Chapter 33, His Past
To He Ru's surprise, Jiang Ranran didn't come up to see her immediately after she came back. Even when everyone was having dinner together in the evening, she acted as if nothing had happened.
Could it be that Jiang Ranran didn't know that she had pushed her down on purpose? Or maybe she thought she was unconscious at the time and didn't bother with her?
Lying on the bed, He Ru pulled the quilt to cover her face, and her originally tense heartstrings unconsciously relaxed.
Since Jiang Ranran didn't mention it, she would just pretend that nothing happened.
…
After taking a shower and coming out of the bathroom, Jiang Ran paused slightly when he saw the girl waiting in the room, and asked doubtfully: "Captain Su, do you have something to talk to me about?"
"Just call me Aqin." Su Qin had a pair of smiling eyes, giving people the feeling that she was the older sister next door, without any aggression. "I'll just call you Ranran."
Not good at dealing with this kind of people, Jiang Ran could only nod.
"Seventh Brother went to talk to Yun Qing about something, so he asked me to help you apply the medicine." Su Qin shook the medicine bottle in her hand. "Seventh Brother gave it to me, and he specifically told me to be careful. Tsk tsk, it seems he really loves you."
Not knowing what Su Qin meant by these words, Jiang Ran wiped his hair and continued in silence.
"I'm quite curious. How long have you been with Brother Seven? Aren't you afraid of him?"
"Afraid?" Jiang Ran asked, "What are you afraid of him for?"
"I heard from Yunqing that he broke a boy's arm right in front of you. Aren't you scared?"
"Why should I be afraid? That guy bullied me first, so Si Xu taught him a lesson." Not wanting to continue beating around the bush like this, Jiang Ran said bluntly, "Captain Su, what exactly do you want to say to me?"
"Haha, I just wanted to talk to you. I'm quite curious about you." Su Qin sat down on the bed and looked at her. "Come here, I'll help you apply the medicine."
"No, I can do it myself..."
"Oh? That won't do." Su Qin said with a half-smile, "This is the task that Seventh Brother assigned to me. If I don't complete it well, he will scold me. Maybe even kill me."
"Don't say that about him." Jiang Ran's face turned cold.
She didn't like hearing others comment on Si Xu in such a frivolous tone, and she didn't like hearing any bad comments about him from others.
Even though he kept calling him "Seventh Brother", he still treated him as a cold-blooded and heartless killer.
Seeing Su Qin's surprised expression, Jiang Ran said coldly: "Si Xu is not that kind of person."
Si Xu is not the kind of person who treats human life as a joke.
"Huh?" Su Qin took a while to realize what Jiang Ran meant. She covered her lips and laughed. "It seems you still don't understand clearly. Seventh Brother is just that kind of person."
Jiang Ran: “…”
"Before the apocalypse, there was a laboratory in Xiling City. It's the one Si Xu is in charge of now. Do you know what that laboratory was used for?"
"…researching viruses and reagents."
"Yes." Su Qin said, "Seventh Brother... Si Xu, was one of the first experimental subjects in that laboratory, and he was the only one who survived."
“…”
"You should already know how powerful Si Xu is—he possesses both spatial and water abilities. He's never disclosed his ability level, and we don't know. But, at the beginning of the apocalypse, when the base was undergoing a regime change, Si Xu single-handedly killed all sixty-seven psychics sent by the laboratory to stop him."
Jiang Ran remained unmoved: "So?"
"Huh?" Su Qin blinked, not expecting her to react like this. "Even though you know his hands are stained with the blood of so many people, you're not afraid?"
"If he doesn't kill those people, they will kill him." Jiang Ran said in a flat tone, "It's just a means of survival. You can't just stand there and wait to die, right?"
"Ah..." Su Qin stared at her for a while, then laughed again, "I hope you can remember what you said to me today after returning to the base."
Feeling Su Qin's hostility towards her dissipate silently, Jiang Ran simply asked her doubts: "Why do you say that? After going to the base, Si Xu is no longer the Si Xu we know now?"
"Haha, that's not the case." Su Qin stopped laughing and sighed, "The current head of the base, Mr. Shen Lang, doesn't like Seventh Brother very much - you know, the thing this world has the most is people who flatter you."
In other words, Shen Lang doesn't like Si Xu, so many people in the base also become hostile to Si Xu in order to please Shen Lang?
"It's rare for a woman to appear around Brother Qi anymore. Maybe those people will take advantage of you..."
"Again?" Jiang Ran grasped the key words in her words, "Has Si Xu ever had a woman by his side?"
"Um, didn't Gu Yunqing tell you?"
"...No." Why did Si Xu's woman want Gu Yunqing to tell her? Jiang Ran was even more confused.
"That guy loves gossiping so much, it's strange that he didn't tell you about such a big thing." After mumbling a few words, Su Qin waved, "Come here, I'll tell you."
Jiang Ran sat next to her.
Su Qin lowered her voice and said, "After Seventh Brother, there were two more batches of experimental subjects in the laboratory. None of the second batch survived. Gu Yunqing and I, as well as Chu Yuan, the current captain of the first team of the Superpower Team...we are all from the third batch of experimental subjects."
Jiang Ran nodded and listened to her continue telling a story that was not mentioned in the original novel.
"Because the technology became more mature later on, quite a few people survived the third batch of experiments. Among them was a girl named Pei Wan'er, who was a fangirl of Brother Seven."
"Mistress...?"
"Seventh Brother was an assistant in the lab at the time, and many girls liked him." Su Qin said, "Wan'er was the one who was most fascinated by him."
“…”
"Later, a disaster struck, the end of the world arrived, a base was established in Xiling City, the laboratory changed dynasties, and we all became free again. The moment we regained our freedom, Wan'er confessed her love to Brother Seven."
Hearing this, Jiang Ran clenched his fists tightly, pursed his lips and said nothing.
"You know, Seventh Brother never considers other people's feelings - if he doesn't care, he doesn't care, so he rejected Wan'er mercilessly." In fact, it's not very accurate to say rejected. He didn't even understand the meaning of Wan'er's words at that time.
"Huh?" Rejected.
"In the early days of the Xiling base, the Yu family was in charge. The head of the Yu family had an only son, Yu Huang, who was spoiled by his family to the point of being lawless. He loved to flirt with other men on a daily basis. In the apocalypse, without any restraints, he became even more arrogant.
"That guy met Wan'er somewhere and became interested in her. He then started pursuing her relentlessly. Wan'er was completely focused on Seventh Brother at the time and didn't even spare him a glance.
"That guy is shameless. Since he couldn't do it openly, he resorted to some shady means.
"At that time, the Superpower Team had just been established, and Wan'er was the captain of the fifth team. That guy bribed Wan'er's vice-captain and drugged Wan'er."
Hearing this, Jiang Ran took a breath and asked, "And then?"
"It's tragic." Su Qin's tone was filled with regret when she spoke of her former teammates. "Wan'er died. Yu Huang had someone wrap her in a sheet and dump her at the door of the lab. He even sent a video of him and Wan'er to Brother Qi..."
Look, so what if a woman who loves you wholeheartedly still climbs into my bed and is eaten clean by me? The young master, who has never experienced hardship, probably used this idea to show off to Si Xu, or even to provoke him.
"A bloody storm." Su Qin said, "On the night Wan'er died, all seventeen members of the Yu family were killed."
The first person to notice something was wrong was the night patrolman. Seeing blood seeping from the crack of Yu's door, he thought it was a zombie invasion and reported it to the special power team.
When Chu Yuan and Gu Yunqing brought people over, the door of the Yu family suddenly opened, and Yu Huang's body flew out of the door and fell heavily in front of everyone.
He was still breathing, his body twisted in a strange shape, and his teeth chattering.
"Devil...devil..."
The young man, dressed in white, unstained by a speck of blood, walked slowly from the dimly lit room into the sunlight. In full view of the horrified crowd, he stepped on Yu Huang's neck.
"I wasn't there," Su Qin said. "Gu Yunqing said that Seventh Brother crushed Yu Huang's neck just like that."
“…”
"After that incident, the base changed dynasties and the Shen family became the one in power. All news about the Yu family's extermination was blocked by the Shen family."
"Why don't the Shen family like Si Xu?" Jiang Ran asked naively, "Are you worried that what happened to the Yu family will happen again?"
"That's right." Su Qin sneered, "The deputy captain who was bribed by Yu Huang to drug Wan'er was Shen Yang, the eldest grandson of the Shen family."
One sentence solved all of Jiang Ran's doubts.
So that's how it is.
Shen Lang was determined to get rid of Si Xu, not because of Jiang Ranran, but to protect his eldest grandson and the heir of the Shen family.
"Si Xu, why didn't you kill Shen Yang?" He killed the entire Yu family to avenge Pei Wan'er, but only spared Shen Yang? This was really unlike him.
"Because someone pleaded for mercy." Su Qin said, "The Shen family also has a young master and young lady - Shen Bai and Shen Yao - who also came from the laboratory."
"Oh." The original novel mentioned Shen Bai and Shen Yao from the Shen family... Jiang Ran recalled carefully, and in his memory, the endings of both of them were not very good.
Shen Bai died in the power struggle in the base to protect his brother Shen Yang. Shen Yao had a good relationship with Si Xu because of her laboratory background. After Si Xu's death, she was kicked out of the base by Shen Lang.
"The two siblings pleaded for their brother, and Shen Yang also said that he was threatened by Yu Huang and had no choice but to do it. I don't know what Seventh Brother was thinking, but in the end, he didn't kill him."
After listening to the whole story, Jiang Ran fell into a long silence.
Su Qin felt that the little girl looked like a hamster with her cheeks puffed out and she poked her face: "Now that you've heard the story, what do you think?"
"I was wondering, when we get to Xiling Base..." Jiang Ran muttered to himself, very quietly, "Should I provoke Si Xu and kill them all?"
When you know the outcome, it is better to strike first than to sit and wait for death.
By killing all the people in the Shen family who might threaten Si Xu, there would be no need to worry about Si Xu being plotted against by them in the future.
I am so smart.
Oh, ask her if she feels guilty for treating her grandfather and cousin like this? What is there to feel guilty about? She is not the real Jiang Ranran. Besides, even if she is the real Jiang Ranran, the Shen family did not give her a happy ending.
Su Qin: "..."
(End of this chapter)
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