Chapter 148, They Need to Remember
When Chen Bai was arranging the tasks, Jiang Ran and Si Xu were already in the Xiling base.
Hearing two soft knocks coming from under the wooden board, Zhou Jian pulled away the carpet, lifted the wooden board, and said angrily: "Jiang Ranran, are you treating this place as a convenience..."
Zhou Jian fell silent mid-sentence when he saw the person behind Jiang Ran.
Climbing out from underground, Jiang Ran brushed off the dust stuck to his clothes and sighed, "Luckily there's this secret passage, otherwise I would have had to force my way through."
The noisy girl didn't answer.
Jiang Ran looked at her, puzzled: "Zhou Jian, what's wrong?"
The girl avoided his gaze, shook her head vigorously, and stammered: "No, nothing."
Ever since Si Xu threatened her to break her arm and make it into a target for Jiang Ranran to practice shooting, she has had a psychological trauma towards Si Xu.
Seeing her discomfort, Jiang Ran took Si Xu's hand and said, "Si Xu, the last time I was able to successfully leave the base, it was thanks to the help of Zhou Jian and her friends."
Si Xu glanced at the trembling girl and nodded gently: "Thank you."
Zhou Jian was flattered: "You're welcome!"
Jiang Ran: “Huh~” This person actually said thank you... Well, the way he said thank you with a blank expression is so cute.
The slums are relatively close to the city wall, and all the sounds happening outside are accurately transmitted to the ears of several people.
Jiang Ran listened attentively: "Where are Zhou Jian, Qiao Yi and the others?"
"There were zombies attacking the city, so Qiao Yi led his men out. Yi Xi went with them."
"Have all the psychics in the base left?"
"That should be the case." With Si Xu present, Zhou Jian didn't dare to quibble and answered without hesitation. "I just heard people outside say that it seems the north city wall can't be defended anymore. Several zombies and mutant beasts rushed in."
After learning a brief account of the situation from Zhou Jian, Jiang Ran thanked him and left the slum with Si Xu.
With the return of the first and second teams, the pressure on the city walls was greatly reduced. However, the zombies kept coming, and if the stalemate continued, even the most powerful psychics would collapse.
After easily dealing with the zombies and mutant beasts running around in the city, the two men came to the city wall.
Jiang Ran had one foot on the steps when Si Xu grabbed her wrist: "Jiang Ran."
"Hmm?" She looked at him, puzzled. "What's wrong, Si Xu?"
"Go help Shen Yao and rescue those injured."
Didn't he want her to go up the city wall? Jiang Ran pursed his lips and said seriously: "Si Xu, you also said that I lack practical experience."
"Just fight me." Si Xu said seriously, "I'm more suitable for training than those zombies."
How can you say that about yourself?
Jiang Ran laughed: "But I want to stay by your side."
Si Xu: “…”
She persevered, hooked her fingers around his and shook them gently, saying softly, "Okay, I want to stay by your side, Si Xu~"
"..." Looking at the girl's moist almond eyes, Si Xu's ears turned red and his voice lowered by two degrees, "Okay."
Following Si Xu up the city wall, Jiang Ran secretly made a "V" sign to herself.
…
Everyone in the base knows that Professor Si, as the head of the laboratory, has terrifying combat power.
But how terrifying it is, only a few people have actually witnessed it.
Since the base was established, there have been very few zombie attacks of this magnitude. Smaller zombie attacks are handled by other captains of the special power team.
Since the establishment of the base, Professor Si has hardly shown his skills in any battle against zombies.
Therefore, most of the people who later joined the Xiling Base only heard everything about Professor Si from other people's rumors.
However, rumors are just rumors after all, and everyone knows that there will be a lot of exaggeration in them.
This is also the reason why many people, although they respect Si Xu on the surface, choose to join forces with the Shen family in private.
Jiang Ran shot and killed two mutant birds and looked at the young man's tall back.
In the original novel, when the Xiling base encountered the first wave of zombies, it was Si Xu who led the people in the laboratory to repel the zombies, and they killed them all as soon as the zombie tide just came.
Si Xu would not publicize such things, and those people in the laboratory were not bothered to compete for fame and fortune.
Therefore, the Shen family took advantage of this and took the main credit for repelling the zombie tide.
By repelling the zombie tide and protecting the safety of the base, the Shen family gained greater prestige among the people.
The so-called guiding of public opinion is of great importance at all times and cannot be ignored.
later……
Later, the Shen family took the lead in destroying the laboratory's power, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it.
Compared to the moody and unscrupulous Professor Si, the Shen family, who have repeatedly repelled the zombie tides to protect the base, is more trustworthy.
That's what those people were talking about.
Heh. Jiang Ran laughed coldly and killed a zombie that jumped onto the city wall.
Since those people have no idea about the protection they have received, let them learn a lesson today.
In the end times, no one has the responsibility to protect anyone.
She is different from Si Xu. Since she has done it, she must let everyone know.
Hold all the praise and glory in your hands, and let those people see even a little bit of it if you only give.
——Having not deeply experienced the threat of death, they will naturally ignore the efforts of others; once public opinion is slightly guided, they will lose their own judgment.
…
Outside the base, zombies continued to rush towards the base wall.
Inside the base, ordinary people hid in cramped spaces and prayed constantly.
Si Xu stood on the city wall, looking down at the horde of zombies with a foul smell.
"Huh, that's disgusting." The man threw a space blade and cut the zombie that pounced on the city wall into two pieces.
"Professor Si!"
Someone discovered the man who appeared quietly on the city wall.
"Professor Si is back!"
As if they had already won, cheers broke out in the Ability Team.
A mutant bird rushed down, and when Jiang Ran was about to raise his gun to shoot it in the head, he keenly noticed a subtle change in the air.
Time seemed to stop in an instant, and the zombies that were scrambling to move seemed to have been paused and stopped moving at once.
The mutant bird that rushed towards Jiang Ran stiffened its wings and slid forward due to inertia, brushing past Jiang Ran's face and falling to the ground.
"Bang, bang, bang."
One after another, the mutant birds in the sky fell to the ground, and some directly smashed a big hole in the roof.
Jiang Ran was stunned, then squatted down and poked the mutant bird that landed behind her.
Hard, as if frozen?
Freeze...
Thinking of something, Jiang Ran suddenly stood up and trotted to Si Xu.
The young man let out a long sigh, looked at Jiang Ran from the side, and blinked: "Jiang Ran."
Jiang Ran was extending a finger to poke the zombie closest to her.
She exerted a little force, and the zombie fell to the ground with a crisp sound, as if frozen food had fallen to the ground.
When he didn't get a response, Si Xu emphasized his tone: "Jiang Ran."
The girl looked at him and stammered, "Si, Si Xu, did you freeze them all?"
It was not an attack of space-based supernatural powers, but of water-based supernatural powers.
Yes, Si Xu is a dual-system mutant.
But, penetrating the skin and directly affecting the water in a living being... is this something a water-based psychic can do?!
(End of this chapter)
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