I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 133
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 133: Left Successfully
The base entered the curfew ahead of time. Qi Yao, who vaguely heard the shouting, stuck her head out of the car and looked in the direction of the noise with a worried look.
The man leaned against the car as the cigarette on his fingertips snuffed out. He glanced in the direction of the slum area in the base—the noise lasted for a long time in that place.
"Captain Pei, Ranran hasn't come yet. Could she be..." They agreed to meet in ten minutes, and it was now almost half an hour later. Did something unexpected happen?
Guessing that the commotion in the base was caused by Jiang Ran, and not wanting to increase the girl's worries, Pei Xiao looked calm. "It’ll be fine. That girl is smart, nothing will happen." After thinking about it, he was still worried, so he told the girl, "I'll go over there and take a look. Stay in the car."
"Okay."
Not far away, a youth in black sportswear avoided the searchers and came to the place agreed by the three.
"Are you Captain Pei?" The man's voice was slightly hoarse, and it sounded weathered which didn't match his age.
Pei Xiao looked at the person warily and nodded. "Yes, I am. Who are you?"
"I'm here to pass on a message for a friend." The boy lowered his voice and slipped a note to him. "The person you’re waiting for has found another way out. You two should leave the city as soon as possible and meet her at this location."
Pei Xiao sized up the youth and frowned. "She has already gone out?"
The other party obviously didn't believe his words. The youth shrugged. "Believe it or not, anyway, Sister Ran said that if you wait any longer, you might really not be able to leave."
After the youth finished speaking, he put on his hood and sneaked away like a thief.
Before leaving, he reminded the two, "Time is running out. If you want to leave, get going now."
……
Jiang Ran didn’t expect these people to have dug a path leading to the outside of the base from the underground of the slum. Jiang Ran held a torch and followed Zhou Jian and Yi Xi forward.
The passage was very damp, and the humidity was blowing in her face. The rocks on both sides were condensed with mist. Some areas were covered with moss, and grayish yellow soil could be spotted in other areas.
"I heard from Qiao Yi that this road was built by the people in the former laboratory to connect to a planned underground laboratory." Yi Xi gave Jiang Ran a brief introduction. "Qiao Yi said that a new laboratory was being built in the southwest to keep the abandoned experimental subjects. In order to conceal their whereabouts, those people didn’t dare to walk on the ground, so they built a large construction underground. Who knew that the disaster would come suddenly, and in the end it benefited us."
So that was the case.
"How did Qiao Yi know this?" That guy looked young. Why would he know so much about the situation in the laboratory?
"He was also an experimental subject in the laboratory before." Yi Xi said, "But he wasn’t in the laboratory for a long time, and his superpowers aren’t fully developed yet."
"He was also from the laboratory?" Jiang Ran was surprised. "I’ve always thought that people who came from the laboratory all joined the superhuman teams in the base."
"No. I heard from Qiao Yi that the situation was very chaotic at the time, and many experimental subjects took the opportunity to escape from the laboratory. The group that remained joined the superhuman teams in the base."
Jiang Ran was silent for a moment and asked another question, "Yi Xi, why are you with Qiao Yi and the others? I thought you were in Luo Rui's superhuman team..."
In the original novel, Yi Xi died before she arrived at Xiling base, so there was naturally no description of where she went.
After knowing that she liked Xie Chengzhi, Jiang Ran thought she would insist on staying in Xie Chengzhi's team.
"I'm not stupid." Yi Xi sneered. "Although I liked Xie Chengzhi, I'm not a fool who only cares about love matters—even you could give up on Xie Chengzhi. Why should I be stuck on him?"
Hearing this, Zhou Jian opened her mouth and stammered, "Yi Xi, you-you like Xie Chengzhi?!" The girl almost shrieked and repeated the question, and she sounded unbelievable as if the sky had fallen.
"..." Yi Xi's cheeks were slightly hot, and she said coldly, "I used to like him, but I don't like him anymore."
"Why would you like Xie Chengzhi?" Zhou Jian was puzzled. "You don't seem to have much in common." Zhou Jian asked, and Jiang Ran pricked up her ears to listen to the gossip.
"I was blind before." Yi Xi rolled her eyes. "That guy saved my life."
Jiang Ran and Zhou Jian said at the same time, "Oh~" It turned out that he was her savior. To think that an aloof girl like Yi Xi would also be attracted to the so-called "Prince Charming".
"Unfortunately," Jiang Ran sighed, "Xie Chengzhi isn’t a Prince Charming, but a toad in the disguise of a prince."
Zhou Jian muttered, "Didn't you like him to the point of obsession before?"
Jiang Ran, "... I was blind before too."
Zhou Jian was still lamenting, "Hey, you two are so absurd. Of all people to like, you liked Xie Chengzhi. You were really blind."
Yi Xi said coldly, "That's better than you liking a fool like Jiang Yu."
Zhou Jian, "..."
Feeling that she had heard a shocking secret, Jiang Ran was even more surprised. "Zhou Jian, you liked Jiang Yu?!"
Zhou Jian smiled dryly. "Everyone has their blind moments. What's so strange about it?"
"Oh, so you used to target me because of Jiang Yu?" Jiang Ran touched her face and muttered, "Sigh, I was such an innocent target."
Zhou Jian twitched the corner of her mouth. "No, no, no, I was stupid before. Please forget those stupid things I did, thank you."
It seemed that after what she had been through, Zhou Jian had become a lot more normal.
Jiang Ran clicked her tongue twice.
Zhou Jian was still eager for gossip. "Yi Xi, since you liked Xie Chengzhi before, why did you defend Jiang Ranran so much?"
Yi Xi paused for a moment, then continued walking forward as if nothing had happened. "It’s because Jiang Ranran was a fool. I pitied her."
Jiang Ran, "... Hey, hey, why are you making a personal attack? Didn't you like him too? Why was I the only fool?"
"You were a fool," Yi Xi emphasized again. "At that time, I liked Xie Chengzhi, and I knew I wasn’t worthy of him, but in my opinion, it was better for him to be with a fool like you than with an angelic bitch like Luo Rui—unfortunately, that wretched man is blind and hopeless."
Her tone was cold, but the hidden bitterness was obvious.
After all, he was someone she once liked. Even if his disguise was finally ripped off and it was revealed that he was different from what she imagined, it was impossible for her to retract her feelings in an instant.
Some sadness was inevitable.
Crossing a puddle, Jiang Ran sighed. "It's good not to like him—people should learn to adapt. The forest is so vast, you can always find a tree that suits you—look at me now. Aren’t I doing fine?"
The two girls nodded silently to express their agreement.
Jiang Ran looked at Zhou Jian who was walking alongside her. "Zhou Jian, what happened to you before?" Since she wasn’t really crazy, why did she pretend to be crazy?
Recalling that past, Zhou Jian's smile faded, and she said reluctantly, "I killed He Ru and hurt another ordinary person, which violated the rules of the team. If I didn't pretend to be crazy, I’d probably be executed by the team..."
In fact, while spending the whole night with the corpse, she was desperately thinking of a way to survive. In the end, out of desperation, the girl could only pretend to be crazy in the hope of saving her own life.
Just like Jiang Ran said, it hadn’t been easy to get to Xiling base. She wasn’t willing to die so easily.
Yi Xi continued, "I was on a mission at the time. When I came back, I heard that she was thrown out, so I went to the market to find her. It just so happened that I met Qiao Yi and his team during the mission, so I took her directly to Qiao Yi's team."
The girl stopped after she finished speaking.
In front of the three of them was a heavy steel door.
"We're here."
Yi Xi held the cross lock on the door and pushed it upwards.
After pushing the door open, she pointed to the dark passage. "Go out from that door and walk forward for more than a hundred meters. You’ll reach the sewer entrance of the former West Street. After you climb up, remember to put the cover back."
At this time, she still remembered to remind Jiang Ran to put the cover back to its original place.
Jiang Ran laughed. "I got it."
The girl took two steps and looked back at the two girls who were standing there and watching her.
"Yi Xi, Zhou Jian, thank you." She smiled slightly and waved her hand. "I'll treat you to a meal when I come back."
Zhou Jian pouted. "Let's talk about it when you come back. Maybe you’ll be eaten by zombies, humph."
Yi Xi said lightly, "Have a good trip."
