Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 190 Danger, Extreme Danger
When the elephant-pig ran, the earth shook and the chestnut horse ran as fast as lightning. Therefore, Yun Ce was the first to enter Huishui Bay and the first to come out of Huishui Bay.

A chestnut horse, fearless of any ferocious beast, is one in a million among thunder and smoke beasts. Therefore, it can demonstrate its outstanding running ability at any time, unlike other thunder and smoke beasts that become foolish after being handled by the Beast Supervisor. They know that a terrifying giant beast is coming from the opposite direction, but they don't know to run away and are still foolishly waiting for their master.

As a result, some Thunder Smoke Beasts did not get to see their masters, but were trampled into meat patties by the elephant boars, just like their masters.

The fastest adult elephant-boar was a female. As it angrily chased after the insect-like humans, it stepped into a trap that Liang Kun had dug beforehand. The trap wasn't deep enough, but it barely managed to snag its front hoof. Before it could pull its hoof out of the trap, the momentum of its forward charge snapped its hoof in an instant, and its massive body crashed to the ground. As it struggled to lift its head, the bowstring of a dragon crossbow nearby exploded.

The heavy crossbow bolt pierced its skull, and the elephant-boar raised its head and let out a mournful cry. Then another crossbow bolt pierced its skull, interrupting its second mournful cry.

A heavy iron spear fell from the sky, piercing the back of a boar. The spear went through its body, emerging from its abdomen, and continued to fall. As the boar ran wildly, the spear, having pierced its body, left a deep scratch on the ground.

Riding on the back of a thunder-smoke beast, Cao Kun watched as the mountain-sized elephant-boars charged relentlessly at the traps and ropes, and said to Yun Ce, who had just escaped, "Hopefully the scouts have already begun their search by now."

Looking at the elephant-boar that was constantly being hit by arrows, Yun Ce said to Cao Kun, "After we entered Huishui Bay, the Thunder Smoke Beast stopped in front of the Red Mud Land, so we had to walk in."

Cao Kun shook his head and said, "You don't need to explain, this is the damage that should be there."

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "What I mean is, the strange thing is that patch of red clay."

Cao Kun glanced at Cao Ling, who then waved his flag at the warriors on the Xintianyou boat again, seemingly relaying Yun Ce's words to the scouts crossing the river and climbing the Huishui Bay.

Seeing that the elephant-boar was covered in tripwires and had three of its four hooves missing their hooves, it finally broke free from the traps and tripwires and charged towards the location of the dragon crossbow without thinking.

The warriors controlling the dragon crossbows, whose identities were unknown, did not flee when a colossal creature charged at them; instead, they remained calm and stood guard, firing their crossbows.

Three crossbow bolts pierced the elephant-boar's body. Since there were no fatal wounds, Yun Ce and Cao Kun watched as a perfectly good dragon crossbow position was trampled flat by the enraged elephant-boar.

At the same time, two more elephant-boars broke free from the traps and ropes, charging recklessly towards everyone in sight.

When Yun Ce saw a boar staring at him with blood-red eyes, he said to Cao Kun, "Let's run."

Cao Kun chuckled and said, "Alright, you run into the wilderness, I'll go to the woods."

After saying that, he led Cao Ling and ran towards the woods without looking back.

Yun Ce had no choice but to ride his chestnut horse toward the wilderness, with two large elephant-boars following closely behind him.

All the aerobatic teams in the sky had gone to chase after the badly injured elephant-boar that was following Cao Kun, so the sky above Yun Ce's side was naturally empty.

Running has never been the elephant pig's forte. After Yun Ce led the elephant pig to run for dozens of miles across the wasteland, the two elephant pigs were exhausted, one in front of the other.

Yun Ce and his chestnut horse stopped on a hill, looking at the panting elephant-boar not far away. The elephant-boar, which had almost stopped, started running again. As for Yun Ce, the culprit who killed their children and relatives, they would kill him even if it cost them their lives.

The dog said leisurely, "The elephants and pigs have all left Huishui Bay. I think Cao Kun's men should have already discovered this."

Yun Ce said, "You want to get your hands on the things in Huishui Bay again?"

The dog said, "Don't you want to?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "I really don't want to, or rather, ever since I first entered Huishui Bay, I haven't thought about taking anything from inside."

"How to say?"

"Because this thing is too evil."

"How exactly is it evil?"

"Isn't it evil to trap eleven giant beasts in a very, very small place and prevent them from escaping?"

"Not counting."

"Look at the fate of these eleven elephant-boars, and you still think they weren't evil?"

"No, even without those things, given your personality, if you knew that elephant meat could help you survive a famine and even make your people stronger, you would still find a way to kill those elephants."

Yun Ce laughed and said, "So, my goal was very clear from the beginning: I wanted pork like pig meat."

The dog sighed and said, "They have no ambition whatsoever."

Yun Ce sneered, "Do you think these elephants and pigs, who were originally reluctant to leave Huishui Bay, would abandon that precious land now?"

The dog asked, "Because of hatred?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "It must be something from Huishui Bay that has found a better target than the elephant pig."

Gouzi asked in surprise, "You mean those scouts who crossed the river and reached the backwater bay?" Yun Ce continued, "Do you remember when we first came to the Han Dynasty?"

The dog said, "You used to live in a tree."

"Remember those birds that spread their legs and squatted over the flames to roast themselves?"

"I remember, that's because the bird had parasites in its stomach."

"Alright, do you remember how I dealt with the bodies of those two elephant-boars from before?"

"One goes into the millstone to be ground into powder, and the other goes into the oil pan to be deep-fried."

"These two methods are not the best way to process animal meat, so guess why I did it this way?"

"You suspect that the elephant pig has been infected with some kind of worm similar to the one found in the belly of a red-feathered bird? No wonder you insisted that I test the meat after you got it; so that's the root of the problem."

"Wild boars have their kings, bears have their kings, dog skins have their kings, do you think that insect that can make red-feathered birds wish they were dead might have its own king?"

"You saw it? This must be your guess, right?"

"That's right, it's just a guess. Whether the guess is right or wrong, I don't want to get involved in an event that's almost like a biohazard."

Just as Yun Ce was talking to the dog, the two elephant-boars finally caught up. After they climbed the hill, the chestnut horse led Yun Ce to the opposite hill. The elephant-boars chased again, and the chestnut horse ran again, until four albatrosses flew in the sky. Only then did the chestnut horse stop chasing the two elephant-boars.

Because, exhausted, two heavy iron spears fell from the sky and killed them.

After this chase, the two giant elephant-boars were not far from the Yun Clan Manor. Seeing that the two enormous elephant-boars were dead, the people from the Yun Clan Manor who had been hiding to watch the spectacle suddenly came out in droves.

They planned to gut the two pig-like carcasses on the spot and then carry the meat and usable parts home little by little.

When Yun Ce and Cao Kun met again, neither of them felt ashamed for deserting in the face of battle. On the contrary, one felt that he had led away the two elephant boars, which relieved the fighting pressure on the warriors here, and had really saved these warriors who had no right to flee.

As for the other one, he also believed that his plan was ingenious, killing so many elephants and pigs in one go, which was truly a brilliant command.

With Yun Ce's tacit approval, Liang Kun's men, who came to dig the pit and set up the rope, immediately began to dissect the bodies of the piglets that had been dead for a while after confirming that all the elephant pigs were dead.

Seeing that Cao Kun didn't say anything, Liang Kun worked even harder. He first cut the tender, fatty parts of the piglets into pieces and carried them away very quickly.

The treasure found by the scouts who crossed the river to the backwater bay was a pile of mud, a pile of fluorescent mud. Before Yun Ce even got close, Gouzi was already barking wildly in his head.

"Radioactive material, high-concentration radioactive material. I just took some samples and tested them; they are high-concentration radioactive sources."

After hearing the dog's warning, Yun Ce refused to go forward and stood behind Cao Kun as if he were not there.

Seeing that Yun Ce was not moving, Cao Kun couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

Yun Ce pointed to the chestnut horse in the distance and the Thunder Smoke Beast that Cao Kun had ridden, and whispered, "My Thunder Smoke Beast has the potential to become the King of Thunder Smoke Beasts."

As you know, any beast that has the potential to become a spirit or monster possesses a very powerful ability: the ability to keenly sense danger.

Now, not only it, but all the other Thunder Smoke Beasts are also halting in front of the Red Soil. So, whatever you find, I don't want it, and I don't want to get involved. I just want to take some elephant pork home.”

Cao Kun angrily said, "Speak like a human being."

Yun Ce pointed to the scouts who were shoveling mud into boxes and said, "I don't think they'll live long."

Cao Kun's eyes darted around, and after a moment, he smiled and said to Yun Ce, "Then let's go back. You really don't want this? The scouts said that they feel energized as soon as they get close to this pile of mud."

As Yun Ce retreated, he said, "Then we should congratulate them on their good health and long life of two hundred years."

After saying that, Yun Ce turned and ran away under the dog's frantic warning. This time he ran very, very fast, leaving Cao Kun far behind.

Back at the forward camp, Yun Ce took a shower and changed clothes in one go. Even so, the dog still detected a one-time radiation dose of 1.5 Gore from Yun Ce's body, which was actually quite serious.

After Cao Kun returned, he immediately repeated what Yun Ce had just done, and then, suppressing his nausea and urge to vomit, he found Yun Ce and asked, "Do you know what that was?"

Yun Ce shook his head firmly and said, "I don't know, and I don't want to know."

"That thing is dangerous, isn't it?"

Yun Ce said seriously, "Dangerous, extremely dangerous."

(End of this chapter)