Villain Boss Chapter 243
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 243: News Of Chu Yuan
How could she still dare to ask him what he was angry about? Huo Sichan was so angry he laughed, and simply ignored her, picking up the book he was holding again.
He ignored her, so Huo Lingge simply sat down across from him at the desk.
She rested her chin on her hands, her vision blurred as she caught a glimpse of his familiar silhouette—sigh, if only she could see, without relying on her powers, she would be able to clearly see his face and discern his expression as he spoke...
Her biggest regret now was that she couldn't see his eyes clearly.
She thought that a gentle person like him must have eyes as clear as a secluded spring or a cold stream.
Unfortunately, she couldn't see them.
With Huo Lingge staring at him, not looking away for a long time, Huo Sichan couldn’t stay angry.
He gripped the book tightly, glanced at her, and said coldly, "I have official business to attend to. You should leave now."
Huo Lingge didn't seem to mind: "I won't say anything, I won't bother you."
She refused to leave.
Huo Lingge had torn off her mask of pretense, revealing her true shameless unreasonable side!
Huo Sichan frowned. "It’s not suitable for outsiders to know about the affairs of the base."
“I’m not an outsider, I’m your sister.”
Huo Lingge spoke in a permissive tone, as if he were the one being unreasonable.
Huo Sichan was annoyed with her, but couldn't bring himself to say anything harsh.
He lowered his eyes again, hesitating whether to let Uncle Ning come in and get her to leave.
"Huo Sichan." Huo Lingge knew when to stop. She fiddled with the green plant on the table, persisting with her previous question, "Why are you angry with me?"
Was she still pondering this question? Huo Sichan paused for a moment, then looked up at her: "Lingge, let me ask you, why did you knock me unconscious last night?"
"Didn't I say it was to protect you?" Her reply sounded perfectly justified. "I said I’d protect you."
Before she could finish speaking, Huo Sichan slammed the book in his hand heavily onto the table.
He rarely got angry. Since she met him, no matter what happened, he always spoke gently and remained calm even in the face of a collapsing mountain.
He was truly angry, and Huo Lingge immediately became obedient.
She lowered her head and said in a hoarse voice, "Eldest Brother, don't be angry."
She wasn't unaware of why he was angry. She deliberately asked him the question indirectly, simply wanting to convey her feelings to him.
Huo Sichan's eyes were cold, but inside they contained not only anger, but also a trace of helplessness and disappointment. "Lingge, do you think I’d be happy to stay alive because I was protected by you?"
Huo Lingge remained silent. You wouldn't, but my wish was simply that you could survive.
Huo Sichan sneered. "I’m the eldest son of the Huo family and the person in charge of Beichen base. I’ll never entrust my life to someone else. Lingge, even if you really sacrificed yourself for me last night, I wouldn’t be grateful to you."
That sounded really hurtful! Huo Lingge thought to herself, her expression still stubborn. "I don't need your gratitude. Huo Sichan, I’m an independent person. My actions are simply out of my own conscience, following my own heart. Isn't that what you taught me?"
Hearing her rebuttal, Huo Sichan tightened his grip on the book. Well, well, well, she spoke so eloquently and didn’t understand his good intentions at all...
He was so angry he didn't want to talk to her. "Get out."
Huo Lingge pouted and said, "I'm going out then."
She got angry too, and pushed the bowl of medicine to his front. "Remember to take your medicine."
She got up to leave.
Behind her, Huo Sichan looked at the medicine bowl on the table, and said without calling her name, "I hope you learn to use your awakened superpower to protect yourself."
Huo Lingge suffered greatly and had now finally awakened her superpowers, gaining a foothold in this apocalyptic world. He didn't want her to be trapped by the past, and even less did he want her to stop moving forward because of him.
Protect myself? Huo Lingge smiled silently.
When she was on the brink of death, only he grasped her pleading hand. The moment he held her hand, she ceased to exist in her own life.
Huo Lingge habitually closed the study door for him. In the last moment before the door closed, she finally tore open the wall surrounding her heart and said in a hoarse voice, "Huo Sizhan, I like you. I've liked you for a very long time, and I’ll always like you."
——Therefore, even if it was your request, she wouldn't change her mind.
The single, seemingly casual remark struck Huo Sichan's heart like a heavy hammer.
Huo Sichan stared blankly at the closed door, a look of astonishment appearing on his handsome face, while his fair ears began to warm up uncontrollably.
What nonsense was that annoying girl spouting?
She liked him? How could she like him? He was her brother!
……
After walking a short distance alongside Pei Xiao, Jiang Ran saw the lantern tower in the distance.
That lantern tower was a landmark building in Beichen City. Before the apocalypse, Jiang Ranran and Xie Chengzhi even came here for sightseeing and took photos.
However, Jiang Ran noticed the lantern tower not because of its unique architectural style or the historical and cultural significance it contained... she vaguely saw blurry figures on the lantern tower.
“That lantern tower…” she pointed to the lantern tower in the distance, “What’s it used for now? Is it open to the public?”
"That one?" Pei Xiao glanced at it. "I remember it was sealed off after the apocalypse, and now it's the base for the superhuman team's observers."
The observer's base? Oh, from that altitude, one could probably see the entire Beichen base.
Since it was the superhuman team's outpost, Jiang Ran stopped dwelling on the figures she had seen. "Captain Pei, are you looking for me because of Captain Chu Yuan?"
When Chu Yuan left with Pei Xiao, she asked Pei Xiao to take good care of him.
After all, among all the people she knew, no one understood Dongchao base better than Pei Xiao.
Pei Xiao nodded and said, "I didn't expect to meet you here. I was thinking that after the trouble at Beichen base was resolved, I would go to Xiling on the way."
Jiang Ran joked, "That means we're quite destined to meet—it's fate that we met."
Pei Xiao glanced at her, chuckled, and said in a tone that was less solemn than usual, revealing a hint of youthful energy, "Yes, it’s quite a destiny."
Noticing the change in Pei Xiao’s tone, Jiang Ran asked, "Did Captain Chu find any useful information at Dongchao base?"
"There are no records of the Si Nian you mentioned at Dongchao base, including Dongchao laboratory. However, after Chu Yuan looked through the previous entry and exit records of the Dongchao laboratory, he discovered something very interesting."
What's it?"
"Professor Jiang, who was your father, used to visit Dongchao laboratory every month to exchange ideas and learn from one another."
"Huh?" Jiang Ran asked in surprise, "My father used to go to Dongchao laboratory often?"
“Yes,” Pei Xiao said. “The content of the exchange was also recorded in the meeting minutes. It seems to be about exchanging specific experimental results on the use of the virus to treat heart failure.”
"Treat heart failure?" Jiang Ran said. "I remember that the initial research on the virus by various laboratories was for medical use."
"Yes."
But wasn't visiting Dongchao laboratory every month a bit too frequent?
Jiang Ran put that question aside for the time being. "Is there any news about Si Nian?"
Pei Xiao said regretfully, "Not yet."
Jiang Ran didn't find it strange.
If Huo Zhisang was indeed Si Xu's biological mother, it meant that Huo Zhisang betrayed Si Nian's brother. If she were Si Nian, she would also avoid Dongchao laboratory, which was held in charge by the Pei family.
Jiang Yize asked Shen Muxin to take the virus data to Dongchao City to find Si Nian. Hence, Jiang Ran thought Si Nian was also a staff member researching the virus. But now she felt that perhaps Si Nian hadn’t joined any laboratory at all.
