Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 16 The Bear Who Uses a Stick

The Dragon Balls clearly didn't like this treatment, and even the liquid metal was dissatisfied. It seeped out from the surface of the Dragon Balls, enveloping them once again and turning the originally slightly fleshy Dragon Balls into a metallic silver-white.

The liquid metal didn't devour the little wild boar, probably because it didn't fancy it. Yun Ce thought that the little wild boar already possessed rudimentary intelligence and should be something the liquid metal would like. Unexpectedly, it didn't like it at all.

Animals that have developed intelligence cannot be eaten. This is Yun Ce's most basic moral principle. Under normal circumstances, animals that have developed intelligence can be killed or tricked, but they cannot be eaten as food.

This is a sign of respect for wisdom.

Talking about anything else is meaningless. There is actually a hierarchy of food. Based on the matter of the wild boar, Yun Ce believes that both Dragon Ball and liquid metal consider his meat to be superior to that of the wild boar.

The wristband reflected a silvery-white light under the moonlight. Yun Ce pressed it down with his hand, and the silvery-white light disappeared, turning it into a somewhat dirty wristband.

They were very obedient and didn't seem to have any intention of devouring Yun Ce's body or anything else good.

Of course, Yun Ce wouldn't believe it completely. The Dragon Ball and the liquid metal were very important to him. He was prepared to lose an arm, and it could only be his left arm.

The war in the distance is not over yet, but the scope of the war seems to have expanded, and some battles and screams are very close to Yun Ce.

The very high mountaintop was already tinged with a pale yellow hue, a sign that the sun was about to rise. Some birds of prey, which were about to begin their hunt early in the morning, were already circling high in the sky. Their spots would sometimes be touched by the sunlight and turn golden, and sometimes disappear into the shadows of the mountains.

Yun Ce tightened his shoelaces, stood up, and prepared to leave the impending battlefield of defeat. If he didn't leave soon, there would be trouble. The defeated wild boars would definitely take their anger out on him, and the defeated bear-like creatures would naturally assume that everything within the battlefield was their spoils.

The full moon gradually became blurry, but the half-moon of blood gradually became clear in the darkness before dawn. Yun Ce started walking slowly, but after hearing the earth behind him begin to tremble and make a rumbling sound, he began to run wildly across the fields.

According to Yun Ce, wild boars can run at speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour on Earth, and if they are trying to escape, they can even reach speeds of up to 70 kilometers per hour. At that speed, he definitely cannot outrun them, so he can only take advantage of the time he still has to run away.

As for the bears that fight wild boars, their running speed on Earth is definitely not bad either, ranging from fifty to sixty kilometers per hour.

This is why wild boars can fight fiercely with bears and even complete chases.

However, Yun Ce didn't really understand his current body. When he discovered that he could take a step that was seven or eight meters long, he lost his balance and fell to the ground in a sorry state. He used his face to brake and travel more than ten meters before being stopped by a sizable tree.

His face hurt, but after brushing the dust and grass off his face, Yun Ce found that his face wasn't broken. However, his outdoor adventure clothes were torn in several places.

Yun Ce stomped his feet hard on the ground, and his body shot ten meters into the air like a cannonball. He jumped up, but fearing he would fall and get hurt, he hurriedly grabbed a tree branch and hung in mid-air. Looking down at the ground, he felt it was incredibly high...

A wild boar suddenly darted past his feet, and only then did he realize that when the wild boar was running, its thick body would actually transform into a shuttle shape with very little wind resistance.

A huge bear galloped past his feet, its black fur glossy and smooth, and as it ran, its fat rippled.

Even so, the giant bear's pounce and leap were as fast as a shooting star.

With a little effort, Yun Ce lifted his body from mid-air. He felt little resistance in his arms, and by slightly adjusting the angle of his hands, he supported his body and placed his feet on the tree trunk. He then pulled over a leafy branch to cover himself, leaving only his eyes peeking out as he curiously watched the various wild boars and giant bears of different colors running past below.

The wild boar's tusks protruding from its mouth were a full half foot long, but the giant bear's claws, once exposed from its paw pads, were also a full half foot long. In terms of weaponry, the two were roughly equal.

Yun Ce was greatly surprised when a giant bear, wielding a wooden stick, smashed it hard on the head of a wild boar, knocking it to the ground.

He soon discovered that more and more giant bears were gripping the wooden sticks with their claws. After a flurry of blows, the wild boars, whose rear ends were facing the trees and who were howling at the giant bears with their sharp teeth, all fell to the ground.

This time, Yun Ce saw it clearly: these giant bears were holding wooden sticks, and they seemed to be very skilled at using them.

Yun Ce had eaten a lot of bear paws with his parents in Xinjiang when he was a child, and they were even made with honey forelegs. Therefore, he was quite familiar with bear paws. He clearly remembered that the thumb of a bear paw was not very useful and did not have a strong grasping ability. Grasping ability is a special skill that only humans, apes, and monkeys possess.

Now, seeing a group of wild boars being smashed into mincemeat by a group of giant bears with wooden clubs, Yun Ce was very curious about what the people here were like.

However, when he thought of the skulls covered in teeth marks that the little wild boar had unearthed, his heart sank. It seemed that the current living conditions of humankind were precarious.

Yun Ce simply sat on a high tree branch, looking down at the carnage below. He watched as the giant bears used their claws to scoop up the smashed wild boar flesh and blood and stuff it into their mouths. Although the giant bears were covered in blood, Yun Ce also noticed that the majority of them were not the ones who could use wooden sticks. Most of the giant bears walked over on all fours and put their heads on the wild boar flesh and blood to eat.

It's clear that these four-legged bears, which gnaw on wild boar meat, don't seem to have a higher status than the bears that use sticks. Once they start eating, the giant bears with sticks will leave the table and obediently wait behind with their sticks.

The situation becomes clear with a little thought: if you want to use a stick as a weapon, the bear has to stand up. Once the bear stands up, it definitely can't run fast with its short legs.

If a wild animal can't run fast, its fate will be pretty grim.

You have to understand that a stick isn't something you can easily wield. Once you pick up a tool, it's incredibly difficult to put it down. Humans have plenty of experience to say about this.

Back in the day, after the first apes descended from the trees and began walking upright, they could no longer return to the trees to eat wild fruits.

Once the first apes picked up a stick and started using it as a weapon, they never put it down again. And the weapons evolved from sticks to fire, to throwing spears, to long spears, to bows and arrows, to fishing nets... until they became rockets, cannons, and tanks.

The bear with the stick should be the most noble among this group of bears.

As Yun Ce was thinking this, he saw a creature resembling a pig with a pair of large ears, a long mouth, bright eyes, a body as strong as a mountain, long and strong arms, and thick legs that seemed to contain infinite power. It was holding a thick wooden stick covered with spikes and had killed a bear holding the stick with one blow.

As soon as it killed one bear, the rest swarmed in, and sticks flew everywhere, their claws flashing so fast they were almost blurry.

Yun Ce looked at the familiar guy in surprise. If he had to put this guy in the category of acquaintances, without a doubt, this guy should be called Zhu Bajie (Pigsy).

This guy arrived covered in blood, with bloody flesh filling the gaps between his sharp teeth in his long mouth. It looked like he had been fighting for a long time, and even after resuming the battle, he was still incredibly fierce.

The giant bears that were attacking it were constantly being smashed and sent flying, some even more tragically, with wooden sticks hitting them on the top of their heads, smashing their entire heads to pieces.

While the boar demon was fighting, the wrist guard on Yun Ce's wrist was very unstable. The liquid metal kept changing shape. The most obvious time was when it turned into a needle half a foot long. Yun Ce tried to stop it, but the needle broke in mid-air and became a thin needle that was almost invisible to the eye. It silently fell off Yun Ce's wrist.

The boar demon, who was fighting the bear, suddenly trembled. With a burst of strength, he grabbed the bear's head, brought it to his mouth, and bit down hard. The bear's head exploded with a "poof." The boar demon stuck out his long tongue to lick his lips, which were covered in brain matter, and then kicked the bear, sending it flying towards Yun Ce's hiding place.

Yun Ce concluded that the wild boar demon probably hadn't noticed him; it was just a natural reaction after being ambushed by the liquid metal.

The bear that had been kicked by the wild boar demon had its eyeballs burst out of their sockets and had no chance of survival. Yun Ce used the force of the kick to push the bear outward, and the bear's body crashed into the tree trunk next to it with a dull thud. After the force dissipated, the bear stuck to the tree trunk for a moment and then fell down.

The boar demon seemed to harbor deep hatred for the bear. As soon as it fell, it angrily grabbed the bear's carcass, grabbing its head with one hand and its body with the other, and with a forceful tug, it tore the giant bear's head off.

With no trace of the giant bear in sight, even the mighty boar spirit felt exhausted. It snatched a bear heart from the bear's ruptured chest and began to crunch and chew it.

Yun Ce could see it clearly; the wild boar demon's shoulder had sunk slightly, but it wasn't noticeable. If Yun Ce hadn't seen a few fine needles stuck there, he wouldn't have noticed the change.

After the wild boar demon ate seven or eight bear hearts in succession, it got up to leave. But then it noticed several blood-red needles stuck in its shoulder. Moreover, these needles, which were sucking its flesh, were getting thicker and bigger.

The wild boar demon roared and grabbed the boar's shoulder with its claws, tearing off pieces of flesh and blood and throwing them to the ground. Then it ran away in a cloud of dust towards the right side of the big tree.

(End of this chapter)