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Chapter 153 [Revenge] (7200)

Chapter 148 [Revenge] (7200)

Chen Yan "interrogated" the wooden bowl.

Calling it an interrogation isn't quite accurate, because Chen Yan didn't really want to be ruthless towards this female monster who had once spared him.

As for Mu Wan, there was actually no need for interrogation... She was indeed not very smart, her mind was a bit simple-minded, and she basically answered whatever Chen Yan asked.

Mu Wan told Chen Yan that the reason she appeared in the mountains was simple: she had been exiled by the village.

This is a very severe punishment.

Because Chen Yan escaped, or more accurately, Chen Yan escaped with Du Li, and most importantly, Du Li used a flying sword when he escaped!
The nature of this is different.

What began as a simple slave escape story has transformed into an event of enemy infiltration.

A slave who enters a village carrying a flying sword is no longer a slave, but an enemy spy, a scout...

Since Chen Yan escaped with Du Li, Chen Yan must also be involved.

—That's the monsters' logic.

Then, as Chen Yan's "slave owner," Mu Wan had to take responsibility.

Her punishment was the confiscation of all her private property and banishment from the village!

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan nodded. No wonder he had spent two days lurking outside the village when he came to investigate last time, but hadn't seen Mu Wan at all.

This female monster was driven out of the village.

It's kind of funny.

Among the ferocious beast tribe, Mu Wan, a family full of loyal martyrs, was stripped of all his property and expelled because he mistakenly took in a slave of unknown origin.

Of course, they still left her a way out.

When Mu Wan was banished, she was allowed to take with her the food from her home, and a weapon—the axe.

The exile period is one year!
If the wooden bowl survives a year later in the mountains...

They weren't eaten by wild animals, weren't killed by the cold, and didn't starve to death...

After a year, they will be considered to have completed their punishment and can return to the tribe.

This is a traditional custom of the tribe.

Chen Yan asked Mu Wan a question: "Have there been other people who accepted this exile punishment before? How many of them survived a year and returned to their tribe alive?"

"........."

Mu Wan shook his head, blinked, and stared blankly at Chen Yan.

But she later told Chen Yan that she was confident she could make it through the year and return to the tribe.

Ok……

Chen Yan felt that he shouldn't have any expectations of his slave owner's intelligence.

·
The poor wooden bowl has been sitting in the woods for many days now...

She was only ten years old.

Although the ferocious beast race has a strong physique, their normal lifespan is actually not much different from that of humans.

A ten-year-old girl, although she belonged to the Beast Tribe whose faith was in brutality and killing, was still too young to go far after being driven away. In a state of fear and panic, she had been wandering around the tribe for the past few days.

She tried cutting down trees, but the tribe wouldn't accept her timber—exiled monsters could no longer receive any supplies from the village, nor could they trade.

She tried hunting, but in this frigid season, there were hardly any wild animals to be found.

Moreover, at only ten years old, Muwan's hunting skills were clearly not very good.

However, relying on his innate abilities as a member of the ferocious beast race, Muwan managed to find the den of a hibernating wild beast, kill it, and take over its den—the beast's carcass becoming Muwan's food.

This harvest allowed her to eat her fill for five days, hide in the cave to avoid the cold, and stay there for five days.

The last time Chen Yan came to survey the terrain, Mu Wan happened to be hiding in a wild animal's den. Otherwise, Chen Yan might have encountered her when he was surveying the outskirts of the village.

But after the food ran out, Mu Wan had no choice but to go out hunting again.

She had been wandering in the woods for days, and in search of food, she had to go further and further away, having already abandoned her previous nest.

Before meeting her tonight, Muwan got lost in the thick fog. She was cold and hungry, and then she remembered that there was a cave nearby where her escaped slave had once hidden.

So the wooden bowl decided to find its way to this cave and seek shelter from the cold there.

If she hadn't met Chen Yan, Mu Wan would probably have died... She hadn't eaten for two days.

·
After clarifying everything, Chen Yan took out two bags of compressed biscuits and a dried beef strip.

Instead of untying the wooden bowl's hands and legs, he held the food himself and fed it to the wooden bowl bite by bite.

"You're lucky, and I'm kind. You fed me that black lump of food back then, and now I'm feeding you cookies and beef. That's called repaying evil with kindness."

When Chen Yan said these words, Mu Wan didn't bother to understand at all. Instead, he stared intently at the food in Chen Yan's hand and began to eat it frantically, bite by bite.

This amount of food was far from enough to satisfy a monster like Mu Wan, who was much larger and stronger than Chen Yan.

However, Chen Yan wouldn't give her any more—the storage equipment couldn't be accessed in this place, and all of Chen Yan's supplies were carried in a backpack with limited capacity.

However, after eating all that food, the wooden bowl finally regained some of its intelligence—it was probably because her brain had been frozen stiff, which made her already poor intelligence even worse.

"Why are you still here? You didn't run away?"

Mu Wan looked at Chen Yan, then his expression suddenly changed: "You're wearing clothes, and your things... You... ran away and came back?"

Chen Yan didn't say anything and started eating as well.

Mu Wan stared at Chen Yan with a complicated expression, seemingly deep in thought.

After Chen Yan finished eating, Mu Wan seemed to suddenly understand something.

"You...you've come back for revenge!?"

"You've spared me this time. I survived last time because of you. Because of that, I really don't want to kill you!"
So, please cooperate and don't make a scene, okay? Otherwise, if I'm forced into a corner, I might...

Chen Yan, holding a knife, spoke solemnly to the wooden bowl.

Mu Wan remained silent, only looking at Chen Yan with a complicated expression.

Chen Yan knew that the wooden bowl had been frightened by him.

He ignored the wooden bowl and started tidying up his own things.

Gasoline, explosives, firearms, and ammunition. He even checked the winter clothing one last time.

Mu Wan blinked as she watched Chen Yan intently. Although she didn't recognize any of Chen Yan's equipment or belongings, she instinctively sensed a hint of danger.

After a long silence, the wooden bowl suddenly whispered, "You've come back for revenge!"

This time, she wasn't questioning, but speaking with absolute certainty.

Chen Yan didn't speak, but rummaged through his bag and pulled out something—a chew toy.

This is for dogs; Chen Yan bought it from an online pet store.

He put the thing on the wooden bowl, hung it on the back of her head and tightened it, so the wooden bowl could only make "ah ah ah" sounds and couldn't speak.

Chen Yan then checked the strange tree branches binding the wooden bowl's hands and feet and reinforced them a few more times.

After doing all this, Chen Yan stared at the wooden bowl for a couple of seconds, then ignored the bowl's complicated expression and turned back into his sleeping bag.

Revenge is a physically demanding task, and Chen Yan needs to conserve his energy before taking action.

Chen Yan quickly entered a meditative state.

He allowed himself to rest for a full six hours. Six hours later, when Chen Yan got up and crawled out of his sleeping bag, he found that Mu Wan was already asleep.

This female slave must have had a terrible time these past few days. Her physical strength and condition were both very poor. After being captured by Chen Yan, the cave was a little warmer than outside, and Chen Yan had also fed her some food last night.

The torment of days of exhaustion, thirst, and fatigue caused this simple-minded fellow to actually fall asleep.

Chen Yan squatted down next to the wooden bowl and watched her for a while. Then he took the three large hiking backpacks he had brought, carried one on his back and one in each hand, and left the cave.

·
On the western hillside of the village of the ferocious beasts, Chen Yan found the same tree he had visited during his last investigation.

He also carefully checked the surrounding area, but found no trace—the monsters from the village shouldn't have been here in the last few days.

Chen Yan carefully climbed the tree and hoisted the three backpacks up with ropes.

He took out an energy bar, tore it open, leaned against a tree branch, bit down hard, and then swallowed it bite by bite.

He held a telescope in his other hand, observing the village.

At the edge of the forest, human slaves were cutting down trees, and everything seemed to be going smoothly.

Occasionally, monsters from the village would emerge from the forest leading their prey, but they would not approach the area where they were hiding.

Chen Yan's expression was indifferent, and his eyes carried a hint of coldness and detachment.

After watching for a while, Chen Yan suddenly raised an eyebrow.

There was a faint flow of air within the mist, and Chen Yan sniffed. The damp and chilly air seemed to carry a slightly different feeling.

Sure enough, a moment later, Chen Yan reached out his hand.

"Snowing……"

·
Snowflakes began to fall from the sky. At first, they were sparse, but after only half an hour, the snowflakes became denser and denser, and the wind gradually picked up.

A heavy snowfall is coming!
The village and the woods were gradually covered with a layer of white. The slaves working at the edge of the woods shivered from the cold, but under the whip of the overseer, they had no choice but to brace themselves and work hard to cut down the trees.

But the snow was getting heavier and heavier... Even the monster overseers were gradually becoming unbearable in the cold wind and snow, and stopped wandering around, instead seeking shelter in leeward places.

Finally, the sound of horns echoed through the village. The overseer monsters, as if granted a pardon, finally emerged from their sheltered spot, shouting and raising their whips to drive the slaves away from the woods and back to the village.

Chen Yan estimated the time; the arrival of this heavy snow had reduced the logging work, which should have lasted a whole day, by half.

But the suffering of those human slaves was not alleviated by working a few hours less.

Back in the village, as a cold blizzard struck, the monsters all retreated to their wooden huts, except for a few slaves who could hide in the woodshed or huddle together with the livestock for warmth...

Many more human slaves, like cattle and horses, were chained up and left at the door of the slave owner's hut, shivering in the wind and snow, huddled together.

This snow will probably freeze many human slaves to death...

Chen Yan's brows were already tightly furrowed.

The snowfall introduced some uncontrollable variables into his revenge plan. The snow would slow him down during his infiltration, and his footsteps would easily make noise, potentially alerting the monsters.

Especially the evacuation plan after the attack—the snow on the ground will slow down your escape! And it will leave footprints in the snow, which may lead to some pursuit that is not planned.

Can't wait any longer!

Chen Yan instantly realized that he had two choices:

Either abandon this operation, go back, and come back another time.

Either act now, before the snow gets too deep!

Chen Yan made his decision in just three seconds.

He quickly opened a backpack and pulled out a piece of C4 explosive.

These plastic bombs are incredibly stable; they can be cut with a knife and kneaded in your hands like playdough without any problems.

Chen Yan planted half of the C4 right there!

Because he remembered Gu Qingyi saying that Gu Qingyi's third uncle had researched and tested bringing firearms from the outside world into the domain. Because of the difference in some underlying rules between the two worlds, the firearms from the outside world would have their power greatly reduced when used in the domain.

Just in case, Chen Yan increased the dosage!
Chen Yan checked the detonator, then jumped down from the tree and ran as fast as he could...

·
The blizzard grew stronger, the howling wind drowning out most sounds. Many monsters were forced to huddle inside their wooden huts, lighting fires and huddling together for warmth.

Outside, besides the howling wind, one could faintly hear the painful cries of human slaves.

That was a person crying out in despair from the cold!
The leader monster sat in front of the fire in his wooden hut, his face indifferent, unmoved by the screams coming from the village outside.

Two young female monsters knelt in front of the fire, cooking meat soup in an iron basin.

As the broth boiled, a female monster quickly ladled out a bowl and presented it to the leader monster with both hands.

The leader monster coldly accepted it, took a big gulp, and chewed the chunks of meat in the broth vigorously.

Just at this time……

boom! !

A loud bang came from outside the house, and the tremor it caused seemed to shake the ground.

The leader monster's expression suddenly changed. He threw down the bowl in his hand, jumped up from the ground, and rushed out the door frantically!

Amidst the swirling snow, the leader monster stood at the doorway, only to see a mushroom-shaped black cloud rising from the western hillside of the village…

Flames shot into the sky from the dark clouds, and countless trees were shattered by the explosion. At the same time, pieces of wood, still burning, flew everywhere like meteors. Some fragments, still burning, landed on the edge of the village, and some even hit wooden houses, causing a panic.

Many monsters came out, staring in terror at the direction of the explosion...

After a moment of stunned silence, the leader monster immediately realized what was happening, turned around, and ran back into the house. When he came out again, he was wearing a cloak, carrying a horn, and blowing it loudly.

Soon, more than a dozen heavily armed monsters arrived, leading their prey—but the prey had been frightened by the explosion and were roaring and struggling violently, trying to break free of their shackles.

The leader monster pointed to the flames on the western hillside where the explosion had occurred and gave the order, quickly leading several monsters towards the western hillside...

·
Chen Yan had already rushed into the village.

Having made prior observations, he had memorized the village's terrain outline.

In the darkness, the explosion and fire on the distant western hills plunged the village into chaos.

Monsters emerged from the darkness, running blindly and frantically through the room. Human slaves also rushed out, scattering everywhere, and some even began to try to escape...

Using his familiarity with the terrain, Chen Yan quickly rushed into the village from the side.

On his way, he encountered a monster that had run out of the door. This guy was over two meters tall and had a strong build, but he was caught off guard and wasn't wearing a fur coat or any protective gear.

When Chen Yan was hit head-on by it, the monster seemed to be stunned for a moment, but before it could make a sound, Chen Yan directly pulled out his pistol and fired three shots at it.

The monster roared and fell to the ground. Chen Yan ran over quickly, jumped over its body, and a large amount of blood gushed from the monster's mouth, eventually spilling out onto the snow.

The howling wind, the screams and shouts throughout the village, and the sounds of explosions and fires on the distant western hillside drowned out the gunshots.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chen Yan rushed to the outside of the leader monster's wooden house and then crashed into the courtyard gate.

He kicked open the wooden hut door, and the two female monsters inside immediately cried out in surprise. However, being monsters of the ferocious beast race, even the female monsters were incredibly strong. One of the female monsters picked up a burning piece of firewood and hurled it at Chen Yan.

Another female monster roared and lunged at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan did not hesitate and fired immediately.

After a few gunshots, Chen Yan quickly changed the magazine in his pistol, then pulled out a Coke bottle and poured it all over the wooden house...

Moments later, thick smoke billowed from the wooden house, and a raging fire broke out...

Seeing that the chief's wooden house was on fire, some people ran towards the village where the monsters were.

Just as the monster at the front of the pack rushed into the courtyard, Chen Yan was already coldly watching from the left corner of the courtyard, holding a semi-automatic rifle.

The first monster that charged in was knocked down by a burst of bullets. Then Chen Yan stood up, straightened his gun, and fired continuously. The second and third monsters were hit and fell to the ground. The monsters behind roared loudly, and some monsters in the distance were already smashing iron hammers at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan turned and ran, kicking over the wooden wall of the yard and jumping out through the crack.

Several monsters then rushed in through the courtyard gate...

But soon, a huge sound!

On the left side of the courtyard, right where Chen Yan had just been hiding, another explosion occurred!
In the midst of the violent explosion, the leader monster's residence, the tallest two-story wooden house in the village, was blown into the air and shattered into pieces with a deafening roar!
The three monsters that rushed into the courtyard were blown to smithereens in the closest explosion!
The blast wave scattered shattered limbs everywhere. Even the two monsters outside the courtyard who hadn't yet entered were thrown out by the blast, landing on the ground covered in blood...

Despite having run far enough away, Chen Yan was still thrown several meters forward by the blast wave amidst the aftershocks of the explosion. He rolled on the ground, got up again, and ran towards the south of the village.

The explosion at the chief's residence threw the village into complete chaos. Chen Yan seized the opportunity to rush over, splashing gasoline from his Coke bottle everywhere along the way. As he ran, Chen Yan also took out talismans from his tactical vest pocket and took a picture of each talisman on the wooden houses he passed!
After a flash of light appeared on the talisman, several violent tongues of fire immediately shot out!

Flames sprayed everywhere, like a powerful flamethrower; the flames were orange and licked everywhere...

This is one of the three offensive spells that Chen Yan obtained from the little girl: the Fiery Spell.

This fire is fueled by vital energy, and it cannot be extinguished even with water until the vital energy is exhausted!

Soon, in Chen Yan's path, most of the village was engulfed in flames. Chen Yan, however, had already rushed to the southeast side of the village in one breath…

This is the place he knows best, the wooden house that originally belonged to Muwan.

As soon as Chen Yan rushed here, he saw a magnificent figure in front of him—the Blackstone overseer!
This guy actually rushed out of the wooden house with the wooden bowl.

Chen Yan saw Black Stone, and Black Stone saw him too.

The monster roared and ran towards Chen Yan, carrying an axe in its hand.

The two men were carried close together. Chen Yan only had time to fire one shot before the bullet pierced Black Stone's chest. Black Stone roared and swung his axe down.

Chen Yan could only raise the rifle in his hand to block it.

With a snap, the rifle bent over, and Chen Yan was knocked backward by the axe blow, falling to the ground.

Just as Black Stone raised his axe again, Chen Yan pulled a talisman from his tactical vest, tore it open, and pointed it at Black Stone!
With a loud bang, dozens of sharp blades swept towards Black Stone like a storm, passing directly through his body!

Black Stone froze, stumbled, and then his body suddenly shattered into pieces!
Blood sprayed everywhere, and the entire body was reduced to dozens of pieces, scattered on the ground!
"Ten Thousand Swords Technique!"
This is the most powerful of the three spells Chen Yan learned from the little girl—but sealing the spirit on the talisman is also the most difficult. With Chen Yan's current mastery of spirit sealing techniques, he only sealed three talismans with this Myriad Swords Technique.

However, he used up more than forty talisman papers to successfully create these three talismans.

Chen Yan wanted to make more, but while he could keep up with the consumption of talismans, his vital energy couldn't keep up.

Chen Yan got up from the ground and glanced at the fragments of Hei Shi's body, especially his head, which was severed at the neck and rolled on the snow to Chen Yan's feet.

Chen Yan squinted at the Black Stone overseer who had almost killed him back then—it was also the one who had made him suffer ten lashes.

He shook his head, kicked his head away, then quickly pasted a "Fire Talisman" onto the wooden house before turning and running away.

A few seconds later, the fire talisman exploded, flames shooting out in all directions, and the wooden house that originally belonged to Mu Wan was completely engulfed in flames...

The wooden house in Muwan was already at the southeastern edge of the village. When Chen Yan arrived there, the contents of his three backpacks were almost completely used up.

The gasoline had been spilled all over the village, and with the added effect of the Fire Talisman, the entire village was now engulfed in flames. Screams and cries filled the air, and monsters darted about in the firelight like headless flies.

Monsters tried to put out the fire, but in such cold weather, there was very little liquid water in the village... The monsters themselves didn't have much water to drink, and they had to break ice from the frozen river every day to melt it over the fire.

As some monsters watched their houses burn in the fire, they roared furiously and poured their only drinking water on the flames, but to no avail. Then, some monsters began shoveling snow from the ground and throwing it into the fire...

There were even monsters wielding hammers and smashing houses...

Chen Yan had already run to the outskirts of the village, and he had quickly reached the frozen river outside the village.

At this moment, he had already thrown away two of his three hiking backpacks.

Chen Yan calmly observed the chaos in the village. He simply sat indifferently on a tree stump by the stream and began to calmly make his final preparations.

He took out his last remaining gear from his last backpack and calmly put it on.

Occasionally, monsters from the village would wander off. One monster ran south and saw Chen Yan sitting there. It roared and charged at him, but Chen Yan simply calmly took his pistol and pulled the trigger...

Bang…bang bang bang…

After several gunshots, four monster corpses lay on the ground in front of Chen Yan.

Chen Yan coldly changed the last magazine in his pistol, then stood up.

Even now, Chen Yan's expression remained indifferent, his eyes showing no trace of anxiety or tension, like a hunting wolf coldly staring in the direction of the village.

at last……

He finally met his biggest target of the night!

With a roar, the leader monster, who had run back from the western hillside, led several of the village's most elite monster warriors and charged toward Chen Yan from the west side of the river!

After the leader monster exploded on the western slope, the warriors rushed to investigate, but chaos erupted in the village along the way. The fires and explosions in the village drove the leader monster into a berserk state!
The gunshots and screams made a big enough commotion to attract his attention, and he led his soldiers to run over here, finally seeing Chen Yan!

However, the number of monster warriors following the leader was not the dozen or so that Chen Yan had previously observed...

Instead, there were only seven or eight.

It's likely that some of the monster warriors, seeing the chaos in the village, ran back to the village on their own.

·
Chen Yan looked at the leader monster running from a distance with a cold smile.

This was part of his plan!
The leader monster is also Chen Yan's number one target on his kill list!

Regardless of whether the monster leader could understand it or not, Chen Yan raised a middle finger at him and deliberately showed a smile!
Then, Chen Yan turned and ran, his figure darting across the frozen river in a flash...

The last set of equipment he had just put on was at his feet.

A pair of ice skates!
Seeing Chen Yan speeding away across the slippery frozen river at an unbelievable pace, the leader monster roared, "Catch him!!"

He was tall and had long legs, so he ran after them at breakneck speed, with several elite monster warriors close behind...

(End of this chapter)