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Chapter 46 - 46 46 All those within the borders of the land are my Han people

46: Chapter 46: All those within the borders of the land are my Han people.

46: Chapter 46: All those within the borders of the land are my Han people.

Huaxia had, since ancient times, been inhabited by humans, gods, demons, and ghosts coexisting together.

This is not a rumor from the Jianghu World but a sentence written in the civic education textbook.

The term “civic education” was rather unfamiliar to Wang Yunxiao, but its other name, “ideology and morality,” was easier to understand.

This course didn’t exist in the past; it was only after the establishment of the new government that it was added to the “New Teaching” articles.

Even the textbooks had just been compiled, and Principal Zhou’s name could be seen on the list of authors.

The civic education course mainly covered the humanistic knowledge of modern society, including astronomy and geography, social systems, nationalities and ethnic groups, moral and legal knowledge, or in other words, social common sense.

In fact, our ancestors had similar popular science primers, known as “Youthful Study of the Exquisite Forest,” but it was so esoteric that ordinary people had never heard of it, let alone had the privilege to read it.

The average commoner’s awareness of primers was confined to texts like “Three Character Classic,” “Hundred Family Surnames,” and “Thousand Character Classic.”

The “New Citizen” textbook was revised based on “Youthful Study of the Exquisite Forest”, preserving most of the ancient idioms and local knowledge while adding a vast amount of modern knowledge in plain language.

Many lingering officials from the Former Dynasty, including Song Qingping, had significant objections to this textbook.

Of course, it definitely wasn’t because they hadn’t been invited to contribute to the revisions.

They believed that a considerable portion of the content was controversial and not suitable for minors to be exposed to.

The Former Dynasty, or more accurately, the feudal dynasties dominated by the ideologies of the Saints, including the Former Dynasty, did not recognize the existence of species other than humans.

That is what is known as — “The Master speaks not of strange forces and chaos among the gods.”

Humans are considered the rulers over all things under heaven, and all things under heaven should serve humanity.

This theory had no problem in the eras of the past and could even be deemed to possess an advanced nature that surpassed other contemporary racial civilizations.

However, with the rapid changes of the current era, many details under this anthropocentric great theory needed to be amended.

One of the most obvious examples is the recognition of the “Foreign Clan” and “foreigners.”

Some of these are well-known but were not acknowledged in the past, such as the Demon Clan and Witch Clan.

Others have only emerged in recent decades as new ethnic groups.

For example, the naturalized “Sea People,” the “Spirit Clan” that is fairly active in coastal regions, and the “Fusang People,” whose identity is still vague up to now.

Since this is a textbook published by Tianmen City, it has a stronger seafood flavor.

It is said that the versions of textbooks in places like Shaan-Gan, Bashu, and Yun-Gui are differently styled.

When introducing herself, Nurse Liu said that she came from the Glazed State of the Shark Clan, a branch of the Sea People.

She seemed no different from a normal person.

No fish scales, fins, or tails.

Nor is it known whether, like in the myths, her tears would turn into little pearls or if her oil could be used to make everlasting lanterns…

As for the detailed distinctions of these “Foreign Clans,” neither have they been explained in detail nor introduced in the civic education class or in Nurse Liu’s mini lectures.

In Nurse Liu’s words, “Firstly, you wouldn’t remember them even if I told you.”

“Secondly, there’s a simple way to differentiate — although those who look like humans might not be human, those who don’t look like humans are definitely not human.”

If they’re not human, they don’t have human rights.

The rat squealed nonstop under the smoking and roasting of fireworks, its screams becoming fainter and fainter.

At this rate, we’ll be smoked into bacon soon.

Wang Yunxiao held a shovel, sitting calmly by the side as he poked at the charcoal fire, ensuring that every piece of firewood and charcoal was burning thoroughly.

Chen Yan stood nearby, her expression growing increasingly solemn, a bead of cold sweat silently sliding down from the side of her ear.

She had already sensed something unusual.

Something had been attracted over.

Without alerting anyone, she closed her eyes, seemingly resting, but then suddenly she turned her head swiftly and reopened her eyes, now filled with white film.

“It’s there!

To your right…

twenty-five meters!”

The instant Chen Yan raised her hand, Wang Yunxiao had already dashed in the direction she was pointing, skimming close to the ground.

His speed was so fast that it was hard for anyone to react.

“Chess Herald’s” special ability was like a human flesh radar.

He was initially unable to see that kind of thing, but once Chen Yan spoke up, his field of view gained a blurry shadow.

By the time Chen Yan had finished saying the words “twenty-five meters,” Wang Yunxiao had already charged almost twenty meters.

It wasn’t that he had been idly sitting there doing nothing.

The entire street’s terrain and landscape had been imprinted in his mind.

He clearly knew which places were suitable for hiding and which were suitable for escaping.

Merely by following the direction of Chen Yan’s gaze, Wang Yunxiao had roughly predicted the opponent’s location in his heart.

As for whether a common tool like a shovel could harm the legendary demons and specters, Wang Yunxiao had never considered such a question.

If demons and specters were as omnipotent as described in novels, immune to knives and impervious to cannons, humanity would have long since become sheep on two legs; it wouldn’t make sense for mankind to still possess the ability to sweep through the universe and be the masters of the whole world.

I reckon it will work!

The responses of Wang Yunxiao’s body had always been faster than his mind’s thought process.

In just a blink of an eye, he had already reached the creature.

It was a dark corner, with a narrow alley behind it through which only one person could pass.

A black rat with the size of a stray dog was hiding in the corner, glaring with grinding teeth at the tragic scene of live rats being roasted under the big willow tree.

Being so close, Wang Yunxiao could clearly see the anthropomorphized expressions on its face shifting from anger to confusion and then to terror.

Without any hesitation, it turned around to flee, but it was too late.

Wang Yunxiao gripped the shovel firmly and thrust it straight at its forehead.

Ordinary people using a shovel in a fight would at most swing it from side to side or smash with the back of the shovel.

Little do they know that the most dangerous way to use a shovel is to stab with it like a spear.

These are combat techniques of a military entrenching tool.

Of course, the proper way to employ an entrenching tool is to chop like an axe, which is ineffective with the blunt edges of a common household shovel—all the force can only be concentrated at a sharp, thin tip to deliver maximum damage.

Wang Yunxiao’s shovel struck right at the big black rat’s flank; judging by the feel of the handle, he had broken at least four or five ribs on one side of the creature’s body.

The big black rat let out a scream and astonishingly exploded with ferocity, advancing rather than retreating, it twisted its head and bit ferociously onto the shovel; the strange and powerful tearing force nearly made the shovel slip from Wang Yunxiao’s grasp.

Wang Yunxiao released the handle, stepped forward, and fiercely kicked directly at the big black rat’s head.