Chapter 9: Different Yet The Same
When a flock of birds with colorful long tails glided past the giant tree in a group, Yun Ce easily assumed that the ones flying by were a flock of phoenixes.
Calling this flock of birds phoenixes was due to Yun Ce’s habitual thinking, after all, he had just come here from Earth with a group of dragons, and after seeing this flock of birds very similar to the legendary phoenixes, calling them phoenixes was a very natural thing.
Logically speaking, individual birds in flocks are not too powerful, this is common knowledge on Earth, and it is unknown if it is correct here.
Soon, when a giant bird suddenly appeared and pounced on the phoenix flock, Yun Ce knew this theory was correct, because after the giant bird killed into the phoenix flock, it carried out a massacre there.
The giant bird’s slaughtering method clearly exceeded the instinct of foraging; after tearing apart the vast majority of the phoenixes in the air, it only grabbed two phoenixes with its two claws, with another one in its mouth, flapped its huge wings a few times, and flew toward the horizon.
Yun Ce reached out and caught a phoenix feather dancing in the wind, examining it carefully.
This was a feather with a bright red color in the center, while the color around the feather gradually transitioned from red to purple, then to blue; at the very edge of the feather, Yun Ce couldn’t tell if it was black or another color, because as soon as he slightly shook the feather, the edge color would change, and when viewed against the sunlight, it could even turn golden.
The color change of this feather reminded Yun Ce of polar bears on Earth; this guy looks white, but actually isn’t; its fur is translucent and changes somewhat with external light.
Polar bears live on the ice fields of the North Pole, where the climate is extremely harsh; the reason for that kind of fur is entirely to adapt to the harsh climate there.
Thinking of this, Yun Ce quickly tore some tree bark from the tree branch, smashed the tree bark into a cotton-like shape with the back of the knife, and stuffed the gap in that gate tightly.
1 He had actually already felt that as the sun gradually lowered, the temperature was dropping with the sun’s movement, and the pinnate branches with huge needle-like leaves on this tree were also slowly curling up; plus the phoenixes with fur like polar bears, Yun Ce determined that the climate here was not much better.
1 Sure enough, just after Yun Ce fixed the wooden gate, a cloud came rushing from his left side.
1 At first, the cloud wasn’t big, but as more and more clouds came from that direction, the small cloud turned into a huge dark cloud, with the outer layer of the dark cloud illuminated golden by the sun in the high ground, but in the middle of the dark cloud, lightning was already brewing.
1 The reason for such certainty was that Yun Ce’s hair started standing on end automatically.
1 He really wanted to leave this big tree that was easily struck by lightning, but it was too late; the fork-shaped lightning shining with white light had already contacted the tree crown; after the tree crown exploded with a loud bang, he saw the outer tree bark of the giant tree automatically winding downward as if plowed open by a ploughshare; Yun Ce let out a strange yell, dove headfirst into the tree hollow, closed his eyes, and waited for the result resigned to fate.
1 Yun Ce in the tree hollow felt like a mouse hiding in a guitar; the tree trunk emitted crisp cracking explosions, shaking him to bounce around everywhere.
1 Amazingly, the lightning did not affect him hiding in the tree hollow; those fallen tree barks quickly turned charred, then caught fire, scattering down under the tree and igniting some not very tall trees.
1 Yun Ce was very worried about a forest fire, but the thought just arose and was quickly withdrawn, because bean-sized raindrops had already fallen, enveloping heaven and earth in a vast curtain of rain.
1 Yun Ce thought for a moment and felt that being struck dead by lightning seemed better than freezing to death or drowning, so he simply took out a moisture-proof mat, a blanket, and a deflated inflatable pillow from the dragon pearl; after inflating the pillow, he quietly lay in the damp wooden house, covered himself with the blanket, and prepared to meet his fate.
1 When leaving Earth, he had been tormented by Ao Bing’s dragon might nearly to death; during the space travel leaving Earth, there was even less rest.
2 Now, after accepting his fate, drowsiness came like a tide.
2 Habitually setting an alarm clock on his mobile phone, he yawned and fell asleep.
2 If you have the ability, strive hard; if not, live plainly; if you can live, strive to live prominently; if you can’t live, strive to survive; if there’s really no way, then lie flat and accept fate, bet on your own luck.
2 The above is the family precept of the Yun Clan passed down for over two hundred years by Wolf Paws Water.
2 Yun Ce was seriously betting on his own luck.
2 When the alarm clock rang, Yun Ce saw pitch black outside and reset the alarm clock, continuing to sleep.
2 When the alarm clock rang again, Yun Ce was still extremely sleepy and repeated the previous action, continuing to sleep.
2 When the alarm clock rang again, Yun Ce sat up, looked out from the specially left gap in the gate, saw it was still pitch dark where he couldn’t see his hand, wanted to continue sleeping but had no sleepiness left.
2 Outside the door, there was no sound of rain like previous waves crashing on the shore, only the dense rustling of silkworms eating mulberry leaves; Yun Ce turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, opened the door, and looked out.
2 As soon as the door was opened, a piercing chill immediately assaulted him; even with his strong body, he couldn’t help shivering, and outside the door, in the beam of the flashlight, goose feather heavy snow was pouring down.
3 Yun Ce reached out and caught a handful of snowflakes; perhaps because the snowflakes’ temperature was very low, the snowflakes remained in their fallen state without melting at all.
3 The snowflake in his hand was a classic six-pointed star snowflake, with each branch dividing into more branches, like stars in winter, brilliant and exquisite.
3 “It seems the physical laws here haven’t changed much.”
3 Yun Ce comforted himself, then put the snowflake into his mouth and slowly tasted the flavor of snowflakes on this planet.
3 The snowflake was ice-cold and moist, especially after being melted by saliva; Yun Ce surprisingly tasted a slight sweet flavor from it.
3 Yun Ce quickly closed the door tight; in that short time just now, the remaining warmth in the treehouse had been completely exhausted.
3 He had to take out an aluminum foil thermal blanket, first wrap his body, then wrap the blanket around his whole body, which finally reduced the invading chill a bit.
3 The sky still showed no sign of brightening; Yun Ce had to curl up his body and rethink the meaning of coming here.
3 From being targeted by Ao Bing to being exiled to this unknown planet, this brought a disruptive change to Yun Ce’s life.
3 And this change only took seven days.
4 No preparation, everything came so suddenly.
4 This is Yun Linchuan’s way of doing things: crude, brutal, arbitrary.
4 Speaking of it, this is also the soldier’s approach: one order, life and death, no time for love and affection.
4 This is why Yun Ce back then refused to death to attend military academy.
4 Being a soldier itself is a sacrifice; it sounds full of majestic strength like clashing gold and iron, but in reality? After becoming a soldier, except living up to the country, you let down everyone else.
4 After entering politics, Yun Ce once thought he was far from the army, but unexpectedly, even though he had shown strong unwillingness to enter the army, one word from Yun Linchuan turned him into a soldier, and one who set off first before the army moved—a vanguard!
4 Calling him a vanguard is somewhat elevating; scout better describes his current situation; in the military, scouts are the ones who die fastest.
4 Escape is impossible; if not dead, then work.
4 Before entering sleep, Yun Ce cursed Yun Linchuan once more and then fell asleep.
4 Until the moment sunlight shone in through the crack in the broken gate, he still hadn’t figured out the meaning of coming to this planet, of course, the nano communicator in his stomach didn’t count.
5 Even if the dragon threw his already dead body onto this planet, it would count as fulfilling the promise.
5 So, Yun Ce came to a simple conclusion—his body coming to this planet was important, but his thoughts were worthless.
5 For an ordinary person, he had already completed his mission; his current life was picked up, he could live purely for himself, but he couldn’t; the last sentence in the oath required him to strive for the cause all his life.
5 As long as he didn’t die, he must fulfill his oath.
5 “People need a bit of spiritual pursuit.”
5 Born in the Yun Family, then this Yun family member’s spiritual pursuit is only one—ultimately achieve the great harmony of humanity.
5 Of course, many in the Yun Family have completely achieved their own great harmony of humanity, namely—great material abundance.
5 Yun Ce hasn’t; for that oath, his family’s losses were too great; grandpa, grandma, father, mother all fell on the road to realizing the oath; asking him to violate the oath for a bit of money or other material, he really couldn’t do it, nor was it worth it.
5 Of course, Yun Linchuan is still an old, smelly, tough old salted fish! Squeezing their branch to death, only stopping after using up the family line.
5 Opening the wooden gate, he thought he’d see a vast white expanse, but the world outside was still lush; the giant tree he was in, when the cold wave came at night, curled up its huge pinnate leaves; now, the sun was out, and the leaves were slowly unfurling.
6 As for the heavy snow that fell last night, it had started melting, turning into strings of water droplets falling to the invisible ground.
6 The morning in the new world was a lively scene of a hundred flowers blooming.
6 Not only the big tree he was in, almost all plants curled up their leaves during the cold night, waiting for the sun to rise and then all unfurl.
6 Such a world is much more vivid and lively than the world on Earth.
6 Many birds hiding in the leaves at night also took wing high at this moment, especially the long-tailed birds similar to phoenixes seen yesterday, flying in colorful splendor.
6 Birdsong rose to the sky, immediately attracting their natural enemies.
6 Yun Ce couldn’t understand the meaning of them doing this; could it be that just because they survived last night’s cold wave, it was worth risking their lives to sing at an untimely moment?
