I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 119
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 119: Not Aloof But Cold-Hearted?
Pei Xiao's complicated feelings towards Si Xu could be understood, but Jiang Ran couldn’t agree with the man's behavior. She held Si Xu's hand tightly, gently shook his arm, and chuckled. "Let's not talk about those unhappy things –– Si Xu, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you."
She asked, and Si Xu answered truthfully, "I want to eat steamed pork ribs." He directly put the matter of Pei Xiao behind him.
He gave the answer seriously, and Jiang Ran smiled secretly. This man was so easy to coax. She just had to offer him delicious food. She was lucky that he hadn't been abducted home by others before.
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The news that Captain Pei Xiao of Dongchao base came to Xiling base for a study tour spread like wildfire in the base, causing Pei Xiao to be approached by onlookers every time he went out, and that included many beautiful women.
After several inexplicable encounters, Pei Xiao simply stayed in the crop experimental base and Xiling laboratory, no longer going out.
Hence, it was inevitable that he met Si Xu every day.
Many times, when Jiang Ran went to the laboratory to find Si Xu to go home together after work, she could feel the low pressure emanating from the two men.
The staff in the laboratory felt awkward at first, but as time passed, they gradually got used to the confrontation between the two, and could discuss the gossip in the base amid the low pressure with normal expressions.
Jiang Ran mingled with a group of girls and listened to them discussing insignificant news while waiting for Si Xu to get off work.
"Have you heard? The sixth team seemed to have a dispute with the second team again yesterday."
"Really? I heard that it was because Captain Shen Yang fell in love with Captain Wei, but Captain Wei rejected him, so the second team always made trouble for the sixth team."
"Sigh, although Captain Shen and Captain Wei are a handsome couple, I still don't want them to be together... Captain Shen is such a playboy. Captain Wei is so nice; she deserves someone better than Captain Shen."
"Nonsense, Captain Shen wouldn’t like Captain Wei. He’s not a fool."
"Oh, doesn’t Captain Wei like Professor Si, cough, cough..." The girl said halfway, then remembered that Professor Si's girlfriend was sitting next to her, and she suddenly coughed awkwardly.
It turned out that the whole Xiling base knew that Wei Yage liked Si Xu? It seemed that the woman was quite high-profile usually.
Jiang Ran just pretended not to have heard what the girls said, pretending to read a book seriously while listening to them continue their talk.
"Hey, speaking of that matter just now, what happened between the second team and the sixth team?"
"I don't know either. I heard that Deputy Captain Shen went to see Captain Wei two days ago. When he left, his expression was grim. And then, the team members under them began to dislike each other."
Did Shen Bai go to see Wei Yage? Oh, it must be because of what happened in the experimental field.
"Haven't you heard about it? I'm so curious..."
"I know a little gossip. Do you want to hear it?"
Someone said that, and the girls looked over with sparkling eyes. They saw the girl put down the book in her hand and look at them with a faint smile.
Jiang Ran had been visiting the laboratory frequently recently. The girls were of similar age, so it took no time for them to get to know each other.
However, her identity was special after all. When they heard that she knew the inside story, the girls who were chatting enthusiastically were a little hesitant.
The news that Jiang Ranran knew must be the latest news, but she was Professor Si's girlfriend and a daughter of the Shen family after all. Wouldn't it be bad to gossip about her brother and love rival in front of her?
"Do you want to hear it?" Jiang Ran raised her chin and asked the girls who suddenly fell silent. "It's just a gossip. I'm not sure whether the news I got is true or false."
"Ranran, who did you hear the gossip from?" A girl was curious. "Captain Shen Bai?"
"No." Jiang Ran said, "As you know, I work in the experimental field. When Shen Bai had the first conflict with Wei Yage, I happened to be in the experimental field."
"Experimental field?" The girls became interested. "Is it the crop experimental base in the south?"
"Yes, that's it." Jiang Ran said, "I happened to have gotten off work that day. I heard from my colleague that the people from the sixth team were smashing things in an experimental field, so I went back to watch the commotion. As a result, I saw the people from the sixth team punching and kicking the staff. And coincidentally, it was the team I work in..."
Beating the staff? Someone was puzzled. "Why?"
Jiang Ran sighed. "The reason can probably be concluded that a cantaloupe was the cause of the tragedy."
"Cantaloupe?"
"Our experimental field is used to simulate natural ecosystem experiments. A cantaloupe happened to be ripe in the experimental field that day. In order to test the difference between the cantaloupe grown in the experiment and the naturally grown cantaloupe, we cut it."
"Then what happened?"
"Then, the people from the sixth team said that the cantaloupe was to be given to the authority and could not be disposed of at will. They were angry that we touched public property."
"Huh? But if they just confiscated it, weren’t they afraid that there would be problems with the cantaloupe?" In the apocalypse, if the cantaloupe mutated, wouldn't ordinary people die if they ate it?
"It’s better to test it carefully."
"Yeah, otherwise who would dare to eat it? What if someone dies?"
"The sixth team beat people for that?"
"They’ve gone overboard. Superhumans shouldn't attack the base staff so indiscriminately. Besides, it's okay for them to get into contact with things infected with the virus. They should also consider us ordinary people..."
"That's right, they’ve gone overboard."
"..."
After listening to their discussions, Jiang Ran said, "Sigh, many of the staff over there are ordinary people. They can only consider themselves unlucky when they encounter superhumans. Fortunately, Shen Bai brought Captain Pei over to visit and stopped those people from the sixth team. Otherwise, those staff would be in trouble..."
"Huh, so that's what happened?" Someone murmured, "However, isn't the job of the sixth team to protect the safety of the laboratory building and the crop experimental base? Is this considered dereliction of duty?"
Most of the girls working here were ordinary people. When they heard that the staff who were also ordinary people were beaten, they felt a little upset. Their admiration for Wei Yage, the team leader, was greatly reduced.
"I don't know." Jiang Ran shrugged. "I don't know much about the superhuman teams. I think Shen Bai went to see Captain Wei because of this matter."
"So, the recent discord between the second team and the sixth team is also because of this?" Someone hesitated and said, "Discord ... Does it mean that the sixth team feels that they did nothing wrong?"
Hearing this, the others fell into a brief silence.
When they heard about the gossip, they guessed various reasons, most of which were related to emotional entanglements. Now that they knew it was because of work, the girls didn't know what to comment.
Although it was a problem for the people in the experimental field to eat the cantaloupe at will, beating up the staff at will and insisting that there was nothing wrong with it when the base held them accountable... wasn't that even more out of line? Since the members of the sixth team dared to do that, it meant that their superior also agreed.
"It turns out that Captain Wei Yage is such a person?" Someone murmured in disappointment, "I thought she just looked aloof, but it turns out that she really looks down on ordinary people."
Jiang Ran was silent.
Wei Yage looked aloof? She didn't just look aloof; she was really cold.
She was cold-hearted.
In the novel, the zombies' abilities improved rapidly in the later period, and Xiling base encountered several waves of zombies besieging the city. The first few times, the attacks were blocked by Si Xu and the people in the laboratory. The last time it happened was after Si Xu died.
At that time, the base lost all the combat power of the laboratory. In order to protect the city wall, Wei Yage decided to set up a trap outside the city, using ordinary people in the base as bait to lure the zombies into the trap.
That time, because of her plan, the base temporarily defended the city wall, but it also lost more than 2,300 innocent ordinary people.
