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At the hillside, Feng Yu stood on one side of the electric fence and spat in the direction of the buffalo on the other side, both of his hands on his hips. He fixed his gaze on the two sharp horns and the hoof that was still angrily digging the dirt underneath it. Clearly the bull was quite exhausted. Panting heavily, he exclaimed.
“No worries! These buffalo have been locked out for hundreds of thousands of years. They learned their lesson a long time ago. No buffalo dares to bang the fence.”
Xu Le leaned against the fence and nodded torpidly. The electric fences on the planet were all made of special alloy embedded with management chips inside. If the fence were hit with excessive force, it would automatically release a high voltage electric current. Many years had pa.s.sed since the fences were put in place; the fences withstood countless windstorms and rainstorms, but showed no sign of rusty stains or scratch marks from hits and clashes. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine their level of endurance.
“Same rules! You kill the bull, I watch your back,” Uncle Feng Yu directed as if that was how it ought to be.
“Errr….”
Xu Le eventually accepted his fate. He stepped next to the electric fence gloomily. Maybe driven by subconscious, he reached back and touched the chip on the back of his neck, wondering in his mind whether the electrical surveillance net would notice a small blip in signal strength.
After all, he had jumped the electric fence three times before. Therefore Xu Le wasn’t as worried as a typical criminal. He took a deep breath, spat on his palms, and then instantly turned into a monkey. With extraordinary speed and extremely agile techniques, he climbed over the fence with ease.
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“Not bad at all!” Feng Yu sat on a slope and watched with a smile on his face. “If the recruiter in charge of the Department of Defense Draft Exam is not totally blind, he would for sure recognize the talent and strength of this young lad in no time,” he thought to himself.
If citizens of the Federation ever found out that someone was capable of jumping the electric fence, the one nicknamed Wall of Tears by the black market peddlers, without decrypting and disabling it first, they would be shocked speechless. The electronic surveillance of the Federation was everywhere. When this young lad entered an unauthorized territory, how come the chip at the back of his neck didn’t send an electric pulse and the surveillance system didn’t react?
Xu Le had no idea that his easy jump, as smooth as the past ones, was such a devastating blow to the First Const.i.tution and Federation society. Nor did he notice that in the palm of that military deserter, the owner of the repair shop, a small device kept emitting a very dim blue light, which completely enveloped the two of them together with that raging bull.
Only on large gra.s.slands could a bull roam freely. Locking a bull inside an iron cage would only infuriate him.
Of course hostile intentions from humans could also easily infuriate a bull. As soon as Xu Le’s feet touched the gra.s.s outside of the electric fence, the dark brown raging bull immediately charged toward him, the mane on the back of its neck fluttered in the wind with a magnificent curve.
Xu Le could feel fear brewing inside his chest. His face turned slightly pale but he remained calm. When the sharp horns of the bull were only one meter from his chest, he suddenly rotated his left ankle and leaned sideways. Meanwhile his right hand reached toward the giant torso of the bull.
With a loud ZAP, blue electric arcs flashed in the air. Having no way to change the direction of its momentum, the bull barely missed Xu Le and took a straight hit from that delicate yet powerful electric prod.
BOOM, the bull collapsed to the ground, sending a puff of dirt and gra.s.s into the air. Xu Le walked toward it, his face covered with no excitement but caution.
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