Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 196 No Evolution, No Death

Yu Sang felt an itch in her mouth, so she licked her palate with her tongue. Immediately, a layer of mucous membrane detached from the palate as her tongue slid.

He spat out the membrane and found that the thing was intact.

Then, his jaw started to itch, and when he licked it with his tongue, another layer of mucous membrane immediately detached from his jaw as his tongue slid along.

He spat out the membrane and found it was still intact.

Then, his nose started to itch, followed by his eyes and ears. He raised his hand to wipe his face, and when he opened his hand again, he found that his eyebrows had fallen onto his hand.

┗|｀O′|┛Aww~~
With a roar, Yu Sang's eagle soared into the sky and disappeared into the clouds in a short time.

Yun Ce and the chestnut horse waited until dawn, and after confirming with Gouzi several times that the old monster Yu Sang had left, they finally emerged from the bottom of the river.

Both Yun Ce and the chestnut horse are a size bigger than before.

There's nothing we can do; the floatation bag is trapped in the water. Anyone who stays underwater for three or four hours will end up like this.

"Is the old monster Yu Sang really gone?"

Even though he was soaking wet and freezing cold, if that old monster Yu Sang were still nearby, Yun Ce would still be willing to go back underwater and continue soaking.

"Gone, really gone."

"Could we assume that the radiation source damaged his body? Otherwise, such a powerful old monster wouldn't have given up his goal so easily."

"Many literary classics are willing to portray elderly people as stepping stones and sacrifices for the better development of young people."

In reality, this kind of sacrifice and stepping stone spirit only exists between fathers and sons. The older people get, the more afraid they are of death. If it is someone else's son, the old guys will do everything they can to cheat him, especially when faced with life and death. I guarantee that as long as betraying the young man can make him live for one more minute, the old guys will definitely rush to betray the young man.

That's just how the old monster Yu Sang is. He claims to be avenging Yu Zhu, but actually, it's because Yu Zhu is dead that he has nowhere to put his face, so he comes to kill you to save face.

Radiation damage is irreversible; he won't have another chance to cause you trouble.

Yun Ce lit a campfire in the wild and warmed himself around it with the chestnut horse. In the middle of the meal, Yun Ce took out cooking utensils from the Dragon Ball and cooked himself a big pot of bean porridge, which he shared with the chestnut horse.

Only then did the chill in his body subside a little. After he had eaten his fill and sat down to circulate his internal energy several times, the chill in his body completely dissipated.

The pebble crumbled into powder in his hand; this was the strength of a thousand-man general. Zhang Min said that the next step should be to leave a mark on iron, which seemed to be the strength of a ten-thousand-man general.

Yun Ce pinched the spear blade he took out from the Dragon Ball, but nothing happened; instead, two clear fingerprints were left behind.

What kind of person can leave a mark on iron? It sounds incredible, but for some reason, Yun Ce knows that this old guy Yu Sang can definitely do it.

Yun Ce had traveled a lot last night and didn't know his exact location. However, the Qingshui River was right there, and as long as he went upstream, he would eventually return to the Yun Clan Manor.

He disappeared without saying goodbye; heaven knows how worried Eji and the others must have been.

Thinking about this, Yun Ce regretted that he had gotten himself a wife too early.

This section of the Qingshui River is deserted, with piles of stones of all sizes on both banks. Some of the stones are very beautiful, with patterns that resemble landscape paintings, while others gleam with the luster of jade.

Previously, Yun Ce's office displayed two strange stones from the Yellow River. One stone had a red sun on it, which Yun Ce interpreted as the rising sun. The other stone had a brown line on it, which matched the route the Yellow River flowed through Baiyin City. Yun Ce named it Yellow River 258, meaning that the Yellow River flowed for 258 kilometers within Baiyin.

In the past, when people were starving, no one cared about these things. But since people have been able to eat their fill, even stones have become treasures.

This brush with death has made Yun Ce reflect on his actions over the past year.

Some things made him feel ashamed, while others made him feel proud. However, it was precisely the things that made him feel ashamed that he remembered very clearly, while the things that made him feel proud could not be remembered unless he specifically thought about them.

Even when Cao Kun, riding a folk song, found him, Yun Ce was still lost in the past.

"The old thief Yu Sang has run away, looking as lost as a stray dog."

Yun Ce looked at Cao Kun in confusion. When he was running away, he heard Cao Kun kneeling down and begging for mercy. How come the powerful Yu Sang had become a stray dog ​​after only one night?
“I gave Yu Sang a box of the radioactive source you mentioned. He opened it and examined it very carefully. His face was covered in green light from the radioactive source.”

"You carry that thing with you at all times?"

"Don't worry, I had Huo Minggong and the others carefully test it. As long as the radioactive source is put in a lead box, it can be blocked and the person will not be harmed by the radioactive source."

"Now, the walls of my bedroom are covered with lead plates." Yun Ce nodded, indicating that he understood. This guy was afraid that others would use radioactive sources to harm him, so he used lead plates to decorate his house. It was foreseeable that Cao Kun's family would never be able to produce another descendant as smart as Cao Kun.

He knew that radioactive sources were harmful, but he didn't know that lead was also highly toxic.

Cao Kun himself didn't mention Yun Ce's scheme to lure Yu Sang to harm him, and Yun Ce naturally wouldn't bring it up either. However, he had to be more wary of Cao Kun. After all, good brothers had become accustomed to betraying each other, and the next time they were about to betray someone, they wouldn't even need to apologize.

"Would you like to go see some excitement?" Cao Kun asked Yun Ce with a smile.

Yun Ce immediately shook his head like a rattle drum.

"Zhao Shu, the former Grand Commander of the Great Wall, has finally met his end."

Yun Ce frowned and said, "Who would kill this stinking pile of dog poop? Aren't they afraid of getting covered in dog stench?"

"Lian Chengbi, the garrison commander of Dongquan Pass."

"Hey, is your family plotting against Dongquan Pass again?"

"Don't portray my family as so evil. Lian Chengbi is just a brute. I don't know who he's been bewitched, but he always feels that Zhao Shu wronged him in the past. Now that Zhao Shu is down on his luck and is begging him for help, this guy is doing everything he can to insult Zhao Shu."

It was nothing at first, but then he discovered that one of Zhao Shu's granddaughters was incredibly beautiful, and he started having wicked thoughts.

Yun Ce was taken aback and said, "Zhao Shu's granddaughter is a beauty that could topple kingdoms? Who said that? I saw Zhao Shu's whole family at Jingkou Pass, and I didn't see any so-called beauty that could topple kingdoms."

Cao Kun abruptly dropped his lewd smile and stared straight at Yun Ce, saying, "This time, you owe me a life, don't you?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "No, that's not true. I was eating peacefully in the inn. You came here by yourself."

Seeing that Yun Ce refused to admit it as his uncle had predicted, Cao Kun sighed and said, "I even knelt down to beg for my life. For a moment, I felt like I was already dead."

Yun Ce sniffed and said, "I also knelt down and did the same thing as you."

Hearing Yun Ce's candor, Cao Kun's face lit up with a smile again. "We can put Lian Chengbi's matter aside for now. Don't you want to hunt down Yu Sang?"
I've found out for sure; the Guifang tribe has twelve elders, and Yu Sang is ranked eighth. If we can cut off his head, our brothers' reputation will surely shake the Han Dynasty.”

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "Only a crazy person would hunt down someone who is carrying two boxes of radioactive sources."

Cao Kun pondered for a moment and said, "I didn't see you collecting radioactive sources."

Yun Ce said, "I obtained it when I first entered Huishui Bay."

Cao Kun subtly took two steps back and asked, "Do you glow at night?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "No."

Cao Kun said seriously, "Those who excavate and transport radioactive sources will have their bodies glow in the dark after they die."

Watching Cao Kun finish speaking hastily and then ride away quickly on his Xintianyou, Yun Ce felt that his friendship with Cao Kun might be coming to an end. After all, no one wants to be friends with someone who glows at night.

As for Zhao Shu's stunningly beautiful daughter, Lian Chengbi's ruthlessness and domineering nature, or the unparalleled glory after killing Yu Sang, none of them could compare to the threat posed by a person who could glow at night.

Yun Ce rode his chestnut horse upstream along the Qingshui River. By this time, it was Huachaoyue. Wildflowers bloomed on both sides of the Qingshui River, their unadorned blossoms carpeting the horizon like a floral tapestry, so beautiful that one wished to sleep there forever.

Unbeknownst to Yun Ce, at the very end of this floral carpet, Yu Sang was watching with tears streaming down her face as the eagle that had been her companion her entire life plucked her feathers one by one with its hard beak. Even though the process was excruciatingly painful, the eagle continued plucking her feathers.

Seeing that the eagle wouldn't even spare the feathers on its own rump and cleaned it thoroughly, Yu Sang closed her eyes, and two streams of bloody tears flowed down her cheeks.

When he opened his eyes and saw the bald, chicken-like eagle, he took out the box that Yun Ce had given him from his pocket, opened it, and let the bald eagle's body bathe in the radiation source.

Only in this way can the eagle calm down and stop harming itself each day.

Yu Sang vaguely felt that there was something wrong with the things Yun Ce and Cao Kun gave him, but he couldn't detect any danger in the box even after checking it countless times with his inner energy.

He wanted to return to Guifang as soon as possible and also wanted to ask the Third Elder, who was most familiar with such items in the clan, to study them together. However, now that the eagle had plucked its own feathers and he himself had health problems, returning to Guifang as soon as possible had become a pipe dream.

As evening fell, Yu Sang saw the eagle shivering from the cold and wanted to light a fire. She then noticed that the eagle's body was slowly emitting a green light, which flickered and swayed within the eagle's body like rays of light, and was very beautiful.

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