Chapter 218: Who Doesn’t Have An Iron Enclosure Pass?
Bragging is also a form of political art.
However, we generally don’t call it bragging; we call it purposefully elevating the intent.
The height of this intent is naturally better the higher it is; at least it needs to reach a height that others look up to. In the past, ten-plus stories high was already the limit of bragging; any more, and the braggart would feel embarrassed.
Now, Earth is full of buildings hundreds or thousands of stories high; many have penetrated deep into the clouds, and some even require taking a plane to catch a glimpse.
Those people have nearly walked to the end of their bragging path, while Yun Ce here has only just begun.
Moreover, Yun Ce keenly noticed from the brief conversation just now that Shen Lexi seems to be a pacifist.
There are pacifists among the Gui Fang people?
Yun Ce thought this was a new discovery…
The second devil also had a humanoid shape, just not very standard. After discovering this, Yun Ce first looked over all the devils in the basement.
Sure enough, as he imagined, all the devils had primitive human forms. It seemed that the Gui Fang people classified things similar to humans as devils, while those even more ferocious and vicious but unrelated to humans in appearance were all classified as wild beasts.
1 In the embryonic state, human embryos are very similar to beast embryos, with almost no difference, sharing an ancient developmental blueprint with multicellular animals.
1 But a few weeks later, human embryonic features begin to become clear and distinguishable. He ultimately develops into one with a highly developed neocortex. With the neocortex, it means this embryo has a human fetus with abstract thinking, language, and self-awareness, not other creatures.
1 The above is the normal developmental trajectory of humans. If this normal trajectory becomes somewhat abnormal, many strange creatures are likely to appear, like the sixteen devils in the cages before him.
1 Yun Ce circled around Shen Lexi, focusing on her buttocks.
1 Shen Lexi gritted her teeth and said, “You’re interested in me this wildman again?”
1 Yun Ce frowned and shook his head, saying, “I remember there was a time when you Gui Fang people had four legs and four arms, right? Seems like there were tails too.”
1 Shen Lexi roared angrily, and two daggers immediately appeared in her hands. Without any fancy moves, she stabbed straight at Yun Ce’s mouth.
1 Yun Ce dodged the daggers and continued, “The devils you consider might very well be your cousins or something. Give them some more time, and they might grow to look very much like you.”
1 Shen Lexi stopped talking and just wielded her two daggers ferociously, with every strike aimed at Yun Ce’s mouth that was spewing venom.
1 This woman’s martial art wasn’t high— just shy of thousand-man general strength—so Yun Ce could handle her with one hand. He could take advantage of her flustered state to have Doggy collect samples from all the devils here. Then, after returning, he could study them properly to see if these guys were, as Yun Ce said, failed products that the Gui Fang people accidentally produced on the path of evolution.
2 After Doggy finished collecting samples, Yun Ce grabbed Shen Lexi’s incoming dagger and asked, “There are a lot of these devils, and they’ve already threatened your habitat, right?”
2 Shen Lexi panted heavily and said, “Jili Guala, huala.”
2 Doggy translated in real time: “She wants to fuck you to death, make your back door bloom.”
2 Yun Ce sniffed and said to Shen Lexi, “This is rough talk belonging to men; it’s not elegant for a woman like you to say it.”
2 Upon hearing this, Shen Lexi’s eyes instantly turned scarlet, and she roared, “Gala, gua la, haha.”
2 Doggy immediately said, “She says she can use a knife.”
2 Yun Ce suspiciously said to Doggy, “Why do I feel like you’re stirring things up? The tone doesn’t sound like that.”
2 Doggy said something like ‘why not believe people’ and then proactively went offline.
2 Yun Ce snatched Shen Lexi’s two daggers and casually nailed them to a pillar, saying to Shen Lexi, “Speak human language properly.”
2 “I want to kill you. I’ll tear you to pieces and chop you into minced meat to feed Doggy.”
3 Seeing Shen Lexi still furious, Yun Ce grabbed her two fists that were attacking his mouth. After controlling her with one hand, he took the wine pot from his waist, pulled out the stopper with his mouth, and forced the pot mouth into Shen Lexi’s mouth. Seeing she wouldn’t drink, he pressed his finger against her throat, and Shen Lexi involuntarily started gulping it down.
3 After half a pot of wine went down, Yun Ce thought she should calm down. He let go, and the woman thudded to the ground. Yun Ce was startled and quickly checked her neck, only to find she had passed out drunk.
3 With Shen Lexi passed out drunk, the devils started roaring again. Yun Ce said lowly, “Shut up.” The basement fell silent again.
3 Yun Ce looked around and finally fixed his gaze on Liu Ruyan, who was huddled in the corner hugging her chest. He strode over, pried open her hands from her chest, and seriously looked at her breasts for a moment before saying to Liu Ruyan, “I’ve looked. You didn’t seduce me. Now, can we talk properly?”
3 Liu Ruyan’s gaze seemed poisoned. Though she hated Yun Ce to death in her heart, a habitual charming smile appeared on her face. Perhaps remembering how Yun Ce had just treated her, she gritted her teeth and said, “Young Master, please ask.”
3 Yun Ce squatted in front of Liu Ruyan and said, “Are there many such devils in the northern Clear Water Plateau?”
3 Liu Ruyan shook her head and said, “I don’t know.”
3 Yun Ce slightly moved his left foot and asked again, “Speak properly.”
3 Liu Ruyan screamed in pain, tears flowing as she said, “You’re stepping on my toe.”
3 Yun Ce moved his left foot away and said again, “Is it as I think?”
4 Seeing Yun Ce’s left foot hovering again, Liu Ruyan said while crying, “Two hundred years ago, the High Priest led people to clean them out once. At that time, they were nearly extinct, and there were fully thirty years without seeing these devil creatures.
4 A hundred years ago, they increased again. This generation’s High Priest cleaned them out again, resulting in ten years of peace. Ten years later, these devil creatures occupied Heavenly Peak Mountain.
4 The High Priest led the team out again, using a full six years to eliminate the devils from Heavenly Peak Mountain. Then, sixty years ago, the devils came back stronger, not only occupying Heavenly Peak Mountain but even approaching the top heaven city at one point.
4 From then on, battles to eliminate devils happen every year, and the devils have grown stronger and stronger. Then, Heavenly Peak City became the base for my Gui Fang clan to attack devils every year—basically the same as your Iron Enclosure Pass.
4 Don’t think your peace these past few decades comes from Iron Enclosure Pass. If devils hadn’t appeared, that Iron Enclosure Pass would have been breached long ago, and my Gui Fang iron cavalry would have taken Chang’an.
4 Yun Ce asked again, “How strong is the strongest devil?”
4 Liu Ruyan lowered her head softly and said, “I only know that in last year’s battle to exterminate devils, four Mad Ox Knights fell. Some say the High Priest was also seriously injured.”
4 “Do you think someone like me can fight the strongest devil?”
4 A smile appeared at the corner of Liu Ruyan’s mouth, and she nodded repeatedly, saying, “Young Master’s martial art is unmatched in the world. Devils seeing Young Master can only flee in panic.”
4 Yun Ce laughed, “Though it’s flattery, it sounds very comfortable.”
5 Liu Ruyan screamed in pain again. Yun Ce was about to scold her when he saw his heel pressing on Liu Ruyan’s big toe again. He quickly moved his heel, and saw Liu Ruyan’s big toe was already black and blue, with blood seeping under the nail.
5 Leaving Liu Ruyan, Yun Ce came before a blue-faced devil that looked like a mountain demon, took out a cooked baby bean, bit into it, sucked the fragrant glutinous bean core into his mouth and swallowed it, then looked at this blue-faced devil and said, “I’ve watched the excitement and seen the beauty’s soft breasts. If you don’t say something useful now, it won’t do, right?”
5 The blue-faced devil looked at Yun Ce blankly, as if not understanding what he said.
5 Yun Ce found some chains near the cage, with special lock buckles for the throat. He installed the lock buckle on the blue-faced devil’s neck, confirmed it could still breathe, then opened the iron cage, preparing to take this devil away.
5 Liu Ruyan timidly said, “If you leave, what if these devils escape?”
5 Yun Ce irresponsibly said, “Guarding devils is your business. What does it have to do with my ass.”
5 With that, he dragged the blue-faced devil away from the basement using the chain.
5 Shen Lexi’s Ninth Brother was already much better, leaning against the wall sitting there. Seeing Yun Ce come out of the basement, he aahed twice and tried to crawl up to fight Yun Ce.
5 Yun Ce gently pushed him, sending him back to the wall base. He shook the iron chain in his hand, and a blue-faced devil stumbled out, headbutting the ground.
5 Yun Ce then said to Ninth Brother, “In the future, you’ll become famous in the world for surviving my heavy punch.”
6 With that, he led the blue-faced devil, mounted the Red Date Horse, and left Qi Li Pu.
6 As soon as Yun Ce left, Shen Lexi woke up. She first vigilantly looked around left and right, then pointed at Liu Ruyan and cursed furiously in Gui Fang language.
6 But everyone who’s been cursed knows that cursing is only truly vicious, dirty, and satisfying when done in the local dialect.
6 The Red Date Horse ran very fast. The blue-faced devil could keep up at first, but later couldn’t and was dragged by the iron chain. When the chain was taut and it could no longer steady itself, it fell to the ground and was dragged along by the Red Date Horse. Whether it was running while dragged or completely sliding on the ground, it didn’t affect the Red Date Horse’s speed.
6 Doggy was right: this blue-faced devil could secrete a kind of fat all over its body. This fat had excellent lubricating effects, very suitable for axles, waterwheel axles, and other places needing lubrication.
6 Of course, that was just one minor use. Unlike other devils, this guy’s brain capacity was no less than that of Gui Fang people, with very high sentience. Even if it started talking to Yun Ce the next moment, Doggy said he wouldn’t find it strange.
6 Now, Yun Ce wanted to test how much fat this guy could secrete per unit time and whether it had value for industrialized breeding.
6 I’ll continue. Everyone, give more votes. Thanks.
