Villain Boss Chapter 155
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 155: The Attack
The explosion was deafening, and the whole building shook. Fortunately, the explosion occurred in an open grassland, and it was already off-work time, so no innocent people were harmed.
Jiang Ran, who was protected in Si Xu’s arms, craned her neck and looked out of the French window in the lobby.
The explosion alarmed the patrolling superhumans, and soon, firefighters came to put out the fire.
Shen Yao had already walked out of the laboratory, but was frightened by the explosion and retracted her steps.
"Oh my gosh! What's this? A terrorist attack?" She slowly retreated to Si Xu’s side and asked him, "Seventh Brother, when was the bomb thrown there? Did you sense it?"
Si Xu looked at her expressionlessly and replied, "I threw it."
"So it was you..." Shen Yao replied casually, and was stunned mid-sentence. "Seventh Brother, who in the base has offended you so much that you had to throw bombs to intimidate like this?"
This girl was so stupid. Why did he choose her to be his assistant before? Si Xu was a little doubtful about his previous judgment. He was silent and didn't speak.
Jiang Ran hadn't recovered from the impact of the explosion yet. Her mind began to race with the commotion outside.
The bomb was sent in with the gifts, so who was that person's target? Si Xu? However, everyone in the base knew how the gifts were dealt with in the end.
There was no way the gifts would be handed over to Si Xu.
In that case, why was the bomb hidden among the gifts?
Song Rong, who had experienced the same space transformation as Jiang Ran, finally broke free from Si Xu's power suppression. The man wiped the cold sweat from his face and quickly figured out what was going on.
He walked quickly to Si Xu, drooped his eyes, and said in a grave voice, "Professor Si, shall I arrange for someone to check now?"
There were surveillance cameras everywhere in the laboratory, and whoever sent that special gift in could be found out by just checking the surveillance.
A fire was burning in Si Xu's eyes, and deeper within was a rage that was even more terrifying than the fire. "Check it."
Fortunately, he got off work on time. If he had come out a few seconds later...
Si Xu quietly tightened his arms around Jiang Ran's shoulders. He felt the rage within him constantly rising, and the murderous intent that hadn’t appeared for a long time surged into his mind again.
When he found that man, he would pull out his bones piece by piece and hang him on the wall to feed the zombies. If the culprit couldn't be found, he would kill all the people in this base who had had a grudge against him...
Jiang Ran could barely breathe because of Si Xu’s grip, so she put one hand on his chest and gently pushed him. "Si Xu?"
Her voice was soft and sounded a little timid.
The rage within him dissipated a little. Si Xu lowered his eyes to look at her, and then slightly relaxed his grip.
Shen Yao looked at their expressions and instinctively felt that she seemed to have misunderstood. "Wait... Don't tell me that this dangerous item was found in our laboratory."
Song Rong nodded with grief. "That's right! It was hidden among that pile of things!" After saying that, he pointed to the pile of gifts on the reception desk.
After getting the answer, Shen Yao calmed down. "Oh, then how did it explode outside? Did you throw it out?"
Instead of thinking that this question was a recognition of his strength, Song Rong felt that he was inadvertently mocked. "You think too highly of me, hah."
He didn’t even notice the bomb, let alone shift it outside.
Deputy Captain Song was ashamed of his dereliction of duty.
Shen Yao looked at Si Xu, expressing her doubt with her eyes.
Si Xu looked back at her indifferently. "I shifted it out."
Without waiting for her to ask again, he added, "The shift was done by spatial overlap." Otherwise, the entire laboratory and his girl would have been blown to pieces.
This thought still made him a little angry.
Shen Yao had no further questions.
After holding it in for a long time, she only snorted. "How perverse."
He was perverse indeed. The space-type ability, which had no combat power in other people's hands, had its full potential unleashed by him.
The fire outside gradually faded, and the crowd of onlookers was separated by the cordon set up by the superhuman team. No one dared to step forward.
Gu Yunqing wandered inside the cordon, waiting for the fire to go out so that he could get closer to see what was going on.
Seeing his captain, Song Rong walked to him and whispered what happened in the laboratory. Gu Yunqing’s eyes widened. "Darn! Are you saying a psycho was trying to provoke Si Xu?"
That was really reckless. Si Xu was originally a reckless person. Now he had a soft spot, and of all people to lay a hand on, that person had to lay a hand on his soft spot. That person was simply courting death.
"Did the surveillance show who did it?"
Song Rong said, "Professor Si is alone in there. I didn't go in."
Gu Yunqing became interested and asked Song Rong to guard outside, while he went to the monitoring room of the laboratory building.
Jiang Ran was sitting on a bench in the corridor with her head lowered. She looked so well-behaved that it made people feel soft-hearted.
Sigh, this girl had been in trouble every day since she followed Si Xu. How pitiful.
After thinking about it, Gu Yunqing walked closer and wanted to comfort her, but he heard the girl's mumbling.
"Darn, don't get caught by me, or I’ll chop you into pieces and throw you out to feed the dogs..."
She was cursing very softly, but Gu Yunqing could still hear the fierce tone in her voice as if she were grinding her teeth in anger.
The words of comfort that were on the tip of his tongue suddenly couldn't be uttered. Gu Yunqing silently stopped and cleared his throat to remind the girl sitting there that he was here.
"Ahem."
Jiang Ran turned to look at him, stood up, and greeted politely, "Captain Gu."
She looked just like a delicate and well-behaved young lady.
Gu Yunqing suspected that the words he had just heard were all hallucinations.
Being stared at by Jiang Ran's black eyes without blinking, he suddenly forgot the purpose of coming here.
"Well..."
"Si Xu is in there." Jiang Ran pointed to the monitoring room. "He said that the radiation in there is strong and he won't let me in."
Gu Yunqing said, "Oh", paused, and added, "I'll go in and take a look. Sister Ranran, you have to be careful here alone. Maybe that dangerous person will suddenly appear..."
Before he finished speaking, the door of the monitoring room was opened, and Si Xu stood at the door, looking at him with emotionless, charming eyes.
Gu Yunqing immediately stopped joking and stood at attention. "Seventh Brother!"
Si Xu didn't say anything. He frowned, and silently took Jiang Ran's hand. "Let's go back."
"Hey, hey, hey, Si Xu." Gu Yunqing pointed to the monitoring room. "Any clues?"
Si Xu's brows furrowed. "The surveillance didn’t capture him."
The surveillance did capture the person who delivered the thing, but unfortunately, the person was covered from head to toe and his face couldn't be seen at all.
Having not found any clues, Gu Yunqing also looked grim. "What are you planning to do next?"
"Tell them to stop accepting things that are sent over for now," Jiang Ran interrupted. "There are too many things coming in and out, which is the easiest to confuse people."
"Of course." Gu Yunqing said, "But since that person has attacked Si Xu, he might not only target the laboratory in the future, but also the apartment. Do you want me to arrange a few people to protect you in the apartment?"
Si Xu shook his head. "No."
"But..." What if you were attacked?
"I think..." Jiang Ran whispered, "that person's target might not be Si Xu..."
Gu Yunqing said, "Huh?" If it wasn’t Si Xu, then who was it? There was no one else in the laboratory that was worth making such a big fuss, right?
He looked at Si Xu, who nodded and agreed with Jiang Ran's point of view.
That person's target wasn’t him, and what that person wanted to destroy had nothing to do with him. To be more precise, there was no necessary connection to him.
Gu Yunqing was shocked. "Then what was the purpose of this attack?" What else in the laboratory was worthy of outsiders' covetousness that would cause such a big fuss?
