Chapter 27 – “You have a special smell.”
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 raised the intensity of Shen Changze’s training by one-third. If a person is already exhausted after running five kilometres alone, adding two more kilometres to it or even two hundred metres more, many people’s bodies and wills will be exhausted. It was a great challenge. So the child almost crawled back after finishing his run in the morning. He had no energy to eat at all.
Shan Ming looked down at the child who was lying on the ground panting. He said mercilessly, “I’ll give you ten minutes to eat, ten minutes to rest, and then go to the shooting range.”
The child yelled weakly: “Are you kidding me? You increase everything by one-third all at once. I can’t stand this intensity. I can’t move anymore.”
“You have to bear it whether you can stand it or not. Can you bargain on the battlefield?”
The child glared at him in retaliation, “You are too much! You are too much! I am so tired. I just don’t wanna move. You did this on purpose. You feel uncomfortable when you see that I am not tired.” The child understands that once he shows that he can adapt to this level of intensity in the training, Shan Ming will force him to enter the next level of intensity. So even if he can bear it, he will not dare to show it. Unexpectedly, this is the case. Shan Ming actually increased his training by one-third after three months. He really couldn’t stand it anymore. Shan Ming is too much of a bully!
Shan Ming stepped on his back, “If you don’t want to eat, then don’t eat for the next three days.”
The child gritted his teeth and looked at him as he tried to get up from the ground. But Shan Ming’s foot seemed to weigh a thousand catties and he couldn’t move at all. He stretched out his hand to grab Shan Ming’s ankle but Shan Ming kicked his hand away. He then continued to step on his back and said contemptuously, “This is what a pampered little kid looks like.”
The child was not reconciled, “I’m not a pampered little kid! I’ve grown up! You. You let me go. I’ll go eat!”
“It’s too late. You can’t eat now, if you want food,…” Shan Ming pulled out the sabre at his waist and shook it in front of his eyes. He then stepped on his back hard and kicked him angrily several times. The child was throbbing in pain. “Go find it yourself.”
“You bastard! You are inhuman!”
The child can clearly feel that since he woke up, Shan Ming’s attitude towards him has become more and more severe. In the past, when Shan Ming was in a good mood, he could play with the computer, eat some snacks, and do things that ordinary children would do. But now Shan Ming looks at him with a cold scrutiny. It was as if his eyes would pierce right through him. It made the child feel very uncomfortable.
Shan Ming kicked him out and threw the Mad Dog tactical knife in his hand to the ground. It stabbed firmly into the soil in front of the child. The blade was only two or three centimetres away from his face. His nose would have disappeared if it got any closer.
Shan Ming said: “Pick it up.”
Holding the handle of the knife, the child supported his sore body and managed to get up from the ground.
“For the next three days, you will live outside the base. Inside the knife handle are regular medicines, water purification tablets, insect repellants, matches and salt. I’ll only give you this knife. How to find water and food is your own problem. No matter what and no matter how far you go, you must come back on time in three days.”
The child wiped off the sweat from his face and said loudly: “Do you think I will starve to death if you don’t give me food? I will definitely come back alive and well.”
Shan Ming lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He squinted his eyes at him, “When you come back alive, I will give you a gift.”
The child glared at him. He then angrily walked towards the gate of the base.
Shan Ming went back to his room to prepare a few things. He kept a distance of more than one kilometre from the child and followed behind him.
Although he didn’t think the child was lying to him. He still wanted to verify whether this kid really didn’t know what monster he really was. He wanted to know whether he really went crazy after transforming and lost his memory after waking up.
During the past three years of being together day and night, Shan Ming thinks he knows the child very well. At least he knows that Shen Changze is born with a sense of things that threaten his life. So he can’t get too close to the child. But now it seems that there are still many things about the child that he doesn’t know about. He is eager to find out. It’s really uncomfortable for one person to bear such a secret. After all, the one who killed his foster father was the same creature as Shen Changze. He dared not tell Tiger Shark or Ayer and he didn’t know how to treat this child.
Shan Ming just followed the child for three days. During the secret observation, he felt that the child had really grown up.
The little boy who used to scream and cry when he was a little frightened has become much calmer now. He used a sabre to hunt hares and wild cats in the woods. When he skinned them, his face showed no trace of fear or hesitation. Since he could not find a water source, he collected morning dew from the leaves the next day after enduring a day of hunger and thirst. When he slept at night, he found a good cover and fell asleep with a knife in his arms. Shan Ming used small stones to make some movements and the child could immediately jump up and take precautions.
If he gave him more equipment, he would definitely be able to do better.
Shan Ming couldn’t help feeling relieved when he saw his educational achievements from training in the past three years. He originally wanted to train Shen Changze to be a mercenary who could work hard for him. He thought it was good to be a mercenary. The money was easy to get. It was also comfortable and exciting. Shan Ming felt that Shen Changze should be grateful for accepting his upbringing.
It seems that in a short while, he would be able to take him out on a mission…
The child spent three days in the forest with ease. He returned to the base on time on the third morning.
Shan Ming went back one step ahead of him and was waiting for him at the door.
Shen Changze carried the knife that was too long for him and returned to their room without haste. He glanced at Shan Ming triumphantly.
Shan Ming leaned against the door frame, “How was it?”
The child returned the knife to him as he pouted, “Didn’t you see everything?”
Shan Ming was surprised: “How did you know that I follow you?”
“I just know.”
“Impossible. How would you know?” Shan Ming didn’t believe it. He kept a distance of more than one to two kilometres from Shen Changze. It turned out that his traces were found by a child.
The child looked at him earnestly, “Baba, I may not be able to find others but I would know if you are around me. You have a special smell. When you are near me, the surroundings feel different…” The child thought for a long time, ‘I don’t know how to describe that different feeling. It’s just that there is a strange perception in my heart that would let me know that my Baba is around. Although I can’t see him, I know that my Baba must be around,’ He then said with certainty, “I just know that you followed me.”
Shan Ming squatted down and looked at him carefully. Although it sounds weird, thinking that this kid can transform into that kind of monster covered with golden scales and then transform back to a human again, all impossible things are possible. Well, maybe this kind of monster is born with a dog’s nose. The instinct of animals is much sharper than that of humans.
Shen Changze stretched out his small hand, “Where’s the gift?”
Shan Ming was stunned.
“Gift. Do you want me to remind you? You said you would give me a gift when I came back.”
When Shan Ming came back today, he found that the things he ordered had arrived so he patted his head, “Come in.”
As soon as the child entered the room, he poured himself a glass of water and downed it. He then began to say, “Baba, why did you put the water in the kettle overnight and did not pour it out? The same goes for the tea. If you can’t finish it, you have to pour it out. There will be tea stains on the cup. You don’t want to clean up the dishes after eating in the room yet you are so afraid of mosquitoes. You were the one who put things that attract mosquitoes in the room. And don’t throw socks on the bed. Don’t you know it’s dirty?” The child really didn’t expect that the room would be so messy after he didn’t come back for only three days. He sighed like a little adult while throwing the socks into the basket. He then poured the water out and put the chopsticks into the sink to soak. He was moving nimbly. Everything that needs to be organised is organised in only two minutes.
Shan Ming said while unpacking a large postal package, “You are nagging.”
The child shouted: “If I don’t clean up for you, you will scold me. If I clean up for you, you say I’m nagging you. Baba, you are really difficult to please. No wonder you can only take a job to kill people. You can do nothing but kill people.”
“Hey, did you eat too much today? Did you feel happy after starving for a few more days? Where did you learn to nag from?”
The child muttered, “Hungry is no longer a threat to me.” He was still sulking at Shan Ming’s random increase in his training. He kept turning his head thinking how to make Shan Ming unhappy.
Shan Ming rolled his eyes at him, “Come here.”
The child ran over and looked at the box expectantly.
Shan Ming opened the box. Inside it lay a modified D80 Tiger Tooth combat sabre.
The child’s eyes flashed with excitement in an instant. He reached out and took out the sabre. His face turned into a flower with a smile, “It’s Tiger Tooth Sabre, it’s Tiger Tooth Sabre!”
According to Shen Changze’s body shape and habits, Shan Ming specially ordered a D80 Tiger Tooth from a Cold Steel Company. The size is 30cm. It was short and strong. It was very suitable for children to chop and stab. This knife has been specially modified. The blade was made from a mixture of metal and plastic. The surface was treated with carbon blackening. The invisible serrated blade can increase the cutting ability and the blood groove adopts a modern multi-empty groove intermittent style, which is convenient for children to stab and take it out quickly. The handle was made of high imitation cotton fibrous shape, adding particles to prevent it from easily slipping from the hand. The bright black blade is matched with a handle that feels excellent. The unique grooves of this Tiger Tooth sabre show its ferocity and sharpness. This is a sabre that any man dreams of owning.
Shan Ming patted him on the head: “It is made according to your short figure. Even if you grow up in the future, you can still use it for a long time.” He pointed to the blade and Shen Changze’s name ‘Shen’ was engraved on it.
This is the child’s first sabre that belongs to him. Before this, he was always envious of the sabres collected by Shan Ming. Now, he finally has his own sabre! The child was so excited that he didn’t know what to do. He was so happy trying to chop and pierce the air with the sabre. All of his movement is unimaginably smooth. It is indeed especially made for him.
The child jumped on Shan Ming all of a sudden, “Thank you, Baba! Thank you, Baba! Baba, you are so good!”
“Huh? Why am I suddenly good again? Didn’t you call me an inhuman bastard?”
The child hugged his head and kissed him hard on the cheek, “Although Baba is an inhuman bastard, he is also very good sometimes.”
Shan Ming snorted coldly: “Practise hard. When you can go to the battlefield, I will give you your own gun.” After finishing speaking, he threw him off of his body, “Get off.”
The child rushed out excitedly holding the sabre in his hand.
Shan Ming looked at his bouncing back and felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart. This feeling was completely opposite to his previous thoughts. It was as if… he didn’t want him to grow up after all.
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☝🏻Tiger Tooth Sabre
☝🏻The groove should be at the fuller part of the sabre. So the customised unique groove SM made for SCZ should be there.
☝🏻Mad Dog tactical knife
Next update: 2023.–.–
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