Villain Boss Chapter 215
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 215: Understanding Each Other
Shen Yao was restrained by Qin Huai and forcibly taken away from the laboratory. The last thing she saw was Shen Lang's relentless pursuit and Zheng Li's worried face.
A car was parked at the back door of the laboratory. Qin Huai pulled her into the car and drove straight into the darkness.
Unable to see the scenery outside the window, Shen Yao closed her eyes.
Grandpa had chosen to give her up.
Faced with the choice between killing Qin Huai and protecting her, Grandpa had chosen to abandon her.
In Grandpa's eyes, Eldest Brother was destined for great things, and those who achieved great things shouldn’t be bound by trivialities. They could abandon family and friends—that was the kind of person Grandpa was.
He abandoned his children, abandoned Ranran whom he had finally found, abandoned Youyou, and now he had abandoned her as well.
But what did he gain?
He was alone, filled with resentment, lonely and helpless.
"Hah, haha." She let out a string of laughs, tinged with self-mockery, sadness, and an unusual ease. "That's great..."
His body, ravaged by the drugs, was on the verge of collapse. Qin Huai showed no sign of it on his face, but he gripped the steering wheel even tighter.
Shen Lang couldn't catch up with them.
The howls of zombies and mutant beasts could be heard from the east, along with various orders from the superhumans.
He knew that, according to the plan, he could leave here safely.
"What are you laughing at?" Qin Huai asked Shen Yao, suppressing his discomfort. "Aren't you sad to be abandoned by your family?"
Shen Yao raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eye and chuckled. "I'm very happy."
"Happy?"
"Fortunately, Eldest Brother is different from Grandpa."
Grandpa lived a life of madness and ruthlessness, and in the end, he met such a desolate end.
Fortunately, Shen Yang wasn’t like Shen Lang. At least, when faced with the choice between dealing with the enemy and protecting his family, he chose the latter.
After traveling in the darkness for an unknown amount of time, Qin Huai stopped the car and gestured for her to get out.
The moment she stepped out of the car, she felt the icy air surrounding her.
He tightened his grip on her shoulders and whispered, "Keep going."
They were heading into the Xiling Snow Mountain.
Shen Yao looked back. There was no explosion in the laboratory, but she could vaguely hear noises inside, presumably from dealing with trouble on the other side of the east wall.
Qin Huai didn't give her a chance to stop, pulling her along as they continued into the snow-capped mountains.
"Perhaps..."
Qin Huai took a breath, and the icy cold air from Xiling Snow Mountain rushed into his lungs, clearing his gradually blurring mind.
"Perhaps it's a good thing for you, but Shen Yao... your grandfather is right. Those who are too merciful to their enemies often die a terrible death."
He was responding to what she had just said.
A sense of foreboding crept into her heart, and Shen Yao subconsciously asked, "What?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a loud explosion came from the direction of the base's laboratory building, and flames illuminated half the sky.
Shen Yao suddenly stopped and turned to look at the place where the explosion had occurred.
She stood there blankly, instinctively wanting to run back, but Qin Huai held her tightly.
"I’m not lying. There really is a bomb I planted in advance in the laboratory building." Qin Huai pinned the struggling Shen Yao down on the snow, his voice as cold as the snow in Xiling. "However, I can tell you some good news—the people I took away aren’t in the laboratory."
Those words were made up by him to deceive Shen Yang.
Just as Shen Yang understood him, he also understood Shen Yang and knew how well Shen Yang understood him.
This strange tacit understanding made him certain that Shen Yang wouldn't doubt his words.
This was a high-stakes gamble he had devised to ensure his safe departure from Xiling base.
As it turned out, he won his bet.
"Not in there?" Upon hearing this news, Shen Yao felt a sense of calmness.
Su Qin and the others weren't in the laboratory building. With Youyou there, Eldest Brother would definitely be able to leave the laboratory building safely.
She heaved a sigh of relief.
"Of course, to thank Shen Yang for his hospitality, I also planted something else on the top floor of the laboratory building, which should be working now."
Qin Huai's soft sigh drifted into her ears, and Shen Yao's body trembled slightly as she murmured, "What did you do?"
……
Shen Yang understood Qin Huai. He knew Qin Huai's honesty when it came to tormenting people—even if there were some inaccuracies in what he said, it would only be more, not less—one couldn't be complacent and think that Qin Huai would suddenly become kind.
He was on the stairs to the top floor when the explosion occurred.
Flames and debris rained down on him, but he deftly vaulted over the railing, avoiding the falling objects.
The bomb wasn’t as powerful as Qin Huai had described, and it failed to level the laboratory building.
Shen Youyou smashed through the glass of the floor-to-ceiling window and rushed to him. The moment the second explosion rang out, she roughly picked him up and jumped out of the building.
"Put me down!" Being carried on the little girl's shoulder, Shen Yang wanted to curse. "Didn't I tell you to go upstairs?!"
Since Shen Youyou was here, what about Su Qin upstairs?
"I'll save you first." Shen Youyou spoke more than usual. After landing, she casually tossed him to the ground. "I'm going to save Su Qin."
She leaped up, her small figure disappearing into the firelight in an instant.
……
Upon receiving Shen Yang's message, Shen Bai waved his hand lightly, and Zhong Qian led his men to quickly pry open the wall in front of them, revealing a dark passage that stretched deep into the darkness.
There was no one, no mutant beasts, nothing at all.
This dungeon was different from the dungeons used in the current base. It was built before the apocalypse and was used to imprison experimental subjects who made mistakes.
After the disaster, this place was long abandoned, and no one knew that there was another world deep inside the dungeon.
It was unclear how Qin Huai discovered the secret of this prison and imprisoned Gu Yunqing and the others here.
If it weren't for the information from Qiao Yi, they probably wouldn't have been able to find this place even if they searched the entire base.
However, contrary to Shen Yang's expectations, Qin Huai didn’t set up any precautions here.
Were they really here? For the first time, Zhong Qian doubted his captain's judgment.
"Deputy Captain, over here!" the scout ahead signaled.
At the same time, an impatient voice came from inside the dungeon. "What's going on? Why are you only here now? Didn't I already send out the news?"
Zhong Qian quickly made a shushing gesture. "Shut up."
Qiao Yi scoffed at him, "What are you afraid of? Qin Huai has never come here once since he locked us up here."
Shen Bai ordered his subordinates to open the door, then tucked his gun back into his waistband. "Why didn't you escape?"
"There's no escape." After the door opened, Qiao Yi stretched his arms and legs, and kicked the unconscious Gu Yunqing on the ground. "These two... I don't know what Qin Huai did, they've been unconscious the whole time. Besides, we can't use our superpowers in this room."
It must have been some kind of device installed to suppress superpowers in the past to prevent experimental subjects from escaping.
Qiao Yi muttered, "Qin Huai really knows this base well—it's amazing he found such a godforsaken place."
Shen Bai glanced at Gu Yunqing and Su Qin on the ground. "Take them to the emergency room."
The team members immediately stepped forward, set up a stretcher, and carried the two away.
"Hey, what's the situation outside?" Having met Shen Bai a few times in the laboratory, Qiao Yi spoke casually. "Qin Huai still showed some consideration for our past relationship and didn't kill us outright. Did your brother take him out?"
This rascal was so annoying with his constant chatter.
Shen Bai glanced at him and gave Zhong Qian a look.
"You take Gu Yunqing and Su Qin to the emergency room. I'll go to the lab building to check on the situation..."
"Deputy Captain!" a shout came from outside the corridor. "Something's wrong! The east wall and the laboratory building have both exploded!"
