Chapter 216: Killed The Wrong Person?
Yun Ce had read the history about the Gui Fang people…
This was also a race that had paid countless sacrifices for survival. The Great Han history books described the Gui Fang people entirely from the perspective of superiors and victors.
They frequently boasted of military achievements like slaying how many Gui Fang people, or employing how many Gui Fang slaves to build some monumental project, or even upon an emperor’s death, burying how many Gui Fang people alive in one go.
The history books even went to great lengths to record with utter humiliation how the Gui Fang people, in order to evolve, to become more like Han people, underwent one reproductive evolution after another.
So, when the Gui Fang people had evolved to the point where they could contend with Great Han people, everyone discovered a problem.
That was that the hatred between both sides could no longer be resolved in any way.
Only when all the Gui Fang people were dead would the Great Han people feel safe.
Only when all the Great Han people were dead could the Gui Fang people wash away their humiliation.
At this point, whether Gui Fang people or Great Han people, basically no one had any room left to choose a stance.
Yun Ce had no doubt that Great Han blood flowed in his body, so the Great Han stance was naturally his own. This could not be changed, and Yun Ce had no intention of changing it.
1 Since all Great Han people hoped to exterminate the Gui Fang group, Yun Ce thought the same, he would do the same, even taking the extermination of the Gui Fang people as his own mission.
1 This was not blind conformity, but a choice based on survival.
1 Yun Ce knew there were people in the world who were born with strong compassion, so intense that it permeated every aspect of life, even extending to the Gui Fang people.
1 Yun Ce had just experienced a city massacre, which left him with no hope for any humanity. The last bit of kindness and compassion in his heart had none to spare for the Gui Fang people.
1 Moreover, Doggy had told him earlier that beneath this inn was a large space containing many life forms.
1 Secret chamber, imprisonment—those two words immediately popped into Yun Ce’s head. Whichever it was, it had nothing to do with justice, only unspeakable, inexpressible evil.
1 Plus, this place was run by Gui Fang people. Needless to say, Yun Ce knew the ones suffering below must be Han people.
1 This was why Yun Ce suddenly turned hostile and beat Liu Ruyan.
1 Without hatred to fuel him, Yun Ce generally wouldn’t do something like destroying a flower with ruthless hands. Of course, Yu Heng was the exception—that woman was truly too ignorant.
1 Liu Ruyan, a very beautiful name, and a very standard Gui Fang name. Yun Ce suspected that the Gui Fang people’s achievements in literature had surpassed those of the Great Han people. After all, just from naming, one could see that the Han people really lacked culture.
2 E Ji sounds just like a kind of bird.
2 Zhang Min sounds like a mother, in despair, hoping her daughter could run faster when she grew up.
2 Liu Ruyan and Yu Heng sound much nicer; these names could easily blend into beautiful poetic verses, making one fantasize about her beauty just from hearing the name.
2 For instance, this eerily beautiful woman before him was named—Shen Lexi.
2 “Sorrow like no other from parting at birth, joy like no other from new acquaintance. Shen Lexi, can’t you Gui Fang people write some good works yourselves? Why are you always so obsessed with us Han people’s things?”
2 Shen Lexi vigilantly eyed the handsome Han man before her, who was sometimes gentle, sometimes brutal, sometimes erudite, sometimes crude, and saluted again: “Young Master, you are mistaken. We are all Han women.”
2 Yun Ce shook his head: “No need to wrong yourself pretending to be Han women. The wild beast scent on you hasn’t faded yet. I smelled the intense wild beast musk the moment I came in. No matter how beautiful your exterior, inside that skin is still a man-eating wild beast.
2 Before Yan Fei died, he told me this place held his years of savings. I know this might be Yan Fei trying to exploit my greed to kill me.
2 The reason I came wasn’t for his paltry savings, but to eliminate any and all unsafe factors that could affect Xiangcheng.
2 Since Yan Fei knew he wasn’t my match yet still lured me here to die, the power here must be stronger than Yan Fei’s.
3 So, Shen Lexi, bring out your strongest power. Otherwise, today is your death day.”
3 Seeing Yun Ce angry, the red date horse proactively entered the room, pressed its body close, and Yun Ce smoothly drew the horse spear hung on it. Then, the red date horse snorted and leisurely exited. Outside, it thoughtfully used its face to close the gate properly, preventing the people inside from escaping in the chaos.
3 The “Le Xi” in Shen Lexi’s name came from 《Nine Songs: Lesser Guardian Spirit》. The joy in it carried intense sorrow, or rather, when Qu Yuan wrote “Sorrow like no other from parting at birth, joy like no other from new acquaintance,” the sorrow and joy could cycle and swap. The sorrow of parting wasn’t necessarily sorrow, and the joy of reunion not necessarily joy.
3 Today, Yun Ce was prepared to turn the joy of reunion into utter sorrow.
3 Although after he issued the threat, Shen Lexi began jili gulu speaking Gui Fang dialect to the other Gui Fang people in the room, Yun Ce couldn’t understand a word, but Doggy could understand some.
3 “…I’ll run first, um um, you block… Lesser Guardian Spirit… strangle… Yun Ce, that’s all I can translate, not accurate, judge for yourself.”
3 Hearing Doggy’s translation, Yun Ce’s horse spear instantly stabbed like lightning toward Shen Lexi two zhang away. Two daggers slid from Shen Lexi’s sleeves, crossing to block the spear blade, forcibly deflecting the horse spear carrying immense force. At the same time, her figure quickly flickered to the left, dodging Yun Ce’s following kick.
3 Yun Ce’s kick missed, his right leg heavily landing. As the horse spear circled his waist for a pursuit strike on Shen Lexi, another man in a leather jacket surprisingly locked Yun Ce’s spear blade with the spike of a steel fork. Yun Ce ignored the force transmitted through the horse spear, exerted force again, and the spear blade and fork rubbed out a trail of sparks. The two-chi-long spear blade effortlessly pierced into the leather-jacketed man’s chest.
3 Wanting to fling this guy off, unexpectedly he hugged the horse spear with both hands, his legs firmly wrapped around a pillar. This made Yun Ce’s horse spear fail to pull back with a tug.
3 Seeing Shen Lexi already leaping toward the beam, Yun Ce roared, forcibly lifting the horse spear. The sharp spear blade split the leather-jacketed man’s body in half, and the pair of severed arms smashed with blood toward Shen Lexi, who had flickered past to the beam.
4 Shen Lexi was light as a fox, dodging the severed arms in a few steps, preparing to leap out the skylight. Another steel fork arrived with wind, whistling. Shen Lexi dodged again, and the steel fork thudded deeply into the window frame, sealing the already small skylight.
4 Seeing Yun Ce entangled by two more men again, another man punched open the window, back to it, holding a dagger to guard against Yun Ce, hoping Shen Lexi could escape from here.
4 Yun Ce charged toward the window, but was held by a man whose legs he had just severed. He clung tightly to Yun Ce’s left leg, even opening his bloodied mouth to bite toward Yun Ce’s crotch.
4 His second brother in trouble, Yun Ce had to help, lifting his leg to fling the half-man away, then turning to smash a full-force punch into another leather-jacketed man’s face. The man’s face deformed instantly, yet even this man, blasted unconscious by Yun Ce’s explosive punch, somehow opened his arms to block Yun Ce’s path.
4 “Ninth Brother”
4 Shen Lexi cried out in grief, but her body quickly rushed toward the window, on the verge of breaking free, when two copper-hammer-sized hooves violently kicked toward Shen Lexi about to crawl out the window.
4 Helpless, Shen Lexi rapidly retreated. Immediately, the red date horse’s bared-teeth long face appeared at the window.
4 At this moment, Yun Ce had just finished slaying the nine leather-jacketed great Hans in the room one by one.
4 Looking at the retreating Shen Lexi, Yun Ce said: “No need to fuss. Fix your disheveled makeup. When I take your head later, I’ll be extra careful not to mar your beauty.”
4 Shen Lexi glanced at the nine dead men, her face twisting as she said: “We have no grudge…”
5 Before she finished, Yun Ce scoffed: “No grudge? Don’t tell me the people locked underground aren’t us Great Han people.”
5 Shen Lexi paused, then said: “Who told you those underground are your Han people?”
5 Seeing Shen Lexi didn’t seem to be lying, Yun Ce also paused: “I guessed.”
5 Shen Lexi stared at the limbs and severed arms everywhere, tears streaming, roaring at Yun Ce: “You guessed? Just on a guess, you killed my nine brothers?”
5 Yun Ce indifferently shook his head: “Gui Fang people who come to Han Land deserve to die.”
5 “What do you know? Deserve to die? Those underground are devils, devils captured from the Far North.”
5 “Eh, devils captured from behind the Qingshui River Plateau. Why not keep them in Gui Fang for research? What business bringing them to Han Land?”
5 “This was demanded by your High Priest Liu Changsheng from Princess Yu Heng. We came to Han Land with the Great Han Emperor’s personal approval. I have the pass document issued by the Grand Marshal’s Mansion.”
5 “With a pass document, why not leave? What’s the point of staying in Xiangcheng?”
5 Shen Lexi tossed Yun Ce a cowhide package, then hugged the guy whose head Yun Ce had just burst cracked with a punch, weeping as she said: “We originally notified Yan Fei to escort us to Chang’an. Later, you started fighting, so Yan Fei placed us in Qi Li Pu, planning to send us off after the war ended.”
6 Yun Ce opened the cowhide package and read all the documents inside. The first thing he saw was a letter from the old man Liu Changsheng to Yu Heng. The handwriting was indeed Liu Changsheng’s, but seeing the last sentence made Yun Ce angry.
6 “The world is vast enough to accommodate Great Han and Gui Fang sharing it!”
6 Yun Ce was very familiar with this sentence. Before coming to Great Han, he had heard similar words. The sentence was flawless, extremely rational. But on Earth, after people said it, what was coming still came all the same.
6 To be continued.
