DB Chapter 61

Set him free

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Chapter 61 – Set him free

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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“Ladies and gentlemen, another eye-catching fighting match is about to begin. This time, we have the Kenyan ‘Tank’. He has gained momentum and currently has an 8-0 record. The one who will face ‘Tank’ in the first round would be the rookie who knocked down ‘Bison’ with one blow; our oriental ‘Beauty’ from China. Would ‘Tank’, with amazing speed and strength, win our huge bonus this time? Or would it be the one with rich fighting skills and may have some mysterious Chinese Kung Fu, our deadly ‘Beauty’? Will this underdog win this round? Let’s see!”

A burst of passionate incitement from the host brought the atmosphere to the highest point. They frantically yelled the nicknames of their fighters that they had placed their bets on, trying to overwhelm their opponents with the volume of their screaming.

Shan Ming stood on the ring, moving his hands and feet. The last match did not cause too much damage to him. Especially with the help from the masseur, he feels much better now. But the big dark-skinned man in front of him looks like a better fighter than ‘Bison’. He should be much more difficult to deal with. His muscle distribution is not like that of ‘Bison’ which only seeks to expand. This ‘Tank’ looks like he has explosive power. Watching him move a few times, Shan Ming can tell that his waist is very flexible. Thus, the punching angle, speed and the strength of his boxing is very professional and measured. Shan Ming calculated that this guy must be a boxer.

A boxer’s greatest weakness is without a doubt, the lower body. Since the lower body only plays the role of flexible movement in perennial training, it is not allowed to be used as an attack. There is also a lack of defensive training for the lower body. As long as you can avoid letting the boxer get close and focus on attacking the lower body, you can kill his movement by force and finally defeat him.

Shan Ming originally planned to make two sacrifices to test the opponent up close. After confirming what he thought in his heart, he would then determine the direction of his attack. However, he quickly dispelled this idea. This is because he saw his opponent wearing a pair of boxing gloves. There was hardly any need to verify it. He is indeed a boxer. And he still retains the habit of going to a boxing ring.

Boxing gloves are not considered weapons so they can be worn.

Nesis suddenly called him from behind him. Shan Ming turned his head and heard Nesis say, “Be careful of his gloves.”

Shan Ming raised his eyebrows, remembering that this is a dark fighting arena where even drugs are allowed. It is really no problem for fighters to use such despicable means.

‘Tank’ bumped its fist and roared. The fight officially began.

There was a bloodthirsty light in ‘Tank’’s muddy eyes. He seemed to be smiling relaxedly but his steps were very fast. He was already in front of Shan Ming. He tried to push Shan Ming to the corner but of course Shan Ming would not let him do that. With such an opportunity, he quickly moved to the other side of the ring, keeping a distance from him. While moving, he observed ‘Tank’’s flaws.

Shan Ming’s several dodges drained the ‘Tank’’s patience.

A boxer with high psychological quality shouldn’t let such little tricks get on his nerves. But under the influence of drugs, his whole body is extremely eager to fight. He becomes even angrier at his opponent’s behaviour of dodging his attacks. He started to move at high speed and in a blink of an eye, he was already in front of Shan Ming.

Shan Ming made a posture to dodge, but in the next second, he jumped up from the ground and flew towards the front of ‘Tank’ but he fell to the ground, enduring an unexpected pain. His other leg was already ready and it swept on the ankle bone of ‘Tank’. ‘Tank’ screamed and was brought to the ground by him.

Shan Ming clutched his instep and moved back a few steps. Cold sweat came down his face. There was metal in the glove. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so hard. The anger in his heart instantly became incomparably stronger. The sharp pain just now made him lose his strength in his kick. He originally planned to break his ankle so that at least, he could make him unable to move. But it didn’t work. Now it’s him who was affected by the action.

The two knelt on the ground for a long time, staring at each other. They then slowly stood up.

The shouts around them rushed into the ears of the two of them non-stop, inciting the brutality in their bodies to the extreme.

‘Tank’ seemed to be annoyed. He roared irritably. It was as if there was some monster living in his body, clamouring to rush out. He rushed forward with a roar and pushed Shan Ming to the edge of the ring. He punched Shan Ming in the face.

Shan Ming blocked his arm in front of his face and received two punches abruptly. The strength was so amazing that Shan Ming felt as if his arm was broken. Just when Tank was about to throw his third punch, Shan Ming finally found a gap and stepped aside. He raised his leg and kicked him on the waist. ‘Tank’ reacted quickly. Half of the force of the kick was blocked by him but he still received some of the hit from the kick. ‘Tank’ was backed away a few steps by the kick. He hadn’t been able to stand still yet when Shan Ming had rushed up a few steps towards him. He jumped up and stepped on the hand of ‘Tank’ that was stretched out to block him and his other feet kicked ‘Tank’ with a string force on his jaw. ‘Tank’ was kicked into the air.

The audience was in an uproar!

This erratic movement that only appears in Chinese Kung Fu movies was actually witnessed by them. Although the borrowed move was very light, the kick on the ‘Tank’’s jaw was absolutely extremely heavy. It caused ‘Tank’ to roll on the ground. After a while, he couldn’t get up.

Shan Ming rushed up and kicked him again with a strong force. He stepped on ‘Tank’’s ankle which he had kicked just now and crushed it. ‘Tank’ howled in pain as his ankle was completely crushed by Shan Ming.

Shan Ming wanted to cripple his other leg but ‘Tank’ suddenly sat up straight, with a ferocious expression and crazy eyes. He hugged Shan Ming’s leg and tripped him to the ground. He then rode on Shan Ming on his waist.

When Shan Ming fell to the ground, he thought that he was in trouble.

‘Tank’ pressed him to the ground with brute force and punched Shan Ming’s temple with a heavy blow.

There was no way for Shan Ming to evade so he instinctively took his arm to block. This punch exhausted all his strength and his own head was hit with his own arm. Shan Ming first felt a sharp pain in his arm and then his head was hit violently and his head was spinning.

He shook his head and the image of ‘Tank’ turned into four or five double images. He instinctively raised his other arm to protect his face and sure enough, another punch had caught up to him. He couldn’t avoid it at all.

‘Tank’ attacked Shan Ming’s head from left to right like crazy and Shan Ming collapsed his arm muscles to protect his head. He knew that there was iron in this madman’s boxing gloves and he would be finished if he was hit on the head!

Shan Ming felt that his brain regained a little bit of clarity so he gathered all the strength in his body. He exerted force on his waist and raised one of his legs to kick the back of ‘Tank’ with a strong force.

After exhausting all his strength, ‘Tank’’s movement froze. His huge body seemed to be tilted to one side.

Shan Ming pushed him away and stood up. In fact, he didn’t really push him away. His two hands were already numb and ‘Tank’ fell down by himself.

Shan Ming knew that his kick had hit the central nervous system at the back of the ‘Tank’’s head. Under Lin Qiang’s teaching, he knew the direction of the human nerves and meridians as well as the position of the acupoints very clearly. What he learnt from Lin Qiang was not how to fight, but how to kill.

‘Tank’ lay twitching on the ground, rolling his eyelids and foaming his mouth.

Shan Ming’s arms trembled. He could feel that his bones were not broken, but there might be cracks. If it hadn’t been for him to strengthen his physical fitness all year round, ordinary people would have suffered a fatal blow from ‘Tank’. There were iron pieces in the gloves. The bones in their arms would have been broken long ago. Sp how could they have survived for four to five blows.

His left arm was seriously injured. His right arm was not that bad. At the end of the fight, ‘Tank’ must have been a little exhausted. He could feel it and he could still use his right hand a little bit.

There were shouts all over the sky but Shan Ming could hardly hear him. He walked up to ‘Tank’ step by step and squatted down. He gently pulled off the boxing glove on his right hand and put it on his own hand. He then shook his arm and raised his fist.

Nesis suddenly ran up to him and said loudly, “Shan, the other party has offered to pay money, so don’t…”

Shan Ming looked at him, sneered, and slammed down his fist strongly on ‘Tank’, hitting his temple. Accompanied by the sound of gasping in horror, he punched three times in a row, denting the ‘Tank’’s skull. ‘Tank’ eventually twitched and stopped breathing.

Shan Ming threw off his glove. He shook his red and swollen fingers and then gave the ‘owner’ of ‘Tank’ a middle finger. Seeing the other person’s face turned livid, he finally felt better.

He staggered down the ring and when his foot touched the ground, he was immediately clamped by two medical staff who came trotting over to treat his arm injury.

It was noisy around but he couldn’t hear anything. His arms hurt too much and his nerves were occupied by pain.

Soon the doctor injected him with morphine and he gradually felt no pain. His brain’s sanity was slowly recovered.

Nesis appeared in front of him. His face was full of excitement, “Mr. Shan, you are a miracle. If you didn’t kill him just now, the owner of ‘Tank’ was willing to pay a ransom of three million to keep him alive. However, It doesn’t matter. We already made sixty-five million dollars this time!” Nesis couldn’t hold back his excitement, “I will keep my promise. We will split it fifty-fifty. Shan, you are amazing. I knew you were a born fighter when I saw you the first time at the casino!”

Shan Ming only gave him a cold look. He didn’t reply.

He killed ‘Tank’ not out of anger. But he just wanted to set him free.

The strength of his kick can only be seen by a professional. It is impossible for ‘Tank’ to fight anymore in the future. If he is alive, he will spend the rest of his life bed-ridden. He didn’t suddenly have the useless emotion of sympathising with his opponent. But he just felt that if someone as proud as ‘Tank’ was able to live like a dog and only win by using tricks and injecting drugs, he must have completely abandoned the ideals and dignity of being a boxer. He had even let go of his dignity as a human being. It is meaningless for him to be alive. It is best for him to just die.

He has seen too many deaths and too many cruelties. There were only a few things that could touch his hardened heart. But this fighting arena that has given him too many bad memories made him feel differently. It made him fall into the trap from time to time. Guided by his emotions, he couldn’t look at everything here calmly.

Fourteen years ago was the darkest time of his life.

He lost his comrade-in-arms who watched him grow up. He also lost his adoptive father, Lin Qiang, who gave him a new life. And he almost lost his entire ‘Peregrine Falcon’. Just when Ayer, Tiger Shark, and him endured tears and pain, they blindly planned to reorganise the ‘Peregrine Falcon’ by coming to this place. And here, Ayer almost died. It made him experience greatest psychological torture. At that time, he was not strong enough. This cast a psychological shadow on him. When people are not strong enough, they are driven to be desperate.

When he saw the fighters who were losing themselves one by one here, it made him think of Ayer who was driven to a desperate situation at that time. Maybe they used to have their own glory and dignity. But in this horrible place, they gradually became slaves to drugs. It was similar to living with shame. Death in battle would be their best ending.

Shan Ming hated this place even more. He hated the operators, owners and the gamblers here. They were all the executioners who almost killed Ayer. And they were the sinners who killed a fighter’s dignity.

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