Villain Boss Chapter 139
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 139: Silent Confession
After walking around the fourth basement floor, Pei Xiao didn’t find Jiang Ran and Guo Zhehao, nor the giant python. Pei Xiao realized that something was wrong and was about to go upstairs, but found that the stairs he had come down from were gone.
"It has dual abilities?" Realizing that he had fallen into a trap, he kicked the wall in annoyance. "Darn it!"
The python had both metal-type and physic-type abilities.
What kind of monster did the Beihe Laboratory cultivate?
……
In the storage room, Qi Yao took out a hemostatic bandage from her bag to bandage Chu Yuan's wound, and then took out various medicines and spread them on the ground. She asked Chu Yuan, "Which one can be used?"
Chu Yuan glanced at them and shook his head. "It's useless. The thing that Guo Zhehao injected me with is used to suppress the mutant virus in my body. It has no substantial harm to my body, just that I can’t use my superpower."
"You can’t use your superpower?" Qi Yao heaved a sigh of relief and muttered, "I’m glad that it doesn't harm your body. I was scared to death."
Why didn't he realize before that the two sisters were actually very similar? They were both optimistic girls.
Chu Yuan stared at the girl for a moment, and smiled slightly. "Qi Yao, thank you."
He called her name?
Qi Yao suddenly stiffened, and she lowered her head, avoiding his gaze.
He said thank you?
Why did he thank her? She deceived him and used his love for his fiancée to seek sanctuary for herself. She used him. Why did he say thank you?
She didn’t respond.
Chu Yuan leaned against the wall and closed his eyes gently. "It's good enough that you can survive."
On the way to Beihe base, he thought a lot.
Whether he wanted to believe it or not, Qi Yuan was already dead. She died four years ago.
The girl he loved deeply died in a car accident four years ago.
Now standing alive in front of him, the girl he thought was Qi Yuan, was Qi Yao who was forced to have her identity swapped and survived.
What did she do wrong?
She lived for her family and parents for the first nineteen years, and lived for her sister for the next four years. She was just a victim in the family struggle. Like his Qi Yuan, she sacrificed herself for the benefit of the family.
She didn't even do it for herself for a moment.
His Qi Yuan was gone forever. At least, he hoped that the person she loved could survive in this apocalypse.
The man's words of emotion floated into her ears, piercing her heart and causing it to bleed.
The girl sniffed and whispered, "I'm sorry, Chu Yuan."
These words should have been said to him long ago.
Whether it was the deception of the sisters exchanging identities four years ago, or her appearance in front of him using Qi Yuan's identity four years later, she owed him a thank you. But fortunately, she could still say it to him in person.
"I'm sorry."
She repeated it, lowered her head, and dared not look at him.
Like a prisoner who had committed a crime, she was just waiting for the judge's final verdict.
Whether she lived or died, she accepted her fate.
Chu Yuan smiled softly and said slowly, "I forgive you, Qi Yao."
She still didn’t look up, but just blinked quickly, and two drops of tears suddenly fell on the ground.
Chu Yuan wanted to say something, but he saw from the corner of his eye that outside the window, a hand stretched out from the pile of heavy objects that fell, and pushed away the cement bricks piling on top.
"They are..."
The man, covered in blood, crawled out of the pile of debris, and quickly dug out the other two people buried inside.
"Still alive..."
When the heavy objects fell down, he thought they were dead.
Qi Yao also noticed the movement outside, and she opened her eyes wide.
Due to the effect of the drug, Chu Yuan still had no strength.
Qi Yao quickly opened the door and rushed out to help.
"Are you..." The sober team member obviously knew Qi Yao, and blurted out, "Sister Qi Yuan?" He glanced at the storage room in surprise and blurted out, "Are reinforcements coming?"
"Yes." In order to calm the emotions of the wounded, Qi Yao lied, "Captain Pei brought people here. They went downstairs to hunt the python. Let’s wait for them here."
The team member opened his mouth in surprise and murmured, "Great."
Qi Yao leaned over to check the two people he pulled out. One of them had a bloody, mangled wound from the knee down, and the other... Qi Yao checked his breath and pulse, and said in a hoarse voice, "He is..."
"Dead?" The team member pursed his lips bitterly and turned his sore eyes to the side to prevent tears from falling.
"Let's help him in first." Qi Yao made a prompt decision. "His right leg is seriously injured, and the smell of blood is strong, which will attract zombies and mutant beasts..."
Before the girl finished speaking, there were growling sounds at the stairs, and several zombies staggered out from the stairs.
Qi Yao, "..."
The team member snapped out of his daze. He quickly leaned over to help his teammate up, and followed Qi Yao into the storage room.
Seeing Chu Yuan, the light in the team member's eyes became brighter. "Captain, you're fine! That's great!"
"Yeah." Chu Yuan motioned with his chin. "Stop his bleeding first."
"Yes, yes."
With the help of Qi Yao, the team member quickly treated the wound of the injured team member.
Qi Yao looked at the blood on the ground and the zombies gathering at the door, and was a little panicked. "The smell of blood is too strong. What should we do?"
There were no cleaning tools in the storage room. The smell of blood drifted outside, which only attracted more zombies.
The zombies gathered at the door, hitting the heavy iron door and glass with force, making a dull banging sound.
The team member who could move looked around, got up and pushed the tables, chairs and benches in the room against the door and window. "This won't hold them back for long. Hopefully, Captain Pei and the others can come back soon..."
With the speed at which the zombies were gathering outside, the door might still hold them back, but the floor-to-ceiling window was made of tempered glass. It would definitely not be able to withstand the constant banging of those zombies.
Ranran rolled down the stairs and disappeared. Captain Pei went after the giant python but didn't come back.
Could it be that they had already...
Just as Qi Yao was thinking that, the glass behind her made a cracking sound.
Attracted by the sound, the zombies squeezed in even more frantically.
The team member leaned against the cabinet and looked at Chu Yuan for help, almost crying. "Captain, what should we do?"
Their captain couldn't move yet. Sister Qi Yuan was an ordinary person, while he was a superhuman with space-type abilities. What should they do? At this rate, they would become food for the zombies.
"Growl, growl!"
The vague roars of the zombies and the sound of banging the glass continued. Qi Yao looked up at the vent above her head and calmed down.
"I'll crawl out." She stood up. "I'll crawl out to divert them."
"What..." The team member also saw the vent above her head that could only accommodate one person.
"Nonsense!" Knowing her thoughts, Chu Yuan's face turned cold. "How are you going to divert them? You'll die if you crawl out!"
How could an ordinary person divert a horde of zombies? It was obvious what she was planning to do!
"If we stay here, we’ll all die." Qi Yao called to the team member, "Move a table over so that I can climb up."
The team member hesitated. "Why don’t I crawl out? I'm more familiar with this place..."
"That’s great." Qi Yao said, "After I lure those zombies away, if there’s a chance, you can find the exit."
Qi Yao had already made up her mind. She climbed up the table and chair to open the vent on the ceiling. The girl looked down at Chu Yuan and said, "It's connected up there. I can go outside."
By outside, she was referring to the corridor.
"Qi Yao, get down here!" Chu Yuan knew all too well what her intentions were. He struggled to stand up, but could only fall to one side weakly.
The team member hurriedly helped him up.
"Qi Yao!"
"Chu Yuan." The girl interrupted his roar and blinked. "In all my life, I’ve never lived for myself."
Chu Yuan was stunned when he met her sad eyes.
"For the first nineteen years, I lived the way my parents liked. In the next four years, I lived like Qi Yuan would—Chu Yuan, only the one standing in front of you now is the real Qi Yao. What I’m doing now is what Qi Yao wants to do."
I wanted to protect you.
I wanted to protect you whom I once owed, regardless of whether it was my own wish or Qi Yuan's wish.
"Chu Yuan, I'm sorry."
And...
She moved her lips and said three words silently.
"You..."
"Thank you for your gift." The girl smiled. "Qi Yuan gave me that camera—I like it very much."
She climbed up the vent clumsily, mumbling, "You still owe me a barbecue. When we get out..."
In the narrow ventilation duct, the girl's voice was a little muffled.
"Let's go have a barbecue together, Chu Yuan."
