Summary:

Kid and Nikov's talk with Albayrak turns the whole thing around. The Turkish fugitive has something more humane than expectation. But is he truly humane or it is just through times due to struggle? Nonetheless, the map of the secret jade facility of the Burmese Army is given for them by Albayrak. When they go deeper, the more reality soon reveals in Kachin land.

Meanwhile, increasing hostility between Than Myint and his Chinese mercenary has started to bear a burden cost, as the Chinese mercenary suspects something from the unfriendly Burmese General. However, the jade trade turns out to bear some fruits, and so, they want to reach the target, only to find out a standoff.


Hpakan, Myanmar

After the happiness meeting, Kid and Nikov bid goodbye to the Turk, and Çelattin Albayrak gave them a map of a jade mine located outside Hpakan for … 540 kilometers.

Both Kid and Nikov this time, carried their own private car, a gift from Albayrak, to work and went there. Albayrak, before goodbye, told them that, the mine seemed to hide something that might be the facilities of the Tatmadaw. A car, of course, old, made in 1930s, a blue Ford Model Y.

"Do you think he is trustworthy?" Kid asked a serious question, based on experience with Albayrak.

"(He's kind of a man who speaks half truth, half lie. However, when I saw his face turned painful after the tragic death of one of his men, Carl, five years ago, he seemingly wanted to speak the truth.)" Nikov analyzed, and he was a very experienced person himself, he knew it.

"The Burmese military has a long reputation of being accused for facilitating drug trade. Their refusal to cooperate with other neighbors nor even the civilian government right now has a significant consequence, Myanmar is now being the world's largest methamphetamine producer, and stands second in term of drug only after Afghanistan."

"(No wonder why they are desperate to kill us.)" Dora-nikov realized: "(We're Americans, but our goal of going to Kachin territory had brought us under targets. Remember an agent, John Whelan, who almost lost his live risking to investigate the drug trade?)"

"So, they think that, we are investigating their drug trade. That's matched up with the List." Kid, on the wheel, quietly noticed: "This has examined the fact, Than Myint is fighting for the drug trades he had installed."

"(What an army … if such kind of army exists, who needs enemy?)"

"But that doesn't mean Albayrak is innocent. Does he act like this to us to protect his other drug and jade trades?" Kid's eyes focused on the road but he still remembered the goal.

"(We're unclear. The largest rebel group is the United Wa State Army, which since 2010s has functioned into a narcotic group.)" Nikov breathed: "(It's too dangerous to be in no-man's land.)"

"You're right. Let's get the hell out of here. Find the mine, and left." Kid agreed immediately as he continued to drive the car. For both two, theories are theories, but it can't be denied.

Burmese military base

A local military base set up by the Tatmadaw was founded there. It was the base that Zheng Wangji chose to stay, of course, to keep himself alive.

"May I share the water?"

"Okay."

Zheng drank a lot of fresh water in an anonymous tent only to find out that Than Myint entered the tent, and argued with Zheng. Of course, he always carried a Chinese translator.

"အဘယ်ကြောင့်သင်ဟမ်, ငါ့ကိုမယုံကြည်ပါသလဲ ငါသည်သင်တို့ကြောင့်ပြုမိပါပြီထင်!" (Why don't you trust me, huh? I thought you have done it!)

"你没有告诉我很多反叛部队出人意料。 你觉得开心吗?" (You didn't tell me that a lot of rebel troops coming in surprise. Do you feel happy?)

"အိုတကယ်ပဲလား? ငါသည်သင်တို့ကိုသူတွေကိုအမေရိကန်တွေကိုသတ်မှပေးဆောင်နေထင်!" (Oh, really? I thought you're paid to kill those Americans!)

"你认为我真的可以与一群比我自己和你两个可怜的双胞胎同志相比大三倍的反叛者作战吗?" (You think I can really battle a bunch of rebels that's three times larger than my own and your two pathetic twin comrades?)

Suddenly, Than Myint tried to keep his mouth calm, because he still needed the Chinese sniper to do his dirty job.

"ဒါကို။ သငျသညျချင်လျှင်, ထို့နောက်ငါသဘောတူသည်။ ကျနော်တို့ဘေးဖယ်ကွဲပြားခြားနားမှုထားရပါလိမ့်မယ်။ ငါ မချမ်းဘောမြို့ အတွက်ကြီးမားတဲ့ကျောက်စိမ်းမှော်ရှိသည်။ သငျသညျဤအချိန်ကိုကူညီလျှင်, ငါတို့သည်ခြင်္သေ့ရဲ့ရှယ်ယာအတူတူရကြမည်။ သဘောတူ?" (Alright. If you want, then, I agree. We will have to put differences aside. I have a large jade mine in Machanbaw. If you help this time, we shall have the lion's share together. Agree?)

"那么,多少钱?" (Then, how much?)

"A lot."

This time, Zheng Wangji was skeptical and he didn't trust on Than Myint anymore. However, his family in China was facing problem so he would rather accept it for a moment, to provide protection.

And so, Zheng took up his rifle and left in order, as Gen. Than Myint looked on and on and on …

Kid and Nikov, meanwhile, sought to avoid confrontation against possible Tatmadaw's outposts and they understood what to do.

"If the Tatmadaw soldiers are guarding, we will need to watch out."

"(Well then.)" Nikov put up his pistol: "(We'll see.)"

In their road to go, Kid and Nikov were well-informed of the possible plan of the Tatmadaw, even though they hadn't met any locals. The army patrols, thankfully, didn't notice about them, and neither the car entered into the territory of the Tatmadaw-controlled area.

Kachin region has always been that unstable. The patrolling territory in deep has been under the KIA, but Tatmadaw troops will not hesitate to enter it as well. This was what left behind and it has been that for decades.

The Burmese troops carried together ammunition and they often watched the local's townships. Kid and Nikov, with their 1930s Ford car, eyed a lot of amazing Christian churches and the pray of local people in the church toward God, and Jesus Christ.

It had never been understood for both Kid and Nikov that, why a country of Buddhist faith that supposed to support people's religious friendly, turned becoming authoritarian and violent. They had never understood why, and how.

15 hours, and some few passage to drink and eat, Kid and Nikov sought oil and gas, and ammunition, they understood the importance to take their weapons above all things, or they could be backstabbed. In Myanmar, trust is easy, yet betray is also easy. The List that Kid covered on the Huawei iPhone, must be strange yet amazingly collective.

In the same time, Zheng Wangji sat on the specific military jeep and together with Zheng were General Than Myint, and his personal Chinese translator. Than wanted vengeance, especially the deaths of Htun Zaw and Htun Yaw.

The images of Dora-the-Kid and Dora-nikov still appeared on the head of Gen. Than, and it might explain his determination to end this.

"ကျောက်စိမ်းမိုင်းထံသို့လာကွ! ကျနော်တို့လျှို့ဝှက်ချက်၌အကြှနျုပျတို့၏စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းကိုစောင့်ရှောက်ရန်ရှိသည်လိမ့်မယ်။" (Come to the jade mine! We'll have to keep our business in secret.)

After a day, and their refusal to sleep in a hotel but rather in the car, it did allow them to finally reach the target.

They had come there in the nightfall. The poor mountain town …

Machanbaw!

Machanbaw, Myanmar

Machanbaw is one of the poorest and least developed place, virtually has some local Buddhist monasteries and Christian churches, but that's all they could see in Myanmar's mountainous town.

The town, however, was also a special pilgrim place. Every years, the Kachins believed that, Machanbaw was where two brothers, Jingpo and Singpo, led the people to escape from poverty and settled there, where they prayed to the God and sky, thankful of the protection. Two tribes, Jingpos and Singpos, named after them, but both claimed themselves the children of Kachin people.

Famed as mountainous warriors who fought to preserve its identity, Kachins were victims of notorious massacres and slavery by vicious regime torture in Burmese history. Under the reign of Bayinnaung, Kachins were captured as slaves. Konbaung dynasty slaughtered hundreds of Kachins after accusing them for helping Chinese Qing empire to invade Ava, now in Mandalay. Hence, Kachins allied with Britain to screw off Burma. Japanese and later early Union period saw Kachins had difficult tie, but the Kachins still fought on the Burmese Union until Ne Win.

But most of all, Kachins are known for being … tolerant, and open-minded on guests. This made the nature of Kachins as being friendly, but they are also stubborn.

The cold mountain of Kachin State has been sacred, and it'll remain.

"What on earth, so amazing people. Nikov, thanks for the info."

"(That's what you should know about the Kachins.)"

"I'm amazed. Amazed of the strong survival of Kachin race. They're truly warriors. I can understand why they prefer not to separate, they still think a multi-ethnic union would be better."

"(Indeed. But it is fading. Fading for one reason, the Bamars.)"

"Quite … tragedy." Kid and Nikov got startled with the coldness, but that's it. They didn't want to miss the moment, so they drove upper in the mountains to see all the scenes.

It reminded to the local song Jingphaw Buga, or in English, "Kachin homeland". And they loved the memories in this land.

Kid and Nikov kept breathing … as they kept on and on. The amazing land was so great for Kid to remember. For Nikov, he was already a mountainous and loner, so he had no reason to be strange.

But little known for Kid and Nikov, they were heading to a place that coined to be very notorious.

Yes, the jade mine of Machanbaw, the mine land that had been under constant violence and it is now a guarded area with heavy restriction. Locals were not allowed. Only specific people were allowed to enter, from important governors to locals.

Yet, the jade mine had road connection with China's Kunming. And also, trucks, cars and other vehicles were secretly entering the jade mine. A lot. And it had Chinese license plates altogether. And it must be more, because only few people could enter there. So, this was …

"告诉缅甸人,我们要来玉石矿。 鱼即将到来。" (Tell the Burmese, we are coming to the jade mine. The fish is about to come.)

"是。" (Yes.)

A special official, who came from Yunnan, was coming to Machanbaw. Meanwhile, another official asked the man who wore black glasses.

"狙击手怎么样?" (What about the sniper?)

"离开他。 他作为一只老鼠毫无用处。 在与缅甸人打交道后,我们会抓住他的命运。" (Leave him. He is useless as a rat. We'll seize his fate after dealing with the Burmese.)

"他知道我们支持他的糟透了吗?" (Did he know we were behind the abysmal of his?)

"那很重要么? 正如我所说,他只是一只无用的老鼠。" (Is it important? As I said, he is just a useless rat.)

As the convoy continued to go, they were about to come to the main destination …

The Burmese counterpart, meanwhile, was also coming. But they were very cautious.

"ဘယ်လိုသင်တရုတ်က အထွေထွေကိုင်တွယ်ကြမည်နည်း" (How will you handle the Chinese, General?)

"အဆိုပါတရုတ်, နာမည်ဆိုးဖြင့်ကျော်ကြားမုသာဝါဒီများဖြစ်ကြသည်ဆိုတရုတ်မယုံကြည်နိုင်ပါ။ ဒါပေမယ့်ကျနော်တို့သတိထားရောက်ထားရန်လိုအပ်ပါတယ်။" (The Chinese are notorious liars, cannot trust any Chinese. But we need to be careful.)

Than Myint openly denounced China and Chinese, but since he spoke Burmese, Zheng Wangji, who sat with him as well, could not understand a single word of Burmese language. Hence, Zheng could not realize what did Than really think of him.

Gen. Than Myint then told to his henchmen, to get ready, and wait.

21:00

Machanbaw, Myanmar

Kid and Nikov shared hamburgers and ate it as dinner when they headed into the high mountain, and happily shared the meal.

"What an amazing scene. And so is the abandoned church."

Their car stopped in an abandoned Catholic church. Built by French priests in 19th century, the Catholic church was later fallen to ruins due to decades of shelling.

Kachins are majority Christians, and animists, at the same time. Christianity has been influential part of Kachin people, and almost they are Protestants. However, Catholics and Lutherans are also omnipresent among them as well.

Christianity has played a central part on separating Kachins to Bamars. Like the Karens, Kachins seeks for self-determination. The Kachins, for long time, brutally suppressed by the Burmese, still tried to live in peace. But with the time passed on, war was the last choice.

Dora-the-Kid and Dora-nikov despised Burmese regime. They had nothing against local Burmese anyway.

"If the life had been that way …"

"(Hahaha, you dream much. But that's what we're facing.)"

As they were eating, suddenly, something was moving. Nikov was more sensitive and delicate, quickly urged Kid to finish the meal, because he discovered something was moving fast. So, Kid had to swallow the whole hamburger to finally discover.

Looking down from the mountain peak into the gorge, Nikov and Kid quietly watched out the light.

"Light?" Kid got stunned: "It was moving! What kind of vehicles like this?"

"(Bet you know it. I suppose, except for people wanna become an adventurer, no one will risk to violate the nightfall. Something is messy around here.)"

"Nikov, do you think who can do it?"

"(I suppose …)" Nikov looked on the gorge's road to the north of their standing, and the east of the map, the Russian-American saw this: "(Not a surprise. It is connected to China's Nujiang.)"

"Nujiang?" Kid talked: "Well?"

"(The road was specifically collected to connect to two ways. From the north of our eyes, or east of the map, it is connected to much larger Yunnan. In the north or our eyes, or west of the map, it connects to a small part of Tibet and a part of Yunnan. Who else can build such roads?)"

"The Chinese … and its Burmese labors."

"(Indeed. But the road we watched the convoy moving came from the north of our eyes, which is from Nujiang.)"

"Then, we have no reason to be hesitated. Let's go."

Kid and Nikov soon stopped talking. The moment they stopped talking, they acted seriously and decided to more forward. No more reason to stay anyway.

Meanwhile, those vehicles that Kid and Nikov watched, was the convoy and correctly, the convoy of one Chinese official, or might be two, three, no one knew.

The convoy of the Chinese officials were pretty much annoying, and not easy to get touched. Because following them were a group of PLA soldiers, heavily armed.

"他们到那儿了吗?" (Have they come there yet?)

"他们很快就会前往那里。 十分钟后,他们会到达。" (They are heading there soon. After ten minutes, they'll arrive.)

"好。 让我们继续吧。" (Good. Let's head on.)

The Burmese counterparts also showed determination.

"ဒါကြောင့်သူတို့ကရောက်ရှိလာခဲ့ပြီလော စောလွန်းတယ်။" (So, they have arrived? So early.)

Than Myint decided to fight on. He'd go and schedule a meeting with the Chinese counterpart to discuss the jade trade and, even more: sexual gifts.

Kachin State is notorious for human trafficking, especially young women being trafficked to China. Than Myint, the degenerate General, was notorious for the same involvement. His participation on human trafficking was deep and great enough to make it hard to investigate.

Not just that, the country's unstable transition, which the democratic Government turned out to be powerless, while the military men still retained power, has put it harder.

Than Myint and his Chinese aide, Zheng Wangji, took the charge. Zheng, meanwhile, realized what was about to come.

Kid and Nikov's quick reaction allowed them to move from the gorge and following discovery saw even a more complicated complex: it was …

… the Awng Dang jade mine, where the location began.

Awng Dang's jade mine was first discovered by the British when Britain won the second Anglo-Burmese War. No one knew how the British exploit the mine, but James Carleston, a former officer of the British Army in 19th century, documented about the mine.

It was deep, interesting, fascinating and perhaps, this was the best jade mine in the history of Myanmar. Over the years of British rule, the mine was controlled by British army and the local Kachins. Britain's generous treatment on Kachins allowed them to have a specific ally, the most loyal one – Kachin people.

During the World War II, Japan invaded Burma and the jade mine became a marking point of anti-Japanese resistance among Kachins. Kachins provided intelligence for the British, Chinese and Americans against the Japanese, inflicting heavy damage for the Japanese Imperial Army. Many Japanese troops were killed in the mine.

After Japan was kicked out, Britain left Burma and the mine was under the control of the Burmese government, under the Panglong agreement that Kachins were autonomous in the region. Autonomy was a major development by that time, as the Kachins became important soldiers of Burmese Armed Forces.

When Ne Win toppled U Nu's Government in 1962, Burma became increasingly sectarian and isolated. And this also affected the Kachins, since they are also victims of oppression. The conflict has never been solved.

But why Awng Dang? Kid and Nikov didn't get it overall, unless they …

… went further.

The Chinese and Burmese convoys arrived with only ten minutes separating them. The Chinese came first, the Burmese arrived later. But Than Myint was ready.

When they finally reached the destination, Than Myint then used phone contact with its Chinese counterpart. Since Than could not speak Chinese, the Burmese General issued it throughout his translator. Zheng Wangji was not entrusted, even when he walked with him.

Zheng was well-experienced. And he knew what's waiting him. So, he hid his pistol until the time to come.

The contact was simple, mostly by text messages to cover from being found. And it was texted in Chinese. Soon, Zheng remembered the person he was about to face.

"Wang Yushan." Zheng's mind reminded to the man as he slightly eyed on the iPhone of Gen.'s private translator.

So, who was Wang Yushan?

"王先生,缅甸人来了。" (Mr. Wang, the Burmese have come.)

So, Mr. Wang was the man who carried sunglasses. Being older, at the age of 60, but that's Wang Yushan, whose son, Wang Yuili, had also accompanied with his dad. Wang Yuili and Zheng Wangji were formerly comrades in the People's Liberation Army, only for Zheng to realize Yuili was a pup. Being fooled, Zheng Wangji also faced confiscation by Wang Yushan and henchmen, who harassed his family for six years since.

Zheng Wangji understood that, the environment in the jade mine showed that, it was full of yaba, a typical Burmese drug. So, it must be a jade mine and, a secret drug factory. And he was careful to watch out Wang Yuili, who betrayed him for the future greed.

Than Myint, at the same time, entered in, as he told the whole convoy's men to move onward.

"ကျွန်တော်တို့သည်ကညီအစ်ကိုတွေလာပါတယ်။ အတွက်ရွှေ့ပါ။ တရုတ်နှင့်အတူကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏သဘောတူညီမှုအပြီးသတ်ပါလိမ့်မည်။" (We've come, brothers. Move in. Our deal with the Chinese will be finalized.)

Kid and Nikov sneaked on the opposite entrance of the huge, mountainous jade mine, where the convoy entered. The designers must be cautious to expand it fit for vehicles to come in, so they understood this was served for something illegal.

"Have we found yet?"

"(Mostly … I trust that the convoy had gone there.)"

"You have wolf ability. Wolf typically is capable on scenting. Find out what's wrong."

Kid and Nikov turned their light on as the inner road was quite bigger than expected. They soon managed to find the answer …

… it was there.

"Jesus! There is a light! Orange light! It meant someone were there."

When Kid and Nikov arrived closer, they had to hide, as the entrance was guarded by the … well, Kid and Nikov discovered it.

"What a surprise."

Behind the natural wall of the cold mountains and jade mine, the gate was completely guarded by soldiers of the PLA. And nothing could be even more stunned if this were not a typical PLA appearance.

"Chinese soldiers?"

"(I never saw that before. But I guess it related to the corrupt officials in Yunnan. Perhaps their relations extend to the Chinese Government.)"

"Bitch!" Kid pissed off: "No wonder why those soldiers following. I guess must be a high-paid official."

"(Not sure. But we can distract them. There is only one gate, anyway.)" Nikov told as he carried smoke grenades: "(Smokes for them, and they will not be able to discover.)"

"Cool. It'll distract them for at least 2 minutes. Throw in and let's screw up." Kid liked Nikov idea, and the Russian guy threw the smoke grenade into the entrance.

The grenade!

When Nikov threw, he threw it very quick and in surprise of anybody, they ran in with the highest speed. But with smokes following, the PLA soldiers could not identify who was behind the sudden strike, and the two Doras were able to relieve their pressure, and headed into the empty gate, to see why.

"ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံနှင့်တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသို့အဆိုပါမူးယစ်ဆေးမှောင်ခိုသန်းမှလေးသုံးခုကျော်ဒေါ်လာတိုးမြှင့်ပါပြီ။ အလုံအလောက်ဒါကောင်းသော။" (The drug smuggling to Thailand and China have increased over three to four million dollars. So good enough.)

"好。 我向你保证,将军,你将爬到缅甸武装部队的最高位置。" (Good. I have guaranteed you, the General, that you will climb to the highest position of the Myanmar Tatmadaw.)

The talk between Than Myint and Wang Yushan was going well.

"ဒါ့အပြင်ငါသည်သင်တို့ကိုသစ်ကိုကချင်အမျိုးသမီးတပြင်လုံးကိုအုပ်စုတစုကိုကိုယ်စားပြုသည်။ သူတို့ကဆဲအသား-လတ်ဆတ်ဖြစ်ကြသည်ထိမိပါဘူး။" (Also, I represent you the whole group of new Kachin women. They are still meat-fresh, not touched.)

"得到它了。 作为交换,您将把您的资金银行留在中国。 此外,您将代表我在缅甸和中南海的利益。" (Got it. In exchange, you will keep your money banks in China. Also, you will represent my interests in both Myanmar and Zhongnanhai.)

"ငါသည်သင်တို့ကိုအကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်နိုင်ရန်ကူညီလိမ့်မယ်။ သငျသညျတရုတ်ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဖြစ်လာတဲ့အခါ, သငျသညျအကြှနျုပျတို့ကိုနှစ်ခုစလုံးကိုကူညီလိမ့်မယ်။" (I will help you to be the best. When you become the Defense Minister of China, you'll help both of us.)

After that, his son Wang Yuili soon told to the ears of his father about Zheng Wangji's presence there, and also, the appearance of Than Myint seemed not so friendly. Wang Yushan noticed well, and behind them, were a group of notorious PLA soldiers. Well-armed, Wang Yushan was confident of the ending.

As they were speaking, Kid and Nikov secretly heard from the mine's ventilation tube, where they hid there to avoid being captured after the smokes ended, instead of main gate. Nikov was quick to note about the meeting between Wang Yushan and Than Myint.

"(Shit!)"

"What's next, Nikov?"

"(They are having a deal, but since they speak its native languages, I am not certain.)"

"Should have had Wang Dora there …"

As said, Than Myint and Wang Yushan shared a good personal tie, and they met in the jade mine, which is surrounded by full of jades … and drugs. Hence no wonder why such good relations.

"ဤရွေ့ကားဘဆေးပြား 500 တန်ချိန်ဖြစ်ကြသည်။" (These are 500 tons of yaba.)

"将军,非常重要。 但我担心我们需要更多。" (A very big deal, General. But I am afraid we need more.)

"500 တန်ချိန်ယခုအလွန်ကြီးမားတဲ့ဖြစ်ကြသည်။ သငျသညျအကြှနျုပျကိုသငျသညျ 1000 တန်ချိန်ပေးပို့လိုသလား?" (500 tons are very big now. You want me to send you 1000 tons?)

"对你来说很重要。 但在昆明需要更多。 5000吨,而不是500!" (Big for you. But in Kunming it needs more. 5000 tons, not 500!)

Zheng Wangji might not understand Burmese, but as a native Chinese, he was quick to react about the scene and the demand from Mr. Wang. Turned out, the Wang family of Kunming had long been involved in drug trades in Myanmar to gain political benefits in China.

Zheng didn't speak. He just waited. As Kid, Nikov were also watching …

The patience of Wang Yushan was high, but the patience of Than Myint had run low. He felt Wang Yushan want to steal all products rather than a fair share. And Than Myint didn't prefer to waste time long in the Awng Dang mine.

"သင်ဆဲသင့်ရဲ့ချုပ်ကိုင်တည်ထောင်ရန်ချင်တယ်ဆိုရင်ယူနန်ပြည်နယ်၏အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး, သငျသညျအကြှနျုပျကိုမလိုအပ်ပါလိမ့်မယ်။" (Governor of Yunnan, if you still want to establish your grip, you will need me.)

In the mind of Wang Yushan, who was the current governor of Yunnan, Than Myint was nothing but a little pea and he wanted to crush him before he could rise.

But Wang Yushan was not prepared to see this. As Than Myint was a renowned short-temper, he grabbed from his belt a pistol. A German-made Walther one instead of his favorite Italian one.

"သင်တို့မူကားငါနှင့်ငါ့ဂိုဏ်းမျိုချင်ဒါကြောင့်ငါတော့ဘူးသင်မလိုအပ်ပါဘူး။ ငါနှင့်အတူ, ဒါမှမဟုတ်သင်စရာမလိုဘဲ, ပါဝါကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုတညျဆောကျနိုငျသညျ။" (But you want to swallow me and my cartel, so I don't need you anymore. I can build power myself, with, or without you.)

"你怎么敢 …" (How dare you …)

As Wang Yushan had been surprised to see a pistol aiming his head, he intended to react, but short-tempered Than Myint shot into the head with a grey bullet. The shot took down Wang immediately, as his son Wang Yuili was unable to react. Neither the PLA soldiers, they were completely taken down by the Tatmadaw counterparts.

Kid and Nikov were shocked because Than Myint brutally seized the live of Wang Yushan, but this proved to be detrimental. Than then looked into Zheng Wangji, with the German pistol on the temple, asked for a lone question:

"Do you feel happy, Zheng?"

The perfect English of Than Myint soon blew up all. Zheng, for the first time, got surprised to see his English skill and also, his plan. Now, he regretted.

"Damn you … damn you motherfucker. You act as an illiterate only to lure to trap me …" Zheng responded.

"I understand why you hate them. But I also understand that, you have personal struggle against me. You have plotted, right?"

"I should have seized you when I had a chance five years ago, so you won't be a threat. You abandoned me even when I helped you, willing to kill me even I have no personal hatred. I did it for my family, for my life and to escape from the corrupt states of China and Myanmar! You show who you're, finally." The eyes of Zheng Wangji became determined, as he targeted Than Myint by gun even though he was outnumbered.

"Hehehe, Wang Yushan, Zheng Wangji, oh my goodness. None of them learn that, it was my drug money that saved their careers, and putting them into another personal level. To talk about Wang Yushan, he didn't remember that, his business banking could have been collapsed hadn't I intervened to help him, and later put him into as governor of Yunnan. And you? You begged for me to survive, son of whore!"

"So, I have to surrender you? Why don't you try it one? I have never begged you, never begged for you. I came because you represented me, nothing else. I am a former PLA soldier, but I always carry the honor and dignity. You are not! You're a poor sly dog who try to turn into a yaba territory of your own cartel."

"Then, so be it." Than Myint calmly prepared to pull his trigger. As both were willing to do …

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Suddenly, gunfire elsewhere occurred. Two Tatmadaw soldiers were taken down without even a response. Much to the surprise of the Burmese General, he tried to call reinforcement.

"ဝင်ခဲ့လေ! ဝင်ခဲ့လေ! ကျူးကျော်သူတွေကရှိပါတယ်!" (Get in! Get in! There are intruders!)

Then, some new Tatmadaw soldiers arrived, but they were totally taken down. Seizing the opportunity, Zheng Wangji quickly kicked Than Myint's pistol and brought him down with a reinforcing kick.

In many to surprise, the Chinese guy saw two men, looked like robot-cats, entered together after mass shooting.

"Wait, you're …"

"Zheng Wangji, is that you?"

So, Dora-the-Kid had met the tall, muscles and charming Zheng Wangji, the Chinese who was formerly PLA soldier. Zheng soon controlled the angry Than Myint, as there were also gun exchanges outside.

Kid and Nikov, nonetheless, still arrived in front of Than Myint, now being held. Than was so surprised to see them.

"You … you're still alive!"

"Tell me, what makes you target me and my friend?" Kid asked, in serious.

"Hahaha … why should I?" Than still laughed, even though being held right now: "Did I bother you? Typical American bitch."

"Aha! I'd rather to speak to the real bitch now lying on the ground." Kid told, as the gun exchanges ended with the entrance of the whole KIA members, and …

… Çelattin Albayrak.

Than Myint was even more surprised to see a notorious Turkish fugitive came to hunt them down. Then, Albayrak looked to Than, and told.

"For an international fugitive, accused for drugs, only to find out, the man who was trusted by the people, in fact a real drug and human trafficker." Albayrak told: "No wonder why Myanmar is a backward country. People like you, worth for filth."

"Scum! You are nothing, typical Turkoman. Try to mess, and soon … the whole system will make you down. I'll be revered … despite what happened. And my name shall live forever. We will make you to feel a sure pain. Both of you."

"It might be … unless …" Zheng surprisingly reminded the story that happened five years ago in Laukkai …

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5 years ago

Laukkai, Shan State, Myanmar

During the gun battle, Zheng, who tried not to instigate mistakes, had to protect many of Tatmadaw soldiers. It occurred a year after his resignation as a member of PLA's Special Forces and he had slaughtered many Kachin rebels, earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Kachin" due to his reputation of being violent. Zheng tried to keep the men but when he sheltered to protect Than Myint, by that time, he got stabbed from the back.

And no one but Than Myint who did it. The Burmese Colonel soon turned his knife and stabbed Zheng. When Zheng suffered injury, he had seen the face, and was shocked.

But as he tried to know why, Than Myint just smiled, and shot into the right foot of Zheng as Zheng was lying in blood. Unable to respond, he was thought that he'd die.

But Albayrak saw him.

Albayrak saved him and when seeing this, Albayrak realized who was behind. Albayrak called his men to help and save the dying Chinese man, and his rescue was vital to help Zheng survive.

Zheng, since then, left Burma to return to China and earned income from non-military jobs, but he had been harassed by many of officials that tied with Wang Yushan. His family was later declared bankrupt and this was followed with the confiscation of the family's properties. Devastated, Zheng tried to bring family in cover, but they didn't let him alone. So, in order to escape, he looked back to re-contact with Than Myint, then became Major General.

But Zheng's opportunity was vengeance. He didn't forget the willingful support of Çelattin Albayrak, and had sworn to kill the evil Burmese General. He also waited the time to kill Wang Yushan and his greedy son, who pissed him off before.

Why did he leave the PLA?

Because of Wang Yuili. Wang Yuili used him for the dirty jobs that put him under many punishments. Humiliated a lot, he tried to transfer only to find out Wang Yushan was behind.

Now, with Than Myint surprisingly killed Wang Yuili and Wang Yushan, and with Zheng himself controlled Than, Zheng just stated.

"The Butcher of Kachin … will go and kill the General of the Tatmadaw."

"What?" Than Myint just looked, as Albayrak, with his pistol handled to him by Zheng, also issued.

"Than Myint, you slaughtered a lot of Kachins, you sought to kill two Americans. Now, they come to you, and you have no reason to resist again. Also, I want to give this bullet for Carl, who died protecting me from you."

Than Myint tried to pull his escape. He yelled: "No, you won't dare …" But it was too late, and the trigger was taken by Albayrak to Than's temple.

"BANG!"

Surrounded in the jade mine with a lot of Kachin soldiers, the Butcher of Kachin, Zheng Wangji; the Turkoman Çelattin Albayrak; and two Americans, Dora-the-Kid and Dora-nikov, looked on the dead body of Than. Even when Than was about to die, he seemed didn't believe what's following next.

After that, Kid and Nikov … they soon asked Zheng and Albayrak, since Albayrak had shot dead Than Myint.

"Albayrak, why did he target us?"

"I think it has something to do with the fact that the DEA is doing a job to exterminate the drug and human trafficking from Myanmar to Thailand. He suspected all Americans and, since you have been renowned, perhaps he was afraid to be discovered. So, he generally thought that you're working for DEA."

"Drug Enforcement Agency? We have resigned from participating conflicts two years ago. And?" Kid guessed out: "He seemed to know our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"Wow, I know you. You are well-perceived military men. Seems like Than discovered your profiles from your experiences. And he wanted to kill you." Zheng claimed: "But I guess their link is not just that small. Just look on the dead bodies of the Wang's father and son, Than Myint had played a big role of facilitating their drug trades to China and more, to exchange political powers. Wang Yushan wanted power in Beijing, and Than Myint wanted to become the Defense Minister, who is, in fact, the most powerful figure in Myanmar even post-junta rule."

"Than Myint. Damn …" Kid and Nikov soon recovered from the evidences, and in the iPhone they took from Abdulla, the List of Kid had finally revealed three men. But overall, only one was right.

"Albayrak, by a way, do you involve in drug trade?" Kid asked seriously this time.

"Used to be, first time did drugs in Trabzon." Albayrak confessed: "But after the shooting in Laukkai, I decided to be against it. Carl's death influenced me."

"No wonder why you are notorious. But now, you are trying to erase the past, huh?" Kid smiled.

"Sure … by a way, I suggest you, please go away from this land. It is not safe. The Government of Myanmar is a light day democratic, dark day authoritarian. Burmese Government is an evil government with an evil army. Suu Kyi has no power, really, she is useless." Albayrak became honest when he talked: "We'll facilitate you to go to Thailand, it might take a week. Go, and don't be back, again."

"I see." Kid soon nodded: "But … what about you, Albayrak and Zheng?"

"I also want to go to the United States, as political refugee. I'll seek asylum to become permanent American resident." Zheng explained: "The Chinese Government has many dark things we never know about, I need to bring my family together, never, ever, get back to China."

The words of Zheng Wangji was quite painful for the gang, but they had no other option. Seeing him and his family under oppression despite his loyalty to the PLA in the past, this must be done.

"I'll stay." Albayrak addressed: "I'll fight until the evil army of Burma collapsed, the junta in hiding disappeared, and the people were allowed to restore their rights, especially our Kachin brethren."

"Albayrak, what do you think of Kurds anyway?" Kid asked.

"I have no problem with the Kurds. Just … I regret our Government as well for their mistreatment. My grandma was a partly Kurdish woman." Albayrak told: "I'd prefer to have a Kurd on my aide if the peace is restored in Anatolia."

"Well … seems like we all have our problem to go." Kid and Nikov also agreed, and they finally decided to leave Myanmar, under Albayrak's advice.

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A week later

Bangkok, Thailand

"ซึ่งเครื่องดื่มที่คุณต้องการ?" (Which drink would you like?)

"กรุณาโซดาสตรอเบอร์รี่สองอัน" (Two strawberry sodas, please.)

Kid had a surprising perfect Thai fluency, but that's just a small part. Nikov laughed:

"(Hahaha, very good Thai.)"

"Having learnt when I worked with the Thai police force in Phuket."

Kid and Nikov shared a lot of mutual respects. And such expression is not strange.

"(By a way, what about the Chinese guy?)"

"He has moved a day before. He will now go to the United States and will seek his permanent asylum and become naturalized American."

"(Pity for a good soldier but not respected.)"

When two sodas arrived to Dora-the-Kid with Dora-nikov, they together hob-nob and put their happiness together.

"Maybe, but Myanmar is just the first of all. A brutal military force like Tatmadaw is not the beginning. But it may expose to a larger, and something, we don't know. Some are connected, some aren't."

"(Can it be better or not, will depend. Hopefully, it will end, and we can go through.)"

"Cheer."

"(Cheer.)"

Kid and Nikov drank sodas, as the bar had yet to allow beers. But only one minute left, Kid soon took the time.

To call beers, for special prizes.

Yup, Kid and Nikov earned from the lots, to make sure their livings will continue … alone …