I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 47
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 47: Destined To Meet
With just a slash, the head of the person in charge was chopped off. Si Xu shook off the blood on the sword and raised his voice, "Everyone, don't move."
His voice was not loud, but it strangely reached everyone’s ears.
As if the pause button had been pressed, the noisy crowd fell silent instantly.
"Liu! Brother Liu!" After the smoke dispersed, the assistant found another corpse at his feet. The man's body swayed and he fell to the ground. "W-what happened..."
"I killed him." The young man standing not far away said calmly, "If he doesn't die, I don’t think you’ll listen to me with peace of mind... And I don't like disobedient people the most."
I didn't like it, so I killed him.
The assistant trembled, took two steps back, restrained the weakness in his legs, and struggled to stand to his feet.
"You... you guys!" Based on the scene before him, the assistant only thought of one possibility. "Were you sent by Xiling Base to get rid of us?!"
"Get rid of you?" Si Xu said, "You came from Xiling Base?"
"Hah, why are you playing dumb now?!"
Si Xu still looked calm. "We did come from Xiling Base, but not to get rid of you. We just saw the sign you put up. Out of curiosity, we came to take a look."
"Curiosity?" The assistant didn't believe him. "If it was out of curiosity, why did you kill people as soon as you arrived at our base?"
Si Xu said in a calm tone, "Your guy wanted to touch my girl, so of course I killed him."
Knowing that Zhu was a lewd guy, the assistant glanced at the girl next to the man –– she had a good figure and outstanding looks.
In his heart, he believed Si Xu's words more or less, but he just smiled coldly. "In the post-apocalyptic world, anyone can lay a claim on any woman. Whoever has the ability, the woman will belong to him..."
"That's right." Si Xu smiled slightly, "I have the ability, so I killed him."
The assistant, "..."
"I can also kill all of you." With a slash of his sword, Si Xu raised his eyebrow and smiled with childish malice. "I can chop off all of your heads like I did to the head of your boss."
"How dare you!" The more casual his tone became, the more threatening it became. The assistant stepped back and hid behind two superhumans, "There are so many of us here. We can drown you with just our spit!
"You guys all attacked together just now. Yet, I still came out unscathed." The sharp blade drew a bright arc in the air as Si Xu said leisurely, "Will you attack one by one? Or together?"
The superhumans on the opposite side looked at each other. No one moved for a while.
"None of you want to attack?" Si Xu said, "That's fine. Answer my questions and I can let you go."
The assistant blurted out, "Wha-what are the questions?"
"Why did you escape from Xiling Base?" Si Xu asked, "Even if you escaped, why did you still build a base here?"
"Well..." Many of the superhumans joined after the base was established. When they heard this question, they looked at each other, not knowing how to answer it.
The assistant licked his lips nervously and replied, "Of course we left Xiling Base because we were unhappy with what Xiling Base was doing! Why would we still stay there if we were unhappy and upset?"
"So, you set up a base here to mislead those who were heading to Xiling Base?" Si Xu sighed boredly. "You have nothing better to do." "
What do you know?!" The assistant said harshly, "We came out together with the second superhuman team and encountered a group of zombies with superpowers. As the captain, that bastard Shen Yang didn't want to protect his own team members. Instead, he asked his subordinates to push members of our small team out to lure the zombies. What's the point of staying in such a base?"
"Shen Yang..." After hearing this name, Si Xu completely lost interest in this base.
He put away his sword and called Jiang Ran. "Let’s go back."
The man sighed boredly and murmured, "How boring."
Jiang Ran followed him for two steps and looked back at the young man who was talking to them. Then she stopped in her tracks.
Si Xu stopped as well and asked, "What’s wrong?"
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Ran asked the assistant hiding behind the crowd. "What do you do for survival here?"
This base was established near Xiling Base, and the available supplies in nearby cities had long been raided by the superhuman teams of Xiling Base. This base supported so many people. How did they survive?
"I don’t see high-level superhumans among you." It could be seen from the power of these people attacking Si Xu that there were no high-level superhumans here . "In that case, where do you get the materials to maintain your lives from?"
In addition, she was concerned about what this person mentioned just now.
He mentioned something about getting rid of them.
What had the people in this base done that warranted the need to "get rid of them?"
Hearing this question, the assistant's eyes flashed with panic. He gulped, raised his head and said, "Of course-of course the superhumans teamed up to collect them!"
His eyes were evasive, his face was pale and trembling, and his hands clenched into fists... This man was lying.
Jiang Ran didn’t expose him immediately. "Since we are here, and the misunderstanding has been resolved, I wonder if you would mind us visiting this base?"
"No, you can’t! You..."
The space blade flew past the man's hair, and with a crack, a thick tree trunk not far away was cut.
"If you must visit, it's-it’s not entirely impossible..." A drop of cold sweat slipped from his temple, and the man changed his words abruptly.
Ignoring Si Xu's threat, Jiang Ran smiled naively. "Then please arrange for someone to be our guide, thank you."
The assistant, "..."
He glanced around and waved at one of the trustworthy superhumans. When the superhuman got near, he said, "Xiaoyu, please take these two guests to visit our base."
Xiaoyu lowered his head and responded, "Okay."
"Remember, be meticulous when you show them around, okay?" He emphasized on the word "meticulous."
Xiaoyu and the assistant looked at each other, then Xiaoyu said with comprehension, "I got it."
……
The base covered a small area and there were no lights at night. Occasionally, they could see moving figures –– they were probably the people patrolling at night.
Xiaoyu took the two of them on a tour and briefly introduced the situation in the base.
"Eh? What's over there?" After passing the villagers' residential area, Jiang Ran saw a building standing in the night not far away. "A warehouse?"
"Huh? That one?" Xiaoyu replied perfunctorily, "Yes, it’s the warehouse used by the base to store supplies. There’s nothing interesting to see."
"Nothing interesting to see?" Jiang Ran squinted for a moment and said to Si Xu, "Shall we go take a look?"
Go take a look? What was there to see?
Xiaoyu stepped in front of Jiang Ran and said with a smile, "The warehouse stores the most important resources of the base. Outsiders can’t enter as they wish."
"It’s okay. If the person in charge scolds you, just tell him that we insisted on going there," Jiang Ran said with a smile, and took Si Xu's hand. "Let's go, Si Xu. Let's go over and have a look."
Indulging the girl's willfulness, Si Xu wrapped his arm around her waist and jumped over the man blocking them. With the moonlight as the backdrop, he landed steadily in front of the warehouse.
"Hey! You guys!"
A man roared angrily from a distance.
Si Xu ignored it, cut off the chain on the warehouse door with his sword, and pushed the door open.
The warehouse was divided into two spaces, the front and rear, by partitions. The first thing one saw when the door was opened were various boxes and rice bags piled outside.
The wind blew past, and the air was mixed with a strange metallic odor. Si Xu glanced at Jiang Ran, who was full of curiosity, and grabbed the girl's wrist. "Jiang Ran, there's no need to go in."
Feeling that something was wrong, Jiang Ran looked inside. Nothing unusual was found. "Si Xu, did you smell a strange smell in the air?"
"Yes, it's the smell of blood."
"The smell of blood?" Jiang Ran blurted out, "Could it be a cell where they imprisoned their prisoners?"
Perhaps it was a more terrifying place than a cell. Si Xu moved his lips, looked into the girl's bright eyes, and oddly enough, did not answer her immediately.
"Si Xu?" Jiang Ran asked doubtfully, "Did I say something wrong?"
It was rare to see his cold expression, and Jiang Ran suddenly felt uneasy, thinking that she had said something wrong.
"No."
While the two were talking, Xiaoyu had already rushed over.
The man glared at the two of them and said impatiently, "I already told you this is a warehouse! You saw it, right? You'd better leave!"
Neither of them moved, as if they didn't hear his order for them to leave.
"I'm talking to you two! Don’t you understand human language..."
The furious shouting stopped abruptly.
The man opened his mouth, and fell straight back. He stared blankly at the night sky, dead.
Si Xu killed someone again... Realizing that the matter might not be as simple as she thought, Jiang Ran hesitantly let go of Si Xu's hand and walked quickly into the warehouse.
During the apocalypse, people were unpredictable and the world was bleak. His girl had to experience all kinds of dangers before she could clearly recognize the cold reality of this apocalypse.
Si Xu didn’t stop Jiang Ran's actions.
He stood at the door, waiting for her to come out.
……
Jiang Ran came out from the warehouse barely three seconds after she went in.
The girl covered her mouth, avoided the young man waiting at the door, and ran to the corner to vomit.
People were everywhere... The warehouse was full of people. To be more precise, there were various parts of the human body, as well as cleanly shaved bones neatly placed aside.
……
She didn't eat anything at night, so all Jiang Ran vomited was acidic water. However, the girl didn't stop. It was as if she wanted to vomit the horrific scene she just saw out of her body.
When she fell silent, Si Xu walked to her side, uncapped a bottle of mineral water and handed it to her.
He didn't speak. Jiang Ran stroked her chest, took a sip of mineral water and rinsed her mouth.
She repeated the action of rinsing her mouth several times, then poured water on her hands and rubbed the back of her hands vigorously, as if she was trying to wash away a layer of skin.
It was so disgusting. That strong metallic smell was so disgusting.
Even after leaving the warehouse, she could still smell the smell of blood on her body that hadn't dissipated for a long time.
How sickening.
"That's enough, Jiang Ran." Si Xu grabbed the girl's hand, carefully wiped the water on her hands with a handkerchief, and said gently, "I’ll kill them."
He already knew what the situation was in there, so when she said it was a cell, he didn't answer her unlike usual.
He knew, but he still let her go in to face the cruel truth.
Jiang Ran's body felt slightly hot due to the intense emotional ups and downs. Her eyes were reddened, and she stretched out her arms to hug the person next to her tightly.
At this moment, she really thanked God in her heart for allowing her to meet Si Xu after coming to this world.
Being bitten by zombies, being hunted by mutant beasts, being plotted against and persecuted by others... because she was at his side, these crises were far, far away from her.
He gave her the best protection and the greatest freedom, and tried his best to let her live as she did before the apocalypse.
She thought that was the "pre-apocalyptic" world.
However, it was a fact that this was the apocalypse. Even if it was just a fictional novel, where the author didn’t describe in the novel, people in this world lived in various ways that they should have lived in the apocalypse.
Whether they were positive, gentle and kind, or depressed, cruel and vicious... all kinds of people lived in every corner of this world.
One would always meet whoever they were destined to meet.
