Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 17 concerns only the experimental results.

When Yun Ce jumped down from the tree, the piece of flesh that the wild boar demon had torn off had been absorbed by the liquid metal, leaving only a few remnants.

When his hand touched the molten metal, it flowed back up his fingers onto his wristband. This time, the wristband was not silver-white, but dark red.

If you crush the remaining skin and flesh with your foot, the dried skin and flesh will turn into powder.

Yun Ce stared at the wristband that kept changing color and shape, feeling the excitement of the Dragon Ball and the liquid metal. After thinking for a moment, he chased after the wild boar demon in the direction it had fled.

Since the boar spirit's body could enhance the Dragon Balls and the liquid metal, he felt he had to do something about it. Just like when he was working before, if he couldn't find a breakthrough direction for a while, he would go in the direction that was most beneficial to him. Doing so would almost certainly bring him some good luck.

The flesh and blood torn off by the wild boar demon weighed five or six pounds. Such a large wound must have had a great impact on him. Judging from the strength the wild boar demon had just displayed, he was definitely no match for it. However, judging from the speed at which the beast had fled, it was probably not as fast as him.

Having figured it out, Yun Ce's steps became lighter and lighter. Running is a human instinct. Although at the beginning, his eyes and mind couldn't keep up with his fast legs, causing him to fall a few times, as his brain, eyes, and legs gradually began to coordinate, he was in a great mood as he watched his feet glide over the waist-high grass. In any case, at least he now had the ability to fly over grass.

The grass and trees on both sides rushed past, and Yun Ce was extremely happy. This extreme spiritual enjoyment made him almost forget everything that the old scoundrel Yun Linchuan had done to him.

Yun Ce knew that wild boars could run incredibly fast when injured. Back when wild boars weren't protected animals, he had fought them several times with Yun Da and his gang. Although he was just a lowly henchman at the time, he could only chase after the injured wild boar with a group of people. They ran across two hills before finally finding the wild boar with its belly injured.

The wild boar spirit in front of him was undoubtedly far stronger than that of an ordinary wild boar. Yun Ce followed the wild boar spirit at a distance for more than two hours before he saw the wild boar spirit finally slow down and lean against a huge tree trunk, panting heavily.

Yun Ce carefully crouched on a tree, peering at the wild boar demon through binoculars from afar. He was astonished when he discovered that the wild boar demon was actually wrapping its wound with resin.

This is what wild boars do when they're injured, and I didn't expect that the wild boar spirit would do the same thing even when it's injured. It seems that there isn't much of a difference in skill between the wild boar spirit and the wild boar.

Currently, he has not discovered that the wild boar spirit has a systematic language or a mind more advanced than that of wild beasts. Its fighting still relies on instinct, which gives Yun Ce a basic assessment of the wild boar spirit, the species he has seen so far that is most like intelligent life.

If this wild boar spirit cannot break free from the shackles of a wild beast, it will remain just a wild beast. Yun Ce decided to continue observing it.

After the wild boar spirit finished tending to his wounds and even buried his injured arm in the stream next to the big tree to fall into a deep sleep, Yun Ce jumped down from the tree and slowly approached the wild boar spirit from a downwind position.

The liquid metal on his wrist became active again, turning into a long needle pointing directly at the wild boar demon. He originally thought that these metal needles would automatically fly towards the wild boar demon, but unexpectedly, these things were useless, like leeches, and could only wait for the monster to come to them.

During this time, he used the Dragon Ball to collect seven or eight spicy strip-shaped creatures that were clearly not benevolent. After finally climbing to the upper reaches of the stream, he took out two dead spicy strip-shaped creatures. The metallic liquid automatically enveloped the mouthparts of these creatures, and Yun Ce put them into the stream.

Watching them bob and sway in the water as they floated downwards, Yun Ce slowly retreated. His movements were so smooth that they were almost as fluid as those spicy snack-shaped creatures.

Back on the tree where they started, Yun Ce shook off the various insects crawling all over his body, and once again took out the binoculars from the Dragon Ball to silently observe the wild boar demon.

The spicy, strip-shaped creature in the stream had drifted far away with the current, completely adrift and lifeless. Yun Ce estimated that the liquid metal had made good contact with the wild boar demon.

The wild boar demon trembled a few times, seemingly lost in its sleep and unwilling to wake up. This disappointed Yun Ce somewhat. The liquid metal had already started working, but the wild boar demon hadn't noticed. Moreover, this guy dared to sleep so brazenly in the wild; his alertness was really too poor.

Yun Ce's imagined supernatural powers did not appear at the critical moment of life and death, so this wild boar spirit was just a wild boar that took a different path during its evolution.

Yun Ce recalled the bears that could hunt wild boars with sticks and thought that this must be another level of evolution. It seems that humans are not the only ones participating in advanced evolution on this planet.

So-called advanced evolution has two aspects: first, the evolution of the brain, increasing its capacity; and second, the evolution of the hands, making them more suitable for using tools. When the brain and a pair of dexterous hands combine, new tools can be created. Only then can it be considered true advanced evolution.

Currently, it seems that only humans have achieved this.

Just as Yun Ce was assessing the wild boar spirit's level of evolution, the wild boar spirit, which had been sleeping peacefully, suddenly let out a shrill scream.

Yun Ce immediately raised his binoculars and looked over. He saw the wild boar demon jumping around like a madman under the big tree, and constantly ramming the tree with its body.

The tree was huge, yet it still creaked and groaned from the boar demon's impact, its leaves falling to the ground. Yun Ce focused his observation on the boar demon's face, wanting to see if it would display any more sophisticated expressions, an indicator of advanced evolution.

After watching for a while, Yun Ce couldn't help but sigh, because from beginning to end, he could only see anger on the wild boar demon's face, and its eyes were already bloodshot, the whole boar had entered a state of rage.

When wild beasts are enraged, they often do some very irrational things. Sure enough, the boar demon suddenly grabbed its left arm with its right hand, let out another roar, and tore off its already badly injured left arm. It then threw it far away and ran off in a panic towards a large forest.

Yun Ce strolled to the spot where the wild boar demon had torn off his arm. The grass there had been ravaged by the wild boar demon, and there was a patch of blood on the tree trunk. It would take at least a few pounds of blood to cover such a large area.

What is blood used for?

This substance can transport the oxygen and various nutrients needed by the human body to tissue cells, while also transporting tissue organs...
It is responsible for transporting metabolic waste, such as carbon dioxide, to the lungs and kidneys for excretion.

Its function is certainly not limited to this. Yun Ce only knows that people cannot live without blood. If they lose a certain amount, they will become weak, and if they lose too much, they will die.

Since the wild boars here are not much different from those on Earth, they should probably abide by these rules as well.

Yun Ce found the half-arm discarded by the wild boar demon. The arm was slowly charring. Although it was a broken arm, it had turned black and become brittle. Yun Ce kicked it, and the half-arm broke into several pieces.

A pool of liquid metal emerged from the charcoal. Yun Ce bent down, and the substance enveloped the dragon pearl again, giving the entire bracer an eerie purple hue.

However, this purple color did not last long, and it gradually returned to dark red. After a while, the wristband returned to its original silver-white color.

Yun Ce didn't believe that the comrades from the Eleventh Bureau could turn nanomaterials into a living robot with simple intelligence. He preferred to believe that the thing had been infused with something new by the Dragon Balls, which is why it became like this.

The Dragon Ball is a seed, a seed that can spread intelligent life. The first half of this statement was said by Ao Bing, and the second half was conjectured by Yun Ce.

Since the liquid metal and the dragon ball were so fond of that wild boar demon, Yun Ce had reason to suspect that the wild boar demon's body contained the same origin as his own.

As we all know, humans and pigs share 98% of their genes, and the similarity between humans and this wild boar spirit that can walk upright and has hands and feet is even higher.

It's important to understand that even fathers and sons can't be 100% genetically similar. Based on this theory, we can conclude that humans and pigs are actually quite similar, with only about 1% difference.

Yun Ce laughed and shook his head, dismissing the theory from his mind because it was too absurd.

Just like when he was studying in Ganzhou, he met a scholar who specialized in Hakka culture. He believed that all people from other places who live in Southwest China are actually Hakka, and this can be called the Greater Hakka Culture.

Yun Ce felt this was inappropriate; he couldn't mistake a pig that had evolved onto a different path for his own kind just because he was feeling lonely.

The Dragon Ball and the liquid metal, which had been quiet for less than ten minutes, began to stir again. The liquid metal once again formed a needle, pointing straight in the direction the boar demon had fled.

Yun Ce also felt that his experiment was not yet finished, so he jumped up a big tree and then leaped from one tree to another, chasing the wild boar demon into the not-too-large forest.

Yun Ce didn't encounter any monkeys in the forest, not even one. However, there were quite a few squirrel-like creatures. These creatures could not only climb trees, but also spread their fleshy wings and fly briefly when startled.

Yun Ce accidentally startled one, and immediately, the forest was filled with flying squirrels in a chaotic mess.

Once these creatures were out of the shade of the trees, they immediately became the focus of attention for the birds of prey in the sky, who swooped down one after another in a great hurry.

The liquid metal seemed to have some connection with the wild boar demon. No matter how Yun Ce leaped through the forest, it could always point him in the direction the wild boar demon was fleeing.

When Yun Ce saw the wild boar demon again, the guy was still running for his life. It was clear that he was really exhausted. He was stumbling and his body was always swaying. His torn wounds were crawling with all kinds of insects. Even so, his feet were still trying to move forward.

(End of this chapter)