Chapter 35: Stop targeting him
If she escapes, she will shoot her.
Without doubting Jiang Ran's words, He Ru suppressed her fear and restrained her urge to escape and call for help.
"Very good, just stand there and don't move." Jiang Ran said, still pointing the gun at her, and took several steps back.
Sensing the girl's intention, He Ru's legs trembled constantly, and she stammered, "What are you going to do? Jiang Ranran, are you going to kill me?"
"How could that be?" Jiang Ran smiled harmlessly and said softly, "If I wanted to kill you, I would have just shot you."
Yes, you don’t want to kill me, you just want to torture me! He Ru swallowed back the words that almost came out of her mouth - when you are under someone’s roof, you have to bow your head.
Half a year of dependence on the team made her deeply understand this truth, so when the girl pointed her gun, she didn't dare to say anything to provoke her.
"He Ru, stand there and don't move." Jiang Ran held the gun in a perfect position—Si Xu had specially instructed her on this—and smiled with narrowed eyes, her voice melting into the wind and snow. "As a reward for pushing me into the river, I'll take a shot—if I miss, you'll be fine. If I hit, you'll just have to blame yourself."
"You! Didn't you say you wouldn't kill me?!"
"I'm not going to kill you," Jiang Ran said innocently. "If I just hit your arms or legs, you won't die. Look, I fell from such a high bridge into the river and didn't die."
“…”
Without waiting for He Ru to speak, she showed a distressed expression again and added: "Oh, by the way, if my hand shakes when I shoot and I accidentally hit your heart or head... that's okay, you will die soon and the pain won't last long."
"Jiang Ranran!"
"Hey, don't get so excited. When you get excited, your body starts shaking, and then I can't aim. If I can't aim, you'll be the one who suffers in the end, right?"
Seeing Jiang Ran's finger slowly pulling the trigger, He Ru didn't dare to move.
She tried to stay calm, but facing the black muzzle of the gun and thinking of what Jiang Ran said, her body trembled uncontrollably.
Even if Jiang Ran didn't kill her, she would injure her arms or legs - no team would be willing to take a disabled ordinary person with her, even if she was beautiful.
The more he thought about it, the more desperate he became. Jiang Ran kept adjusting the angle and just didn't shoot.
Time passed by minute by minute. He Ru bit her lip and watched the muzzle of the gun move back and forth on her chest, arms, and legs. She couldn't help but imagine herself being injured in her mind - bleeding profusely, no one willing to help her, and the zombies who would swarm over her and eat her up after smelling the blood...
Instead of this, it would be better to just shoot her to death!
Just as she was thinking this, the black muzzle of the gun suddenly moved to her forehead. Not understanding the meaning of Jiang Ran's action, He Ru was horrified and subconsciously widened her eyes.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, and the bullet grazed the girl's cheek, leaving a trail of blood.
“Ahhhh!”
The girls' screams were louder than the gunshots.
Well, it seems that the intimidation effect is quite good. It was worth it that she asked Si Xu for a gun that can make sound.
Ignoring the girl who was sitting on the ground with her eyes closed and screaming, Jiang Ran twirled the gun in his hand and greeted Song Rong and his group who came running over after hearing the noise with a smile.
"Captain Song, I'm sorry, my gun went off accidentally."
Looking at the smiling Jiang Ran, and then at He Ru who was still screaming on the ground, Song Rong's mouth twitched twice, but he said nothing.
Did she accidentally fire? She really treated him like a child. But she came to trouble He Ru, so she must have had something to do with her falling into the river.
"Hey." Jiang Ran squatted down and patted He Ru's shoulder. Seeing that she was still screaming with her eyes closed, he grabbed a handful of snow and pressed it hard on her face.
The girl's scream stopped abruptly.
She looked up at her blankly.
Very good, not scared silly, not bad. Jiang Ran looked down at her, with the tone of an elder teaching a younger person, and said earnestly: "Don't covet things that don't belong to you, understand? If you dare to go after him again, I will use a gun to shoot six holes in your body and then throw you into the zombie swarm - understand?"
He Ru nodded hurriedly.
"Oh, such a beautiful face," Jiang Ran sighed after receiving the answer, tapping her face with his gun. Under the girl's puzzled and horrified gaze, he gently wiped away the blood that kept flowing from her cheek, "What a pity, it will leave a scar."
After Jiang Ran said this, He Ru finally realized the pain on her face.
She was disfigured? This woman had ruined the face she was so proud of! She had actually ruined the face she was so proud of!
Her dull gaze fell on the girl's blood-stained fingertips, her eyes turned black, and she fainted.
"Captain Song." It was almost time. Jiang Ran stood up, smiling naively. "He Ru was scared by me. I'll have to trouble you to find someone to help her in."
Song Rong winked at the team member next to him, and that team member immediately took a few steps over and picked up He Ru, who was lying on the ground.
Thinking about how he almost lost his life because of this woman, Song Rong's tone became a little stiffer, "Send him back to the room."
Watching He Ru go away, Jiang Ran reminded her again: "Remember what I just said."
…
Snow was falling heavily and the north wind was blowing fiercely. Jiang Ran pulled his coat tightly around him and walked to the door of the villa, stepping through the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"Why don't you tell Seventh Brother?" Su Qin sat under the eaves with her legs crossed, eating melon seeds. "If you tell Seventh Brother, he will definitely stand up for you."
"There's no need to trouble him with things I can handle."
"Solve it?" Su Qin shook her head. "Her face is ruined. I'm afraid she will be even more jealous of you."
"Then let her hate me." Jiang Ran shrugged nonchalantly. "If I get tricked by the same person twice, I can only blame myself if I die."
He Ru was able to plot against her only because she was off guard at the time, and she had never imagined that human nature could be so sinister - when she was trying to save her, she could be so cruel as to put her to death.
"Haha." Su Qin changed her sitting position, ignoring the biting north wind, and stared at Jiang Ran with her almond-shaped eyes. "Jiang Ran, being kind to your enemies is not a good habit."
"I know." Jiang Ran walked up the stairs and stopped beside her, "But I want to correct you on one thing."
"What?"
"I wasn't kind to her." Letting her die too easily was kindness to her - for someone like He Ru, proud, selfish, and an extreme egoist, the best punishment for her would be to destroy what she was most proud of, and then to watch her helpless struggle and then to bow down to her.
"If she can make it to Xiling Base alive, I think her punishment will only have begun."
Although she was not particularly clear about what kind of life the ordinary people in the base led, she could probably guess.
I wonder if that proud and narcissistic woman can put aside her pride and beg for a way out?
Understanding what she meant, Su Qin raised an eyebrow and fished out a handful of sunflower seeds from her pocket and handed them to her: "They have a milky flavor - I was collecting supplies yesterday and found that they were about to expire, so I grabbed two bags. I just happened to use them to kill time today."
Jiang Ran shook his head: "No, thank you."
"Really?"
"Hmm." Jiang Ran muttered, "I get a sore throat from eating this."
Su Qin: "...so pitiful."
The two stayed under the eaves for a few minutes, and Jiang Ran felt his cheeks numb from the wind.
She covered her face with her hands and said vaguely: "Captain Su, I'm going in."
"Just call me Aqin." Suqin stood up and stretched. "Do you know how to play cards? Do you know how to play Landlord?"
"……Won't."
"Bullfighting?"
"……Won't."
“…Run fast?”
“…I don’t know how to play cards.”
Su Qin sighed: "Then I can only find Song Rong and the others - you and Brother Qi are really a good match, and Brother Qi is not interested in this kind of entertainment for young people at all."
Jiang Ran asked the question that was lingering in her heart: "Why do you call him Seventh Brother?"
"Ah, Chu Yuan was the first to call him that." Su Qin said, "Wei Ya Ge always liked to call him Brother Si Xu. Chu Yuan found that disgusting, so he told us to call him Seventh Brother, and we followed suit."
"Wei Ya Ge?" She had some impression of this name.
The captain of the sixth brigade of the Ability Team, he was originally a loyal follower of Si Xu. However, he was persuaded by Luo Rui during the final encirclement and suppression operation and defected to the Shen family, becoming the main fighting force of the Shen family.
Su Qin didn't like that woman. She curled her lips and said, "She's the captain of Team Six, the queen in the eyes of the men in the Ability Team. She's very popular in the base. Speaking of which, you'd better be careful when you get to the base. That girl is also Si Xu's fangirl."
Jiang Ran sneered: "A fangirl... hehe."
That woman could be said to be the key to Luo Rui's victory - because they were comrades who came out of the laboratory together, the other members of the Ability Team were not on guard against her, which led to them being defeated one by one - it could be said that most of Si Xu's combat power was defeated by her.
The victory was achieved by simply taking advantage of her companions' trust in her, but she was praised and eulogized by decent people - how hypocritical and disgusting.
"If I can't get the man, no one else can either." This is the reason why Wei Yage chose to join Luo Rui's faction. It sounds really cool at first glance, but when she saw this, she felt that this woman had a distorted outlook on life.
Although Si Xu was not a decent person, he gave the most protection and indulgence to his companions who came out of the laboratory with him.
That woman, who was protected by Si Xu in the laboratory and at the beginning of the apocalypse, saw that her pursuit was hopeless, so she bit back without mercy, shouting slogans and blaming the selfishness in her nature on "love" - love didn't want to take the blame.
When I read the novel, I just thought that her values were not right, but now Jiang Ran is getting angrier and angrier the more he thinks about it.
"She better not fall into my hands..."
Without clearly hearing what Jiang Ran muttered, Su Qin patted her shoulder and sympathized: "In short, if you stay with Seventh Brother, your future will be full of dangers."
"No." Jiang Ran forced a cold smile, "Si Xu will not allow this to happen."
After knowing each other for so many days, she was sure of one thing about Si Xu: that guy was very protective of his people, and now she was exactly the one he wanted to protect.
…
Si Xu was away, and Jiang Ran had nothing to do. On her way back to her room, she was blocked by Zhou Jian at the stairs.
"Jiang Ran." The girl looked at Jiang Ran with a righteous expression, as if she was some unforgivable sinner. "Why are you bullying Ru Ru?"
"..." Jiang Ran glanced at her as if she were an idiot and prepared to walk around her.
"Don't go!" Zhou Jian grabbed her arm and said angrily, "Do you think that just because you follow Professor Si, you can bully your companions casually? Even Professor Si can't be so unreasonable!"
"Zhou Jian." Jiang Ran was annoyed by the noise of this stupid woman and said helplessly, "You came to me to seek justice. Does He Ru know?"
He Ru didn't know, but the girl who thought she was fine straightened her back and said, "Of course Ru Ru didn't know. She fainted when she returned to her room."
"Since He Ru didn't say anything, and you were so eager to jump out and bark, I just want to say - it's none of your business?" Jiang Ran shook off the girl's hand and replied impatiently before she could speak, "Zhou Jian, listen carefully, I always do things with a clear conscience - what did He Ru do? Wait until she wakes up and ask her yourself..."
"She was so scared by you that she fainted. How could she dare to tell the truth?"
"Huh?" What kind of material is this strange thing made of?
"Jiang Ran, let me tell you." Thinking she had no answer, Zhou Jian spoke even louder, "I've really put up with you for so long—Rui Rui treats you so well, and not only do you shamelessly cling to her boyfriend, you even hit her! Our team has been protecting you all the way, and what about you? You didn't even bother to plead for Jiang Yu! Ruru didn't do anything... ah!"
The woman's shouting was interrupted by a scream.
Su Qin, who was leaning against the door with her arms folded listening to the opera, looked up and saw Zhou Jian rolling down the stairs to the corner.
People with special abilities have better physical fitness than ordinary people. Zhou Jian was not seriously injured after rolling all the way down, but the pain from the bumps and bruises prevented her from getting up immediately.
Jiang Ran, standing at the stairs, looked down at her condescendingly: "Since you don't understand what people are saying, it would be more effective to take action."
(End of this chapter)
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