Chapter 284 - 285 Execution by Shooting
After more than six hours of flight, it was already midnight. Miao Qingqing and Miao Xuanxuan were anxious and even more exhausted. With Song Xiaodong’s comfort, both of them eventually fell asleep on Song Xiaodong’s shoulder.
Song Xiaodong looked at their haggard faces and couldn’t help but feel a pang of heartache. Although he had been young when his own parents died, he remembered how heartbroken he had been. He could fully empathize with the siblings.
What Song Xiaodong was most worried about was that when he arranged for friends to rescue Miao Qingyuan, they had made it clear that there wasn’t much hope of success. It wasn’t that those people were too difficult to handle, but that local armed groups would typically kill their captives after robbing them, rarely leaving any survivors.
However, he truly couldn’t bear to tell Miao Qingqing and Miao Xuanxuan this—it was simply too cruel.
Upon arriving in Soko, the three of them had just left the airport when a burly man came up to greet them. Song Xiaodong went over and gave him a warm hug, saying, "Heizi, you’ve gotten even more robust."
This was Song Xiaodong’s former comrade, Sun Zhen, but because of his dark skin, he had gotten the nickname Heizi. He now joined a Mercenary organization and was on a mission there.
Warriors like Song Xiaodong needed to be honed on the battlefield, but in a world that was mostly at peace, with only occasional minor frictions with surrounding countries that didn’t amount to war, there was no battlefield for them to fight on.
Therefore, some special warriors were sent to war-torn areas for training under various pretexts and names.
Sun Zhen gave Song Xiaodong’s shoulder a friendly punch and chuckled, "Heh, Eldest Brother, you’ve become much fairer. This young man must be living the good life. Oh, and these must be the sister-in-laws." He first made a smooth comment when he looked at Miao Qingqing and Miao Xuanxuan, then immediately his eyes widened, and he gave Song Xiaodong a thumbs up with a lewd expression on his face.
Song Xiaodong glared at him and said, "Don’t talk nonsense." Then he turned to Miao Qingqing and Miao Xuanxuan, "Qingqing, Xuanxuan, this is my good brother Sun Zhen, his nickname is Heizi, everything about Uncle Miao is in his hands."