Chapter 003: The First Battle of Yun Chuan

The old woman shouted for a while, and seeing that no one paid her any attention, she stopped shouting. She took Yun Chuan to the fire pit and sent him over to a young woman with a very large bosom.

As the feeling of hunger quickly faded, he felt as if every cell in his body was rejoicing; the milk that flowed into his stomach transformed into nourishment, creating a very strange sensation

This is a very, very old woman

Yun Chuan called out and opened his arms to embrace the woman's neck, continuously rubbing his face against her plump face

It is evident that their target is the wild man of this cave

Six elderly men and women are watching over these children

He could not understand a single word of the woman's cries

As soon as the crowd returned to the cave, Yun Chuan heard the rustling sound of bedbugs crawling down the rock wall, resembling the sound of rain

The people inside the fence are all very happy, which should be due to having obtained enough food. Everyone is cheering around another pile of even taller food mounds, and no one pays attention to that small pile of food.

Yunchuan studies geology, and his field of study does not include the modern era. The time of human emergence is too brief in the context of geological time

After confirming the identities of these individuals, Yun Chuan pondered for a long time and still felt that the discovery of a wild man tribe near Kunlun Mountain was a rather unreasonable matter

Only by fully integrating into a community can one survive

This is still a tribe existing in the era of public ownership

Yun Chuan watched her pass by in front of him; at that moment, he was dirtier than those filthy children, especially after rolling around in the carbon ash and then getting covered in dew, adding an extra layer of carbon ash to his body

The woman eating meat lowered her head in annoyance and discovered that she was holding two children in her arms, while the oldest one-eyed woman from the tribe stood beside her

He made a determined effort to roll down from the pile of food, aiming for a secluded corner where he prepared to sneak over.

These things are still considered normal, however, a few decayed and foul-smelling human heads are impaled on several wooden posts at the highest point of the fence

Perhaps the woman ate a lot last night, and today her milk supply is abundant, Yun Chuan also ate very well

Unfortunately, the cries of this woman did not attract anyone's attention. Yun Chuan noticed that everyone was busy skewering chunks of meat with wooden sticks for grilling, completely ignoring the old woman's shouts

Yunchuan exerted all his strength to swallow the beef marrow, which tasted like mucus, that was filled with maternal affection.

Yun Chuan, in close contact with her skin, discovered that this woman's body was as cold as a corpse; it was only the rapid rise and fall of her chest due to her cries that prevented Yun Chuan from perceiving her as a dead person

Yunchuan is wide awake

At the beginning, Yun Chuan could see the bedbugs marching down the rock wall in the flickering light of the fire. Later, he also saw creatures like silverfish, spiders, and centipedes crawling out from the crevices of the stones, which greatly terrified Yun Chuan

The young woman is very popular, and many men come to seek her out in one night; however, she seems to be constantly asleep, allowing those men to move upon her.

Among them, the one-eyed old woman was still diligently searching through the group of children for the white child from last night, one that was visible enough for her half-blind eyes to see

This is difficult for Yun Chuan to understand

Indeed, beneath him lies cold, skinned beef, and it should be a whole cow's leg. The hair on the cow's leg is very coarse, causing sharp pain in his back.

After feeding Yun Chuan, the young woman casually tossed him onto the ground and left the camp carrying a large basket

There is neither sadness, nor reluctance, and certainly no legendary funeral.

He began to cry loudly

She angrily threw the incessantly crying child to the old woman, yet held the plump Yun Chuan even tighter

He did not feel drowsy either; he originally intended to seriously reflect on the events he experienced today. However, throughout the night, he found himself engaged in a battle against bedbugs, silverfish, centipedes, and spiders

Hiding in the embrace of a young woman, Yun Chuan looked sadly at the group of people sitting around the campfire. Judging by the way they were eating, they were still a group of uncivilized—savages.

As for the older children, they also followed the woman

Yunchuan is one of the fledglings, and it is an outsider fledgling

In order to survive, Yun Chuan decisively swallowed it.

The young woman, who has just been nourished with milk, is sleeping very well

Yunchuan is very hungry

The men set out earlier; after the women left the camp, the area in front of the cave was filled with children.

The old woman searched tirelessly among the group of children, and after checking each one, she weakly leaned her frail body against the rock wall

It is evident that the young woman greatly enjoys the affection of this child who does not like to cry or fuss, as she takes a lump of chewed meat paste from her mouth and stuffs it into Yun Chuan's mouth

However, because mining has a historical legacy, and this legacy is a unique human habit, Yun Chuan is also quite familiar with the evolution of ancient humanity

A young woman is eating meat, unaware of the war happening within her womb

Even the most aged body of a woman that Yun Chuan had ever seen, her body was as black as ink, with every rib clearly visible beneath her skin. A pair of shriveled breasts, reduced to mere skin, hung from her chest like two torn pouches. She had no teeth in her mouth, one eye socket was a terrifying black hole, while the other eye was obscured by a white film for the most part.

At this moment, the filthy Yun Chuan is certainly different from the white child in the old woman's mind

As for eating, although we have moved beyond the stage of consuming raw flesh and blood, it is merely a matter of having it cooked, or even, at times, not cooked at all

This sound is not unfamiliar to Yun Chuan; he has battled against these things in a restaurant deep within Kunlun Mountain

She has lost a truly unique child forever and ever

There is a wooden fence in front of the cave, with many wooden spikes arranged haphazardly on top. This structure is likely intended for defense

Yunchuan consumed the milk from two breasts in the room, leaving that dirty child with nothing to eat, thus he began to cry out loud

With only a few sparse strands of hair remaining, she held Yun Chuan tightly in her arms, pressing him firmly against her chest, while her toothless mouth emitted a foul odor as she shouted at others.

After embracing Yun Chuan and giving him a kiss, she left the cave, spread her legs, and sat on a stone to begin nursing

However, from this point, it can be seen that the women in this tribe belong to everyone, which means that everything in this tribe belongs to everyone

Yunchuan has swallowed it

Their tools are extremely rudimentary, consisting of wooden sticks, bamboo spears, along with some sharp stone flakes and stone hammers, which are all the tools they possess

Yun Chuan did not cry, so he raised his head to look at the owner of that hand

The child's body was very dirty, and the woman's body was also very dirty, covered in ash from grass and wood. Yun Chuan, in this battlefield of food snatching, soon became consciously dirty, even dirtier than that child.

Yunchuan has swallowed it

At this time, eating a bit more can lead to greater strength, so Yun Chuan did not hold back in the slightest

The taste of human milk is an unparalleled delicacy for infants, but for an adult like Yun Chuan, it is not considered good

Just like the two eaglets in an eagle's nest, only by pushing one of the eaglets out of the nest and causing its death can the other one grow strong and ultimately survive

Yun Chuan quickly crawled on the ground, not wanting to become part of the food

Having finished a glass of milk in the room, Yun Chuan decisively changed the battlefield, swapping positions with the frail child

Indeed, when the sun rose, the woman who had just woken up appeared quite bewildered. After Yun Chuan called out a couple of times, the young woman finally joyfully spotted Yun Chuan

After all, seeing that dirty child lying in the old woman's arms, vigorously sucking on those two breasts that were nothing but skin, he knew that food was too precious at that moment

His body was seized by a hand as thin and withered as a chicken's claw, the calluses in the palm rubbing against his body like sandpaper

When the last trace of fish belly white disappeared from the horizon, Yun Chuan arrived at the entrance of a massive cave

The role of fire is not limited to providing warmth; it also serves a greater purpose of protection

This beef feast did not conclude until midnight

Women belong to the collective, therefore, children must also belong to the collective. After strangling a bug, Yun Chuan finally understood why he was able to impersonate the child of a young woman

The old woman leaned motionless against the rock wall, her single eye wide open. When Yun Chuan saw the ashes of grass and wood fall into her grayish-white eye and she remained unmoving, he knew that the old woman was already dead

It is very important for Yun Chuan to turn himself into a dirty child and replace that dirty child

It is not that Yun Chuan does not love cleanliness, but rather that this layer of carbon ash shell can reduce the likelihood of being attacked by pests such as fleas and centipedes

The death of a person is as natural as the wilting of a flower, the dying of a blade of grass, or the disappearance of a cloud

The young woman casually tossed Yun Chuan onto a sheepskin and lay down on a stone bed, instantly snoring like thunder.

A young woman vigorously sucked on a beef leg bone, filling her mouth with beef marrow, and as she was about to swallow it, for some unknown reason, she passed a mouthful to Yun Chuan mouth to mouth

The morning sun appeared as if it had been pulled from the water, looking damp and resembling the color of rouge. After the sun climbed to the mountain peak, it gradually faded, ultimately turning white

After the master of the thigh returned to the fence, he threw Yun Chuan and the beef he was carrying onto the food pile, which made Yun Chuan's feelings plummet to the lowest point in an instant

In this woman's arms, there is also a child who is greedily sucking on a nipple

Not only that, he even stepped on another child's face with his foot, forcing his mouth away from the nipple

Perhaps the child who was kicked away by him is also very likely not her biological offspring

A tall wild man stands at the entrance of the cave, and he also has the task of tending to the fire.

The remaining elderly individuals did not discover that the old woman had died until noon. They then carried her body to the edge of the cliff and threw it into the abyss, before continuing to lean against the rock wall to bask in the sun

Yun Chuan was carried back to the cave by a young woman, where the ground was covered with hay and various animal skins