Chapter 212: Lone Wolf Manifesto
Doggy did not give directions for Yun Ce to pursue and kill Yan Fei.
This means Yan Fei is nearby.
This simple cicada-shedding stratagem could fool Yun Ce, but it could never fool Doggy, who had already locked onto him.
Looking back, a nearly five hundred meter long path of blood and flesh suddenly appeared behind him, and he stood at the end of this path of blood and flesh.
After such a fierce battle for so long, Yun Ce had no idea how many arrows had struck his body. He pulled out the ones in front, while the Red Date Horse used its mouth to help him pull out the ones in the back. Clearly, there were far more arrows in the back than in the front. The Red Date Horse clumsily pulled for a good while before finally finishing.
The armor was done for, but fortunately, he was fine. Yun Ce picked up an armor-piercing three-edged arrow and looked at it for a moment before casually tossing it away. Only this kind of arrow could make him feel some pain. As for the other arrows, even if they were armor-piercing, when internal breath surged, the harm from the arrows was negligible.
During combat, adrenaline levels are very high. After the battle ends and one cools down, various negative factors come one after another: exhaustion, pain, sorrow, and a numbness from seeing too many corpses. This turns a person who was spirited and tireless in battle into someone who instantly feels there is nothing worth lingering for in this world and only wants to seek peace in sleep.
He found an intricately carved wine pot on one corpse. Shaking it, the wine inside was still full. This corpse was very sturdy; even with only half a head left, it was clear this was definitely a fierce general in the military.
Now, he lay quietly on the ground, his broad back as flat as a bed. So Yun Ce sat down on it, uncorked the wine pot and smelled it, then began drinking sip by sip, sometimes giving a sip to the Red Date Horse as well.
Cao Kun saw Yun Ce sitting on the pile of corpses drinking. He did not approach. In fact, not only him—many Cao Clan Cavalrymen saw it too, but similarly, they had no mood to come over and greet Yun Ce.
1 It is said that only the Demon King would sit on a seat forged from corpses. Right now, a Demon King was sitting on the throne of flesh he had personally forged, drinking wine.
1 This Yun Ce was the Demon King, not that Yun Ce who always had a smile on his face. They looked exactly the same, but in reality, they were long different.
1 Cao Clan Cavalrymen, you howled as you charged across the battlefield to pursue and kill Yan Fei’s subordinates fleeing toward Xiangcheng, leaving only this brutal battlefield for Yun Ce to enjoy alone.
1 “Come out and have a drink.” Yun Ce’s weary voice suddenly rang out on the battlefield full of small whirlwinds.
1 Immediately, a corpse was pushed aside, and a man in ordinary leather armor covered in blood stood up from the pile of corpses, gasping heavily for fresh air. Perhaps breathing too fiercely, he coughed violently a few times. Once his breathing steadied, he turned back to Yun Ce and said, “Can I still live?”
1 Yun Ce said, “I want Xiangcheng as my market.”
1 Yan Fei nodded and said, “First to ascend, slay a general, charge into formation, seize the flag—you claimed them all alone. Charge into formation and slay a general are the top merits. By rights, Xiangcheng should be yours.”
1 Yun Ce raised the wine pot in his hand and said, “Come over and have a sip.”
1 Yan Fei did not refuse upon hearing this. He walked over and looked at the corpse under Yun Ce’s buttocks, saying, “You are sitting on the back of my top fierce general, Left Supervisor. He always told me before that his back was broad enough to bear a king.”
1 “Before, I did not believe it. Now, I think he was very right.”
2 Yun Ce tossed the wine pot to Yan Fei and said, “Why did you betray Tan Shou?”
2 Yan Fei laughed and said, “In the battle at He Kou, I Yan Fei also earned merit for slaying a general. Tan Shou was unwilling to give me Yangdu City at He Kou and sent me back to help him maintain security in the Northern Territory. Do you not think that was asking for death?”
2 “He did not give the rewards that should have been given, was not at all worried I would be discontent, and still entrusted me with heavy responsibility. Do you not think that is ridiculous?”
2 Yun Ce nodded and said, “That is actually normal. Tan Shou probably thinks that because you command his army, you had the opportunity to gain some military merit and live a life of fine clothes and good food. You should not be discontent just because he did not give you Yangdu City. You should continue to be grateful to him and pledge eternal loyalty.”
2 This flaw has been committed by many nobles and backfired on many times, yet they never learn to repent.
2 Yan Fei took a sip of wine, tossed the wine pot back to Yun Ce, and laughed, “I hope Cao Kun does not make this mistake.”
2 Yun Ce nodded and said, “Yes, I also hope Cao Kun does not make such a mistake. Tell me about your family. How do you hope I will arrange for them?”
2 Yan Fei looked at the Cao Clan Cavalrymen who had followed the routed soldiers into Xiangcheng, shook his head desolately, and said, “You have no chance to contact my family. Cao Kun will not leave them for you either. If—and I say if—Cao Kun does not kill my family but instead recruits them out of fear of you, I hope that when facing my third son Yan Rong, you can spare his life.”
2 “For this, I hid some things in the basement of a place called Meimei Residence in Qi Li Pu. Now, the things there belong to you. If you also like beautiful women like me, the shopkeeper of Meimei Residence is quite attractive—you can accept her as well.”
2 Yun Ce thought for a moment and said, “Good. If Yan Rong comes to me for revenge, I can spare him three times. Also, does your woman know about the treasure hidden in Meimei Residence?”
3 Yan Fei burst into loud laughter: “How can a woman be entrusted with important matters?”
3 Yun Ce shook his head and said, “That is not right. All my family wealth is in my wife’s hands.”
3 “Hahaha.” Yan Fei laughed three times and said to Yun Ce, “I will be on my way now. Take my head.”
3 Yun Ce laughed, “There is still something very valuable on your body. We cannot waste it.”
3 Yan Fei watched as silver tentacles extended from Yun Ce’s wrist, instantly covering his entire body. He looked at Yun Ce in horror and said, “What are you doing?”
3 Doggy was busy, and Yun Ce was busy too. He was cooking porridge. Today’s consumption was really too great; his stomach was empty. He took out a flat-bottomed pan, added some rice, lit a fire, added water, and began cooking porridge.
3 Once the rice porridge was cooked to a mushy state, it became saccharified—the best supplement for extreme bodily fatigue, quickly raising blood sugar and restoring one’s spirit to fullness.
3 Doggy conducted a deep exploration of Yan Fei’s body, so it took a very long time. Because it searched inch by inch, aside from Yan Fei’s head, the rest of his body was reduced to ashes by Doggy.
3 “Internal breath total does not exceed that of three Thousand-man Generals. It is not even as much as what Yu Sang stored before dying. There is nothing special about it. This time, you broke even.”
3 While Doggy was speaking, Yun Ce was stirring the porridge with a spoon. The secret to making a pot of good porridge lies in stirring. When the body desperately needs sugar, a pot of good porridge is as significant as conquering the next city.
4 “No problem. This result is already good. To be honest, using this method on Han People makes me uncomfortable. Once the Gui Fang people arrive, we can store from them.”
4 “A corpse is a corpse. Alive, they can be divided into Han People and Gui Fang people. Dead, what difference is there?”
4 “You are an artificial intelligence. There are some things you do not understand. Do you know what ‘born a Han family person, dead a Han family ghost’ means?”
4 Doggy said, “Too extreme.”
4 Yun Ce laughed, “Without extremism, do you think the Han family could thrive on Earth for thousands of years without perishing? The Han family here can also continue for thousands of years without perishing?”
4 Doggy was silent for a moment. Perhaps his algorithm could not yet support this kind of thinking that was all emotion and no logic.
4 Sitting in a pile of corpses drinking plain porridge was very strange, but Yun Ce did not care. He was waiting for Cao Kun to come find him. Only here were there corpses everywhere, and only these corpses could dispel some of Cao Kun’s bad thoughts. According to Great Han military merit, give him what he deserves.
4 In another place, the deterrence would decrease by at least ninety percent.
4 Yun Ce knew his own strength was truly limited. The five hundred cavalrymen commanded by Qin Shu were not much better than the Cao Clan’s elite cavalry. The truly deterrent thing was the bombs equipped on this cavalry. But bombs, though powerful, would eventually lead enemies to figure out countermeasures after suffering a few losses.
4 It was not a long-term deterrence.
5 Now, Yun Ce had packaged himself through this field of corpses into another kind of lone wolf deterrence. For great families like Cao Kun’s, the deterrence of a powerful lone wolf was greater than that of an ordinary family.
5 Because a lone wolf has few weaknesses. The threat of a lone wolf like Yun Ce, who had many burdens, was controllable. As long as he was not excessively provoked, his lone wolf nature would not emerge.
5 Since Yun Ce could slay a general and seize the flag on a battlefield surrounded by six thousand, he might very well take the patriarch’s head amid heavy guards.
5 Yun Ce, also from a great family background, how could he not understand what a great family is? Great families can risk others’ lives to act tough and fight bravely, but if it involves their own lives, forget it.
5 At dusk, Cao Kun arrived at the battlefield again, escorted by over a hundred guards. At this time, Yun Ce and the Red Date Horse were cleaning the battlefield.
5 The Red Date Horse was responsible for rounding up the scattered horses, while Yun Ce collected the armor and weapons from the battlefield. Seeing Yun Ce bundle the collected horse spears and tie them to a horse’s back, Cao Kun could not help saying, “There is no need for you to do this.”
5 Yun Ce wiped the blood and mud from his face and said, “Do not stand there talking without backache. The more I take, the more rice my family can eat.”
5 Cao Kun looked at Yan Fei’s head placed on the broad back of a corpse, hesitated for a long time, and then said, “By rights, Xiangcheng should be yours…”
5 Before Cao Kun could continue, Yun Ce interjected, “It should be mine to begin with. Forget charge into formation—the merit for slaying a general is obvious. What do you mean ‘should be’? Who has any objections?”
5 Cao Kun earnestly advised, “If I give you Xiangcheng, how will you manage it? Where will the manpower come from to garrison it?”
6 Yun Ce laughed, “My family has many scholars. We can send officials and clerks. We also have some house guards to maintain security in the city. I think that is enough.”
6 Cao Kun said, “What about enemy invasions?”
6 Yun Ce looked at Cao Kun and said, “Whoever comes to occupy Xiangcheng, I will kill their entire clan. If I cannot finish in one day, I will do it over two days. If not in two, I will spread it over ten days. I want to see whether they breed faster or I kill faster.”
6 You see, I continue
