Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 36 A Major Secret
Lin Fei hurriedly lowered his head to look for horse hoof prints on the ground, followed the hoof prints and walked back, turned around the woods, and walked a dozen meters. The hoof prints stopped abruptly, indicating that Ling Xue got off the horse here. Lin Fei hurriedly squatted on the ground to look for footprints, and soon found that a mess of footprints extended to the grass on the side of the road.
Lin Fei rushed to the edge of the bushes, only to see that a large area of the grass had been flattened. The flattened grass extended into the woods. It was obvious that something had run over it. Lin Fei's heart suddenly moved, and he thought to himself that something was wrong. Ling Xue must have been captured by a wild beast.
Lin Fei felt his heart suddenly tighten, and he hurriedly followed the path created by the bushes to chase after her, praying that Ling Xue was okay. Suddenly, Lin Fei heard a crackling sound of fighting coming from the bushes on the side. Lin Fei drew out the Blade of Saladin and went into the woods.
After walking around two trees, I saw two tall men holding down a woman on the ground in the open space in front of me. One was tearing off the woman's shirt, and the other was tearing off the woman's pants. Both men had Filipino faces, and the woman on the ground had a Chinese face. She was gritting her teeth and struggling desperately.
Lin Fei recognized at a glance that the woman on the ground was Ling Xue. He was immediately furious. He leaped over and chopped down the Filipino who was tearing off Ling Xue's pants with a knife. The other Filipino who was tearing off Ling Xue's shirt dropped Ling Xue and ran away. Lin Fei swung his long arm, and the Saladin blade in his hand flew out and cut directly into the calf of the Filipino. The Filipino screamed and fell to the ground.
Lin Fei walked a few steps to the Filipino man. The Filipino man dragged his injured leg, sweating profusely from the pain. He crawled backwards while shouting at the top of his voice: "Do you know who I am? How dare you... ruin... my good deeds..."
Lin Fei reached out and pulled the knife out of the Filipino's calf, causing the Filipino to howl in pain like a pig being slaughtered. Lin Fei pointed at the Filipino's forehead and said, "I don't care who you are. If you bully us Chinese women, there is only one outcome - death!"
Lin Fei swung his knife and started to chop, but he heard Ling Xue's heart-wrenching cry from behind him: "Don't kill him!"
Lin Fei was stunned and looked back at Ling Xue. He saw Ling Xue getting up from the ground. Without bothering to tidy up her messy clothes, she rolled and crawled to Lin Fei and said, "Don't kill him. He is not an ordinary person."
Lin Fei frowned and asked, "Who is he?"
Ling Xue said: "He is the son of the Karakatu tribe leader!"
Lin Fei snorted disdainfully and said, "Karakatu tribe leader? What is that?"
Ling Xue showed a trace of panic on her face and said, "He is the chief of a tribe to our south. His tribe is larger than the Makepaslo tribe. There are 20,000 Filipinos and about 8,000 Chinese in it."
Lin Fei snorted coldly, raised his hand and chopped off half of the Filipino's head with a knife, and sneered: "I don't care who he is, as long as he dares to bully the Chinese, I will make his head move!"
Lin Fei wiped the knife on the Filipino man, turned around and asked Ling Xue: "They didn't hurt you, did they?"
Ling Xue shook her head, and Lin Fei breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What on earth is going on?"
Ling Xue's face suddenly changed, and she pushed Lin Fei hard, angrily saying, "Why do you still care about my life or death?"
Lin Fei's heart was also aroused. He thought, I was so anxious when I found out you were missing just now, but now you are still being petty with me! You have been acting strange since I saw you today, and you are so cold to me. What is going on?
Lin Fei frowned, reached out and grabbed Ling Xue's wrist, pulled her in front of him, and said sternly: "Ling Xue, stop acting like a spoiled brat, tell me quickly, what is going on?"
If it was Chiyo Mika, she would have burst into tears after being pulled and yelled at by Lin Fei like this, but Ling Xue was different. She raised her head and glared at Lin Fei without showing any weakness, saying: "How did I act like a spoiled brat? What kind of a lady am I! That Mika is a rich lady!"
Lin Fei originally wanted to scare Ling Xue and ask her to tell him what happened, but he didn't expect Ling Xue to be not afraid and even drag Chiyomika into it.
Ling Xue broke away from Lin Fei's hand, stretched out her hand towards him, and said angrily: "Give me back the purse I gave you. It has no special meaning to you. What do you want it for?"
Lin Fei was completely confused. He frowned and asked, "What special meaning does it have? What are you talking about?"
Ling Xue said angrily: "Didn't you say it yourself? The rope that Chiyomika gave you has a special meaning, so the one I gave you has no special meaning. Return it to me now!"
Lin Fei then remembered what he had said unintentionally that day, and seemed to understand why Ling Xue was angry. He smiled helplessly and said, "Xue'er, are you angry because of what I said? Is the root cause of your behavior along the way because of that sentence?"
Ling Xue was indeed angry because of that sentence, but she was too embarrassed to admit it. Her face turned red for a moment and she whispered , "No, it's not like that."
Seeing that she was unwilling to admit it, Lin Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment, and said, "That knot was given to me by Chiyomika before I went to war. I shouldn't have accepted that thing as a grown man, but the military situation was urgent, so I accepted it. This is what I meant by the special meaning."
Lin Fei said this in a serious tone: "Your things are very delicate and beautiful, and you have been of great help to me. Your things also have special meanings."
When Ling Xue heard Lin Fei say this, her anger disappeared, but she quickly thought: "My behavior is simply jealousy! Lin Fei and I have nothing to do with each other! I was jealous because of such a sentence, and he saw through me. Oh my God, I am so embarrassed! I am so embarrassed!"
Ling Xue hurriedly covered up her shyness and said, "I was just riding my horse back, and they suddenly jumped out from the side of the road and pulled me off the horse. That's what happened."
Lin Fei nodded and said, "So that's how it is. Is your hand wound okay? Do you want to bandage it?"
Ling Xue raised her hand and looked at the wound caused by the reins. She asked, "How did you know my hand was injured?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "I only knew you were injured when I saw the blood on the reins." He reached out to grab her hand and said softly, "Let me see if the wound is deep. Does it need to be bandaged?"
When Ling Xue's hand was touched by Lin Fei, she felt a tingling sensation all over her body. Her heart was pounding, and she quickly retracted her hand and said, "I'm fine. Let's go quickly. We killed the son of the Karakatu tribe leader, and they will definitely cause trouble for us."
Lin Fei smiled nonchalantly and said, "What are you afraid of? Who would know that I killed the clan leader's son?"
Ling Xue said: "What if the clan leader's son brings servants with him? The servants will find us."
Lin Fei was a little worried because he only had a revolver with six bullets when he came out. If there were more Filipinos, he really couldn't handle them. So he said, "Well, let's go quickly."
Lin Fei and Ling Xue returned to the town. Just as they reached the metallurgical industrial zone, a scraggly, unkempt man suddenly ran over and yelled at them, "Did you go to Bumao Mountain?"
Lin Fei recognized this person as Master Guan , and thought to himself that Master Guan had never been so excited before, what happened today? So Lin Fei asked: "Master Guan, we are going to Bumao Mountain, is there anything wrong?"
Master Guan stamped his feet heavily and said, "Barren Mountain is where the Karakatu tribe often appears. It is too dangerous for you to go there!"
Lin Fei was startled and asked, "The Barren Mountain is where the Karakatu tribe often appears? How did you know that?"
Master Guan sighed, then suddenly raised his hands to cover his face and burst into tears. Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "Master Guan, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
Master Guan was still crying and didn't say anything. Lin Fei had no choice but to wait on the side. Master Guan cried for ten minutes before he slowly let go of his hand, wiped his tears, and said sadly: "My wife and daughter were captured by Chief Karakatu in Bumao Mountain!"
Ling Xue immediately asked, "Master Guan, weren't your wife and daughter killed by Chief Makaipaslo?"
Master Guan gritted his teeth, his face full of grief, anger and helplessness. Lin Fei saw that there was a major hidden secret here, and hurriedly said: "Let's go to the ore warehouse and talk slowly."
When they arrived at the ore warehouse, Master Guan said sadly: "Actually, my wife and daughter are not dead..."
Lin Fei and Ling Xue were both shocked. Lin Fei asked, "Master Guan, what is going on?"
Master Guan said: "My wife and daughter were captured by the chief of the Karakatu tribe. They treated Chinese women as... slave prostitutes... I had no way to save them... so I lied to myself and said they were dead..."
Master Guan burst into tears when he said this. He raised his hand and slapped himself while crying, howling heartbreakingly: "I'm so fucking useless! I'm not a man..."
When Ling Xue saw Master Guan's expression and thought of his wife and daughter becoming slaves, tears started to flow down her cheeks. She hugged Master Guan's arm and advised, "Uncle Guan, please don't be like this..."
Lin Fei was so angry that his voice trembled. He said, "Master Guan, it's okay. I will rescue your wife and daughter. I will not let any of those who have hurt the Chinese go!"
When Master Guan heard Lin Fei say this, his crying subsided a little. Lin Fei then said, "Master Guan, why didn't you tell me about this earlier? I could have found a way to rescue them earlier."
Master Guan said in a trembling voice: "It's useless, it's useless, we can't save them, the Karakatu tribe is too powerful..."
Lin Fei said: "Master Guan, you don't have to be afraid. We now even have automatic rifles. How can we be afraid of the Filipinos who use swords and spears?"
