Chapter 197: The Beauty Of Evolution
The next day, Yun Ce got up very early. While squatting by the river to wash up, he suddenly felt warmth all over his body. When he turned to look, he discovered that Shehuo had run out by itself.
Doggy’s voice immediately rang in his mind.
“This time it’s Shehuo looking for you, not me looking for you.”
Yun Ce looked at the constantly leaping Shehuo and said, “I haven’t eaten breakfast yet.”
After hearing this, Shehuo flew north in a swaying manner.
Yun Ce sighed, packed up, mounted the Red Date Horse, and followed Shehuo.
Shehuo flew in the air for a while, then landed on the top of the Red Date Horse’s head, directing it forward by scorching its left and right ears.
He thought the proud Red Date Horse would resist a bit, but unexpectedly, this guy very fawningly perked up both ears and even deliberately leaned closer to make it easier for Shehuo to scorch.
Ever since Shehuo landed on the Red Date Horse’s head, the Red Date Horse started continuously farting. Gray fart mist lingered around its hind legs. To avoid getting contaminated by this stuff, Yun Ce had to urge the Red Date Horse to run faster.
The gray fart mist landed wetly on the green grass, which would quickly turn black and wither. When the fart mist landed on flowers, the flowers would immediately wilt. Sometimes it also landed on insects that had just come out of hibernation, and these insects that had just survived the cold winter would immediately die.
1 Yun Ce guessed that Shehuo had given the Red Date Horse great benefits; otherwise, it wouldn’t be so quiet and obedient. This was also the first time Yun Ce rode on the Red Date Horse’s back, feeling no bumps at all.
1 The Red Date Horse farted mist for a full hour. Just as the farting was about to stop, this guy started to have diarrhea. The contents from its stomach could spray out a full ten feet, showing how ferocious the internal pressure was.
1 If Shehuo weren’t still squatting on the Red Date Horse’s head, Yun Ce wouldn’t want this filthy horse anymore.
1 The Red Date Horse was extremely delighted, raising its tail high, galloping wildly while having diarrhea. This bout of diarrhea lasted a full half hour. Yun Ce also learned for the first time that nearly half of the Red Date Horse’s weight was horse manure and water.
1 Unable to endure it anymore, Yun Ce jumped off the horse, led the Red Date Horse to the Qingshui River, and washed its buttocks and hind legs. After just rinsing it with clean water, this guy started defecating again.
1 This time it wasn’t just defecating; it also opened its mouth and started vomiting. What it vomited was sticky white mucus. Perhaps knowing it didn’t look good, it simply knelt in the shallow water, vomiting and defecating at the same time, then letting the flowing water clean its body.
1 Many fish in the shallow water area flipped belly up, a large white patch floating on the surface, looking like they wouldn’t survive.
1 At first, Yun Ce just found it funny, but gradually, he couldn’t laugh anymore. Because an hour and a half ago, the Red Date Horse was an extremely majestic treasure horse of the human world. An hour and a half later, the Red Date Horse had become emaciated with protruding bones, and even its usually bright big eyes were dull and lifeless.
1 Yun Ce wanted to stop Shehuo from continuing to reform the Red Date Horse. He picked up Shehuo with his hand, but after staying in Yun Ce’s palm for a while, Shehuo jumped back onto the emaciated Red Date Horse’s head.
1 Until the Red Date Horse neighed toward the sky and slammed its head heavily into the water, Yun Ce rushed over, fished it out of the water, and placed it on a patch of dry sand.
2 Touching the Red Date Horse’s nose, he found this guy had fallen into a deep sleep. Yun Ce then felt relieved and prepared to light a fire nearby to wait for the Red Date Horse to wake up.
2 However, Shehuo wasn’t having it. It jumped onto the back of Yun Ce’s head and kept scorching his left ear.
2 Yun Ce covered his ear and shouted, “Tell me where you want to go, and I’ll take you there. But we can’t just leave the Red Date Horse unattended, right?”
2 Shehuo naturally didn’t listen and continued scorching Yun Ce’s left ear, and it was getting more and more painful. With no choice, Yun Ce tied up the Red Date Horse’s four hooves, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and staggered forward step by step in the direction Shehuo indicated.
2 Carrying the folded and bound Red Date Horse, Yun Ce’s heart ached. Not long ago, the Red Date Horse weighed a full 2,500 jin. When lying down, it could cover Yun Ce’s figure with its head raised. Now, it only weighed a little over 1,000 jin, most of which was the weight of bones.
2 After walking for a full four hours in the direction Shehuo indicated, the somewhat fatigued Yun Ce, upon seeing a Strange Bird without a single feather, kicked a slice-shaped pebble flying. The pebble, wrapped in wind, flew toward the Strange Bird’s neck.
2 Yun Ce just wanted to kill this Strange Bird. No other reason—this bird looked too ugly. Any normal creature would want to kill it upon seeing it, simply because it was too ugly.
2 The slice-shaped pebble accurately sliced into the Strange Bird’s neck. The Strange Bird’s neck wasn’t severed; instead, the stone slice Yun Ce kicked shattered into powder upon contact with the Strange Bird’s neck.
2 Just as Yun Ce wanted to further kill this bird, he heard Doggy shouting frantically in his head.
2 “Radioactive source, radioactive source, run, run.”
3 Hearing Doggy shout this, Yun Ce hoisted the Red Date Horse and turned to run, fast as lightning.
3 After running just over a hundred meters, Yun Ce abruptly stopped. Because he suddenly realized Shehuo hadn’t followed. Then, he horrifiedly discovered Shehuo was landing on that Strange Bird’s head, burning fiercely.
3 Shehuo was indeed burning fiercely. It had grown almost as big as that Strange Bird, with flames enveloping the Strange Bird, showing a trend of burning even more vigorously.
3 As everyone knows, radioactive sources have the property of polluting everything. Landing on soil turns it into pollutant; falling into water turns it into polluted water. Landing on iron, or even lead, almost always causes pollution.
3 Just unknown if Shehuo’s properties would also be polluted by the radioactive source.
3 “No radiation detected.” Doggy’s words settled Yun Ce’s heart. He put down the Red Date Horse, untied its four hooves, and moved each one to prevent stiffness from prolonged immobility affecting its future running.
3 Yun Ce had recognized that Strange Bird—it was the Eagle that Yu Sang rode, now without a single feather, and even its sturdy ferocious long beak seemed torn off.
3 Shehuo kept scorching that featherless Eagle. It looked like it wouldn’t finish scorching for a while. In between, the Red Date Horse opened its eyes and glanced at Yun Ce. Of course Yun Ce knew this guy was saying it was hungry.
3 Although unsure what to feed this extremely weak guy at this time, Yun Ce still decided to treat it like caring for the old lady on Earth.
3 He took out the millet he usually wouldn’t bear to drink, added it after boiling water—said to make it oilier. He took out two very large eggs stored in the Dragon Pearl, thought about it, and took out two more, putting them in another pot to boil.
4 When the millet porridge was cooked, Yun Ce peeled off the shells of the boiled very large eggs, put them in the millet porridge, and added a lot of green sugar frosting.
4 After stirring evenly and tasting a bite, he found the flavor really good. He immersed half the pot in water until the porridge became warm, then brought it to the Red Date Horse.
4 The Red Date Horse had no strength left at all. Seeing it couldn’t even lift its head, Yun Ce lifted its head and placed its long face into the pot.
4 Fortunately, the Red Date Horse still had the strength to eat, though a bit greedy. Yun Ce was hungry too by now and fished out a boiled egg from the pot to fill his stomach. After being given a resentful look by the Red Date Horse, Yun Ce broke open the egg and fed it to the Red Date Horse.
4 After downing a large pot of porridge, the Red Date Horse’s stomach showed no change. Looking at the Red Date Horse that had fallen back into weak sleep, Yun Ce sniffed, washed the pot clean, and continued cooking porridge.
4 Yun Ce cooked pot after pot of millet porridge, and the Red Date Horse drank pot after pot of millet porridge. In the end, Yun Ce didn’t even know how much porridge he had cooked.
4 He only remembered that every time he warmed the porridge in the river water, the Red Date Horse would wake up, bury its head in the pot to drink it all, then continue sleeping. But its stomach still showed no change—ribs clearly visible, no sign of where all that porridge went.
4 The only benefit was that the Red Date Horse gradually gained some strength—at least, no need to lift its head for it to drink porridge anymore.
4 When night fell, the Shehuo scorching the Eagle turned sickly green, looking like ghost fire from afar. Yun Ce and the Red Date Horse were now only ten meters from Shehuo and that ugly bird—this was the safe distance confirmed by Doggy.
4 The Red Date Horse finally stopped urging Yun Ce to cook more porridge for it, and Yun Ce had already filled his belly while cooking for the Red Date Horse. Now, man and horse lay on the still slightly warm sandy beach watching Shehuo burn that ugly bird.
5 Doggy extended a tentacle from afar, seemingly sensing the radiation changes there, but this guy hadn’t spoken for a very long time.
5 No words meant everything was under control. Yun Ce wasn’t too worried. Until midnight, with Shehuo still working, Yun Ce simply set up a tent on the sand and moved the Red Date Horse inside—this guy was still weak and powerless; Yun Ce didn’t want it to catch a chill.
5 When daylight fully broke, Yun Ce opened his eyes and saw that Shehuo had somehow returned to the Dragon Pearl on its own. The spot scorched last night only had an ugly meatball left.
5 Doggy said in Yun Ce’s head, “In one night’s work, Shehuo cleared all the radiation from this Eagle’s body. Now, just unknown what changes this Eagle will have—what it will become from the radiation-induced evolution.”
5 Yun Ce laughed, “Definitely in a good direction; otherwise, with Shehuo’s benevolent nature, it wouldn’t expend such great effort on an unimportant thing.”
5 Doggy said, “The Red Date Horse was the first to receive reform.”
5 Yun Ce turned to look at the still listless Red Date Horse lying on the ground and disdainfully said, “Still as dumb as before.”
5 Just as sunlight fell on that ugly meatball, several cracks appeared on the meatball, and immediately its color turned black.
5 Then, a powerful wing probed out from the meatball. After flapping forcefully on the meatball a few times, the meatball shattered. A black-and-yellow Fledgling Eagle, facing the rising sun, spread its wings and vigorously flapped them.
5 Yun Ce looked at the tuft of yellow feathers on the Fledgling Eagle’s head and couldn’t help saying, “Eagle falcon tests its wings, sucking in wind and dust!”
