Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 15 Trust always has its limits
That's true. No matter who has a lot of nanobots in their stomach, their appetite will shrink.

In an attempt to restore his normal appetite, Yun Ce tried drinking a large amount of blue juice to cleanse his stomach. As a result, he vomited up a lot of food that he had eaten beforehand to protect his stomach. However, while the food came out, the mercury-like nanobots did not.

He persevered with his experiments, vomiting while lying down, vomiting while standing upside down, exhausting himself in the process. Yet, the nanobots inside his stomach remained unmoved. When he was weak, Yun Ce could even feel the hard lumps inside his stomach, knowing that the nanobots and the Dragon Balls were there, but he had no way to get them out.

Yun Ce's vomiting was completely drowned out by the squeals of pigs and roars of bears outside.

Tonight, the bright moon hangs high in the sky, illuminating the earth in a pale white light—perfect time for war.

The distant squeals of pigs grew increasingly shrill, and the roars of bears became even more menacing.

While vomiting upside down, Yun Ce supported himself with one hand and used the other to punch his stomach twice. As a strong gushe of acid gushed out, a dragon pearl that looked extremely beautiful in the moonlight slid out of his stomach.

The Dragon Ball shone brightly under the moonlight, its pale yellow light flickering and hovering about a foot and a half in front of Yun Ce, neither too close nor too far.

The Dragon Ball is Yun Ce's only means of survival here, or at least, that's what he thinks. Without this magical Dragon Ball, Yun Ce feels that relying solely on his skills developed on Earth wouldn't be enough to establish himself on this planet.

Despite vomiting and crying, the presence of the Dragon Ball proves that he still has some power left to use.

Just as Yun Ce was spitting out clear gastric juices and his body seemed to be completely emptied, he suddenly felt a chill in his throat. Then he saw a long string of white liquid metal coming out of his mouth in a line. The last white liquid metal to leave was still in his mouth, while the first liquid metal to leave had already come into contact with the dragon ball.

This time, Dragon Ball didn't simply collect the molten metal into that small space; instead, it allowed the molten metal to envelop it.

To say that it enveloped them is not entirely accurate. It should be said that the silver liquid was moving in and out of the Dragon Ball. It was neither being swallowed by the Dragon Ball nor seemed to have any self-awareness. It was simply exchanging some things. As for what was being exchanged, Yun Ce couldn't understand it. He only knew that they had some kind of connection with each other.

The liquid metal continued to flow in and out of the Dragon Ball under the moonlight. Yun Ce's nausea had almost subsided, so he sat in the moonlight watching the Dragon Ball interact with the liquid metal.

After watching for a while, I noticed that they were communicating endlessly, so I poked a finger into the Dragon Ball. As soon as my finger touched the Dragon Ball, the silver liquid metal seemed to come alive and climbed up my finger.

The liquid metal tightly enveloped his finger, and with great force, Yun Ce noticed that his index finger was gradually becoming thinner, as if the liquid metal was devouring his flesh and blood.

Yun Ce reached out and swiped the silvery liquid off his fingers, tossing it to Long Zhu. Then, he saw his own skinny, bony finger.

I moved my fingers around a bit and found that they were still flexible, but there was hardly any flesh or blood in them.

This is a minor matter; everything will return to normal after dawn.

After the molten metal was absorbed by the Dragon Ball, it faded considerably and was no longer as vibrant red.

Judging from his own slender fingers, which were nothing but skin and bones, it seemed that both the Dragon Balls and the silvery-white liquid that could no longer be called nanobots had the ability to strip others of their flesh and blood.

This made Yun Ce afraid to store the thing in his stomach anymore. If the two things started absorbing the substances they could use in his stomach, Yun Ce felt that he would definitely turn into a dried-up human body, because when the thing was wrapped around his fingers, it absorbed very greedily.

The orange-red dragon ball was right in front of Yun Ce, only a foot away, half a foot closer than the previous one and a half feet. The silver metal on it seemed peaceful, but occasionally one or two sharp spikes would emerge from the silver metal ball, and the direction in which the spikes appeared was the closest point to Yun Ce's forehead.

These metals seemed to be sentient; whenever Yun Ce's gaze fell upon those greedy spikes, the spikes would quickly retract and transform back into a mass of molten metal, appearing quite benevolent.

Yun Ce slowly retreated two feet, and the dragon pearl followed, moving two feet closer. Yun Ce used the wooden spike to push the dragon pearl away. The dragon pearl was pushed away, but before the wooden spike could be retracted, it moved closer again. Yun Ce pushed it away again, and it moved closer again. Each time it was pushed away, it got closer and closer to Yun Ce.

At this point, Yun Ce was quite satisfied with the two treasures that had been combined.

He never expects to receive good things for free.

In his life, the only two good things he received were his father and mother.

Only these two people would treat him well unconditionally and without principle. As for the rest, such as his great-grandfather Yun Linchuan's kindness to him, it was all conditional.

Therefore, Yun Ce was quite tolerant of the Dragon Balls and the liquid metal's desire to absorb his flesh and blood to grow stronger.

However, he still shifted his body slightly to the left to make it easier for the owner of the pair of eyes behind him to step forward and plunder the Dragon Ball and the liquid metal.

Although the beautiful little sow was a pig, she had a pair of bright, clear eyes. She seemed curious about everything, especially about Yun Ce's behavior. She liked to steal the food he found and also liked to have him help her process the food.

The food this person found was often tastier than what they found on their own, and the food he processed seemed to taste even better. When Yun Ce started vomiting, it lay down beside the grassy nest and watched him.

Its curiosity reached its peak when Yun Ce spat out an egg and a chain from its mouth.

Although it didn't understand why the egg and the chain had become one, it still instinctively felt that it was a good thing.

When Yun Ce clearly avoided the egg, the little wild boar could no longer suppress its instinct to want something good. It pounced and snatched the dragon ball in its mouth.

Dragon Ball did not resist and let the little wild boar swallow it.

The little wild boar that landed turned its head and let out a sharp squeal at Yun Ce, its two spotless eyes filled with ferocity.

Yun Ce slowly retreated, stopping only when he was four meters away from the little wild boar. He reached out his hand towards the little wild boar, and a saber sliced ​​open the little wild boar's belly, the hilt spinning as it fell into his palm.

The little wild boar stood there blankly for a moment, then pawed the ground with its two front hooves and collapsed to the ground, its internal organs spilling out of its ruptured wound.

The moonlight was so bright that it fell on the fresh blood that the wild boar had just shed, giving the dark-looking blood a shimmering sheen, making the pool of blood that had gathered into a small lake look almost like a gemstone.

Its heart also flowed out, enveloped by the two lobes of its lungs. It wriggled twice, squeezing open the pink lobes, and then refused to move anymore, like a prisoner who had been locked up for a long time, finally able to stretch out its legs and rest freely under the moonlight.

Yun Ce watched as the light in the little pig's eyes slowly faded. There was no hatred in its eyes, only an unresolved confusion.

He originally liked this very intelligent little wild boar very much, and always thought that following such a clever creature would allow him to gradually become familiar with this new world.

Unfortunately—it ate people.

Although he didn't know who those skulls belonged to or what kind of humans they were, Yun Ce firmly categorized himself as a human. A wild boar that had eaten human flesh shouldn't live in this world.

Of course, although the moon was high in the sky and it was a perfect time for a barbecue, Yun Ce ultimately did not skewer the little wild boar and put it on the fire. Instead, he dug a hole on the spot and buried it.

The experiment ultimately failed. The Dragon Balls and the liquid metal did not obtain anything from the little wild boar. The moment the little wild boar died, they flew out and remained suspended above Yun Ce's head.

Yun Ce no longer considered putting it back into his stomach. After all, it had taken a lot of effort to spit it out, and these two guys didn't seem so harmless, so it was necessary to be more cautious.

Looking at the big moon on the horizon, Yun Ce took out a cleaned wild boar from the Dragon Ball, dug a pit in the ground, and started roasting the pork.

The war on the other side of the mountain seemed to be raging on, with the screams of wild boars mixed with another sound, similar to the howl of a bear, carrying far across the wilderness.

The wild boar was just a shell; once it was pried open with branches, its own fat could be roasted over a fire until it sizzled and oozed oil.

Adding chili peppers and salt makes it taste great.

This stuff must be eaten while it's being grilled. After Yun Ce finished eating the meat on both sides of his belly, the four pig legs and the pig back were almost cooked.

With the Dragon Ball and liquid metal gone from his stomach, Yun Ce had finished the entire six- or seven-pound suckling pig carcass, and there seemed to be room left in his stomach.

He decided not to eat anymore, and crawled into the straw nest he had built, wrapped himself in a blanket, and prepared to sleep.

The Dragon Ball was suspended overhead, and the molten metal, as if knowing it was unwanted, quickly burrowed into the Dragon Ball.

Seeing the Dragon Ball timidly hanging above his head, Yun Ce finally reached out to stroke it once more. The Dragon Ball obediently nestled in Yun Ce's palm, like a well-behaved child.

The Dragon Ball felt great to the touch, soft and smooth, much like an egg without a shell. Yun Ce squeezed the Dragon Ball hard, but it didn't break. Instead, it peeked out from between his fingers like a lump of clay.

Seeing that the dragon ball did not resist, Yun Ce kneaded it into various shapes until it was finally rolled into a thin sheet of skin, which he then wrapped around his wrist, making it look like a wristband.

This is the greatest trust Yun Ce can give to Dragon Ball and Liquid Metal; he is willing to lose a hand for them.

(End of this chapter)