Chapter 11: The Arrival Of The Terrifying Great Demon King
Looking up at the sun that had just reached overhead, Yun Ce took out his mobile phone and adjusted the time. He planned to set the time when the sun was directly overhead as noon twelve o’clock.
Before this, he had already discovered that the daytime here was far longer than on Earth, basically more than twice as long. Similarly, the night was the same. Assuming this planet’s rotation speed was the same as Earth’s, could it be concluded that this planet was larger than Earth?
Of course, how much larger was naturally not simply twice as much.
Yun Ce felt there was no need to do overly detailed calculations. Besides, he couldn’t do them well either. As a trailblazing pioneer, exploring whether this world had civilized life was what he needed to do now.
Anyone burdened with a major mission fears death.
Thus, Yun Ce returned to the tree hollow, preparing to sleep. He felt his body was still not quite stable. Just earlier, he noticed his left hand was twice as big as his right hand, but it soon returned to normal.
After lying down, his hand showed no unusual activity, but his tailbone burned fiercely, as if something was about to drill out. Yun Ce thought it was very likely to be a tail.
Humans actually have tails, but they evolved them away over the long process of evolution. However, the necessary factors for growing a tail still lurk deep in the genes, and once conditions are right, they might reemerge.
The best way to restore the body is sleep, especially high-quality sleep, which is indispensable.
The damp tree hollow, after being baked by the campfire for five or six hours, had become very dry. Especially near the fire source, quite a bit of resin had seeped out. This resin seemed to have a combustion-promoting effect. Some originally ignited tree hearts, upon contact with the resin, burned even more fiercely. After contacting the fire, the resin also emitted a faint jasmine-like fragrance, which was very refreshing.
1 Yun Ce scraped seven or eight strips from the tree hollow wall, casually tossed them into the Dragon Pearl, and also pulled out two blankets, planning to lay one under him and cover himself with the other. Leaning against the tree hollow gate, he slept. He figured it would take at least several more hours for the entire tree hollow to catch fire.
1 He left a gap at the gate to create a chimney effect, lest he be smoked to death by the fumes.
1 When the full moon among the three moons illuminated the night sky snow-white, Yun Ce stood on the horizontal branch of the big tree, gazing at the big tree burning fiercely before him, his eyes full of sorrow.
1 He knew his own nature too well. If he didn’t force himself into a desperate situation, he absolutely wouldn’t take risks.
1 He knew it wasn’t safe to make a fire in the tree hollow, and he also knew resin had a combustion-promoting effect.
1 He knew even more clearly that after seeing those poisonous insects on the ground, if he didn’t destroy his home—the big tree, which was a comfort nest for him—he would find it hard to muster the determination to truly step onto the most real land of this world.
1 So, creating a disaster for himself to force the issue was inevitable, just like that flock of giant beaked birds always thinking of suicide.
1 Just like how Yun Linchuan only told him the truth at the last moment.
1 In fact, Yun Linchuan understood his weakness better than Yun Ce himself did.
1 The full moon at night appeared far larger than during the day. It was several hundred times larger than the full moon on Earth, looming enormously on the horizon, neither rising nor moving, like a huge eyeball coldly staring at this world.
2 There was a huge black spot in the middle of the moon. Yun Ce inferred from its shape that it should be a crater, only this crater was so large that it became the pupil of this moon.
2 The light produced by the burning big tree was far from comparable to this unusually large moon, but it illuminated the places the moon couldn’t reach.
2 The wood in this world seemed to burn very well. After burning for a while, the flames climbed up to the tree crown, turning the big tree into a burning torch.
2 Fortunately, flames like to burn upward, eroding downward very slowly, which gave Yun Ce plenty of safe time and space.
2 After the big tree burned, due to the need for oxygen to aid combustion and the convection of cold and hot air, wind started on this side. It began as weak air flow producing some friction. Soon, the wind entered the burning process, turning the breeze into occasional rotating gusts. When more air participated in the combustion, a whirlwind climbed up from the tree roots.
2 The air Yun Ce breathed into his lungs was scorching hot, so he had to retreat some distance down the tree until a faint warmth enveloped his whole body before stopping.
2 It wasn’t too cold tonight. Yun Ce guessed it was related to that large moon on the horizon. A full moon could reflect more light to this world, while a crescent moon provided very limited light to the ground. As for what the half moon ruling the night looked like, Yun Ce hadn’t experienced it and couldn’t say. He didn’t even know the cycle of these three moons.
2 The spot where Yun Ce dug the tree hollow burned the fastest because there was a vent, so fanned by the wind, the burning opening was far brighter than other places.
2 He very much hoped the big tree would break at that position…
2 Indeed, after discovering the ground was very dangerous, Yun Ce planned to start a forest fire in this world to clear a relatively safe area for himself.
3 If lucky, he could even use this forest fire to leave this barbaric land.
3 Of course, the premise for leaving the barbaric land was that this world had traces of civilization.
3 As for what kind of biological disaster this fire would cause, Yun Ce didn’t care. He felt that having just arrived in this world, he wasn’t familiar with the various creatures here, so there was no need to overthink. He would take it one step at a time.
3 At this point, burning branches began falling continuously from high up on the big tree. Yun Ce chose to hide under a thick branch, hoping the big tree would burn through sooner.
3 The burning branches tore through the dark forest, ultimately igniting the thick dry branches and fallen leaves at the tree roots, and the fire spread quickly. In moments, a fire field of over ten acres appeared.
3 At this time, the tree trunk above Yun Ce’s head burned very fiercely, and the fire at the tree roots below his feet also became a prairie fire. If not for the tree being tall enough, he would be like a roast duck in an oven, and a double-sided roast duck at that.
3 Anywhere near the big tree, no other trees could survive. This Earth law still held here. After the dry branches and fallen leaves on the ground burned up, the fire ring began spreading outward. This bit of fire was far from enough to ignite the thick big tree.
3 Yun Ce, pretending to doze against the tree trunk, heard a teeth-gritting creaking sound. The trunk, which took more than ten people to encircle, began trembling slightly. Seeing the trunk above leaning left, Yun Ce moved to the right side of the big tree and hugged close to the trunk.
3 From the right side, Yun Ce could see that huge Ming Yue. Because it was so large, this eyeball-like moon, even when lit by sunlight, wasn’t very white. The gray soil on the moon made this eyeball appear somewhat cloudy.
3 The sun couldn’t adorn the huge eyeball, but the forest fire before him changed it. As the forest fire continued expanding outward, the flame color also dyed this eyeball red, adding a touch of ferocity to this world controlled by the big eyeball moon.
4 The first to feel uneasy were the birds perched in the trees. They flew up in flocks, emitting shrill cries while heading straight toward the big eyeball moon without looking back.
4 The big tree sheltering Yun Ce suddenly broke in the middle. When it fell, it made a huge crash in the midnight, smashing other trees. Due to being on fire, the broken trunk instantly carved a fiery path through the pitch-black forest.
4 Everyone knows flames burn easily upward but very difficultly downward. Since the burning trunk above broke, the fire on this big tree became small. Not long after, the flames at the very top of the trunk extinguished, leaving only the charcoal fire. Fanned by the wind, the black charcoal glowed red-hot, like a candle burned for heaven and earth.
4 The big tree smashed a fiery path in the forest, also basically opening a ventilation path. Fresh wind entered the fiery path, and the fire field’s area instantly increased a lot. Then, the wind pushed the fireball, spreading toward the distance.
4 Yun Ce slept quite well leaning against the warm tree trunk. He planned to leave here at dawn.
4 In his sleep, he seemed to hear many strange cries: some high-pitched piercing the clouds, some dull like thunder, some like the wailing of wronged women, and of course, there were also those howling loudly like children.
4 Invasive alien species mean disaster for local species. This law works on Earth and equally on Yun Ce. He didn’t know if local species would do something so heartless for their own safety, but he could, and he would do it with a clear conscience.
4 Long ago, there was a prophecy on Earth: The terror Demon King descends from the heavens, wielding a burning wooden club to sweep everything away. Mars will rule the four directions in the name of happiness.
4 Of course, Yun Ce couldn’t think of so much. He was only focused on recuperating quickly to meet the huge challenges coming one after another.
4 When the sun rose, the huge moon hadn’t set yet, just slightly smaller. But from the speed of shrinking per unit time, it could be inferred that this huge moon was rapidly moving away from this planet. From this, it could also be inferred that this moon was on an elliptical orbit around this planet.
5 In ancient myths, the sun is always compared to the envoy of light, and night to evil demons. Every sunrise is a day of light’s victory. It can also be said that in places people can’t reach, great people or gods are always battling tirelessly for us insignificant humans.
5 Making Yun Ce grateful was impossible. The Yun Clan had no habit of gratitude. The males of their clan all had a bit of the ungrateful wolf cub trait.
