Chapter 128 – Creating ‘Legends’
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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After half a year, this is the first time that Shan Ming has left the base. When he breathed the air on the ground again, he felt like he was a world away.
They first arrived at the Aksu military airport by plane. The military transport plane flew them for more than six hours. Each of them sat on a hard bench the size of a magazine. After getting off, their backs were all aching. Lily hung herself on Huang Ying’s neck and started to act coquettish. She said that it was hurting all over her body. Huang Ying couldn’t look anywhere else. He was blushing like a tomato and kept trying to pull her arm off. He kept calling her ‘Lily’ for a while and then he called her ‘comrade’ for a while. Only after he called her ‘wife’ did Lily let him go.
Yang Guan, who was accompanying him, said enviously, “Where do you think this idiot got to be so lucky, ah? Where is it from?”
Huang Ying could only smirk back at him.
Ayer also glanced at them enviously. He then looked at Tang Tingzhi who was still expressionless and couldn’t help but sigh.
Tang Tingzhi saw Ayer’s chest tightness and shortness of breath. He thought that he was not used to the high terrain. So he asked, “If you feel uncomfortable, I will prescribe some medicine for you. You will get used to it in a few hours.”
Ayer frowned and glanced at him, “No need for that.”
Tang Tingzhi said seriously, “This is the first time you have come into contact with the highland climate after you became a Dragon Blood Man. If you have any reaction, you must tell me in time. Hmm, report to me every hour.”
Ayer gritted his teeth and said, “You always think about the Dragon Blood Man in your head. Have you ever thought about anything else? For example, thinking about me?”
Tang Tingzhi was puzzled by what he said. He replied, “Aren’t you also a Dragon Blood Man?”
“What if I’m not?”
“Ayer, your question is not valid. First of all, it is an established fact that you have become a Dragon Blood Man…-“
“-Shut up.” Ayer gritted his teeth and glared at him. He then turned and left.
Tang Tingzhi was stunned for a while. He then took out his notebook and pen. He opened a new blank page and wrote something.
Shan Ming’s eyes are good. He glanced casually and saw Tang Tingzhi was recording Ayer’s mood today and the conversation between them.
Shan Ming was a little dumbfounded. He couldn’t help asking: “Why are you taking note of this?”
Tang Tingzhi said while writing, “After human beings evolve into Dragon Blood people, it will be difficult for them to adapt to their new identity in the first few years. They will be more emotionally sensitive. They will also discriminate among humans because they are different. I need to get to know about Ayer’s emotions.”
“Do you have to keep track of every Dragon Blood Man?”
Tang Tingzhi shook his head, “It’s because of me that he was forced to become a Dragon Blood Man. So I have to be responsible for him.” He showed Shan Ming the title page of the small notebook. It was titled ‘Ayer Mauri’. Tang Tingzhi flipped through the notebook with some pride, “All these had been written down for half a year. But please don’t tell him. He will get angry.”
Shan Ming glanced at him with eyes full of shock. From the way he sees it, Tang Tingzhi is like an adolescent kid secretly writing a diary to record his daily interaction between himself and his crush. This is really scary. It was especially scary because Tang Tingzhi wrote it without even realising his own feelings.
Tang Tingzhi stuffed the diary into the interlayer of his coat lining. He then calmly organised everyone to rest and hold meetings.
After dinner, the local military officers gave them a detailed introduction to the mission and the objects to be wiped out. They also assigned them two local Uyghur guides.
After a night’s rest, they drove into the mountains in the Jiefang truck the next day. In the first few kilometres, there was still a cement road. But after that, it was all yellow dirt road, which became even more desolate as they went on. The ground was bumpy all over and several people in the car vomited. The two local guides have long been used to it. They can just chat and laugh happily.
The truck drove along the road for seventeen hours on the vast land of Xinjiang before finally arriving at their destination.
This was already a border area, where the separatist forces of the East and West are the most rampant. The land is sparsely populated and the environment is harsh. Every year, countless soldiers die in order to defend the peace and unity of the motherland. Within a radius of more than 300 kilometres, hundreds of villages can be seen. Some were large and some were small. The gang of robbers only choose small and medium-sized villages to attack. Sometimes they can kill everyone in the village just to grab a few sheep. They are completely inhumane.
They rested in a military camp for a few hours and took advantage of this time to observe the range of the group’s recent activities. Finally, they worked out a route and planned to pursue them along the set route.
After the rest, they set along the route up the mountains.
Nothing happened on the first day. Off-road vehicles consumed too much gas. So the next day, after they used up all the reserve oil, they had to detour to the nearest place to replenish gasoline. Most of the space in the car was used to put barrels of gasoline.
On the evening of the second day, they had just had lunch when they received news from the camp that the robbers had just appeared more than 60 kilometres away from them and told them to rush there immediately.
They drove as fast as they could to the area and were picked up by a village policeman when they were nearby. The village police said that a group of people had appeared nearby. But there were too many dogs and people in this village. So they didn’t harm them. There were many sheep. The group drove the sheep out and left.
Now the village is brightly lit. There are people crying, cursing, and praying to the sky. Although they don’t understand the language, they can imagine how frightened these simple people are.
They borrowed a few dogs from the village and chased after the robbers.
They checked the sheep manure left on the ground along the road and let the dogs keep identifying the direction. They finally caught up with the robbers who were camping outside another village at around five o’clock in the morning.
Tang Tingzhi asked everyone to hide and continue to wait.
Yang Guan asked, “What are we waiting for?”
“We will wait until they attack that village.”
“Didn’t the higher-ups tell us to wipe them all out? Why do you want to catch them in the act?”
“No. We don’t need to do that. We just have to find a way to intimidate members of the East X organisation who want to run around committing crimes and robbing people’s homes.”
“How can we do this?”
“After they enter the village, you go in there in the form of Dragon Blood Man. Don’t bring weapons and leave a few alive. It doesn’t matter if people see you or not. These people and the local villagers are uneducated and very superstitious. They will treat you as God’s retribution. Such ‘legends’ will spread quickly.”
Crow laughed and said, “Just let us pretend to be ghosts and monsters to deal with these evil beasts?”
Tang Tingzhi nodded, “Yes. Let’s make ‘legends’ for a little bit.”
Yang Guan squinted his eyes at the two local guides, “Then what should we do with them?”
“Knocked them out cold.”
Crow turned and went towards the two men.
They squatted for nearly an hour. Seeing that it would be dawn in another ten or twenty minutes, the gang of robbers started to move. They grabbed their fake AK47 and rushed into the village.
“Action.”
All four Dragon Blood men rushed out and confronted the robbers.
Tang Tingzhi, Shan Ming and Lily hid in the distance to watch the excitement.
The colour of the scales of these four of them is different. Ayer’s is the lightest, which is lavender in colour. Crow’s is the darkest, which is grey-black. But from the perspective of mobility, Yang Guan is the oldest and knows how to use the dragon’s blood gene potential the most. The four dragon-blood men fluttered their half-metre-long dragon wings and thick tails. They suddenly fell from the sky at the turn of day and night. From a distance, they really looked like hell messengers.
The village erupted in a long, shrill scream. The sound pierced the dawn sky and it sounded particularly pervasive.
The fight lasted for less than ten minutes. Most of the time was spent on them giving the people a show. They let three of the robbers go on purpose. They then ran back covered in blood.
The whole village was brightly lit. Everyone in the village ran out, looking very chaotic.
Tang Tingzhi called the police and the group quickly evacuated. But they did not go far. Instead, they camped and rested in a mountain more than 20 kilometres away.
Yang Guan asked Tang Tingzhi why he didn’t go back immediately. Tang Tingzhi only replied that there were other instructions from above.
During the night watch, Shan Ming asked Tang Tingzhi softly, “Can this really lure Zhao Qingling out?”
“We’ll just try it. I left a lot of traces along the way. She is an excellent special soldier. As long as she wants to find us, she will definitely find us.”
The food and water they brought for this trip were relatively sufficient so they didn’t need extra supplies for three to five days. Although others were puzzled by such behaviour, since it was Tang Tingzhi’s order, they didn’t ask any more questions and just behaved honestly by staying put.
In the early morning of the third day, after two o’clock in the middle of the night, it happened to be Shan Ming and Ayer’s time to watch the night. The two were talking nonchalantly around the fire when Ayer suddenly stood up alertly.
Shan Ming also stood up, “What’s wrong?”
“Smell. I smelled something different.”
“What different smell?”
Ayer lowered his voice and said, “The smell of a Dragon Blood Man that is not from the four of us. It’s nearby.”
Shan Ming’s eyes kept searching around. At this time, the other three Dragon Blood people crawled out of the tent. One of them also said nervously: “What’s going on? This smell is so unusual. How could there be another Dragon Blood people here?”
Hearing the movement, Tang Tingzhi also came out of his tent. He commanded: “Everyone, stay where you are. Ayer and Shan Ming will go and have a look with me.”
Yang Guan said: “Colonel, let us go with you. We don’t know the details of the other party. What if it is aimed at you?”
Ayer said: “I will protect him.”
Yang Guan wanted to say something else but Tang Tingzhi interrupted him and said, “Yang Guan and Huang Ying, you two are on guard. The rest stay here. If the three of us need help, we will notify you immediately.”
After he’s done with his words, Ayer led the way by following the faint smell. He was followed by Shan Ming and Tang Tingzhi.
They understood that the other party was also deliberately attracting them. The smell of a Dragon Blood Man could not be removed. But it could be covered up with another stronger smell. Since the other party had no intention of covering up themselves, they were just waiting for them to find them.
When Shan Ming thought that he might meet Shen Changze’s mother soon, he felt a strange feeling in his heart.
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Next update: 2023.–.–(*TBA)
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