Chapter 17: It Only Concerns The Test Results
When Yun Ce jumped down from the tree, the piece of skin and flesh torn off by the Wild Boar Spirit had already been absorbed by the liquid metal, leaving only a bit of residue.
When his hand touched the metal liquid, the metal liquid flowed back along his fingers to the bracer. This time, the color of the bracer was not silver-white, but dark red.
He crushed the remaining skin and flesh with his foot, and the dried skin and flesh turned into powder.
Yun Ce looked at the bracer that kept changing colors and shapes, felt the Dragon Pearl and the metal liquid’s excitement, thought for a moment, and then chased after the Wild Boar Spirit in the direction it had fled.
Since the Wild Boar Spirit’s body could enhance the Dragon Pearl and the metal liquid, he felt he had to do something. Just like when he was working before, if he couldn’t find a breakthrough direction for the moment, it was better to go in the direction most favorable to himself. Doing so would generally bring some good luck.
The blood and flesh torn off by the Wild Boar Spirit weighed a full five or six jin. Such a large wound must have a great impact on it. With the martial power the Wild Boar Spirit had shown earlier, he definitely couldn’t beat it. However, judging from the speed at which this guy had fled just now, it should be no match for him.
Having figured it out, Yun Ce’s steps became even lighter. Running is human instinct. Although at the beginning, his eyes and mind couldn’t keep up with his legs moving too fast, causing him to fall a few times, once the reactions of his brain, eyes, and legs began to coordinate, as he watched the half-person-high grass flash under his feet, he felt extremely good. No matter what, he at least had the ability of Grass on Flying.
The vegetation on both sides flashed backward rapidly, and Yun Ce felt extremely exhilarated. This extreme mental enjoyment almost made him forget everything that Yun Linchuan, that old thief, had done to him.
Yun Ce knew that injured wild boars could run very fast. Back when wild boars weren’t protected animals, he had followed Yun Da and the others to hunt them several times. At that time, he was just a small fry, only able to chase the injured wild boar with a group of people, running over two hillsides before finding the wild boar with the stomach injury.
The stamina of the Wild Boar Spirit in front of him undoubtedly far exceeded that of ordinary wild boars. Yun Ce trailed far behind the Wild Boar Spirit as it ran, for a full two hours, before seeing the Wild Boar Spirit finally slow down its steps, lean its body against a huge tree trunk, and gasp for breath.
1 Yun Ce carefully crouched on a tree, using the telescope to watch the Wild Boar Spirit from afar, until he discovered that the Wild Boar Spirit was actually wrapping its wound with tree resin, then he exclaimed in surprise.
1 Injured wild boars do this, and unexpectedly, the injured Wild Boar Spirit did the same. It seemed that there wasn’t much of a generational difference between the Wild Boar Spirit and wild boars.
1 So far, he hadn’t discovered that the Wild Boar Spirit had a systematic language or thinking superior to that of wild beasts. Its battle still relied on instinct. This gave Yun Ce a basic evaluation of the Wild Boar Spirit, the species most resembling intelligent life that he had seen so far.
1 If this Wild Boar Spirit still couldn’t break free from the shackles of a wild beast, it was still just a wild beast. Yun Ce decided to continue observing.
1 After the Wild Boar Spirit finished wrapping its wound and even submerged its injured arm in the stream beside the big tree and fell into a deep sleep, Yun Ce jumped down from the big tree and slowly approached the Wild Boar Spirit from the downwind position.
1 The metal liquid on his wrist became active again, turning into a long needle pointing straight in the direction of the Wild Boar Spirit. He had thought these metal needles would automatically fly toward the Wild Boar Spirit, but unexpectedly, this thing was useless, like a leech, only able to wait idly for prey.
1 During this time, he used the Dragon Pearl to collect seven or eight spicy strip-shaped creatures that clearly weren’t good ones. After they finally crawled to the upstream of the stream, he took out two dead spicy strip-shaped creatures. The metal liquid automatically wrapped around this creature’s mouthparts, and then Yun Ce put them into the stream.
1 Watching them sink and float downstream in the water, Yun Ce slowly retreated backward. His movements were very smooth, not much worse than those spicy strip-shaped creatures.
1 Back on the tree at the starting point, Yun Ce shook off the various insects crawling all over his body, then took out the telescope from the Dragon Pearl again and silently observed the Wild Boar Spirit.
1 The spicy strip-shaped creatures in the stream had already drifted far away with the water flow, completely go with the flow in a dead state. Yun Ce estimated that the liquid metal had already made good contact with the Wild Boar Spirit.
2 The Wild Boar Spirit’s body trembled a few times, as if immersed in a sleep dream unwilling to wake up. This made Yun Ce somewhat disappointed. The liquid metal had already started working, and the Wild Boar Spirit hadn’t noticed. Moreover, this guy dared to sleep so carelessly in the wild; its alertness was really too poor.
2 The divine power in Yun Ce’s imagination hadn’t appeared even at the life and death juncture. So, this Wild Boar Spirit was just a wild boar that had taken a different path during evolution.
2 Yun Ce thought of those bears that could hold sticks to beat wild boars, feeling this was another degree of evolution. It seemed that on this planet, advanced evolution involved more than just humans.
2 The so-called advanced evolution was first evolving the brain to increase brain capacity, and second evolving the hands to make them more suitable for using common tools. Combining a brain with a pair of flexible hands could create new tools, and only then was it truly advanced evolution.
2 This point, so far, only humans had achieved.
2 Just as Yun Ce was assessing the Wild Boar Spirit’s degree of evolution, the Wild Boar Spirit, which had been sleeping quietly, suddenly let out a shrill wail.
2 Yun Ce immediately raised the telescope to look. He saw the Wild Boar Spirit jumping and bouncing like it was having a seizure under the big tree, constantly slamming its body against the big tree.
2 The big tree was very large, yet it still made cracking sounds from the Wild Boar Spirit’s impacts, and the leaves on it fell one after another.
2 Yun Ce focused his main observation on the Wild Boar Spirit’s face, wanting to see if it would show more advanced expressions. This was also an indicator of advanced evolution.
2 After watching for a while, Yun Ce couldn’t help but sigh, because from beginning to end, he could only see anger on the Wild Boar Spirit’s face. Moreover, its eyes were bloodshot, and the whole pig had entered a state of rage.
3 When wild beasts go berserk, they often do some very irrational things. Sure enough, the Wild Boar Spirit’s right hand suddenly grabbed its left arm, let out another roar, tore off the already severely injured left arm, threw it far away, and then ran panic-stricken toward a large forest.
3 Yun Ce strolled to the place where the Wild Boar Spirit had torn off its arm. The grassland here had been messed up messily by the Wild Boar Spirit, and there was a patch on the tree trunk that had been irrigated with blood. It wouldn’t have such a large area without three or two jin of blood.
3 What is blood for?
3 This thing can transport oxygen and various nutrients needed by the human body to tissue cells, and also transport waste from organ metabolism,
3 such as carbon dioxide, to the lungs and kidneys to be discharged from the body.
3 Its role is certainly more than just this. Yun Ce only knew that people can’t live without blood; losing some would make one weak, and losing too much would be fatal.
3 Since the wild boars here aren’t much different from those on Earth, they should also follow these laws.
3 Yun Ce found the half arm discarded by the Wild Boar Spirit. The arm had slowly carbonized. Although it was a broken arm, now blackened and brittle, when Yun Ce kicked it, the half arm broke into several pieces.
3 A pool of liquid metal gathered from the black charcoal. Yun Ce bent down, and the thing re-wrapped the Dragon Pearl, making the entire bracer show a demonic purple color.
3 However, this purple didn’t last long; it gradually returned to dark red, and after a moment, the bracer restored its original silver-white color.
4 Yun Ce didn’t believe that the comrades from Bureau Eleven could make nanometal into a living robot with simple wisdom. He was more willing to believe that this thing had been infused with something new by the Dragon Pearl to become like this.
4 The Dragon Pearl is a seed, a seed that can spread intelligent life. The first half was said by Ao Bing, and the second half was Yun Ce’s guess.
4 Since the liquid metal and Dragon Pearl liked that Wild Boar Spirit so much, Yun Ce had reason to suspect that the Wild Boar Spirit’s body had the same origin as his own body.
4 As everyone knows, the genetic similarity between humans and pigs can reach 98%, and with this Wild Boar Spirit that can walk upright with hands and feet, the similarity would only be higher.
4 One must know that even father and son can’t have 100% genetic similarity. From this theory, one can draw a conclusion: humans and pigs are actually quite similar, with only about 1% difference.
4 Yun Ce shook his head with a smile, shaking this theory out of his mind because it was too absurd.
4 Just like when he was studying in Ganzhou and met a scholar specializing in Hakka Culture, who believed that all migrants living in the southwest were actually Hakka people and could be called greater Hakka Culture.
4 Yun Ce felt it was inappropriate; he couldn’t, just because he was too lonely, consider a pig that had evolved onto a wrong path as his own kind.
4 The Dragon Pearl and metal liquid, quiet for less than ten minutes, became restless again. The metal liquid once again piled up into a needle, pointing straight in the direction the Wild Boar Spirit had fled.
4 Yun Ce also felt his experiment wasn’t finished, so he jumped onto a big tree, then hopped from one tree to another, chasing the Wild Boar Spirit into this not-too-large forest.
5 Yun Ce didn’t encounter any monkeys in the forest, not a single one. Things similar to squirrels were plentiful, though. These things not only climbed trees but also opened a pair of flesh wings for brief flight when startled.
5 Yun Ce accidentally startled one, and immediately, the forest was full of flying squirrels in chaos.
5 Once these guys left the shelter of the trees, they immediately became targets of birds of prey in the sky, diving down one after another in great haste.
5 The liquid metal seemed to have some connection with the Wild Boar Spirit. No matter how Yun Ce leaped through the forest, it could always point out the Wild Boar Spirit’s escape direction to him.
5 When Yun Ce saw the Wild Boar Spirit again, this guy was still fleeing desperately. It was clear this guy was really very fatigued; not only was its running stumbling, but its body was always on the verge of collapse. The torn wound was crawling with various insects, yet even so, this guy’s feet were still striving forward.
