I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 82
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 82: His Superpower
The zombie stood aside with its hands hanging down. It was clearly a dead thing without any thoughts or emotions, but Jiang Ran actually thought that she saw an expression similar to respect on its face.
Her gaze slowly shifted from the zombie to the young man, and she was stunned.
She thought she had seen many good-looking men, but after seeing the appearance of the man in front of her, she couldn't help but gasp.
He was truly a rare beauty, with a lean figure, impressive eyebrows, and eyes. When he looked at one with a smile, his light golden eyes carried a seductive tenderness. His romantic and passionate appearance was slightly made less so by his eyes, which were as indifferent as winter ice and snow, and the two blended into a strange gentle temperament.
"You..." Jiang Ran stuttered and murmured, "You’re so good-looking..."
"Hmm?" As if amused by her reaction, the man arched his eyebrows and smiled. Then, he slowly walked down the stairs and stopped in front of the girl.
The young man had a tall and straight figure. When he stood close to Jiang Ran, Jiang Ran immediately felt a strong sense of oppression.
She took two steps back subtly and stared at him warily. "Who are you? Why are you here?"
As if he didn't notice her evasion, the man leaned closer to her and sniffed gently. "Hmm, it's the unique scent of a young lady."
Jiang Ran, "..."
"Nice to meet you. My name is Qin Huai." Without waiting for her to respond, the young man stood up straight and bowed very gentlemanly. "Nice to meet you."
"Qin... Huai?" It was a completely unfamiliar name that had never appeared in the novel.
"Yes, as in mooring on the Qinhuai River."
"You-you came down from upstairs?" Jiang Ran felt a little confused. "Have you seen the members of our superhuman team? Have you seen Captain Chu Yuan?"
"Yes." Qin Huai's smile deepened. He reached out and touched the top of her head, and said softly, "I let the zombies eat them."
"Oh." Jiang Ran looked at him stupidly and repeated dully, "Have they been eaten?"
"Yes." The girl's eyes gradually blurred, and Qin Huai sighed. "Are you also a member of the superhuman team? From what I see, you don't seem to have awakened any superpowers."
Jiang Ran met his eyes and tilted her head. "No, I have a superpower."
"Hmm?"
While the young man looked puzzled, the girl suddenly smiled brightly. "It so happens that my superpower can counter yours."
"Bang!"
The gunshot was muffled, and blood spread on the young man's chest.
Jiang Ran quickly stepped back and continued shooting as she did so.
The young man was shot in the chest, but he was not in a hurry. He looked at the girl with a smile. "You are actually, cough, immune to my superpower? How interesting..."
Behind him, the motionless zombie jumped down, standing in front of the young man like a solid wall, blocking the bullets shot at him.
Jiang Ran, who was fully sober, looked for a hiding place and shouted, "Are you the person who escaped from the blockade zone? What did you do to Captain Chu Yuan and the others?"
"Chu Yuan?" The young man smiled gently. "We’ve only trapped him temporarily –– don't worry, Chu Yuan's superpower level isn’t low. It's only a matter of time before he escapes."
Just as the young man finished his words, a sharp blade whizzed from the end of the corridor and rushed straight towards him.
"Boom!"
Dozens of sharp blades smashed onto where the young man was standing. The stairs could not withstand the attack and collapsed.
Smoke and dust rose up, blurring Jiang Ran's vision.
"Chu Yuan is really rough." The young man's helpless sigh seemed to be close at hand, and carried a tone of disappointment at being interrupted. "Let's talk again when we have a chance next time, little girl."
At the collapsed staircase, Chu Yuan clenched his fists, looked at the lingering smoke and dust, and unleashed two more blades.
Jiang Ran covered her mouth and nose, coughed twice, and waved her hands to block the dust that was blowing in her face.
After waiting for a few seconds, the dust dispersed, and a sharp blade pierced the ground on the collapsed rubble. Under the blade, there was only the zombie's body cut into several pieces.
Qin Huai was nowhere to be found.
"Tsk." Chu Yuan jumped down from the second floor, dispelled the sharp blade formed by his superpower, and looked at Jiang Ran. "Sister Ranran, are you hurt?"
Jiang Ran heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that Chu Yuan was safe and sound. "I’m fine."
As soon as Jiang Ran relaxed, her legs went limp and she sat down on the ground, leaning against the wall in a somewhat awkward manner.
Chu Yuan examined the corpse of the zombie and said in a deep voice, "Just as you thought, Qin Huai was here –– that guy has psychic-type abilities."
"I know." Qin Huai had psychic-type abilities, and it was a very powerful control-type psychic ability. If she hadn't noticed something was wrong and bit her tongue, she would have fallen into his trap.
"It's a mutated psychic ability."
"Huh?" Mutated?
"Among all the psychic abilities known so far, only his ability isn’t just simply disruption, but a more powerful control ability." After today’s interaction, Chu Yuan got a more accurate answer. "Not only can he control people, but he can also control zombies."
Most psychic abilities attacked by disrupting the prey's perception, but Qin Huai's ability could accurately control the opponent's thinking, just like how a puppeteer controlled a puppet.
"Is Qin Huai also an experimental subject in the laboratory?"
"Yes." Chu Yuan said, "He was one of the third batch of experimental subjects like me. The person in charge of him at the time was arranged by the Shen family. In his experimental report, it was noted that the experiment failed."
Jiang Ran was stunned. "In other words, Qin Huai is a failed experimental subject?"
"That's what the Shen family said." Chu Yuan sneered. "I'm afraid the Shen family deliberately concealed the truth."
He wasn’t a failure, but had awakened a mutant superpower that the Shen family couldn’t control. Thus, the blockade zone existed.
For some reason, Jiang Ran remembered the man's unusual pupil color. "I looked at his eyes and they seemed to be light golden. Was that also caused by the experiment?"
"Yes." Chu Yuan said, "This is also one of the reasons why those people in the laboratory concluded that he was a failure –– a successful experimental subject can convert the virus injected into the body by himself, and there should be no physical mutations."
However, during the experiment, Qin Huai's eyes changed from black to light golden, and the people in the laboratory concluded that he was a failed experimental subject and decided to give up on him.
"I see..."
After resting for a while, Jiang Ran got up from the ground. "Captain Chu, those team members..."
"They’d been killed." With Qin Huai's superpower control and the powerful zombie attacks, all the team members who came in to search were killed. Chu Yuan clenched his fists and said harshly, "That guy had better not fall into my hands."
After burying the murdered team members, Chu Yuan ordered the remaining team members to rest at the Jiang family's house for one night and then rush to the blockade zone the next day.
After all, those were teammates whom they saw every day. Their sudden deaths made everyone depressed.
"The blockade zone..." someone whispered, "I'm afraid all of them..."
Since Qin Huai had already escaped, the entire team at the blockade zone must have been wiped out.
At the thought of this, their already low morale suddenly dipped to a new low.
Walking through the corridor, Jiang Yize's room was at the end. Jiang Ran walked around the bloodstains on the ground and pushed the door open.
The fact that those team members were killed here meant that Qin Huai was in this room when they met him.
Sure enough, that man chose Jiangning because of something Jiang Yize left behind.