Wei
Xingshan looked desperately at his own chest. There was only one thought in his
mind, “It’s all over!”
He
was done for!
Then
he saw the arrow as he looked down.
He saw
the shiny, black arrowhead, and the shaft of the arrow vibrating at a high
frequency and making a buzzing noise from being stopped abruptly.
What
stopped the arrow from impaling him were two fingers.
A
middle and an index finger, clammed down on the arrow like a plier.
He
followed the fingers and looked to his side and saw that Lin Shuo, with the
giant bow on his back, was somehow standing next to him.
Lin
Shuo slowly retrieved his fingers and tossed the arrow onto the ground. He then
balled up his hand into a fist and shook his hand. There were black burn marks
in the inner side of his two fingers.
It was
dead silence in the woods, everything seemed to have stopped.
Everybody
was looking right at Lin Shuo’s fingers…
Wei
Xingshan was the first to react. He let out a loud, angry cry and charged
ahead. He kicked Wang Yong so hard that it sent him flying 4-5 meters.
Ever
since the crossbow discharged, Wang Yong had be in a daze. The kick woke him
up. Happily he said “Oh, Captain Wei, you are alright!”
“I
almost peed my pants!” Wei Xingshan was still pale. He lunged forward and
rained down his pot-sized fist on Wang Yong, “Wang Yong! What the f*!”
Wang Yong was a
1.8 meter muscular man, but he was like a child in front of Wei Xingshan. With
his arms over his head, he cried, “Captain Wei! It was an accident! I swear! I
would never done such a thing!”
“I know it was!
But you still pointed a weapon at one of our own!” Wei Xingshan did not stop
striking him as he talked and Wang Yong continued to wail.
Nobody tried to
stopped him. Most everyone was still thinking about Lin Shuo and his two
fingers. They knew that Lin Shuo was no ordinary people, but stopping an arrow
from a crossbow with just two fingers? That was outside of everything they
could possibly imagine!
Is he even
human?
Everybody was
still in shock. Even Anne, who has always had utmost confident in Lin Shuo,
looked surprised by what had transpired.
When everybody
came to, Wei Xingshan had finished beating up Wang Yong. Shaking his fists, he
walked in front of Lin Shuo again.
Lin Shuo
looked up at his indifferently.
“Please be
assured that I had thoroughly beat him up,” nodded Wei Xingshan to Lin Shuo.
Then, with a slight twitch in the corners of his mouth, he looked to be
struggling with his words, and said softly, “Mr. Lin, please pardon his
insolence.”
“You owe me
your life,” said Lin Shuo.
“I will keep
that in mind,” said Wei Xingshan quietly.
“Have your men
control their weapons.”
“I will.”
“We are going
east.”
“Whatever you
say.”
___
The crew of 19
continued to trudge through the mountainous path. Lin Shuo was still the one
leading the way, with the very quiet starling standing on his shoulder. Those
behind him had been keeping an even larger distance from him. It was as though
everybody was consciously or subconsciously trying to keep a distance from him.
Lin Shuo
didn’t mind the current situation too much. He knew that what he had done
earlier had truly startled these people. But he also knew that had he not, they
wouldn’t be so compliant.
The reason he
insisted on the detour was because he picked up a scent from the northwestern
side, and also noticed how strong it was.
Even in a
deep, ancient forest like this, these fantastical creatures are still rare, and
usually don’t like to be disturbed by humans.
It wasn’t
their target his trip so Lin Shou decided to leave it alone. And also avoid
unnecessary casualties among the crew.
A wide river
appeared in front of them, most like a tributary of Heilongjiang on the Russian
side. In the twilight of dusk, one could somewhat make out a metal chain bridge
connecting both side of the river some 3 km from them.
Anne the
beauty took a few quick steps forward and caught up to Lin Shuo. She inquired
with him whether they could set up camp nearby. After Lin Shuo’s approval, Anne
returned and relayed the message. The team stopped and started getting busy.
It was always
better to have a lot of warm bodies. Using their standard assigned machetes,
the mercenaries were able to quickly clear out a wide area by the river and
collected a bunch of firewood to start a fire.
The
mercenaries had also inspected their weapons again per Wei Xingshan’s order to
prevent another accident. Wei Xingshan even inspected the 12 cross bows
personally, all the while mumbling to himself, “Even these German made products
weren’t all the hype.”
End of summer
and beginning of fall in the far east, the temperature drops drastically in the
night time.
After
finishing inspecting the weapons, everybody sat around in a circle. The warmth
from the crackling camp fire brought a smile to everyone’s face.
Camping
outdoor wasn’t in the original plan so nobody have tents with them, but they
did have an sufficient amount of food. Inside everybody’s pack was self-heating
military MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat).
These kind of
military meals don’t need fire to heat up, just need water added into the bag
and they will self-heat and heat up the inner package where the main food is
stored. On top of that, they also had with them canned lunch meat, crackers,
and other snacks. There were quite a variety of them, and their taste are right
so long as one doesn’t eat them daily.
Lin Shuo sat
on a rock on one side of the camp and looked at the other heat up their
military meals quietly.
The other one
who didn’t have to lift a finger was He Zihong. His student, Yang Ta, was
busying himself taking care of the old man.
After a whole
day, the old man seemed to be exhausted. He sat collapsed by the camp fire
breathing hard.
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