In the chaotic battle a few days ago, quite a number of pirates had successfully escaped, so Li Wei had anticipated the chain reaction this battle might trigger.
It was only because of the sudden upheavals that followed that certain unexpected, even absurdly comical things happened. First, Luskan abruptly declared war on the Kendick Dynasty of Moonshadow Island. Second, after those "Koutao Fishmen" inflicted tons of psychological trauma on the pirates, they were not shunned in fear. Instead, they were treated as mascots in something akin to "primitive worship."
And honestly, when these "Koutao Fishmen" transformed from slimes were alone, their lack of the necessary "thought circuits" to form a collective consciousness made them seem somewhat daft—a rather deceptive trait.
Unlike their distant ocean-dwelling relatives, the Sahuagin, they were not covered all over in sharp, venomous barbs.
These fishmen transformed from slimes were generally only about the size of an adult human's head, with much rounder bodies. Some of their scales even gleamed with silvery reflections. Even if they might be a little ugly, they were ugly in an adorably ugly way.
No wonder the Mages investigating the incident had swiftly spirited them away for "research," after which they were taken in by adventurers along the coast.
Yet for Li Wei, this was instead good news in the long run. It was equivalent to indirectly expanding Zelandia's detection range. However, information transmission among slimes was limited by space and distance. Once tens of thousands of fishmen were scattered abroad, they became too sparse, and the timeliness of transmitting any valuable intelligence would be severely compromised.
Unless each one received special treatment like Steel Egg, using an entire "slime-node chained network cable." But that would place far too great a burden on Kaka as he was now.
Li Wei had actually