Chapter 87 – Worth It
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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“Report the situation.” Shan Ming ordered right away.
“We are now on the 33rd floor. This building has 38 floors. We have to reach the top floor and leave by helicopter.”
“That’s it? We don’t need to kill them?”
Shen Changze said: “If I’m the only one here, I’ll stay and kill them.”
What he is trying to imply is that I’m a burden to him. If I’m not here, you can take care of them yourself? Shan Ming thought furiously.
Despite his anger, he understood that he was about to face six powerful and well-trained Dragon Blood men at the same time. He was also terrified. It was indeed the best way if they could leave quickly. So he didn’t talk anymore nonsense in the end.
“I think the top floor should have been taken. What if the helicopter is destroyed?”
Shen Changze had a cold look in his eyes, “Then we can only kill them all.”
They quickly ran through the long corridor. Shen Changze grabbed Shan Ming and dragged him to hide behind him. He whispered: “They are here.”
“Is there a psychic connection between you?”
“No. I can smell them.”
“Then, they can smell you too?”
“Yes.”
“How many are there?”
“Two.”
“How far?”
“Not more than twenty metres.”
Shan Ming took out a light grenade from his arms, “Does this thing work on them?”
Shen Changze snatched the grenade with one of his hands and covered his eyes with the other. Shan Ming pulled up his clothes to cover his own head and eyes. He crawled on the ground. Shen Changze threw the light grenade towards the corner and then quickly covered his eyes and laid down on the ground.
The grenade exploded with a bang, shaking the walls around them. Large pieces of floor-to-ceiling glass shattered and the grenade emitted a violent light. Two screams can be heard from the corridor. Shan Ming and Shen Changze quickly jumped up from the ground. When he got up, Shen Changze carried a quadruple high-explosive machine gun and swept bullets around wildly. The smell of gunpowder smoke and fresh blood immediately filled the entire corridor.
The dust gradually dissipated and the other end of the corridor was empty. Only the pools of blood left on the ground that corroded the carpet proved that the two dragon blood men were seriously injured.
Shan Ming walked over and rubbed the carpet with several large holes in it using his feet, “Their blood is more acidic than those we encountered in Morocco.”
Shen Changze also went over to take a look, “There is only one gun. The blood concentration is determined by nature and cannot be changed. Although in terms of probability, the higher the blood purity, the stronger it is, but it is not absolute truth. House’s blood purity is only 29%. Besides me, the Dragon Blood people with the highest blood purity can reach up to 60%. It means that House’s ‘natural talent’ is not high. But he is a famous Dragon Blood soldier.”
Shan Ming raised his eyebrows, “You know House so well?”
Shen Changze glanced at him coldly, “Yes. We have been training together in a closed laboratory for half a year. During that time, I have never seen any face without a protective mask on. I have never seen a face other than the colour of white. I know him very well because only he communicates with me as a human being.”
Looking at the coldness on the child’s face, Shan Ming felt sad for the first time. He opened his mouth and wanted to ask Shen Changze how he had spent the past four years. But in the end, he didn’t manage to ask anything.
It was not his style to express sympathy for a man’s suffering. Sympathy itself is an insult.
From the time Shen Changze started his mission at the age of eight to the time he left him at the age of fifteen, how many moments of life and death did he experience in these seven years? Is there a time when anyone deserves sympathy? Shan Ming doesn’t feel guilty for bringing Shen Changze into the world of ‘Peregrine Falcon’ and putting him in danger. So he naturally doesn’t feel guilty for handing him over to Tang Tingzhi to subject him to inhuman experiments. This is the fate of the child. If he survives, he will become powerful. But if he dies, that is also his fate.
Shen Changze experienced the life he should have experienced and had survived them. He had become powerful. If there’s anything to say about his life, we should just focus on the fact that he had become strong rather than pitying him for how much he had suffered. It’s too ridiculous.
So Shan Ming didn’t ask in the end. He just said flatly, “It’s all worth it if you can survive in the end.”
Battlefields, killings, pain, life and death…Shan Ming has faced these things since he was six years old. Twenty-six years have passed and his heart has become as hard as a rock.
What Shan Ming didn’t understand was that Shen Changze didn’t hate him for the suffering he suffered during the four years. What he couldn’t forgive was the fact that Shan Ming abandoned him four years ago. Even if he lived a life of luxury during those four years, he would still hate it.
The person he trusted the most and the one that he wanted to live and die with had abandoned him. It made him resent Shan Ming even more rather than the suffering he would encounter in the future.
Shen Changze sneered twice, “Yeah. Everything is worth it if you survive in the end.”
As long as I can see Baba again, everything is worth it! Shen Changze recited in his heart.
The two of them continued to walk towards the top floor with their weapons on their shoulders. They did not encounter any obstacles along the way. Shan Ming knew that the Dragon Blood men were aware that they could not fight Shen Changze separately. So they might all wait on the top floor to try to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
Shen Changze obviously thought about the same too. When they ran to the stairs on the last floor, Shen Changze opened the window of the corridor.
Shan Ming took a look, “Go up from outside the building?”
“Yes.”
Shan Ming said: “No, the entrance is fortified. It is impossible for them not to fortify the roof. If you can think of going up from the outside of the building, they can also think the same.”
Shen Changze pulled out a hook from his bag, “I’ll attract firepower from the outside. You go in through the gate.”
Only then did Shan Ming realise that Shen Changze wanted himself to be the target while leaving him behind protected.
Shan Ming said angrily: “If you fucking treat me like a bitch again, I will kill you with one shot.”
Shen Changze grabbed his neck and kissed him quickly, “Wait for my signal.” After speaking, he flipped out the window deftly, grabbed the hook rope and climbed up. Shan Ming couldn’t see his feet anymore after a while.
Shan Ming gritted his teeth and endured the urge to curse. He began to load his machine gun with magazines. The magazine box on his back held 3,000 rounds of ammunition, which was connected to the quadruple machine gun. Let alone a dragon blood man, if he rushed over from the opposite side with this weapon, he is not afraid of any tank.
He hid in the corridor and didn’t dare to get too close. It seemed that these things had very good noses. His scent might be smelled by them if he got too close. He just waited for Shen Changze’s signal.
Gunfire can be heard coming from above. The M202 four-round rocket blasted the top floor platform with a bang. The wall covering on the ceiling fell off. It’s better to combat hand-to-hand by this point. If this continues, his floor will collapse.
Shen Changze’s voice suddenly came from the radio, “Baba!”
Shan Ming rushed upstairs. A row of bullets knocked off the iron lock on the roof and he kicked the door open while holding a machine gun. He swept bullets at the two Dragon Blood men who had transformed, baring their teeth and claws.
The two Dragon Blood men were beaten to the ground and suffered some injuries. But they did not die. They all rolled to take cover behind places available for cover.
Shan Ming yelled: “Fuck off, you bastards. Taste my motherfucking bullets!” Shan Ming fired bullets like firing his hatred for the Dragon Blood Man and his anger towards Shen Changze using the machine gun. The two Dragon Blood men dared not stand up.
“Baba, watch out for the top of your head!”
As soon as Shan Ming raised his head, a Dragon Blood Man jumped down from the gate.
Shan Ming carried a quadruple machine gun weighing more than 30 kilograms with him. He had been shooting for more than a minute. His jaws cracked and his gums bleed. His shoulders almost lost consciousness. He was thrown to the ground by the Dragon Blood man and the machine gun was thrown far away, smashing all the floor tiles on the ground.
The Dragon Blood Man scratched Shan Ming’s face with one paw. If he managed to grasp his face firmly, he could rip off half of Shan Ming’s face!
Shan Ming rolled to the side in desperation. The ammunition box behind him saved his life. The dragon blood man grabbed the ammunition box with his claws and made four big holes in them.
Shan Ming drew out the sabre from his waist. At this moment, he had overcome his fear of the Dragon Blood Man. He only had the belief of killing the opponent and living in his heart. He swiped the knife towards the Dragon Blood Man’s eyes.
The Dragon Blood Man grabbed his blade and the metal blade slashed on the dragon’s scale sideways, making a strange sound.
What Shan Ming was waiting for was the moment when he raised his arm. His hand suddenly took out another sabre from behind and stabbed it at the armpit of the dragon blood man!
He had already discovered that the armpits of the dragon blood man were convenient for movement so the growth of scales happened to leave a gap in that place.
Maybe Shan Ming reacted too quickly or maybe the dragon blood man underestimated the enemy. The knife directly pierced the dragon blood man’s armpit with a puff. It pierced through the entire shoulder and finally pierced the dragon scale from the inside. The scale popped out from the shoulder blade with a snort.
The Dragon Blood Man yelled angrily and flicked his tail. The tail hit Shan Ming’s thigh with a strong force.
Shan Ming was thrown off more than three metres away. He felt extreme pain on his thigh that he almost limped on the spot.
The tail of the dragon blood man is too damn powerful. It was just like the tail of a triceratops. Although it is not enough to have a deadly hammer-shaped bone at the tip, this arthropod-shaped bone bursts out through the reserve force of the swing. It was already a powerful weapon when Shen Changze was ten years old. Shen Changze was able to break the waist of a special soldier with his tail at that time. If this Dragon Blood Man hadn’t lost his preparation and strength because of the pain, Shan Ming really didn’t know if he would be paralyzed in the lower body after being hit by the tail. That kind of ending, for him, is more painful than death.
When he was on the ground in pain and couldn’t get up, the Dragon Blood Man had already pulled out his sabre and rushed back towards him.
At this time, a golden light flashed. The Dragon Blood Man couldn’t dodge in time and was thrown to the ground. Shen Changze bent down and bit his neck. His sharp teeth penetrated his dragon scales and the blood flowed profusely.
The Dragon Blood Man struggled and twitched at first. But he then slowly stopped moving.
Shen Changze wiped his mouth and got up from the ground.
Shan Ming looked at him in shock. To be precise, he was shocked by the sight of Shen Changze’s exaggerated dragon wings.
Shen Changze flapped the huge fleshy wings that matched his height and said flatly, “Well, I’ve grown up.”
Shan Ming looked at his two pairs of wings that were nearly two metres long and then looked at the fleshy wings of the other dragon blood men who were only seventy to eighty centimetres long. The power of genes is no joke.
At this time, three Dragon Blood men had already been killed by Shen Changze while one of the other three was seriously injured. Two of them were afraid of Shen Changze and stopped attacking.
Their helicopter has been destroyed. Judging from the damage at the scene, they don’t know who destroyed the helicopter. Anyway, they won’t be able to use it anymore.
Shen Changze didn’t want to fight anymore. He was anxious to treat Shan Ming’s legs. So he hugged Shan Ming and flapped his wings. He actually flew up with Shan Ming in his arms.
Shan Ming was dumbfounded.
Shen Changze flew more than two hundred metres up in the air with Shan Ming in his arms and stopped on the roof of a building in the distance. He hid behind a water tank and took off Shan Ming’s pants to check his legs.
Shan Ming’s thigh was swollen, making it look twice as big. But the bones were not damaged. It was just a minor injury to him.
Shen Changze concentrated on treating his wound. His huge wings subconsciously covered Shan Ming while his tail wrapped around Shan Ming’s waist.
Shan Ming saw that his wings blocked the moonlight but Shen Changze didn’t seem to be aware of it. So he took out a flashlight from his pocket and turned it on. He then shone it on his swollen thigh.
Under the strong light, the injury to his thigh looked more obvious. Shen Changze tightened his tail suddenly.
Shan Ming patted on it strongly, “It hurts!”
Shen Changze withdrew his tail with some embarrassment. He then spread his wings and gradually returned to his human form.
Shan Ming sighed, feeling a little soft-hearted.
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Next update: 2023.–.– (*TBA)
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