Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 24: Gradually Understanding
It's said that virgins have a natural fragrance, but that's pure nonsense. Maybe the pervert who said that was blinded by hormones, and for a moment, even the smell of feces would be intoxicating to him.

Eji's virginity was very evident, such as her figure, which resembled a ribbonfish, and her silly way of clinging to a man's body tightly when she was aroused, preventing him from having any further contact with her.

She didn't know that at this moment she should let go of the man and let him explore her body, instead of clinging to him tightly and only caring about venting her emotions.

Although Yun Ce was also determined to be a virgin by the renowned traditional Chinese medicine doctor, this did not mean that he could not resist the temptation of women. On the contrary, he was the most popular woman among all the women in the Yun family.

He has seen women who are noble, pure, highly educated, billionaire, or possess all four of these qualities.

As for beautiful, charming, seductive, or even purely erotic bomb-shaped items, they are the least respectable in their household.

It's ridiculous, but noble families have no beautiful women, at least not stunning beauties. Despite their efforts to improve their genes by mating with the most beautiful women, the vast majority of their offspring are deformed.

Furthermore, they have a deep disdain for cosmetic surgery, viewing it as the greatest insult to their natural genes. Therefore, those who are beautiful, intelligent, and possess stable personalities are rare. (Believe me, this is the truth!!!)
Eji's ribbonfish-like figure naturally failed to move him. Despite the intense passion of the young girl, all Yun Ce could do was turn around, embrace the thin, fiery body that was indistinguishable between male and female, and continue sleeping.

It's the same principle as animal courtship, especially when the one courting is the female. You may not like her, but you can't humiliate her, otherwise, it will be detrimental to the great cause of human reproduction.

When the full moon appears, there is little difference between night and day. The silvery moonlight shines through the small window and falls right on Yun Ce's bed.

Although Eji was taller than Yun Ce at this time, she looked so helpless and petite when she curled up in Yun Ce's arms.

That night, Yun Ce slept very well, and so did E Ji. The former felt less empty with a human-shaped pillow in her arms, while the latter felt smug and content, having become Yun Ce's woman.

Old Zhao Jin had been guarding Eji's door all night and hadn't gone back to sleep. In the morning, he saw the young couple embracing tightly through the crack in the door, so he went back and brought all his weapons to Yun Ce, pretending to be a dead man who had just arrived.

A knife, a sharp spear, a bow, and sixteen arrows.

“I remember there should also be armor,” Yun Ce wrote on the wooden tablet.

“I was not able to become a public servant, so I have no right to wear armor, nor can I afford it.”

Gongshi was the lowest of the twenty ranks of nobility in the Qin and Han dynasties. Although it was an entry-level title, it required beheading five enemy soldiers in battle to obtain it. Note that this was in a proper battle! Not an ambush or a sneak attack, but beheading five enemy soldiers in a fair and square battle between two armies.

I understand now. Hekou Village is an unnamed village without even a Gongshi (a type of official), but now it has to face the Living Dead Worm and a wild beast as swift as the wind, whose nature is unknown.

This is the job, very similar to the one on Earth. In a small village that has nothing but poverty, we still have to carry out tasks such as attracting investment and cultural revitalization.

After Yun Ce left the village carrying a spear and a bow and arrows, Zhao Jin ordered the village gate to be closed. They planned to wait until Yun Ce confirmed the existence of the man-eating beast before digging a trap.

Eji ran out of the village by climbing over the gate, carrying a wood-chopping knife she could use for cutting tree bark...

After the two arrived at the Cloth Tree Forest, Yun Ce first walked around the forest, then put E Ji on a Cloth Tree with a large fork, letting her sit quietly on it, while he continued to peel bark as usual.

That's how hardworking people are; they show their diligence regardless of time or place. Only in this way can they achieve the goal of getting rich through hard work.

“If wild animals come, just run, 90% of the time,” Eji muttered to herself as she sat on the tree.

"Don't worry about me, it's good enough that one person in the family is alive, 95%."

"If I haven't been completely devoured by wild beasts, collect my remaining remains. There's a patterned bag under my bed; use it to put them in, and bury them deep. Some wild animals have very sensitive noses. 95%"

Seeing that Eji was already moved to tears, Yun Ce put down the bark he had just peeled, took out a small wild boar carcass from the nearby bushes, dug a trough, and began to roast the pig. From the moment Yun Ce took out the small wild boar, Eji forgot to cry.

As Eji sat on the tree branch and began to gnaw on the roasted pig, Yun Ce, following Gouzi's suggestion, turned his gaze to the left of the Yishulin grove, where a dark shadow flashed and disappeared.

Yun Ce ignored him and picked up his knife again to cut the bark. Generally, wild beasts that need to ambush humans after encountering them wouldn't be too strong, at least not stronger than him. "Crack, crack, crack," Yun Ce vigorously whipped the bark in the forest until it was all soft and limp before stopping. He then tied the bark up and prepared to take it back.

Eji hadn't slept well last night. After eating her fill, she continued to sleep on the tree branch, enjoying the pleasant feeling of her delicious food slowly digesting in her stomach.

After being woken up by Yun Ce, she clung to the tree trunk and slid down. Yun Ce stood beside the tree trunk to catch her, as the tree was slippery after the rain, and he was afraid she would fall.

Eji was already being very careful, but she still cried out and slipped halfway down. Yun Ce did not choose to catch the cunning Eji, but instead clenched his fist and delivered a heavy left hook to a dark figure rushing towards him.

Yun Ce is very strong now, so his punches are naturally very heavy. After being punched, the dark figure lost its momentum and flew backward.

The sound of bones breaking had barely reached his ears when Yun Ce had already reached out and grabbed E Ji, who had slid down from the tree. After settling E Ji down, Yun Ce turned to look at the dark figure lying on the ground.

The dark figure lay on the ground, still a dark mass. You could tell it was human, but its fur made it look less human.

"Monsaka!"

"Savage! 18%"

Yun Ce used his foot to spread the limp savage out and was surprised to find that it was indeed a person. The fur on his body was a bear's skin, but the bear skin was too tightly attached to his body. It didn't look like it was glued on, but rather like the freshly skinned bear skin was combined with this person, who had also been skinned many times.

Yun Ce frowned. This kind of behavior, which turns humans into beasts, is definitely a primitive culture, belonging to the lowest level of culture. It is generally seen in monotheistic religions and shamanistic and voodoo ritual cultures. They firmly believe that humans can draw a part of non-human power from the bodies of powerful beasts.

The man had a bear claw on his left hand. The sharp claw had been deliberately sharpened. Chang Ji, who died on the drum, died from this claw. On his right hand was a skull resembling that of a bear-like creature. This creature had many teeth, which were very sharp. If this dead savage was strong enough, he could control the upper and lower jaws of the skull with his hands, eventually forming a complex tearing motion.

Yun Ce removed the bear skull from the savage's hands, played with it for a while, and even scratched a tree with the bear's head. As a result, the bear's head cracked, and a jumble of bones fell to the ground.

He picked up the two largest canine teeth and put them in his pocket, planning to make two bear tooth pendants when he had time.

Eji was very nervous. Ever since she discovered that the person who hurt Changji was a savage, she had been extremely nervous. She even abandoned the tree bark she had just peeled off and wanted to put a tree bark rope around the savage's body and drag him back.

The hardworking Yun Ce naturally wouldn't give up the tree bark. He carried these things on his shoulders and dragged the savage's corpse back to Hekou Village with E Ji.

Zhao Jin looked at the savage's corpse and thought he would breathe a sigh of relief because the scourge was gone, but instead, his face turned even uglier.

Because he needed to observe the ecology of the entire Hekou Village, Yun Ce naturally wouldn't actively participate in their affairs, treating himself as just an ordinary resident of the village.

Although he didn't understand what these people were worried about, Yun Ce still knew about the broken window theory. Chang Ji's death was the first broken window, the person with the living dead worm in his stomach was the second broken window, and this savage was naturally the third broken window.

Since there are already three broken windows, it will only be a short time before the rest of the glass in the large window of Hekouzhai breaks as well.

If someone is behind these events, the windows will break down even sooner.

Judging from the constipated expression on Zhao Jin's face, he was probably in the most dangerous and desperate situation.

Yun Ce skewered a green dumpling on a twig and roasted it over the fire. The dumpling softened immediately after being roasted and became sticky, much like rice cake. If you continued to roast it until it turned a light yellow color, it would be really delicious, because it would automatically separate into layers. Peel off a crispy outer layer and continue roasting, and another layer of golden-brown crispy skin would appear underneath. Add a little salt, and it would taste just like eating rice crust.

The livelihood of Hekou Village is really simple. It seems that there is nothing else besides the clothing industry and the gathering industry. There is not even hunting.

Before the invention of guns, hunting was very risky. Women were not naturally able to fight wild animals, which is why patriarchal societies replaced the ancient matriarchal societies. Ultimately, men, relying on their strong physiques, pushed women to the two important tasks of childbirth and gathering.

The men of Hekou Village are unreliable. This is not just Yun Ce's opinion; Eji and her group of women also think so. After losing so many legs, the village didn't even have a single male heir. As a result, other villages didn't want to form marriage alliances with them. They could only endlessly change men to beat that drum, hoping that someone would take pity on them and come to sleep with them.

(End of this chapter)