Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

"Little sister, are you the only one inside?"

Hearing the childish voice from inside, Zhu Ye's face unconsciously broke into a smile. He asked the question to the door as gently as possible. At the same time, the others beside him looked extremely happy. If it was just a child inside, things would be much simpler.

"Who are you?"

"We just found this place. Don't be afraid, little sister, we're all good people."

Hearing the voice inside become obviously wary, Zhu Ye quickly explained. At the same time, he gestured to Li Zi beside him, as she, being a girl, would be more likely to gain the other's trust.

"Little sister, don't worry, big sister and I are all good people."

"Really? Big sister, did you see my brother when you came here?"

After hearing Li Zi's voice, the little girl inside visibly relaxed a lot, and even started asking them about her brother.

"No, but what's your brother's name and what does he look like? Maybe we've seen him before."

"It's Brother Ming Hao, the most handsome, the most powerful Brother Ming Hao."

From behind the rolling shutter door, the little girl's voice was full of adoration. Just listening to her voice, one could understand how much the little girl inside trusted and admired the Ming Hao brother she spoke of.

"Sorry, little sister, we haven't seen your brother, but don't worry, as long as you let us in, we will definitely help you find him next!"

From the side, Zhu Ye quickly promised, even though he knew the little girl inside couldn't see him, he still patted his chest hard, acting like he would definitely keep his word.

"Really?"

The little girl behind the rolling shutter door asked hesitantly.

"Really, we promise!"

Outside the door, upon hearing the little girl start to trust them, the group immediately started promising all at once.

"Alright then, it's a deal. I'll let you in, and you have to help me find Brother Ming Hao."

As soon as the little girl finished speaking, the closed rolling shutter door made a series of clacking sounds, and slowly opened amidst the excited gazes of the crowd. Inside the door, a little girl who looked around ten years old, with a face as cute as a porcelain doll, was timidly looking at them, wearing a bright red dress.

It was a stark contrast to the group of people outside who looked like scavengers after spending several months in the apocalypse.

"Um, you guys can come in."

"Okay! Okay!"

At the doorway, the group rushed in after hearing the little girl's voice. When they saw the warehouse filled with food and various resources, their eyes turned fiery. The group, who had been hungry for a long time, didn't even bother with the little girl.

They rushed over, grabbed the bread at hand, tore open the packaging, and ate it in large bites. Because they were eating too fast, two people even accidentally choked. After gulping down a few mouthfuls of drinks, they continued eating.

It wasn't until the group ate until their entire stomachs were bulging and they couldn't eat anymore that they reluctantly put down the bread in their hands and lay on the ground contentedly. Only then did they feel truly alive.

"Little sister, thank you."

After a long while, Zhu Ye, who was lying on the ground, finally got up, looking at the little girl who had been standing not far away watching them with a kind smile. Even though she was only ten years old, her exquisite and cute face, like a porcelain doll, coupled with her clean and tidy aura that was completely unlike someone struggling to survive in the apocalypse, made Zhu Ye feel an uncontrollable heat in his heart.

"You're welcome, but will you really help me find my brother?"

Opposite him, the little girl looked at Zhu Ye and asked directly, just like a rich young lady before the apocalypse happened a few months ago.

"Of course, but this needs to be done slowly. Little sister, you also know that it's very dangerous outside now."

Zhu Ye suppressed the heat in his heart. After all, the little girl's brother was able to survive with such a young child in the apocalypse, and was even living so comfortably, so he was definitely not a simple character.

Before figuring out the specific situation of the little girl's brother, he still planned to maintain the persona of a good person.

"Okay, thank you, good brother."

The little girl looked at Zhu Ye, who promised to help her find her brother, and seemed to completely believe his words, a big smile appearing on her cute face.

"By the way, little sister, is it safe here? Have those things appeared here?"

"What things?"

"I mean mutation, like the land outside. Has any part of this warehouse become like that?"

Zhu Ye asked, trying to maintain a gentle tone. Originally, his plan was to take enough supplies here and leave, hiding deep in the sewers, but now, looking at the supplies piled up in the entire warehouse, he suddenly changed his mind.

If it was temporarily safe here, then he would hide here first, and then escape with the supplies at the last moment.

But before that, he had to figure out the extent of the mutation in this warehouse.

"Ah!! Save... save me!"

Just then, a sudden, shrill scream came from the depths of the reference room, scaring the group so much that their faces changed drastically as they looked towards the source of the sound. They saw a tentacle tightly wrapped around Li Zi's body above a shelf with rows of clothes.

Li Zi was struggling desperately, her eyes full of longing as she looked at the people below.

After just finishing eating, she discovered many clothes in the depths of the warehouse. As a girl, seeing so many new clothes, and looking at her own clothes that had been hidden in the sewers for several months, had become black and stinky, and were covered with all kinds of filth.

So she didn't say hello to the others, preparing to change into a new set of clothes. After all, in her opinion, the little girl could stay here safely, which meant that it wasn't dangerous.

But Li Zi didn't expect that just as she was picking and choosing, getting closer and closer to the depths of the warehouse, suddenly a tentacle sprang out from above and directly wrapped around her.

"Big sister, there are monsters in the depths of the warehouse, you can't go there."

The little girl raised her small hand, her cute face showing a trace of seriousness as she began to lecture, but this appearance made her look even cuter. Of course, that was assuming you ignored Li Zi, whose body in mid-air was being strangled to the point of deformation, with blood constantly flowing.

"Li... little sister, are there also these kinds of monsters in this warehouse?"

Zhu Ye looked at the little girl beside him tremblingly. He never expected that there would be a monster in the warehouse, and that this little girl seemed to have been staying with that monster all along.

"Good-hearted big brother, are you talking about Little Octopus? It's been inside for a long time, but as long as you don't get close to the depths of the warehouse, it's safe."

The little girl pointed to the many tentacles stretching out from the darkness in the depths of the warehouse with a harmless smile, and even gave it a name.

"Is... is that so? By the way, little sister, what's your name?"

After hearing that it was temporarily safe as long as they didn't get close to the depths of the warehouse, Zhu Ye felt a lot more relieved, and then continued to ask the little girl's name, while already determined to run away quickly, after all, who knew if the monster inside would suddenly run out.

“Luo Yina, my name is Luo Yina, okay? Good big brother, you must remember it.”

Luo Yina tilted her little head, smiling as she looked at the humans in front of her. Her earlier pitiful act was just a performance. Since her master and Sister Sally were still busy, she decided to play with these humans out of boredom.

“Luo Yina, is it? It’s not safe here anymore. We plan to leave with some supplies and look for your brother. Would you like to come with us?”

Zhu Ye looked at Luo Yina beside him and asked in a gentle tone. As for why he wanted to bring her along, aside from Luo Yina’s delicate and cute appearance, just the fact that she could carry extra supplies and serve as bait in case of danger was enough.

“Okay!”

Luo Yina nodded. It was all just for fun anyway. Staying in the warehouse wasn’t interesting at all. Besides, she was the one who brought the Gluttony monster into the warehouse in the first place, all to get these humans to leave.

After all, surviving in the apocalypse was the most fun thing to do.

“Okay!”

Zhu Ye nodded and walked towards a large hiking bag not far away, big enough to carry a lot of supplies. The other two quickly followed, and the three of them began stuffing various high-energy foods into the backpack.

For a while, the entire warehouse was filled with the sound of packing. As for Luo Yina, she was wandering in front of the shelves with her red schoolbag, happily stuffing all kinds of her favorite snacks into her bag.

More than ten minutes later, the prepared group reopened the shutter door. Looking at the bloody earth outside, they gritted their teeth and rushed out.

Behind them, Luo Yina watched the three humans running ahead with great interest. To make things more interesting, Luo Yina had deliberately blocked all the nearby sewer exits.

“Damn it!”

At one sewer entrance, Zhu Ye looked at the dense tentacles inside, and his expression immediately turned ugly. Then, three more sewer entrances in a row were either blocked or filled with tentacles.

“Zhu Ye-jun, hurry up, it’s going to be dawn!”

At this time, a young man urged anxiously. The originally black sky on the horizon was already turning white. If they didn’t find a place to block the sunlight soon, they would soon be mutated into those monsters.

“Follow me!”

Zhu Ye glanced at the young man with a gloomy expression, leading the others towards the residential area ahead. Although Zhu Ye knew that there must be wandering monsters there, and the residential area itself might be a monster, as long as they could hide inside a building, there was at least a glimmer of hope for survival.

Just like that, the group ran into the residential area. Perhaps they were lucky enough not to encounter any monsters along the way. They even found a house where someone had just begun to mutate, successfully hiding inside.

Several minutes after they entered the room, the sun completely rose from the horizon, and a continuous roar rang out.

At the same time, the people hiding in the room saw the figures of monsters running through the streets not far away through the window. Then, a series of shrill screams came, proving that survivors had been found by those monsters.

Listening to the sounds coming from the distance, the people hiding in the room were trembling with fear. Only Luo Yina stood in front of the window, watching everything with relish. This was exactly like the content of a manga she had read.

It was so much fun.

“Luo Yina, don’t stay there. It’s dangerous if those monsters see you.”

At this time, Zhu Ye suddenly saw Luo Yina standing by the window and subconsciously reminded her. Then, he reached out to pull Luo Yina over, but just as his palm was about to touch Luo Yina.

Luo Yina turned her head, staring at him with a pair of large, emotionless eyes.

Seeing this, Zhu Ye felt a sense of unease in his heart. He quickly took a few steps back, looking at Luo Yina with a difficult expression. He couldn’t understand why he was suddenly afraid of this little girl.

“Let’s rest well first, and move to another place tonight.”

In the end, Zhu Ye gave up his inner thoughts. After all, the feeling Luo Yina gave him just now was too strange. What if Luo Yina was one of those awakened ones with special abilities in the apocalypse, as described in the manga? Wouldn’t he be in danger?

Therefore, Zhu Ye decided to play it safe and observe for a while longer.

After that, the room fell silent. The already exhausted Zhu Ye and the others slowly fell asleep, while Luo Yina took out a manga book from her backpack with a bored expression and began to read it with relish.

When night fell again, Luo Yina closed the manga book with an angry expression on her face. She discovered that this manga book was not finished yet. She didn’t know if the author was dead or not. If he wasn’t dead, she would catch him and stuff him into the Gluttony monster, giving him hundreds of tentacles in the process.

If he didn’t finish it all at once, she would let the Gluttony monster eat him directly.

And so, Luo Yina’s trip of playing around had one more goal.

“Pack your things and leave here as soon as possible. If we can’t find a safe sewer, we definitely won’t survive for three days.”

At this time, Zhu Ye, who woke up first, woke up the other two and looked at the moonlight outside the window, saying with a solemn expression. He couldn’t guarantee that he could find such a safe place tomorrow. As for staying here, Zhu Ye had also thought about it.

But looking at the walls that were obviously accelerating in mutation, with thumb-thick fleshy buds growing on them, he didn’t want to become the monster’s food after it had just finished mutating, especially by crawling into its stomach himself like an idiot.

Then, the four who had packed up left again, carefully walking towards another area under the cover of night. Every time they encountered a sewer entrance, Zhu Ye would go to check it, but the longer they walked, the more gloomy Zhu Ye’s expression became.

Until the sky turned white again, Zhu Ye finally found a sewer entrance that they could enter. Without hesitation, he jumped in, and the others quickly followed, including Luo Yina.

“Safe.”

Zhu Ye looked at the mutated but not yet conscious walls around him and whispered. Then, he quietly retreated behind the others, saying that he would guard the rear. Seeing this, the other two followed suit.

Finally, Luo Yina was standing in front of the three.

“Luo Yina, you go ahead. If we encounter any danger, we can protect you from behind.”

“Okay!”

Luo Yina nodded, carrying her schoolbag and hopping towards the front as if she was going out to play. The three people behind her were cautious, making the whole team look inexplicably strange.