Chapter 41, Antibodies
Why was she the only one who felt the psychic ability that no one else had discovered?
Jiang Ran fiddled with the seatbelt with his fingers, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Si Xu, could it be that after being bitten by a zombie last time, I awakened some special abilities?"
The only possibility she could think of was that she was bitten by a zombie, mutated, and awakened superpowers, but her superpowers were not among the known superpowers, so they did not notice.
The little girl is smart. As she encounters more things, she will always find that she is different from others.
Si Xu didn't intend to hide it from her: "After awakening your superpowers, do you feel any different?"
Jiang Ran closed his eyes and pretended to concentrate on sensing something. After a while, he shook his head honestly: "No."
Si Xu: "... Even so, you still think you've awakened superpowers?"
The hope that had just risen was shattered by the heavy hammer of reality. Jiang Ran shrugged his head and muttered: "So what happened today..."
The young man, who was concentrating on driving, took a moment to glance at her and was amused by the girl's listless look: "Jiang Ran."
Hearing his deep laughter, Jiang Ran knew he was laughing at her. She glared at him angrily and said fiercely, "What are you doing?"
"You haven't awakened your superpowers." Si Xu ruthlessly added a knife to her wounded young heart. "Superpowers are developed after the body adapts to the virus and mutates. If your body could adapt to the virus, you would have awakened at the beginning of the apocalypse, and you wouldn't have waited this long."
His words were telling her: Don’t even think about it, you will never be able to awaken your superpowers in this lifetime!
Jiang Ran puffed out his cheeks and pulled hard at the seat belt as if to vent his anger, without saying a word.
The girl was throwing a tantrum, and Si Xu waited until she had tied the seatbelt twice before continuing, "But your body is indeed different from others."
Huh? Jiang Ran's eyes lit up instantly.
She looked at Si Xu sideways, her eyes full of expectation: Different? Does it mean that although she is not a superpower, she may become very powerful?
"Do you remember the psychic mutant zombie you encountered in the villa last time?"
Jiang Ran nodded.
She was a smart person and quickly thought of the reactions of Gu Yunqing, Luo Rui and others that day, as well as the questions Si Xu had asked her about the zombie afterwards.
"What's the problem with that zombie?"
"That was a zombie that had awakened psychic abilities. Its ability level was similar to Gu Yunqing's, and it was a high-level ability. At that time, its mental power covered the entire villa, so no matter whether it was Gu Yunqing who entered the villa first, or the one who came in later..." He couldn't remember the names of those two guys at once.
"Luo Rui and Xie Chengzhi?"
"Yeah." Si Xu continued, "They didn't notice the zombie's existence because the zombie's mental power affected their perception."
"Hey?" Jiang Ran blurted out, "But I can see..."
Yes, she could see it - to her, the zombie just looked more like a human. She didn't sense any superpowers he released, nor was she affected by it.
"How could that be?" Jiang Ran stuttered, finding it too unbelievable. "You're saying that I haven't awakened my superpowers, but... but I can ignore the influence and attacks of psychic powers—is that right, Si Xu?"
The little girl is really smart and understands things immediately.
Si Xu nodded: "Yes."
Glancing at Jiang Ran who had fallen silent, Si Xu guessed what she was thinking and said, "The last time you were bitten by a zombie, you didn't transform. That might be the reason."
Jiang Ran remembered the dream he had.
In Jiang Ranran’s childhood memories, there was the time when she often stayed in the hospital and the medicines injected by her father... Could it be that her physical abnormalities were related to those medicines she took when she was a child?
"If that's really the case..." Jiang Ran thought of another possibility, "Si Xu, my body can resist the virus transmitted by zombies, so does that mean..."
"That's very possible." The little girl asked the key question. Si Xu said in a deep voice, "Jiang Ran, this is just my guess now. When we return to Xiling Base, I will have Chen Yao give you a comprehensive examination."
Jiang Ran nodded silently.
Her body was able to resist the virus, most likely because she carried antibodies. Jiang Ran knew very well what the emergence of a human with antibodies meant when no vaccine had been developed at any base.
Of course, she knew one thing more clearly: if she really had antibodies, it would mean that she would absolutely, absolutely, absolutely never be able to awaken her superpowers in this lifetime.
Thinking of his dream of becoming a strong man and trampling on the scum, Jiang Ran was in tears.
…
Zombies have no vision and rely on hearing and smell to move around, so there is not much difference between day and night for them.
It is different for humans. The light is dim at night, which affects their vision. Even for those with special abilities, their combat effectiveness will be reduced at night.
Therefore, the team that goes out to carry out the mission will try to reduce their actions as much as possible after dark to avoid attracting the attention of the zombies or mutant beasts.
Gu Yunqing was naturally aware of this, so before dark, he and Su Qin found an abandoned warehouse and decided to spend the night there.
The warehouse is large enough to accommodate all the vehicles in the team.
When Gu Yunqing returned from his inspection, he saw Jiang Ran standing alone at the warehouse gate, pacing back and forth with his head lowered.
"Sister Ranran." He greeted Jiang Ran and said, "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing." Jiang Ran said, "I came out to get some fresh air."
Girls are sensitive, so Gu Yunqing didn't ask any more questions. He just said "Be careful" and walked into the warehouse.
Three bonfires were lit in the warehouse, driving away the coldness of the warehouse.
Si Xu was standing next to Su Qin, and the two of them were studying the route on the map by the firelight.
"At our current speed, it's probably going to take us a month to get back to Xiling Base." Su Qin pointed at a spot on the map with her pen and sighed, "And that's assuming we don't encounter any unexpected events."
If there is another heavy snowfall, they really will have to wait until next spring to go back.
"Prepare for the worst," Si Xu said. "As we head north, the weather will only get worse."
"So, I think we should find a relatively safe place and wait until winter is over before we hit the road again."
“…”
Hearing the conversation, Gu Yunqing walked over to Su Qin and skillfully placed his arm around her shoulders. "I just checked the surroundings. All the zombies have been dealt with, and there's no sign of any mutants."
"Um."
"Hey, when I came in, I saw Ranran standing alone at the door. She didn't look very happy." Gu Yunqing asked Si Xu, "Did you have a fight with her this afternoon?"
Si Xu shook his head, puzzled: "She's in a bad mood, why does she have to quarrel with me?"
"Is the point about the quarrel?" Gu Yunqing rolled her eyes at him. "The point is that she's in a bad mood!"
Si Xu: "Oh."
Jiang Ran was in a bad mood... Was it because he made her feel bad? Was it because he didn't give her a reward?
Gu Yunqing looked up at the sky in silence. After a moment's wait, he could only say, "Why don't you go out and check on her? She's all alone outside. If a mutant beast attacks her, she won't even have time to run."
Seeing Gu Yunqing hanging on Su Qin like a boneless creature, Si Xu followed suit and decisively went out to find the one he raised.
After watching the young man leave, Su Qin poked Gu Yunqing's waist with her finger and asked in a low voice, "Are you optimistic about Ranran?"
"How is that possible? I only have good things for you~"
"You know that's not what I'm talking about. Don't tell me that." Su Qin changed from prodding to pinching, angrily, "If you don't think she's a good match, why do you keep trying to match her up with Seventh Brother? You know very well that Seventh Brother doesn't know how to love anyone..."
"If you don't understand, just learn. I think he's learned quite well." Thinking of the little moments that Si Xu and Jiang Ran had spent together, Gu Yunqing said, "He doesn't know because he didn't need to know these things before. The ideas those people instilled in him didn't tell him how to love someone. But, Si Xu like this is really scary."
Those people in the laboratory needed him to be the sharpest weapon, and weapons don't need emotions, so they taught him everything that could make him play a better role, but they deprived him of his right to be a human being.
"It's scary." Gu Yunqing said, "Look at him now. Even though he's saying sweet words to Jiang Ran, protecting her and taking care of her, his attitude towards Jiang Ran is like a man treating his lover. But Ah Qin, if you ask him whether he loves Jiang Ran or not, he will definitely ask you in return, why should I love her..."
Now Si Xu only treats Jiang Ran as a property that belongs to him. He indulges and protects his property out of the possessiveness he developed since childhood, rather than love.
"But..." Su Qin whispered, "This is also good - except for us, no one else can see that there is anything wrong with Brother Seven - look at Jiang Ran, she has been with him for so long and she didn't notice anything unusual about him at all."
"This isn't good at all," Gu Yunqing said. "I don't want Seventh Brother to become another Qin Huai."
Qinhuai.
Hearing this name, Su Qin fell into a long silence.
Holding his lover's hand, Gu Yunqing looked at the dancing flames in front of him and murmured: "I don't want my seventh brother to become like Qin Huai... It's too terrible and too sad..."
…
After walking out of the door, Si Xu saw Jiang Ran not far away.
The girl's figure was very thin, and in the cold winter wind, she seemed like she would be blown away at any time.
Gu Yunqing said she was in a bad mood, and hiding outside in the cold wind would make her feel better? How stupid.
"Jiang Ran." He called the girl's name, and she turned her head to look at him like a frightened deer.
"Shh..." She ran to him in a few steps, put her index finger against his lips, and made a gesture to silence him.
Si Xu: “……?”
"Si Xu, why did you come out?" Jiang Ran said softly, "I was still wondering whether I should go in to find you."
Her fingers did not move away, and Si Xu continued to remain silent.
However, this girl's eyes were bright, her cheeks were slightly red, and her voice was trembling slightly. She didn't look like she was in a bad mood, but rather... a little happy?
Si Xu's face showed no expression, but countless thoughts popped up in his mind, and finally summarized into one: Gu Yunqing's words really cannot be trusted.
Ranran: Crying, Sixu said that I will never be able to awaken my superpowers in this lifetime (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Book: I am your mother, I can do whatever I say
A characteristic of my daughter's special ability has been revealed.
(End of this chapter)
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