Chapter 144: Trying to get away with it
After Chu Yuan left, Si Xu changed his sitting position and looked at Jiang Ran.
The little girl held her chin with one hand, not knowing what she was thinking, and did not notice his gaze.
Si Xu cleared his throat: "Ahem."
Jiang Ran still didn't look at him.
Si Xu: “…”
He called her expressionlessly, "Jiang Ran."
"Hmm?" She turned to look at him suddenly like a frightened rabbit, blinking her eyes. "What's wrong, Si Xu?"
After calling the person back to his senses, Si Xu suddenly didn't know what to say.
He pursed his lips: "Why do you want to investigate that person?"
Si Nian...just hearing this name made him uncomfortable.
"I don't know." Jiang Ran thought for a long time, "I just feel that that person is very important - a woman's intuition."
Si Xu temporarily let go of this question and asked, "Are you not going to let Chu Yuan return to Xiling Base?"
"..." When he asked this, Jiang Ran remembered that Chu Yuan was his man.
She arranged Chu Yuan's next work casually without asking for the opinion of his direct superior.
The girl blinked her eyes and opened her arms: "Si Xu, hug~"
Trying to get away with it.
The corners of his mouth curved slightly, and the man leaned over to pick her up and put her on his lap, but he wasn't ready to let her go. "Jiang Ran, what do you want?"
What do you want?
This time, she didn't avoid his question. Instead, she looked him straight in the eyes and said word by word, "I want the Xiling base, Si Xu."
He once said that he would give her back the ordinary yet warm world she loved.
But as long as the Xiling base is still in the hands of the Shen family and as long as some people are still alive, he will probably never be able to calm down and fulfill her wish.
Since that’s the case, why not let her take control of the Xiling base.
"I want the Xiling base." She repeated, "Si Xu, can you help me? I want the Xiling base."
"Oh." Without asking why she was suddenly interested in the base, Si Xu smiled slightly, "Okay - if you want, I'll let Shen Lang give you the Xiling base to play with."
Jiang Ran: “…” How straightforward.
"Okay." She smiled and rubbed his cheek. "Let's go back and teach those ignorant people a lesson first."
The Shen family wanted to get rid of Si Xu and take control of all the power of the base, but she would not let them do so.
To her, fighting for power and profit is just a game. It all depends on who has the last laugh.
…
Jiang Ran's leg injury was not serious and he was able to get up and move around soon.
The girls sat under the eaves of the temporary base to bask in the sun and listened to the team members who were packing their luggage discussing in low voices what had happened in the past two days.
"I didn't expect Captain Chu to be so stubborn... It seems that Captain Chu really likes his fiancée."
"Oh, I don't know if the captain will come back... You said he wouldn't commit suicide for love..."
"Pah, pah, pah! Nonsense! Our captain will never commit suicide for a woman!"
"But now he's missing because of a woman."
Missing? Thinking that she hadn't seen Chu Yuan for several days, Jiang Ran interrupted their discussion: "Captain Chu is missing?"
Unprepared for Jiang Ran, several team members stopped in front of him with their heads drooped.
"Well, the captain disappeared last night," one of them said. "After discovering him today, Professor Si asked us to search many places, but we couldn't find him."
"Professor Si said that the captain was devastated by Qi Meizi's death and needs to calm down..."
"I don't know where the captain has gone or when he will be back."
Jiang Ran: "..." She was still thinking about how to shut these team members up and stop them from talking about Chu Yuan in the base.
I didn't expect that it can be played like this?
"Professor Si is back!"
Someone shouted, and the people standing in front of Jiang Ran disappeared in an instant.
"Professor Si, have you found the captain?"
"Captain, is he really..."
The man had a cold face. He threw the things he was carrying to the ground and said in a deep voice, "No need to look for it anymore."
The team members surrounding him looked down at the ground.
"Ah, it's the captain's uniform belt... Could it be that the captain really..."
"I found this in the river in the north. You guys take care of it." After Si Xu finished speaking, he walked through the crowd, walked up to Jiang Ran, picked him up, and prepared to go back to the room.
"Captain, did you really die for love?"
"Woo woo, the captain doesn't want us anymore!"
“…”
Hearing the ghosts crying and wolves howling outside, Jiang Ran: "..." Why did he suddenly feel guilty?
"The person has left." After putting the person on the bed, Si Xu said, "Pack up your things and set off back to Xiling Base."
"You... why are you so active all of a sudden..."
"Don't you want the Xiling base?" Si Xu was eager to try, "I'll go back and kill Shen Lang, and give the Xiling base to you."
Jiang Ran: “…”
I couldn't help but laugh.
"It's me who wants the Xiling base. Why are you more impatient than me?"
"You've been in a bad mood these past few days." Si Xu looked at her, gathered a strand of her hair with his fingers and tucked it behind her ear, pinching her earlobe. "Gu Yunqing said that girls would be very happy to receive gifts."
Oh, it's been a while since I've heard the sentence "Gu Yunqing said..." Jiang Ran's heart softened. She leaned on his shoulder and said softly, "Si Xu, am I useless?"
It was she who brought Qi Yao out of the base and into the Beihe Laboratory, and then, she caused her to lose her life.
"Jiang Ran."
He really enjoyed pinching her ears these past two days. The soft and delicate touch made him... unable to let go.
"She died because she was too weak. It has nothing to do with you."
He used very blunt words, and said things that sounded very cruel.
"Jiang Ran, in this world, no one has to protect anyone else. If you can't protect yourself, there's no need to count on others."
“…”
"Remember, you are not God and you cannot save everyone."
Yes, she is not a god, and she still has to rely on him for protection, so what qualifications does she have to talk about protecting others?
"I shouldn't have brought her out..." she hummed. "Let her stay at the base, maybe..."
"If she stays in the base, Chu Yuan will be the one to die."
Without Qi Yao, the zombies would break through the glass in the utility room, and Chu Yuan and the two non-combatable psychics would become their food.
"The person who died was Chu Yuan, and you would still blame yourself like you do now - why didn't I bring a few more people in? Why wasn't I strong enough? Why didn't I escape from that stupid snake's lair earlier?"
Hearing his string of questions, Jiang Ran frowned and muttered, "Okay, I know what you're going to say."
"Jiang Ran, Qi Yao's death has nothing to do with you. You don't have to take all the responsibility on yourself."
She could indeed comfort herself in this way, but...
"Of course, self-blame can make a person stronger." Si Xu gently patted the back of her head. "Jiang Ran, you can blame yourself and become depressed, or you can make yourself stronger and stronger."
"As strong as you, strong enough to protect everyone?"
Si Xu was silent for a moment, and in keeping with his fine qualities of honesty and trustworthiness, he said, "With your current condition, it will be difficult for you to become as strong as me."
Jiang Ran: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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