DB Chapter 118

Chapter 118 – The Deadly Rainforest 

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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Before dark, they arrived at the mission’s destination – Madagascar.

This time, the entrusting party claimed that it was a secret agency of the Kenyan government. Recently, a group of specific pirates appeared near their territorial waters. They are specifically targeting CNOOC to steal liquid petroleum. The last time they came, it even caused a drilling leak. If they hadn’t remedied it, it would definitely have caused a lot of damage. They learned that this group of pirates hid in the tropical rainforest of Madagascar after landing.

Kenya’s maritime defence is weak. Since it involves international relations and does not have enough evidence, it cannot file a lawsuit in an international court. In desperation, they have to find professional mercenaries in hope to eliminate this group of pirates and intimidate other criminals who are coveting their liquid petroleum.

The Kenyan government is really not a rich government. So, they were a little surprised that they were able to invite the ‘Peregrine Falcon’ over at such a high price. But it also proved how much trouble these pirates had brought to the government.

Before entering the tropical rainforest, they spent a day preparing their equipment. Combat in the rainforest is very painful. The average temperature in Madagascar has reached 38 degrees Celsius. If the sun shines directly at noon, the temperature can exceed 40 degrees. Under normal circumstances, they have to cover their whole body to prevent any nasty bugs from getting into their clothes.

Pell carried a heavy box of medicines, all of which were medicines for diseases that might occur in the tropical rainforest. Even Lily covered up her proud figure. No one wanted to be sucked dry by bugs or let those creatures which can’t be seen by the naked eyes lay eggs in their wounds, spreading unknown germs.

If they want to rank the harshness of the combat environment, the first choice in Shan Ming’s mind is the snow mountain and the second is between the desert and the rain forest. But he firmly believes that this mission will make him hate the rain forest even more.

Those countless and unrecognisable weird rainforest creatures are around. And then there are some of those brightly coloured but deadly plants. Not to mention the complex geographical environment which facilitates their opponents to fall into various traps. His clothes would stick to his skin and the discomfort made him want to strip off naked. But no one dared to do that.

The most painful thing is that they have to eat only dry rations three days in advance. Those dry foods are unpalatable and astringent. Although they can provide high calories for the body to move about, they are often too disgusting to eat and it is difficult to digest. The greatest use of these special dry rations is to keep their excrement from smelling. In other words, they can’t be excreted at all.

In such a high-temperature environment, the smell of rotting organisms and excrement will spread better and for quite a distance. As long as the opponent has scouts, they can find them by following the smell of their faeces, which will make their lurking efforts go to waste.

On the first day they entered the rainforest, when many people had bloated stomachs but couldn’t excrete things out of their bodies. Shan Ming decided to rank his hatred of the rainforest ahead of the desert.

Waterproof boots stepped on the muddy puddle with one foot deep and the other shallow. As the vanguard, Falcon walked at the forefront of the team. The others were divided into two teams. Since Kali was injured in Sierra Leone, he could not participate in this mission. This time, the role of the sniper fell to Shan Ming.

They have been walking for four hours under the heat of nearly 40 degrees. If they walk at the current speed for another hour, they will enter the territory of the pirates.

The lair of this group of pirates was very close to the coastline. They could only land on the other side of the coast. They made a big circle and ran to their rear. Now they finally started to approach their target.

Ayer looked at his watch and asked everyone to rest where they were for half an hour.

Shan Ming really couldn’t eat the army rations so he only drank a few sips of water. He then sat on the tree trunk and closed his eyes to rest his head.

Not long after closing his eyes, Job whispered to him, “Shan, don’t move. Open your eyes slowly.”

Shan Ming gently opened his eyes. He looked down and saw a big spider lying on the second button on his chest. The creature’s legs looked unusually horrible and disgusting.

Shan Ming cursed in a low voice: “You just watched it crawl on me?”

“It’s not like that. It fell from the tree suddenly.”

Shan Ming was wearing two layers of clothes so he didn’t feel it at all. He opened his eyes and this thing was already close at hand. Seeing its body, it is absolutely poisonous. One bite would make him come here for nothing.

Everyone held their breath, staring at the unexpected guest on him.

Job slowly crawled over and whispered: “You must not move.” He picked up a branch and slowly moved it to Shan Ming. He then lightly touched the deadly spider. The spider paused for a while but then climbed onto the branch. It slowly climbed forward along the branch. The speed was very fast however. It climbed along the branch all the way to Job’s gloves in the blink of an eye.

“Damn it.” Job cursed in a low voice.

The chirping sound of a silencer gun can be heard and the bullet brushed against the back of Job’s hand. The big red spider was blown away. Job threw the branch to the ground and took off his gloves quickly. He frowned. The back of his hand was red and skinned, “It’s so hot. Damn it. Ayer, if you move the muzzle of the gun higher, you would have ruined my right hand.”

Ayer blew his breath on the muzzle of the silencer gun. He said with a smile: “Sorry. I shouldn’t be so rude to your ‘girlfriend’.”

Everyone laughed.

Job retorted with dissatisfaction, “I wonder if you were gentle with your ‘boyfriend’ that night?”

After he started the conversation, everyone became interested and asked about the ‘dating’ between Ayer and Tang Tingzhi. Even Shan Ming booed at him.

Everyone was so curious about what kind of sparks had developed between that old-fashioned Frankenstein who looked like a robot and Ayer, a veteran in love and dating women.

Ayer smiled mysteriously, “It’s just a normal date.”

“How normal? What did you two do?”

“We went to the museum. It was a science museum. We had good Chinese food and then went to see a concert.”

Everyone’s eyes widened, “That’s it?”

Ayer nodded innocently, “That’s it.”

“Fuck off. Do you call this a date?”

“Can’t I date like this?”

“You bastard. You must be lying. Why did you come back the next day? What happened that night?”

“It was already too late that day to go back to the base. We didn’t want to sleep in the car so we slept in the hotel. But we didn’t do anything other than sleeping.” Ayer greatly emphasised this fact.

Koski looked at him contemptuously, “Ayer, you are such a disappointment.”

“That’s right. Although he is a man, he is very beautiful. You didn’t do anything. It’s not like you at all. You are too much of an embarrassment for the ‘Peregrine Falcon’.”

Ayer couldn’t stand being attacked by these people. So he said angrily: “You bunch of assholes. He keeps counting my heartbeat per seconds after kissing. It made me really not want to do anything else!”

“Hahahaha.” Job first laughed out of control. But then he was slapped with a strong force on the back of the head by the tiger shark. Only then did he realise that they were still in the middle of performing a mission. He immediately covered his mouth but his face was flushed.

Everyone else laughed with distorted expressions. Even the muscles on Tiger Shark’s face were trembling. Shan Ming was so amused that he almost spit out the water from his mouth, thinking that the first thing he would do when he got back was to tell Shen Changze this gossip.

“Get up. It’s time.”

“Oh. Let’s kill these pirates, go home and hug our wife and children!”

“Well said. Long live Christmas!”

“Keep your voice down. Shut up and watch where you’re going.”

They continued to move towards the destination. After walking for half an hour, a mud pond appeared in front of them. The distance between the two banks was not long but the distance across was indeed impossible for them to see on both sides. A detour would be too time-consuming. Ayer checked the coordinates again. “This mud pond is recorded on the map. It’s not a swamp. The deepest point is about 1.72 metres. It’s completely passable. We can just walk through here. There may be an ambush on the rest of the road at any time. So be careful.”

Everyone complained softly. No one wanted to jump into the mud pond at this time. There were rotten plants and animals that accidentally drowned in it floating on the surface of the pond. Since the weather was too hot, the lake gave off bursts of rancid smell. They had  some heavy equipment on their bodies that had to be carried over their heads if they were to go through the pond. Even a distance of less than 100 metres would be very hard.

Tiger Shark raised his ammunition box to the top of his head, “Stop complaining and protect your weapons. Let’s go.”

Fortunately, considering the distance of the mission this time, they did not bring too many heavy weapons. They lifted the things they had on their heads and then jumped into the pond one after another.

A group of people struggled forward in the mud pond. At the beginning, the shallow place was bearable. But when they walked slowly to the centre, the mud was getting deeper and deeper. The disgusting rancid smell on the mud surface was directly drilled into their noses. It caused them to be nauseous that their faces were ugly.

Lily, the shortest one, couldn’t stand it the most. Her mouth was sunk in the mud. Jushi grabbed her backpack strap and lifted her up. She took the opportunity to jump onto Jushi and gasped for breath. Koski took over part of Jushi’s equipment and asked him to carry Lily on his back.

After that, the few people who were less than 1.8 metres tall were about to suffocate one after another. So they could only rely on the support of their companions to move forward.

Shan Ming is 1.84 metres tall but even he has to stand on tiptoes to breathe at the deepest point. After this group of people climbed to the shore, they vomited and fell down. All of them were disgusted.

Falcon gritted his teeth and said, “We’ve eaten that rations for nothing. And now we stink worse than a ton of shit.”

Everyone raised their noses and sniffed. They were all disgusted by the smell on their bodies and vomited again.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of water in the forest. They found a clean pond afterwards as quickly as possible. They all jumped into it and cleaned themselves. After such a toss, it took another half an hour before they got ready and set off to explore the enemy’s rear.

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Next update: 2023.–.–(*TBA)

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