Chapter 198: Summer Insects Cannot Discuss Ice
The birth of any life is worth celebrating and praising, just like the sun at this moment selflessly casting its rays on this newborn chick.
Nature treats all creatures equally, giving no less hope than due, and no less suffering than must be endured; it’s just that this bird is different.
From the first glance Yun Ce took at it, he knew it was big trouble.
So, when this hopping and jumping bird came up to Yun Ce’s side preparing to rub its head against his calf, he unhesitatingly kicked it away.
What Yun Ce hated most among people and animals was no more than a monster with an aged soul stuffed into a newborn body—without a doubt, this bird was one, with sinister thoughts and childish behavior; just thinking about it made him feel disgusted.
The Red Date Horse was different; it was originally an idiot, and after Shehuo plucked its fur and washed its marrow, it remained an idiot. Yun Ce liked this kind of evolution, and loved it dearly.
After all, an animal or a person must go through a growth process, must have a process from immaturity to maturity, to be good evolution in line with Yun Ce’s view; otherwise, it was demonic.
The Fledgling Eagle was kicked away by Yun Ce with one foot, but it hopped and jumped back to pester him, and Yun Ce gave it another kick.
The Red Date Horse could already stand up, but after yesterday’s torment, its fur was disheveled, and its body emitted waves of foul odor. Yun Ce pulled it into the shallow water, took out a brush and soap, planning to give it a thorough wash.
The gaunt Red Date Horse stood in the water, foamy soap suds trickling down its legs. That bird squatted under the Red Date Horse’s leg, using its wings to catch the soap bubbles, its head nimbly turning to clean itself.
1 Yun Ce used a small hook-shaped brush to carefully clean the Red Date Horse’s ear canal; in just one day, this guy’s ears were already filthy beyond measure.
1 Finally, Yun Ce took out a metal file and carefully smoothed the hoof walls of the Red Date Horse’s four hooves, then tied its mane into individual buns. At this point, though the Red Date Horse was still very thin, it already showed traces of its former glory.
1 Yun Ce stepped on the Fledgling Eagle’s back with his foot; this guy was immediately pressed down by Yun Ce’s weight, lying on the ground and croaking “guagua.” This made the contempt in Yun Ce’s eyes even thicker.
1 It could carry others flying all over the world, but when it came to him, even a single step made it croak; it seemed just like the Doggy King, another useless one.
1 Shehuo was a aloof and kind Eldest Daughter; she only took care of doing what she liked to do, and as for how this bird would be raised afterward, she didn’t care.
1 The Red Date Horse clearly couldn’t be ridden now, so if Yun Ce wanted to return to Yun Clan Villa, he could only rely on his own two feet.
1 The Qingshui River was never a gentle river; it carved its way from Clear Water Plateau all the way north of the Great Wall to this plain, and its lazy nature suddenly flared up—no longer forcefully cutting through mountains, preferring to go around highlands, preferring to lengthen its journey to the East Sea, no longer showing its brutal side.
1 So, the Qingshui River had countless bends here, accumulating a lot of water. Once the upstream ice and snow melted or heavy rain came, the plain north of the Great Wall would turn into a land of floods.
1 On both sides of the river channel were only some low short trees, or trees with thick trunks but no crowns; they grew like this not by choice, but because the Qingshui River didn’t give them a chance to grow tall or big. As soon as these trees showed any ambition to grow upward, the Qingshui River would flood.
1 “Guagua gua” The chick that was stumbling along at Yun Ce’s leg suddenly barked fiercely at a thick tree trunk with only four or five branches in the distance.
2 Doggy immediately said in Yun Ce’s head: “Yu Sang is in that tree hollow.”
2 Yun Ce was about to change course, but Doggy’s tentacle suddenly appeared. At the tip of the tentacle, Shehuo was emitting a shimmering glow; the glow quickly formed a cover that enveloped Yun Ce and the Red Date Horse, while that useless bird was not within Shehuo’s coverage.
2 This was probably the Eldest Daughter Shehuo not liking such a disgusting thing on her territory and planning to eliminate it.
2 “Alright, alright.” Yun Ce was still unwilling to go, but he was carried step by step by the light cover toward that old tree stump.
2 The hole in the tree stump wasn’t deep enough; Yu Sang’s upper body leaned against the hole wall, with its two legs sprawled outside.
2 When Yun Ce saw Yu Sang, his skin was like it was melting, his nose limply drooping over his mouth, and his lips drooping over his chin, eyelids covering his eyes, hands like wearing a pair of oversized human skin gloves.
2 The hair that originally had only a bit of white at the temples now had only about a hundred strands stubbornly clinging to the bald scalp full of dark spots, hanging long over his chest—probably his last pride.
2 Yu Sang lifted his hand to pull up his drooping eyelid and glanced at Yun Ce, then supported his lips with his hand and said: “Did this old man fall into a trap?”
2 Yun Ce always had respect for elders and quickly said: “No.”
2 Yu Sang said again: “Do you know why I became like this?”
3 Yun Ce continued shaking his head: “A senior expert naturally has a senior expert’s way of dying.”
3 Yu Sang sighed, and immediately two bloody teeth fell out. He continued regardless: “The Gui Fang people will soon leave the barren plateau and return to the fertile plains to live—a long-awaited good thing. But now it seems, with trash like you around, the Gui Fang people will have plenty of trouble after descending the plateau.
3 Yun Ce, I should have killed you at first sight.”
3 Yun Ce also sighed and said: “Senior, you’d better not talk too much, be careful not to lose all your teeth. Actually, the Gui Fang people living on the plateau and the Great Han people on the plain is already a very good arrangement. Senior, why aren’t you satisfied?”
3 Perhaps feeling he couldn’t live anymore, Yu Sang’s desire to talk was very high at this moment. Even though what Yun Ce said was all nonsense, he responded: “If we don’t come down to the plain, we’ll be exterminated.”
3 Yun Ce said in surprise: “Haven’t you lived on the plateau for thousands of years already? You should be adapted to the climate there.”
3 Yu Sang could no longer express his amusement with expressions; he squeezed out a string of laughter from his throat with difficulty, then said to Yun Ce: “The suffering we’ve endured, you Han People will experience the same, and no less.”
3 Yun Ce disgustedly watched Doggy extend its tentacle out of the light cover and thrust it harshly into Yu Sang’s body. He somewhat didn’t understand: from a person already scorched and melting by the radioactive source, what oil and water could still be squeezed from his body?
3 Yu Sang looked down at the tentacle Doggy had thrust into his body and said with slight regret: “Is this your shady method?”
3 Yun Ce shook his head: “No, it’s just checking your body to see if it can save you.”
4 Yu Sang let down his raised eyelid and chin, mumbling unclearly: “Lies are truly tempting. You always say we Gui Fang people are the greatest evil in the world—actually, you are.
4 Ever since you rode dragons from your ancestral land to here, for this world and land, the catastrophe began.”
4 Yun Ce laughed: “It was also we who brought civilization to you, freeing you from the state of wild beasts, letting you know what pain is, what humiliation is, what is etched in the bone.”
4 “Kekeke, you’re right. You claim to be above the Gui Fang people; that day when you encounter another group claiming to be above you, when you’re tormented by them, don’t complain.
4 Also, your two tubes are stealing this old man’s internal breath, hahaha, this old man won’t give it to you even in death.”
4 Hearing Yu Sang say this, Yun Ce immediately dragged the Red Date Horse and retreated rapidly. In general, martial arts experts who say such things would self-destruct their bodies.
4 Yu Sang’s body indeed swelled a bit, but soon deflated. Later, it turned into a puddle of mud. From some broken leaks, Yun Ce saw Yu Sang’s bones emitting a shimmering green light; even in broad daylight, this green glow was as beautiful as jade, incomparable.
4 Shehuo fell on that puddle of mud, burning very fiercely. Doggy sent the tentacle exposed to radiation into the tree hollow, hoping Shehuo would eliminate the radiation.
4 Eliminating radiation wasn’t something that could be rushed. Yun Ce brought the Red Date Horse to the riverbank; that Fledgling Eagle also hopped over. Yun Ce said to Doggy: “Before I came to Great Han, I had a conversation with a dragon. At that time, it said I was a small grass, it was a towering big tree; a towering big tree wouldn’t care about the life or death of small grass.
4 I asked it then if there was something even stronger than it, that could treat even these towering big trees like small grass and abuse them.
5 I remember it said then—yes.
5 Now, I’ve heard this kind of topic again from Yu Sang’s mouth, and from his words, I gather that the current Gui Fang people are not without crisis as we imagined; they have to come down from Clear Water Plateau—what does that mean?
5 Or is there another powerful opponent chasing their buttocks?”
5 Doggy drawled: “Take people’s words as truth, but people’s words are the most untrustworthy. Without real intelligence to back it up, just treat it all as fart talk.
5 From history, you can draw a conclusion: the fall of an era, a clan, or even a civilization, will go through a not-short period in the world. This period is brief for the planet, but for people, it will be a long time.”
5 “You mean live in the present?”
5 “If not living in the present, when else can you live? In the past, or in the future? Whether it’s what Ao Bing said or what this Yu Sang said, you can comfort yourself with one sentence from Confucius.”
5 “What sentence?”
5 “Revere ghosts and gods but keep your distance.”
5 “That still means live in the present.”
6 “Exactly. Your lifespan is but a century; even if you’re awesome now and get a few centuries, so what? Compared to eternal things, you’re still just a mayfly, born in the morning and dead at dusk; living a few centuries at most makes you a ‘summer insect that cannot discuss ice’.”
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