Addicted: Book Two - The Raging Flames of Passion

Chapter 36 - I Might be Dying!

Translator: NancyChen3

Editors: BambiKill5/Sae

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As the somber clouds cloaked the great Gobi Desert, lifelessness reigned the entire place. The vast red earth stretched for thousands of kilometres and the atmosphere was densely shrouded by a horrific dark haze. After endless days and nights of dead silence, the sound of explosions disseminated from the sky. The muffled thunders and plumes of vermillion smoke breaking through the clouds, was the prelude to 'War'.

It was a fierce combat that would rewrite history.

The Air Force and the Marine aviation embattled the empyreal; the tanks from the Ground Forces ran unhindered across the mighty desert; the Artillery unit's guided missile launchers were aimed high into the blue skies... From all over the nation, elites from different armed forces congregated in the desert and staged a magnificent theatrical drama of the modern era: 'War'.

Bai Luo Yin was unsure of where all those soldiers had encamped in the past few days, but what he was quite sure of, was the price he had had to pay in order to make it to where he was.

He was fortunate. At least, he had made it to the battlefield, unlike the thousands of men left behind. Standing in the snow, they were holding back their tears as they raised their blistered and wounded hands in salute to see off the comrades that had been chosen.

After only ten short days of training, all of them appeared to have been remolded and become new men.

When Bai Luo Yin spoke of his subordinates, he no longer displayed the exasperated expression that was usually evoked by them failing to meet his expectations. He had already made up his mind that when they would return to the base, he would solemnly declare this to each and every one of them: "You are all outstanding!"

Before Bai Luo Yin climbed into his fighter jet, he secretly said to Gu Hai: "You have to bless and protect me. Bless me so that I can win this battle! I want to show my strength to that psychotic Lao Zhou and also make Gu Laoye[1] see me in a whole new light!"

All division commanders from the participating armed forces had gathered in the supervisory control room. The top Shouzhang, who was throning in the centre of the room, was Gu Wei Ting, who had taken time out of his busy schedule to witness the battle.

At that place, thousands of kilometres outside central China, the air combat commenced as two fighter jets staged an intense and ferocious battle in the sky and carried out a series of attacks. The deluge of smoke from the ammunition had yet to disperse, when bombers[2] took off to join the battle. As they traversed the war zone, their whistling sounds resonated throughout the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, in the depth of the great Gobi Desert, the opponents were in position to sabotage. The Electronic Warfare Division[3] had discharged its full electromagnetic spectrum for interception. Radar Units had uncoiled a net of infrared interference in the sky. Ground-to-air Force[4] had aimed their missiles and were ready to launch.

Zhou Ling Yun sat in the control room, anxiously staring at the large screen, his stone-cold expression long since removed. Before his eyes, the stream of data transmitted from the nine skies[5] turned into series of dazzling characters that poured over the screen like a waterfall, forming tables and charts.

Bai Luo Yin's fighter jet was like a fire-breathing dragon piercing straight through the vault of heaven, hauling a silvery white plume of smoke. In the blink of an eye, the 'fiery dragon' turned into a blazing shooting star as it soared scorching across the skies, viciously roaring as it charged toward the enemies that had been surreptitiously veiled by the gloomy clouds. As he aimed and vigorously shot at his opponents, one by one, they plummeted to their destruction...