Chapter 35 – What kind of father is this?
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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Shen Changze sat beside Shan Ming, eating ice cream one after another as he watched Shan Ming turn one million dollars into seven million in two hours and then lose it all in less than an hour.
The child looked straight from the beginning to the end. The chocolate ball melted and fell to the ground without him realising it.
After losing everything, Shan Ming looked happy. He stretched his waist and patted him, “Let’s go.”
The child tugged at him, “Baba, all your money is gone.”
Shan Ming seemed to take it for granted, “Yeah, I’m not lucky today.”
“Then you worked in vain on this trip. You also got hurt in vain.”
“If you earn money, you have to spend it. If you don’t spend it, what do you do with it, you son of a bitch? Besides, I have nothing to worry about. Who will I keep the money for? Maybe a meteorite will fall from the sky soon and kill me.”
Nothing to worry about? The child was stabbed hard by this sentence. What does he mean that he has no one to care for? Even if he dies, will he not have any regrets for this world? Was it because he doesn’t care about anyone at all?
Then what am I? The child wondered.
The child suppressed the resentment in his heart, “Why do you think that way? Why do you want to be a mercenary in the first place? Isn’t it because you want to make money?”
Shan Ming squinted his eyes and looked at the neon lights in the distance, “No. I became a mercenary because the person who picked me up was a mercenary. Besides, where can I find such an exciting and enjoyable life after all?”
The child pursed his lips, “What’s the point of such a life? Do you really want to do this for the rest of your life?”
“I didn’t want to do this for the rest of my life. My best ending is to die in the hands of the enemy one day.” Shan Ming said it very lightly, as if he was talking about someone else’s life.
“You can’t die!” The child cried.
Shan Ming glanced at him and said with a sneer: “Do you think you can survive if you want to die? Hurry up and enjoy the day. Let’s go. I’ll take you to find out how to be a happy man in advance.”
“Where are you going? You have no more money.”
Shan Ming grinned, “Didn’t you bring your card with you?”
The child clutched his pocket tightly and looked at him warily.
Shen Changze simply thought that Shan Ming wanted to use his money to continue gambling. But he didn’t expect the situation to be worse than he thought. Shan Ming wanted to use his money to go for prostitutes…
Bringing a ten-year-old child to a whore house, even the experienced American hot girls can’t stand it. They looked at the child’s bewildered expression with sympathy.
Shan Ming opened two bottles of wine and sat in one corner of the sofa. He flirted with the beauty sitting on him with her big breast rubbing against his chin. Meanwhile, the child shrank in the other corner, looking at Shan Ming with anger in his eyes.
He doesn’t understand what’s so good about these women. All of them are not as beautiful as Pell. Although he is still very ignorant about sex, he feels disgusted when seeing two people hugging each other. He really just wants to grab that woman away from his father and kick her down!
A woman of a younger age thought that Shen Changze was too cute and couldn’t help but want to tease him. So she gave him a Coke.
Shen Changze turned his head and gave her a cold look. The look was so fierce and sharp that the woman’s hands trembled in fright. The Coke almost fell to the ground. She really couldn’t imagine a child could make such a look.
Shan Ming was in high spirits so how could he have time to look at the child’s resentful face? He was enjoying his time unscrupulously.
Shen Changze watched Shan Ming take his wandering hand to hug the strange woman even more intimately. He was gentler with her than when he was with him. The anger in his heart was like a reservoir damming up. It quickly expanded and flooded.
The child felt that Shan Ming was going too far. He used the child’s money to get a prostitute and he was so intimate with a strange woman. He also said in front of the child’s face that he had nothing to worry about.
Even if he is not worried about his own life, how could he not worry about this child who called him “Baba” for so many years. How could he say that he has no worries? So, in his eyes, is he just a dog that he raised?! Nothing to worry about!
The more the child thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. It almost turned into resentment towards Shan Ming.
He had been calling him “Baba” for so many years, how is he qualified to be a father? A father won’t train him unlike a human being, would give him a little warmth, and won’t bring him to find prostitutes!
The child suddenly stood up. He jumped up and pushed the woman on Shan Ming to the ground.
Shan Ming frowned. He drank too much wine and acted carelessly. He slapped Shen Changze who had made him unhappy, “What are you doing? Are you crazy?”
Shen Changze touched his face and shouted back at him with red eyes: “Go to hell, you bastard! Sooner or later, I will make you beg for mercy!” After speaking, he kicked Shan Ming’s calf severely. He then turned his head and rushed out.
After he ran out, he walked aimlessly in the bustling city of Las Vegas. He didn’t know where to go and he had no money. He was very angry.
He can only wander around like this until tomorrow. Tomorrow, the helicopter will pick them up at the designated location and take them back to New York. They will then return to Columbia from New York. But now, he doesn’t feel like he wanted to go back at all. The thought of facing Shan Ming when he goes back makes him feel upset.
Shan Ming is not his real father, he should remember this. But he always forgot this fact.
Where is his real father? The child looked up at the dark sky. His real father was tall and unsmiling but his real father brought him a lot of toys and delicious food every time they met. He could no longer remember what he looked like.
For the concept of the word ‘Baba’, he can only think of Shan Ming subconsciously.
But how can there be such a father in this world? He has never regarded himself as a son. He can be so gentle to a strange woman. But he was cruel enough to his son to make him eat earthworms and drink mud soup even if he has done nothing wrong. Even if he always tried to satisfy him, he never praised his son.
What kind of father is this?
But… he would risk his life to protect his son.
The child sniffed, feeling aggrieved and conflicted. Why couldn’t Baba treat him better? He couldn’t even give him a gentle hug.
The child just wandered through the streets. He didn’t know how far he had walked. But gradually, he felt that he was being stalked. He became vigilant all of a sudden and he intuitively knew that it was definitely not his own people who were following him. It was the enemy.
He only brought a gun with 7 rounds of ammunition when he went out today. He didn’t know who was following him and how many people were there. It’s best to get rid of them as soon as possible.
He got into a shopping mall. There were still many people shopping even after twelve o’clock at night. He was small and he walked fast. He was quickly submerged in the middle of the rows of shelves in a few strokes.
He stayed in the mall for nearly an hour and he no longer had the feeling of being stalked again. Then, when he walked out of the mall and wanted to go back to the meeting place, he didn’t get far when that feeling reappeared.
It seemed like the man had his eyes on him.
The child gritted his teeth. This was the first time he faced such a challenge alone. Now he was full of resentment and could not find a place to vent it. He felt that the cells in his body were boiling.He didn’t know if it was because of nervousness or because of excitement.
In order to get rid of the people behind him, the child shuttled back and forth between several streets. At the end, he was also lost himself. When he looked up, he was back near the red light district.
The alley here is deep and complicated so the child plunged into it without hesitation. He turned the corner and started running wildly. The people behind followed suit.
Shen Changze ran around a corner and stopped. He stood against the wall and poked his head out quietly. The other party also blocked his body with a trash can vigilantly.
Shen Changze adjusted his breathing to calm himself down as he pricked up his ears and listened quietly.
Surrounded by ambiguous music and lights, occasional groans can be heard. The child’s heart gradually calmed down. His mind bypassed these noises and listened intently to the movement around the corner.
Perhaps that person was afraid of losing his footing so he hid himself for a while and then leaned out again. He moved forward, guarded by the wall.
The child opened his eyes and jumped out from the corner. He positioned the man as fast as he could and fired two shots in his direction.
The man fell to the ground with his waist down. He rolled over a few times and rolled behind the objects piled up by the wall.
The gunshots attracted the attention of the people around. But in a place like Vegas, just digging a hole in the desert with a shovel may also bury the dead. They have become accustomed to these activities and no one even opened the window to look. They communicated tacitly to leave this matter to the police.
After the child shot the gun, he ran back and was about to rush out of the alley when a figure suddenly flashed by at the entrance of the alley, holding a submachine gun and shooting the wall beside him. It caused the wall to splatter and bounce on his face and arms. His face was scratched.
He raised his gun and fired a shot. The shooter dodged and hid.
The child didn’t dare to run any further. He was caught in the alleyway between the two buildings. There were enemies with submachine guns in front of him and pursuers behind him. He weighed his options. The person following him must not have heavy weapons so he had to go back.
He stopped and ran back just in time to bump into the person who was chasing him at the corner.
The dilation of the man’s pupils was like slow motion for him. It was all reflected in Shen Changze’s eyes. He had already jumped up and hit the man’s eyebrows with the butt of his gun.
The man shook his head and took a few steps back but he didn’t fall to the ground. The gun in his hand shot at him without aiming but they all missed his body.
The child kicked off the wall and turned over. He supported his body with the man’s shoulders and jumped behind him. A bullet passed through the back of the man’s head and it shattered like a big watermelon. Red and white liquid flowed all over the place.
Shen Changze avoided the aftereffects.
The continuous gunfire has caused a lot of panic. Shen Changze even heard the sound of sirens from a distance.
He gripped the gun tightly, scurrying around in the dimly lit corner and just about to cross the crossroad when a black car sped towards him. It was impossible for him to avoid.
His eyes suddenly became blood red. The soreness of the muscles instantly filled his whole body. It was as if the flesh was about to split open. At the same time, he only felt that his body was several times lighter than usual and the dynamic optic nerve suddenly became particularly developed. His muscle reaction speed also increased suddenly. He jumped up suddenly and the front cover of the car flew past his knees. Although he avoided the bones of his legs from being smashed into bone dregs, his whole body still hit the windshield. The car slammed on the brakes and he flew four to five metres away. His eyes turned back to black when he fell. The pain in his body invaded all his nerves and he felt as if his limbs were paralyzed. He was unable to move.
A person got out of the car, “Could he be hit and killed?”
“He couldn’t even die from a train crash. Let’s prepare an anaesthesia injection. Hurry up!”
The child heard footsteps approaching. He wanted to hold the gun but his gun had already been thrown away during the impact.
These people… he must not let them get him!
A person approached him suddenly. The child looked at a shining needle. The person was about to stick the needle into his arm. He didn’t know where the strength in his own body came from. He was obviously about to fall apart. But he grabbed the person’s wrist and exerted force fiercely.
“Ahhh…” The man cried out in pain.
“Use a sedative bomb!”
Before the people behind the man could react, Shen Changze had already snatched the thick needle from his hand and plunged it directly into the man’s chest.
Ordinary medical needles can only pierce the flesh slightly and it is impossible to pierce the human bones. It will bend before it goes in. But this needle tube is as thick as a child’s arms. There is an anaesthetic inside it which could put down an elephant. The needle is also very thick. It’s so scary that it can be directly used as a murder weapon.
The doctor-looking man was rolling wildly on the ground with his head in his arms. The needle that pierced him had affected his nerves. Even if the man didn’t die, he would be disabled.
Shen Changze pulled out the gun from his waist and the overrunner slammed the trigger. The six bullets were quickly emptied. Two people fell to the ground. Although they didn’t hit any vital parts, it at least prevented this group of people from approaching him.
The child threw away the gun. He got up from the ground, enduring the severe pain and rushed into another street quickly.
Baba……
The child cried in his heart.
His body hurts too much that he found it hard to even open his eyes. His head feels dizzy for a while and he feels like vomiting. Moreover, he doesn’t have any more weapons on him. Those people have been chasing after him all the time. What should he do? What should he do? If Baba is here…
The child’s eye sockets were sore. He was really scared.
A car stopped in an inaccessible alley. The sound of chasing footsteps sounded behind the child. He felt his body getting heavier. Despair and fear slowly overwhelmed him.
A hand stretched out from the darkness and quickly covered his mouth. His waist was squeezed tightly.
The movements were extremely fast and silent. It was not at the same level as those reckless armed men just now.
The child reached out to pinch the man’s eyes.
A familiar voice rang in his ear: “Don’t be afraid, it’s me.” He said and let go of the hand covering his mouth.
The child almost cried when he heard this voice. His body finally relaxed, “Baba…”
“Don’t make a sound.” Shan Ming’s bright eyes shone brightly in the dark night.
Enduring the pain, the child turned his head and hugged him. His body was trembling constantly.
Shan Ming picked him up and quickly withdrew to the other side of the alley. When he came to the side street, a car was coming towards him. Shan Ming suddenly jumped into the middle of the road and the car slammed on the brakes in fright, almost hitting the guardrail.
The driver in the car lowered the windows and yelled.
A gun barrel directly hit the driver’s head.
Shan Ming said coldly: “Get lost.”
The unlucky car owner fled out of the car. Shan Ming threw Shen Changze to the co-pilot and quickly got into the car. He slammed on the accelerator and hurried out.
As soon as the car started, the high beam lights in the side mirror flickered desperately. Shan Ming saw that those people were chasing after him.
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Next update: 2023.–.–
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