Villain Boss Chapter 248
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 248: How Long Are You Going To Hide?
Upon hearing that voice, Jiang Suxin froze on the spot.
She didn't move, and the man didn't urge her either. He just stared at her with a cool smile.
Cold sweat poured down the back of her neck. Jiang Suxin tried to move her stiff neck, slowly turned around, and forced a smile that looked more like a grimace. "Y-you're still here."
"Yes, I'm still here," Luo Yuting said casually. "I heard you were admiring the scenery on the rooftop. I was worried that suddenly showing up would be abrupt, so after hesitating for a moment, I decided to wait for you to come back here."
Jiang Suxin muttered weakly, "Actually, it's okay if you don't wait for me."
"What did you say?"
"Huh? Nothing. I was just saying I didn't expect you to come to Beichen base, haha."
She chuckled twice, trying to appear less guilty.
Luo Yuting's gaze remained fixed on her face. Upon hearing this, he frowned, as if complaining, "There's someone who's always avoiding me, which is very frustrating for me. She refuses to see me, so I have to chase after her all over the world."
"Who is it that makes you chase after her? Doesn't she have any self-awareness? Haha."
"I don't know if that person knew what was going on, but there's a question that's been bothering me for a long time."
"What's the problem?"
As soon as she blurted out the question, Jiang Suxin regretted it. Sure enough, Luo Yuting smiled leisurely and said, "Jiang Suxin, I want to ask you, how long are you planning to keep hiding from me?"
He asked directly, walking toward her as he spoke.
The tall figure kept approaching, and Jiang Suxin reflexively backed away, stammering, "Wh-why are you coming closer? I-I wasn't avoiding you..."
"You weren't avoiding me?" Luo Yuting smiled, cornering her. "That's even better."
"Better?" His hot breath fell on her face, and Jiang Suxin's mind went blank. "What do you mean?"
"If you're avoiding me, that means you hate me."
Luo Yuting braced himself against the wall behind her with one hand and leaned down to breathe close to her.
He was so close that she could even see his curled eyelashes and her reflection in his pupils.
His breath fell on her ear, deep and tinged with laughter. "Since you tell me now that you're not avoiding me, isn't that indirectly telling me that you don't hate me?"
"..." What kind of logic was that?
"Indeed. If you hated me, why would you have taken advantage of me while drunk?" He narrowed his eyes, a sly smile on his face. "Jiang Suxin, had you been planning that all along?"
Her cheeks flushed uncontrollably, and Jiang Suxin avoided his turbulent eyes, remaining silent with her lips pursed.
She always made this face when she was faced with a difficult decision.
Luo Yuting didn't press her any further. He withdrew his hand and took two steps back. The flirtatious atmosphere from before instantly dissipated.
"If you feel bothered, I'll just stop contacting you," Luo Yuting sighed. "You don't need to keep avoiding me."
……
It wasn't until Luo Yuting left that Jiang Suxin snapped out of her daze.
She walked quickly over and closed the door, leaning her back against it and letting out a heavy sigh.
He’d finally left.
She hadn't seen him for a while, and he'd gotten even more handsome. If he got any closer, she...
Jiang Suxin pursed her lips and squatted down against the door.
What would she do? She was now helpless, like a duckweed on the water, not knowing where she would go. What could she do?
……
Across from the lantern tower, Jiang Ran sat on the steps, resting her chin on her hand and looking at the gate, waiting for Luo Yuting to come out.
Huo Lingyin raised a hand to her forehead and, using the shadow cast by her hand, looked toward the end of the street.
At the end of the street was the east gate of Beichen base, where a long queue had already formed.
Huo Lingyin looked at them for a moment, then looked away. "Do you think... the person we're waiting for might be among those people?"
Jiang Ran wasn't interested in that. "Ask Si Xu. My Professor Si is omnipotent and knows everything."
After she finished speaking, the omnipotent Professor Si finally came out of the lantern tower.
"Is everything settled?"
"Yeah."
Si Xu reached out and pulled Jiang Ran up from the steps, brushing the dust off her clothes. "Since Jiang Suxin is here, that person will definitely come. We can just wait for him to come."
Huo Lingyin was still surprised. "Is it really the lamplighter?"
Si Xu remained silent.
Huo Lingyin clicked her tongue. "Sigh, I really feel sorry for Luo Yuting. He finally found someone he liked, but that girl turned out to be..."
"You still have the mind to sympathize with Luo Yuting?" Si Xu reminded her, "You should be considering how you’re going to handle it if Luo Yuting decides to betray the alliance for his lover."
Losing Luo Yuting meant losing the power of the entire Nanjun base.
It was one thing to lose that, but if Jiang Suxin insisted on opposing him, they would become enemies and fight each other in the near future.
Huo Lingyin remained silent.
After leaving the hospital, she arranged for Huo Heng to investigate Huo Xuan's recent interpersonal relationships and discovered that he had been frequently visiting the lantern tower in the past month.
The lantern tower was an important observation point. Normally, his comings and goings wouldn't attract Huo Lingyin's attention, but this time, with Huo Xuan's provocation, she had to be more careful.
Besides the superhuman team that patrolled daily, only the lamplighter who lived on the roof remained in the lantern tower.
If the person were just an ordinary superhuman, Huo Xuan wouldn't need to frequently visit the lantern tower. He could simply invite the person to his residence.
After a moment's thought, she pinned her suspicion on the lamplighter.
Just then, Luo Yuting suggested visiting the lantern tower, so she made an excuse to come with him.
Who knew she'd witness such a melodramatic scene of old flames reuniting?
“I’ve already damaged the communication device she uses to contact outsiders,” Si Xu said. “To avoid suspicion, remember to send a notification later saying that the switchboard in the lantern tower is malfunctioning and temporarily unavailable.”
They would soon find out who was behind Jiang Suxin.
After calculating the time they came out, Huo Lingyin asked in surprise, "You damaged all the communication devices she had hidden?"
"Yeah."
"How can you be sure there isn't any that you missed out?"
"That's why I'm asking you to shut down the switchboard."
"..." Since we would be shutting down the switchboard, then what was the point of all that trouble you went through dismantling all those things?
She was curious, but she didn't dare to ask, afraid that he would twist her into a pretzel.
Huo Lingyin didn't dare to ask, so Jiang Ran asked for her, "Si Xu, if the switchboard is going to be shut down, what's the point of you dismantling those things?"
Si Xu placed one hand on her shoulder, his tone unlike his coldness when speaking to Huo Lingyin. "I can take one back and study it."
After the apocalypse, all previous communication devices became obsolete. Fortunately, the laboratory had made preparations in advance and developed a communication tool that could temporarily replace mobile phones for use by the superhuman teams that went out to carry out missions.
Communication devices were scarce, and ordinary people, including members of the superhuman teams who weren’t affiliated with the base, couldn’t be equipped with it.
Jiang Suxin's communication device looked lightweight and convenient, and the requirements weren’t high. If he took it back and studied it carefully, maybe it could become like the mobile phones before the apocalypse, with everyone having one.
