I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 33
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 33: His Past
To He Ru's surprise, Jiang Ranran didn't come to find her immediately after she came back. Even when everyone had dinner together that night, Jiang Ran acted as if nothing had happened.
Could it be that Jiang Ranran didn't know that she pushed her down on purpose? Or maybe Jiang Ranran thought she was delirious at that time, so she didn't hold it against her?
Lying on the bed, He Ru pulled the quilt to cover her face, and her tense mind relaxed subconsciously.
Since Jiang Ranran didn't mention this matter, she could just pretend that nothing happened.
……
After taking a shower, Jiang Ran came out of the bathroom and saw the girl waiting in the room. Jiang Ran paused slightly and asked puzzledly, "Captain Su, what’s the matter?"
“Just call me Qin." Su Qin had a pair of smiling eyes, giving the impression of a big sister next door without any aggression. "I'll call you Ranran."
Not good at dealing with such people, Jiang Ran could only nod.
"Seventh Brother went to talk to Yunqing and asked me to help you apply the medicine." Su Qin shook the medicine bottle in her hand. "Seventh Brother gave it to me, and specifically told me to be careful. Tsk, tsk, it seems that he really treasures you."
Not knowing what Su Qin meant by those words, Jiang Ran wiped her hair and continued to be silent.
"I'm quite curious. How long have you been with Seventh Brother? Aren't you afraid of him?"
"Afraid?" Jiang Ran asked, "Why would I be afraid of him?"
"I heard Yunqing say that he broke a guy’s arm in front of you. Aren't you afraid?"
"Why should I be afraid? It was the man who bullied me first, and so Si Xu taught him a lesson." Not wanting to be tested in such a roundabout way anymore, Jiang Ran said bluntly, "Captain Su, what do you want to say to me?"
"Haha, I just want to chat with you. I'm quite curious about you." Su Qin sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at her, "Come here. I'll help you apply the medicine."
"No need, I can do it myself..."
"Huh? That won’t do." Su Qin smiled half-heartedly. "This is the task assigned to me by Seventh Brother. If I don't complete it well, I’ll be scolded by him, and he may even kill me."
"Don't talk about him like that." Jiang Ran's face turned cold.
She didn't like to hear other people commenting on Si Xu in such a frivolous tone, and she didn't like to hear any bad comments about him from the others.
Although she kept calling him "Seventh Brother", she still treated him as a cold-blooded killer.
Seeing Su Qin's surprised expression, Jiang Ran said coldly, "Si Xu isn’t that kind of person."
Si Xu wasn’t a person who regarded human life as insignificant.
"Huh?" It took some time before Su Qin realized the meaning of Jiang Ran's words. Su Qin covered her lips and laughed, "It seems you still don't have a clear understanding. Seventh Brother is that kind of person."
Jiang Ran, "..."
"Before apocalypse, there was a laboratory in Xiling City, which is the laboratory that Si Xu is now in charge of. Do you know what that laboratory used to do?"
"...Research on viruses and reagents."
"Yes." Su Qin said, "Seventh Brother... Si Xu was the first batch of experimental subjects in that laboratory, and the only one who survived among the first batch of experimental subjects."
"..."
"You should have known by now how powerful Si Xu is –– a superhuman with dual-type superpowers of space and water. He has never mentioned the level of his abilities, and we don't know either. However, in the early days of the apocalypse, when the base was changing leadership, Si Xu single-handedly killed all the sixty-seven superhumans sent by the laboratory to stop him."
Jiang Ran was unmoved. "So?"
"Huh?" Not expecting such a reaction, Su Qin blinked. "Even when you know he has killed so many people, you're still not afraid?"
"If he didn't kill those people, they would kill him." Jiang Ran said in a calm tone, "It's just a way to survive. He couldn't possibly do nothing and just stand and wait for death, right?"
"Ah..." Su Qin stared at her for a while and laughed again. "I hope you can remember what you told me today when you return to the base.”
Feeling that Su Qin's hostility toward her had dissipated silently, Jiang Ran simply asked her doubts. "Why did you say that? After reaching the base, is Si Xu not going to be the Si Xu he is now?"
"Haha, that’s not it." Su Qin stopped laughing and sighed. "The current leader of the base, Mr. Shen Lang, doesn't like Seventh Brother very much –– as you know, this world is filled with bootlickers."
In other words, Shen Lang didn't like Si Xu. Thus, many people in the base also became hostile to Si Xu in order to please Shen Lang?
"It's rare for a woman to appear around Seventh Brother again. Maybe those people will start to target you..."
"Again?" Jiang Ran caught the key word in her words. "Had there been a woman around Si Xu?" "
“Erm, didn’t Gu Yunqing tell you?"
"...No." Why would Gu Yunqing tell her about Si Xu's woman? Jiang Ran was even more confused.
"That guy likes to gossip so much. It's really strange that he didn't tell you about such a big thing." After muttering for a while, Su Qin waved at Jiang Ran. "Come here. I'll tell you."
Jiang Ran sat next to her.
Su Qin lowered her voice and said, "After Seventh Brother, there were two batches of experimental subjects in the laboratory –– none of the second batch of experimental subjects survived. Gu Yunqing and I, as well as the current captain of the first team of superhumans, Chu Yuan... we are all from the third batch of experimental subjects."
Jiang Ran nodded and listened to her as she continued to tell the details that were not mentioned in the original novel.
"Because the technology became more mature later, there were many people who survived in the third batch of experimental subjects. Among them was a girl named Pei Wan'er, who was Seventh Brother’s little fangirl."
"Fan... girl?"
"Seventh Brother was a laboratory assistant at that time. Many young girls like him." Su Qin said, "Wan'er was the one who was most fascinated by him."
"..."
"Later, disaster broke out and the apocalypse came. A base was established in Xiling City, and the laboratory changed leadership. We all regained our freedom. The moment we regained our freedom, Wan'er confessed her love to Seventh Brother."
Hearing this, Jiang Ran clenched her fists hard and pursed her lips in silence.
"Seventh Brother, as you know, never considers other people's feelings –– if he doesn't care, he simply doesn’t care. Thus, he rejected Wan'er mercilessly." In fact, it wasn’t really accurate to say that he rejected her. At that time, he didn’t even understand the meaning of Wan'er's words.
"Huh?" So, he rejected her.
"In the early days of the establishment of the Xiling base, the Yu family were the ones who made the final decisions. The head of the Yu family had an only son, Yu Huang, who was pampered by the Yu family to the point of being lawless. He had loved to hit on women, but during the apocalypse, where there wasn’t any restraint, he became even more arrogant.
"That guy met Wan'er once somewhere, got interested in her, and then began to pursue her. Wan'er was so focused on Seventh Brother that she didn't even spare Yu Huang a look.
"That guy was shameless. He couldn't do anything on the surface, so he resorted to some dirty means.
"At that time, the superhuman team had just been established, and Wan'er was the captain of the fifth team. That guy bribed Wan'er's vice-captain, who drugged Wan'er."
Hearing this, Jiang Ran inhaled sharply. "Then what happened?"
“It was tragic." Speaking of her former teammate, Su Qin's tone was full of regret. "Wan'er died. Yu Huang had someone wrap her in a bedsheet and dumped her at the door of the laboratory. He also sent the video of him and Wan'er to Seventh Brother..."
Look, so what if the woman loved you wholeheartedly? She still ended up in my bed. And I slept with her –– the young master who had never experienced suffering probably flaunted to Si Xu, or rather provoked him with this intention in mind.
"It was a bloody storm.” Su Qin said, "On the night of Wan'er’s death, all seventeen members of the Yu family were killed."
The first person who noticed something was wrong was the night watchman. When he saw the blood oozing from the cracks in the door of Yu's house, he thought it was a zombie invasion and reported it to the superhuman team. When Chu Yuan and Gu Yunqing arrived with people, the door of Yu's house suddenly burst open. Yu Huang's body flew out of the door and hit the ground hard in front of everyone. He
was still breathing, his body was twisted in a weird shape, and his teeth kept chattering.
"Devil... Devil..."
The young man was dressed in white, but no blood was stained on his clothes. He walked slowly from the dimly lit room to the outside where sunlight shone, and in front of everyone's horrified eyes, he stepped on Yu Huang's neck.
"I wasn’t there at the time.” Su Qin said, "I heard from Gu Yunqing that Seventh Brother just stepped on Yu Huang's neck and broke it."
"..."
"After that incident, the base changed leadership, and the people in power were replaced by the Shen family. All news about the Yu family's extermination was blocked by the Shen family."
"Why doesn’t the Shen family like Si Xu?" Jiang Ran asked ignorantly, "Is it because they’re worried that the Yu family's incident will happen again?" "
“Yes." Su Qin sneered, "The vice-captain who was bribed by Yu Huang to drug Wan'er at that time was the eldest grandson of the Shen family, Shen Yang."
One sentence cleared all Jiang Ran's doubts.
So, that was it.
Shen Lang wanted to get rid of Si Xu not because of Jiang Ranran, but to protect his eldest grandson and the heir to the Shen family.
"Why didn’t Si Xu kill Shen Yang?" He killed all members of the Yu family to avenge Pei Wan'er, but spared Shen Yang? This was really not like his style.
"It’s because someone pleaded with him." Su Qin said, "There are also another young master and a young lady in the Shen family –– Shen Bai and Shen Yao, who are also from the laboratory."
"Oh." Shen Bai and Shen Yao of the Shen family were mentioned in the original novel... Jiang Ran tried hard to recall. She remembered that both of them didn’t have a good ending.
Shen Bai died to protect his brother, Shen Yang, during a power struggle in the base. Shen Yao had a good relationship with Si Xu because of her background in the laboratory. After Si Xu's death, Shen Lang kicked her out of the base.
"The brother and sister pleaded for their brother. Shen Yang also said that he was threatened by Yu Huang and had no choice but to do it –– I don't know what Seventh Brother thought about it, but he didn't kill him in the end."
After hearing the whole story, Jiang Ran fell into a long silence.
Thinking that the young lady looked like a hamster with her cheeks puffed out in a daze, Su Qin reached out and poked her face. "After listening to the story, what do you think?"
"I was thinking, when we get to Xiling Base..." Jiang Ran muttered to herself very quietly, "We should provoke Si Xu into killing them all."
Since she knew the outcome, it was better to strike first than to wait for death.
If all the people in the Shen family who might threaten Si Xu were eliminated, there would be no need to worry about Si Xu being plotted by them in the future.
I was so clever.
Oh, didn’t she feel guilty about treating her grandfather and cousin this way? What was there to feel guilty about? She wasn’t the real Jiang Ranran. Besides, the Shen family didn’t give the real Jiang Ranran a happy ending either.
Su Qin, "..."