Chapter 107 – Under the Ruins
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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Shan Ming slowly opened his eyes. The surroundings were very dark. For a moment, Shan Ming thought that him ‘opening his eyes’ was just an illusion or he was already blind.
The bones on his body ached. Some skin was torn apart and his head felt very dizzy. It made him feel like he was in a dream. None of the current feelings could give him a sense of reality.
It was probably because he had been unconscious for too long so his limbs were numb. When his senses gradually returned to him, he felt that there was something warm hugging him beside him.
He quickly recalled what happened before he fell unconscious. Tang Jingzhi detonated a bomb and the entire laboratory collapsed. They were buried alive underneath the ruins. He stretched out his hand and touched the warm thing. He was sure that the person holding him was his son. Although he couldn’t see him, he remembered that Shen Changze picked him up and ran towards the exit when the flames were soaring and the concrete was collapsing. The falling ceiling hit him and he could still remember the warm and thick dragon wings that Shen Changze spread to wrap around his body before he fell unconscious.
“Changze, Changze.” Shan Ming pushed Shen Changze. His warm body made Shan Ming believe in God’s miracle at this moment.
A soft groan could be heard from his ear. Shen Changze slowly opened his eyes. In the darkness, they could somehow see each other’s eyes.
“Baba?”
“Are you awake? Are you okay?” Shan Ming wanted to prop up his body but he found that they were stuck in such a narrow gap. He was unable to sit up…
Shen Changze panted, “Baba, are we alive?”
“Looks like we’re still alive.” Shan Ming stroked Shen Changze’s body, “Have you turned back into a human?”
“Hmm. I don’t have the strength to maintain the form of the Dragon Blood Man.”
“Where are you hurt? Can you feel it?” As soon as he finished speaking, he touched the wet back of Shen Changze. He smelled his own palm with his nose. Although it was cold, it smelled like blood.
Shan Ming said urgently: “You have shed a lot of blood.” He habitually wanted to touch his backpack but it wasn’t reachable. He turned around with difficulty as he scratched and searched around with his hands on the ground. His backpack was empty. The military bag was scratched by steel bars and the contents inside were scattered all over the place. He found a series of things such as socks, vacuumed bags, temperature-controlled water dispensers, and some bullets. But he couldn’t find the flashlight or medicine that he wanted.
“Wait here. I’ll go over there and look for it.” Shan Ming said and wanted to crawl further inside.
Shen Changze held him back, “Baba, don’t move around. If this place collapses more, we’re really doomed.”
Shan Ming didn’t dare to move, “Where’s your backpack?”
“I’ll look for it.” Shen Changze’s voice sounded obviously a little weak. He stretched out his hand with difficulty and finally reached his bag not far from him, “I found it.”
Shan Ming took the backpack and took out the flashlight from inside it. He turned it on. The two of them squinted their eyes to adjust to the light and then began to survey the surrounding environment.
At that time, Shen Changze wanted to take him to fly out quickly but when he was flying halfway along the stairs, he was hit by a stone and they fell under the metal stairs. The stairs blocked them from many deadly concrete. Otherwise, They had been smashed to pieces long ago. But the Dragon Blood Man and another human soldier who came in with them probably had not survived.
They are now stuck between the deformed stairs and the wall. They don’t know how long this temporarily safe corner can last. But even if they are not dead now, with a few thousand kilograms of concrete on their heads, how will they get out?
Shan Ming didn’t take the time to think about this issue. The most important thing right now is for the two of them is to survive. He quickly dug out the first-aid kit and shone a flashlight all over Shen Changze’s body. He looked for wounds under his tattered clothes and then used the medicine and gauze to bandage him up.
Thanks to Shen Changze’s protection, he was hardly injured. Even during the collapse, Shen Changze blocked the stones alone. Looking at the shocking wound on Shen Changze’s body, Shan Ming felt his heart ache.
Shen Changze exhausted too much physical strength to maintain the form of the Dragon Blood Man so the wound healed slowly in the human form. He is in a very bad shape now. It was as if his energy had been drained. It makes Shan Ming feel uncomfortable.
Due to the narrow space for movements, Shan Ming sweated after checking Shen Changze’s body. After treating Shen Changze’s wound, he gathered the food and water in the backpacks of the two of them together and distributed these life-saving things with a flashlight. The food available are some energy bars and compressed food. If they only maintain the minimum calorie requirement required by the body, two people can live for two weeks with these. But drinking water is not enough for them. In order to reduce weight, the water dispenser is almost empty. Only a small amount of water was available in their military vests. After a few sips, they can barely last three more days. After the water is cut off, they can only rely on their urine to survive. Shan Ming concludes that they can live here for ten days at most. But they will definitely fall into a coma after that. If no one comes to rescue them within this time frame, then there is no need for anyone to come at all.
All that can be done now is to wait for rescue.
Shan Ming broke off a large piece of energy chocolate bar and stuffed it into Shen Changze’s mouth. After Shen Changze ate it, he stuffed a straw into his mouth, “Drink some water.”
Shen Changze took a sip of water, not daring to drink too much, “How much food and water are there?”
Shan Ming said: “Don’t worry. It’s enough. Now you need to recover your strength as soon as possible. And then let the wound heal. We don’t have enough medicine. You can only heal on your own.”
Shen Changze asked him, “Have you eaten?”
“I’ve eaten.” Shan Ming quietly sucked some precious water. The cold liquid flowed through his astringent throat. It was burning and painful. But he felt better now.
After Shen Changze ate, he spoke more vigorously than before, “Baba, don’t worry. I’m fine. It’s just that the healing is slow for now. But these injuries can’t kill me. I can recover within two days at most and then I will take you out.”
“Let’s wait for them to rescue us. Unless you are Iron Man, can you dig a hole out of here?”
“We can’t stay here forever.”
“No. When your physical strength is almost recovered, let’s see if we can climb out. I can’t even sit up down here. It’s too uncomfortable.” Shan Ming turned over. He was hungry and in pain. His whole body was limp and weak and his eyes could only see darkness. If he raised his head, he would bump it into something. Staying in this kind of place for one more day is torture. But fortunately… It was very fortunate that Shen Changze is by his side.
Shen Changze stood up and leaned over slowly. He pressed his upper body on Shan Ming and let out a long breath.
Shan Ming stroked his short stubble hair and said softly: “No matter what, we are still alive so they will definitely come to save us.”
Shen Changze “hmm”-ed. He took hold of Shan Ming’s lips in the dark and kissed him lightly. He whispered: “I refuse to die.I haven’t fucked you yet. How can I die? You also can’t die yet.”
If it was in any other circumstances before, Shan Ming would have punched him when he heard this. But now he just laughed, “You’re so fucking unbelievable…”
Shen Changze kissed him several times more and said in a hoarse voice, “I’ve thought about fucking you for too long.”
It is rare for the two of them to have such a quiet and closed environment all to themselves. So, they are not in the mood to fight or scold each other. They can only talk. Since they may not have the chance to see the sun again, Shen Changze’s deformed love for him does not make him feel like it is so outrageous. Shan Ming asked curiously: “Tell me. Tell me how you fell in love with me? I just can’t figure it out. Are you crazy?”
Shen Changze smiled without saying anything.
He didn’t know how to describe his feelings for Shan Ming. He didn’t know how it started. He also didn’t know the reason. He only knew that he wanted to take control of Shan Ming since he was a child. Just like how Shan Ming decided everything for him when he was a child, he wanted to decide everything for this person and make him his. He must be his only family, his only father. He must have him all to himself.
Seeing that he was silent, Shan Ming pouted, “But I don’t like men.”
“Do you know that having sex with a man is much more satisfying than having sex with a woman?”
Shan Ming thought for a while, “Really?”
“You won’t know until you try.”
Shan Ming glanced at him, “Have you tried it?”
Shen Changze shook his head, “In order to control my sexual impulse, it was simulated in the laboratory.”
Shan Ming laughed and said, “Don’t tell me you’re still a virgin.”
Shen Changze was a little embarrassed so he snorted, “I don’t sleep around like you.”
Shan Ming laughed happily, “You haven’t touched a woman at the age of nineteen. If the rest find out, they will laugh at you to death. Why are you so cowardly? Are you really my son?”
Shen Changze said angrily: “You think everyone is like you? You can just grab any woman and do it. I like you so I won’t sleep with anyone else.”
Shan Ming’s laughter paused for a moment. But then, he laughed louder. It was probably because he couldn’t comprehend Shen Changze’s ‘naivety’. In his world, there is no concept of only one person to sleep with.
Shen Changze’s face was hot in anger from being ridiculed. He bit Shan Ming’s lips angrily and said: “Go on and laugh! Let me tell you, I couldn’t stop you before. But from now on, don’t even think about touching someone else.”
Shan Ming hissed in pain. He habitually wanted to raise his hand to hit him but he accidentally hit a stone as soon as he reached out. It instead gave himself enough pain. He said disdainfully: “You are sick. Animals will look for any partner when they are in heat. If people are controlled regarding when to have sex, wouldn’t it be less fun than being an animal? So what’s the point of living?”
“You…” Shen Changze found that Shan Ming and him couldn’t sync at all in this respect. It made him feel very depressed.
Shan Ming pushed him, “You go down. I’m beat. I can’t hold you now.”
Shen Changze said unhappily, “But my back hurts.”
Shan Ming thought of Shen Changze’s bloody back from being hit by a stone so he couldn’t bear to push him away. He was really weak now and felt that it was hard for him to breathe with Shen Changze pressing down on him. But he didn’t want Shen Changze to lie on the hard floor even more. He touched Shen Changze’s head, “Okay. Then you can lie on my body.”
Shen Changze said sullenly, “I can’t sleep.”
Shan Ming sighed: “I can’t sleep either.” He raised his wrist and looked at the watch on his wrist. It was not broken, “We have slept for a day and a night.”
“They can find us through the GPS in the watch. Maybe they are trying to rescue us now.”
Shan Ming said in a low voice: “They’ll look for our location to rescue us. They need to detect where we are and formulate an excavation plan. If they haven’t started after a day and a night, I’m afraid they might encounter some problems.”
After all, they are now in a foreign land. Moreover, they have entered the country illegally and they have turned the army of the three major local forces upside down. How can they find someone to help them dig the ruins for foreign mercenaries who should be shot dead when they got out??
A lot of thorny problems were in front of them and both of them knew in their hearts that their hope of getting out of here was very slim. The final result was likely for them to die of starvation and thirst.
Shen Changze seemed to be able to feel what his father was thinking in his heart. With his ear pressed against Shan Ming’s heart, he listened to the steady beating. He said softly, “It’s alright. At least we can die together.”
Shan Ming gave an “hmm” and held Shen Changze’s hand. His heart was unusually calm.
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Next update: 2023.–.– (*TBA)
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