Chapter 21 – “It depends on your performance.”
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 snorted coldly. He knelt down in front of Tang Tingzhi and squeezed his chin with a strong force. He said coldly, “What did you tell him and what did you do to him?”
Tang Tingzhi said calmly, “It’s normal for children to miss their parents.”
Shan Ming said viciously, “Don’t instigate again. Your life is in my hands now. Don’t think that I will not kill you.”
Tang Tingzhi said in a low voice: “Why do you keep him by your side? You know that I will not give up. Even if you return to your lair, I will try my best to chase after you. He will not do you any good. But he will be a burden instead.”
Shan Ming said coldly: “You are right. He is a burden. But without this burden, wouldn’t you be able to do whatever you wanted to us?”
“If you agree to give him to me, I promise to give you enough rewards. I will never harass you from now on.”
Shan Ming showed a cruel smile, “If you can really do it, then where is the eight million dollars you promised in the beginning? What about the timed explosives in the cabin? You stupid fuck. Don’t treat others as idiots. You will find a way to silence us after you get this child. I know you came to him under a secret operation or else you wouldn’t risk your life to force the government to intervene formally. The only reason why I don’t want to kill you was because I don’t want to confront the government head-on. But don’t push your luck too far. If you come to look for me in the future, maybe killing you will solve the problem.”
Shan Ming’s two fingers pinched Tang Tingzhi’s chin like iron pincers. Tang Tingzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling that his bone was about to be crushed. His brain was running fast, thinking about the next step to take.
He didn’t have time to do too much investigation on the ‘Peregrine Falcon’. But what he was sure of was that this mercenary regiment was directly related to the ‘dragon blood test product leak’ incident at a secret military base on the Yunnan border four years ago. The Dragon Blood Man whose genes were successfully fused was not in a stable state. He clashed head-on with the ‘Peregrine Falcon’ and killed seventeen of them with his bare hands before being killed together by one of the opponents holding explosives in his hands.
The test product worth 120 million yuan was destroyed just after it took shape. The person in charge of the incident is still under investigation. They have been tracking down this mercenary regiment that was active on the border back then. Unfortunately, this regiment has disappeared since then and has never been active in Asia again.
Now he found out that they moved their lair to South America.
Shan Ming is right. Even if Shen Changze was out of the picture, the ‘Peregrine Falcon’ had accidentally peeped into their top military secrets back then so the ‘Peregrine Falcon’ must completely disappear from this world!
This mercenary regiment has too many things that Tang Tingzhi wants. They have perhaps the most perfect Dragon Blood Man so far and also the data of fighting head on with Dragon Blood Man. But this data seems too difficult to obtain for now. Even he himself is a prisoner in their hands.
Shan Ming let go of Tang Tingzhi. He then took a roll of dirty toilet paper from the table and tore off a big roll. He stuffed it into his mouth.
Then he stood up and walked to the toilet. He knocked on the door twice, “Come out.”
After a while, the child opened the door and came out. He was looking up at him with a nervous expression.
Shan Ming picked him up, “Who asked you to talk to him?”
Seeing that Tang Tingzhi’s mouth was gagged, the child said confidently, “I just wanted to pee. He was the one talking to me.”
Shan Ming raised his eyebrows, “Oh? What did he tell you?”
“He said… He said he wanted to take me to see Mom and Dad. But I’m not fooled by the bad guy. He was trying to bite me!”
Shan Ming snorted, “Why did he want to bite you?”
“He… He didn’t eat at night. So maybe he was hungry so he wanted to bite me.”
Shan Ming held his neck and pressed his face against the window to look at the dark and boundless sea outside. The child shrank his neck.
“Look? There are many big sharks out there that haven’t eaten at night yet. If you dare to say a word to him again, I’ll throw you down and let them have dinner.”
The child hugged his arm and hung on it like a monkey. He whispered, “Don’t do that…”
Shan Ming snorted and threw him to the ground. He said to the night watchman: “Don’t let this hostage come into contact with anyone, especially this child.”
After speaking, Shan Ming walked back to the sleeping place.
The child ran behind him. He hugged his thigh and said nervously, “Baba, I’m so hungry.”
Shan Ming narrowed his eyes, “You already ate at night. What are you complaining for?”
“Then will you let me eat tomorrow?” The child was very nervous. The amount of food allocated to each person was so small that he couldn’t eat enough. What if Shan Ming didn’t let him eat tomorrow because he talked to that person?
“It depends on your performance.” Shan Ming wanted to kick him away. But just as shook his leg, the child hugged him tightly.
“Baba, he was the one who talked to me. You can’t punish me.”
Shan Ming sneered and said, “You little bastard is starting to play tricks.”
The child really was tricking him. Even if he doesn’t understand the principle of not pushing his luck too hard, at least based on experience, he knows that he should try not to offend Shan Ming in order to avoid suffering. Sometimes he deliberately wanted to confront Shan Ming. But the situation is different now. There is only so much food for each meal. If Shan Ming doesn’t let him eat, he will cry from hunger.
So the child nervously wanted to confirm that he could eat. His big watery eyes were full of eager anticipation, “Baba, can I have food tomorrow?”
Shan Ming picked him up again, “It depends on your performance and my mood. Now go to sleep honestly.” After speaking, he threw him on the sofa.
This group of people officially started a life of wandering at sea.
In order to prevent being photographed by a monitoring satellite, the captain and co-pilot acted as the one in charge monitoring the satellite positioning at any time. They are also the ones in charge of keeping in touch with Tiger Shark.
Some people were in charge of making fresh water and some were in charge of fishing. They used all the things available on the plane and spent the next long wait together.
Maybe it’s because the products in this place are too rich. Many fish don’t bother to even bite the hook. Finding food from the sea is much more difficult than they imagined. They can only get more than ten catties of fish in a day. Although it is far from enough for them to eat, it is better than nothing. In such a situation, at least they don’t have to worry about starving to death.
Their daily food intake is reduced to one meal and this meal has to be divided into two meals. The adults can bear it. But Shen Changze threw a tantrum and was often punished by Shan Ming to starve. At first, he can bear it. But after three days, he just can’t stand it.
Even in such a situation of not being full enough to eat, Shan Ming did not reduce Shen Changze’s physical training. Instead, because he had nothing to do, he stared at the child every day. There was no way for the child to be lazy so he was doing all kinds of overloaded sports almost every day with an empty stomach. Shan Ming finally made the child cry from hunger.
Shan Ming was annoyed with him crying the most. There was nowhere to hide in the plane so it was making his ears hurt from the noise.
Dino lay on the sofa to catch up on sleep and couldn’t bear to curse: “Shan, take care of your son. If you treat the child like this again, our ears will explode!”
Pell also sighed: “Shan, don’t go too far. He can’t get enough to eat now.”
Even Ayer, who doesn’t usually look at the child, couldn’t help saying, “Honey, I’m talking to Tiger Shark. Can you gag him?”
Shan Ming hit Shen Changze on the head and said angrily, “You fucking shut up. What are you trying to do?!”
The child said tearfully, “I’m hungry.”
Shan Ming rolled his eyes and said to Pell, “Give him my food.”
Pell gave Shan Ming’s share to the child.
The child held the bread and looked at Shan Ming for a while. He then whispered, “Baba, I will really eat this.”
Shan Ming kicked him irritably, “Go away and just eat your food.”
The child immediately rolled to the side and started to eat voraciously.
Tang Tingzhi watched all this silently. He said in a low voice, “I can give him half of mine too.”
Shan Ming glared at him, “It’s none of your business, Do you still want to be gagged?”
Tang Tingzhi sighed secretly in his heart.
For the first few days, everything went smoothly. On the sixth day of their wandering at sea, the thing that made them fear the most happened. The sea started to change.
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Next update: 2023.–.–
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