[Template Progress to 10/100, reaching a key milestone, unlocking Error Watch permissions... Protection Overload!]
[Template Progress to 11/100, unlocking Arctiguana!]
Ethan frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "System, open personal panel."
He had not understood what "Protection Overload" meant.
So he simply took a look at what the personal panel had written!
Host: Ethan Shaw
Age: 11
Template: Error Watch [Transform Duration: 20 min] [Cooldown Duration: 10 min]
[Slaughter Mode Unlocked]
Progress: 11/100
Skills: Five Major National Languages, Human Vehicle Piloting, Close-Quarters Combat Techniques, Firearm Aiming Ability.
Items: None
Aliens: Initial Ten Aliens, Snare-oh, Frankenstrike, Blitzwolfer, Cannonbolt, Fearsome Eye, Wildvine, Ditto, Taotie Frog(bullfrag), Arctiguana!
Personal Constitution: Level of a strong adult.
Ethan scanned the panel and immediately said, "The transform duration doubled! So Protection Overload increases my transform duration!"
Twenty minutes was enough time for him to do a great deal.
"Ethan!"
A bold voice rang out. Ben ran up in front of Ethan. "Grandpa figures the aliens definitely still have a base! The base is holding the missing people from the town, along with the remaining slime freaks!"
"The whole town is empty then..."
Ethan looked around, thought for a while, and then began twisting the Error Watch symbol on his body.
Seeing this, Ben also spun the symbol on his small watch, but it did nothing.
Click!
As the light flickered, an orange beast slowly crawled out. It was Error Rath!
He forcefully held back his disgust, sniffed at the leftover clothing of a slime alien, then started running off in a certain direction.
Max immediately got the others into the RV and drove it closely after Ethan.
About a few minutes later.
Ethan ran into a junkyard, slapped a trash bin against the wall out of the way, then pushed open a hidden door, revealing a downward passage that went deep out of sight!
Splash.
The old RV parked in front of the junkyard.
Ben walked over in disbelief, already back to normal. "You lasted longer than me? Ugh, my little watch really is useless!"
"Roar!"
Ethan pointed at his own back and let out a roar.
"Ethan is telling us to hold onto him... wow, I can actually understand what he is saying."
Gwen had the remarkable ability to understand Ethan's beast roars, and came to Ethan's side with Max and the others.
Everyone grabbed onto Ethan at once, clutching handfuls of his fur.
"Sniff sniff."
Ethan tilted his head slightly and sniffed in Gwen's direction.
He was sniffing Gwen not because she had been replaced by a slime alien...
The main reason was that the junkyard smelled overwhelming, and Gwen smelled good, which kept Ethan from feeling miserable.
As for Gwen herself, feeling Ethan's small movement, her face turned slightly red.
'Ethan, I see you as a childhood friend... what are you doing!'
Whoosh!
With Ethan wrapping his arms around the group, he crouched and leaped, jumping straight into the bottomless passage.
Several seconds passed.
Ethan landed heavily inside a massive underground den. The den had countless tunnels branching off from it and felt deeply mysterious.
He quickly amplified his sensory abilities, confirmed the route, and then his transformation time ran out.
"I remember the way. Everyone, follow me."
Ethan raised his fist and said seriously.
"Just lead the way, Ethan! Once we get there, I will deal with the freaks!!" Ben held up his small watch, now fully cooled down, and said with great enthusiasm!
"I trust you, Ben!"
Ethan gave a calm smile and began moving through the complex underground tunnels, guided by his sensory memory.
They walked through quite a few passages. Along the way they ran into plenty of bats, rats, and other underground companions, making the journey one full of surprises without any real danger...
Finally, everyone stopped at the tunnel exit and stared at the underground base beyond the tunnel with faces full of shock!
Inside the enormous underground base sat rows upon rows of massive slime egg pods.
Inside each egg pod was one of the elderly townspeople, sunken deep in sleep!
"Look over there, that is a spaceship! These freaks came from outer space."
Ben spoke in astonishment and pointed toward the corner of the base.
In the corner of the base sat a massive spaceship covered in dust, looking as though it had been sitting there for quite some time!
"How did these earth brats get in here??"
"Did the patrol team on the surface drop dead? They actually let these people come down here!"
"Damn it, take them out!"
At that moment, one bloodthirsty voice after another rang out!
From beneath the egg pods, blobs of slime squeezed out one after another, and the blobs quickly condensed into slime aliens!
By the count, there were about ten or so slime aliens, walking toward the group.
Ethan glanced at the Error Watch showing red and said, "Ben, this is yours."
"Got it. They are afraid of water. I have a way to deal with them."
Ben's face was full of confidence. He raised his wrist and slapped hard at the small watch screen!
Whoosh!
As the light flickered, a blazing burning figure appeared. Ethan and the others involuntarily stepped back several paces but still felt the heat!
"Why, why is it Heatblast!!"
Ben spread his hands in disbelief and cried out in shock!
"Ben, I forgot to mention... do not slap the watch so hard. Too much force gives unexpected results!" Ethan's mouth twitched hard as he reminded him!
"Never mind... Heatblast, I am really good at this one!"
Ben raised both hands and quickly condensed a ball of flame in them!
Then he rapidly rolled the flame around, pushing out a spinning fire spiral shot. "Flame Bomb!"
"Oh? A Pyronite."
"Heh heh heh..."
For some reason, all the slime aliens stopped in their tracks with strange laughs, letting the flame bomb come right at them.
Boom!!
The flame bomb landed in the middle of a group of slime aliens, creating a violent explosion with smoke billowing everywhere!
"Done already?"
Ben said in surprised delight.
Bang!!
The smoke was blasted away instantly!
One by one, slime aliens two meters or more tall and even more powerfully built came walking out!
"Our species has one particular strength. We have no fear of heat..."
"The hotter it is, the stronger we get!!"
"So we completely counter you!"
They grinned and walked toward Ben!
Ben looked completely embarrassed and had no choice but to use flame after flame to block the slime aliens' advance!
Ethan quickly looked down at the Error Watch. "Counting the time, I can transform again in less than two minutes... I can wait it out!"
He looked at the slime aliens again.
The slime aliens were actually still gradually getting stronger, becoming harder and harder to deal with!
Wait.
They were still getting stronger?
"System, Ben is continuously powering up these slime aliens. Will the template progress they can give also go up?"
Ethan took a deep breath and asked.
[Ding, yes.] The system answered.
[Originally, these dozen or so slime aliens might not have been able to give any template progress at all... now, they can!]
Ben, you are truly my hero!!!
Click!
As the Error Watch cooldown finished, Ethan immediately raised the Error Watch and began to transform!
Time to harvest!
Ten meters away.
Max was hiding there with Gwen. Gwen could not help but ask, "Grandpa, do you not know quite a lot about these aliens?"
"Grandpa does know, but only their weaknesses. I do not know their strengths at all..."
Max explained with a helpless look on his face.
During the time he worked as a handyman, every freak he had run into... never got the chance to show their strengths.