Chapter 119: It’s not aloofness but a cold heart?
She could understand Pei Xiao's complicated feelings for Si Xu, but she couldn't agree with the man's behavior. Jiang Ran held Si Xu's hand tightly, gently shook his arm, and chuckled: "Let's not talk about those unhappy things - Si Xu, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you."
When she asked, Si Xu answered truthfully: "I want to eat steamed pork ribs with rice flour." He immediately put Pei Xiao's matter behind him.
He gave the answer seriously, and Jiang Ran smiled secretly: This man is so easy to coax, just give him delicious food. She is lucky that she has not been abducted home by others before.
…
Captain Pei Xiao of the Dongchao Base came to the Xiling Base for a visit and study. The news spread like wildfire in the base, causing Pei Xiao to be approached by onlookers every time he went out, including many beautiful women.
After a few inexplicable encounters, Pei Xiao simply stayed at the Crop Experimental Base and Xiling Laboratory and stopped wandering around outside.
As a result, it is inevitable to meet Si Xu every day.
Many times, when Jiang Ran went to the laboratory to find Si Xu to go home together after work, she could feel the low pressure spreading out from the two men.
The laboratory staff felt uncomfortable at first, but over time, they gradually got used to the rivalry between the two and were able to discuss the base's gossip in a low-pressure atmosphere with a calm expression.
Jiang Ran mingled with a group of girls, listening to them discuss insignificant news, and waiting for Si Xu to get off work.
"Did you hear that Team Six seemed to have had another dispute with Team Two yesterday?"
"Really? I heard it's because Captain Shen Yang has a crush on Captain Wei, but Captain Wei disagrees, so Team Two is always causing trouble for Team Six."
"Even though Captain Shen and Captain Wei are both handsome and beautiful, I still don't want them to be together... Captain Shen is too extravagant, and Captain Wei is such a nice person. It would be unfair to her to be paired with Captain Shen."
"Nonsense, Captain Shen doesn't like Captain Wei. He's not stupid."
"Oh, Captain Wei doesn't like Professor Si, cough cough..." The girl said halfway, and then remembered that Professor Si's real girlfriend was sitting next to her, and she suddenly started to cough awkwardly.
So the entire Xiling base knew that Wei Ya Ge liked Si Xu? So, it seemed like that woman was pretty high-profile.
Jiang Ran pretended not to hear what the girls said, pretending to be reading seriously and listening to them continue talking.
"Hey, speaking of that incident just now, what's going on with Team 2 and Team 6?"
"I don't know either. I just heard that Deputy Captain Shen went to see Captain Wei a few days ago. He looked unhappy when he came out, and then the team members under him started to dislike each other."
Did Chen Bai go to see Wei Ya Ge? Oh, it must be about what happened at the experimental site.
"Haven't you heard of it? I'm so curious..."
"I know a little gossip, do you want to hear it?"
Someone was talking, and the girls looked over with sparkling eyes. They saw the girl put down the book in her hand, looked at them and smiled slightly.
Jiang Ran has been visiting the laboratory frequently recently. The girls are of similar age and it is easy for them to get along well.
However, her identity was special after all, and when the girls who were chatting enthusiastically heard that she knew the inside story, they became a little hesitant.
The news that Jiang Ranran knew must be the latest news, but she was Professor Si’s girlfriend and the young lady of the Shen family after all. Wouldn’t it be inappropriate to gossip about her brother and love rival in front of her?
"Do you want to hear it?" Jiang Ran raised his chin and asked the girls who had suddenly fallen silent, "It's just gossip. I'm not sure if the news I got is true or not."
"Ranran, who did you hear this gossip from?" a girl asked curiously, "Captain Chen Bai?"
"No," Jiang Ran said, "You know, I'm working at the experimental site. I was also there when Chen Bai and Wei Yage had their first conflict."
"Experimental site?" The girls became interested. "Is it the crop experimental base in the south?"
"Yes, that's right there," Jiang Ran said. "I happened to be off work that day, and I heard from a colleague that the people from Team 6 had smashed up a piece of experimental land, so I went back to watch the fun. I ended up seeing them beating up the staff. Coincidentally, it was the team I worked for..."
Beating staff? Some people were puzzled: "Why?"
Jiang Ran sighed: "This can be summarized as a tragedy caused by a melon."
"melon?"
"Our experimental site is used to simulate a natural ecosystem. There happened to be a melon growing there that day. To test the difference between the experimental melon and the naturally grown one, we cut it up."
"Then what?"
"Then, the people from Team Six said that the melon was for the public and couldn't be disposed of casually. We touched public property, and they were very angry."
"Ah? But if we just confiscate it like that, aren't you afraid that something might happen to the melon?" In the apocalypse, if the melon mutated, wouldn't ordinary people die if they ate it?
“It’s time to get it checked out.”
"Well, who would dare to eat it otherwise? What if someone dies?"
"Is Team Six going to beat people up just for this?"
"That's too much! Psychics can't just attack the base staff so indiscriminately. Besides, it's okay for them to touch things infected with the virus, but they should also consider us ordinary people..."
"That's right, it's too much."
“…”
After listening to their discussion for a while, Jiang Ran said, "Hey, many of the staff members over there are ordinary people. They can only consider themselves unlucky to encounter people with superpowers. Fortunately, Chen Bai brought Captain Pei to visit and stopped those people from Team 6. Otherwise, those staff members would be in trouble..."
"Ah, so that's how it is?" someone murmured. "But isn't Team Six's job to protect the safety of the lab building and the crop experiment base? Does this count as dereliction of duty?"
Most of the girls working here are ordinary people. When they heard that other ordinary staff members were beaten, they felt a little uncomfortable, and their admiration for Wei Yage, the team leader, was immediately greatly reduced.
"I don't know." Jiang Ran spread his hands. "I don't know much about the Ability Team either. I think Shen Bai went to Captain Wei for this matter."
"So, the recent discord between Teams Two and Four is also due to this?" someone said hesitantly. "Does this discord...mean that Team Six feels they're doing nothing wrong?"
Hearing this, the others fell into a brief silence.
When they learned about the gossip, they guessed various reasons, most of which were related to emotional entanglements. Now that they learned it was because of work, the girls didn't know how to comment.
While the lab staff's casual handling of the melon was problematic, assaulting a staff member and then insisting they were fine when the base held them accountable...isn't that even more outrageous? The fact that the members of Team Six dared to do this clearly showed their superiors' approval.
"Captain Wei Ya Ge is really like this?" someone murmured in disappointment. "I thought she just looked aloof, but it turns out she really does look down on ordinary people."
Jiang Ran was silent.
Does Wei Yage look aloof? She doesn't just look aloof; she really is.
Cold-hearted and emotionless.
In the novel, the zombies' superpowers advanced rapidly in the later period, and the Xiling base encountered several waves of zombie sieges. The first few times were blocked by Si Xu and the people in the laboratory, and the last time happened after Si Xu's death.
At that time, the base had lost all the combat power of the laboratory. In order to save the city wall, Wei Yage decided to set up a trap outside the city, using ordinary people in the base as bait to lure the zombies into the trap.
That time, thanks to her plan, the base temporarily held the city wall, but it also resulted in the loss of more than 2,300 innocent ordinary people.
(End of this chapter)
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