Chapter 8 – Mosquito Repellant
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 fell asleep until dusk. Recently, he has eaten well, slept well, and rested well. Although he is injured, he still feels energetic and lively.
He was a little hungry after a satisfying sleep. He got up and wanted to find something to eat. As soon as he walked out of the tent, he saw Shen Changze leaning beside a laundry tub, sound asleep.
Shan Ming was stunned for a moment. He then remembered that he had asked him to wash the clothes.He frowned as he looked at the clothes still soaked in the basin. He kicked the child up from his sleep.
The child fell to the ground. He then slowly got up, rubbing his sleepy eyes and looking up at Shan Ming.
Shan Ming looked at him with a gloomy face.
The child seemed to be completely sober suddenly. He looked at the clothes in the basin and said with an aggrieved-looking face, “I don’t know how to wash clothes.”
“You won’t be able to eat if you don’t wash properly. You will be hungry today, you useless piece of shit.” Shan Ming ignored him and limped his way to the logistics tent to find food.
He took half of a roasted goose and a jug of beer from the kitchen. He then limped back to his tent. After that, he sat cross-legged at the door of the tent and started eating in front of the child.
The child stared at the golden goose in Shan Ming’s hand and his eyes were shining brightly. He couldn’t stop swallowing his saliva.
Shan Ming tore off a goose leg and devoured it voraciously. While drinking beer, he ate the meat. The aroma wafted in the air, making the child feel famished. But he knew that this person would never accommodate his needs if he tried to be coquettish or even if he pleaded. With a sunken heart, he stared helplessly for a while. He then got up from the ground aggrievedly, put his little hand into the basin and dangled the heavy marching jacket back and forth in the water.
Shan Ming snorted coldly, “Stand in the basin and step on the clothes using your feet. You don’t even know how to wash clothes. I really don’t know what to do with you.”
The child’s eyes trembled slightly, trying to hide his emotions. He then jumped into the basin and stomped on the clothes under his feet to vent his anger.
Shan Ming smiled viciously and smacked his mouth while eating. He quickly stuffed half a fat goose into his stomach.
The child stared at his feet with tears in his eyes as he stepped on the clothes. After a while, the tears fell into the water uncontrollably.
Shan Ming was really annoyed that the child would cry at every turn. He himself had suffered a lot when he was a child but he was not able to cry like him. Did he think that he could get sympathy by shedding tears? This kind of naivety is really annoying.
Shan Ming shouted: “Take out the clothes, wring the water out of them, and then hang them on the rope over there.”
The child wiped away his tears and took the heavy jacket out of the basin. But he didn’t have the strength to wring water out of such a large and heavy coat. Not to mention getting himself covered in water, the coat was also dragged to the ground and dirtied again.
Shan Ming snatched the clothes impatiently and rinsed them with a water hose. He then wrung the water out and hung them on the clothesline. After drying, he kicked the boots in front of Shen Changze, “Now wash the shoes.” Then, he went into the tent by himself.
The sun went down quickly. Shan Ming turned on the small light bulb in the tent and sat on the bed as he wiped his gun. After a while, he heard the sound of a child crying from outside.
Shan Ming ignored him and continued to polish his favourite gun. He slowly thought about where to start training him. Physical training is a must, but it is also important for him to learn English as soon as possible. Otherwise, he will be like a dumb here. There is no Internet in this place, so he can only wait for the person sent by their client to come over next week to ask for textbooks.
After wiping his gun, Shan Ming put it away. He took off his clothes and got into the mosquito net to sleep.
Their temporary base is stationed in the valley. After the sun goes down, it is a feast for mosquitoes. Shan Ming’s blood type is especially attractive to mosquitoes. Although that thing can’t kill him, the feeling of itchiness all over his body is worse than being shot by a bullet. So as long as there is nothing to do at night, he will mostly hide in the mosquito net.
After lying down, the crying outside still didn’t stop. Although the movement was not loud, the whimpering and crying was very annoying and Shan Ming couldn’t sleep because of the noise.
He tossed and turned on the bed for half an hour and couldn’t fall asleep. He was so angry that he jumped off the bed and went to settle accounts with the child.
As soon as he got out of the tent, he saw the child was squatting at the door. He was crying while polishing his shoes with a rag. His little face was full of tears and his voice was hoarse from crying. He looked very pitiful.
Shan Ming said angrily: “Have you fucking cried enough yet? You’re so good at crying.”
The child glanced at him and continued to sob.
Shan Ming pulled him up. He then roughly took off his clothes.
The weather in July to August is still not cold even at night. Shan Ming planned to let him wash his own clothes outside the tent naked to see if he dares to cry when he is bitten by mosquitoes.
The child hiccupped from crying and did not understand why his clothes were taken off. He has been pampered since he was a child so he has an instinctive sense of shame about being naked. He wants to get his clothes back as he stood on tiptoe.
As soon as Shan Ming let go, his clothes fell directly into the water basin, soaked in an instant. He snorted coldly, “If you are so capable, keep on crying and just stand outside the whole night.” After speaking, he wrapped his own clothes tightly and ran into the tent. After such a short time out of the net, his arm was already bitten by mosquitoes.
He crawled into the mosquito net. He lied down and tried to sleep.
As a result, it was only quiet for a brief while outside. In the next moment, the soft crying sounded again. It was just like mosquitoes flying above his head, buzzing and buzzing. It was very annoying. It was so annoying that Shan Ming wanted to slap the child to death.
After another half hour of their first confrontation, Shan Ming finally lost his composure. He has never seen any creature in the world that is more annoying than a child.
He wrapped his coat tightly and got off the bed, intending to take some other measures. After leaving the tent, he looked at the child’s body by the bonfire in the centre of the camp. He couldn’t help being very surprised.
Thinking of the past, he also didn’t find a trace of mosquito bites on the child.
Shan Ming squatted down and checked the child back and forth. He really didn’t find a single trace of mosquito bites.
This kid stood outside naked for half an hour and not a single mosquito bit him? Shan Ming remembered that they stayed in the forest for so many days. At that time, the child was dressed in rags. He didn’t pay attention to these things at that time. Looking back now, the skin on the child’s body was intact. He hasn’t been bitten by any bugs in the forest.
How can someone in the world be able to resist mosquitoes naturally? What is his blood made of? This is so unscientific.
Shan Ming stared at Shen Changze suspiciously. The child was frightened by his serious expression and stopped crying.
He picked up the child and entered the tent. After carefully checking the child with the small light bulbs in the tent, he was sure that the child was really a natural mosquito repellent.
The child looked at Shan Ming nervously with his big black eyes, not knowing what he was doing.
Shan Ming was happy in his heart. He tore off his mosquito net and threw the child on his bed.
As soon as the child got on the bed, he shrank into the bed while hugging the quilt to cover his body.
Shan Ming pulled him by his calf, “Be still.” He lay down on the bed next to him, “Don’t move around. Just lie down next to me.”
The child hesitated for a while but still lay down next to him and whispered, “Uncle, I’m so hungry.”
“What should you call me?”
“……Baba.”
“Be hungry. You didn’t complete the task.”
“Can I complete it tomorrow?”
“Then can you eat more food tomorrow?”
“But I’m so hungry.”
“If you don’t want to be hungry, just fight for food for yourself. Now shut up and go to sleep.”
The child pursed his lips in a frown and finally did not dare to speak again. He lay peacefully for a while and then couldn’t help getting into Shan Ming’s arms. These days in the forest, he has been sleeping in Shan Ming’s arms. Although they are out of danger now, for a five-year-old child, his heart is not at peace. He would habitually look for a place for his peace of mind.
The child’s slippery and soft body was pressed against Shan Ming. Shan Ming thought that the touch was very amusing, which made him want to laugh. Although he felt a little hot, he didn’t push the child away. He didn’t want to fall asleep with the child crying in the middle of the night.
As Shan Ming expected, he had a good night’s sleep until dawn. Even with the mosquito net gone, he was not bitten by any mosquitoes. He finally believed that the blood of this child was very special. It was a natural mosquito repellent.
After he woke up, the child was still in a deep sleep. He found a short-sleeved T-shirt of his own from a box and pulled the child up from the bed, “Get up. Put on some clothes.”
The child put on the clothes in a daze and was carried off the bed by him.
Shan Ming led him out of the tent and ordered him: “Put on your shoes.”
The child bends over to put on the shoes.
“Now I want to supervise you for running. I don’t care how fast you are, but you have to persevere until the end. Otherwise, you won’t have any food today.” Shan Ming stretched his body and then sat on the stool outside the tent with his cane.
The child looked at him with a sad face.
Shan Ming said: “Go run around this camp. If I didn’t tell you to stop, you are not allowed to stop.”
The camp covers a large area and it takes at least one kilometre to run one lap around it. After running for less than a lap, the child started to pant. If he didn’t have the experience of hiking in the forest those days, he might not even be able to run 500 metres.
Shan Ming shouted loudly: “Don’t stop.”
A few mercenaries who got up early stood by to watch the fun.
The child gritted his teeth and ran for two kilometres before he became out of breath. Shan Ming yelled, “Run! Every day from now on, you have to receive training. Morning running is only a small part of it. Only the strong can do it. You have the right to choose how to live. A weakling like you can only ask me to give you food. And if you want to live well, you should put your tears away.”
The child gritted his teeth to wipe away his tears. He took steps heavier than lead and continued to run forward.
Shan Ming plans to let him run only eight kilometres on the first day and then gradually increase the distance.
In the last few laps, the child almost crawled on his feet. His tears fell into the grass below him but he held back and did not make a sound. The child knew it well that tears won’t work on Shan Ming. It will annoy him instead so he simply doesn’t cry anymore.
After hearing the commotion, Pell couldn’t bear it and said to Shan Ming, “Shan, isn’t this too much? He’s only five years old.”
There was no hesitation on Shan Ming’s face, “When he can dominate the life and death of others in the future, he will thank me.”
The moment Shan Ming told him to stop, the child fell to the ground and didn’t move for a long time. Shan Ming went to the kitchen to get a hamburger. He lifted the child up from the ground, “Now eat.”
The child stared at the hamburger for half a second before grabbing it and eating it greedily.
Shan Ming tugged at his clothes, “My clothes are all stained by you… I’ll give you half an hour to rest and then I’ll teach you how to use a knife.”
While the child was resting, Shan Ming looked for Job and asked him to do something for him.
After hearing this, Job had a disgusted expression on his face, “What do you want these things for?”
Shan Ming raised his eyebrows, “To exercise his courage.”
Job shook his head, “You’re going to hell sooner or later.”
Shan Ming snorted and said, “You know all of you will accompany me down to hell.”
In the afternoon, the first thing Shan Ming taught the children was how to hold the knife firmly in his hands. He asked the children to chop a piece of wood with a dagger. Even if the arm was numb and painful from the shock, he was not allowed to stop. If the knife was knocked off from his hand, he had to pierce a piece of wood again. After two hours, the child could hardly feel his own arms.
Before dinner, Shan Ming finally let him go and took him to the edge of the camp to show him something ‘interesting’.
At the end of the day, the child was so exhausted from being tortured that he didn’t want to watch anything anymore. He just wanted to fall asleep.
After Shan Ming led him over, Job was waiting there. When he saw him, he nodded, indicating that everything was ready. He then left, giving the child a sympathetic look before leaving.
The child saw a one-metre-wide hole in the ground from a long distance and he had a bad premonition in his heart.
Shan Ming bent down, picked him up and clamped him under his arm. He walked towards the pit.
The closer the child is, the more afraid he is. He feels that there are dangerous things in the pit. This seems to be his instinct. He can feel things that threaten him.
Sure enough, when he got closer, he saw about twenty black worms crawling back and forth in the pit. Those worms had hard armour and degenerated wings. They looked very disgusting and terrible.
Shan Ming looked at the bugs thoughtfully and said softly: “Don’t worry. They’re not poisonous.” After speaking, he threw the child into the pit with a wave of his hand.
The child’s scream pierced the sky. As soon as his butt hit the ground, he felt something crushed under him with a puff. He knew what that meant. He was crying frantically, trying to run out. But Shan Ming lifted his foot and stepped on his shoulder to make sure that he stayed down.
Shan Ming didn’t look at the crying child at all. Instead, he looked at the bugs that would scatter and flee as soon as the child entered the pit. If the child had the courage to look back, he would know that those bugs ran out of the pit behind him, obviously very afraid of him.
This kind of bug is normally not afraid of people. It should be said that they are not afraid of anything. They usually appear in hundreds or thousands and they can suck the flesh and blood of large animals. It is their instinct to rush upwards and they have absolutely no reason to be afraid of a child.
Shan Ming finally believed when Shen Changze said that he caught a bug in the forest to feed his hunger. There must be something special about his body. The mosquitoes just wanted to stay away from him when they saw him.
The child cried louder and louder as he screamed, “Baba! Baba! Let me out! Please let me out!”
Shan Ming was brought back to his senses by the words ‘Baba’. He lowered his head and asked, “What did you call me?”
The child opened his hands to him and cried pitifully, “Baba, help me.”
Shan Ming grinned. As if he was very kind, he knelt down and picked up the child. He patted him on the back kindly, “Don’t cry. Be a man.”
The child twitched from crying on his shoulder. He was really frightened this time.
Shan Ming hugged him up and planned to walk back. Suddenly, he felt a pain on one of his shoulders. He didn’t need to look at the child to know that the child was biting him.
The child clenched his teeth while crying, beating Shan Ming’s back with all his strength using his weak little fists. He also kicked his legs wildly in his arms.
This was the first time that this kid dared to fight against him. Shan Ming finally felt that he was going on the right track.
He put his fingers into the child’s mouth and forced his teeth open. He then said with an evil smile, “I’ll teach you something. Biting someone’s neck is good but biting on the shoulders is useless. When biting someone’s neck, don’t only bite the flesh. Bite down to the bones. Otherwise, the guy could just grab you casually and your teeth will be ripped off. After biting, you must put the guy to death. No matter what kind of attack you receive, you can’t let go of the bite. Shake your head desperately to tear on the wound and increase the bleeding. As long as you live in the end, you will win. Even if you die, you have given him a disadvantage.” Shan Ming had a smug smile on his face, “Now grind your teeth well. You are truly my son.”
The child listened carefully to what he said. His clear eyes were shrouded in raging anger.
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Next update: 2023.–.–
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