Chapter 89: No Way, Can’t Lose Face
Ever since Doggy saw Peng Zeng, Peng Zeng’s body recovery speed had slowed down. After observing for a few days, Yun Ce discovered that his current body recovery speed was only slightly better than that of an ordinary person.
Therefore, his body had completely entered a dormant state. On average, he only woke up once every two or three days, and the bit of flesh that had been replenished was almost entirely consumed again.
The silver thread retracted from Peng Zeng’s body, and another silver thread holding a small one came over. That slightly thicker silver thread then infused some liquid into the medicine bottle.
Yun Ce looked at the not-full bottle of liquid and said, “There’s much less today.”
Doggy said, “This thing’s secretion amount depends on the severity of his injuries. Now that his body has fallen into deep sleep, it’s secreting very little.”
Yun Ce looked at the glass medicine bottle and said, “Is this stuff very useful for healing injuries?”
Doggy said, “It should be useful. Find a person for us to experiment on.”
“Use a Doggy. I’ll go catch one right now.”
“Think it through. Even if you use a person to test the medicine, it might not be suitable. You need to find someone with the same blood type as you, same gender, and similar physical conditions in all aspects. The results from such a test might still not suit you. Testing on a Doggy could yield vastly different results.”
“Forget it. I can’t do something like experimenting with medicine on people.”
1 “In that case, the twenty-nine members of Wei Dun’er’s family died truly unjustly. Look at Peng Zeng lying on the bed—doesn’t he look like a medicine?”
1 Yun Ce threw the extracted dozen bottles of medicine into the Dragon Pearl and said, “That’s enough. These are test samples. Since there are evolved mutants like Peng Zeng in the world, it means such people absolutely cannot be solitary; there should be a group of them. Collecting gene samples from Peng Zeng is science, and it’s also for the future of humanity as a species.
1 Your words just now reminded me. I shouldn’t treat Peng Zeng as a humanoid pill. And Doggy, you can’t either. You’re still young now. Although you’re already very smart, you still need me to guide you.
1 Now, I’m setting a rule for you: your moral view must not be lower than mine.”
1 Yun Ce sensed that Doggy was thrashing violently on the wristband. It seemed extremely dissatisfied with this constraint, and Yun Ce could also feel that the constraint he proposed was taking effect on it.
1 Indeed, even finding test subjects for experiments was not allowed. For Doggy, whose desire for exploration was extremely strong, this was undoubtedly painful.
1 Yun Ce knew that his own moral view had been formed under the combined influence of law, knowledge, and family education. Now that Yun Linchuan was gone, the deterrent force of family education was no longer that strong.
1 After arriving in the Great Han, the Earth laws he was familiar with had also drifted far away with the interstellar crossing.
1 Now, only the lone pillar of knowledge remained to support him. If he continued to let things slide, Yun Ce felt that the angry words he said to Yun Linchuan before leaving—”I’m going to become the most vicious person in that world”—might become reality.
1 After Doggy gained constraints, it already felt unadapted. Yun Ce, having imposed requirements on himself, naturally felt even more pain than Doggy.
2 Yun Ce thought for a long time and realized that this little bastard Doggy wasn’t good either. The nonsense it spouted earlier was too tempting. What did it mean that Earth’s rules only apply to Earth? Why couldn’t Earth’s rules apply to the Great Han?
2 These Great Han people were still of the Yellow Emperor lineage, essentially the same race and origin as him. There was really no need to treat them as enemies…
2 Thinking was one thing, but Yun Ce still caught a Doggy, stabbed its thigh, and once the wound stopped bleeding, poured half a bottle of medicinal liquid onto the wound.
2 The Doggy, which had been howling in pain, immediately let out even louder screams, and its body, which had been tied tightly, began to struggle violently.
2 Yun Ce was certain that the stab he made had severed this Doggy’s thigh tendon, so it shouldn’t have been able to control that injured leg. Now, all four of its legs were struggling violently. Out of curiosity, Yun Ce peeled back the skin on the Doggy’s leg and discovered that the tendon he had cut seemed to be intertwining with itself, attempting to fuse back together.
2 One night passed, and that Doggy lay in the cage in the Royal Hunting Ground, no longer struggling or barking, just quietly sticking out its tongue to lick the wound that lacked Doggy skin.
2 Its tendon had twisted into a knot. Though not aesthetically pleasing, it was very sturdy.
2 Yun Ce released this Doggy. Watching it run swiftly up the hillside, he couldn’t help but smile.
2 Peng Zeng also woke up. When he saw Yun Ce again, his eyes were full of fear. Although he didn’t know what Yun Ce had done to him, the pain Yun Ce had inflicted on him was real. He felt he might not have survived that pain, and it was the first time he had experienced something like this.
2 He thought Yun Ce would kill him, but unexpectedly, Yun Ce just glanced at him and left.
3 After Yun Ce left, Peng Zeng this time desperately hoped to recover quickly. He didn’t want to mention any grudges or enmities with this person anymore; he just wanted to stay far away from him.
3 That malice, stronger than the most ferocious wild beast, made him lose any desire to tangle with him. He even thought that Yun Ce wasn’t human—he was a fear beast wearing human skin.
3 E Ji thought Yun Ce’s smile today was very nice, mainly because his current smile involved his whole being, with waves of light swirling in those pitch-black big eyes, fascinating her. Unlike before, even when he was happiest, his eyes were ice-cold.
3 Children’s senses are the sharpest. Before, they didn’t dare approach Yun Ce, but now they surrounded him like a flock of chattering little birds.
3 Feng An and Liang Kun also stopped calling Yun Ce the master at the dinner table, reverting to addressing him as Brother Liu as they did at first sight.
3 Yun Ce naturally sensed this change. As a seasoned critic, he felt Confucius was wrong about many things, but—”examine oneself three times a day,” “seek the cause in oneself,” “be cautious in solitary discipline,” “cultivate oneself and bring peace to others”—these phrases were truly too correct.
3 Today’s Yun Ce was very agreeable. Even when people from the Hunting Ground Camp came to plead, saying that no caravan had come to the Royal Hunting Ground for a long time, they had accumulated a lot of goods that needed to be sold, and they needed to exchange their goods for many daily materials, hoping Yun Ce could lead them to Yun City, Yun Ce agreed.
3 Considering that Chuyun City wasn’t safe, Yun Ce didn’t bring E Ji this time. He also didn’t bring Feng An or Liang Kun. He just wanted to personally make a trip to Chuyun City to assess whether the state of the world there had already collapsed.
3 “Bring me back a carrier pigeon.”
3 Before going to bed at night, E Ji suddenly made a request.
4 “What do you want a carrier pigeon for? To send a letter to someone?”
4 “To you.”
4 “I’m not leaving. Why write me a letter? Besides, I’ll only be gone for three days.”
4 “Three days is already a long time. I feel like in the future, we might be apart for even longer. I need a carrier pigeon. Get me the best one, preferably a small bird. I want to train it personally.”
4 “Thought it through? That thing is expensive.”
4 “No matter how much it costs, I’ll buy it.”
4 “Alright then, buy a pair of the best ones. One for you, one for me.”
4 After hearing this, E Ji’s heart melted. But this silly girl, whenever excited, liked to take off her clothes and burrow into his arms. This time, Yun Ce didn’t push her away; he just held her hand to keep her from moving around.
4 Early the next morning, Yun Ce got up. The people from the Hunting Ground Camp had loaded twenty-three sheep carts with goods. Unfortunately, they didn’t have enough sheep to pull the carts. Even if Yun Ce contributed his four sheep, there were still only a dozen carts, and the rest needed people to pull.
4 With no other choice, Yun Ce arranged the sheep carts into a long convoy. He put the four strongest sheep in the front to tackle tough sections, six sheep in the middle for relays, and two thin sheep at the end to provide extra push on uphill slopes.
5 The people from the Hunting Ground Camp valued this batch of goods highly. All the able-bodied men in the camp came, but even so, there were fewer than eighty men of all sizes.
5 Yun Ce rode the Red Date Horse at the very front, fully equipped with horse spear and bow and arrow. Looking back at the fully prepared group, for the first time in the Great Han, he felt a sense of responsibility on his shoulders.
5 This batch of goods was too important for the Hunting Ground Camp. If robbed, the three hundred people there wouldn’t be able to survive this cold Deep Winter Month.
5 With an impatient neigh from the Red Date Horse, the convoy slowly set off. Yun Ce knew that their confidence in the Thunder Smoke Beast even surpassed their trust in him, the Hunting Ground Chief Manager.
5 In fact, that was the case. After leaving the Royal Hunting Ground area, Yun Ce always felt many eyes from both sides of the road staring fixedly at the heavily laden convoy.
5 He was waiting for these robbers to charge out, so he could test if his recently practiced archery had improved. Unfortunately, those robbers were very timid.
5 Steward Qiu, whom Yun Ce had recently promoted, came up beside Yun Ce’s horse and said, “Chief Manager, with the Thunder Smoke Beast here, they don’t dare come out.”
5 Yun Ce asked strangely, “You know there are bandits on both sides?”
5 Steward Qiu chuckled, “In past winters, we little ones did this too. You know, hunters… heh heh.”
5 The farther they got from the Hunting Ground, the more restless the bandits on both sides of the road became. Fortunately, the Red Date Horse would roar from time to time, appearing very irritable, causing those robbers who wanted to rush out to crawl back and wait for the next target they could afford to provoke.
6 After entering the wasteland road section, the bandits decreased, but the Doggy increased. In just one short month, Yun Ce found that the number of Doggy was almost four or five times more than when they came.
6 Steward Qiu looked fearfully at the groups of Doggy wandering the wasteland and said to Yun Ce, “Chief Manager, these Doggy are forming packs. They’re busy selecting a Dog King now. Once selected, large packs of Doggy will appear. We have few people…”
6 Yun Ce took a bamboo tube, drank some water to moisten his throat, looked at the two sturdy Doggy fighting in the distance, and smiled, “No problem. On the return trip, we’ll free up two carts to hunt some Doggy to take back. Just in time, you’ll have leather material for winter.”
6 Yun Ce spoke easily, but Steward Qiu was still worried and said, “Chief Manager, the reason there are so many Doggy here is purely because too many people have died recently, attracting Doggy from afar.
6 These Doggy that have eaten human flesh are very different from those that haven’t.”
