DB Chapter 51

Chapter 51 – Imagination

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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After Shan Ming turned around, he didn’t hear any movement from behind him. It was very quiet. He knew that the child must be holding back and did not dare make a sound. He thought it was very funny.

After a while, he heard the sound of vessels clinking. He turned back around to see that they were done.

The child’s face was flushed red. His eyes were tightly closed.

Shan Ming asked: “You guys have been going at it for several hours. Is it done yet?”

“That’s it for today. You two can sleep in this room tonight. I will make other arrangements for the others.” After speaking, they began to remove the equipment and were busy with arranging everything else for more than an hour.

After they were all gone, Shen Changze returned to his human form and fell into a deep sleep.

Looking at the childish face of the child, Shan Ming felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart. He knew that it might not be a good thing to keep this child by his side. He would have to face unpredictable enemies in the future and such things will bring unpredictable consequences. He didn’t know whether he would regret his decision in the future but he didn’t want to think about it now. He should live in the moment and do as he pleases in the now. He doesn’t care about tomorrow. Well, at least today, he will not hand over his son to those psychopaths.

He thought that the choice made by the child’s real parents five years ago had already given him the right answer.

Tang Tingzhi’s calculations were very precise. Shen Changze really woke up the next morning with no discomfort in his body. He kept avoiding other people just to prevent Pell from finding out that the injury on his back had healed quickly.

In the afternoon, Tang Tingzhi came to see them again. But this time, he came alone. He said he wanted to teach Shen Changze how to control his dragon blood genes.

Shan Ming watched them from the side.

Shen Changze sat cross-legged on the bed. Tang Tingzhi only asked him to do one simple thing. It was to imagine.

He should imagine that his blood is a river and the blood vessels in his body are the streams of this river. This river flows according to his consciousness, going wherever he wants it to go. Tang Tingzhi spent the whole afternoon inducing Shen Changze to imagine controlling his own blood.

This process seems to be very laborious. At first, the child couldn’t do it at all. Indeed, it is too strange to imagine his own blood moving in the body.

Tang Tingzhi showed extraordinary patience during this time. He guided him tirelessly like he was using hypnosis.

There was still no improvement until nightfall. Tang Tingzhi asked the child to focus on practising this technique in the future. He needed to meditate like this every day until he could feel the flow of his blood and feel that his blood could be focused on a certain area where he wanted it to go according to his wishes.

Both Shan Ming and Shen Changze thought that the so-called training must have something to do with strengthening Shen Changze’s physical strength. They did not expect that the first step in self-control training is such an idealistic thing. But Tang Tingzhi will definitely not talk nonsense. Thus, such meditation must be useful.

After dinner, a group of energetic men started looking for post-dinner exercise. Over the past few days, both sides have maintained a subtle attitude towards each other. Despite the fact that they all felt that these Chinese special forces had bad intentions, they did help treat the injured mercenary regiment members. After a few days of getting along, the atmosphere became a little more harmonious among them.

On one side are selected elite special forces soldiers while on the other side are internationally renowned mercenary regiment members. Both sides are a little curious about each other’s strength. So they tried to provoke one another. After getting acquainted with each other for a while, Koski, who has a competitive personality, raised his head and said that he wanted to ‘learn’ from the Chinese special forces.

They chose a method of sparring that won’t irritate each other. That is… the tug-of-war.

It was one versus one. They would then count the winners and losers separately. And then, they’ll add the total at the end.

Shan Ming was a little stuffed from dinner so he didn’t want to participate. He just watched the fun from the sidelines. He looked at two old men grunting and pulling a rope with all their strengths. It was a good after-dinner pastime.

After seven or eight rounds, the winners and losers are basically mixed. Both sides roll up their arms and sleeves. They all want to go up and give it a try to destroy the opponent’s prestige.

Tang Tingzhi, who had been watching the battle with a blank face, suddenly said: “The child should also join the fun.”

Everyone was stunned and Dino responded: “What’s wrong with you? You want to cause trouble? You want the child on our side to go against big old men on your side?”

“The child can do it.” Tang Tingzhi pointed to a special soldier beside him who had just won a game and retreated. “This guy also consumed a lot of energy just now so it should be fair. If you lose, there’s no need to count the loss.”

Dino wanted to say something more but Shan Ming had already pushed the child into the ring, “Go. Show them what you got.”

The two stood in a simple circle drawn on the ground. Each of them took a rope at one end and wrapped it around their arms. They stared at each other intently.

That special soldier knew of his true identity. Even if he was a child, he didn’t dare to take it lightly. Shen Changze looked at the opponent’s big body and bursting muscles. He was not very sure if he could win.

Koski began to count down, “Three, two, one!”

The two of them began to gather all their strength and pull backwards. The muscles on the special soldier’s arm swelled, looking as if they were about to tear out of his clothes.

But this kind of exercise is too much for a child who weighs only 32 kilograms. The opponent’s weight is nearly three times more than his. So, the guy has an absolute advantage in terms of strength. After only a few seconds, the rope began to move in favour of the direction of the special forces.

‘Peregrine Falcon’ began to cheer for the child loudly even though none of them thought that the child could win.

Tang Tingzhi’s icy voice suddenly can be heard amidst the loud cheers. It pierced into the child’s ears. He said, “Focus on the legs.”

Many people think that tug-of-war depends on arm strength but it is not true. Only with a steady foot can you not be dragged across the line by your opponent. When Tang Tingzhi said this, the child immediately understood that he should be letting his imagination focus his blood to move to the legs!

The child closed his eyes. He gritted his teeth and pulled the rope as he began to imagine the blood flowing in the body according to Tang Tingzhi’s previous guidance. He then manipulated it to focus on the legs.

He didn’t know if this technique worked out of desperation. But he really felt that his feet had taken root. They were obviously much more stable than before. Once the lower body was stabilised, the upper body exerted twice the result with half the effort as it played a more powerful role. With great strength, the rope that was deflecting towards the other party just now suddenly froze and even showed signs of moving towards the child.

The mercenaries became excited and cheered loudly. Shan Ming also stood up and shouted: “Son, work harder!”

The child opened his eyes suddenly and pulled back the rope in his hand fiercely. His arms were bloodstained by the rope.

Not to be outdone, the special soldier also pulled back with red eyes.

Both of them exerted all their strength and vowed to defeat their opponents!

The child suddenly felt his body start to heat up and he immediately became nervous. He knew that this unusual heat was a sign of the awakening of the dragon blood genes. He couldn’t transform in full view!

He quickly relaxed his body and the special soldier on the opposite side saw the opportunity. He pulled him over at once and the child almost fell on him.

Although he lost the tug-of-war, the mercenaries who watched him grow up couldn’t hide their pride. They didn’t pay too much attention to the child and immediately threw themselves into the next stage of the game.

Shan Ming dragged the child out of the crowd and went to find a corner. He noticed what happened just now.

Tang Tingzhi also came over and asked, “Can you feel it?”

“For a moment there, I think I really feel it.”

“You have a high level of understanding of the technique. What you felt just now was indeed a small manifestation of controlling your own dragon blood genes. The higher your self-control ability is, the better you will be able to perform beyond ordinary people in your human form. Other than that, you can remain conscious and perform at a high level of physical fitness in your Dragon Blood Man from. A mature Dragon Blood Man like House can mobilise the blood of the body to focus on a certain part to increase his strength, speed or defence. This technique is very important. If you succeed, you can handle any battlefield. So you must practise this every day.”

Shen Changze nodded his head. He tried to clench his fists but his hands were still a little numb. The feeling that the blood was under his command just now was really great. It was as if he was commanding every part of his body to do something. This is the best adjustment he could do to deal with the current situation. It was quite remarkable.

Tang Tingzhi said: “Once I’m back in China, I will send you further relevant training content by email. If you encounter any problems, please report to me at any time.”

A few days later, Tang Tingzhi did what he promised. He sent everyone in ‘Peregrine Falcon’ to the landing point of the helicopter. Before leaving, he gave Shen Changze a lot of medicines for emergencies. He also warned him to use them as little as possible.

Shan Ming did not expect to be able to get away so easily this time. If Tang Tingzhi hadn’t been so obsessed with Shen Changze’s ability, he might not have let them go so easily. Anyway, being able to get rid of them smoothly made Shan Ming feel a sense of relief.

This time, the Angolan missions were all over. The plane carried them into the clear sky and they returned to Colombia.

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*Translator’s Note: I’m a little busy these days. I will try to catch up with the translations by next week. FYI, the characters’ cards below are from ‘The Return of Cambrian Period’ so there are descriptions about the mutation ability in them. The events in ‘Dragon Blood’ novel should be prior to the events in ‘The Return of Cambrian Period’. -K

Next update: 2023.–.–

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