Villain Boss Chapter 138
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 138: Giant Python
After the last sound fell, Si Xu suddenly raised his hand and pointed the muzzle of his gun at the camera in the corner. In the monitoring room, Qin Huai only saw the man raising his gun, and then the monitoring screens all turned black.
Qin Huai, "..."
He let out a long sigh. He leaned back in his office chair, propped his face in one hand, and murmured, "What a powerful superpower. It’s such a waste for him to die here."
In the shadows behind him, a slender woman slowly walked out, bathed in the light.
"Do you think that those hundreds of zombies can trap Si Xu to death?"
The woman's voice was hoarse and sexy.
"You don't look like such a careless person, Qin Huai."
"Of course." He tapped the ground with his toes and swiveled the chair around. Qin Huai looked at the woman's face that looked like Si Xu’s and smiled gently. "S."
S was obviously a code name, not the woman's real name.
The woman gathered her hair, and tiny smile lines appeared at the corners of her eyes when she smiled. "So, what else have you planned?"
"Me?" Qin Huai did not answer directly. "Surprises should be left at the end to be called surprises. It would be boring to tell you in advance."
He turned back and looked at the dark screen, muttering, "S, guess how many minutes Si Xu can hold on?"
Under the siege of more than 800 zombies, could a man who had lost his superpower come out alive? If he couldn’t, then how long could he hold on?
"Three hundred? Well, judging by Professor Si's style, at least half of them should be killed. Even if he dies, he can't die an ugly death."
He knew in his heart that there was no difference between a superhuman who had lost his superpower and an ordinary person, but if Si Xu couldn't even kill 400 zombies and was bitten to death, he would be very disappointed.
……
Jiang Ran crouched at the entrance of Beihe base, looking at the dark corridor and the endless road ahead, and gulped.
"Captain Chu has been inside for a day and a night, and there has been no news yet." Beside her, the team members who stayed in the camp frowned and kept rubbing their hands, looking very anxious. "We don't know what the situation is..."
Pei Xiao asked, "How many people did Captain Chu bring in?"
"Not many, twelve people, and Deputy Captain Guo is with them. There shouldn't be any big problems..."
"Guo Zhehao?" Jiang Ran suppressed the urge to roll her eyes and looked at Qi Yao. "You go with them to the camp and wait. Captain Pei and I will go in."
"No," Qi Yao refused firmly. "I want to go in."
"I heard from Deputy Captain Guo that there seems to be a powerful mutant in this base." The team member looked at Qi Yao and said tentatively, "Miss Qi, why don’t you come back to the camp with us?"
"Ranran." Knowing that Jiang Ran could make the decision, Qi Yao held her hand tightly and begged in a low voice, "I'll go in with you, and I promise not to cause you any trouble. I promise."
Jiang Ran, "..." The young lady pleaded softly, and she couldn't say the words of refusal.
Knowing Jiang Ran was in a difficult spot, Pei Xiao said, "Let's go in together—if you let her stay here, maybe she’ll slip in by herself."
Jiang Ran, "..." You really understood her, Captain Pei.
She made a concession. "After we go in, you must follow me closely and can't fall behind, okay?"
Qi Yao nodded repeatedly. "Definitely!"
……
On the third basement floor, in the narrow storage room, there was a faint smell of blood, and from time to time there were painful groans, which were immediately suppressed.
Gently lifting the blinds and looking out, Chu Yuan had no time to treat the wound on his forehead. He turned back and looked at the remaining four team members. "There’s a staircase leading up to the west side of the corridor. I’ll go out and lure that thing to the fourth basement floor. You take the opportunity to go upstairs and meet up with the other teammates, then leave here immediately."
The remaining team members were seriously injured, and one of them had lost consciousness.
After hearing what Chu Yuan said, they looked at each other and shook their heads in unison. "Captain, we can't leave you alone."
"If we stay, we’ll all die," Chu Yuan said coldly. "If you go out, at least you can leave me a glimmer of hope."
Without waiting for those people to continue speaking, he said bluntly, "The mutant python's ability level is preliminarily estimated to be level six. I can still protect myself alone, but if I take you with me, we’ll all die."
"But..."
"We’ll lure the snake away. Captain, you go out first!"
"You guys?" Hearing this, Chu Yuan felt warm in his heart and patted the team members on the shoulders. "If you go out to lure it away, you’ll become its meal like the previous team members."
"Captain!"
"That’s enough! I'm the captain, so follow my arrangements next. You can’t disobey my orders!"
After a pause, the man added nonchalantly, "After you go out, remember to drop down the cross lock on the door."
The reason why the giant python had been staying in Beihe Laboratory was because the door was locked and it couldn't get out.
"..."
Understanding Chu Yuan's meaning, the team members clenched their teeth and nodded. "Yes! Captain."
When Chu Yuan arranged everything and was ready to go out, Guo Zhehao stood up and followed him. "I'll go with you."
"Brother Hao..."
"Captain Chu, I'm your deputy captain." Guo Zhehao said in a deep voice, "I have the obligation to accompany you to the end."
The man looked resolute. Chu Yuan's lips moved, but he was unable to refuse him.
……
Unlike Xiling Laboratory, Beihe Laboratory didn’t use humans to test the virus, but chose to use animals. So, just as how Xiling Laboratory produced a high-level superhuman like Si Xu, Beihe Laboratory also produced their own high-level mutant beast.
Hearing the movement, the giant python that was resting on the water pipe on the ceiling opened its eyes, and its nearly ten-meter-long body flexibly passed through the exhaust vent, moving rapidly and approaching its prey.
A golden blade suddenly fell and slashed down along the trajectory of its movement.
However, as if it had predicted the attack trajectory of the superhuman, the giant python flexibly scurried around on the ground, avoiding the attack of the sharp blade.
……
The roar and the sound of metal clashing lingered in the team members’ ears. The team members in the storage room opened the door and looked out, then carried their unconscious companion and quickly moved to the other end.
As if sensing something, the giant python, which was forced to hide from Chu Yuan's attack, suddenly swung its tail and hit the ceiling heavily.
The team members who had just run to the stairs heard the movement and looked up to see the steel bars and concrete cement on the ceiling falling on their heads.
"Whoa!"
Hearing the movement, the captain who was attacking the giant python with all his strength turned around hastily, and could only watch as the three team members were buried by the falling debris.
"Brother Hao! Go save them!" After moving all the movable metal and smashing a cage on the ground to temporarily trap the giant python, Chu Yuan called Guo Zhehao, "You take them out first. I can..." I can kill the beast by myself.
Before he could finish the rest of the sentence, he felt something small and sharp piercing into his back. Chu Yuan instinctively brushed his hand to shake off the person behind him and staggered back two steps.
"Brother Hao, you..."
"It's finally over." Guo Zhehao threw away the syringe in his hand with a strange smile in his eyes. "Chu Yuan, don't blame me. If you want to blame someone, blame Si Xu, blame yourself!"
After trying several times, Chu Yuan found that he could not control the metal next to him. He looked at his deputy captain coldly. "It’s the reagent to nullify one’s superpowers?"
"Yes." Guo Zhehao sneered. "What Zou Yun gave me wasn’t to be used to deal with mutant beasts, but a weapon specifically used to deal with you!"
"You..." Thinking of what Si Xu said, Chu Yuan smiled bitterly. "You actually really like Min He, Guo Zhehao?"
When Si Xu mentioned those words to him, he didn't believe it at first. His deputy captain had no intersection with Min He. How could he like her?
"Like? Haha, yes, of course I like her!" The man's voice was desolate, and it was unclear whether he was laughing or crying. "She’s my sister! She’s the only family I have in this world! She’s also your peer, isn't she? But Si Xu is unwilling to avenge her!"
"Sister... sister?" Min He never said that she still had family alive.
"To make a living and support me to go to university, my sister went out to work alone. Later, we lost contact. When we met again, it was after the disaster... I thought that we could finally be reunited. I thought so! But-but..." But before Min He could complete the task of guarding the blockade zone, she died.
"My sister was also Professor Si's subordinate and peer, but Professor Si watched her being killed by Qin Huai coldly and did nothing!"
"Seventh Brother will avenge her..."
"No!" The man laughed strangely. "If it weren't for Wei Yage's arrangement, Professor Si would never avenge Min He."
"Wei Yage's arrangement?" Chu Yuan sat down weakly on the ground because of the effect of the drug. "You... what are you guys going to do to Seventh Brother?"
"Isn't Si Xu unwilling to avenge her? Then we can only give him a push." Looking at Chu Yuan's pale face, Guo Zhehao nodded. "Captain, Wei Yage is right—the entire Xiling base can only have real peace if Si Xu dies—that man is a bastard! He relies on his ability to do whatever he wants! Only by killing him, only by killing him..."
Before killing Si Xu, he needed to kill his right-hand man first.
Guo Zhehao pointed the gun at Chu Yuan. "Captain, I must avenge Min He, so I must kill Si Xu."
Si Xu wouldn’t avenge Min He, but Wei Yage would. Wei Yage promised him, and she did it.
"Wei Yage really got Si Xu to leave Xiling base and go to Yancheng to find Qin Huai. Haha, she did what she promised me, so I have to do what I promised her."
"It turned out to be all your calculations. Guo Zhehao, you idiot!"
The girl's cold voice came from far away.
Before the two people who were confronting each other could snap out of their shock, they saw a shadow flash past and hit Guo Zhehao hard.
Guo Zhehao staggered two steps after being hit by her, and his bullet missed. He also fell down from the stairs under the girl's momentum.
At the same time, the temporarily trapped giant python shook away the heavy object pressing on its body, and rushed towards Chu Yuan who was unable to move in a Z shape.
A sharp blade cut through the giant python's body and nailed it to the ground with a sound.
Pei Xiao instructed Qi Yao, "Take Chu Yuan to the storage room over there. I'll go down to find Jiang Ran and Guo Zhehao."
"Yes." Qi Yao ran forward to help Chu Yuan up and whispered, "Can you still walk?"
"Yeah." Seeing Qi Yao again, Chu Yuan had a complicated expression. "Why are you here..."
"Of course we came to save you." Pei Xiao interrupted the two people's whispers and said angrily, "Hurry up! If we delay any longer, I'm afraid Jiang Ran will become the python’s food."
Qi Yao said, "Yes!"
……
Sensing the danger, the giant python nailed to the ground twisted its body hard, pulled out the sharp blade stuck in its body, and swished down the stairs to the next level with a whoosh.
Pei Xiao followed closely.
This giant python was a metal-type mutant beast, and its scales were strengthened by its superpower. Of the string of sharp blades he just threw, only one pierced its scales... Tsk, it was a bit tricky to deal with.
……
The distance between the basement third floor and the basement fourth floor seemed to be particularly far. After rolling for an unknown period of time, Jiang Ran finally landed.
The ground was soft and there was no expected pain.
She supported herself with her hands and sat up. There was a sticky feeling under her palms.
"Huh?" The girl looked down and rolled to the other side.
There wasn’t a basement fourth floor below the basement third floor, but a cultivation pool, which was probably the place where mutant beasts were cultivated in the laboratory before.
At this moment, the cultivation pool had been abandoned and had become the nest of the giant python because... the pool was densely packed with transparent snake eggs, and she could vaguely see the baby snakes swimming inside.
"I... Oh my gosh!"
Hearing the rustling sound, Jiang Ran suppressed her nausea and shrank into the vent in the corner to hide her body.
The giant python followed closely and circled in the cultivation pool.
Jiang Ran held her breath.
Not noticing Jiang Ran, the giant python stopped beside Guo Zhehao and used its tail to toss the unconscious man back and forth.
The man groaned when his wound was touched and opened his eyes.
"!!!"
The moment he opened his eyes, the python's bloody mouth bit down, ignoring the man's struggle and screams, and swallowed him whole.
The man's screams lingered in Jiang Ran’s ears, and Jiang Ran carefully raised her hands to cover her ears.
It was said that snakes ate food raw and then used the friction generated by crawling to digest living things. If this was true...
She lit a candle for Guo Zhehao in her heart.
