I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 29
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 29: The Last Bullet
This was the first time since Pei Wan’er’s incident that Gu Yunqing heard this tone from Si Xu. He subconsciously glanced at his subordinate who had his head lowered, kicked him hard, and scolded, "Si Xu is asking you a question! Tell him quickly. How long has it been since Sister Ranran fell into the river?"
"Ow..." Song Rong snapped out of his daze when his calf hurt, and hurriedly replied, "About... ten minutes."
"Ten minutes?" Si Xu nodded and took two steps forward.
Song Rong felt overwhelmed by a powerful psychic pressure, and he instinctively wanted to flee. However, he resisted the urge to take a step back. "Professor Si, it was my negligence. I'm sorry."
"Your negligence?" Si Xu’s face was expressionless. He just replied, "I got it."
He got it? What did that mean? Song Rong wanted to continue apologizing, but he heard Gu Yunqing's urgent voice. "Si Xu, are you crazy? It has been ten minutes since Jiang Ran fell into the river! Even if you go down now, there’s no way you could fish her out! Besides..."
Gu Yunqing hastily took two steps forward to stop Si Xu and sternly said, "You and I don't know what's in the water. Jiang Ran is an ordinary person. Even if she fell into the water and didn't drown, she would also..."
"She would be eaten." Si Xu answered with a calm tone, "I know. She would be eaten."
"Why do you still want to go down then?!" If Si Xu had taken another step, he would have gone into the water like Jiang Ran did.
Gu Yunqing was a little mad. Although he rather liked Jiang Ran, this fondness was entirely based on Si Xu's fondness of her — she was an ordinary person. No matter how beautiful she was, it was not worth Si Xu sacrificing his life for her.
"I'll go down and have a look." Si Xu's expression remained unchanged. "If she died, I’d bring back her body. If she was eaten, I’d bring back her bones."
Looking into the light brown eyes of the young man, Gu Yunqing was stunned, and slowly let go of his hand. "Si Xu, I'll go down with you."
He knew very well that it didn't matter if everyone else was dead, but Si Xu must return to Xiling Base alive — no matter what the price was, he was the only one who must live.
"No need." Pushing away his friend's hand, Si Xu said, "If no unforeseen event happens, Su Qin's team will arrive tomorrow. You should collect the supplies in the city as soon as possible. If I don't come back after seven days, you should go back to the base first. "
"But..." Gu Yunqing wanted to say more, but a figure flashed in front of his eyes. The young man had already jumped off the bridge.
The moment he approached the surface of the water, a door seemed to open on the calm river, and the water flowed to both sides. The white figure fell into the "door", and the river returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
"Is that..." Luo Rui narrowed her eyes and murmured, "A water-type ability?" It seemed that Si Xu's dual-elemental superpowers were water-type and space-type.
However, even if he was a superhuman with water-type abilities, there was no way he could bring back Jiang Ranran who had fallen into the water for ten minutes.
After the virus spread, no one knew what kind of monsters existed under the water.
Jiang Ranran was an ordinary person without superpowers, and she fell into the water from such a high place. Even if she didn't fall to her death, she would have become food for the underwater creatures.
Jiang Ranran was dead.
Everyone knew this fact, but Si Xu ignored that and jumped down to find her... Could it be that he really liked Jiang Ranran?
Haha, was that possible? Of course not. For that kind of superhuman, without Jiang Ranran, there would still be other girls. For instance, He Ru was as attractive as Jiang Ranran... Thinking of this, Luo Rui looked at He Ru, and saw the corner of the girl's mouth curl up in an unnoticeable arc.
Hah, she had found it strange that Jiang Ranran fell into the water. It turned out that this girl really did it –– to achieve her goal, this woman was really ruthless.
……
If she died, would she be able to return to her original world? If she really died, would Si Xu feel sad? Would he... have another woman soon?
This was Jiang Ran's last thought before losing consciousness.
……
Choked by the cold air that went into her throat, Jiang Ran coughed twice in a restrained manner. She carefully rummaged through the hospital ward, trying not to make any noises.
It was a pity that she didn't die.
Even though she fell into the water as an ordinary person, she didn't die.
When she woke up again, she was lying on the steps by the river. Her clothes were soaked, and her body was cold.
There were no zombies or mutant beasts around. She was all alone.
She struggled to get up, but before she could figure out where she was, she was chased by a zombie and hid in a building beside the street.
She hid in the hospital, shot, and killed a zombie. Then, she smeared the rotten flesh of that zombie on herself to cover her own smell.
By using this method, she avoided the zombies in the hospital all the way, arrived at the current ward, and found some clothes that the patient didn't take away when the patient left.
She locked the door and checked the room. After making sure that there were no zombies inside, Jiang Ran quickly changed her clothes and dried her hair to avoid catching a cold.
While wiping her hair, the girl sat on the bed, thinking about what her next plan should be.
After He Ru pushed her down, she must have thought that Jiang Ran would die.
How strange. Jiang Ran could imagine a hundred ways to die from such a high distance, having fallen into a river where creatures might lurk... Sigh, now that she was alive, she didn’t know whether she was considered lucky or unlucky.
Would Si Xu come to find her? At the thought of that question, Jiang Ran laughed derisively at herself. When had I become so dependent on him? At this juncture, I should come to my senses.
No one would believe that she was still alive. Si Xu knew the apocalyptic world best. He must have been certain that she was dead.
Besides, even if she was really still alive, Si Xu didn't need to look for her –– she was an ordinary person without any contribution or value. Among the people he knew, he could easily find a replacement for her.
In that case, why would he come to look for her? Why would he look for a woman who was just a plaything to him?
Reason kept telling her that this was the case. However, she still harbored some hope in her heart, looking forward to that person coming to find her, and looking forward to the opportunity to meet him again.
Jiang Ran smiled wryly. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. This was probably a saying to warn people like her who were not content.
After drying her hair, Jiang Ran glanced at the gradually darkening sky. She moved the tables and chairs to reinforce the locked door, pulled the quilt and shrank in a corner.
Even in the middle of the night, it wasn’t quiet outside the door.
There were zombies moving about, and occasionally she could hear the howling of terrible beasts.
Jiang Ran tightly grasped the gun that Si Xu gave her, wrapped the quilt tightly, and stared at the door, not daring to close her eyes.
After coming to this apocalyptic world, this was the first night she spent alone, and she couldn't sleep.
I wished Si Xu could be by my side.
This idea popped up in her mind more than once. Previously, every night, she was thinking about ways to keep that person away from her... Jiang Ran's eyes slowly reddened.
It turned out that when she was with that person, she’d gotten much more than what she’d thought she had.
If they had a chance to meet again, she would definitely say thank you to him.
……
The moment he came into contact with the river water, Si Xu knew that Jiang Ran was not in the water.
Ten minutes wasn’t a long time. Where might Jiang Ran be swept to? Or, had she been eaten?
Even if she was eaten, he should be able to sense the residual breath of her flesh and blood in such a short period of time.
Nothing. There was nothing at all.
Jiang Ran wasn’t in the water.
Had she been washed ashore? Or had she been swept away by an undercurrent?
Since she wasn’t eaten by the mutant species in the water, did that mean Jiang Ran was still alive?
She was still alive...
"Girls are fragile. They will die easily if they are not properly cared for."
Recalling what Gu Yunqing said the night before, Si Xu jumped out of the water in an irritable mood, and walked downstream along the river bank.
……
The first ray of sunlight in the morning poured into the room from the window. Jiang Ran stood up and stretched her limbs, preparing to leave the ward to find a way out.
She couldn’t possibly hide here for a lifetime. What she could do now was to figure out her location, and then get as close as possible to the street that Gu Yunqing and his team searched.
It was only possible for her to survive that way.
Like what she did yesterday, Jiang Ran killed a zombie and smeared its flesh and blood on her body. Jiang Ran checked her down jacket for the last time, and took out two White Rabbit candies from the pocket.
Oh, it was the candies that Si Xu rewarded her, and she didn't have time to eat them previously.
The candies that had been soaked in the river water were somewhat deformed. Jiang Ran tore the wrapper of one and put it in her mouth, trying to fill the hunger in her stomach with a small milk candy.
She walked stiffly all the way to the exit of the hospital. Just when she was about to go out, a voice suddenly came from the door.
"Grrr!"
The low growling caused the surrounding zombies to approach this way.
Looking at the mutant beast that appeared at the door, Jiang Ran froze all over.
Compared with a dog, the creature in front of her was more like a wolf –– it had a tall body, long black fur, sharp fangs, and a pair of blue eyes that were staring at Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran raised the gun in her hand without hesitation.
At the same time, the mutant beast charged toward her.
Its speed was fast and it kept changing its route. After Jiang Ran missed two shots in a row, she turned around and ran away decisively.
The zombies were attracted here by the mutant beast. They seemed to catch the smell of a living person, and frantically chased after Jiang Ran.
It was simply a nightmare.
Jiang Ran didn’t know how many floors she had climbed. When she looked up and saw the zombies moving unsteadily from upstairs, Jiang Ran broke open the safety door, shot and killed the zombie in the corridor, and pushed open the door of the nearest ward.
The door opened, and a figure rushed straight at her. Caught off guard, Jiang Ran was knocked to the ground by it.
Without giving her any chance to react, it bit her arm.
"Ow!" Jiang Ran felt the pain and struggled to shake off the zombie that was pressing her down.
Fortunately, the zombie was a young lady like her. She had obviously suffered inhumane treatment before her death, and her body was in a terrible shape.
The moment the zombie was kicked away, the safety door was knocked open, and the moving zombies scrambled toward the girl on the ground.
Jiang Ran almost scrambled into the ward. She slammed the door behind her, and pressed her back against the door.
The persistent knocking on the door lasted for an unknown period of time before it finally became quiet again outside the door.
Jiang Ran looked back through the thick glass and looked into a pair of green eyes.
It was a mutant beast.
It was staring at her in the hallway.
It didn't break through the door directly. It was enjoying the struggle of its prey before it died.
Upon understanding that, Jiang Ran fell into deep despair, and suddenly understood the meaning of Si Xu's words.
The last bullet was meant to take one’s own life.
