I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 49
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 49: Fighting Is Prohibited In The Base
After waiting for about ten minutes, the two girls who left came back.
Shu Yue, who was walking in front, looked pale and almost ran all the way to the minibus. She opened the door and climbed directly onto it.
Jiang Ran followed leisurely, and when the girl got on the minibus, she knocked on the window of the passenger seat. "We can set off now. Follow closely. We won't come back to look for you if you lose your way."
After hearing this, Qi Yuan nodded and asked an unrelated topic. "Where did you take Shu Yue?"
This girl's focus was quite interesting, unlike those who were numb to the plight of others.
Jiang Ran stood on tiptoes, pressed against the window, and whispered, "I took her to the warehouse at the base, then locked the door and let her stay inside for ten minutes."
"Warehouse?" The girl's small and delicate face was reflected in Qi Yuan’s aqua eyes. Qi Yuan was stunned and opened her mouth, "Is it that one..."
"Yes, it’s that one." Jiang Ran glanced at Shu Yue, who was trembling all over, and she smiled even wider. "Didn’t she sympathize with those people? Thus, I took her there so that she could see the kind of people she sympathized with."
Qi Yuan, "..." After thinking for a few seconds, she said seriously, "Yes, your idea was really great."
Jiang Ran, "..." This girl was really interesting.
From a close distance, she could clearly see the girl's face, as well as the pink scar on the right cheek –– a finger-wide scar extending from the chin to the ear, disappearing into the hair at her temple.
She was a beautiful girl. She must have suffered a lot during the apocalypse.
……
Si Xu and Jiang Ran led the minibus of people on the road. Fortunately, they didn't encounter any mutated zombies or wild beasts on the road, and arrived at the base safely.
Even though half a year had passed since the disaster occurred, there was still a long queue outside the small gate of Xiling Base that admitted outsiders.
As the minibus approached the gate, a young man standing guard with a gun immediately pointed his gun at them.
Si Xu stopped the minibus and tapped on the steering wheel. "Jiang Ran, let's alight."
"Okay." Jiang Ran unbuckled her seatbelt, opened the door and got out of the minibus.
This was Xiling Base, the base where Jiang Ranran's grandfather was in power.
The girl stood in front of the thick iron gate and looked up at the towering city wall. She could vaguely see the team of superhumans patrolling the city wall and the superpowers detection equipment.
Compared with those small bases seen along the way, Xiling Base was much more professional in terms of facilities, equipment, discipline and rules.
"Well, Jiang Ran, we..."
Seeing that the two of them didn't move, someone wanted to step forward to ask, but Qi Yuan stopped him.
"If you want to enter the base, just queue up." Qi Yuan pointed to the orderly queue not far away. "Those people are all queuing up."
"Huh? Is-is that so?"
"The queue is so long..." Shu Yue glanced at the queue of about a hundred people and said to Qi Yuan, "Didn't those two people come out from the base? Go talk to them and ask them to let us go in first."
"If you want to take a shortcut, do it yourself." After Qi Yuan finished speaking, she walked to the end of the queue.
With her taking the lead, the others who were still hesitant followed her.
Shu Yue was stunned for a moment, stamped her feet angrily, and caught up with her team.
After listening to the conversation of the group of people, Jiang Ran sighed and looked at Si Xu when they walked away. "Si Xu, do we have to queue up too?"
"No."
Si Xu put his arm around her shoulders. He took out his pass from his space and handed it to the person in the inspection room.
"Prof-Professor Si?" The man in the inspection room jumped up from his chair when he saw the name on the pass. "You're back! Come in now!"
After saying that, he held the pass in both hands and handed it to Si Xu through the window.
"Okay." Si Xu said after taking the pass. "The minibus is parked over there. After scanning it, pass it to Gu Yunqing."
"Yes!"
……
When Shu Yue saw Si Xu and Jiang Ran entering the base directly from the gate on the other side, she said, "Oh," and shouted, "Look! They have a way to bypass the inspection indeed!"
"So what if that’s the case?" Annoyed by her yelling, someone in the team said angrily, "Haven’t you been accusing them of being cruel? Yet now, you're thinking of letting them take you in?!"
"I..."
"You make so much noise. Aren’t you afraid of attracting the zombies?"
"..." Being pointed at the nose and scolded, Shu Yue felt embarrassed. Afraid that quarreling would really attract the zombies, she could only shut up in anger.
……
Xiling Mountains was at the back of Xiling Base. Xiling Base covered a vast area. It had an isolation area on the outside and a bustling ordinary residential area further inside. Walking along the main road, and after passing the secondary security check, one would arrive at the central area of the base with the laboratory, military command building and major equipment areas as the core.
After a simple scan and passing through the quarantine area, Jiang Ran looked at the residential area where people were coming and going, and tugged on Si Xu's sleeve. "Are these people ordinary people?"
Just like a neighborhood before the apocalypse, a market and supermarket was set up in the residential district. They were controlled by the superhuman team and provided basic living supplies for ordinary people –– of course, they needed to be exchanged with corresponding items or labor.
"Yeah." Seeing the girl looking around curiously, Si Xu said, "Shall I show you around?"
"Okay, okay!" Jiang Ran nodded in agreement, holding Si Xu's hand. "Does the residential area cover the largest area in the base?"
"That's right. If you visit it on foot, it might take a few days."
"It's so big..." Jiang Ran's eyes twinkled. "Where do you live?"
The laboratory was where he worked. He couldn’t possibly live and eat in the laboratory... It was not impossible though.
"Where do I live?" Si Xu thought for a while and pointed in a general direction. "I think... it’s over there?"
Jiang Ran blinked. "Si Xu, have you forgotten where your residence is?"
"I rarely go back." Si Xu explained, "I'm usually in the laboratory."
Just as she expected. Jiang Ran snickered. "Then show me around. Maybe you will find it while we walk around."
The little girl's happiness was beyond words, and Si Xu slightly raised the corners of his mouth. "Okay."
The novel stated that Xiling Base was the base that best maintained the original order of mankind. Jiang Ran was still thinking about what the so-called "original order" meant. Now, it seemed that this base was indeed very suitable for ordinary humans to establish a foothold.
Of course, it was the apocalypse after all. Even if the base clearly stipulated that people should help each other, it was impossible to restrain everyone at all times –– bullying the weak... was rare, but not unheard of.
Along the way, even though Jiang Ran was accompanied by a male companion, there were still many men wearing superhuman badges who looked at her with extremely lewd gazes.
Because Si Xu did not wear a badge symbolizing his status as a superhuman, those people naturally classified him as an ordinary person.
They gathered together in twos and threes, ignoring Si Xu. They commented on Jiang Ran, and laughed obscenely from time to time.
Jiang Ran knew those people were talking about her, and she felt that maybe she should retract her opinion at the beginning –– this base was not that normal. It probably just hid the dark side out of sight.
Si Xu stopped.
"Si Xu?" Jiang Ran hooked his finger, stopped and looked back at him. With just one glance at the dark color in his eyes, she understood what he was thinking.
She squeezed his hand and whispered, "I don't want to look around anymore. There's nothing interesting to see here."
Si Xu’s light brown eyes landed on her. His mood became worse. He wrapped his arm around Jiang Ran’s shoulders and turned around to leave.
Before leaving the base, his life was simple –– laboratory, military command building, and occasional trips back to his residence. He was too busy to hang out in the residential district, and naturally had no opportunity to meet all kinds of people in the residential district.
Whenever he thought of those men looking at his Jiang Ran like a plaything, he wanted to twist them all up.
"Hey! Don't go!" Thinking that the two of them were trying to escape after guessing their intention, a superhuman walked out slowly to block their way.
The man wore the badge of a superhuman with thunder-type abilities. He had a piece of grass in his mouth, and his eyes were sharp. It was obvious he was unsavory.
He glanced at Si Xu, looked at Jiang Ran, and winked at her. "I've never seen this girl before. Are you new here? Where do you live?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, an unpleasant smell hit her face. Jiang Ran subconsciously raised her hand to cover her nose and did not reply.
"It has nothing to do with you." Si Xu tightened his hold on Jiang Ran's shoulders and said coldly, "Get out of the way."
"Oh?" Not expecting Si Xu to have the guts to answer him, the man glanced at Si Xu. "Dude, who are you to her? Her husband? Boyfriend? Or relative?"
What a boring question. Si Xu didn't even look at him and tried to leave with Jiang Ran.
"Hey, dude, the powerful one gets more. Don’t you understand the rules of the base? How do you think ordinary people survive?" The man moved to block the two of them again, raised his chin, and fixed his eyes on Si Xu. " Hey, you have tender skin and are quite good-looking. How about... huh?"
Before he finished his obscene words, the man's body was pulled off the ground by an invisible force and hung in the air.
His body seemed to be squeezed hard by the air. The veins under his skin were pulsing, his limbs were stiff, and he could not move.
The onlookers were startled by this scene. They all stopped their joking expressions and surrounded Si Xu and Jiang Ran.
"Hey! What did you do to my brother?!" Various superpowers gathered at the fingertips of the superhumans on the same team as that man, and someone shouted loudly, "Let go of my brother!"
"If you..." Si Xu said as the man's body was bent into a strange shape by an invisible force in the air, "yell one more word, I’ll kill him."
Blood gushed out from the man’s torn joints. As he stayed in a twisted shape, he shouted at his teammates, "Let them go! Let them go!"
After hearing their boss's instructions, the team members made way hesitantly.
Si Xu snorted and casually smashed the man who was almost twisted into a knot against the wall.
With a "boom", a hole was made in the wall by the man's body.
"Boss! Boss!"
"Brother!"
The team members rushed to show concern toward their leader. Si Xu sighed boringly and patted the top of Jiang Ran's hair soothingly. "No one dares to mess with me now. I’ll continue to show you around."
Jiang Ran looked around. Sure enough, the crowd that was gathered around to watch the show dispersed at some point.
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I don't want to look around anymore –– have you remembered where your residence is? Let's go back."
"You really don't want to look around anymore?"
"Yeah." There was nothing interesting about the various disgraceful manners after the apocalypse.
Si Xu didn't insist. He hesitated. "Maybe it's this way... Well, let's take a look here first?"
He really couldn't remember where he lived. Jiang Ran put her palm to her forehead. If they continued to search like this, they would still end up visiting the entire base.
But it turned out that she was worrying unnecessarily –– the commotion here quickly alerted the patrolling superhuman team, and a man in a black uniform hurried over with the superhuman team, shouting loudly as he walked.
"Fighting is prohibited in the base! Squat!"
Hearing the shout, Jiang Ran was about to see who it was when she felt the air pressure around Si Xu drop several degrees again.
"Huh?" The man approaching them looked familiar. Jiang Ran stared at him for a long time. When he stood in front of her, a name automatically popped into her mind.
Shen Yang.
