Chapter 92

When Dong Ku returned with Shui Linglong and found the four students, and rushed to Ash River Street to meet Yu Lei and his brother Yu Ke, Yu Lei only said, "I'll go back and see my sister," and then left.

When Dong Ku saw Yu Lei's sister, Yu Jin, his heart ached. Yu Jin's delicate face had a maturity that did not match her age. It was clear that after the transformation of a girl, she would surely become a beauty. Unfortunately, her left arm was hit by shrapnel when the Japanese army attacked Qiqihar. With the help of her brothers, who took turns carrying her, they managed to escape from Qiqihar and reached Harbin to meet her father, who was doing small business. Although her life was saved, her arm had to be amputated due to the wound becoming infected, leaving her with a lifelong disability.

Seeing Yu Jin, who had tears in her eyes but was smiling and did not stay with her brother, Dong Ku felt a deep pain. Without her brother's protection, she could not even go out on the street. Although the Japanese army had become more restrained, the ronin and the settlers were still difficult to control, and they continued to commit heinous acts that outraged both gods and humans.

Shui Linglong pulled Yu Jin's hand and lovingly placed five silver dollars in it, but did not know what to say.

Dong Ku gestured to Yu Lei to let his sister accept the money and asked him to bring paper and pen. He quickly wrote a letter, telling Yu Jin to take this unsealed letter to the soon-to-open Longxiang Hotel and find a man named Uncle Tie, who would lead her to the boss.

Yu Jin knew the Longxiang International Hotel, which was not far from her home, opposite the Qiulin Commercial Building. The golden sign had already been hung, but it was still covered with a red cloth. However, she did not know that holding this letter written in Japanese would fundamentally change her life and make her a person she never dared to dream of becoming.

After handing the letter to Yu Jin, Dong Ku left Yu Lei's house with six students, only two of whom knew their names. He asked Shui Linglong to take them to wait at a street corner, then returned to his residence, called Hu Zi, and got into the already loaded truck, taking the seven people with him, heading straight for the city gate.

There was a disturbance, and two ronin had died. The city gate was already closed, and it was strictly forbidden to go out. However, the driver had a special pass, and Uncle Tie was also driving a car to escort them. After seeing only Hu Zi and a truck full of goods in the car, the checkpoint, after consulting, did not further纠缠 (entangle) and did not even search the car, quickly letting them pass.

After leaving the city gate and no longer seeing the city lights, Hu Zi sat at the back of the truck and shouted in Japanese, "Come out, you are safe now."

The students lifted the boxes on their bodies and crawled out. When the student with a slightly stronger build saw Hu Zi's age, he could not help but ask, "Do you know Japanese? Are you also fighting the Japanese?"

"Can you understand Japanese?" Hu Zi, who was used to practicing Japanese, even spoke Japanese with Dong Ku. He had shouted a sentence, and only then realized that the other party could understand Japanese.

Yu Lei took over the conversation and said, "Yes, we have been learning for two years, and we all know it."

"Great!"

Hu Zi excitedly said in Japanese, "You teach me Japanese, and I teach you how to fight the Japanese, how about that?"

"Can you fight the Japanese?"

"Blowing your own horn..."

In the dim light, everyone could still see Hu Zi's age, and they all had this question.

"Hmph!"

Feeling questioned, Hu Zi began to talk about himself in a torrent. Except for the specific information about the battles in Jiamusi, Dawa Town, and Baoqing Colony, he only mentioned the number of people eliminated, and the rest he recounted in detail.

Hu Zi's story made the students' blood boil. A child a few years younger than them had eliminated more Japanese in a year than they had, and it was real combat. This gave them a clearer understanding of the future. They believed that they could not possibly be worse than a child.

As they talked, they were not at all sleepy. They almost revered Hu Zi as a god. Although Hu Zi's Japanese was very poor, with many words not conveying the intended meaning or being mispronounced, the real guns and cannons made them overlook these flaws, and they chatted happily, quickly becoming familiar with each other.

On the road, Dong Ku laid the sleeping Shui Linglong on his seat, covered her with his clothes, then opened the car door, climbed onto the truck, and chatted with the students. After learning, he knew their names.

The sturdy one was surnamed Zhao, named Li Qiang. The one who was to join them tonight was Qu Jun Gang, who had lost his ability to move after being kicked by a ronin. The other two were Li Rongbin and Li Haisong. They were all from Harbin No. 3 High School.

Although the Japanese army had requisitioned their school, which would later become a museum, the Moscow Commercial Building at the time, they did not cause them any substantial harm. After merging with No. 2 High School, they only attended for two years and could not continue last year because the Japanese forced them to learn Japanese, shout "Long live the Emperor" every day, learn Japanese etiquette, and all Japanese culture, while not allowing them to learn Chinese. Even in school, they had to speak Japanese. If anyone spoke Chinese, they would be beaten with whips and fists until they were half dead.

Although they were young, their teachers were wise. When the teachers said that this was fundamentally erasing Chinese culture, a thorough invasion, and overturning the foundation of China, they could no longer continue.

After leaving school, they saw the Japanese army's brutality every day, saw the ronin and settlers treat the Chinese even more cruelly, and often cut down Chinese people on the street. The bloody scenes made their blood boil. Led by Zhao Li Qiang, with Yu Lei and his brother as support, they organized the Harbin Anti-Japanese Salvation Association. In a year, they managed to kill more than a dozen isolated Japanese in the dark of night.

"You are all great. Today, you officially join the Flying Tigers. You are already familiar with Hu Zi. He will be your acting squad leader. When you surpass him, you can go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese."

After Dong Ku finished speaking, Zhao Li Qiang said不服气 (unconvinced), "High-skilled, you say surpass Hu Zi. Without a weapon, who can he beat here?"

"Pfft! You're just a big fool. I can take on both of you with my bare hands..."

Hu Zi said disdainfully in a low voice.

Hu Zi's words deeply stimulated the students. Although they did not argue further, they were determined to train hard and surpass Hu Zi when they arrived at their destination.

As they were talking, Shui Linglong woke up in the bumpy car. She sat up quickly, sniffed the scent on the clothes in her hand, and turned to ask, "Master, where is he?"

The driver pointed to the back, "He's on the roof."

"Oh."

Shui Linglong responded, opened the car door nimbly, and disappeared in a flash.

"They can all fly!"

The driver muttered, not paying much attention, as he had seen many people from the underworld. He收回 (retracted) his gaze from the closed car door, focused on the road illuminated by the headlights, and drove attentively.

Shui Linglong climbed to the top of the truck, gently draped the clothes over Dong Ku, and sat down next to him without a word, listening to him chat with the students.

The journey went smoothly, and after a night of bumpy driving, the truck arrived at the edge of Honey Mountain at dawn.

Sun Tao, who had been waiting in the roadside forest, quickly unloaded part of the compressed biscuits, took the six students and Shui Linglong into the mountains. Shunzi led the Hu Ya members to unload the remaining compressed biscuits and gun barrels at Dahei Mountain and headed for Black Bear Gully.

Outside the cave, Shunzi and the others curiously watched as Dong Ku magically extended the rifle, which had a strange thick barrel at the front. Dong Ku raised the Type 38 rifle with the new barrel, aimed at an owl sleeping on the treetop, and gently pulled the trigger.

Puff.

With a slight sound, the owl on the treetop fell down.

None of the people watching the owl heard the gunshot. Seeing the owl fall, they were surprised and then delighted, knowing that this was the silencer that Dong Ku's gun used to make the sound disappear.

No one spoke. They all rubbed their hands, waiting for Dong Ku to order them to replace their gun barrels.

"Dog Egg, start the fire, prepare the red furnace."

Dong Ku put away the Type 38 rifle, checked the silencer, and saw no additional scratches in the barrel, so he ordered Dog Egg to start the fire.

The fire burned brightly. Inside the cave, Dong Ku set up two tripods at the cave entrance, fixed the Type 38 rifle, and attached the ring clamps that Shan Zi had made to the bicycle valve, securing them to the gun. He also attached the scope to the clamps.

Only then did Shunzi and the others realize that these things were to create a scope similar to Dong Ku's gun. They watched excitedly as Dong Ku worked, not interrupting.

After securing the clamps, Dong Ku took out a multifunctional flashlight from his backpack, inserted the flexible probe into the gun barrel, and carefully stuffed the gaps with cotton. He then looked through the scope.

A passage had been left in the 150-meter-long cave, leading to the bottom. A few meters from the crack where the ammunition was stored, a wooden board with a target was set up on a rock. A faint light spot, the size of an apple, was shining on the edge of the target.

Dong Ku carefully adjusted the position of the gun until the light spot covered the bullseye. He then turned off the flashlight, removed the scope, and called over Dog Egg, saying, "Follow the curve of the scope and remake the clamps. The height should be the same, and try to make them as level as possible. The bottom should be roughly the same, and make the holes at the hook smaller to prevent movement."

"Okay!"

Dog Egg excitedly took the clamps, grabbed a telescope, and ran to the red furnace, picked up a pair of clamps, and threw them into the fire.

After about ten minutes, a pair of new clamps, cleaned of water stains, were quickly attached to the valve by Hu Zi and Shunzi, and given to Dong Ku.

Dong Ku fixed the clamps on the gun again and then attached the upper part of the clamps to the scope...

After Dog Egg adjusted the height of the clamps several times, Dong Ku took out the flashlight from the gun barrel and inserted a bullet.

Bang!

A crisp sound echoed in the cave, and a spark flashed on the distant rock. The bullet hit the bullseye without any doubt.

In the echoing gunshot, everyone looked at Dong Ku expectantly. In the weak light of the distant flashlight, Dong Ku clearly saw the bullet's impact point in the scope.

He slowly straightened up, looked at the eager faces of the Hu Ya members, and said calmly, "You have sniper rifles now."

"Wow!!"

Shunzi jumped up with Dong Ku's M4A1 in his hand, no longer having to just look at the gun without using it.

"Wow!!!"

Liu Hai also howled loudly, able to use the sniper rifle to make up for his weakness in aiming.

The others were also沸腾 (boiling), this was the advanced weapon they had long admired. Today, they finally had it.

The cave echoed with a wolf-like howl of cheers as Dong Ku's words fell.

ps: Bowing to thank s for the generous support of the盟主 (Alliance Leader) and the 27 votes. March thanks you all!!!

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