Chapter 87

“Report the situation,” Shan Ming said succinctly.

“We’re currently on the 33rd floor. This building has a total of 38 floors. We need to reach the rooftop and take the helicopter to leave.”

“That’s it? We’re not going to kill them?”

Shen Changze replied, “If I were alone, I would stay and kill them.”

So the implication was that, with him as the burden, they had to escape instead?

Shan Ming felt a surge of anger, but considering that he would have to face six strong and intelligent Dragon Blood Kins at the same time, he was also terrified and escaping indeed the best course of action, so he refrained from wasting any words.

“The rooftop is likely already occupied, what if the helicopter’s destroyed?”

A cold glint appeared in Shen Changze’s eyes. “Then we can only eliminate them all.”

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“Tso qya yoyu?”

“Not more than twenty meters.”

Shan Ming pulled out a flash grenade from his pocket. “Does this thing work on you guys?”

Shen Changze snatched the grenade and covered his own eyes with one hand. Shan Ming wrapped his clothes around his head, covered his eyes, and crawled on the ground. Then Shen Changze threw the flash grenade towards the corner, crouching down on the ground.

The grenade detonated with a deafening blast, shaking the surrounding walls violently. Large pieces of glass shattered and fell to the ground. The grenade emitted a powerful and intense light, only to hear two agonizing screams echoing through the corridor. Shan Ming and Shen Changze quickly jumped up, the latter unleashed a frenzy of bullets with a quad-barrel high-explosive machine gun. The scent of gunpowder and fresh blood instantly filled the entire corridor.

As the dust gradually settled, the other end of the corridor became empty and deserted. Only the pools of blood that had corroded the carpet proved that the two Dragon Blood Kins had been significantly injured.

Shan Ming walked over and ran his foot over the carpet, which had several large holes burned through it. “Their blood is more acidic than the ones we encountered in Morocco.”

Shen Changze also approached and took a look. “Only one of them is sorta strong. Blood purity is determined by nature and cannot be changed. Although higher blood purity generally corresponds to greater strength in terms of probability, it’s not absolute. House’s blood purity is only 29%. Currently, the Dragon Blood Kin with the highest blood purity, excluding myself, reaches 60%. This indicates that House’s ‘talent’ isn’t particularly high, but he is still a renowned Dragon Blood warrior.”

Shan Ming raised an eyebrow. “You seem to know a lot about House?”

Shen Changze gave him a cold glance. “That’s right, we spent six months together in a closed experimental facility. During that time, I never saw a face that hadn’t worn a protective mask. Other than white, my blood was the only color I saw. I know him well because he was the only one who treated me as an adult.”

Shan Ming looked at the hardened expression on Shen Changze’s face, and for the first time, a hint of sadness welled up in his heart. He opened his mouth, wanting to ask how these four years had been for Shen Changze, but in the end, he couldn’t bring himself to ask.

Expressing sympathy for the hardships someone had endured wasn’t his character. Moreover, he believed that sympathy itself could be insulting to a person.

Shen Changze experienced countless life-and-death situations from the age of eight when he first started his missions until he left at the age of fifteen. During those seven years, there were no instances that didn’t call for sympathy. Shan Ming did not feel guilty for introducing Shen Changze to the world of the Peregrine Falcons and putting him in danger. Similarly, he did not feel guilty for handing him over to Tang Tingzhi and exposing him to inhumane experiments. It was the fate of this child. If he survived, it showcased his strength. If he died, it would be considered his destiny.

Shen Changze had gone through the life he needed to experience and emerged even stronger. If there was an evaluation of his life, the focus would be on the fact that he had become powerful, rather than pitying the hardships he endured. Otherwise, it would be too ridiculous.

So, in the end, Shan Ming chose not to ask and simply said, “Since you’ve survived, everything was worth it.”

From the age of six, Shan Ming has been confronted with the battlefield, slaughter, pain, and the sorrow of parting with life and death. Now, after twenty-six years have passed, his heart had become as solid as a rock.

What Shan Ming failed to understand was that, Shen Changze didn’t hate him for the sufferings he had endured during those four years. What Shen Changze couldn’t forgive was Shan Ming’s abandonment four years ago. Even if he had lived a life of luxury during these four years, he would still have felt the same level of resentment.

The person he trusted the most and wanted to live and die together with, had abandoned him. This intensified his resentment towards Shan Ming, causing him to attribute all the suffering he had endured afterward to him.

Shen Changze sneered, “That’s right, surviving makes everything worth it.”

As long as he could see his dad again, everything was worth it!

Carrying weapons on their bodies, the two of them continued to ascend toward the rooftop. They encountered no further obstacles along the way. Shan Ming knew that these Dragon Blood Kins couldn’t defeat Shen Changze if they fought separately. It was possible that they were all waiting on the rooftop, intending to eliminate them in one fell swoop.

Shen Changze seemed to have the same idea. When they reached the staircase leading to the top floor, he opened the window of the corridor.

Shan Ming glanced at it. “We’re going up from the outside?”

“Yes.”

Shan Ming said, “No, the entrance is guarded, and it’s very likely that they have defenses up. If you can think of going up from outside the building, they can think of it too.”

Shen Changze pulled out a grappling hook from his bag. “I’ll attract their fire from the outside, and you enter through the main entrance.”

Only then did Shan Ming realize that Shen Changze intended to make himself a target, leaving the enemies’ backs to him.

Shan Ming angrily exclaimed, “Stop fucking treating me like a weakling, or I’ll shoot you dead.”

Shen Changze grabbed his neck and quickly gave him a kiss, “Listen for my signal.” With that, he agilely flipped out of the window, holding onto the grappling hook, and climbed up. After a while, Shan Ming couldn’t see his feet anymore.

Shan Ming gritted his teeth and suppressed the urge to curse. He started loading the ammunition into the machine gun. The ammunition box on his back contained 3,000 rounds of the quadruple machine gun. Not to mention the Dragon Blood Kins, even if a tank charged at him, he wouldn’t be afraid.

He concealed himself in the corridor, not daring to get too close. It seemed these creatures had a keen sense of smell. If he got too close, they might detect him. So he waited, waiting for Shen Changze’s signal.

Gunfire erupted above. The M202 fired four consecutive rocket rounds, causing the rooftop platform to explode with a deafening sound. Pieces of ceiling fell on Shan Ming, and in a moment, the sounds of machine guns and rifles blossomed everywhere. Shan Ming thought to himself that hand-to-hand combat was still the way to go. At this rate, the floor he was on will collapse sooner or later.

Suddenly, Shen Changze’s voice came through the walkie-talkie, “Dad!”

Shan Ming rushed up the stairs, a barrage of bullets breaking the iron lock on the rooftop. He kicked open the door and, holding the machine gun, sprayed bullets at the two Dragon Blood Kins who were flaunting their claws and fangs.

The two Dragon Blood Kins were knocked down to the ground, injured but not dead. They rolled behind cover.

Shan Ming cursed loudly, “You sons of bitches, get the fuck out and have a taste of my bullets!” He unleashed the hatred he had towards the Dragon Blood Kins and the anger he had towards Shen Changze together, firing machine gun rounds that kept the two creatures from daring to show themselves.

“Dad, watch out above!”

Shan Ming looked up, and a Dragon Blood Kin jumped down from the head of the door.

Carrying the heavy quadruple machine gun, Shan Ming sprayed bullets for over a minute. His fingers were cracking, his gums bleeding, and his shoulder had lost most of its sensation. At this point, his mobility had plummeted to the lowest level, and he couldn’t react in time. He was tackled to the ground by the Dragon Blood Kin, and his machine gun was flung far away, smashing the floor tiles.

The Dragon Blood Kin’s claws swung toward Shan Ming’s face. If it landed, it could have torn off half of his face!

In his desperation, Shan Ming rolled to the side, and the ammunition box on his back saved his life. The Dragon Blood Kin’s claws got stuck in the ammunition box, leaving four large holes.

Shan Ming drew the military knife from his waist. By now, he had overcome his fear of the Dragon Blood Kins. His mind was focused on killing his opponent and surviving. He swung the knife toward the creature’s eye.

The Dragon Blood Kin slapped away his blade, the metallic edge scraped against its scales, producing a strange sound.

Shan Ming had been waiting for this moment. When the creature raised its arm, he suddenly swiftly retrieved another military knife from behind him and stabbed it toward the Dragon Blood Kin’s armpit!

He had already noticed that the Dragon Blood Kin’s armpits, just like the bends of its arms and legs, had a gap in the scale growth to facilitate movement. These areas were definitely penetrable!

Whether it was due to Shan Ming’s quick reaction or the Dragon Blood Kin underestimating him, the knife plunged directly into the creature’s armpit, piercing through its shoulder and even protruding from the inside of its scales, creating a hissing sound as the blade emerged from the shoulder blade.

The Dragon Blood Kin screamed in anger and thrashed its tail, hitting Shan Ming’s thigh with great force.

Shan Ming was swatted more than three meters away, his thigh throbbing with intense pain, nearly causing him to become lame on the spot.

The tails of the Dragon Blood Kins were too damn domineering, just like that of a triceratops. Although it didn’t have a deadly hammer-shaped bone at the tip like a triceratops, this segmented bone, through the stored force of its whipping motion, unleashed tremendous impact. When Shen Changze was ten years old, he could snap a special forces officer’s spine with a single strike of his tail. If this Dragon Blood Kin hadn’t lost its preparation and force due to the pain, Shan Ming didn’t know if he could have avoided ending up paralyzed from the waist down. That would be much more agonizing than death.

While he writhed in pain on the ground, unable to get up, that Dragon Blood Kin had already pulled out the military knife and pounced on him.

At this moment, a golden light flashed. That Dragon Blood Kin couldn’t evade it and was knocked to the ground. Shen Changze leaned down and bit its neck. His sharp teeth pierced through its scales, directly draining its blood.

The Dragon Blood Kin initially struggled and twitched, but gradually stopped moving.

Shen Changze wiped his mouth and stood up from the ground.

Shan Ming looked at him in shock, or more accurately, he looked at Shen Changze’s two exaggerated dragon wings in shock.

Shen Changze flapped his enormous wings, which were nearly as tall as him, and said calmly, “Mn, it’s grown.”

Shan Ming looked at his two pairs of wings, each measuring close to two meters, and then glanced at the other Dragon Blood Kins with wings only about seventy to eighty centimeters long. He can’t help but marvel at the power of genetics.

At this point, Shen Changze had already taken out three of the Dragon Blood Kins. Out of the other three, one was severely injured, while two were intimidated by him and ceased their attacks.

Their helicopter had been destroyed, and judging by the extent of the damage, it’s unclear who actually destroyed it, but they certainly wouldn’t be able to use it anymore.

Shen Changze didn’t want to continue fighting either. He was in a hurry to tend to Shan Ming’s leg, he picked him up and flapped his wings, actually taking off and flying.

Shan Ming was dumbfounded.

Shen Changze flew with Shan Ming in his arms for over two hundred meters, landing on the rooftop of a distant building, hiding behind a water tank. He removed Shan Ming’s pants to examine his leg.

Shan Ming’s thigh was swollen to twice its usual size, but the bones were undamaged, which was considered a minor injury for him.

Shen Changze focused on treating his wound, his enormous wings unconsciously enveloped Shan Ming and his tail also wrapped around Shan Ming’s waist.

Shan Ming saw that Shen Changze’s wings were blocking the moonlight without his own awareness, he could only take out a flashlight from his pocket and shine it on his bruised thigh.

Under the bright light, the extent of the leg injury was even more apparent and Shen Changze suddenly tightened his tail.

Shan Ming gave it a hard slap and exclaimed, “It hurts!”

Shen Changze looked somewhat awkward as he retracted his tail and spread out his wings, gradually returning to his human form.

Shan Ming sighed, feeling a bit softhearted.