Chapter 116, Being a Person
On the way back to the experimental base, Jiang Ran finally remembered the girl's name.
"Xiao Qing, I'll go in later. You stay outside so I don't hurt you by mistake."
"But……"
"I know you're worried about the team leader. Don't worry, I will rescue the team leader unharmed. I promise."
After finally convincing the girl, Jiang Ran entered the crop experimental base alone.
After passing the vegetable experimental field and the soy product experimental field, we arrived at the fruit experimental field.
Even from several meters away, you can hear all kinds of sounds coming from the distant experimental site.
The men in uniform were tearing apart the powerless staff, scolding them and punching and kicking them from time to time.
There were quite a few people gathered outside, but no one went up to help.
The head of their team was a man in his early thirties, who used to be an associate professor of agricultural biological sciences. Although he had not awakened any special abilities, he was assigned to work at the experimental base because he was a scholar of crops.
However, even the scientists were pushed to the ground and beaten by those people with special abilities.
The man's glasses were kicked away, and he could only curl up his body and hold his head, trying to avoid the punches and kicks coming from all directions.
Jiang Ran pushed aside the people watching the excitement at the door, quickly walked behind one of the psychics who was beating up the staff, and gently patted his shoulder.
"Hey, you guys are so busy."
The girl's soft and weak voice came from him. As soon as the psychic turned around, the person who came had already grabbed his wrist and threw him to the ground with a neat shoulder throw.
"Ah!" A scream successfully made the others stop and look at them.
A foot stomped heavily on the man's chest twice, then crushed him and stopped moving. The girl held the gun in one hand and raised her chin: "Keep going, why don't you guys stop fighting?"
"You are..." Someone in the special power team recognized Jiang Ran, "Miss Jiang?"
Miss Jiang? Which Miss Jiang? Oh, it's the young lady from the Shen family who returned, Professor Si's woman.
"Ah, it's you." Jiang Ran glanced at the man who spoke and recognized him as the one who stopped her at the laboratory door last time. She looked thoughtful and said, "So it's Wei Yage's people. I was wondering whose team is so powerful that they can casually attack scientific researchers in the base. Tsk tsk."
"We don't act rashly!" The man under his feet struggled a bit, but she stepped on him again. He could only gasp and defend himself, "They are the ones who are taking the base's supplies without permission! We are just doing our job!"
"Official business?" Jiang Ran's smile turned even colder. "Official business means burning, killing, looting, and attacking ordinary people? Who gave you official business? And who told you to do it this way?"
"Miss Jiang." Not wanting to argue with Jiang Ran, a young man with a cold expression walked out of the special power team. "Unauthorized use of the base's supplies is punishable by death according to the base's regulations. Today we are just..."
"You just hit people and smashed some things, which is already giving them face - is that right?" Jiang Ran added for him.
man:"……"
He signaled with his eyes to the staff to help his boss up. Seeing that the special power team did not stop him, Jiang Ran let go of the member under his feet.
The girl looked around and confirmed that Wei Yage was not there. She said with some regret: "Okay, now that you put it that way, I want to ask, what did our team leader use without permission?"
As the deputy captain of the sixth team, because of Wei Yage, the man has always been dissatisfied with the young lady of the Shen family whom he has never met. Now that he has seen her, and in this situation, his dissatisfaction is suddenly more obvious.
He looked at Jiang Ran coldly and said calmly, "We received a report from above that some fruit was successfully grown in the simulated natural ecological base today. When we came to collect it and put it into storage, we found that they had eaten the cultivated fruit without permission..."
"It wasn't them." Jiang Ran said, "I divided it."
man:"……"
"I was the one who held the knife, I was the one who cut the fruit, and I was the one who asked to eat it." Jiang Ran said, "If you hit the wrong person because of this incident, shouldn't you apologize to our team leader and the other staff members?"
"Ms. Jiang." The young deputy captain pushed his glasses up, helpless, "Are you threatening me?"
"No, I'm telling the truth."
"Even if she's Shuai Shen's granddaughter, she can't use the base's supplies without permission. If everyone is like you..." The man frowned, his displeasure clearly evident. "Wouldn't the base be in chaos?"
"First, I want to correct you on one point." After he finished speaking, Jiang Ran continued slowly, "I'm not using the base's things at will. Hami melon is the first artificially cultivated fruit grown in our experimental field after the disaster. As staff, we need to know everything about it—what does it taste like? Is it the same as ordinary Hami melon? Is it poisonous? Can it be eaten by both psychics and ordinary people? Will there be any other unexpected changes after eating it...?"
"Our staff at the testing site are risking their lives to contribute to the base, but how come you're saying that it's like they're misappropriating base supplies?"
The girl's words stunned everyone present - why did she say that they were making a contribution to mankind by eating Hami melon?
Knowing she was making a specious argument, the man couldn't find any words to refute her. He could only glare at her: "You!" You're making a specious argument! You're confusing right and wrong! You're deceiving the people!
"You don't know my good intentions. I don't blame you, but you attacked the base staff without any investigation—what? Our Captain Wei Ya Ge, who has selflessly dedicated himself to the base, teaches his men this way?"
When she brought the issue back to Wei Yage, some people with special abilities immediately became dissatisfied and spat in a low voice, "An ordinary person who relies on the Shen family and Professor Si has the nerve to bite Captain Wei..."
"I heard what you said just now. Speak louder." Without the embarrassment of being disliked, Jiang Ran smiled coldly and leered at the man. "A grown man, covering up when saying bad things about a little girl, isn't it shameful?"
"I told you!" The man blushed at being singled out for ridicule and shouted, "You're just an ordinary person who relies on the Shen family and Professor Si, living a life of idleness and waiting for death. What right do you have to point fingers at Team Wei, who are fighting on the front lines?"
"Is that what Wei Yage told you?" Jiang Ran smiled coldly without getting angry and said loudly, "I'm a member of the Shen family. I have no choice in my family background. I'm an ordinary person, and I can't decide whether I have awakened superpowers or not. But! Sir, I don't agree with a single word you said just now!"
Jiang Ran swept his eyes over everyone and said word by word, "Although I am a member of the Shen family, I am not just eating and waiting to die. I work here and contribute my strength to the survival of everyone in the base. Maybe I can't go out and fight zombies like you, but I am also doing my part - so, please take back your evaluation of me eating and waiting to die.
"Secondly, Si Xu and I are in a free love relationship. In the end times, is love and marriage something shameful? Just because I don't have superpowers, you guys naturally look down on me? I haven't harmed anyone, and I haven't eaten your rice. What's your business if I'm in a relationship? Without me, would Si Xu be attracted to you? To Wei Ya Ge? Ha, what's the point of your indignation?
"Finally, sir, the psychics are indeed powerful and they are indeed protecting the safety of the base. Like everyone else, I admire the psychics who fight for the base. But who gave you the right to arbitrarily harm a scientist who has also contributed to the base?
"When you go out on a mission, what you wear, what you eat, and even what you use on your hands, which one isn't made by the hands of a logistics team? Even now, we can still accumulate supplies from outside, ten, twenty, thirty years... Without these scientists and logistics workers, would you have to rely on your own special abilities to live a life of savagery?"
"I'm telling you!" the girl said sternly, her voice rising a few notches. "Don't be complacent just because you've awakened your powers, thinking you have the power to arbitrarily decide other people's lives. Why did we build this base? It's to allow more people to survive, not to make it easier for you to trample on other people's lives.
"What makes us human is that we have basic morals and values. Without these, you are no different from the rotting flesh outside the base."
After the girl finished speaking, the experiment fell into a strange silence.
“Snap! Snap! Snap!”
From behind the crowd, crisp applause rang out, like a slap in the face of the members of Team Six.
(End of this chapter)
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