I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 116
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 116: Way Of Conduct
On the way back to the experimental base, Jiang Ran finally remembered the girl's name.
"Xiaoqing, I'll go in alone later. You stay outside lest you get implicated."
"But..."
"I know you’re worried about the team leader. Don't worry, I’ll rescue the team leader. I promise."
After finally convincing the girl, Jiang Ran entered the crop experimental base alone.
After passing the vegetable and the bean products experimental fields, she arrived at the fruit experimental field.
From several meters away, all kinds of noises coming from the distant experimental field could be heard.
Those men in uniforms were attacking the powerless staff, scolding them, punching and kicking them from time to time.
There were several people outside, but no one went up to help.
The head of their team was a man in his early thirties. He used to be an associate professor in agricultural biological sciences. Although he did not awaken any superpowers in the apocalypse, he was arranged to work in the experimental base because he was a scholar in the field of crops.
However, even though he was a scientist, he was pushed to the ground and punched and kicked by those superhumans at this moment.
The man's glasses were kicked away, and he could only curl up and protect his head, trying to avoid the punches and kicks coming from all directions.
Jiang Ran pushed away the people watching the commotion at the door, walked quickly to the back of one of the superhumans who was beating up the staff, and patted him on the shoulder.
"Hi, you’re so busy."
The girl's soft and weak voice came from behind. As soon as the superhuman turned around, Jiang Ran had already grabbed his wrist and threw him to the ground with a neat shoulder throw.
"Ah!" His scream successfully made the others stop and look at them.
A foot stepped heavily on the man's chest twice and then crushed his chest without moving. The girl held the gun in one hand and raised her chin. "You guys continue, why don't you?"
"You are..." Someone in the superhuman team recognized Jiang Ran. "Miss Jiang?"
Miss Jiang? Which Miss Jiang? Oh, Professor Si's woman, the young lady from the Shen family who returned.
"Oh, it's you." Jiang Ran glanced at the man who was speaking and recognized him as the one who stopped her at the door of the laboratory last time. She seemed to be thinking about something. "So, you guys are from Wei Yage's team. I was wondering, whose team is so powerful that they can attack scientific researchers in the base at will? Tsk, tsk."
"We didn't do that at will!" The man under her foot struggled for a few times and was stepped on by her again. He could only gasp and defend himself, "They are the ones who used the supplies of the base at will! We’re just doing our job impartially!"
"Doing your job impartially?" The smile in Jiang Ran's eyes became colder. "Does that mean you can commit all kinds of crimes and attack ordinary people? Who gave you the job? Who told you to do it this way?"
"Miss Jiang." Not wanting to argue with Jiang Ran, a man from the superhuman team stepped forward. He was young and had a cold expression. "According to the regulations of the base, those who used the supplies of the base without authorization can be directly executed. Today, we’re just..."
"You’ve shown respect by just beating people and smashing things. Is that right?" Jiang Ran added for him.
The man, "..."
He signaled the staff with his eyes to help his boss up. Seeing that the superhuman team did not stop him, Jiang Ran let go of the member under her foot.
The girl looked around and confirmed that Wei Yage wasn’t around. She felt a little regretful. "Okay, now that you said so, I just want to ask, what did our team leader use at will?"
As the deputy captain of the sixth team, because of Wei Yage, the man had always been displeased with this Miss Shen whom he had never met. Now that he had met her, and in this situation, his displeasure was even more obvious.
He looked at Jiang Ran coldly and said indifferently, "We received a report from the higher-ups that today there is a fruit that has been successfully grown in the simulated natural ecological base. When we came to collect it and store it in the warehouse, we found that they had divided and eaten the cultivated fruit without authorization..."
"It wasn't them." Jiang Ran said, "I divided it."
The man, "..."
"I took the knife, I cut the fruit, and I asked them to eat it." Jiang Ran said, "If you beat the wrong people because of this, shouldn't you apologize to our team leader and the other staff members?"
"Miss Jiang." The young deputy captain pushed his glasses and said helplessly, "Are you threatening me?"
"No, I'm telling the truth."
"Even if you’re Marshal Shen's granddaughter, you can’t use the base's supplies without consent. If everyone is like you..." The man frowned; his displeasure obvious. "Won't the base be in chaos?"
"First of all, I want to correct you on something." After he finished speaking, Jiang Ran said slowly, "I didn't use the base's things at will –– the cantaloupe is the first artificially cultivated fruit cultivated in our experimental site after the disaster. As the staff, we need to know all the information about it –– what does it taste like, is it the same as the ordinary cantaloupe, is it poisonous, can it be eaten by both superhumans and ordinary people, and will there be any other abnormalities after eating it...
"The staff of our experimental site are risking their lives to contribute to the base. Why did you say we’re misusing the supplies in the base?"
The girl's words stunned everyone present –– why did her words sound like they had contributed to mankind by eating the cantaloupe?
Knowing that she was resorting to sophistry, the man could not find any words to refute for a while, and could only glare at her. "You! You’re resorting to sophistry! Distorting the truth! Deceiving the general public!"
" I don't blame you for not appreciating my good intentions, but you attacked the staff of the base without investigating it –– Why? Does Captain Wei Yage, who has selflessly dedicated herself to the base, train her subordinates to behave this way?"
When a superhuman heard her getting Wei Yage involved, he was unconvinced and spat in a low voice, "How dare an ordinary person who relies on the Shen family and Professor Si accuse Captain Wei..."
"I heard what you said just now. Why don’t you speak louder?" Without the embarrassment of being despised, Jiang Ran smiled coldly and stared fixedly at the man. "Don’t you feel ashamed to say bad things about a girl in secret as a grown man?"
"I shall say it then! "Being singled out for ridicule, the man’s face turned red and he shouted, "You’re an ordinary person who relies on the Shen family and Professor Si, and idles about. What right do you have to point fingers at Captain Wei who is fighting on the front line?"
"Is that what Wei Yage told you?" Without getting angry, Jiang Ran smiled coldly and shouted, "I’m a member of the Shen family. I have no choice in my family background. I’m an ordinary person. I can’t decide whether I’ve awakened superpowers or not, but mister, I don’t agree with a single word you said just now!"
Jiang Ran swept her eyes over everyone and said word by word, "Although I’m a member of the Shen family, I’m not idling about. I work here and contribute my strength to the survival of everyone in the base. Maybe I can't go out and fight zombies like you, but I’m also doing my part –– so, please take back your evaluation of me idling about.
"Secondly, Si Xu and I are in a free love relationship. In the apocalypse, is it shameful to fall in love and get married? Just because I don't have superpowers, you can look down on me? I haven't hurt anyone, and I haven't eaten your food. What business is it of yours that I'm in a relationship? Without me, would Si Xu fall in love with you? Or Wei Yage? Hah, what right do you have to be so indignant?
"Lastly, mister, people with superpowers are indeed powerful and they are indeed protecting the safety of the base. Like everyone else, I admire those with superpowers who fight for the base. But who gave you the right to arbitrarily harm a scientific worker who also contributes to the base?
"When you go out on a mission, what you wear, what you eat, and what you use are made by the logistics personnel. Now, we can still accumulate supplies from outside for ten, twenty, thirty years... Without these scientists and logistics workers, would you rely on your own superpowers to live a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood?"
"I'm telling you!" The girl raised her voice a few notches and said sternly, "Don't be complacent just because you’ve awakened superpowers and think that you have the power to decide other people's lives at will –– why did we build a base? It’s to allow more people to survive, not to make it convenient for you to trample on other people's lives.
"The reason why people are humans is that we have fundamental morals and values. Without these, you’re no different from the moving rotten meat outside the base."
After the girl finished speaking, the experimental site fell into a strange silence.
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
There was a crisp applause from behind the crowd, like a slap in the face to the members of the sixth team.
