Tranxending Vision - Chapter 296

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Night in the basin came especially early and light was absent in the forest at six in the evening . The darkness descended earlier and the group stopped on an empty patch of ground to eat, drink and rest . They had not had a good sleep for three consecutive days and even the strongest men were unable to take it . Kabir and Tang Yu-Yan ordered a man each to keep guard while the rest slept on the grass .  

Xia Lei fell asleep under a blanket in under a minute and he was deaf to the rustling of the forest and calling of the insects . He had a dream of his father and himself chatting at home but he could not clearly hear what they chatted about . He then dreamt of Tang Yu-Yan . She stood topless before him . Those two snowy peaks were entirely exposed in front of him and the pretty little red nibs…

“Put your clothes on,” mumbled Xia Lei in his sleep, 

“Pervert . What the hell are you dreaming about?” came a woman’s voice .  

“Yu-Yan, don’t you hear what I’m saying? Put your clothes on . I know yours are very big but you don’t have to expose them, do you?” added Xia Lei .  

“What? It’s me?! And you’re saying I’m exposing them?” The woman who was talking grew angry from embarrassment and slapped Xia Lei’s cheek .  

This slap had not so much strength behind it but it still startled Xia Lei awake . He opened his eyes to see Tang Yu-Yan squatting next to him, glaring angrily at him with reddish cheeks .  

“You… Why are you here?” Xia Lei was more or less awake now .  

“What were you mumbling about?” Tang Yu-Yan recalled Xia Lei’s dream-speak and her jade cheeks reddened again .  

“Did I say something?” Xia Lei fuzzily recalled that he had seen Tang Yu-Yan in his dream, and topless too . He was definitely not going to admit it though .  

“Humph! Stinking man . ” Tang Yu-Yan snorted . “I’m not going to bother to expose your lie . Go stand on guard - it’s your turn . ” She yawned . “I should sleep for a bit too . I’m sleepy . ” 

Xia Lei crawled out from under the blanket and was about to put it away when Tang Yu-Yan grabbed his hand . “Don’t put it away . I’ll sleep in yours . ” 

“I’m a stinking man . Do you want to sleep under a blanket where a stinking man slept?”

Tang Yu-Yan burrowed into his blankets and planted herself solidly in them . “This is a battlefield . I’m going to sleep in your blankets but this doesn’t change the fact that you’re a stinking man . ” 

Xia Lei shrugged and left, carrying the sniper rifle .

Tang Yu-Yan shut her eyes and went to sleep . She entered dreamland and dreamt of a muscular butt . She was squatting behind that man and she sneakily looked between his legs…

Thoughts during the day and dreams at night - there was no avoiding this for her .

A White Rock Tribe militant stood on guard duty with Xia Lei and he very respectfully handed a cigarette to Xia Lei . Xia Lei shook his head to indicate that he did not smoke and the militant did not insist; he lit his own cigarette .  

Xia Lei started a conversation in halting Pashtun and the militant was very surprised that he was able to use Pashtun to chat with him . He started talking excitedly to Xia Lei, correcting his mistakes as he went . Xia Lei asked several questions about the White Hun tribe but the White Rock Tribe militant knew not much more than he did .  

Chatting in Pashto and having someone correct his mistakes helped Xia Lei learn at a speed comparable to Lamborghini zooming on an airport runway .  

The White Rock Tribe militant chatting with Xia Lei was stunned . Xia Lei had begun the conversation in halting Pashto, unable to speak a simple sentence fluently and also had grammatical mistakes . The more he chatted with Xia Lei, however, he discovered that Xia Lei’s Pashto had become increasingly fluent and mistakes made became few and far between .  

“Mr Yang, you’re good! Have you learnt Pashto in the past?” 

“I did . I learnt it for a year,” said Xia Lei with a smile, “Adil my friend, I just forgot it for a while . See, I remembered the things I’d learnt while chatting with you . ” 

Adil was this militant’s name . He gave Xia Lei a thumbs-up . “Mr Yang, you’re the most impressive gunman I’ve ever seen . I am in awe . ” After a pause, he added, “Can you keep guard for a bit? I need to answer the call of nature . ” 

“No problem, go ahead,” said Xia Lei .  

Adil walked off towards the depths of the forest, plucking at the leaves of the shrubbery as he went .  

Xia Lei smiled wryly and looked away from Adil . He kept watch for a bit and was then struck by a thought . He looked for a sky-scraping, ancient-looking tree and climbed up .  

This ancient tree was at least a thousand years old and it was about 80 to 90 metres tall from root to crown, like a gigantic umbrella blocking out the sky . Xia Lei climbed up to the treetop . This height and this flat expanse made it easy for his left eye to see everything clearly within the radius of 4,000 metres .  

The forest stretched before him, tree after tree with no start or end . Far off in the distance, peaks poked through the night sky, rarely-seen gleaming snowcaps visible under the cool moonlight . This great basin surrounded by mountains was like an otherworldly paradise written by a great poet, Tao Yuan-Ming, giving one the impression of a dreamscape .  

The whole of Afghanistan was in the fires of war, except this place .  

‘No tribe, no temples and no female White Hun warriors . What’s this situation? We’ve travelled in this forest for a whole day - if there really are female White Hun warriors then they should have turned up already, right?’ Xia Lei could not figure out why .  

“Unh…” A dull sound came from Adil’s direction .  

This was just a very soft sound, but it was carried by the wind to Xia Lei’s ears . He looked over to the sound and the treetops and trunks in the way quickly disappeared . He saw Adil almost two minutes later, and what he saw startled him so much he almost fell from the tree! 

Adil had been impaled on a tree trunk with a spear . The spear had pierced through his chest and out his back, and the entire spearhead had been embedded in the tree trunk!

A woman walked into Xia Lei’s field of vision .  

She was a fairly strange woman - she had naturally wavy, wine-red hair, and her pointed face was painted . He was still able to tell that her eye colour was blue and as intimidating as cat eyes . She was big, tall; roughly the same as caucasian people . Her skin was not the pale white of caucasians but a yellow not unlike the skin of Asians .

The White Huns were Eurasian . This woman had two-thirds caucasian and one-thirds Asian blood . This interesting blend also fit Kabir’s description .  

‘She’s a female White Hun warrior? She’s strong indeed!’ Xia Lei did not hesitate; he raised his gun and took aim . However, he discovered a problem after he lifted the gun - his left eye could see her through X-ray vision but the sniper rifle bullet could not go through all the forest between them and kill the target!

A new situation developed just two seconds later . More female White Hun warriors appeared out of the thick forest behind the first . Their faces were all painted and they were all clothed in simple cloth and animal leather skirts . Almost every one of them were tattooed with guardian spirits, dancing flames, savage beasts - these tattoos made them appear fierce .  

The female White Hun warriors went towards the campsite, one by one . Some carried spears, some blades or swords, some with strung bows and some held AK47s .  

They were not all gunpower-free - the female White Hun warriors knew how to use guns too!

Female warriors walked out of the darkness one by one, fanning out and closing in on the campsite . They numbered over a hundred!

Xia Lei did not have the time to consider much more . He raised his gun again, chose a target with no trees in the way and pulled the trigger .  

They had killed Adil upon their arrival, not asking why nor giving him any chances so this meant that there was no room for negotiation . Their aim was obvious, and that was to kill everyone!

How could Xia Lei be soft-hearted in a situation like this? 

Bang! A gunshot shattered the silence of the night . The anger-driven bullet pierced through the chest of his target and blood, flesh and gristle splattered . Her corpse was thrown by the impact against the trunk of a tree .  

“Enemy attack! Attack!” Tang Yu-Yan bellowed in alarm .

Blankets were thrown off in the campsite and the Bureau 101 agents and White Rock militants jolted from sleep to alertness . They grabbed their weapons and started firing . Unfortunately, it was blind shooting and they did not see where the enemy was .  

Rat-tat-tat…

Bang bang bang… 

Gunshots sounded and the trees in the way of the bullets were tattered by the onslaught .  

“It’s the White Hun women! It’s them!” yelled Kabir in panic .  

Sst! A feathered shaft flew from behind a trunk and went viciously into Kabir’s throat . Kabir fell to the ground, grasping his bubbling throat . He did not die right away - his legs pushed against the ground and flailed about but these actions were in vain .  

Over ten female warriors rushed toward the towering tree Xia Lei was in . They were familiar with this land and had easily deduced where the person who had fired the stone-cold shot was hiding .  

They could have killed everyone in the camp silently if it weren’t for Xia Lei, but it seemed like they had to pay a certain price now and they hated Xia Lei for this reason .

These warriors were quick and they were also good at hiding themselves but all these were useless to Xia Lei’s eye . He had already discovered them when they started going in his direction and had slid down the tree in time .  

Xia Lei slung the sniper rifle across his back and ran in Tang Yu-Yan’s direction, handgun in hand . He needed to be with Tang Yu-Yan! 

“He’s there!” A female White Hun warrior had spotted Xia Lei . She roared in anger and the spear in her hand sprang forth, straight at Xia Lei’s back .  

Xia Lei suddenly flattened himself to the ground and turned around . He pulled the trigger at the same time that the spear was flying past his head .  

Bang bang bang!

Three shots, all centered in the chest of the White Hun warrior who had thrown the spear at him .  

The White Hun held her chest as she collapsed to the ground . She was strong but her strength was not greater than bullets .  

Xia Lei did not dally . He rolled over and crawled to his feet, then dodged behind a tree .  

Tat-tat-tat! Xia Lei had just dodged a spray of bullets aimed at the ground he’d been on . AK47 bullets hit the ground, spraying up dirt and withered leaves .  

A light suddenly flashed past and it stopped in the forehead of the female White Hun warrior who had shot at Xia Lei with the AK47 . It was a throwing knife - a straight blade with no handle!

“Come with me!” It was Tang Yu-Yan’s voice .  

Xia Lei ran towards her voice .