Villain Boss Chapter 233
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 233: The Four-Party Alliance
Huo Siguo brought people to the Huo family’s compound, and Huo Xuan personally led people to the research laboratory to find that eccentric Mr. Tu Su.
All the research data of Beichen base was in Tu Su's hands. Although Tu Su didn't have any particularly close friends, he had taken good care of Huo Sichan, and the base management knew this.
That eccentric researcher only became slightly more polite when speaking to Huo Sichan.
Huo Xuan didn't expect to get the research laboratory's data from this kind of person through polite persuasion.
He directly ordered the fourth team to surround the research laboratory, stating that they would take Tu Su away or else they would massacre the laboratory.
Of course, he didn't succeed.
Not only did they fail, but they were also caught red-handed by Pei Xiao and his men who were lying in ambush at the research laboratory.
In the ensuing clash, the fourth team was defeated and all members were captured.
After Pei Xiao finished recounting the battle situation at the research laboratory, Huo Lingyin asked, "Was Huo Xuan captured too?"
If he was arrested, he should be allowed to see his son one last time.
Pei Xiao shook his head. "Those people only received orders from Huo Xuan. Huo Xuan himself wasn’t present."
Huo Xuan wasn't there... Huo Lingyin sighed regretfully, "That guy is an old fox. Now that the situation is settled, he definitely won't show his face. It’ll be difficult to catch him again."
Huo Xuan, being a superhuman, possessed a considerable level of superpower. Even if he left the Beichen base and went elsewhere, he wouldn't starve to death.
He always knew how to weigh the pros and cons before acting.
Dropping the topic on Huo Xuan, Huo Lingyin asked, "Where’s Huo Sichan?" After such a commotion, the dignified head of the Huo family was nowhere to be seen.
Holding her teacup, Huo Lingge said weakly, "He drank Mr. Tu Su's medicine and fell asleep."
He didn't fall asleep. She knocked him unconscious. Of course, she couldn’t say that.
After answering, Huo Lingge guiltily picked up her cup and drank some tea, trying to hide her unease.
Knowing about her brother's health condition, Huo Lingyin curled her lips, wanting to make a sarcastic remark, but restrained by the presence of outsiders, she simply snorted, "He's certainly carefree."
"After all, you’re here, sister." Huo Lingge flattered her elder sister. "Whenever you’re here, I feel especially safe. It doesn’t matter even if the sky falls down."
Huo Lingyin's lips twitched, her ears burning. She scolded, "I won't care if the sky falls. We might as well all die together."
Huo Lingge said aggrievedly, "Oh."
Huo Lingyin, "..." Why bother getting angry with Huo Lingge? It wasn’t like she hadn’t known what kind of person she was before. There was no need to lose her mind over her nonsense.
Si Xu glanced at the two sisters with their different expressions and sighed, "You two sisters have such a good relationship. It seems Jiang Ran was right."
In an instant, both Huo Lingyin and Huo Heng remembered Jiang Ran's words—Huo Lingyin's true love was Huo Lingge!
The former gripped the cup in her hand tightly and grinned. "The trouble has been resolved. I wonder if Professor Si is still waiting here for something?"
"Yes, it's something very important." Si Xu yawned, his eyes brimming with tears, looking utterly exhausted. "Otherwise, who would stay up all night and come here to meddle in other people's business?"
Since meeting Si Xu and Jiang Ran, Huo Lingyin had been rolling her eyes more and more often. "I wonder what important matter Professor Si has to discuss?"
Si Xu casually glanced at the young people present, his tone as casual as if he were asking "How's the weather today?". "Want to form an alliance?"
An alliance? What did that mean?
Huo Lingyin and Pei Xiao exchanged a glance, and the latter shook his head slightly. Huo Lingyin then said, "I don't quite understand what Professor Si meant."
Si Xu explained unhurriedly, "You also experienced the zombie horde at the beginning of this year. When I entered the city, I overheard the city's superhuman team chatting and they said that your Beichen base almost didn't survive."
Huo Lingyin blurted out, "Nonsense—that's because our first team wasn't here!"
"Can you guarantee that the first team will always be at the base?" Si Xu asked rhetorically.
Huo Lingyin was rendered speechless.
"You've all seen how fast zombies evolve. If another winter comes, I think the zombie horde in early spring next year will be even more terrifying than this year."
"So what?" Huo Lingyin sneered. "By next spring, the ability levels of the members of the superhuman teams will have increased significantly, and then..."
Si Xu interrupted her expressionlessly, "Has anyone ever told you that you're much more pleasing to the eye when you use your hands than when you use your brain?"
Huo Lingyin, "..." The woman, realizing what was happening, jumped up in anger. "Si Xu! Don't you have any gentlemanly manners at all?"
"I do," Si Xu said calmly. "I just don't want to waste any more time with you."
"You!"
Seeing Huo Lingyin about to throw the teacup, Pei Xiao interjected in time to stop a fight from breaking out. "Like superhumans, zombies' abilities are also evolving. And another very important point is that the number of superhumans has reached its limit, but we don't know about zombies."
Humans whose bodies could convert viruses into superpowers must have already awakened their superpowers in the early stages of the apocalypse.
In other words, the combined number of superhumans in the four bases in the east, west, south, and north was almost the entirety of the combat power that humanity could utilize.
But zombies were different. Even if only one-tenth of the total number of zombies had awakened superpowers, they were still far more numerous than superhumans.
Not to mention, there were also mutant beasts and mutant plants.
“It’s not just humans whose abilities can upgrade. Zombies do too,” Si Xu said. “Based on the mutants we’ve encountered so far, zombies upgrade their abilities much faster than humans. Who can guarantee that their base will be able to withstand a zombie horde unscathed a year from now?”
Huo Lingyin's anger, which had been rising to her head, was extinguished by a bucket of cold water. Somewhat irritated, she ran her fingers through her hair and asked Si Xu, "What’s your intention?"
“An alliance,” Si Xu said bluntly. “It just so happens that the current or future leaders of the four bases are all sitting here right now. Whether you’re willing or not is just a matter of your word.”
"The heads of the four bases?" Huo Lingyin hesitated. "Pei Xiao can make decisions for the Dongchao base, but what about the Nanjun..."
Her gaze shifted to the silent Luo Yuting, and she asked in surprise, "Are you from the Nanjun base?"
Finally knowing why Si Xu had called him over to watch the show, Luo Yuting didn't hide anything. "I’m Luo Yuting of the Luo family of Nanjun."
"Luo Yuting? The eldest son of the Luo family in Nanjun?" Recalling the night he stood up for those ordinary people, Huo Lingyin sneered, "Young Master Luo, why did you conceal your identity and come to Beichen with our team?"
Luo Yuting, sparing with words, simply said, "Taking a walk."
"..."
Not wanting to listen to their nonsense, Si Xu said , "An alliance? Want to give it a try?"
The topic had circled back to itself.
Forming an alliance sounded like a pretty good suggestion.
In the post-apocalyptic world, in order to survive, bases had formed internal superhuman teams. Bringing superhumans together and forming alliances with the outside world now seemed to have no downsides.
However, since the suggestion was made by Si Xu, the group present couldn't help but have some doubts.
Si Xu was different from them. He came from a laboratory background. The greatest "evil" he had ever experienced wasn’t this disaster that could destroy humanity, but the torture inflicted by the researchers in the laboratory.
Rumors about him had always been more negative than positive, and now he was proposing that major bases cooperate for the continuation of humanity... Somehow, that didn’t seem very reliable.
