Chapter 10 – “You think you’re so special?”
Novel Title: 龙血 (Dragon Blood)
Author：水千丞 (Shui Qian Cheng)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists: 单鸣 (Shan Ming -MC), 沈长泽 (Shen Changze -ML)
*Please read at Novels Space.space, the original site of translation. TQ*
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The next morning, all the regiment members started to pack their luggage. Only Shan Ming didn’t have to do anything at all. He handed over all the trivial things to Shen Changze as he disassembled and reassembled weapons leisurely by himself.
Job couldn’t help saying enviously, “You not only picked up a son. But you also picked up a little servant.”
Shan Ming proudly raised his chin.
The child listened to them talking. He curled his lips in displeasure and secretly squeezed the strawberry jam that was in his pocket during breakfast into a pair of Shan Ming’s shoes.
After packing all of the large weapons, Shan Ming took out a few thick English books and threw them in front of the child, “We have to be on the road for the next few days. There is no time for you to exercise, so you can start to memorise some vocabulary. Five hundred per day. The error rate cannot exceed 5%.”
The child picked up the book and only glanced at him indifferently.
Shan Ming ruffled his soft hair, “Hey, you’re giving me such an attitude. Don’t you want to eat?”
The child slapped his hand away and said sullenly: “I will complete the task. You’ll have no reason to punish me.”
Shan Ming showed a vicious smile, “Then you can pray for me to be reasonable.”
The child pursed his lips, feeling dissatisfied. The time he had spent together with Shan Ming had given him an understanding of his mood. He had always been prepared in his heart that he might not get any food.
Shan Ming fastened the luggage rack and then got into the car. The child also jumped into the car neatly.
Their customised military Hummer has no pedals to climb on. Two months ago, a child who is only a little over one metre tall had to climb the Hummer that was more than 40 centimetres from the ground. He had to use his hands and feet to climb up. But now, he can hold it with one hand for support and jump onto it easily.
During the two months of painful training, the physical changes may not be the most prominent for the child. The most obvious change is that he had accepted reality. He no longer naively begged Shan Ming to send him home nor did he try to get anyone’s help with tears. He would not cry and beg Shan Ming for mercy when he was hungry. And he would not panic when he failed to complete a task. This was because he knew that it was all useless.
His foster father is a cold-blooded devil with no kindness in his heart. This man only does things according to his own likes. Even if he gives him bread today, he might still kill him the next day. He knows that he must work hard to live and grow up as soon as possible. And then he can escape from his clutches and return to his parents.
When he was forced to accept this status quo psychologically, he had already resigned to his fate. He could only grit his teeth and accept everything Shan Ming arranged for him. At the same time, his rebellious psychology towards Shan Ming became more and more serious.
Shan Ming always taught him that only the strong can do what they want while the weak deserve to be dominated. The child often thought in his heart that if one day he could defeat Shan Ming, would he be able to control him in return? And then he could also not give him food to eat. He would also let him do a lot of training, let him wash his dirty shoes and smelly socks. He will bully Shan Ming like Shan Ming had bullied him in the past. These thoughts had become another motivation for the child besides him wanting to go home.
This time ,their mercenary regiment left with a total of nearly 30 people. Three had died in the previous mission. The rest of them took exactly eight cars. Shen Changze, Shan Ming, Job, Dino and Pell are all in one car.
While Job was driving, the others had nothing to do so they only supervised the child’s studies.
They didn’t want to be too eye-catching on normal roads. So they drove their convoy off-road. They chose to drive on some corners and sparsely populated roads and sometimes they had to drive on dirt roads with potholes and bumps. They didn’t get out of the car at all all day so their bones felt like they were about to fall apart.
Of all the people, only Shen Changze was the most comfortable. He was held by Pell almost all day long. The soft body of a woman was the best pad for him. Both Job and Dino were very jealous of him.
Without the cold and scary corpses along with the boring and difficult knowledge, the child was close to Pell for the first time. It made him feel very novel. He has never been in contact with such a feminine person since he was a child. There were occasionally maids around him but the presence wasn’t that impactful. His own mother was the complete opposite of a woman like Pell with a variety of charms. His mother always has short hair and looks more like a man.
Even though his mother wasn’t that womanly and he rarely got to see her in a year, he still misses her day and night. He often dreams about the night that he was taken away from his mother. It was in the middle of the night when suddenly many people in green uniforms rushed into his house. They all carried guns and shields in their hands. His mother put him into the helicopter with tear-stricken eyes and told the guy who flew the plane to take him away and to never come back.
He really didn’t understand why in just a few months, he lost the title of the young master who was held up in the sky by people. He didn’t even know why those guys in green uniforms came to get him. He only knew that many of them were like Shan Ming. They were as scary as him.
Compared with a rough man like Shan Ming, Pell is obviously much gentler in the eyes of a child.
When they were pitching their tents at night, the child coyly told Pell that he wanted to sleep with her at night.
Pell froze for a moment before laughing out loud.
Shan Ming immediately became unhappy. He grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up, “All the men here want to sleep with Pell. You think you’re so special?” In fact, he doesn’t care who sleeps with Pell, what he cared about was how difficult it would be for him to suffer without this kid as his personal mosquito repellent at night.
Shan Ming used English when he said these words. So everyone burst out laughing at them. The child’s face was flushed red in embarrassment so he stared at Shan Ming angrily, waving his fists and shouting: “I don’t want to sleep with you. You will snore and if you turn over, you will crush on me.”
Shan Ming smiled evilly, showing his white teeth, “Do you have the right to choose? You must sleep with me.” After speaking these words, he carried the child into his tent.
These were also temporary tents so there were about three to four gentlemen crowded into each one. Except for Pell, only Shan Ming and Ayer had separate tents. Although he had no actual position in the mercenary regiment, he was the strongest and had a strong brotherhood with Ayer. Thus, he has a very high status in the mercenary regiment.
The child has never had the experiences of how uncomfortable it is to be squeezed into a small tent with three or four men so he doesn’t know how privileged it is for him to be able to sleep with Shan Ming. He never thought of it as a privilege.
Shan Ming’s sleeping habit is very bad. He will snore at night and sometimes, his hands and feet move around too much. The child often can’t breathe in the middle of the night as when he woke up, he found that Shan Ming’s arms and legs were pressing on him. Sometimes he will be squeezed into the edge of the bed by him or even kicked off the bed by him in the middle of the night. If he tried to squeeze Shan Ming or make a resistance, in most cases, he would suddenly wake Shan Ming up and a gun was pointed at his head.
If the child is able to sleep peacefully, then he was only lucky at that certain time of the night. Fortunately, he is still very small now and there is enough space for him to sleep with Shan Ming. But what should he do when he grows bigger? He is worried about this.
They passed the next two days without any incident. According to the plan, they will enter the forest area on the evening of the third day. The road will be very difficult to drive in at that time and the weather conditions will not be ideal. They can only decide whether to station outside the forest area or to go straight in and camped there at night.
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Next update: 2023.–.–
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