I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 132
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 132: Call Me Big Sister
The wooden house wasn’t particularly large. When the door curtain was lifted, the view in the house could be seen at a glance.
Several carpets of different colors were laid on the smooth floor. The tables and chairs were polished to a cold sheen and looked like used items.
There weren’t many people, and they were of varying ages. Besides Zhou Jian, there was another person Jiang Ran knew.
When those people saw them come in, some greeted Zhou Jian, while others looked at them and lowered their heads to continue doing what they were doing.
Jiang Ran secretly sized up the people in the wooden house, and her gaze stopped on the young guy a few steps away.
The guy was sitting cross-legged on the futon, playing chess with the girl opposite. Despite hearing movements, he didn't raise his head.
"Zhou Jian, did you bring a friend back?"
His voice was unique, sounding like the dragged sound of metal hitting stone. It was a little raucous.
Zhou Jian answered, "Brother Yi, she helped me before. I’m repaying her favor."
"Oh." The guy held the chess piece absent-mindedly. "She’s carrying a backpack. Is she the person those mad dogs outside are looking for?"
Zhou Jian was silent.
The guy did not speak either. He pursed his lips and pondered for a long time. Then, he threw the white chess piece between his fingers onto the chessboard, and sighed. "I quit. It's boring."
Opposite him, the girl stood up and patted her numb legs. She looked at Jiang Ran, and forced herself to smile. "Jiang Ranran, it’s been a while."
"It’s been a while, Yi Xi." Jiang Ran looked indifferent, as if thinking about something, "I didn't expect you and Zhou Jian to be together..."
"You didn't expect it?" As if he heard something funny, the guy tsked, stood up, and turned to Jiang Ran.
His facial features were delicate, and he looked very thin, but his eyes were sharp, making him look very aggressive.
He sized up Jiang Ran and asked, "Did you come from the high-end residential area? Well, judging from your outfit, you must have come from there."
He approached Jiang Ran, his eyes never leaving her, full of malice.
"You live in a neighborhood where only high-level superhumans can live, but you haven’t awakened any superpowers. It seems that you’ve found a backer?" He thought about it and suddenly realized something. "Oh, Jiang Ranran. I remember that the daughter of the Shen family seems to be called by this name?"
Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow at this person’s unfriendly tone and retorted, "So, is it the name Jiang Ranran that makes you unhappy? Or is it that Jiang Ranran lives in a high-end neighborhood that makes you unhappy?"
Zhou Jian didn't expect her to say that. Although she had already seen Jiang Ran's feistiness after her transformation, Zhou Jian couldn't help but tug at her sleeve, signaling her to shut up.
In this slum, no one had ever dared to contradict him like this.
Finding it interesting, the guy stopped in front of Jiang Ran, leaned over slightly, and looked at her. "Could it be that Professor Si Xu was conquered by your eloquence? Do you dare to speak like this in front of Si Xu?"
"What business is it of yours?"
"I'm just curious." The guy sighed. "I’m thinking. You’re being chased by so many people now. If I throw you in front of those people, maybe I can get a reward. Tell me, how should I deal with you?"
"Reward?" Jiang Ran remained calm, even showing a bit of boredom. "I can tell you that if you throw me out now, Shen Lang will just silence you."
"Huh?" The guy laughed. "Are you kidding? Why would Shen Lang silence me?"
"Because I’ll tell him that in order to survive, I told you all the secrets I know."
She was threatening him! The guy frowned and sneered. "Maybe instead of handing you over to those people, I should kill you directly."
After hearing this, Zhou Jian was nervous and wanted to speak, but Yi Xi held her shoulder.
The girl whispered, "Watch –– she’s smarter than us."
Zhou Jian hesitated and said nothing.
……
He wanted to kill her? Jiang Ran's expression was still indifferent, and there was no emotion in her voice.
"If you can do it, you can try."
"Huh?" The guy really laughed this time. He held his stomach and laughed so hard that tears came out. "You mean, I can't kill you?"
The moment he finished speaking, the air was slightly distorted, and a crackling of lightning appeared in front of the guy.
"A third-level superhuman with lightning-type abilities can't kill an unarmed ordinary person?"
He approached Jiang Ran and sneered. "To deal with a delicate girl like you, I just need to move my fingers..."
"Brother Yi..." The guy seemed to be really angry with Jiang Ranran!
Zhou Jian instinctively rushed forward two steps, and was about to stop the two people, but she felt a flash in front of her eyes. Before she could even see the girl's movements clearly, the guy was thrown to the ground by Jiang Ran over her shoulder.
A "thud" sounded, accompanied by the guy's muffled groan.
Jiang Ran grabbed his hand, pointed the silver pistol against his temple, and sneered. "Kill me? Little brother, you think too highly of yourself."
"You! What's wrong with you?!" With the cold pistol against his head, the guy frowned and blurted out, "Why is my superpower..."
Why was it ineffective?
"It seems that without your superpower, you really have no ability at all." Looking at the other people in the room who were startled, Jiang Ran pressed the gun harder against his temple. "Don't provoke me, otherwise your Brother Yi will lose his life."
In the past, when Si Xu was her opponent, she was always the one beaten. Now that the opponent had changed to someone else, she found that she could handle it with ease.
Those people exchanged glances implicitly, looking at the guy who was subdued by her, and eventually took no action.
"Okay, have you guys had enough?" Yi Xi clapped her hands after Jiang Ranran subdued the guy. "Jiang Ranran, he's our boss. Don’t embarrass him too much."
"Yi Xi! Your friend is a loophole!" Hearing Yi Xi's voice, the guy lost his previous coldness and yelled, as if he was complaining, "She ate my superpower!"
Jiang Ran, "..." What did you mean by ate?! Her superpower neutralized his! Did this guy know how to use words?
"Shut up!" Yi Xi glared at the guy, still looking at Jiang Ranran. "Jiang Ranran, this is the way he is. Don’t hold it against him."
"He’s your boss?" This kid didn’t look like he even graduated from high school yet. How could he be the boss?
Recalling his threats, Jiang Ran tapped the guy's face with her pistol and chuckled. "For the sake of Yi Xi and Zhou Jian, I can let you go. But..."
The guy bared his teeth. "But what?"
"Call me big sister, and remember that you owe me a life, and I’ll let you go." Jiang Ran curled her lips. "How about it?"
"I owe you a life?" The guy hit the roof. "If it weren't for us, you would have been caught long ago!"
"It was Zhou Jian who brought me here. It has nothing to do with you. Don't flatter yourself –– didn't you want to kill me just now?"
The guy opened his mouth, speechless.
Jiang Ran wasn’t in a hurry.
Others weren’t in a hurry either, as if watching a show.
After a while, the guy muttered reluctantly, "Sister Ranran, I’ll remember that I owe you a life."
Tsk, tsk, this boss really had no principles. She didn’t know how he became one.
"Okay." Jiang Ran let go of him as she promised. "Little boy, don't try to act tough. You don’t look like it."
The guy, who was originally moving his painful arm, rolled his eyes and muttered, "You know nothing... If I don’t act aggressive in the slum, I’ll be torn to pieces."
He didn’t know if the girl heard his mumbling or not, but she didn't respond. She walked towards Zhou Jian and Yi Xi and spoke to the girls in a low voice.
Someone came up to the guy and asked in a low voice, "Qiao Yi, what's wrong with you? Where’s your superpower? Was it really eaten?"
Qiao Yi glanced at him.
After a crackling sound, the man who asked the question exhaled a puff of white smoke and fell backwards to the ground. His outer shirt was burnt, his hair stood up, and he looked burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.
Qiao Yi kicked him. "Did you feel the power of my superpower?"
The man twitched. "Boss, I was wrong..."
