Chapter 245, God’s Punishment
Huo Xuan was sent to the hospital and survived. When he woke up, Huo Lingyin appeared in front of him with a swaggering smile and invited him to attend Huo Siguo's funeral.
The man stared at the woman's smiling face. His body, wrapped like a dumpling, hadn't recovered its ability to move. He could only grit his teeth and squeeze out a sentence: "Do you think you won?"
Who doesn't know how to say something harsh? Huo Lingyin suppressed her smile and said leisurely, "I don't know whether I won or not, but you have already lost. This is an indisputable fact."
His gloomy gaze rested on the younger generation's face. Huo Xuan laughed hoarsely, hinting: "I have indeed lost, Huo Lingyin. You'd better kill me now, otherwise, I will keep my eyes open and wait to see how the direct line of your Huo family will be crushed to ashes!"
"Are you provoking me?" Huo Lingyin pondered. "Do you think that the more you say this, the less likely I am to kill you?"
"How could that be? Is there anything you wouldn't dare to do?" Huo Xuan's low chuckle turned into a loud laugh. He started coughing violently and spoke intermittently, "You dare to do anything. Killing me is just a matter of moving a finger. How could you not dare? Hahaha!"
The man's laughter was tinged with sadness. "The Huo family, your blood is cold, you're invulnerable, heartless, and ruthless. Haha, God will punish you! He will punish you!"
"Oh my God?" Huo Lingyin looked at the man's crazy appearance that seemed to be crying and laughing at the same time with cold eyes. Her voice was not loud, just enough to drown out his laughter. "It doesn't matter. I'll wait here, waiting for your God to punish me."
The man stopped laughing and looked at her strangely.
Huo Lingyin winked at the accompanying doctor, told him to "take good care of him", and then turned and left the ward.
Before leaving the ward, I heard a man's low curse behind me: "Just wait, just wait, there will be retribution, haha."
Huo Heng did not go in with Huo Lingyin. He waited outside the door. After Huo Lingyin came out of the ward, he walked out with her silently.
Huo Linyin seemed to be in a bad mood - seeing the enemy in such a miserable state, she was not happy at all. Instead, she looked thoughtful and worried.
Huo Heng moved his lips, wanting to ask her if something was wrong.
Huo Lingyin spoke first: "Huo Heng."
The vice-captain responded reflexively: "I'm here."
"Go check Huo Xuan's recent interpersonal relationships for me—and report anything that seems amiss to me immediately."
Huo Xuan? Huo Xuan's influence in Beichen Base has been completely eradicated. Could there be other fish that have slipped through the net?
"Did Huo Xuan say anything?"
Huo Lingyin sneered: "He said that God would punish our Huo family on his behalf - Ha, I don't know when my second uncle became a theologian?"
Huo Xuan, who was involved in the power game, actually believed in God's punishment - if he really believed this, he would not have done so many evil things.
"Either my second uncle has gone crazy due to the pain of losing his son, or..." The "God" that Huo Xuan mentioned had a hidden meaning.
If this was true, she could only think that outside of the Beichen base, Huo Xuan had hidden forces that they were unaware of.
…
When Si Xu came down from the lighthouse, he happened to run into Jiang Ran who had separated from Pei Xiao.
The girl was originally planning to visit the lighthouse, but when she bumped into him head-on, she blinked, thinking she had seen things.
"Si Xu?" After a moment of confusion, the girl happily skipped over to him, grabbed his hand and gently shook it, "Are you also interested in this lantern tower?"
This was probably what they meant by telepathy, Jiang Ran thought happily.
Feeling the scrutiny from above, Si Xu took off his coat and placed it on Jiang Ran's head: "Want to go shopping? I'll take you in."
Hiding in the shadow of his coat, Jiang Ran's mind was still on the tour he mentioned.
"I just asked those patrolling there." She pointed at the psychic team outside, "They said the lighthouse is a key military location and outsiders are prohibited from entering."
She exclaimed, "Huh?" and tugged at Si Xu's sleeve: "Professor Si, how did you get out?"
Wasn't it forbidden for outsiders to enter? How did he get in?
"You went to see Huo Sichan in order to get into the lantern tower? What were you going to do in the lantern tower?"
Si Xu did not answer.
He held up his coat with one hand to block the gaze of the man upstairs, and with the other hand he put his arm around her shoulders and led her into the lighthouse.
"Professor Si." Jiang Ran found his silence today very strange. "Did you do something wrong?"
The two men entered the first-floor lobby of the lighthouse. When the patrolman saw Si Xu, he just nodded in greeting and no one stopped him.
Their gazes finally vanished. Si Xu put away his coat and raised his chin: "I'll take you upstairs to meet my old friend."
"Old friend?" Jiang Ran was surprised.
Did Si Xu have any old friends at Beichen Base? Or were they old friends who worked at an important base like the Denglou... Oh, I was suddenly very curious.
Seeing the little girl eager to try, Si Xu added: "She was looking at you just now. She must be very interested in you."
Jiang Ran suddenly realized: "So you gave me the coat so she wouldn't see me? I thought you were blocking the sun for me."
She said, how could this naive person notice such an insignificant detail as sun protection.
"Block the sun?" Si Xu lowered his eyes to look at her and told her the truth, "I'm not a vampire, why should I block the sun?"
Jiang Ran: “…” It’s not like I’ll die if someone looks at me, why do you have to cover me up?
…
On the top floor, Jiang Suxin noticed the man's series of small movements, leaning on the sofa with her legs crossed, waiting for Si Xu to bring his own girlfriend up to visit her old friend.
I waited for a long time, but there was no movement.
According to the time, the two of them should have arrived even if they climbed up.
Jiang Suxin's legs felt a little numb, so she silently changed her position.
I waited for another half an hour, but still nothing happened.
She yawned, rubbed her aching waist and stood up: "...Si Xu didn't even come up..."
I thought he would bring Jiang Ran up to see me, but who knew that he didn't even take her, his old friend, seriously!
Bastard, you still want to buy information from her? Go to the eighteenth level of hell to buy it!
The woman cursed madly in her heart when she suddenly heard a voice from downstairs: "Si Xu, here, here! This angle looks good! Come quickly!"
Judging from this voice and this address, the person speaking must be Jiang Yize’s beloved daughter Jiang Ranran.
But what is she talking about? Which angle looks good? Which angle looks good?
The woman couldn't help herself and walked into the corridor to look down.
One floor below, a girl stood by the railing, smiling brightly, reaching out to pick the clouds that seemed within reach by the building.
The man held up a SLR camera and adjusted the angle very carefully.
"Well, Jiang Ran, move a little to the left."
"This way? Is this place okay?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Hey, don't take pictures like this, it makes my face look bigger - from this angle, like this, yes, that's right, it can just fit me and the clouds in the picture."
“…”
Jiang Suxin: "..."
She waited for an hour, but the two people didn't come up. It turned out that they were taking photos and checking in while walking?
What did they think they were doing here? Visiting a scenic spot?!
(End of this chapter)
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