Chapter 190: Danger, Extreme Danger
Elephant Pigs shake the earth and mountains when they run, while the Red Date Horse runs as fast as lightning, so Yun Ce was the first to enter Eddy Bay and also the first to come out of Eddy Bay.
Thunder Smoke Beasts like the Red Date Horse, which fear no fierce beasts, are one in ten thousand in the world, so it can display its outstanding running ability at any time, unlike other Thunder Smoke Beasts, which after passing through the Beast Supervision’s hands, appear silly and dazed, clearly knowing a terrifying Giant Beast is running from the opposite side, yet not knowing to run and instead foolishly waiting for their master.
In the end, some Thunder Smoke Beasts failed to wait for their masters and instead, like their masters, were trampled into meat patties by Elephant Pigs.
The fastest running adult Elephant Pig was a female beast. When it angrily chased those insect-like humans, it stepped into a trap dug beforehand by Liang Kun. The trap wasn’t deep enough, but it just caught its front hoof. Before it could pull its hoof out of the trap, the forward momentum snapped its hoof in an instant. Its colossal body also smashed onto the ground. When it struggled to lift its head, the bowstring of the Dragon Crossbow not far away emitted a bursting sound.
The Dragon Crossbow’s heavy crossbow bolt drilled into its skull. The Elephant Pig raised its head and let out a wail, and another crossbow bolt drilled into its skull, cutting off its second wail that was about to emerge.
A heavy Iron Spear fell from the sky, drilling into an Elephant Pig’s back. The Iron Spear pierced through its body, emerging from its stomach, and continued falling. With the Elephant Pig’s violent running, the through-and-through Iron Spear scraped a very deep mark on the ground.
Cao Kun rode on a Thunder Smoke Beast’s back, watching the mountain-high Elephant Pigs charge one after another into the traps and snares, and said to Yun Ce, who had just escaped back, “I hope the scouts have already started searching by now.”
Yun Ce glanced at the Elephant Pigs that kept getting hit by arrows and said to Cao Kun, “After we entered Eddy Bay, the Thunder Smoke Beasts stopped before the Red Mud Ground, so we had to enter on foot.”
Cao Kun shook his head and said, “You don’t need to explain. This is the expected damage.”
Yun Ce shook his head and said, “What I mean is, something strange about that patch of Red Mud Ground.”
1 Cao Kun glanced at Cao Ling, and Cao Ling waved a flag signal again to the warriors on the Albatross, apparently relaying what Yun Ce had just said to the scout team that had crossed the river and climbed up to Eddy Bay.
1 Watching an Elephant Pig covered in snares, with all four hooves—three of which had lost their hoof plates—it finally broke through the traps and snares’ restraints and charged straight toward the Dragon Crossbow’s position without a second thought.
1 Whoever the warrior controlling the Dragon Crossbow belonged to, they surprisingly did not flee when a colossus charged toward them but remained calmly stationed there firing crossbow bolts.
1 Three crossbow bolts drilled into the Elephant Pig’s body. Since none were fatal, Yun Ce and Cao Kun watched as a perfectly good Dragon Crossbow position was trampled into flat ground by the enraged Elephant Pig.
1 At the same time, two more Elephant Pigs broke through the traps and snares’ entanglement and charged recklessly at all the visible humans.
1 Seeing an Elephant Pig staring at him with blood-red eyes, Yun Ce said to Cao Kun, “Run.”
1 Cao Kun laughed and said, “Good, you run into the wilderness, I’ll go to the forest.”
1 With that, he took Cao Ling and ran toward the forest without looking back.
1 Yun Ce had no choice but to ride the Red Date Horse toward the wilderness. Behind him, fully two Elephant Pigs closely pursued him.
1 All the Albatrosses in the sky went to pursue and kill the severely injured Elephant Pig following Cao Kun, so the sky on Yun Ce’s side was naturally empty.
2 Running has never been an Elephant Pig’s strong suit. After Yun Ce led the Elephant Pigs running dozens of miles across the wasteland, the two Elephant Pigs were already exhausted, one in front and one behind.
2 Yun Ce and the Red Date Horse stopped on a hill, watching the Elephant Pigs panting heavily not far away. The Elephant Pigs that had nearly stopped began running again. For Yun Ce, the culprit who killed their children and kin, they would try to kill him even if it cost their lives.
2 Doggy drawled, “The Elephant Pigs have all left Eddy Bay. I think Cao Kun’s subordinates should have made some discoveries by now.”
2 Yun Ce said, “You want to get the thing in Eddy Bay again?”
2 Doggy said, “Don’t you want to?”
2 Yun Ce shook his head and said, “I really don’t want to, or rather, from the first time I entered Eddy Bay, I never thought of taking the thing inside.”
2 “How so?”
2 “Because this thing is too evil.”
2 “How evil exactly?”
2 “Trapping eleven Giant Beasts in a very small place where they can’t escape—isn’t that evil enough?”
3 “No.”
3 “Look again at the fate of these eleven Elephant Pigs. Do you still think they’re not evil?”
3 “No. Even without those things, with your personality, when you learned Elephant Pig Meat could help you survive famine and even make the people under your command stronger, you would still find a way to kill these Elephant Pigs.”
3 Yun Ce laughed and said, “So, my goal was very clear from the start. What I want is the Elephant Pigs’ meat.”
3 Doggy sighed and said, “Too lacking in ambition.”
3 Yun Ce sneered, “Guess why these Elephant Pigs, who originally wouldn’t leave Eddy Bay, are now willing to abandon that treasure land?”
3 Doggy said, “Because of hatred?”
3 Yun Ce shook his head. “It should be the thing in Eddy Bay has discovered better targets than Elephant Pigs.”
3 Doggy said in surprise, “You mean those scouts who crossed the river onto Eddy Bay?”
3 Yun Ce continued, “Remember when we first came to Great Han?”
4 Doggy said, “You were living in a tree then.”
4 “Remember those birds that squatted over flames barbecuing themselves?”
4 “Yes, because there were Parasitic Insects in their stomachs.”
4 “Good, then remember how I handled the bodies of the previous two Elephant Pigs?”
4 “One was ground into powder in the grindstone, the other was deep-fried in the oil pot.”
4 “These two methods aren’t the best ways to process beast meat. Guess why I did it that way?”
4 “You suspect Elephant Pigs have been infected by some insect similar to the ones in the Red-haired Birds’ stomachs? No wonder, after you got the meat, you made me test it. So the root cause was here.”
4 “Wild Boars have Pig King, bears have Bear King, Doggy have Dog King. Guess if the insects that make Red-haired Birds wish they were dead have their own king?”
4 “You saw it? This must be your guess, right?”
4 “Exactly, it’s a guess. Whether right or wrong, I don’t want to get involved in an event akin to a biochemical crisis.”
5 While Yun Ce and Doggy were talking, the two Elephant Pigs finally caught up. When they climbed the hill, the Red Date Horse carried Yun Ce to the opposite hill. The Elephant Pigs chased again, the Red Date Horse ran again, until four Albatrosses flew from the sky, and only then did the Red Date Horse stop leading those two Elephant Pigs on a chase.
5 Because, in their utter exhaustion, two heavy Iron Spears fell from the sky, killing them.
5 After this chase scene, the bodies of the two Elephant Pigs were not far from Yun Clan Villa. Seeing the two mountain-sized Elephant Pigs dead, the people from Yun Clan Villa who had hidden to watch the spectacle swarmed out.
5 They prepared to gut the two Elephant Pig corpses right there, then carry the meat and usable parts home bit by bit.
5 When Yun Ce met Cao Kun again, neither felt ashamed about fleeing the battlefield. Instead, one thought he had lured away two Elephant Pigs, easing the pressure for the warriors here and truly saving those who had no right to flee.
5 As for the other, he similarly believed his brilliant strategy had one-shot killed so many Elephant Pigs, commanding most excellently.
5 With Yun Ce’s tacit approval, Liang Kun’s men, who had come to dig pits and set snares, confirmed all Elephant Pigs were dead and immediately began dismembering the Elephant Pig cub corpses that had been dead for a while.
5 Seeing Cao Kun say nothing, Liang Kun worked even harder. He first cut the tender fat parts from the Elephant Pig cub into pieces and carried them away, and his hands moved very quickly.
5 The treasure found by the scouts who crossed the river onto Eddy Bay was a pile of mud. It was a pile of glowing mud. Before Yun Ce even approached, Doggy was roaring frantically in his head.
5 “Radioactive material, high-concentration radioactive material. I just took some to test—high-concentration Radioactive Source.”
6 Hearing Doggy’s warning, Yun Ce refused to go forward and instead stood vaguely behind Cao Kun.
6 Seeing Yun Ce not moving, Cao Kun couldn’t help asking, “What’s wrong?”
6 Yun Ce pointed to the distant Red Date Horse and the Thunder Smoke Beast Cao Kun rode in on, saying softly, “My Thunder Smoke Beast has the potential to become the king of Thunder Smoke Beasts.
6 You know, any wild beast with hope of becoming a spirit has a very powerful ability: the sharpness to keenly sense danger.
6 Now, not just it, the other Thunder Smoke Beasts are also stopping before the red soil and refusing to advance. So, whatever you found, I don’t want it, don’t want to touch it. I just want some Elephant Pig Meat to take home.”
6 Cao Kun said angrily, “Speak human language.”
6 Yun Ce pointed to the scouts shoveling mud into boxes and said, “I think they might not live long.”
6 Cao Kun’s gaze shifted uncertainly. Moments later, he smiled at Yun Ce and said, “Then let’s go back. You really don’t want this thing? The scouts said that as soon as they approached this pile of mud, they felt full of energy.”
6 Yun Ce backed away while saying, “Then congratulations to them on their robust spirits and living to two hundred.”
6 Finishing his words, under Doggy’s frenzied warnings, Yun Ce turned and ran. This time he ran extremely fast, leaving Cao Kun far behind.
7 Back at the forward camp, Yun Ce took a full bath and changed clothes, but even so, Doggy still detected 1.5 units of one-time radiation equivalent to a Goer in Yun Ce’s body, which was actually somewhat serious.
7 After Cao Kun returned, he immediately repeated what Yun Ce had done upon returning, then endured his nausea and urge to vomit to find Yun Ce and say, “Do you know what that is?”
7 Yun Ce firmly shook his head. “Don’t know, and don’t want to know.”
7 “That thing is very dangerous, right?”
7 Yun Ce said seriously, “Dangerous, extremely dangerous.”
