Chapter 37 – Zero Chance
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 never felt that the journey to get to the other side was as time consuming as it is now.
What started as a cat-walk basically turned into a crawl through a jungle of twisted metal, razor-sharp bits of iron and broken glass with dangers of cars crumbling down from broken fixtures.
When he was about to crawl under a suspended tire, he suddenly heard a slight ‘click’. He instinctively retreated and the car tire hit the metal frame beside him on the ground. There was a terrifying sound and the delicate rack seemed like they were about to collapse at any moment. Shan Ming’s heart was beating wildly. The gun in his hand almost slipped out of his wet palms. He has gone halfway now and he is in a dilemma. Here, he can use a gun and fight but he doesn’t need to be squished into a pulp. As long as something falls on him without warning, he will never want to get out of here.
In order not to die so uselessly, Shan Ming clenched his teeth and endured the pain. He continued to crawl forward.
When crawling forward, novices are used to arching forward with the strength of their buttocks, but this is a completely wrong move. In order to keep the body close to the ground, so that the enemy will not see a moving buttock hundreds of metres away, they must use their elbow to drive the body. Then, the muscles on the inner thigh push forward to crawl forward. In order to avoid some obstacles, Shan Ming needs to change his position from time to time. He has moved at least 70 metres in a short straight line distance of more than ten metres. He felt that his pants were wet with blood. Every time he exerted force on his thigh, he felt a sharp pain but he didn’t dare to rest at all.
When half of his body crawled out from the pair of scrap irons, Shan Ming felt like he was about to faint. It was not just the exhaustion of physical strength. It was the psychological pressure of being crushed to death and it put his spirit in high tension.
Just as he was about to climb out quickly, his sensitive ears caught the sound of the machine gun being loaded.
His body reacted before his brain. Shan Ming jumped forward fiercely and grabbed a row of intact metal frames in front of him. He then kicked his feet on the ground and then used his hands as support to force his body past.
A burst of gunshots chased him close to his heels, leaving more than a dozen bullet holes in the position where he was lying down just now. If any of them hit him, he will immediately be crippled.
Although this method avoided the bullet, he used one hand to make his body weighing more than 100 kg draw an arc in the air. When he rolled to the ground, his left arm was dislocated.
Shan Ming stabilised his body and immediately gritted his teeth as he got up from the ground. He ran to the depths of another row of metal frames. The motherfucker who had just sneaked up on him caught up to him in the next second. Bullets were crackling after him.
Shan Ming originally wanted to find a place to hide first in order to restore his dislocated arms and re-bandage his thighs. But when he turned around, he saw the blood stains left by him from running all the way. His location would be picked up more accurately than the motherfucking GPS. He couldn’t help but to only smile wryly.
He heard the man informing his teammates on the radio and suddenly many footsteps approached towards his direction.
Shan Ming gave up the idea of hiding and simply shouted: “Shen Changze! Come out!”
After he yelled, he scrambled among the metal frames again. Because these metal frames were too high and the cars were too densely packed, as long as there was a row between them, there would be a lot of blind spots. He squatted behind a car and took a breath as he leaned back. He looked for the right joint and exerted a strong force on his dislocated arm. There was a sharp pain as he pushed the arm back to the correct position. But his muscle was severely strained. He tried to lift the tension of the muscle but he couldn’t do it at all.
It appears that this arm is temporarily unusable.
Footsteps came from behind him and Shan Ming’s eyes became crazy. He knew that the possibility of him getting out of here alive was almost zero. So he decided to go all out.
Closing his eyes, Shan Ming judged the distance by the sound.\
The opponent was getting closer and closer. Shan Ming suddenly opened his eyes, rolled out of the metal frame and fired several rounds of bullets at the man running with the gun. It knocked the man away. Shan Ming hid again next to the metal shelf.
There was another person behind that person. He fired his gun desperately towards his direction, hitting him with iron filings flying around his face, preventing him from showing his head.
The MP5K held by this SWAT officer has thirty rounds of ammunition. Shan Ming silently counted the sound in his heart. After the magazine is finished, the other party will change the magazines. That would be his doom.
Six, five, four, three, two, one!
Shan Ming jumped out of the cover. Before the opponent’s bullets had just finished firing and before he could hide behind the metal frame, Shan Ming’s bullets had already sent him greetings from hell.
After killing these two people, Shan Ming ran away immediately.
When turning into a corner, Shan Ming suddenly felt a figure swaying in the corner. He was just about to raise his gun to scan the opponent. The information reflected from the corner of his eye told him that the opponent’s body shape was seriously inconsistent with a SWAT officer.
“Baba?” Shen Changze raised his drooping head and was surprised to see him at first. But he was stunned when he noticed his blood-soaked trousers.
Shan Ming also looked at Shen Changze blankly.
The child was more seriously injured than him. He must have been stabbed by a large area of shrapnel because he couldn’t dodge when the grenade exploded. His clothes were ragged and blood was all over his body. His face was pale, his lips were blue, his eyes were lifeless, and he was weakly hiding in a corner as if he could no longer move.
Shan Ming only felt that his internal organs were being tightly grasped, and he felt a sense of suffocating despair and heartache. Seven years ago, when he watched his foster father Lin Qiang being blown into pieces of meat, the same feelings and fear came back to him.
Shan Ming suppressed the panic in his heart. He ran up to him and picked him up.
Shen Changze lied on his back and called out “Baba, Baba” in a low voice. He then cried. He hugged Shan Ming’s neck tightly, afraid that once he let go, he would not be able to hold on tightly again.
Shan Ming didn’t make unnecessary comfort. He just said, “Let’s go.”
He dragged his half-used leg and arm while carrying Shen Changze on his back to avoid the SWAT officer who quickly approached him. He was forced into a corner and had nowhere to retreat.
He and Shen Changze hid behind the concealment with guns in their hands. The other party did not dare to rush forward. Both sides were in a stalemate.
The commander shouted to them: “Surrender. Don’t make unnecessary struggles. I can make you die happily.”
Shan Ming said coldly, “What exactly do you want?”
The other party replied: “I’m only obeying the order. Let’s not talk anymore nonsense. You will soon fall unconscious due to blood loss. Delaying time is more beneficial to you?”
The child wiped the blood and tears from his face. He gripped the gun tightly and said in a ruthless voice, “Baba, we will fight them.”
Shan Ming glanced at the child. He never felt so sad in his heart. He is not afraid of death but he really hates to have something to regret about before dying.
He always felt that one day he would die silently on the battlefield. He would die happily and unrestrainedly once and for all. He doesn’t need to worry about anything at all. He doesn’t need to have any regrets. Whether it’s about Ayer or Tiger Shark, he doesn’t need to worry about them since they can still live well without him. So what is there left to worry about?
But this child is different. He is still too weak. He is still too young. Even the way he looks at him right now is full of dependence. If he’s dead, what about the kid?
He never thought that five years ago, when he took this child from the god of death out of impulse, one day he would not be able to face death freely because of this decision.
This feeling is terrible.
He doesn’t want to die yet. He needed to take this kid out of here…
A few pieces of iron filings floated down in front of his eyes, which was not worth noting in such a chaotic and cruel battlefield. But Shan Ming was startled. He suddenly raised his head. It was as if there was already a SWAT officer on the metal frame opposite him. After looking up, there was no sound from beginning to end.
Seeing that Shan Ming saw him, the other party quickly raised his gun to shoot.
But it was difficult to turn around on top of the rack. The speed could not be faster than the people on the ground. Shan Ming didn’t even think about it. A bullet accurately hit the target with nowhere to hide.
The moment he raised his head and shot, he spotted another SWAT officer rushing over beside the metal frame out of the corner of his eye.
Shen Changze yelled but it was too late. Shan Ming only felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder. His whole body was blown away by the impact of the bullet.The machine gun fell to the ground as the bullet penetrated his shoulder. He knew that his internal organs were impacted. The smell of blood rushed straight into the nostrils. Shan Ming was lying on the ground. He could feel that the loss of blood was taking away his body temperature and strength step by step. He wanted to get up and he wanted to give those motherfuckers a few more shots. He wanted to kill at least one more person but he couldn’t move anymore…
“Baba!” The child’s heart-piercing cry rang in his ears. He threw himself on him and cried loudly, “Baba! Baba! Don’t die! Baba!”
Shan Ming gasped for breath and wanted to scold him a few words. But he didn’t have the strength to speak.
He turned his head and saw a dozen armed SWAT officers walking sideways towards them step by step. They were walking very cautiously.
The barrels of more than a dozen black holes were all pointed at them, making it difficult to run away.
Shan Ming felt a little dizzy and he couldn’t help but want to close his eyes.
Shen Changze suddenly let out a sharp roar. It was mixed with anger and ferocity, which made people’s eardrums ache and the heart shaking. This kind of sound really didn’t seem like it was produced by a human being.
Everyone was so frightened that they took a step back unconsciously.
Shan Ming had a premonition. He didn’t think that it was anything good.
Shan Ming knew that after the child transforms into a little monster, even if he kills all these people, he will probably also kill him in the end.
Immediately afterwards, Shan Ming saw the child’s eyes turn blood red. He then jumped up from the ground.
The commander’s face changed, “Something’s wrong. Prepare an anaesthesia gun. Hurry up!”
Before he could finish speaking, Shen Changze had already rushed towards the dozens of gun barrels.
His speed was so fast that his eyes couldn’t keep up. Everyone watched as pale golden scales grew out of his smooth skin. He was armed all the way to his neck. Horns grew from his head and half a metre long wings grew on his back. A thick tail of more than one metre long also grew behind him. Before everyone could react, the creature slammed his tail on the body of one SWAT officer who was closest to him, forcibly ripping the opponent’s waist apart…
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Next update: 2023.–.–
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