Chapter 62: Fools And Dimwits
Under the silvery white moonlight, a bat bird not much larger than a basketball was moving forward in the air in a geometric zigzag pattern. They were spirits in the darkness, but unfortunately, tonight’s moonlight was too bright.
“Whoosh”—an arrow flew over, piercing the bat bird’s body. A tall cavalryman jumped down from the Thunder Smoke Beast, picked up the still struggling bat bird, cut open its stomach with a dagger, crushed the internal organs that fell to the ground with leather boots, and then disappointedly tossed the bat bird aside.
Such scenes were happening constantly. As time passed, the disappointment in Wu Tong’s eyes could no longer be concealed.
“Old Zhou, take your men and leave.”
Zhou Xiaowei shook his head and said, “Let me check again for you.”
Wu Tong shook his head and said, “The wasteland is in chaos now. It’s better for you to station in Chuyun City. Besides, when the next crescent moon ends, winter will arrive. You still have many things to do.”
“Not searching for the Dragon Spirit anymore?”
“Continue searching. For the Dragon Spirit to fully merge with a person or beast, it takes at least a year. From the time it descended on Tianzhu Mountain until now, it’s only been about a hundred days. We still have time. I’ve already sent people to the Grandmaster’s Mansion to get Spirit Seeking Insects, which will arrive in five days. Targeted searches are far more efficient than blindly searching now.”
“Since you’ve made up your mind, I’ll leave the Sky Eye with you. The Black Armored Army really shouldn’t stray far from the prefectural city.”
Zhou Xiaowei was a straightforward man. Seeing that Wu Tong had made up his mind, he summoned a Thunder Smoke Beast and, after the Black Armored Army gathered, quickly led the team away.
1 Zhang Min came down from the large bird’s back and approached Wu Tong, saying, “This is the first time Senior Brother has failed.”
1 Wu Tong shook his head and said, “Failure always comes. No one can win forever. The earlier, the better. At least it lets me understand that I’m not an invincible general like King Huo.”
1 Zhang Min bit her lips and said, “Senior Brother, I still want to keep an eye on that Pig Demon.”
1 “Why? You should know he’s not a Pig Demon.”
1 Zhang Min stomped her feet like a young girl and said, “He is a Pig Demon.”
1 “Alright, alright, he is a Pig Demon. But let me tell you, for a countryside person to make someone like you—who has been undergoing the strictest and most effective training in Dragon City since age two—flee in embarrassment, it shows this person’s potential is very high. He is precious wealth of the Great Han. You can tease him, but don’t harm his life.”
1 “He is a Wild Boar Spirit! Senior Brother doesn’t need to think so highly of him.”
1 “Anyone qualified to go to Iron Enclosure Pass, we must cherish.”
1 Yun Ce, with E Ji, had been standing by the stream with the Red Date Horse for a long time. Several times the Red Date Horse tried to lower its head to drink, but was stopped by E Ji holding its head.
1 After a long time, when the horizon had turned blue, a dying bat bird floated down from upstream along the stream, bobbing up and down.
2 Yun Ce stepped forward a few steps, pretending to open a sluice gate, and used his foot to lift the bat bird out of the water. As soon as the bat bird left the water, its body began to shrink rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it became a dry bone frame. Yun Ce grabbed the dry bone frame with his hand, crushed it into powder with force, and casually sprinkled it into the stream.
2 A small red ball happily crawled up and down on Yun Ce’s body, trying to find a hole to drill into. But when it passed by Yun Ce’s left wrist, it was caught by the seven or eight silver threads on the wristband and forcibly pulled toward the wristband.
2 Yun Ce immediately felt the air filled with a sense of sadness. He looked down to confirm and found that Doggy was bullying the Dragon Pearl, so he didn’t take the sadness seriously.
2 The wristband had already opened a mouth, with teeth like spikes inside shaking violently, as if impatient from waiting.
2 In the end, that red Dragon Pearl, not much larger than a ping-pong ball, entered the mouth. Yun Ce could even see the originally bright red Dragon Pearl, like a shell-less egg, being chewed to pieces in that mouth, and not only that, a thread of golden light in the middle was also completely swallowed by the mouth.
2 Perhaps because good stuff had entered someone else’s stomach, Yun Ce himself had no changes. He exerted some force, and his right hand turned into a Dragon Claw again. After testing it by moving it a few times, he found no difference.
2 He had thought that with another Dragon Pearl, he might be covered in Dragon Scales all over, becoming invulnerable to blades and spears and invincible. Now it seemed he had purely overthought it.
2 With no large bird in the sky, Yun Ce held E Ji and mounted the horse, galloping toward Chuyun City like a puff of smoke. At this time, the farther he was from the scene, the lower the suspicion.
2 When the sky was fully bright, Yun Ce caught up with that Black Armored Army. They were resting by a stream, each taking off their armor, wearing cloth robes, eating by the waterside. Some even took off their boots, soaking their feet in the water leisurely.
2 There was no large bird in the sky or on the ground, which meant that woman Zhang Min was not here.
3 Their warhorses had also been unsaddled and were drinking the foot-washing water of those people downstream.
3 Yun Ce looked around left, right, front, and back, seeing no one on sentry duty, appearing very lacking in vigilance.
3 He didn’t want to deal with these people. He let E Ji sit on the horse, led it by the reins, and went to rest under a distant tree shade, planning to leave after they did.
3 A cavalryman holding a wooden bowl eating saw that Yun Ce was leading a Thunder Smoke Beast, so he walked over with his rice bowl, looked up and down at the Red Date Horse, and said, “This Thunder Smoke Beast has no restraint. How did you make it willing to carry your woman?”
3 Yun Ce smiled and said, “Feed it more food.”
3 The cavalryman shook his head, circled the Red Date Horse once, and said, “This Thunder Smoke Beast was eliminated from the military and sold to the common folk just for show.”
3 “However, this thing has a violent nature by instinct. It’s better to put a restraint on it.”
3 “Restraint?”
3 “That’s right. The Thunder Smoke Beast has an unpredictable personality. If you want it to completely obey commands, you should take it to the Beast Supervision. Ask the beast tamers there to nail a red-hot iron spike into the seam of the Thunder Smoke Beast’s forehead. Of course, remember, when nailing the iron spike into the Thunder Smoke Beast, cover one of its eyes so that the other eye can only see you. If it sees someone else, your Thunder Smoke Beast will become theirs.”
3 Before Yun Ce could speak, E Ji leaned over, hugged the Red Date Horse’s long neck, and said to Yun Ce, “No, Big Red is fine like this.”
4 The cavalryman sneered and said, “Ignorant foolish woman.”
4 Yun Ce looked at the Red Date Horse’s watery big eyes and firmly said, “I also think Big Red is fine like this.”
4 The cavalryman shoveled all the meal from the wooden bowl into his mouth, swallowed it down with a tilt of his head, pointed at the Red Date Horse, and said, “Guess why it’s called a Thunder Smoke Beast?”
4 Yun Ce shook his head and said, “No need to know. It’s fine, just a bit naughty, but otherwise pretty good.”
4 The cavalryman laughed loudly and said, “Ignorant foolish man and woman.”
4 With that, he took his rice bowl and left. Yun Ce took the opportunity to follow behind him, walking forward along the main road by the stream.
4 E Ji said somewhat angrily, “Why does he curse at people?”
4 Her voice was inevitably louder in anger, and it was heard by the resting cavalrymen by the roadside. They immediately burst into laughter, and some busybodies imitated that cavalryman, cursing them as ignorant foolish man and woman.
4 Yun Ce had always believed that being regarded as an idiot was absolutely praise, not insult. That way, relying on his stupidity, he could do many things that smart people couldn’t conveniently do.
4 Back on Earth, he had gone to great lengths to get these two words of evaluation from Yun Linchuan’s mouth, but ended up being scolded by Yun Linchuan as a “foolish donkey” rather than an idiot.
5 He thought the two terms were similar, but Yun Linchuan taught him otherwise. Don’t think the two words differ by just one character; in Yun Linchuan’s eyes, they were worlds apart. Calling you a foolish donkey is just commenting on the matter; calling you an idiot means you’re probably just an idiot.
5 A foolish donkey is living stupidity, momentary stupidity. The term idiot completely expels you from the animal category.
5 Relying on being called ignorant foolish man and woman, Yun Ce and E Ji smoothly passed through the area covered by this team and went ahead of them, further eliminating suspicion of obtaining the Dragon Pearl.
5 While smugly chatting and laughing with E Ji, listening to E Ji fantasize about how to play rich once entering Chuyun City, Yun Ce suddenly felt his left hand weigh a full ten thousand jin in an instant.
5 His left arm dragged his body, smashing it to the ground with a thud. The Red Date Horse immediately stopped, and together with E Ji, looked at him puzzled.
5 “Doggy, get out.” Yun Ce roared in his heart.
5 “Not my fault. It’s Egg Master’s doing. Lie down for a bit, I’ll ask.”
5 Hearing this, Yun Ce had no choice but to roll over, prop his head with his right hand, place his left hand on the ground, pretending to be very relaxed.
5 “There’s doggy shit on the ground.” E Ji screamed.
5 Yun Ce relaxedly waved his hand.
6 “What are you doing?”
6 Yun Ce remained silent.
6 E Ji slid down from the Red Date Horse’s back and, without hesitation, lay down next to him imitating Yun Ce, saying, “Is it really that comfortable?”
6 Yun Ce angrily said, “Don’t make a sound, sense it carefully.”
6 “Oh!”
6 “Egg Master says it’s pretty awesome now but didn’t control the weight properly for the moment. It’ll be fine once it gets familiar. You’ll be awesome too. Egg Master says later it can take you flying.”
6 “My two grandpas, now’s not the time to show off skills. Hiding yourselves without being discovered is the priority.”
6 “Don’t worry, Egg Master values this even more than you. When it absorbed another egg, it sensed danger from the outside world there and spent effort to shield itself in eighteen layers. Even a dragon couldn’t detect its existence.”
6 “Isn’t that exaggerated? Its strength isn’t comparable to that dragon cub Ao Bing, right? How can a useless thing that can’t even do space travel compare to other dragons?”
6 “I don’t know. I didn’t have consciousness when you met Ao Bing, hard to compare.”
7 As soon as Doggy finished speaking, Yun Ce felt his left hand suddenly lighten. He stood up, dusted off the dust on his body, and said to E Ji still lying on the ground, “Ignorant foolish woman.”
7 E Ji jumped up and pounced on Yun Ce’s back, her hands pinching his neck trying to strangle him.
7 When mounting the Red Date Horse again, Yun Ce looked back. Under the vast sky in the distance, three large birds were circling low in the sky. Through the telescope, he saw Zhang Min standing on the back of a large bird. Increasing the magnification, he even saw that Zhang Min looked somewhat haggard at this time.
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