"Fu qin !! (Father !!)" Once again the child exclaimed when he was held down by a guard.
"Ni fu qin shei ni shuo ? (Who's yout father you said ?)" The guard barked at him.
"Ta shi !!(he is!!)" The child answered and pointing at Deathstalker.
"Ming Lan !!" Deathstalker suddenly shouted and tried to escape from the guards who captived him.
Not only the guards that were shockd by Deathstalker's shot, but Bruno was also shock.
"Fu qin !!" With a lot of struggle, the child was finally able to escape from the guard and ran onto Deathstalker, but he was blocked by another guard.
"Bu ! Bie shanghai ta !! (No!! Don't hurt him !!)" Deahstalker shouted in desperation when he saw the guard who blocked the child was enclosing his face toward the child's neck, like he was about to bite him.
Fortunately, the guard didn't bite him, but sniffed at the child's neck. "Hunxie er (mulatto)," the guard reported to his leader.
The leader then approaching the child. "Shen me mingzhi ni shi ? (What is your name ?)" he asked the child.
"Ming Lan !!" Once again Deathstalker shouted. One of the guard approached him and hit him on the head, "Zhukou!! (Shut up!!)"
"Bie da ta!! (Don't hit him !!)" the child exclaimed, "Ming shi wo ming (my surname is Ming) Ming Lan," the child answered the question. His cheeks were already wet with tears. "Bie da wo fu qin (don't hit my father)," he pleaded in between his sob.
The leader sighed before approaching Deathstalker. "Shuo (Talk)," he ordered.
Deathstalker gulped dryly before opened his mouth to speak. "Wo.. shangmian renshi le ta de mama (I met his mother at above). Ta de mingzi shi .... (Her name is...)" He glanced at the child. The child mouthing a name. "Lu.. Lu Ying." The child secretly nodded.
"Women bici Xiang ai. (we fell in love to each other). Tā hé wǒ yīqǐ shēnghuóle dàyuē yī nián, zhídào túrán... (She lived with me around a yer until suddenly...)," Deathstalker gulped again before contnued his words, "You yi tian ta jiu siaoshi le (One day she just disappeared)."
"Ta cun zai ni zhidao zenme ? (How can you know about his existence ?)" The leader asked, still in suspicion.
"Ta gei wo fa xunxi (he sent me message)," Deathstalker answered, staring at the boy with a mindful gaze.
"Ma... ma qushi le (Mom... mom died)..." the child said, then broke down to cry. "Likai huo... ren wǒ huā qián qǐng... (with I had left, I paid someone) zhaodao ta... (to find him)... wo xinxi gei ta (give him my message)."
No one spoke a word after that. The rest of the guards were just waiting for their leader while he was drowning in his own thought.
"Wǒ lái zhèlǐ shì wèile bǎ tā dài dào dìqiú shàng (I came here to bring him onto the earth)," Deathstalker bravely broke the silence.
"Dài tā líkāi zhèlǐ ni bu neng (You can not bring him out from here)," the leader forbade him instantly. "Zài nàlǐ shēngcún tā bù huì, yīyàng nǐ zài zhèlǐ (He won't survive there, just as you are here). Tā mǔqīn líkāi nǐ jiùsh de yuányīn. Zuìduō women zhǐ néng shíwǔ tiān zài shàngmiàn huó (That was why his mother left you. We may only live for 15 days at most up there)," The leader explained more.
"Wèishéme wǒ bùnéng zài zhèlǐ shēngcún? (Why can't I survive here ?)" Deathstalker asked.
Hearing his question, all guards laughed out loud.
"Wǒ xiǎng hé wǒ érzi zài yīqǐ (I wanna be with my son)," Deathstalker urged, ignoring the laughters that were thrown at him.
The leader stopped his laughter with a long sigh. He then made a long whistle and called out a name, "Xiong!"
There was a hard wind blow when a gigantic creature flied over them, out of nowhere and landed on the leader's side. The creature's head was like a dragon, but it had lion body and wings like a bat.
The leader told the guards that held Deathstalker and Bruno to take them approaching Xiong. They were also being forced to stretch their arms toward the creature's mouth. Both men of course struggled to refuse the act, but failed.
In a split second, Xiong snapped both arms, leaving huge bite marks on them while the men were crying in pain and the boy was screaming hysterically.
"Gàn dé hǎo, Xiong (Nice work, Xiong)," the leader praised the creature while patting its back. "Zou ba! (Now go!)"
The creature went away, once again giving a hard blowing wind. The leader then walked upon the men, telling his men to let them free.
"Zhèxiē dīngyǎo ràng nǐmen yīti ān mànbù zài zhè piàn tǔdì shàng (Those bites will let you walk around this land for a day). Yītiān zhǐyǒu (Only a day). Yīdàn shāngkǒu yùhé, rénmen jiù huì zhuībǔ nǐ zuòwéi tāmen de wǎncān (Once it is healed, people will hunt you down for their dinner). Nǐ bù huì huó xiàlái xiāngxìn wǒ (Believe me, you won't survive). Suǒyǐ nǐ zuì hǎo zài zhè piàn tǔdì xiāoshī zhīqián líkāi tā (So you better leave the land before it's gone)," the leader said to the two men.
Deathstalker barely understood the words of the leader because of the pain he suffered and the changing color of his arm skin into purple almost black color, both caused by the creature's bite. His mind was distracted when he felt someone bumped into his back and then hugged him tightly.
"Nǐ hái hǎo ma? (Are you okay ?)" The child, the one who bumped and hugged him, asked. Deathstalker nodded to answer him.
Being helped by the child, Deathstalker slowly stood up. Still bearing the pain, he wandered his gaze around. It was when he saw disappointment and anger in the guards' eyes and drools on the corner of their lips, he understood what the leader was saying.
"Let's go," he whispered to Bruno while helping him stand up.
"Gěi tā yīxiē qián (Give him some money)," the child whispered at him.
Limping, Deathstalker walked toward his suitcase. He opened it and grabbed a bunch of gold from it.
"Duo xie ni (Thank you very much)," Deathstalker said to the leader while bending his body and handing the gold toward him.
The leader received the gold then turned his back and went to his post, followed by his men.
When all the guards were gone, Deathstalker led Bruno and the child to leave the place.
"Xie xie (thank you)," Deathstalker said to the child who walked beside him.
"Bie keqi (Don't mention it)," the child replied with a wide grin.
"Xiànzài gàosù wǒ, nǐ shì shuí a? (Now tell me, who are you ?)" Deathstalker interrogated the child.
The child just grinned but said nothing. Deathstalker stopped and squatted to stare the child right i his eyes.
"Wǒ méiyǒu érzi, chúle rénlèi zhī wài wǒ méiyǒu qīzi (I don't have a son nor a wife other than humans). Nàme gàosù wǒ…nǐ shì shuí? Nǐ de fùqīn shì shuí? (So tell me… who are you? Who is your father?)"
"Shǒuxiān... (First of all…) nánhái wǒ bùshì (I'm not a boy)," the child said in light. The child then hovered his hand over his face. With that movement, his face was changing and became… a girl.
"What ?!" Both Deathstalker and Bruno exclaimed in shock.
The boy that was now a girl smiled widely. "Wo shi Ling Ling (I'm Ling Ling). Lái ba, wǒmen wǒ de fùqīn lái jiàn jiàn (Come on, let's meet my father)."
Ling Ling then dragged Deathstalker who was still dumbfounded to follow her. Around two miles later they approached some kind of building that had the brightest light among its surround. It was the light Deathstalker saw earlier.
"Fuqin… wo hui jia le! (Father… I'm home!)" Ling Ling exclaimed excitedly.
From inside the building, a man came out. The man whom being called father by Ling Ling was nothing similar to the girl. He had big eyes with brown skin and big nose while this girl was more likely to be Deathstalker's daughter. But he welcomed her with a big smile and excitement,"Ling Ling… ni lai le! (Ling Ling… you come!)"