I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 53
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 53: Hit Him
At eleven at night, the power supply in the residential area of the base was cut off on the dot.
Shen Yang held the candlestick with one hand and supported the old man with the other. Their footsteps echoed in the corridor, accentuating the emptiness of the villa.
"Grandpa, go to bed early."
Shen Yang put the candlestick on the table, retreated to the door, and closed the door gently.
"I know what to do regarding Ranran. Grandpa doesn't have to worry."
Not worried about his eldest grandson, Shen Lang waved his hand to ask Shen Yang to leave. He took off his shoes and lay down on the bed.
The candlelight flickered, casting dark shadows on the ceiling, like monsters with teeth and claws.
The old man stared at the shadows for a moment, then turned to lie on his side and closed his eyes.
Ranran... that child was back. It was fine that she was back. The Shen family didn't mind raising an idle person.
However, she insisted on getting involved with Si Xu.
Judging from the information obtained after the investigation by his subordinates, she followed Si Xu all the way and was protected by Si Xu. Presumably, there was something going on between her and Si Xu.
Women were most affectionate. Since his granddaughter had followed Si Xu, he did not expect her to side with the Shen family.
Just like her mother.
Thinking of his deceased daughter, Shen Lang frowned and coughed twice, trying to cough out the anger in his body.
……
After sending the old man back to his room, Shen Yang went back to the study alone, sorted out the documents the old man put on the table, stuffed them back into the document bag, and put them away in the drawer.
After humming a little tune and going out, he bumped into Zheng Li in the corridor who was checking the safety of the apartment. Shen Yang greeted him with a smile.
"Uncle Zheng, go to bed early after the inspection."
"It's so late. Where are you going?" Zheng Li raised his hand and pointed at him. He said seriously, "Today's weather is not suitable for rendezvousing. "
The eldest son of the Shen family, Shen Yang, was a playboy, and almost all the beautiful girls in the base had a fling with him... Those young people couldn't hide their envy when they talked about this topic.
After all, the old man was born in a traditional era and couldn't agree with his young master's actions, so he would remind him a little whenever he got the chance.
"Uncle Zheng, thank you for your teaching." Shen Yang smiled casually, not taking the old man's warning to heart. "I can't sleep, so I’m just going to take a walk."
After saying that, without giving Zheng Li a chance to speak again, he waved his hand, and went downstairs in a hurry.
"Sigh!" Shen Yang's figure disappeared outside the door in an instant, and Zheng Li sighed. "This kid... is really worrisome."
Speaking of which, the reason why Shen Lang hated Si Xu was to protect his grandson.
If Si Xu hadn't taken action back then, the entire Xiling base would have been turned into a mess by the Yu family –– instead of staying away from Yu Huang, Shen Yang hung out with him. In the end... the Yu family collapsed, and Shen Yang was almost beaten to death by Si Xu.
"Sigh!" At the thought of that, the old man let out a long breath again.
Nowadays, a delicate balance was maintained between the Shen family and the laboratory. And now, Miss Ranran was involved with Professor Si. He had no idea how the situation in the base would turn out.
……
After the lights were turned off at the base, Chu Yuan staggered out of Gu Yunqing's residence. Su Qin sent him downstairs –– Gu Yunqing was drunk and rolling around on the floor, unable to see off the guest.
"I’m leaving." A cold wind swept by. Chu Yuan shivered, wrapped his coat tightly, and waved to Su Qin. "Go back –– I'm afraid that Gu Yunqing will drown himself in the toilet."
Su Qin smiled. "No –– that fellow will only sing love songs all night at most."
It sounded like she was complaining, but there was a faint humor in the girl's voice, which was gentle and clear.
Chu Yuan glanced at her and clucked his tongue. "If you can listen to him singing love songs all night, you’re truly in love."
Gu Yunqing was tone-deaf, and not a single note of any song was in tune.
"Why, are you jealous?" Su Qin said earnestly, "Chuchu, it's been more than half a year since the apocalypse. I'm afraid your fiancée is already... You’re not young anymore. It's time to find a girl to settle down with..."
"Don't call me Chuchu!" Chu Yuan’s innocent baby face darkened and he said angrily, "Qin, those who don’t know you might think you’re my mother because of your tone."
Even his mother wouldn’t say something like settling down with someone because she thought it was outdated.
"Well, good son, hurry up and find a girl, get married and have children..."
Chu Yuan got riled up. "Su Qin! Are you asking for a fight?"
A roar came from the balcony on the second floor. "Who dares to hit my Qinqin! I’ll fight with you!"
The two of them looked up. Half of Gu Yunqing’s body was hanging on the balcony, fluttering in the wind.
Afraid that the man would fly off the balcony, Su Qin said "goodbye" and went upstairs.
Hearing the sound of wind and Gu Yunqing's singing, Chu Yuan rubbed his ears, smiled to himself, and walked back through the snow.
……
It was after midnight that the inspectors released the new batch of people who had been inspected from the observation room.
"There are no bites and viruses. You’ve passed the base's security inspection. A staff member will take you to the newcomers’ registration office later to register. The base tries its best to protect everyone's right to survive, so everyone here must abide by the rules of the base –– the staff at the registration office will tell you the rules and regulations of the base and the rules of survival."
The man who brought them out wore the black uniform of the base's superhuman team. He looked fierce, spoke with a strong voice, and was very intimidating.
"Now, wait here for a moment. The liaison staff will be here soon."
After he finished speaking, he instructed a few words to the assistant beside him and returned to the office.
It was very windy and snowy outside. To save electricity, all the street lights were turned off except for the one at the door of the inspection room.
"It's so cold." Shu Yue folded her arms and kept stamping her feet. "Didn't he say the staff are coming? Why aren’t they here yet?"
"Just wait." The people around her comforted her, "Everyone is waiting."
Shu Yue snorted and continued ranting.
"Hey, bro." A newcomer talked to the superhuman guarding them, "Why is this base so quiet? And there are no lights."
Except for the patrolling superhuman team, no one was around.
The superhuman smiled good-naturedly and answered the newcomer's doubts, "The base provides free power from seven to eleven at night. There’s a curfew after eleven. It’s already midnight, so there is no one around."
"Curfew?" Someone said, "That's quite good. It’s safe."
"Bro, I’d like to ask something." Someone else spoke. "I heard that superhumans at Xiling Base can take on tasks, right?"
"Yeah." The guard answered, "In the base, except for superhumans belonging to the military department, other ordinary superhumans can form their own teams and go to the administrative hall to take on tasks and exchange points."
"Points?"
"Yeah, the base has public places such as a market and supermarket. Everything inside needs to be exchanged with points."
"Won't ordinary people who just entered the base starve to death?" Ordinary people weren’t like superhumans. They couldn’t possibly go out on missions.
The guard had heard this question countless times. He said very calmly, "There are naturally jobs for ordinary people."
"Can't ordinary people join the superhuman team and go out on missions?" Shu Yue asked curiously, "They can't fight, but they can handle logistics and such."
"If there’s a superhuman team willing to take you, it's not impossible," the man said meaningfully. "However, this is the post-apocalypse after all, and the world outside the base is too dangerous –– unless the person has some special use, the superhuman team will generally not bring ordinary people on their tasks."
Special uses, such as to vent their desires, or as a bait to lure away the zombies...
Shu Yue only thought of the former.
She showed a disgusted expression and muttered, "I thought it would be normal in a big base, but it turns out that everyone is still a pervert, humph."
When the man heard her muttering, he pretended not to hear it. He couldn’t be bothered to talk to her.
The group of people waiting in the wind and snow were wary of each other at first, but then slowly began to chat.
Shu Yue was good-looking, and soon, a man came over to talk to her.
"Girl, what kind of superhuman are you?" The man smiled with yellowish teeth, and his malicious eyes lingered on Shu Yue's face for a moment, then moved to her chest.
Knowing the meaning in the man's eyes, Shu Yue rolled her eyes and ignored him.
"Hey, you don’t seem to be a superhuman." The man exchanged glances with his companions and continued to lean on Shu Yue. "I just heard your question. Do you want to follow the superhuman team on their tasks? Why don’t you follow us after you settle down? We promise to protect you~"
"How disgusting." Before the man could finish speaking, Shu Yue said loudly, "I don't want to team up with you. Stay away!"
After she said that, the superhuman guarding them glanced at where they were and said coldly, "Be quiet!"
The man with yellowish tooth quickly laughed. "Yeah, I got it, I got it." He might have said that, but he stretched out his hand and pinched the girl's butt hard.
"What are you doing?!" Shu Yue slapped his hand away and screamed, "How could you touch a girl's butt as you please? Where’s your sense of morality?"
"Haha." The man lowered his voice and smiled shamelessly. "I wanted to know what it feels like."
"You’re acting like a gangster!" The girl's cheeks turned red with anger. She knew that she was no match for such a rogue, so she simply looked at the superhuman. "Aren't you going to take care of this situation?!"
The superhuman glanced at her and asked, "What's going on?"
Angered by the man's unhurried attitude, Shu Yue rushed to him, pointed at him and said angrily, "Aren't you affiliated with the army at the base? Do you just turn a blind eye when a girl in the base is being bullied?!"
The man was helpless. "Girl, I really didn't see it."
There was no light, only wind. He was not God. How was he able to keep track of everyone’s actions? Moreover, this girl got angry every time she disagreed with him. When he asked her what was going on, she didn’t say anything!
Shu Yue still wanted to yell, but someone came out of the office and yelled at them, "It's midnight. Why are you making noise? Other people need to rest!"
The superhuman stood at attention and saluted. "Sir, I’ll take note!"
"Are the liaison people not here yet?" The officer yawned, rubbed his reddened eyes, and turned back to the people at the monitoring desk. "Let's contact them and ask them to hurry –– are all the people in the logistics department just idling about? They’re always dawdling..."
When he spoke, Shu Yue, who was angry and ignored, went back to the man, raised her hand and slapped the man on the face.
"Lecher! How uncivilized!"
Although he could have dodged, the man let her slap him. He raised his hand to stop his subordinates behind him and smiled nonchalantly. "Girl, you haven't eaten, right? Your slap was so weak. How boring."
"You!"
"Shu Yue." A faint voice next to her interrupted her roar, and then something was stuffed into her hand. The voice said, "Hit him."
As if being bewitched, Shu Yue grabbed the object passed to her and aimed it at the man's head.
With a "clang" sound, the wine bottle cracked and glass shards flew everywhere.
The man stopped smiling abruptly. He was stunned for two seconds and then looked up. His vision was immediately stained red by the blood flowing from his forehead.
"Darn!" He felt pain after seeing the blood. The man covered his head and pointed at Shu Yue. "You bitch! How dare you hit me!"
Shu Yue was also frightened by the scene in front of her and threw the bottle in her hand away with a scream. She took two steps back. "It wasn’t me! I didn’t do it!"
"It was you! Bitch! I'm not done with you!"
"It wasn’t her." Someone answered for Shu Yue.
A small and thin figure walked in front of Shu Yue. She weighed the wine bottle in her hand and asked sternly, "Was that powerful enough? Wasn't it interesting?"
After having a clear look at the person standing in front of her, Shu Yue murmured, "Qi Yuan..." Was it she who handed her the bottle?
"Who are you?" The man with yellowish teeth said harshly, "Her companion?!"
"A righteous passerby." The girl gave a serious answer like a cold joke. "I saw you touch her butt without her consent."
"Huh?" The man with yellowish teeth looked at the passerby –– the girl was beautiful, but unfortunately there was an obvious scar on the right cheek, which ruined the overall beauty of her face.
"Are you playing the hero?" The companion behind the man with yellowish teeth sneered. "Little girl, have you graduated from high school? Do you want me to help you treat your eighth-grader syndrome?"
"I’ll graduate from college soon." Qi Yuan replied expressionlessly, "I’m not a little girl."
"Qi Yuan." Blocked by the girl, Shu Yue clenched her fists. "You asked me to hit him..." She suddenly became furious and raised her hand to push the girl away. " Did you want me to kill someone? I almost killed someone because of you!"
Unprepared for the person behind her to suddenly attack, Qi Yuan's already thin figure was pushed to the snow.
She quickly got up and patted the snow on her body. "Didn't you want to beat him?" She threw the bottle away. "I've been meddlesome. You guys go on. I don't care anymore."
"Huh?" The man with yellowish teeth thought the woman was out of her mind. "Are you muddle-headed?" He pressed the wound on his head. "You said you didn't care anymore. Do you think you can run away after hitting me?"
"I didn't hit you." Qi Yuan said matter-of-factly, pointing at Shu Yue. "She hit you."
Shu Yue, "..." For the first time, she was rendered speechless by the girl's shamelessness.
The man with yellowish teeth immediately laughed out of anger. "Girl, did you escape from the hospital? I mean the kind of hospital that specializes in treating mental disorders –– do your family members know you’ve come outside to create havoc?"
Qi Yuan blinked. " Everyone in my family is dead."
The man with yellowish teeth, "..." Like Shu Yue, he was also rendered speechless.
While the two were in a stalemate, someone stepped on the snow and approached.
"What's going on?" The man stopped a few steps away from the crowd. His face could not be seen clearly, but the displeasure in his voice was obvious.
"Captain Chu!" The officer and superhuman who were watching the show were shocked and stood at attention.
"I’m asking you, what's going on?" Chu Yuan said lazily with a lollipop in his mouth. "You're making a commotion so late at night. Don't you know the rules of the base?"
