15 Odd Acquaintance

In the early hours, everyone was asleep, and Chinua was fully awake with a full bladder. Every time she tried to fall asleep, the urgency in her bladder kept her awake. She waited until she was sure that everyone was asleep before getting up slowly, trying not to disturb Khunbish and Khenbish.

When Chinua believed she had come far enough, she began to unbuckle her belt and squat down. She started urinating.

Timicin was standing not far from Chinua because it was still dark outside, and he couldn't see what Chinua was doing. He asked, "What are you doing?"

Chinua looked up at Timicin who was not far from her. Chinua continued to urinate, saying, "I'm urinating."

Timicin turned around quickly, and a warmth flashed across his face, "Tell me when you're done."

Chinua stood up, tightened her pants, and was about to walk towards Timicin, when she felt a cold steel place on the side of her right neck.

The man whispered, "Don't make trouble, or you will die."

Chinua said, "Timicin, don't look back. I have a stomache. Maybe you need to walk a little further to avoid the smell."

Timicin frowned madly, "What kind of person are you? Don't you feel ashamed to say these words?"

Chinua said and walked away slowly with the unknown man, her voice still calm, she said, "What's the shame, everyone does this. By the way, tell Khunbish not to let Khenbish feed me anymore of those black unknown fish from yesterday."

Timicin took another step forward and said, "Don't talk about it, go on with your business." His arms were overflowing in front of his chest. After a long time, Timicin did not hear any sound from Chinua. "Chinua! Are you finished?" He heard nothing. "Chinua, are you finished?" He still couldn't hear anything, only the sound of the empty wind. "Chinua, if you don't answer me, I'll turn around." However, he still couldn't hear anything. Timicin turned slowly but did not see Chinua. He rushed to the place where he last saw Chinua, but Chinua was nowhere to be found. "Chinua! Not funny! Come out!" he yelled, only to hear his own voice echoing in his ears. "Chinua! Chinua!" He began to panic and began to search the area, but Chinua seemed to have just disappeared from their conversation. He quickly ran back to where the other nine were sleeping. He woke Od first.

Od yawned and asked, "What's the matter with you? Don't you know not to disturb a man's sleep?"

Timicin said, "Wake up, Chinua is gone."

Khunbish and Khenbish woke up suddenly, as did the others.

Haitao asked, "What did you say?"

Timicin said, "Chinua went to pee, but he's gone."

Khunbish rushed to Timicin, "How?"

Timicin said panicky, "I don't know. He was talking to me, and then he just disappeared."

Haitao said, "Take us to the place where you last saw Chinua."

Timicin leads the group of nine to where Chinua was last seen. He said, "Chinua is peeing here. I'm standing over there." He pointed to a tree thirty yards away. "I asked him to finish, he didn't answer, that's when I decided to turn around, but the moment I turned around, he was gone."

Khenbish asked, "Chinua isn't going to leave without leaving us a clue. Did Chinua say anything?"

Timicin said, "Chinua said, for Khunbish to tell you to stop feeding him those unknown black fish from yesterday. Those were the last words I heard him say."

Khenbish sighed and closed his eyes, "Chinua was taken by yesterday's fleeing intruders."

Terbish asked, "How did you know that Kenbish?"

Khenbish said, "Yesterday's unknown black fish means yesterday's unknown men in black."

Khunbish said, "We have to see General Batzorig."

Haitao said, "You two go down, we will continue to search." He looked at the eight men. "You three go that way." He pointed to Timicin, Od, and Erden. "You three go this way." He pointed to Terbish, Chaghatai, and Och. "Muunokhoi come with me."

With a sword pointed at her throat, Chinua walked slowly into a cave, and from where she was standing, she could see the wounded intruder lying on the ground bleeding. Chinua stopped in front of the wounded and asked, "What do you need?"

The man with the sword said behind Chinua, "Take us out of here, if you take us out, I won't kill you." He pushed Chinua's back, and Chinua staggered toward the wounded. "Get down. Don't be stupid or I'll kill you."

Chinua looked at the wounded with an arrow on his left shoulder and said, "Give me a knife."

The man scoffed, "Why should I?"

Chinua said, "Do you want to live or die here?"

The wounded man said, "Wang Yong, give him the knife."

Wang Yong hesitated for a moment and refused to hand Chinua the dagger at his waist.

The wounded man said, "It's an order."

Wang Yong said, "Yes." He took the dagger from his side and handed it to Chinua.

Chinua took the knife and said, "Help me sit him up." Wang Yong quickly followed behind the wounded and supported him from behind. "I'm going to dig another hole in your side..."

Wang Yong asked madly, "Why?"

Chinua said, "Brother, this way, your injured partner will not die from internal bleeding." She sighed at Wang Yong. "Hold his arm tightly."

Chinua touched the injured person and found that the wound was soft, indicating that there was fluid there, possibly an infection. She carefully made another incision where the soft spot was, and blood spurted out immediately, giving off a strong smell. She slowly twisting the arrow around the injured area, slowly pulled the arrow out. The wounded man didn't scream or make any sound to indicate he was in pain, but he passed out when Chinua pulled the arrow out of the wounded man's chest.

Chinua cleans and bandages the wound as best as she can. She sighed, looked at Wang Yong, and said, "I'm not a doctor. By looking at it and the smell of his wound, it means his wound is infected. If he hadn't been treated by a real doctor, he would have died of a wound infection. I suggest you go down to the camp..." Chinua knew that Wang Yong would not leave this uncurious person behind. She quickly rushed out of the cave, towards the entrance.

Wang Yong was about to get up to chase after Chinua, but the wounded man grabbed his hand and said weakly, "Don't..."

Wang Yong said, "Crown prince, if we let him go, he will go get others. I will deal with him first and wait for me." Wang Yong rushed behind Chinua.

In the dark dam cave, a small bonfire was lit, and the wounded chuckled. He sighed, looked at the dark ceiling of the cave, and murmured weakly, "Who would have thought that the crown prince of the great Tanggolia Kingdom would die in a lonely cave thousands of miles away from home. The great prince, Yu Ge Ming...so pitiful... so pitiful. Ha...haha...ha..." He began to cough. He heard someone rushing into the cave, and at first glance he thought it was Wang Yong, until the man opened his mouth.

Chinua knelt in front of Ge Ming and said, "There are a lot of soldiers here, we must leave now." She grabbed Ge Ming's right arm and put Ge Ming's right arm around her neck. "Come on, if you stay, you will die."

Ge Ming said, "I would rather die here than follow you to see those enemy soldiers."

Chinua said, "Your life or death has no effect on me. You should think about those who are still waiting for you in Tanggolia."

Ge Ming asked, "How do you know where I'm from?"

Chinua said, "The choice is yours. If I really want to hurt you, why should I come back to you."

Ge Ming thought for a while and extended his hand to Chinua. Chinua helped Ge Ming out of the cave and walked west.

It was dawn, Chinua and Ge Ming were still some distance away from the training camp. Chinua asked Ge Ming to sit on one of the rocks.

Chinua said, "You wait here, I'll go get some water."

Ge Ming said weakly, "We are in the badland, there is no water here."

Chinua looked at the pale man on the verge of death and said, "There is water on that mountain."

Ge Ming chuckled, "I won't make it."

Chinua looked down at the dying man and said, "You have the ability to travel thousands of miles to assassinate the second prince of Hmagol, how come you don't even have the courage to climb the hill in front of you." She rolled her eyes and looked at Ge Ming. "What a loser?"

Ge Ming looked up at Chinua, "A loser? I'm not a loser."

"Then stand up and follow me up the mountain," Chinua said. She pointed to the mountain a few hundred yards from them. "Are you afraid?"

Ge Ming slowly got up and stood in front of Chinua. He bit his lip and said, "Who is afraid of you?"

Chinua turned around, laughed lightly, and walked towards the mountain; the injured Ge Ming slowly followed behind her.