgusted by the upper class's inaction." Slime spoke eloquently. "When wealth and resources are fully tilted towards the upper class, the corresponding lower class will naturally perish due to lack of resources. Guh"

It turns out that they are aware that they are being exploited, and judging by their intelligence level, they don't seem to be too stupid.

However, this suddenly put Yan Luo into a state of confusion. In fact, the slime in front of him seemed to be very knowledgeable. Since they knew so much, why could their labor still be exploited?

However, Yan Luo soon got a reasonable answer.

"Well... actually, I used to be a manager, the kind that was almost starving to death. Guh."

Good guy, it turns out he is a traitor from the slime solidification class.

One thing that must be admitted is that slime, as a living being, obviously has its own joys, sorrows, anger and happiness. Since it has emotions, it naturally has morals and conscience.

How does the saying go? 'You can't make money without conscience, but you can make more without conscience.'

The manager of the slime is definitely a middle-level backbone. As a high-level intellectual with culture, they are directly responsible for a large number of people under them.

Even in the old days of Earth, their status was that of the people who were responsible for holding whips in the cotton fields.

Therefore, there is no such thing as starving to death, but since SoftBank is a global giant, the middle-level managers are subject to a cruel performance system.

Starving a few incompetent managers doesn't seem to be a big deal.

But as an instinct of intelligent life, how could there really be such a thing as starvation?

Since their capabilities cannot compete with their peers, they will naturally find ways to find people below them to make up for the shortfall. This is the same as how there are so many people in the world, and as long as you are able to take one dollar from each of them, you will be the richest man in the world.

What? You can't become the richest man with just one dollar? You've already got the money, so why not a little more?!

In short, there will be piles of bones under every surviving slime manager.

Those who can starve to death are probably too conscientious, and the soft mud below will die less.

"I see. Anyway, you can't help me perfect the currency, right?"

“?” Something seems to be wrong?

Of course, Soft Mud could hear what Yan Luo said. To be honest, the Earth, which had recently been able to keep Soft Mud well-fed and watered, was a qualified big money sponsor in Soft Mud's eyes.

However, the lower-level slimes who don't have much knowledge may not understand the issue of value equivalence, but those with higher education are more clear about it. What's more coincidental is that the slimes who can stand in front of Yan Luo now are probably all educated.

Just Yan Luo's words to himself made many slimes anxious in an instant.

Why should people support you if you have no value?

"Gu, sir, you... our Earth has already reached the highest level of social structure and achieved fair distribution. Why do we have to go back and reverse?"

"It's mainly because we've started trading with other races. Without our own currency system to handle complex calculations, it's a bit of a loss to pay for energy coins."

"I understand. Your Excellency, please forgive me for being blunt. I have a method that can quickly enable our Earth to have a currency system that has been perfected for a thousand years. However, the initial cost of establishing it is a bit high, and it may require several fleets."

What the hell are these fleets? Yan Luo instinctively felt a bad premonition.

"Gugu, it's the Bolang Ooze next door. My former compatriots have a complete system. We just need to tell them that we want to access their settlement method. I believe they will be happy to accept it."

"Wait? I don't know much about finance, but using someone else's currency doesn't mean you're handing over the initiative and finances to someone else, right?"

"That's right, that's why we need a few fleets as start-up capital."

Yan Luo was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to come to his senses.

"hiss..."

These slimes are indeed the product of capital.

Chapter 281: Collect taxes for a hundred years first

"Gu! Gugugugu!" (The collapse of the Bolang United Group is imminent. For the slimes who yearn for a better life, the Slime Republic will be a beautiful home for all their compatriots. Note that this place's call should be expressed with emotion...)

"Goo!!!"

"Well, I don't understand anything at all." Looking at the many slimes shouting in the projector, Yan Luo's expression was very weird.

However, judging from the constant cheering sounds of the mud in the live footage, the mud should be in high spirits.

"It seems that the establishment of this vassal state is stable."

"You are right, sir..." The human figures around Yan Luo also had strange expressions.

To be honest, human ears may not be able to hear it, but for humanoids, they can easily distinguish the 26 tones of the slime's gurgling sound, which means that as long as they study systematically, they can actually understand what the slime is saying.

There was no need for anyone to remind them. The humanoids in the circle probably understood that the slime's stupid intelligence had turned the live footage of the founding of a new country into a broadcast accident.

Of course, no humanoid reminded Yan Luo of this. First of all, they really believed that Yan Luo was "always right."

Secondly...racial language can be completely changed. If Yan Luo really feels that this dark history is too shameful, he can only ask these Vichy slimes in the occupied areas to give them a final lesson and change their mother tongue.

And the more important thing now is that the humanoid figure can't keep up with Yan Luo's thinking rhythm.

The galaxies that were snatched from the slime have all been turned into appendages at Yan Luo's instruction. To the humanoids, this seems to be a superfluous act.

Humans are indeed always right, but...what is the deeper meaning behind this?

"Don't you feel that your development has reached a bottleneck?"

It must be admitted that the humanoids have probably reached their limits for the time being. Even with the use of a large number of factories and hundreds of batches of production, the current population of the humanoids is simply unable to meet the minimum requirements of the territory.

Especially after confirming that they can cope with the more dangerous environment in the universe, humanoids are still being upgraded in batches.

The old humanoids with low cost-effectiveness will probably gradually fade out of the Earth's vision. On the contrary, they will have more elite humanoids like YoRHa.

This was actually the direction of the human form that was decided very early on.

But the more realistic problem is that if humanoids want to complete their own upgrades, they will probably need a lot of supporting infrastructure and raw materials to support them.

This is the same reason why an aircraft carrier needs 8000 supporting manufacturers.

What's more troublesome is that the humanoids not only need to update themselves, they also need to leave enough mineral reserves for the space navy.

After such a tight calculation, whether it is resources or manpower, the humanoids are completely insufficient.

The expansion of manpower and resources is a long-term planning process where more water is needed to cover more surface, and more surface is needed to cover more water. It cannot be considered in the short term.

"In short, the manpower problem may not be solved for the time being, but I do have some ideas for the more core resource issues."

The mud next door looks vast and rich, and after being cut off by the earth for more than a dozen galaxies, it still looks unharmed and seems to be able to afford it if it happens again.

Faced with this strange local tyrant, Yan Luo had to re-examine the resource output of the other side.

As for the slime vassals that have been released, they will focus on connecting with the opponent and engaging in capital confrontation.

Wait...Yan Luo was not planning to rob. After all, the Earth Federation had established a firm foothold in the universe.

As time goes by and the universe family becomes more and more lively, if you rob it this time, your reputation will probably not be very good in the future.

The more troublesome problem is that there are more than just the Slime civilization around. When it is obviously impossible to silence them, Yan Luo is actually not in favor of resolving the issue by force.

So at this time, the vassal states were asked to take action.