[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 35 ♦ DEAD


last edited on ZLT: 01.01.18

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Everyone had an assault rifle in their hand and a big backpack on their back when they climbed onto the truck parked outside the warehouse. They were sat down in two rows. Qin Ke Xuan was sitting in the outer-most seat, with Chi Qu Qi sitting by her side. 

After the truck started moving, Chi Qu Qi produced one black and one green oil pastel from his pockets and handed them to Qin Ke Xuan. He set his face in front of her, saying: “Come, help me draw.”

Qin Ke Xuan didn’t even look at him. “Draw it yourself.”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 35 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM♢

“Aye, there’s no mirror right, so if I do it myself, it’ll definitely go wrong. If it turns out ugly, won’t it affect my image! Just help me please!” 

Qin Ke Xuan was annoyed with his constant bothering, and so she grabbed the two oil pastels and drew on his face. Of course, her movements were very violent, and it had Chi Qu Qi shouting out in pain. After a few moves, she was done. After Qin Ke Xuan threw the oil pastels back to Chi Qu Qi and closed her eyes to rest, she was once again shaken awake by Chi Qu Qi. 

“Qin Ke Xuan, let me help you draw!” Z L T

“No need.”

“Aye? You definitely don’t know the use of drawing on your face right? This has the same optic camouflaging effect as our uniform. When you’re lying in the grass ambushing you’ll know it has anti-mosquito effects. The most important thing is it’s infrared guise. Don’t think they can’t find you in the night, once they use their infrared night vision device, even if you’re hiding behind a rock, they will be able to clearly see your every movement! If you apply this anti-infrared oil pastels and you’re crouching in the grass, there won’t be anyone who will find your face.” 

Even if you’re hiding behind a rock, they would be able to see? How was that possible? Qin Ke Xuan thought about it quietly.

“Hehe, the good thing about Special Forces unit is that they have all sorts of sick equipment, and every Special Forces soldier has their own infrared night vision device, that’s awesome! You gotta know some companies only has that few device! Unfortunately, we’re not proper Special Forces soldiers yet, so we don’t get any night vision device…”

“Help me draw.” Qin Ke Xuan chopped off his unceasing torrent of his imagination. 

“Oh oh, raise your head a little, lean closer a little, and close your eyes.”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 35 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM♢

Qin Ke Xuan did as he said and closed her eyes to let him draw on her face. Chi Qu Qi looked at the fair little face tilting at him couldn’t help but sigh at how delicate her face was, to not even be able to see her pores! The Qin Ke Xuan with her eyes closed didn’t radiate her usual iciness and hard-to-near aura. Rather, she looked like a sleeping angel with her curved eyelashes lightly trembling. Chi Qu Qi looked till he was slightly dazed, really wanting to reach out and touch that silky and smooth skin.

Qin Ke Xuan’s tightly minced lips told of her lack of patience. She suddenly opened her eyes, glaring at Chi Qu Qi. “When are you going to stare until?”

“Ah? I, I’m not…” Chi Qu Qi was struck dumb and nervously tried to cover up the embarrassing fact that he had stared at her till he dazed.

The bunch of other people sitting at the side viewing the entire duration immediately burst into laughter. Chi Qu Qi immediately bared his fangs and sent an angry glare at the few that were laughing. His expression was hard to see through the paint, but the flushed ears completely revealed his feelings, and that had him not daring to look at Qin Ke Xuan.

One of the vice-captains sitting in the driver’s seat berated them through the fretwork metal screen: “Remain silent!” 

The captain beside him gestured to have him calm his anger, saying lightly: “Just let them have fun first, the next seven days’ going to make them cry.” 

Qin Ke Xuan took the oil pastels from the Chi Qu Qi who was busy kicking away at the people laughing at him behind their backs. She closed her eyes, and roughly drew a bit on her face, before pocketing the oil pastels, not returning them to Chi Qu Qi, and even leaned against the walls of the truck looking out as though nothing happened. 

Chi Qu Qi also leaned against the walls. He sneaked a peek at Qin Ke Xuan’s side profile. Because of the awkward stuff that had happened just now, he didn’t get his oil pastels back from her. At this moment, he couldn’t help but find it a pity mentally; to colour oil pastels on such good skin was too aesthetically destructive!

The military truck drove and they reach an unfamiliar wild and mountainous place. The truck stopped and Qin Ke Xuan sitting at the outermost alighted. The captain stood at the tail of the truck, saying to them: “From now on, you have already entered the examination region. To ensure every one of you are depending on yourself to pass this test, we will drop each of you some distance apart. Qin Ke Xuan, you are the first.” 

Qin Ke Xuan nodded and looked at the captain returning back onto the truck and left. She narrowed her eyes, surveying the surroundings, before grabbing her assault rifle and zipping into the forest.

The Chi Qu Qi sitting on the leaving truck watched the silhouette of Qin Ke Xuan, full of worries. She had just joined them for two days, would she be shot dead by some senior Special Forces soldiers just a few steps into the forest? Chi Qu Qi’s worried expression fell into the eyes of someone else, thereby eliciting the mocking from one of the guys who normally were very unsatisfied by him: “Hoh, did you not look enough just now? If you’re so worried about your xiao mei mei then go over and her beau!”

Chi Qu Qi retracted his gaze, raising his brows in disdain: “Beau, beau my ass! I want to worry, what’s that got anything to do with you, I’ve never seen someone as busybody as you!”

The guy who had mocked him not only did not succeed but was mocked in return stood up with a swoosh, wanting to hit Chi Qu Qi. However, after the other people saw the situation not turning out very nicely, they immediately held him back. The captain sitting in front heard the commotion said: “If you don’t want me to kick you out right now then sit tightly!”

The guy had no choice but to sit down and swallow his anger. Using his glare to slice at the Chi Qu Qi rejoicing at his misfortune, he harrumphed and turned his head, not looking at him.

“Chi Qu Qi, you’re second.” The truck stopped once again. 

“Yes sir!” Chi Qu Qi replied loudly and jumped from the truck before entering the forest carefully. The truck travelled along until it had dropped off all the Reserve Squad members.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 35 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM♢

Qin Ke Xuan walked along the mountain road. What she had to do now was to look for a source of food and clean water, and somewhere to stay for the night. She didn’t know what creatures there were here, and she also had to guard against the spontaneously attacking Special Forces soldiers.

As she walked, she suddenly turned sideways and pressed against the tree. With a bang, a bullet hit the location where she had been standing a minute ago, on a tree, leaving behind a shallow indent as well as the dust of the exploded blank bullet. She had heard that there was a difference between real bullets and these blank bullets; these don’t hurt, provided the person shot is five metres away. The field training this time worked such that once a blank bullet hit you, you would be treated as though you were shot dead. She turned to look behind her. As expected, the grass at the back moved; there was someone ambushing there.

She surveyed the terrain around the area and swiftly dashed toward the crumbling precipice. She heard the bang of the guns sounding continuously, but none of them hit Qin Ke Xuan. The gun sounds blared before suddenly stopping—because their target had suddenly jumped off the precipice and disappeared from their view.

“Ehh… do we chase?” 

“My ass! Even our bullets can’t hit her, why don’t you try chasing! I’ll remain here to quietly await your good news.”

“Freaking hell, she’s a scud right!” 

“The rear waves of Yangtze River drive on those before*, our rear waves’ faces are slapped dead right here in this wild and mountainous place.”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 35 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM♢

*长江后浪推前浪 = (lit.) the rear waves of Yangtze River drive on those before; (fig.) the new is constantly replacing the old
“That girl’s sure something, I raise both feet to demand she join us!”

“How d’ya know that person’s a girl, not a guy?” 

“Where d’your eyes go? Didn’t you see that long wave of hair she left us with?!”

“…” Z L T

Only when the three-man party that had ambushed Qin Ke Xuan with assault rifles enthusiastically discussing were stopped by their captain did they stop their chatter and quickly zipped through the forest to look for the next noob to target. They were responsible for shooting the noobs.

After Qin Ke Xuan jumped off the precipice, she immediately submerged into the grass as though a leopard in the midst of hunting, her breath held in, waiting for her prey to appear. Her glittering black eyes filtering through the gaps between the leaves, she stared at the precipice, aiming the assault rifle hanging from her neck upwards, quietly waiting for the enemy to reappear. Once the enemy appeared, she will “kill” them off one by one. Even though their Reserve Squad captain had told them they had to evade the Special Forces soldier’s attack if they wanted to remain in the Reserve Squad, he didn’t make any mention about disallowing them to ambush them back and finish off the Special Forces soldiers.

Very soon, she heard several sounds coming from the precipice. Qin Ke Xuan moved her rifle and aimed it in the direction of the sounds, waiting for them to appear.

“Shh, discovered a noob in the eight o’clock direction, stay low.”

Qin Ke Xuan did not see them appearing, rather, she heard their footstep sounds growing in distance, as though they found another Reserve Squad member to ambush. She kept her rifle and hung it back around her neck, and then scaled the mountain, quietly climbing up to the precipice through the valley, her eyes peering out to carefully stare at the places that one could easily hide in. As expected, she discovered a few Special Forces soldiers with their backs to her lying there. They were also in camouflage uniform and were hard to be discovered once hidden among the grass. If she were to just sweep a look, it also would have been hard for Qin Ke Xuan to discover their existence. However, if she looked knowing they were hiding there, she would be able to see them.

They were currently aiming at the Chi Qu Qi who was carefully walking over, completely ignorant of the fact that Qin Ke Xuan had left and returned. They probably had not at all thought that a noob would have enough guts to come seek death.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 35 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM♢

Qin Ke Xuan’s forte had always been close combat. The positions the three soldiers picked were a little tricky, but she was sure she could near them and kill one of them off with her knife without being discovered. But if that was the case, then no matter how careful she was, the other two would have discovered that their comrade had been attacked.

And so, she placed her bag on the ground, leapt up a tree with an inhale and squatted on the tree, aimed the rifle at the left-most one. With that, she shot, and before they reacted, she immediately switched her aiming direction and fired a shot at the one in the middle. They had also discovered Qin Ke Xuan. The one on the right quickly turned and fired a shot at where Qin Ke Xuan was. Qin Ke Xuan bent back, flipping backwards from the tree and onto the ground. She hugged her rifled, rolling on the ground before coming to a squat, her rifle aimed at the right-most Special Forces soldier and fired; it hit him right in the chest.

“You’re all dead.” Qin Ke Xuan stood up, saying calmly. Z L T

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 33 ♦ (SPOILER TITLE)


last edited on ZLT: 30.12.17

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Qin Ke Xuan rose her chin at the stoning Ah Lang. “Come here.”

Ah Lang immediately felt a very powerful aura enveloping him, and couldn’t help but went over to Qin Ke Xuan obediently, asking carefully: “May I have your instructions?”

“Carry him, come with me.” Qin Ke Xuan walked out of the Director’s office.

Ah Lang hurriedly picked up Yin Xu Dong’s arm and hooked it around his neck, half carrying half dragging him as he followed after Qin Ke Xuan. Before he left, he even flatteringly said to the Director who had yet to react: “Director, sorry for the disruption.”

Qin Ke Xuan walked all the way to a corner in the school and stood under a tree. She had Ah Lang place him down to lie on the ground, then threw a bottle of bottled water at Ah Lang, saying beyond calmly: “Pour him awake.”

Ah Lang caught the bottled water, very at loss. “You really want to do that?” 

“Then do you have a better way?” Qin Ke Xuan did not understand.

“Will he get a concussion?” Ah Lang was a little unable to make the move.

Concussion? Dunno what’s that. Qin Ke Xuan negligently waved her hand. “He won’t die. Stop being long-winded, just do it.”

Ah Lang closed his eyes, held the bottle tight and smashed it at Yin Xu Dong’s head. Qin Ke Xuan held out her arm to stop him, looking at him in shock. “I told you to pour him awake, not hit him.”

“Aye? Didn’t you mean to have me use to bottle to wake him up?”

Qin Ke Xuan took the bottle from him in for the lack of better choice, twisted open the bottle cap and poured the water on Yin Xu Dong’s face. It was only then did Ah Lang realise Qin Ke Xuan meant “浇”* (jiao; pour) not “叫”(jiao; call/shout/make), and so he scratched his head awkwardly. Suddenly being splashed by ice-cold water had shocked Yin Xu Dong awake. Some of the water that went into his nose went into his nasal cavity, hence he immediately sat up and coughed away uncomfortably.

* wordplay: Qin Ke Xuan said “浇” (jiāo) pour him awake, but Ah Lang heard it as “叫” (jiào) call/make him awake; the two words sound similar so Ah Lang heard wrongly

“Have you calmed down?” Qin Ke Xuan asked leisurely.

“Enh? O*.” Z L T

* 哦 = 0; interjection to indicate surprise/doubt or to indicate one has just learnt something or can be used as a sentence-final particle to convey informality/warmth/friendliness

“Ask your questions.” 

“You said Lu Wan Ran she, she, she…”

Qin Ke Xuan replied straightforwardly: “Getting into that kind of relationship with a student, oh right, the place where you’re sitting right now was the location the two of them rolled together.”

Yin Xu Dong’s face immediately turned red yellow blue green, changing non-stop. He stood up unnaturally and walked over to Qin Ke Xuan’s side, muttering: “I don’t believe it, she said she didn’t…” 

“You mean I’m lying?” Qin Ke Xuan’s brows creased. “You believe me or that woman?” 

“…You. But, I, I feel that Lu Wan Ran won’t lie to me.” 

Qin Ke Xuan was silent for a moment before she suddenly said: “Go pee.” 

“Hah?” Yin Xu Dong was utterly confused; he had no urinal urgency. 

“Go pee, and look at your reflection*.”

* Qin Ke Xuan is telling Yin Xu Dong to check his appearance in the reflection of the liquid; remember Yin Xu Dong has a lot of pimples at the moment, so she’s indirectly telling him he ain’t gonna get no Lu Wan Ran with his current appearance

Yin Xu Dong’s face immediately changed as though he had swallowed a fly. The Ah Lang who had been staying at the side burst into laughter. After being fiercely glared at by Yin Xu Dong, he covered his mouth and laughed silently behind his back.

The sides of Yin Xu Dong’s lips twitched. He said: “I know my current appearance is a little y’know. Even though we’ve never actually dated, I met Lu Wan Ran when I was in Year One of high school. She won’t mind…” 

“Go pee was what she said, it was what she said before engaging in her illicit act with the male student.” Qin Ke Xuan raised her eyes to look at Yin Xu Dong. “I was sitting on the tree there, you can believe me, you can not believe me, that’s all I’m going to say. I’m only going to rein you in this time, if you want to continue making trouble and have the school expel you, that’s your own choice. I don’t want to waste time on these things, I still have lessons.” After finishing, she left. 

Ah Lang leaned on the silent Yin Xu Dong, an arm around his shoulders as he urged: “Dong zi, I can tell your mei’s not lying. As for that Lu woman, bro I’ve always disapproved of you being fond of her. It’s good time you wake up, you shouldn’t hurt your helpful and concerned mei mei because of such woman.” 

Yin Xu Dong’s head was completely muddled. Upon hearing Ah Lang’s warning, he ruffled his hair still dripping with water, carelessly nodded his head and left.

After school when Qin Ke Xuan came out from her classroom, she did not expect Yin Xi Dong would be waiting at the school gates. She slanted a gaze at him, her footsteps not slowing and continued forward. She still had to rush back to the base for squad training.

Because Qin Ke Xuan was still a minor, there were lots of procedures that require Qin Shu Hua’s signature. Also because Qin Ke Xuan had run away from home before, when it was requested for her to live at the military base, it had hit him home—exactly what he wanted. And so, letting the military look after this un-disciplinable daughter had him feeling a lot more reassured. Therefore, he very frankly and straightforwardly signed all the papers with a wave of his hand.

“You’re waiting for me to tell me you already know of that?” 

“Enh… no… Xuan Xuan, I’m sorry…” Yin Xu Dong was stifled till his face flushed very red. That had Qin Ke Xuan feeling extremely uncomfortable. You really couldn’t blame her though, after all, she’d never been in contact with someone whose face was full of pimples. 

“You have not done anything to me to apologise for. I have never demanded you believe my words. This was also entirely your choice; it’s none of my business.” 

Yin Xu Dong got worried: “Xuan Xuan, are you angry? I know you’ve only done it for my good. Given your character, you wouldn’t have bothered doing something like this, it’s me that’s too stupid for being blinded. I promise I will believe every word you say in the future! Don’t stay angry at me anymore, okay?” He knew Qin Ke Xuan only looked cold on the outside, if not, she would not have cared about Qin Peng Cheng being kidnapped, neither would she have pulled him from danger when he was almost going to be chopped by a knife.

Qin Ke Xuan inhaled deeply. “Let me repeat. I, am, not, angry.” What emotions would someone who had experienced killing one’s own comrade and walking out the training arena as a killer have left? Would getting angry keep you alive? They killers were already accustomed to snapping people’s heads before that person could successfully provoke them. The anger was naturally gone since the person was already dead.

“Really?” Yin Xu Dong asked. 

“Enh.” Z L T

Yin Xu Dong’s at loss expression finally relaxed, and he continued saying cheerfully. “Then that’s good, that’s good.” 

“Are you still planning on following me?” Qin Ke Xuan raised her brows. 

Yin Xu Dong stuck himself to her side, saying flatteringly: “Can I go and check out where your squad is?”

Qin Ke Xuan brusquely rejected: “No.” 

Yin Xu Dong had never been someone who was easily put off by rejection. “Why not? I’m just going there to check things out, it’s not like you’ll lose a piece of meat, let’s go, let’s go!”

Qin Ke Xuan only swept a gaze at him without saying anything, and continued walking forward. Yin Xu Dong walked with her noisily. When they stopped before a store and he peeked at the products placed in the store with his head lowered, he stuttered: “Xuan Xuan?”

Qin Ke Xuan saw the sign saying the words “bra” and confirmed that that strange-looking material was the du dou in this world. She said to the Yin Xu Dong whose face once again deepened a shade of red: “I want to buy a bra, come and help.”

“Hah?!” Yin Xu Dong was struck dumb. 

“I’m not familiar with these kind of stuff.” 

Yin Xu Dong vomited blood, was he more familiar with these kind of stuff then?! He was an honest and upright guy with pimples! How would he be able to be familiar with these kind of stuff?!

“Hurry buy two, I’m rushing.” Qin Ke Xuan commanded. 

Yin Xu Dong was afraid he would make Qin Ke Xuan unhappy again, and so he puffed his courage and neared the lingerie shop he’d never dared to near, randomly pointed at two pieces and shouted at the salesperson in the store: “These two, wrap ‘em up!”

The sales lady standing on the side looked at the pair of girl and boy strangely. After slight observation, she knew that it was the girl’s first time purchasing a bra, and hence said helpfully: “First time buying bra right? Actually, design and all are not that important. What’s important is the size, or else it’ll not only be uncomfortable wearing it, it’ll be bad for the development, and there is a high probability some problems may arise because of this. You can first measure your bust size before picking a bra to try on, after you’ve finalised that, you can pick the design.”

Qin Ke Xuan frowned. Why was it so troublesome to buy a du dou, the one she made was much better! Not only so, this bra had so little material, exactly how much would it be able to cover? 

The sales lady was very good at observing, hence when she saw Qin Ke Xuan frowning, she immediately said: “It’ll be a little troublesome the first time round, but the measurement will be very quick, then it won’t be as troublesome for a long time to come. All you need to do next time is to remember your size and buy accordingly.” As she said, she took out a soft ruler placed it around Qin Ke Xuan’s chest.

Qin Ke Xuan upon seeing her suddenly stretching her hands out almost wanted to break her hand on reflex, but she endured it and didn’t make that move. Instead, she let her measure herself with that rope-like thing. The Yin Xu Dong standing on one side turned his head to look elsewhere very awkwardly, but all that entered his sight were dazzlingly blinding female lingerie…

“34A, here, you can go try it on in the fitting room. I’ll teach you how to wear a bra, you need to pay quite some attention to how you wear it.” The sales lady picked up a 34A bra on the way and enthusiastically brought Qin Ke Xuan into the fitting room to teach her how to wear a bra. 

Because it was her first time coming into contact with something so troublesome, Qin Ke Xuan had to learn for quite some time before she was able to properly clip it on at the back. This design was pretty convenient, you could wear with once you clip it on, and it’s skin-tight so it felt better when you move with it.

To save time, Qin Ke Xuan shouted at Yin Xu Dong from the fitting room: “Yin Xu Dong, pick two 34A bras.” The sales lady upon hearing that smacked her lips, dear goodness, were little girls all so valiant nowadays? To even have their boyfriends help pick their undergarments.

Yin Xu Dong just wanted to dig a hole and hide in it. What the hell was all these stuff? The other sales lady was all smiles as she voluntarily came over to guide Yin Xu Dong in picking out the bra. “The ones here are all 34A, you can pick the ones you like.”

Yin Xu Dong just wanted to scratch his heart out, what d’you mean pick the ones you like?! Such words were seriously too ambiguous! He closed his eyes and pointed randomly. “Just these few, hurry wrap them up for me!”

The beaming sales lady picked up the ones Yin Xu Dong had pointed at and smiled ambiguously: “You’re really good at picking hmm.” 

Yin Xu Dong black-lined, what did she mean? He was regretting a little now and wanted to exchange them for something else, but seeing how she had already placed them in the bag, he was a little embarrassed for her to take them out and puzzle over what was wrong with them.  ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 33 is hosted at ZHANLANN. COM ♢

“Since you’ve bought the bras, why not pick some underwear too.” The sales lady lobbied. Z L T

Yin Xu Dong felt that since he had already picked the bras, he had the sales lady to randomly pick some and placed them in the same bag and paid for Qin Ke Xuan. Holding the bag of headache, he stood outside the door to wait for Qin Ke Xuan to come out.

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CHAPTER 33 ♦ BRA PURCHASING DIARY

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32 | CONTENTS | 34

[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 32 ♦ DONG ZI STIRRING UP TROUBLE


last edited on ZLT: 29.12.17

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Chi Qu Qi was now climbing the barbed wire with Qin Ke Xuan. As he climbed, he said indignantly: “Qin beauty, are you still a woman? Hurry faint and go rest, you won’t be cute if you’re too valiant and make guys lose their faces!”

Qin Ke Xuan was annoyed with all his blabbering. She laid there before sending a foot stepping on Chi Qu Qi’s head. Why was it that every person she met was more of a chatterbox than the previous? Did he not know that blabbering all these nonsense stuff was just wasting his strength? She couldn’t be bothered to mind the Chi Qu Qi who was howling continuously behind her and continued crawling forward. She still had a hundred more times to go.

“Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Don’t lay there and act dead!” One of the vice-captains on the side stuck a metal rod through the barbed wire and poked at Chi Qu Qi. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 32 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Chi Qu Qi: “Vice-cap, don’t poke me! I’ll climb, I’ll just climb okay!” 

“You’re the one who makes the most noise! If you howl any more, I’ll have you climb a hundred times more!”

That threat was useful, because following which, Chi Qu Qi did not make a single sound. Instead, he only glared his large eyes at the Qin Ke Xuan who had stomped on him and still acted as though nothing happened.

After the training for weaving through the barbed wires ended, the captain very benevolently allowed them half an hour’s time of break before starting the horizontal bar pull ups and parallel bar dips training, a hundred times for each of them. By the time their training ended, it was near midnight. Everyone was so tired they could no longer move, but with the sticky sweat and mud on their bodies, they had to return to the warehouse to bathe after being released before they could go back and sleep like a log.

There were ten beds in the female dormitory, but only three were occupied. The two girls that had woken up told Qin Ke Xuan there had originally been ten girls, however, eight of them could no longer withstand the stress hence left. The two of them were the only ones left. Now with the entry of Qin Ke Xuan, there were three of them. The two of them sighed; perhaps it would not be long before the Reserve Squad would be void of females.

“But, Qin Ke Xuan perhaps you will be able to stay. I feel like you have the ability to.” Lin Xiao Yun said.

“Enh.” She had never thought about leaving, much less going because she could not take the stress. She’s been through much worse, so it would be impossible to make her go just like that because of these little exercises.

Qin Ke Xuan took off the camouflage uniform on the outside and changed on her singlet.

“Qin Ke Xuan, what is that you have on?” One of the girls suddenly asked.

“Du dou*.” Qin Ke Xuan tugged on the skin-tight undergarment, her voice calm as she replied. When she had first came to the Qin house, she had searched throughout her cupboards and could not locate a du dou, hence she had no other choice but to find some other clothes and make her own. Since her forte was killing, not needlework, the product turned out to be far from satisfactory, but at least it still looked like a du dou.

* 肚兜 = du dou; (ancient) an undergarment vest covering the chest and the abdomen

“… Du dou?” Z L T

“Is there a problem?” 

“No… but why do you wear a du dou instead of a bra? I’ve seen little kids wearing a du dou to block the wind, but it’s not the ancient times anymore, have you seen females wearing that anymore?”

Qin Ke Xuan minced her lips and stayed silent. Little kids wear du dou… 

The girl, upon seeing Qin Ke Xuan like that, thought she was unhappy, and so she quickly said: “I don’t mean it any other way, it’s just that you are… a little special. You don’t need to be embarrassed. When girls hit their puberty, it’s more or less normal to be embarrassed. I was the same when I was your age and my mom’s the one that bought my bra for me. Why not you have your mother to buy you yours. You should wear a bra when it’s time to wear, you shouldn’t not wear it because you’re embarrassed, else it’ll droop.”

“Enh.” She was not embarrassed per say with regards to this. It was just that she did not understand.

Lin Xiao Yun said: “Then let’s sleep, let’s sleep, we still need to run back to school tomorrow. Oh yeah, Qin Ke Xuan, our morning exercise every day is to run to school. The distance will have to depend on how far or near your school is from the base. Where is your school? Is it very far from here?”

“First High in City B.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 32 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

The two girls inhaled sharply. “My goodness, the university for the people in our squad’s generally closer to the suburban area, so it’s not that far, but First High is in the city. That’s quite far, why not you look for the person in charge to check if there are other accommodations?”

“No need.” This distance was not considered far, she could run back. If time was tight, she could use qing gong, so it was absolutely no problem. 

“Alright then, if you really can’t, remember to go look for the person in charge.”

“Enh, let’s sleep.” 

The second day before the sun rose, the doors to the girls’ and boys’ dormitories were opened a small slit before a tear bomb rolled in. Smoke emitted from the head of the bomb continuously. Before long, the entire dormitory was engulfed in smoke. The irritant had everyone rousing from their sleep in shock. They leapt from their beds, briskly wore their normal clothes and rushed out from the dormitories.

The captains stood in front of them, checking their appearances. All those with belts not clipped or buttons not buttoned were thrown back by them into the dormitories engulfed in tear-inducing smoke to tidy themselves up before they could come out again.

“Stand straight! Turn right! Look straight! Count off!” 

“One, two, three… fifteen.”

“Stand at ease! Your speed today is slow! If it had been a poison bomb thrown in by the enemy, you would all be dead! Too comfy sleeping on beds huh?!”

“No!” 

“No? Then why is everyone sleeping dead like a log?!”

“Reporting!” Chi Qu Qi shouted loudly.

“Speak!” Z L T

“The training amount last night was increased, so we were all too tired.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 32 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“Tired? Alright, then we’ll let you be comfier today then!” The captain smiled eerily. “Stand straight! Disband!”

Everyone pushed around before returning to wash up themselves. There was someone who complained peculiarly, saying that Chi Qu Qi talking nonsense dragged everyone else down.

Chi Qu Qi got angry. “What’s wrong with me talking?! Don’t join the Special Forces then if you’re so afraid of hard work!”

The squad leader and Tian Xue Qin held on to Chi Qu Qi tightly, urging him: “It’s a rare occasion for everyone to be gathered, don’t spoil the happy mood for everyone over something trivial ha! Everyone knows Xiao Chi he’s quick with his words, it’s not his intentions to purposely to cause trouble for us, isn’t it?”

Everyone knew that if they started fighting and making trouble, the leaders upstairs would definitely think they were not united and collective. The notion of unity and collectiveness, however, was extremely important to soldiers, so the leaders would very likely kick them all off the squad. No one wanted to aggravate things to that extent, and so, they took a step back each, keeping intact the façade of peaceful interaction.

After everyone had finished washing up, they ran out from their base. In the beginning, everyone was lined up in a row running, gradually though, they turned at their own crossroads, running towards their own schools respectively.

Coincidentally, a section of Qin Ke Xuan’s route to school was in the same direction as Chi Qu Qi’s, and so, Chi Qu Qi stuck beside her running, and at the same time, played his role as a chatterbox.

“Qin beauty, we’re so fated! You’re from First High? That’s so far, why don’t you ride a bus halfway through? But if you’re caught by the surveillance people, you’re gonna be dropped from the squad, hehe.”

This guy, after experiencing all the things that had happened at the base, had still not registered how provoking the stuff he said was. He would suffer or even lose his life because of that mouth one day.

“As a male, it would be more attractive to females for you to stay quieter.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 32 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“…” Z L T

This was definitely revenge! She was seeking revenge for him saying valiant girls were not attractive to guys!

The two of them ran a distance in silence. Upon reaching a crossroad, Chi Qu Qi said: “I’m turning this way, be careful on your own, call me if there’s anything. I’m going, bye.” After which, he puzzled over Qin Ke Xuan’s words on his way to school.

Qin Ke Xuan nodded at him before starting on her solo journey. She had originally wanted to use qing gong to go to school. However, after hearing what Chi Qu Qi had said, it seemed like there were people observing them all along the way, and so, she gave up on that thought and instead raised her speed and ran towards her school. They wouldn’t be able to fault her for running fast and having good stamina, right?

The person surveilling her had thought she had run out of strength after running a short while in the beginning, however, when she kept running with this speed all the way to her destination, it had him smacking his lips in approval. Goodness, even the flying runner Liu Xiang* only flew a hundred metres, but she’d literally flown a marathon’s worth of distance.

* Liu Xiang (刘翔) is a Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games

When Qin Ke Xuan returned to school, the sky was still hazy, but there were already some students that were up and studying. This was after all the best high school in the city where the best students congregated, they worked hard not only to chase their dreams in the future, but also because a lack of hard work and self-improvement in this incredibly competitive school would entail being overtaken by others and left behind.

Qin Ke Xuan first went to some covert location in school to meditate in order to cultivate her nei gong. At night, she had to go to the base for training, in the morning, she had to go to school and learn knowledge, so time was very tight on her side. Seeing how her nei gong had yet to return to half of its original level, she must squeeze time out to cultivate her nei gong.

It was only until class was almost beginning did she exhale and collect her cultivation, then stood up and headed to her classroom.

After one period of class going by calmly, a person rushed in, pulled on her elbow and dragged her out. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 32 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Qin Ke Xuan very rudely slapped his hand away, her eyes still glued to the textbook. “What is it, if you continue tugging, I’ll break your hand.” The students in this world were seriously too lamentable, unlike in her original world where all she had to learn was “language” and that was enough, they had to learn all sorts of random stuff here.

The person who had come was one of the people from Yin Xu Dong’s gang, Ah Lang. He rubbed his arm where Qin Ke Xuan had hit him, and said anxiously: “Your ge’s in trouble, hurry go help him!”

“What happened?” Z L T

“Speaking of which, it’s related to you! Did you tell the Director about Lu lao shi getting together with a student?”

“Yes.” As a teacher, that shameless woman ought to be dumped in a pigsty for getting into an ambiguous relationship with her student.

“Aye! After your brother heard about this, he went to make trouble in the office! He usually makes quite some trouble, so the Director may seize this opportunity to expel him from school! Hurry go and stop him!”

Qin Ke Xuan put down the textbook in her hand, stood up and followed Ah Lang to the Director’s office. As expected, she saw Yin Xu Dong shouting his lungs off arguing with the Director. “Lu lao shi definitely isn’t a person like that! Where’s your evidence! You can’t just fire her like that!”

“Yin Xu Dong tong xue! Do you know where this is?! You have no right to change the decision made by the school, neither is it in your place to butt it! If you continue making trouble, I will record this as a serious demerit!”

“It’s you who’s being unreasonable! Why can’t I raise an objection?!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 32 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

The Director was shouted at by Yin Xu Dong till he didn’t know what to do with him. Just at this moment, he turned and saw Qin Ke Xuan, and so he pointed at Qin Ke Xuan saying: “Look! That’s the student that reported this, go look for her if you have questions!”

Yin Xu Dong turned to see Ah Lang bringing Qin Ke Xuan, and immediately went over. Beyond flustered, he came right up to in front of Qin Ke Xuan, asking through clenched teeth: “Xuan Xuan, tell me that’s not true!”

Qin Ke Xuan’s hand raised, and lowered; her hand a knife, she chopped at Yin Xu Dong’s neck. Yin Xu Dong’s eyes closed and slowly collapsed, right before the flabbergasted Director and Ah Lang’s eyes.
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CHAPTER 31 ♦ DEMONIC TRAINING


last edited on ZLT: 28.12.17

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The bunch of them went to the readied shooting arena with grandiose. Sergeant One said to the people in the Reserve Squad: “You have a total of five people, I’ll take out five people too. One person is sent out each time, the side that is able to complete shooting within the minimal time will win. As long as three people from one side win, that side will be considered the winner of this competition, can do?”

“Okay, if we lose, we’ll run one round around the company of troops shouting we’re useless scoundrels.” Chi Qu Qi shouted.

The squad leader berated in discontent: “What madness are you saying?!”

“Squad leader! We’re still the Special Forces Reserve Squad regardless, have some confidence. If we really lose to them, we should just retire and get out of here!” Z L T

Upon seeing the other party suggesting such a punishment, Sergeant One didn’t want to appear weak, and said: “Then if we lose, all of us, including those who did not participate, will run a round admitting we’re scoundrels!”

The soldiers from the two sides were both burning with fervour. It looked like they had not seen each other eye to eye for a very long time already, just that there had not been any medium through which they could relief their discontent. So they were all seizing this opportunity to ferociously jeer at each other. Qin Ke Xuan took the assault rifle Chi Qu Qi handed her and listened carefully to their instructions: “We have five people. I’ll go first, followed by Tian Xue Qin, Lin Shao Yun, squad leader, and lastly Qin Ke Xuan. Qin Ke Xuan, since you haven’t learnt how to shoot a moving target 100 metres away, you’re going last so you have time to properly get the gist of our movements, get it?”

In the first round, Chi Qu Qi was matched up with a normal soldier, and so he won without doubt. Qin Ke Xuan memorised their running and shooting actions with ease. This shooting training was pretty interesting. The target popping up anytime and anywhere could train the person’s sharpness and reaction speed. Z L T

After four rounds, other than Lin Xiao Yun, all the three guys from the Reserve Squad had won. Even though the winner had been determined, the last round would still continue. Qin Ke Xuan was matched with Sergeant One.

Sergeant One upon seeing Qin Ke Xuan was not a familiar face, said: “Newcomer? Let me say this first, I’m not going to let you even if you’re a newcomer or a female.” Z L T

“No need.” The killer organisation she had been in had never not sent her out to kill because she was a female. Not only so, even as a female, she was ranked as the number one killer in the organisation. So long you had the skills, no one would mind if you’re a women, elderly or child.

Even though Qin Ke Xuan’s movements were not very standard, she won Sergeant One easily. Sergeant One brought his three squads of soldiers and ran a round around the camp, shouting out they were useless scoundrels in aggrievance, eliciting many onlookers from other troops. Of course, it also alarmed the leaders upstairs, and so the two sides were fiercely reprimanded and punished all the participants to go back and write a self-criticism report.

When the Reserve Squad returned to their warehouse base, Chi Qu Qi’s non-stop chirping pronounced his gratification about being able to foil Sergeant One’s plans. Z L T

“Haha, I can finally relieve my resentments after holding it in for so long! Shaung*!” Z L T

* 爽 = shuang; a word that expresses one feeling invigorated/rejuvenated/really awesome

Chi Qu Qi was just a big headache. The squad leader kicked him, scolding: “Shuang my ass! Now what! All the people in the entire base will know we Special Forces Reserve Squad have our noses up in the air. Now that we’ve ruined the senior soldier’s reputation, they’ll definitely start ostracising us!” Z L T

“Qie, even if we don’t ruin their reputation, they’ve already combined forces in ostracising us enough! It’ll all turn out the same in my opinion, so we should just fiercely jeer them! Squad leader, you dare say it’s not shuang?” Chi Qu Qi played around with the dagger in his hand, saying in disdain.

The squad leader rolled his eyes. “Course it’s shuang, but shuang in the dark yourself.”

“Dude, man show* much.” Z L T

* 闷骚 = men sao; ‘man show’ in English; refers to someone (usually males, but can be used for females as well) who is shy on the outside but wild on the inside

Qin Ke Xuan ignored their bantering and looked around at the equipment she’s never seen before in curiosity. As expected, it’s right to walk the path of joining the military. The technology utilised by the military was, as expected, the latest state-of-the-art, and this was especially evident for the Special Forces unit. They entered a room, inside the room sat a very large and very strange-looking machine that had a space in the middle for a person in sit in. There was a lot of stuff she didn’t understand installed in front of the seat. Perhaps this was something linked to the time machine? She’d seen all sorts of time machines in time travel movies, the majority of them were a coffin-like box. The person would be able to time travel just by lying in it and pressing a button.

“Qin Ke Xuan, you want to learn this?” Lin Xiao Yun came over and asked.

“Enh, what is this?” Qin Ke Xuan nodded her head. Z L T

“This is an aeroplane stimulation machine, come come, let ge ge teach you how to play this thing.” Chi Qu Qi got impatient from listening to the squad leader’s naggings. Upon hearing the commotion over here, he immediately came over, switched on the switch and let Qin Ke Xuan sit into one of the machines while he explained the use of each and every operation device. Z L T

After Chi Qu Qi switched it on, Qin Ke Xuan saw a screen on wall lowering slowly before the machine, and then a long road on the screen appeared. What was strange was that there were boxes on the screen. Aeroplane she knew. It was a large metal bird that could bring a lot of people and fly in the sky and could fly from one country to another in a very short time. However, this machine was noticeably different from the aeroplanes she had seen on the television.

“Aye, Special Forces soldier sure isn’t a job for humans. Other than requiring one’s stats to be stronger than normal soldiers, there is a shitload of random stuff we need to learn, I’mma die from excessive ejaculation* sooner or later!” Chi Qu Qi taught Qin Ke Xuan while complaining.

“Oi oi! Is this something to say in front of a girl?!” Tian Xue Qin sent a slap on Chi Qu Qi’s head. Z L T

Chi Qu Qi rubbed his head in pain, saying apologetically: “I don’t mean it literally, I meant 精*(jing; essence) as in 精神 (jing shen; spirit/mind)… Qin Ke Xuan have you memorised all the stuff I explained?” Upon seeing his explanation still elicited looks of disdain from everyone, he automatically swerved the topic of discussion onto Qin Ke Xuan. “What you see on the screen in front is the runway. Later when you fly into the sky, it will be the scene of the sky, quite similar to a normal plane. Pilots use stimulation machines to practice before driving a real aeroplane. As for us, it’s not like we’ll actually need to pilot a plane even if we do learn how to pilot a plane after practising with the stimulation machine. After all, we’re not pilots, we will not have any chance to pilot unless the circumstance is special.”

* original phrase used is 精尽人亡 which means to die from excessive ejaculation, where the 精 (jing) here means semen; Chi Qu Qi rebukes by saying he is referring to 精 with the context of 精神 (jing shen) which means state of his mind, hence is saying he’ll die from mental exhaustion rather than its original meaning.

Qin Ke Xuan nodded her head. The steering wheel, rudder pedal, throttle and valve and etcetera to her were quite similar to that of a car, both required each device to control each function. She was able to grasp the gist of things after trying a few times.

“Hehe, not bad not bad. When you won that guy at the target-shooting arena and made him so angry his face turned green, I knew at that moment that this pretty girl had some skills. As expected, you have my demeanour!” Chi Qu Qi gave her a thumbs up. “But this is just the foundation to flying, let me give you some harder stuff to play with.”

Qin Ke Xuan really couldn’t bring herself to be happy after being praised by him. Who would want to have his demeanour? However, from her observations, out of everyone that was currently here, he, the most unreliable one, was indeed the strongest out of all of the rest. As for the rest of the people, she would have to wait till they come down for night training to know.

Qin Ke Xuan tried all the machines at the warehouse base before the class-wide training finally came. Everyone was all somewhat interested in this newest yet youngest member, and all sized her up after introducing themselves.

However, they couldn’t spare the effort to size her up long because the demonic training began. Z L T

The training for the Special Forces Reserve Squad was lead by the proper members of the Tercel Brigade. In their words, it meant having seniors as their leader. There would only be one captain, the rest of the members would be vice-captain and would be in charge of the varied training activities. Z L T

In the beginning, they were tasked to run ten rounds around the track with weights strapped on. This school field track was no one comparable to this running track; the running track here was several times that distance. Before long, everyone’s breathing and footsteps had become disarrayed. One of the vice-captains running alongside them said very leisurely: “Why, already so tired after running this little distance? If so then it’s better you guys stop being a Special Force soldier, if word gets out, you’re gonna be throwing our faces!” Z L T

Chi Qu Qi muttered: “Easier said than done.”

“Xiao Chi zi*, what you muttering about?” Z L T

* 子 = zi; suffix attached to names (works similarly to how ‘xiao’ is a prefix)

“Reporting, I didn’t say anything!” Z L T

“Hoh, I heard you little guy went and made trouble with Sergeant One. Since you’re all capable now, why don’t you run two more rounds? And let’s see if you still have the energy to taint the reputation of the Special Force soldiers?” The vice-captain teased.

Chi Qu Qi’s face creased, and he implored: “Vice-cap! Brother! I’m begging you! Can you please don’t torment this little body anymore? I swear I will not go and provoke Sergeant One purposely ever again! I just brought the newcomer to familiarise the surroundings and shoot some targets, who knew he’d find me a hindrance. I couldn’t swallow this taunt and neither could I allow the newcomer to be bullied, so I wound up challenging him.”

The Qin Ke Xuan following tightly behind him wanted to just send him a kick, why was he dragging her down with him! Pity the captain was just beside them so she couldn’t find the time to make her move.

“Newcomer?” The vice-captain’s attention, as expected, was shifted by Chi Qu Qi. He turned to look at the Qin Ke Xuan behind, shocked. “Not bad, calm and composed, your physical finesse must be pretty good. Finally, a good seedling from this squad.”

Chi Qu Qi upon hearing him turned to look at Qin Ke Xuan. As the vice-captain had said, she was neither sweating nor panting, and that had him clicking his tongue. He really couldn’t tell Qin beauty was such an OP character. Z L T

“Xiao Chi zi, you still dare to say you’ve fought all the Reserve Squad members and remain unparalleled?” The vice-captain laughed. Z L T

After short break after running ten rounds was scaling. They had to scale up and down a ladder a hundred times per set. After such intense training, the majority of the people were beginning to be exhausted and laid on the ground panting.

A few of the captains squatted in front of them, snorting: “A proper Special Forces member will need to scale the ladder three hundred times per set! Not only that, you guys didn’t train in the morning so the amount of training is largely decreased. At the rate you guys are going, exactly when will you reach the standard of a Special Forces soldier? Acting dead already now huh? Stand up straight! Scale the barbed wire two hundred times!”

The entire squad howled in anguish in their hearts, it had only been a hundred last time! Z L T

The physical strength of the girl could not compare to the guys, but their captain this time didn’t let the fairer sex go easier, hence did not give the girls any leeway. Other than Qin Ke Xuan, the two other girls’ hands and legs had already gone soft. They even wobbled when walking. As expected, before the two of them hit a hundred, both of them could no longer continue and fainted.

After the captains had the health personals to check if they were fine, they called some people over to carry them back to rest, then couldn’t help but sigh: “They do have some skills, but their physical strength is too weak.” It’s not actually accurate to say their physical finesse was poor. They were a lot better compared to normal males, however they were definitely far from enough when compared to a Special Force soldier.

The only two burly and strong females had fainted, yet the Qin Ke Xuan, submerged in the bunch of tall and sturdy people, still appeared to have great vitality, and was even more at ease than some of the guys.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 31 is hosted at ZHANLANTRANSLATIONS.WORDPRESS.COM ♢
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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 30 ♦ TARGET SHOOTING COMPETITION


last edited on ZLT: 27.12.17

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Qin Ke Xuan after zipping out the bar upon seeing those people not chasing her stopped, took out her phone and dialled Zhou Lin. “Why didn’t you chase me?”

“Hehe, I’ve said that if you escape the bar alive, I’ll let you go. I’ve always been a very trustworthy person.”

“…” Z L T

“Hehe, you don’t believe me?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 30 is hosted at ZHANLAN.COM ♢

“Why?”

“Hehe, do you really need me to give you a reason? First of all, my people may not even be able to catch you even if they chase. Next, they may not be able to kill you even if they catch you. Lastly, won’t fighting with firearms in the broad daylight a perfect excuse for the police to finish us off? Oh, and one more, you could have killed my people and me just now, but you didn’t make your move, so I’ll return that. I’ll let you go, but if you let out anything about our organisation, then don’t blame me for being merciless.”

“Just like that?”

“Just like that. When I had scouted you to join the organisation, I’d knew that you’ll leave one day, just that I never expected it to be so fast.”

No wonder that guy had her do all the thievery jobs and did not let her come into contact with the high-clearance ones. He had never trusted her, but it’s good like that too because it made disengaging herself easier.

Qin Ke Xuan didn’t return to school immediately but turned towards another direction.

Standing before the gates, Qin Ke Xuan was refrained from entering by the sentinels at the gate. “This area is under military supervision, outsiders are prohibited from entering.”

Qin Ke Xuan took out the ID Chang Jiang Lin had given her to the Sentinel. The guard took it and examined it before immediately standing up straight and gave a military salute. “So you’re the soldier from the Special Forces Reserve Squad. Leader had said you will only be coming tonight, how come you are here already?”

Qin Ke Xuan returned a military salute as well. She learnt this during the military training. She knew lots of changes had occurred to this world. The etiquette of kneeling when seeing a senior officer no longer existed. She still lacked comprehension with regards to this military salute but had cheerfully complied. Nobody liked to kneel down before others; half kneeling was the same.

“I was thinking of coming ahead of time to see.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 30 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“Oh, one moment please. I need to stand guard at the gates so I’ll call someone to bring you in. There are quite a few people in the Reserve Squad already.” The sentinel informed her enthusiastically, and shouted at the duty room: “Xiao Ye, come out for a bit.”

Another sentinel walked out of the duty room, asking: “Why?”

“New soldier from the Special Forces Reserve Squad, you go and get someone from their troop to come and pick her up.”

“Enh, hold on.” And then he returned to the duty room to make a call to explain the situation.

Before long, a car drove over to Qin Ke Xuan. A robust man alighted from the car. After saluting them, he stretched his hand out at Qin Ke Xuan. “I’m Li Jian Zhong from the Special Forces Reserve Squad.”

Qin Ke Xuan lightly shook his hand. “Qin Ke Xuan.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 30 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“Get on, the people from our squad are all waiting to meet you.”

Qin Ke Xuan got in the car and Li Jian Zhong introduced the building and areas along the road as he drove. The military supervised zone in City B was a desolate suburban area. Other than some necessary buildings, everything else was wild vegetation and jungle. Squadrons of soldiers could be seen training along the road.

“You probably knew that the reserve squad we are in is under Chinese People’s Liberation Army, under the Tercel* Brigade in the east when you joined right. You can join Tercel as a proper member if you can pass the examination, it’s okay even if you don’t pass the examination, you’ll still be deployed to the different battalion and company and take up different duties in the military area.”

* 雄鹰 = xiong ying; tercel (aka: male eagle) 

“Enh.”

“Oh yeah, there are a total of 15 people in the squad, three of which, inclusive of you, are female. You are the only one among us that is still a high-schooler, the youngest here. The rest are university students. Our squad’s been assembling for training since a month ago. We’ll look out for you so you need not worry about lagging behind.”

“Enh.” Z L T

“And also, because we are still in the reserve squad and are still not proper soldiers yet, we attend normal lessons if we have any in the morning, else we will come over for training. Gathering for night training is compulsory. Also, we will live here. It will be stressful studying and training together, so you need to be mindful about managing the time on your side.”

As he talked, they reached a warehouse and Li Jian Zhong brought Qin Ke Xuan into the warehouse. Just as she stepped into the warehouse, she realised there were concealed weapons attacking in their direction. She immediately moved two steps to the side to evade the concealed weapon before hearing two pops coming from Li Jiang Zhong’s body. The two spots that were hit by the concealed weapon had a small hole each in his shirt.

Li Jian Zhong’s face darkened and he clenched his teeth bellowing in anger: “Who the hell did this?”

Two people with ropes around their waist jumped down from above. They were both donned in camouflage clothing and carrying rifles. One of them said to Li Jian Zhong cheekily: “Squad leader, your alertness is too low! If that was a real bullet by the enemy, you’d be dead already!”

Li Jiang Zhong punched him, scolding: “This is how you welcome a new member?! Fudge it, it hurts even if it’s an empty ammo I was shot by!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 30 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

He immediately withdrew his smile and set his expression and gave Qin Ke Xuan a military salute. His frivolous expression returned the minute he dropped his hand, and he said to Qin Ke Xuan: “Hellooo, I’m Chi Qu Qi, may I ask for this beauty’s name? And the age of this young lady? And whether you have a boyfriend? Do you want to consider this handsome guy?”

Another guy elbowed Chi Qu Qi, amused, saying: “I’m Tian Xue Qin. You don’t need to mind this wonky starry-eyed guy, he flirts with every female he sees.”

Chi Qu Qi shoved Dian Xue Qin in melancholy, arguing in discontent: “Aye aye, what are you saying? When did I flirt with every female I see? I someone who has a lot of principles, I only flirt with beautiful females!” As he said, he started sorting things out with Tian Xue Qin with his actions.

Li Jian Zhong facepalmed and said to Qin Ke Xuan: “They’ll always be like this when the two of them stay together, you don’t need to mind them. This warehouse is a site especially for us to use. The dormitories are the two rooms over there, one for females, one for males. The one there is our lounge, the rest of the rooms are for the different activities and training. It’s a little like the backdrop in CS*, have you played CS* before?”

* CS = counter strike; a multiplayer first-person shooter online video game 

“No.” Qin Ke Xuan sized up the surroundings. This warehouse was remodelled into different rooms of large and small sizes. There were some that were stocked with all sorts of equipment, and some others that just had a bumpy wall that was probably for people to scale. So they use all these weird kinds of methods to train? She believed it would be more straightforward and fast to just fight and kill.

Chi Qu Qi followed over, asking Qin Ke Xuan cheekily: “The newcomer babe, even though you don’t look very strong, you managed to dodge my attack which even the squad leader could not dodge, that’s pretty sick. Wanna play a shooting game with me?”

The squad leader knocked his head sternly. “Don’t think I don’t know you’re looking for someone to be a target. Let me warn you, don’t bully newcomers.”

“Squad Leader! The person wouldn’t be in our unit if she didn’t have her own move or two right? Didn’t she miss a lot of training, I’m just helping turn on a private oven* for her, promise you it’ll be like she hitched a ride on the Shenzhou Seven* Eight Nine and catch up with everyone!” Chi Qu Qi patted his chest making a solemn vow.

* 开小灶 = (lit.) turn on private oven, (fig.) give someone special attention 

* 神七八九 = shen 7 8 9; referring to Shenzhou 7 (the spacecraft in the Chinese space program launched in 2008) and Shenzhou 8 (launched in 2011) and Shenzhou 9 (launched in 2012).

“Squad leader, don’t worry about him. He’s dreaming about being a godly shooter every day to the extent he’s catching us all to be his shooting target. The newcomer will end up being pulled to be his target sooner or later. In my opinion, we should let this newcomer set him back a little!”

The squad leader turned his head and asked for Qin Ke Xuan’s opinion, “Qin Ke Xuan, what do you think? Have you used a gun before, want to try it?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 30 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Qin Ke Xuan felt that there was nothing to do anyway. Besides, she wanted to learn how to use those guns anyway, and so she nodded her head. At the same time, she took out the gun she had snatched from Zhou Lin’s people from her pocket. “Can do.”

“You’re bringing around a gun? … Fuck! That’s a real gun! Where did you steal that from? And a loaded gun at that, hold that properly don’t point that at me!” Chi Qu Qi stared at the gun in Qin Ke Xuan’s hands, making a big fuss. “Looks like there’s a lot for you to learn. You actually dare to bring around a loaded gun, you should be thankful the gun didn’t accidentally fire.”

The squad leader took over her gun and opened the magazine. Upon seeing the fully loaded bullets, he couldn’t help but feel his head throbbing. This newcomer was another troublemaker. “Where did you get this gun?”

“I picked it up on the road.” Qin Ke Xuan said calmly.

Who the heck would believe that! Z L T

Qin Ke Xuan had no intentions of broaching this topic with them. She looked at Chi Qu Qi. “Still shooting?”

“Of course! But since you’re a newcomer, let’s not play the real stuff first, how about 100m moving target shooting?”

Tian Xue Qing snorted: “Hoho, scared you’ll accidentally die in her hands after seeing this xiao mei mei is someone who has used a real gun before?”

“What you talkin’! This is me letting the rookie a little!”

The other female in their squad who had gone to collect Qin Ke Xuan’s uniform came back just at this time. Qin Ke Xuan changed into the camouflage clothing similar to theirs. But once she stood before them, they laughed. She was currently at the Lolita age stage, her figure was also very Lolita-esque. The uniform she had on was a size too large so it was baggy.

“Qin Ke Xuan, sorry, I didn’t know your frame was so… exquisite, so I had collected the uniform based on my height, I’ll change it for you later.” The girl who had collected the uniform apologised.

Chi Qu Qi was beyond amused, and laughed: “Qin Ke Xuan, how tall are you? Are you sure you have reached the Special Forces requirement? In my opinion, it’d be useless even if you change her uniform! Even the smallest size here on you would still be a chunk too long.”

Qin Ke Xuan rolled up the too-long sleeves and pants, shooting him a cold gaze. “Don’t nonsense, the results will be apparent on the battlefield.”

The bunch of them reached the target-shooting arena in a buzz. There happened to be other soldiers who were practising target shooting. A soldier who had a noticeably different uniform from them asked: “What do you want to do?”

“Reporting Sergeant One, we are just coming here to practice target shooting.” The squad leader replied.

“Go go, don’t you see the people from our platoon’s using the place? You guys can come use it after we’re done.” Sergeant One sent them away with impatience.

“Sergeant One, we are only using the 100 metre moving target shooting arena, we will not hinder your target shooting practice here.”

“Lad what do you mean? What, are we soldiers useless scoundrels that can only shoot dead targets?” Sergeant One glared at them. “You guys are but a reserve squad, it’s hard to say if you’ll even get into the actual squad! Look at how arrogant you are!”

“I don’t mean it that way…” The squad leader tried to explain. Z L T

Chi Qu Qi said, indignant: “Why don’t all of us compete then!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 30 is hosted at ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“Then let’s compete! Who’s afraid of who!” Sergeant One accepted Chi Qu Qi’s challenge and instructed his people to put up the shooting target, and called a few soldiers to go to smash them.

The squad leader couldn’t help but lowly scolded Chi Qu Qi: “Private fights is strictly prohibited in the military, even if you’re looking to be beaten up, don’t drag us the entire squad down with you!”

“Qie*!” Chi Qu Qi rolled his eyes and whispered to the Qin Ke Xuan on his side sneakily: “That Sergeant One has always found us unpleasant to his eyes, where have we ever done anything wrong to him? Who’s fault is it, not being able to enter the Special Forces Squad?! Just because he’s a sergeant and a senior soldier for two years, he’d desperately taunt us every time he sees us. If it weren’t the fact that we’re all in the same troop, I’d have shot him several times over from impatience! You wait and see, I’ll make him throw his face and his insides at the shooting arena!”

*切 = qie; scoffing or dismissive interjection (works the same way as ‘pssh’/’yeah right’)

Qin Ke Xuan however, didn’t mind it much. It’s just that the original two-peopled competition becoming a two-partied competition only.
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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 29 ♦ (SPOILER TITLE)


last edited on ZLT: 27.12.17

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Qin Ke Xuan saw a gentle-looking female teacher in that classroom sitting in front of a large black box, somehow making some very melodious sounds. She retracted her gaze and looked at Yin Xu Dong strangely. He was looking at that woman? The gaze he gave that woman was one of infatuation, was this… even though the woman looked pretty young, she was, in the end, still older than him by several years.

“You’re spying?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Yin Xu Dong immediately detonated. Covering her mouth with his hands, he warned her fiercely: “Don’t talk nonsense! I, I’m not spying!”

At that moment, the window above them whooshed open and the person inside popped her head out, asking in surprise: “Yin Xu Dong, what are you doing here not attending lesson?”

Yin Xu Dong froze, removed his hand covering Qin Ke Xuan’s mouth, he woodenly raised his head to smile embarrassedly at the person. “Hehe, Lu lao shi*, we…”

*老师 = lao shi; teacher

Qin Ke Xuan swept a cold gaze at the two of them and turned to leave.

Yin Xu Dong said to Lu Wei Wan: “Lu lao shi, sorry, my sister’s personality’s like that. We’ll head back to class first then!” After finishing, he turned to run off.

Qin Ke Xuan looked meaningfully at her and her lips that tilted. A strange expression flashed momentarily across Lu Wan Ran’s face, and Qin Ke Xuan turned and disappeared.

After finding a secluded corner in the large school, Qin Ke Xuan checked there was no one around before leaping up with an inhale to sit on a tree to read her book.

After reading for a while, the phone in her pocket rang. She took it out and saw the caller ID and couldn’t help but frown, then pressed to pick up. “What is it?”

“An Ye! My ancestor! Why didn’t you contact us?! How did it go yesterday, did you handle it okay?”

“Leopard, I have something I need to tell you.”

“Enh? What is it?”

“I want to quit the organisation.”

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“I’ll repeat, I want to quit dark organisation.”

Leopard paused for a long time before saying again: “Why?”

“I can only tell you that I will very likely become a soldier of this country.”

“Soldier?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Qin Ke Xuan heard Leopard’s ragged breathes on the other side of the phone.

“Fuck! Exactly what happened?!”

“Some stuff happened during military training.”

“Was that why you suddenly ran away recklessly a month ago, not even going home? Freaking hell, are those soldier eggheads snatching our people? Let me tell you, I’m not in the position to make this decision. It’s better you look for Zhou Lin.” After saying that, he hung up madly.

Before long, another call came in.

“What is it?”

“Let’s meet and talk.” Zhou Lin’s voice was gentle as usual. He did not get mad because Leopard reported to him that Qin Ke Xuan wanted to quit the organisation.

“Okay.” She had never once believed that it would be easy quitting the underworld once she entered.

Qin Ke Xuan closed her book. Just as she was about to flip down from the tree, she saw people walking by. Among them was a familiar face, and so she instinctively halted her body.

The two people walked over to under the canopy of another tree and started chatting softly about a topic she wasn’t interested in.

“Lao shi, do you really like me?” Z L T

“Of course, why would I lie to you?

“But, aren’t you together with Yin Xu Dong?”

“Yin Xu Dong? How’s that possible. I’m just a little better to him, and he self-importantly thought that I liked him. He should seriously check himself out in the mirror and see how disgusting he is right now, always sticking to me. I’m so annoyed, but I’m a lao shi, so I can’t really say anything to not let him come looking for me.”

“I’ll go and tell him to stop bothering you!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“…”

Qin Ke Xuan listened to the two of them chatting endlessly in boredom, and then actually witnessed them performing improper acts under the broad daylight. She looked through the tree branches in disgust and gave that coquettish face a cold stare. She raised her wrist to check her watch, leapt down from the tree, ignoring the flabbergasted pair of people and brushed past them, expressionless. Are you reading this on ZLT?

The male student reacted first. He caught up to her and blocked Qin Ke Xuan, saying in anxiety: “Tong xue*, can you not spread this?”

* 同学 = tong xue; (for both acquainted and non-acquainted) schoolmates/classmates (often addressed to students in school by other students or teachers; may also be used jokingly/teasingly as a suffix when used outside school context)

Qin Ke Xuan had originally not wanted to bother herself with matters that were not her business, but after being talked to in such a way by him, her gaze leapt past him and fell onto the Lu Wan Ran who was heading over, and couldn’t help but snort coldly: “Why not?”

“You, even if you do spread this, no one will believe it!” Z L T

“You sure?” Qin Ke Xuan asked.

The male student saw the phone in Qin Ke Xuan’s hand and his heart jolted. He pointed at her, trembling, and said: “You took our picture without permission?!”

Lu Wan Ran walked over. Despite her expression being a little unnatural, she still raised her chin, saying arrogantly: “Say it, how much money do you want to not spread it?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Money? She actually wanted to seal her mouth with money? Qin Ke Xuan stretched out her hand, saying blandly: “Take out everything you have with you right now.” It’ll fund her travel fees when meeting Zhou Lin later very nicely.

Lu Wan Ran raised her eyebrows in surprise. Usually when students meet with such situations, they wouldn’t want money. The money she was carrying didn’t amount to much either, so it wasn’t much of a loss to her. Hence, she very candidly extracted the all the notes in her wallet and gave it to Qin Ke Xuan.

When the male student was giving Qin Ke Xuan money, a person rushed out from the side.

“This tong xue! What are you doing?!”

Qin Ke Xuan stuffed the money into her pocket and looked at the angry man. “Nothing much, just happened to see a student and teacher and their clandestine love affair. They told me not to spread it.”

The man looked at the said pair of people in shock, and asked Lu Wan Ran: “Lu lao shi, was what she said true?” ZLT

Behind the director, the male student glared at Qin Ke Xuan in rage. Clenching his teeth, he bit out: “You said it even after talking our money?!”

Qin Ke Xuan: “Did I promise I won’t say it?” Z L T

“You, you wretched woman!”

Lu Wan Ran shook her head in panic. “Director, that’s definitely not true! I was just chatting with that student, she probably misunderstood it.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“Then why did you give her money?” The director picked at the details.

“I, she….” Lu Wan Ran was at loss for words and couldn’t find any excuse for that.

“How can you engage in such activities as a teacher?! The three of you, come to my office and address this clearly!” The director berated, and turned to call the two students. “Huh, where did the female student from just now go? How come she’s gone?”

“Director, she left…”

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The school gate would not open to let students leave before dismissal time, so Qin Ke Xuan came out by flipping over the wall. She flagged a taxi and headed straight for the meeting place she agreed with Zhou Lin.

Their meeting place was a bar. There were not many customers in the day so the place was very lonely. When Qin Ke Xuan entered, she immediately noticed Zhou Lin among the few customers. The fact that there were two burly guys standing behind him made him all the more conspicuous.

Qin Ke Xuan headed over to Zhou Lin and was blocked by the two bodyguards’ hand. Zhou Lin waved his hand and the two bodyguards retracted their hands. Qin Ke Xuan walked over and sat down on the seat across him. This guy was not easy.

Zhou Lin’s hands were interlaced. He smiled gently: “Long time no see.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

Indeed, they hadn’t meet ever since their first meeting when he had invited her to join the dark organisation. This was their second meeting, as well as their last meeting. She said blandly: “Exactly what do you want to let me leave the organisation?”

“Hehe, why do you talk as though I’m an unkind person.”

“I don’t want to waste time.”

“Look at you, already so military-esque when you’re still only in the Special Forces Reserve Squad. Not bad, not bad, you have potential.” Zhou Lin’s interlaced fingers lightly tapped.

Qin Ke Xuan’s gaze chilled. She had only told Leopard she would very likely become a soldier, she didn’t tell him she was already in the Special Forces Reserve Squad.

The two of them gazed at each other for a long time before Zhou Lin laughed out loud. “I praise you, why are you looking at me like that?”

This guy was just a smiling tiger*. He’ll smile gently on the outside but would hide his scary intentions. She disliked people like that very much. “Then will you let me leave the organisation?” If he did, then everyone will be happy. If he didn’t, then he’ll have to finish her with his capabilities first. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

* 笑面虎 = xiao mian hu; (lit.) smiling tiger, (fig.) an outwardly kind but inwardly cruel/sly person

“Hehe, since you’ve already said it like that, then can I still not let you go? You’re a soldier. No matter how powerful we are, we won’t dare to adopt a confrontational posture against the country’s military.” Zhou Lin picked up the cup and sipped his alcohol, his eyes glinting cold. “But our organisation’s not a place for people to come and go as they wish.”

“Every organisation’s the same.” Qin Ke Xuan’s eyes rolled sideways as the bodyguard beside her pressed a gun against her forehead.

Zhou Lin took another sip, continuing leisurely: “It’s not like I’m not going to give you a chance either. If you can escape this bar alive, I’ll let you leave.”

“If you die?” Qin Ke Xuan asked.

“Haha, lass, you’re pretty amazing but don’t overestimate yourself. It’s better you think about how you can save your little life.”

Before Zhou Lin finished talking, Qin Ke Xuan’s hand had already hit the bodyguard’s numbing acupuncture point at a very fast speed. The bodyguard, upon seeing Qin Ke Xuan’s movements, wanted to pull the trigger, but the numbing of his arm rendered him unable to control his fingers. Qin Ke Xuan had already taken this opportunity to unclasp his fingers, and then twisted his arm, breaking it as she seized the gun. At the same time, she raised a leg to kick the other bodyguard who had wanted to take out his gun. She bent down to pick up the gun he’d just taken out and set it against the leisurely drinking Zhou Lin’s forehead.

“Can I go now?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“Hehe, not bad as expected, no wonder the military took notice of you, but…” Zhou Lin swallowed a sip of alcohol again, “you can only die here today!”

Qin Ke Xuan dropped her short figure. Bang bang bang, several bullets brushed past her above her head. She rolled on the ground and hid behind a chair. Raising her hand, she aimed the gun at the few people running out from the boxed rooms in the bar. Her finger pulled the trigger and the bullet hit one of the people’s thighs.

Qin Ke Xuan shook the gun. It was her first time using this thing so her shooting wasn’t as good as she had desired, but it didn’t feel too bad using it. She raised her gun and aimed at the other few people again. Pulling the trigger, the next several times she shot had not been her intended aim, but she was becoming increasingly familiar with its strength as well as its accuracy.

Another shot, and it hit one of the people’s arms where she’d intended it to it. She wanted to continue but discovered no matter how much she pulled the trigger, no bullet shot out from the gun. She waved her hand and swung the gun at one of the people’s head.

Qin Ke Xuan pocketed her other gun, leapt up and dodged the bullets that followed her way before zipping out the bar.

“Zhou ge, are we chasing?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 29 is hosted on ZHANLANN.COM ♢

“No need, let her go.”

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CHAPTER 29 ♦ KILL HER WAY OUT OF THE ORGANISATION

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