DB Chapter 49

Chapter 49 – “I’m here to help you.”

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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Tang Tingzhi’s handsome face looked gloomy against the fire in the background. But it was contradictory to the enthusiasm in his eyes when he stared at Shen Changze.

Shen Changze bared his teeth at him. His eyes were full of hostility.

Shan Ming also jumped up from the ground, raised his gun and aimed at his head, “Why are you here?”

Tang Tingzhi waved his hand, “I’m here to help you.”

Shan Ming narrowed his eyes and looked at him, “You shot down that Black Hawk copter?”

“Yes. We have also dealt with the government force that ambushed you. So put down your guns. First of all, you are surrounded. And secondly, I don’t want this meeting to end with coercion.”

Shan Ming looked around and found that there was no more Angolan government army approaching. But some other figures were swaying in the distance. Although they were also wearing camouflage clothes, it could be seen that their skin was not black.

They are not at the upper hand at the moment. So, they have no other options but to appease those in front of them. Their equipment was blown up along with their off-road vehicles and they were beaten up by armed helicopters and ambushing soldiers. They are not in the condition to fight against these Chinese special forces at all.

Shan Ming understood this truth very well. So he put the gun back.

Shen Changze retreated to Shan Ming’s side, “Baba…” As soon as he finished saying this, he felt exhausted and he knew that it was a sign he was about to faint.

Tang Tingzhi took out a small medicine bottle from his pocket and threw it over, “Let him take this and he will be fine.”

Shan Ming caught it. He then threw the medicine bottle to the back. He said coldly, “He won’t take what you give him.”

Shen Changze turned his head and held on to Shan Ming’s waist. Then, his body slumped down as he regained his human form. He fainted.

Shan Ming picked him up with one hand. He was ready to go see his own teammates.

Tang Tingzhi shook his head and followed behind him.

After going around a mound, he found that most of his teammates were gathered in one place. They were tensely confronting the people brought by Tang Tingzhi. It is estimated that there was no order so the special forces did not act. Meanwhile, the mercenaries were too worn out and could not figure out the purpose of the other party so they did not act rashly. Such a scene is funny to look at.

When Shan Ming and Tang Tingzhi walked over, all eyes were on them.

Tang Tingzhi waved his hand and the special forces put down their guns.

The mercenaries also put down their guns. Seeing everyone’s gloomy and sad faces, Shan Ming felt a bad premonition welling up in his heart.

When he approached them, he found that they were surrounding a person. Zouhou was wiping away the tears on his face and walked to the side with a gun in his hand. He then fired several shots at a corpse of the government soldier on the ground until it was beyond recognition.

Shan Ming broke the crowd apart and found that Heibaiji was lying on the ground. This normally cheerful Swedish man was hit at the head. He lost half of his head as a result of being blown up.

Shan Ming felt sore in his eyes. They had lost another comrade in arms. He turned his head away and slowly clenched his fist.

Tiger Shark took off the soldier card around Heibaiji’s neck and rested the arms together on the chest of the dead body. He said in a deep voice, “Salute.”

Every member of the mercenary regiment gave a military salute to Heibaiji’s body for a long time. Pell then wrapped his body in a tarp, intending to take him back to their own base. His body will be sent back to his hometown to be laid to rest.

Ayer said: “Shan, explain why they are here and why they want to help us.”

All eyes were on Shan Ming.

Shan Ming shook his head, “I don’t know. How about you explain?” He looked at Tang Tingzhi.

Tang Tingzhi looked at his watch and said calmly: “I have no obligation to explain myself to anyone. This place is not safe now. Your means of transportation are all destroyed and you are under our control. There are also so many of you wounded. I am inviting you all now to return to our temporary base with me. I believe you will not refuse?” Tang Tingzhi looked at the mercenaries who were full of vigilance and disdain for him. He added: “If I want to harm you, I had countless good opportunities to do so just now. Please believe me that I came here with peace this time. The way I look at it, you have no other choice anyway. So just get on the plane.”

Both sides looked at each other. Although all of them understood the current situation, the members’ opinion contradicted. Some of them agreed to go while some didn’t. Finally, Tiger Shark said, “Let’s vote. Those who agree to go on the plane, raise their hands.” After speaking, he raised his hand first. As he raised his hand, his sharp eyes swept over Tang Tingzhi’s face, displaying a fierce warning in his eyes.

Slowly, almost all members raised their hands.

Several Chinese special forces carried some stretchers and carried the injured onto the plane while others followed suit.

Shan Ming knew that this was a strategy. But given their situation, they really had no other choice. Not only would these people not let them go, but even if they let them go, would they be able to take care of themselves? He needed to think carefully of Tang Tingzhi’s purpose. If he takes everyone as hostage, how should they deal with it? He believes that every member present has such considerations in their hearts. No one in Peregrine Falcon is an amateur. He wanted to see if Tang Tingzhi was brave enough to mess with them.

They flew to the north of Angola on a K25 military transport plane. Angola was once colonised by the French and there are still French soldiers stationed in the north. Compared to the poor and turbulent south, the north has suffered less war turmoil and is relatively rich. These soldiers contributed a lot to it.

The transport plane flew into an abandoned factory. According to Tang Tingzhi, this place used to belong to a French jewellery company. They bought diamonds using the Angolan army all year round. When Angola started the civil war later, the company took his employees away and abandoned the factory.

Shan Ming was very curious about the person behind the company, but he didn’t ask. Tang Tingzhi would not tell him anything confidential anyway.

Although the temporary base looks a bit dilapidated from the outside, the inside is clean and spacious. This is especially true when it comes to the temporary medical room. It contains various advanced equipment, which is many times better than any field hospital in the world. It seems that it is specially prepared for the study of Dragon Blood people. Seeing them ‘come prepared’, Shan Ming’s face was gloomy.

They carried all the injured into the medical room. Jushi’s wound was torn open and he looked like he was about to go into a hemorrhagic shock. It was urgent to perform a surgery on him. It looked like he might not make it.

Pell, Tang Tingzhi, and a scientific research team brought by Tang Tingzhi all entered the operating room.

Shan Ming could tell that Tang Tingzhi possessed high-level medical skills. No matter what he planned next, as long as his comrades could survive, it would be worth their trip.

The surgery lasted for thirteen hours nonstop. All the doctors worked in shifts and performed surgery on four people. All of the operations were successful. It gave them a sense of peace a lot.

After leaving the place where he had to be on high alert all the time, Shan Ming was calm and slept in a corner. He put Shen Changze behind him to prevent anyone with evil plans from getting close to the child.

In his sleep, he felt that someone was approaching him. Shan Ming opened one of his eyes. The first thing he saw was a pair of military boots that were not normally cleaned. Then, he saw the hem of a white doctor’s uniform.

“What are you trying to do?” Shan Ming closed his eyes again. He still felt sleepy.

“You have always been hostile to me. Why bother? He doesn’t belong to you in the first place.”

Shan Ming sneered, “Then does he belong to you? You gave birth to him?”

“He belongs to the country. And most importantly, to his parents. As a Dragon Blood Man whose blood purity is closest to that of the ‘Sea Dragon’, he has an innate mission. He should serve the country. Not serving you as a killer for a mercenary regiment.”

‘Kacha’. The sound of a machine gun being loaded caught everyone’s attention. Shan Ming raised one arm and pressed the muzzle of the gun against Tang Tingzhi’s jaw.

Tang Tingzhi stopped the person coming to assist him using the gesture of his hand. He said unhurriedly, “He will leave you sooner or later.”

Shan Ming stood up slowly. The gun was still pointed at Tang Tingzhi’s jaw. He stared coldly into Tang Tingzhi’s calm eyes, “His fate is up for him to decide. If you talk such nonsense to me again, you will die within a single shot.”

Tang Tingzhi still had no expression on his face but he took a step back, “I want to see him. I have a way to wake him up. And then, we can have a good talk. I believe you have a lot of questions.”

“What are you going to do to wake him up?”

“I will just use the stimulation of some drugs with stimulant ingredients. But the dose is small and it will not harm him.”

“Really? You inject it on yourself first.”

“A small dose for him can be fatal for normal human beings.” Tang Tingzhi said lightly, “I am just an ordinary human being.”

It is impossible for Shan Ming to let this emotionless scientist do anything that he is not sure about to Shen Changze. He would rather wait for the child to wake up by himself since he is not in a hurry anyway.

Since Tang Tingzhi was rejected, he didn’t insist. He just went into one of the rooms to rest.

Tiger Shark and Ayer came over and asked, “What did he talk to you about?”

Shan Ming shrugged, “He wanted to take the child away.”

“He told us that the boy is the son of a Chinese politician and he wants to take him back.” Tiger Shark said seriously, “Shan, if the child wants to go back to his parents, I think you should let him go.”

Shan Ming curled his lips, “No. He’s my son. I’m the one who found him. He’s mine. Unless…”

Ayer interjected: “Unless he wants to go back, right? Brother, sooner or later there will be a day when he grows up and he will want to return to his place of origin.”

Shan Ming turned his head away, “When that time comes… we’ll talk about it by then. At least, if the child doesn’t want to, that guy can’t take him away.”

This time, Shen Changze woke up after being unconscious for a day and a half. It seems that the timespan for him to suffer from lethargy was completely proportional to his physical exertion after transformation.

Tang Tingzhi brought Shan Ming and Shen Changze to a room alone. He asked directly, “You guys had contact with William House in the United States, right?”

“You know him?”

“Of course. He is a relatively successful Dragon Blood Man cultivated in the United States. Although his blood purity is not that high, his own cultivation makes him stronger than many other Dragon Blood Men whose blood is purer than his. “

“The strength of a Dragon Blood Man is determined by the purity of his blood?”

“To a large extent, yes. But it also has something to do with his own talent and training. However, the purity of blood does have an innate and absolute advantage. For example, you…” Tang Tingzhi looked at the child, “You are the only one with the purest blood so far. The Dragon Blood Man whose blood concentration is closest to the ‘sea dragon’. That’s why your scales are light golden with the best strength and flexibility. The pH level of your blood is the closest to 0 and its acidity is the highest among all Dragon Blood men. Your regenerative ability is not comparable to other Dragon Blood people. With your growth in terms of age and training, your strength, speed, reflexes and even the development of your brain domain will be far superior to other Dragon Blood people. In fact,…we even predicted that your dragon wings can grow big and strong enough to fly. Which is beyond the reach of other Dragon Blood people. This is the advantage of genes so no one can compare to you.”

The two of them were a little stunned when they heard this. If these miraculous things didn’t really happen to them, how could anyone even believe it?

Shen Changze said: “I’m really the only one? Why is that?”

“Because you were conceived naturally through a womb. You are not the product of an experiment. So do you know what this means? This means that your human genes and dragon blood genes did not reject one another at all. Every disadvantage of rejection has been eliminated. Your parents were the ones who endured it but what you got was the perfect and pure dragon blood. There is no experiment in the world that can create a flawless life other than breeding.”

“Then…my parents are both Dragon Blood people?”

“Yes. They both are.”

Shan Ming interjected: “Then why don’t you find another pure-blooded Dragon Blood Man from another male and female Dragon Blood breeding? Why do you keep looking for him?”

Tang Tingzhi shook his head, “It would be great if things were that simple. So far, we have bred many male Dragon Blood people. As for females, in China, there are only two of them. And one of them is your mother.”

“You mean that female Dragon Blood people are difficult to produce?”

“Extremely difficult. The experimental subjects we are looking for must have a very strong body. Only in this way can they bear the pain caused by genetic mutations. How many women do you think can have a stronger body than men? His father and mother are both special soldiers. After they became Dragon Blood people, they met on a mission and then they gave birth to you. I think they understood the meaning of your existence. But being parents made them soft-hearted. So they hid you away for five years. Later, we tried to breed more female Dragon Blood people. But most of them failed. The plan was good and we couldn’t determine the reason for failure. So, you’re really the only pure-blooded one.”

Shan Ming said: “You know so much about us… Have you been monitoring us?”

“Of course we had. His significance to our country is greater than you can imagine. We can’t just let him go like that. However, in order not to arouse his negative emotions, we have not acted. We just observed secretly. It is understandable that you are hostile towards me. And it won’t be conducive to communicate with him if you keep being hostile to me. We need a soldier who is loyal to the country and the people, not a monster who regards us as the enemy. Since you will not understand no matter how much I explain it, I have to wait for you to understand my ultimate goal first.”

The child said coldly: “Do you think that once I know your goal, I will let my guard down against you? What’s the difference between you and Captain House anyway?”

“Of course there’s a difference. You are Chinese after all. And your parents were loyal to the country. But they lost their personal relationship now. You should work hard to restore the honour of your parents and serve the country. This is your destiny and the meaning of your birth.”

Shan Ming sternly said: “Fucking stop it with your bullshit talk about honour. You have no right to decide how other people should live unless you can defeat him.”

Tang Tingzhi lowered his eyes, “I can’t defeat him. As I said, the country needs a loyal soldier, not a monster full of hostility.”

The child said: “Then what are you wasting your time for? I don’t trust you. Since even my parents didn’t want me to fall into your hands, then they must be doing it for my own good.”

“They were weak. They’ve lost their way out of parental love. They wanted you to grow up as a normal person. It was just naive. You can never be a normal human being.”

“It’s not up to you to decide what kind of person I will be!” The child snapped, “My parents…they…where are they?”

“I can’t tell you this unless you go back to China with me.”

“Impossible!” the two said in unison.

Tang Tingzhi closed his eyes and sighed, “Okay. Let’s change the subject and talk about your prior transformations. How did you feel?”

Shen Changze was silent for a while before saying: “I feel that I have gained superhuman power and the wound heals very quickly. At first, I would fall into a frenzy. I didn’t recognise anyone and I would attack whoever I saw. And then I won’t remember anything at all after waking up. But now, when I transform, I am conscious. But I would still be lethargic afterwards.”

“Well, these are normal reactions. Every Dragon Blood person will go through this stage. So what are the stimulants for you to transform so far? Are all of them because of life-threatening situations?”

The child was stunned. His face was a little hot and he knew that the answer to this question was not that at all. But he didn’t want to tell him that he thought about his father in such a way when he wanted to transform. He can feel it in his guts that it would end up badly.

Tang Tingzhi continued: “For Dragon Blood people, other than gaining self-control through training, the stimulants for the passive transformation of dragon blood people are nothing more than drugs, life-threatening situations, extreme anger, and sexual impulse. These are all very primitive. So, it’s understandable. I know that we’ll meet soon. First of all, your life will be threatened at any time due to the business you are engaged in. And soon, when you are twelve to thirteen years old at the latest or now at the earliest, you should have sexual impulses. Sooner or later, your real identity will be discovered. To avoid them finding out, you will definitely need my help.”

Shen Changze was stunned by every little thing he said.

I was… sexually driven towards Baba? He realised.

This… This is the reason? It shouldn’t be that way. After recalling all the knowledge he has learned, there has never been any book that can explain his sexual impulse towards his father. But he knows that it shouldn’t be that way. It’s wrong and shameful. He couldn’t even understand why he had such thoughts. At this moment, he felt guilt and fear.

Tang Tingzhi glanced at him and felt that his expression looked a bit confused. He explained: “The first few stimulants are easy to understand and you don’t need to be ashamed about the last one. Sex is a very normal thing. If you have studied the relevant knowledge, you should know that males will show extraordinary bravery when seeking a mate, which is due to sex hormones. This is because reproduction is the instinct of all animals. You don’t have to feel guilty about your biological desires. It is just a stimulant for change. But I want to remind you that a Dragon Blood Man without self-control cannot maintain the human form during sexual intercourse and it is easy to hurt the partner in this situation. So as I said, you will need my help.”

The child suddenly raised his head, “Are you saying… that I’ll…”

Tang Tingzhi nodded, “That’s right. You will become a Dragon Blood Man during sex. Although it’s a bit early to tell you this, in a few more years, this will become a serious issue.”

Shen Changze lowered his shoulders and looked at Shan Ming in confusion.

Shan Ming felt that the way he looked at him was a bit strange but he didn’t think too much about it. After all, he would turn into a monster as soon as he got into bed with someone. This is really unlucky. He would not only scare the woman until she fainted but he also had to think about how to deal with the aftermath. Such a life. How interesting.

The child raised his head, “How can you help me?”

Tang Tingzhi put his hands on the table and looked at him seriously, “Follow me back to China.”

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*Translator’s Note: From the RAW file of the novel, it was directly translated into Angel but it is actually Angola. Angola is located on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. Their national language nowadays is Portuguese but in some parts, they also speak French. Remember SM talking in French to the Angolan Armed Forces officers before? Teehee. This is because this country was colonised by French and Portugal before so the languages are mixed among the people. -K