Chapter 26: Sense Of Responsibility Is The Core Of Society’s Cohesive Force
Red Beast, Wildman, Caravan—the relationship between the three forms a triangle, and the instigator of the relationships must be the Event.
The Event is a catalyst that can make all relationships tight. Tight doesn’t necessarily mean good. For example, an overly intense hatred relationship can also be considered tight.
Yun Ce guessed that in this round of relationship fusion, the initial instigator should be the Caravan, because no matter from which aspect, the Caravan doesn’t seem to be the justified party.
After making this decision, Yun Ce’s gaze on the long-handled bow in the Warrior’s hand became even more intense.
After arriving on this Planet, he finally found something he wanted. If that Warrior is a good person, Yun Ce would feel a little guilty about forcibly taking his things. If this guy is a bad guy, Yun Ce thinks his things are equivalent to his own.
The bit of kindness in Yun Ce’s heart was cultivated by Yun Linchuan with great effort. In the old guy’s view, only those who harbor kindness are qualified to do evil.
Once such a person starts doing evil, the first thing he does is not let the evil he does affect too many people, and thus affect the stability of the entire society. At least, it can’t affect the survival of the common people.
If this bottom line is broken, then he should be killed.
Seeing that Warrior kick Zhao Jin rolling all over the ground like a ball, Yun Ce was very satisfied. Such a vicious person—not killing him would hardly soothe the hatred in his heart, nor the opinions of the world.
Seeing the Warrior Leader kick the one-legged Zhao Jin, the other Warriors seemed to have discovered a new toy. Seeing many one-legged people in the Village, they all joined in. For a moment, the entire Village was full of meat balls kicked rolling everywhere.
1 Yun Ce didn’t care about Zhao Jin and the others rolling on the ground from being kicked, nor did he pay attention to E Ji and the others crying with tears streaming down their faces, nor the few children crying themselves hoarse. Out of strong curiosity, while the Guards were away from the Sheep Cart, he opened that tightly covered Sheep Cart.
1 “Roar—”
1 A thunderclap on flat ground.
1 Yun Ce had no time to react or see clearly what was inside before he was fumigated by a stench of foul breath, retreating over a hundred steps in succession. While retreating, he threw the Village people he encountered on the way onto the houses. As for E Ji, she was thrown by him onto a tall Yi Tree, probably unable to come down for a while.
1 Only then did he have a chance to turn back and see what exactly he had released.
1 After looking, he was somewhat disappointed. It was a bear, a bear standing fully three meters tall, brown-yellow in color, with sharp fangs and teeth looking very fierce. The Wristband on Yun Ce’s wrist wriggled a few times and then quieted down.
1 The Wristband quieted, but the bear wouldn’t. It had no intention of escaping. It grabbed a Shop Assistant who had hurriedly arrived, chewed him in its mouth a few times, and cracked the Shop Assistant’s head like a Bean.
1 The Warrior Leader was astonished like a donkey whose aroused genitals had been sprinkled with a handful of salt by someone—he jumped three feet high. The long-handled bow in his hand was already nocked, and almost simultaneously, an Arrow appeared on the bow. In an instant, an Arrow was stuck in the brown bear’s Nose.
1 “┗|｀O′|┛Ao~~”
1 “You fucking. 100%”
2 Yun Ce had no time to listen to Doggy’s translation of the beast language. He picked up Zhao Jin, who was very angry from being beaten, and retreated backward. The furious Giant Bear overturned the Sheep Cart beside it, revealing a huge Metal Cage. Inside the Metal Cage was a pig, a huge Wild Boar over three meters long.
2 The Giant Bear tore at the cage forcefully with its claws. The already somewhat deformed cage from being thrown immediately had two upright posts torn off. The Wild Boar neighed, first poking its huge pig head out of the cage, then forcefully squeezing its strong body out through that narrow gap.
2 As soon as it came out, it charged toward the already formed Warrior group like a tank.
2 Yun Ce didn’t understand why they formed up. Isn’t dealing with wild beasts about free coordination?
2 The one-legged dwarves actually ran quite fast. With their two sturdy arms, long trained, as long as they worked diligently, they could quickly leave the danger zone.
2 Facts proved that forming up against a tank doesn’t work—just look at them being knocked flying everywhere by the Wild Boar to know it was a bad move.
2 When Yun Ce dragged Zhao Jin back to E Ji’s house and closed the door, E Ji had already slipped down from the tree. Back home, she packed her precious Cured Meat into a clean and nice-looking Bag, and said to Yun Ce who had just entered the door in fear: “Woo li wa la.”
2 “Let’s run away quickly. 100%”
2 Zhao Jin said angrily: “Do you want to become Refugees, or be caught and become a Slave? 93%”
2 “No matter what, I’ll run with A Ce, and we’ll have good days. 98%”
3 “What about the people in the Village? You’re not going to care about them? 92%”
3 “I’m just taking one piece of meat, the rest is left for you all. 97%”
3 “Yun Ce, what do you say?” Zhao Jin held up the freshly written Wooden Slip and poked it in front of Yun Ce.
3 Yun Ce was peeking through the door crack at the scene in the Village, looking very much like the ancient hunting rock paintings he saw on the Northwest Rock Wall—a group of stick figures holding sticks dealing with two huge wild beasts, quite romantic in style.
3 “We’re about to get rich soon.” Yun Ce wrote on the Wooden Slip.
3 “You’re leaving, right? You don’t even want to speak our words. 97%” Zhao Jin’s expression was sorrowful, with a bit of broken jar broken meaning.
3 With a loud clang, a badly bitten and tattered Corpse smashed open the Gate of E Ji’s house. E Ji screamed and shrank behind Yun Ce.
3 Yun Ce grabbed the few clean Clothes on the Corpse with one hand, threw him out, wiped his hand, and wrote on the Wooden Slip: “Do you think they can buy all the Tree Bark Fiber I’ve accumulated these days?”
3 Zhao Jin scratched his head desperately a few times, as if resigned to fate, and wrote on the Wooden Slip: “Impossible. Every acquisition of Tree Bark Fiber is counted. The Caravan only guarantees you a little money.”
3 Yun Ce wrote again: “Even if I process the Tree Bark Fiber cleanly and nicely, it won’t work?”
4 Zhao Jin shook his head and wrote: “If we have more money, we’ll think of going to Dingbian Commandery, Chuyun Prefecture, even Chang’an, Luoyang. If this continues, no one will want to continue pioneering outward.”
4 Yun Ce was surprised for a moment and continued writing: “The Government Officials strongly support pioneering, right?”
4 Zhao Jin wrote: “Under the whole world, is it not the king’s land? At the borders of the land, are there not the king’s subjects.”
4 Yun Ce nodded, turned his head to watch the Wild Boar and bear battling the Caravan Guards for a while, then wrote with pen: “What if I build a city in the Wilderness?”
4 Zhao Jin sighed and said: “You first need to become a Gongshi.”
4 “Is the only way to become a Gongshi by getting five level-five enemy heads in formal battle? Can saving a Noble’s life get Gongshi status?”
4 “No, no one dares defy the ennoblement order passed down by the Champion King.”
4 “Who is the Champion King?”
4 Zhao Jin looked at Yun Ce angrily, then fell silent, seemingly unwilling to discuss this question that seemed absurd to him with Yun Ce.
4 E Ji kept poking Yun Ce on the back. It seemed she really wanted to leave Hekou Village and wander outside with him.
5 Yun Ce reached back, grabbed E Ji’s calloused hand and held it, then wrote on the Wooden Slip: “If—and I mean if—the Caravan people are all killed by the wild beasts, can we take the Caravan’s property, leave He Kou Village, and go live in Dingbian Commandery?”
5 Zhao Jin shook his head and wrote: “I’m not leaving He Kou Village.”
5 Yun Ce continued writing: “The sweet-smelling corpses have appeared, which is a tricky problem. It seems you can’t handle this matter. Now, there’s a reason to leave He Kou Village. I think we can try it. We’ll have the merit of escorting the Caravan’s goods back to the Commandery city. The worst outcome is just being exiled back to He Kou Village again. I think by then, the sweet-smelling corpses issue should be over.”
5 “You can take them and leave. I can’t leave. As the leader of a village, I won’t abandon my post unless I die.”
5 Yun Ce understood Zhao Jin’s words. Mission has nothing to do with free people. It can also be said that free people’s sense of mission is very low, or none. A sense of mission from oneself is different from one imposed by the collective—they are two incompatible kinds.
5 The former is only responsible for oneself, with high freedom. The latter is responsible for the collective, with almost no room for maneuver or compromise.
5 Nowadays, even Zhao Jin, a bottommost Village leader who isn’t even a Gongshi, has the awareness to guard his Territory with his life. Broadening this, can it be said that this Han dynasty is still on the uphill path, meaning the dynasty here hasn’t rotted through yet.
5 Advising Zhao Jin to leave at this time would be futile, so Yun Ce planned to wait for the Event to develop further. After all, all things need to be viewed in motion. Something that couldn’t be done one moment might naturally be accomplished the next.
5 The battle outside was still intense. Five or six Wild Boars, four or five Giant Bears were battling fiercely against the Caravan Guards and Shop Assistants numbering nearly three hundred.
5 Yun Ce discovered that the wild beasts here were smarter than those on Earth. They at least knew that after escaping, they must free the other kin to join the battle to increase their side’s chances of victory. That’s why eight wild beasts suddenly appeared in the Village.
6 The Caravan side panicked a bit at first and even made the stupid move of forming arrays. After the Warrior Leader took over the battlefield, the situation changed greatly very quickly.
6 One group held Ropes, Fishing Nets and such to entangle the wild beasts. Another group used Long Poles and hooks to constantly obstruct the wild beasts’ Limbs, preventing them from moving freely. The last group held Bow and Arrows for remote attacks on the wild beasts.
6 The first bear Yun Ce released was already dead, with two Arrows stuck in its huge head, one piercing through the brain—dead solid.
6 Another Wild Boar was covered in Arrows but still charging wildly. However, looking like a Porcupine with Feather Arrows stuck in it, it probably wouldn’t live much longer.
