Chapter 54: I Want To Kill You, None Of Your Business
After being schemed against by Zhang Min and beaten by a group of people, Yun Ce believed he was still far from reaching the level where he could go on an unscrupulous rampage.
After gnawing on dragon eggshell and undergoing a cosmic travel experience sufficient to alter his gene sequence, Yun Ce considered himself a god descending upon this place.
In the end, arrows shot into the body really hurt, crossbow bolts shot into the body hurt like hell, a hammer smashing into the chest caused chest tightness and shortness of breath, and even a bit of nerve toxin could make him dizzy and bloated-headed, so he could not afford to be careless.
In front of him was a metal house; who knew what unknown dangers lurked inside.
Duke Yu’s Mansion had now become the core battleground between the rebels and the soldiers. Just listening to the intense battle sounds from the front courtyard revealed that Pei Chuan, Miss Hong, and the others also understood the principle of capturing the enemy leader first.
Duke Yu was the city lord of Sheyang City, and he had served as city lord of Sheyang City for many years. It was said that during his one-year-old grab-week ceremony, the then city lord of Sheyang City offered his own seal as a grab-week toy for this child born into wealth and nobility.
A one-year-old child, faced with hundreds of dazzling grab-week items, ignored those gaudy cheap trinkets and quickly crawled straight to the city lord’s seal, grabbing it and refusing to let go.
The next day, Sheyang City’s city lord became this one-year-old child.
People with money and power would eventually transform into terrifying individuals, a truth Yun Ce deeply understood.
As for claims that rich and powerful people were surrounded only by sycophants and good-for-nothings, Yun Ce did not believe it. Who said a person of both intellect and bravery could not be a sycophant? Who said there were no brilliantly talented strategists among the good-for-nothings?
1 Just look at the scene before his eyes: the front courtyard was guarded by soldiers, now fought until brains were splattered everywhere; the back courtyard was guarded by Duke Yu’s own people. Now, only Yun Ce had broken in, yet he could do nothing about their iron house. The difference was clear.
1 Duke Yu still had not called for anyone to come to his rescue, showing such confidence that Yun Ce applauded him. He decided to set the house on fire and see what happened.
1 The metal used for casting green money was unknown, but its properties were similar to aluminum on Earth: light weight, good ductility, and high heat conductivity.
1 This small building was at most two stories with only about fifty square meters, and the first-floor hall was spacious, very much like a furnace chamber. A little heating would surely turn the people inside into roast pigs.
1 Guided by Doggy, Yun Ce soon returned carrying two large barrels of lamp oil, dragging behind him a huge bundle of candles as thick as a person’s arm.
1 Breaking open the lamp oil barrels, Yun Ce threw the broken barrels into the hall. After the oil spread for a bit, he tossed in a torch, and the hall immediately burst into roaring flames.
1 Seeing the flames burning so fiercely, Yun Ce could not help but sigh in admiration that designing a metal small building with such excellent ventilation was the work of a master craftsman.
1 Good ventilation also meant the house was perfectly suited for ignition, so he threw the entire bundle of candles in to fuel the fire. Lamp oil combined with melted candles soon created an explosive combustion effect in the hall, excellently drawing air from the metal house.
1 The roof was slowly descending, seemingly to smother the flames. Having anticipated this, Yun Ce reluctantly threw in the two life-sized white gemstone beauty statues from the courtyard to prop it up, preventing the roof from continuing to lower.
1 The beauty statues were carved lifelike; only the silk-like clothes draped on their bodies caught fire spontaneously, their smooth bodies seeming to come alive under the roasting flames.
2 Duke Yu was truly a flower of wealth and nobility; even his beauty statues showed no charred patches on key areas like the chest and buttocks, far more elegant than the figures at the Huaqing Pool in Lintong, Shaanxi.
2 Scooping a bucket of water from the ornamental fish pond and splashing it on the roof produced a sizzle as steam rose. Yun Ce felt it was enough; even if Duke Yu liked steaming saunas, this temperature would cook him.
2 After waiting a bit longer with still no movement from the small building, Yun Ce sighed and said to Doggy, “He escaped through a tunnel. Help me find him.”
2 A silver thread emerged from the wristband, probed around, then pointed straight at Yun Ce’s back.
2 Turning around, he saw Duke Yu being carried out from the small building behind him. From afar, Duke Yu chuckled, “Young man, you just don’t know how to cherish good things. This small building was the life’s work of master craftsman He Donglou, and now you’ve burned it into a pile of scrap metal. What a pity.”
2 Yun Ce glanced at the people continuously emerging from the small building, his face twitching as he smiled, “A trivial matter; Duke Yu need not make such a fuss.”
2 Duke Yu, sitting in the sedan chair, lifted a pair of feet gleaming white like jade and said, “This old man treasures these feet more than his own life. How could it be a small thing?”
2 “Come, come, let this old man introduce some friends. They are all famous heroes of the Great Han. You young ones should get acquainted.”
2 Yun Ce looked down at his wristband and heard Doggy’s voice in his ear.
2 “I’m following orders to harm life, not acting on my own, right? Also, you looked at me this once; you’re sure you’re sending me to harm life, right?”
3 Yun Ce looked at the guy at the front holding two chain hammers larger than a person’s head and said seriously, “Yes, it was my order, not you gaining independent consciousness.”
3 “I’ve recorded your answer.”
3 After Doggy replied, it dispersed into faint, imperceptible threads that dropped into the grass and vanished.
3 Seeing Yun Ce looking around randomly and ignoring him, Duke Yu pointed at the strong man at the front holding the meteor hammer and said, “Zheng Hu, be careful when smashing him; don’t kill him with one hammer.”
3 Zheng Hu nodded, stepped forward, but the meteor hammer flew toward Yun Ce’s chest ahead of him, with ferocious power, clearly disregarding Duke Yu’s words.
3 Yun Ce reached out both hands and tightly hugged the head-sized meteor hammer. Zheng Hu’s eyes narrowed, and the other hammer head swung a large arc in mid-air toward Yun Ce’s head.
3 Yun Ce yanked the meteor hammer back hard; the iron chain originally wrapped around Zheng Hu’s arm creaked and turned several times. The swung meteor hammer’s radius shortened, grazing Yun Ce’s nose tip and smashing into the ground, while Zheng Hu’s arm looked skinned, with flesh minced and bloody.
3 Yun Ce pulled again with force, and the iron chain outright twisted off Zheng Hu’s arm. Having obtained a chain hammer, Yun Ce swung it toward Duke Yu.
3 The chain hammer smashed into a giant shield, shattering it; the person behind the giant shield vomited blood and fell. Yun Ce retracted the chain hammer and swung it down hard again.
3 Duke Yu’s face turned ashen; he glared annoyed at the stunned people around him. Fortunately, a few sedan chair bearers beside him desperately jumped out, using their bodies to collide with the meteor hammer.
4 This person’s force was great, actually deflecting the meteor hammer’s trajectory, so the meteor hammer smashed into the ground along with his body.
4 Duke Yu raised his hand to wipe the blood and flesh smeared on his face, staring dazedly at Yun Ce. “What did you do to them?”
4 Before Yun Ce could answer, a woman’s voice sounded from not far away.
4 “Nothing more than spirit tricks. I’ve heard the Pig King Zhu Nu can shoot boar bristles from the nape of his neck like crossbow bolts, and those hit show no external injury but suffer unbearable pain and cannot move.”
4 Yun Ce smacked his lips, looking at the approaching Zhang Min. “I feel like I’m becoming more and more like a pig demon.”
4 After speaking, he said to Duke Yu, “Duke Yu, do you have any aphrodisiac potions here?”
4 Duke Yu glanced at Zhang Min and chuckled, “With such a beauty, achieving romance under the flowers and moon is most fitting. Drinking aphrodisiac potion would ruin the mood, wouldn’t it?”
4 Yun Ce slowly swung the chain hammer and said, “Because I want to fuck her to death. A woman like her, who would sell off her own dad and brothers for a bit of profit, must have thick skin and tough flesh. Without aphrodisiac potion, I’m afraid I won’t have enough strength.”
4 Duke Yu raised his cane and pushed the nearest warrior, who fell straight to the ground stiffly. Though his eyes could still blink, he could not move.
4 “It seems this old man was indeed underestimating you. You came here really just because a girl died?”
5 Yun Ce nodded. “That’s the truth. As city lord, you let a child who should be protected by her parents sit by the roadside eating dirt. That’s your fault.”
5 Duke Yu frowned. “Wasn’t it because her parents were incompetent?”
5 “You mean, because your parents were more capable, you’re destined to enjoy everything?”
5 “Isn’t that how it is?”
5 “No!”
5 “What’s the reasoning?”
5 “Think about it yourself. Find more faults in yourself; if you do, you might become a noble person, a person who has escaped vulgar tastes.”
5 Duke Yu turned to look at Zhang Min, who had arrived behind him. “See? Even the reason to kill me must be found by me myself. How domineering.”
5 Zhang Min signaled the servants carrying Duke Yu to slowly retreat, then faced Yun Ce directly, pointing a giant sword at him. “I’ve eaten plenty of pigs in my life. Don’t you want revenge for your kin?”
5 Yun Ce first shouted at Duke Yu, “Even now, I only want your pair of feet. If you run, even to the ends of the earth, I’ll take your life.”
6 Zhang Min chuckled lightly to Duke Yu. “It’s said pigs have an extremely keen sense of smell; it has memorized your scent and truly has the ability for pursuit and kill over a thousand miles.”
6 Yun Ce steadied his stance, exhaled powerfully, and the meteor hammer he had been slowly swinging came down again with immense power. Zhang Min hurriedly dodged.
6 The iron chain in Yun Ce’s hand suddenly loosened, and the chain hammer instantly smashed onto another sedan chair bearer’s head. Amid a teeth-grinding sound of bones cracking, the bearer exploded from this single hammer blow.
6 Facing such a ferocious Yun Ce, Duke Yu lost his mood to smile for the first time.
6 Yun Ce walked over, pushed aside the other two rigid bearers, and with blood all over him, leaned down to Duke Yu. “I really need your pair of feet to pay respects to that dead girl.”
6 Duke Yu sighed. “I have money, a lot of money.”
6 Yun Ce reached out. “Hand it over!”
6 “If I give you money, you won’t chop off my feet?”
6 “No, I can chop a little lighter!”
