Chapter 324, Giving You Power
Si Xu laughed out loud, and Jiang Ran glared at him fiercely, trying to intimidate him with his eyes.
"Don't worry." He stopped laughing, touched the top of her head, and explained, "It's asking you to enter a command, but it's just collecting your voice. Next time, after verifying your fingerprint, you can speak and it will recognize your voice."
"Hey? Come again next time?" Jiang Ran was still a little confused. "Will I come again?"
In her opinion, there must be a reason why the laboratory was abandoned. Since it was abandoned in the election, let it slowly sink in the wind and sand.
"This place was abandoned because those people thought that the only person who could unlock the console was dead, and his body was never found."
He said it sarcastically, and Jiang Ran looked at the operating table.
"Unlocking means using the fingerprint I just entered?"
"Yes." Si Xu said, "The previous person in charge here was named Yu."
Seeing Jiang Ran's surprised expression, Si Xu nodded: "It's the Yu family you know."
After the disaster, the Yu family was ranked above the Shen family, which shows that this family did have a solid foundation before the disaster.
"So, the Yu family is in charge here?"
"The Yu family was plagued by internal strife at the time. Yu Huang's father, the second oldest son, orchestrated a car accident to kill his brother in order to seize control of the laboratory."
"Tsk, sons follow in their father's footsteps, they're all pretty ruthless."
"Haha, cruel and stupid." Si Xu's comment hit the nail on the head. "After the death of the Yu family's Patriarch, those people realized that there was a ban here. If anyone touches the control panel without lifting the ban, as Gu Yunqing said, they will be eliminated by the defense system as an intruder."
"Ah." Jiang Ran came to his senses, "Is it really that simple?"
"There's another reason."
"What what?"
“The virus has been leaked.”
“…”The virus leak is the beginning of the disaster.
"After the virus leaked, Xiling's focus shifted to establishing a base. Furthermore, by then, the Second Master of the Yu family had already taken power and had the Xiling base in his hands. Therefore, he stopped focusing on this laboratory and instead began training his own special-ability team."
Of course, in order to prevent this place from falling into the hands of others, they built an outer building and hid the entire laboratory inside.
Jiang Ran was even more puzzled: "Why didn't the Yu family just destroy this place?"
"Here..." Si Xu directed her gaze towards the petri dishes. "Each puppet is a weapon with the same combat power as Shen Youyou. They spent so much effort researching these puppets, and now they are destroyed like this. Isn't it a pity?"
The carefully developed weapons, without their control, made them sleep here forever - some people are really selfish and greedy.
Not wanting to continue discussing the Yu family, Jiang Ran dodged Si Xu's hand pulling at her hair and poked his arm: "Since it's a ban, how did you get fingerprints here?"
Si Xu blinked: "Guess."
Jiang Ran thought for a moment: "Was it set up for you by the deceased head of the Yu family?" Si Xu was an assistant in the laboratory and must have been trusted by the person in charge.
"No." Si Xu sighed with some regret, "You guessed wrong."
Jiang Ran was even more curious about his tone: "Then how did you get it?"
"Tell you what, is there a reward?"
Jiang Ran said without hesitation: "Yes, I will make you a big meal tomorrow at noon!" Anyway, she had invited Qiao Yixi and others to come over for lunch tomorrow, so she had to cook by herself.
Not knowing what Jiang Ran was up to, Si Xu reluctantly accepted her reward: "I ordered Yu Gan to set it up for me when he was unconscious—oh, Yu Gan is the head of the Yu family whose body has never been found."
Jiang Ran felt like she didn't understand: "You ordered him... Si Xu, you can hypnotize people?!"
The man showed a little smug expression: "I only learned the basics, but it's just enough to deal with an idiot like Yu Gan."
But this is not what Jiang Ran cares about.
She carefully thought about what the man had said, and finally came to a conclusion: "Si Xu, have you been planning to take advantage of these puppets from the very beginning?"
She thought, maybe she still underestimated him.
She thought he was able to hold a high position in the Xiling base because of his unrivaled dual-system high-level abilities. Now it seems that he is actually much smarter than his opponents expected.
He had paved the way for himself long ago.
"I guess so." Si Xu leaned on the table with one hand, his posture looking a little lazy. "If it weren't for the apocalypse, those people in the lab would probably have died at the hands of the puppets they developed."
Those people thought his life belonged to the laboratory and naturally exploited everything he had. He was not a fool, so how could he willingly hand over the rest of his long life to those idiots?
Jiang Ran's hands hanging by his side tightened unconsciously.
After figuring out the man's plan, she actually felt a chill down her spine - just like a self-righteous hunter who suddenly turns around and finds himself in the mouth of his prey.
Her throat tightened slightly, and when she spoke again, her voice was a little dry: "Then you just asked me to record my fingerprints and also collected my voice..."
Si Xu pulled her over, hooked the finger she was using to record her fingerprint, and gestured: "Come here, Jiang Ran."
Knowing that he was going to tell her the answer, she pressed the fingerprint lock.
A familiar mechanical prompt sounded: "Fingerprint confirmed, security lock released."
Jiang Ran was stunned: "Safety lock?"
"Yeah." Si Xu chuckled, "You can wake them up now."
He said it easily, but Jiang Ran was startled and blurted out, "Wake them up?"
"Well, wake them up."
Knowing that he was not joking, and also knowing how terrifying the combined combat power of all the puppets here would be, Jiang Ran stuttered: "How, how do I wake them up?"
Si Xu replied casually: "Well, you can do it according to your own preferences - for example, calling out code names, just like you called me to wake up..."
How could this be possible? Jiang Ran almost cried.
It's such an important decision, why does it seem like child's play to him?
"Forget it." Jiang Ran hugged his arms tightly, in awe of these unknown lives, "I don't want to wake them up."
She was worried that waking up these transformed puppets without any preparation would cause trouble that would be difficult to handle.
"Oh." His tone, originally filled with excitement, returned to normal. Si Xu pressed two buttons on the console. When the light dimmed, he looked at Jiang Ran, "We're done with the tour. Do you want to leave?"
"Ah." Jiang Ran slapped his forehead and remembered the important matter, "We are here to look for information!"
She grabbed Si Xu's hand and hurried out: "I've been here for so long, I almost forgot about the important things!"
Si Xu was dragged two steps by her and reminded her: "Jiang Ran, if one day I am not by your side and you encounter a crisis that you cannot handle, remember to come here."
From the moment he confessed his plan, Jiang Ran guessed what he was thinking.
This was his secret base, storing powerful weapons that only he could use. Now, he handed the right to use these weapons to her without any hesitation.
Jiang Ran sniffed: "I won't separate from you."
"I mean if." Si Xu emphasized.
“…”
"Jiang Ran?"
"Okay, I get it." Jiang Ran held his hand tightly in her palm, "I will protect myself."
(End of this chapter)
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