Chapter 49: Fighting is prohibited at the base
After waiting for about ten minutes, the two girls who had left came back.
Shu Yue, who was walking in front, had a pale face. She almost ran to the car, opened the door and climbed in.
Jiang Ran followed leisurely behind. After the girl got in the car, she knocked on the passenger window and said, "It's time to go. Follow closely. If you get lost, we won't come back to look for you."
Hearing this, Qi Yuan nodded and asked an unrelated question: "Where did you take Shu Yue?"
This girl's focus is quite interesting, different from those numb people.
Jiang Ran stood on tiptoe, leaning against the window, and whispered, "I took her to the base's warehouse, locked the door, and let her stay inside for ten minutes."
"Warehouse?" Qi Yuan was stunned by the girl's delicate face reflected in his watery eyes. He opened his mouth and said, "It's that..."
"Yes, that's the one." Jiang Ran glanced at Shu Yue, who was trembling all over, and the curve of his mouth became more obvious. "She sympathizes with those people, right? I let her go and see who she sympathizes with."
Qi Yuan: "..." After thinking for a few seconds, she said seriously, "Well, your idea is really good."
Jiang Ran: "..." This girl is really interesting.
From the close distance, she could clearly see the girl's face and the pink scar on her right cheek - a finger-wide scar extending from the chin to the ear and hidden in her hair.
She is a very beautiful girl, but I am afraid she has suffered a lot in this apocalypse.
…
We set off with a van of people. Fortunately, we didn't encounter any mutated zombies or wild beasts on the road, and we arrived at the base safely.
Even though half a year has passed since the disaster, there is still a long queue outside the small gate of Xiling Base, the only one that allows outsiders to enter.
As the car approached the door, the young man standing guard with a gun immediately pointed it at them.
Si Xu stopped the car and knocked on the steering wheel: "Jiang Ran, let's get out."
"Yeah." Jiang Ran unbuckled his seat belt, pushed the door and got out of the car.
This is the Xiling base, where Jiang Ranran’s grandfather’s family is in power.
The girl stood in front of the thick iron gate, looking up at the towering city wall. She could vaguely see the team of psychics and psychic detection equipment patrolling the wall.
Compared with the small bases seen on the road, the Xiling base is much more professional in terms of facilities and equipment as well as discipline and rules.
"Um, Jiang Ran, we..."
Seeing that the two men did not move, someone wanted to step forward to ask, but was stopped by Qi Yuan.
"If you want to enter the base, just line up." Qi Yuan pointed to the neatly lined up team not far away, "Those people are queuing."
"Huh? Is that so?"
"Such a long line..." Shu Yue glanced at the group of about a hundred people and said to Qi Yuan, "Aren't those two people from the base? Why don't you go talk to them and ask them to say hello and let us in first?"
"If you want to take a shortcut, go by yourself." Qi Yuan said, and walked to the end of the team.
With her taking the lead, the others who were still hesitating followed her.
Shu Yue was stunned for a moment, stomped her feet in anger, and caught up with her team.
Jiang Ran listened to the conversation of the group of people. After they walked away, he sighed and looked at Si Xu: "Si Xu, do we have to queue up too?"
"Need not."
Si Xu put his arm around her shoulders, took out a pass from the space and handed it to the person in the inspection room.
"Professor Si, Professor Si?" The man in the inspection room jumped up from his chair when he saw the name on the pass. "You're back! Come in!"
After saying that, he held the pass in both hands and handed it out through the window.
"Yes." Si Xu took the pass and said, "The car is parked over there. After scanning, give it to Gu Yunqing."
"yes!"
…
Seeing Si Xu and Jiang Ran enter the base directly from the other side of the door, Shu Yue exclaimed, "Ah!" and shouted, "Look! They really have a way!"
"So what?" Someone in the team, annoyed by her yelling, said angrily, "You've been accusing them of cruelty! Now you want them to take you in?!"
"I……"
"You have the energy to make such a fuss, aren't you afraid of attracting zombies?"
"..." Shu Yue felt ashamed when someone pointed at her nose and scolded her. She was also afraid that the quarrel would really attract zombies, so she could only shut up in disappointment.
…
The Xiling Base, nestled against the Xiling Mountains, covers a vast area, with an isolation zone on the periphery and bustling residential areas further in. Continuing along the main road and passing through secondary security checks, one arrives at the central area of the base, centered around the laboratories, the Military Control Building, and key hardened areas.
After a quick scan and passing through the quarantine area, Jiang Ran looked at the bustling residential area and tugged at Si Xu's sleeve. "Are these people ordinary people?"
Just like the residential areas before the apocalypse, there are vegetable markets and supermarkets in the residential areas, which are controlled by the special power team and can provide basic living supplies for ordinary people - of course, corresponding items or labor are needed in exchange.
"Yeah." Seeing the girl looking around curiously, Si Xu said, "Shall I show you around?"
"Okay, okay!" Jiang Ran nodded and took Si Xu's hand. "Is the residential area the largest area in the entire base?"
"I guess so. If we were to tour it on foot, it would probably take several days."
"It's so big..." Jiang Ran's eyes sparkled, "Where do you live?"
The laboratory is where he works. He can't live and eat in the laboratory all the time... It's not impossible.
"Where I live?" Si Xu thought for a moment and pointed in the general direction, "Should be... over there?"
Jiang Ran blinked: "Si Xu, you haven't forgotten where your home is, have you?"
"I rarely go back." Si Xu explained, "I'm usually in the lab."
As expected. Jiang Ran chuckled: "Well, take me on a tour, maybe we'll find it while we're walking."
The little girl's happiness was beyond words. Si Xu raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said, "Okay."
The novel states that Xiling Base is the best base for maintaining the original order of mankind. Jiang Ran was still wondering what the so-called "original order" meant. Now it seems that this base is indeed very suitable for ordinary humans to settle down.
Of course, the apocalypse is the apocalypse after all. Even if the base explicitly stipulates mutual assistance, it is impossible to constrain everyone at all times - bullying the weak, the majority bullying the minority... It's rare, but it does happen.
Along the way, even though Jiang Ran was accompanied by male companions, there were still many men wearing psychic badges who looked at her with extremely obscene eyes.
Because Si Xu did not wear a badge symbolizing his identity as a person with super powers, those people naturally classified him as an ordinary person.
They gathered in twos and threes, ignoring Si Xu, and commented on Jiang Ran, occasionally making obscene laughs.
Jiang Ran knew that those people were talking about her, and she felt that maybe she should retract her initial judgment - this base was not that normal, perhaps, it just hid its dark side out of sight.
Si Xu stopped.
"Si Xu?" Jiang Ran hooked her finger with his, stopped and looked back at him. A single glance at the dark hue in his eyes told her what he was thinking.
She held his hand tightly and whispered, "I don't want to visit anymore. There's nothing to see here."
His light brown eyes fell on her, and Si Xu became even more violent. He hugged Jiang Ran and turned around to leave.
Before leaving the base, his life was simple—laboratory, military control building, and occasional trips back to his residence. He had no time to wander around the living quarters, and naturally, no chance to meet the diverse people there.
Whenever he thought of those men looking at Jiang Ran as if they were toys, he wanted to twist them all into a knot.
"Hey! Don't go!" Thinking that the two men could see that they were planning to escape, a person with special abilities slowly walked out and blocked their way.
The man was wearing a badge of a thunder-type mutant, holding a piece of grass in his mouth, with sharp eyes, and it was obvious that he was not a good person.
He glanced at Si Xu, then looked at Jiang Ran and blinked at her: "I haven't seen this little girl before, are you new here? Where do you live?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, an unpleasant smell hit him in the face. Jiang Ran subconsciously raised his hand to cover his nose and did not answer.
"It has nothing to do with you." Si Xu tightened his grip on Jiang Ran's shoulders and said coldly, "Get out of the way."
"Huh?" Unexpectedly, Si Xu dared to answer. The man glanced at him and said, "Dude, who are you to her? Husband? Boyfriend? Relative?"
What a boring question. Si Xu didn't even look at him and started to leave with Jiang Ran.
"Hey, buddy, there are many strong people. Do you understand the rules of the base? How do you think ordinary people survive?" The man moved again to block the two of them, raised his chin, and fixed his eyes on Si Xu. "Hey, I see that you have delicate skin and tender flesh, and you look good too. How about... um?"
Before he could finish his obscene words, the man's body was pulled off the ground by an invisible force and hung in the air.
His body seemed to be squeezed by the air, the veins under his skin were throbbing, his limbs were stiff and he couldn't move.
The people who were originally watching the show were startled by this scene. They all stopped joking and surrounded Si Xu and Jiang Ran.
"Hey! What did you do to my big brother?!" The psychics on the same team condensed various superpowers at their fingertips, and someone shouted, "Let my big brother go!"
"You," Si Xu said. In mid-air, the man's body was bent into strange shapes by an invisible force. "If you shout another word, I will kill him."
Blood gushed out from his torn joints. He maintained his twisted shape and shouted to his teammates, "Let them go! Let them go!"
After hearing the boss's order, the team members hesitated and made way.
Si Xu snorted and casually threw the man, who was almost twisted into a pretzel, against the wall.
With a "bang", a hole was smashed into the wall by the man's body.
"Boss! Boss!"
“Big Brother!”
The team members rushed to comfort their eldest brother. Si Xu sighed in boredom and touched the top of Jiang Ran's head soothingly: "No one dares to mess with me now. I will take you to continue the tour."
Jiang Ran looked around and found that the crowd that had gathered around to watch the show had dispersed without him noticing.
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I don't want to visit anymore. Do you remember where you live? Let's go back."
"You really don't want to visit anymore?"
"Hmm." There's nothing good to see in the ugly things happening in the apocalypse.
Si Xu didn't insist. He hesitated and said, "Maybe it's this way... Hmm, let's look this way first?"
He really couldn't remember where he lived. Jiang Ran held his forehead: If we keep looking like this, we still have to visit the entire base.
But it turned out that she was overthinking it - the noise here quickly alarmed the patrolling special power team, and a man in black uniform hurried over with the special power team, shouting loudly as he walked.
"No fighting allowed in this base! Everyone, get down!"
Hearing the call, Jiang Ran was about to see who was coming when he felt the air pressure around Si Xu drop several degrees again.
"Hmm?" The approaching man looked familiar. Jiang Ran stared at him for a long time. When he stood in front of her, a name automatically popped up in her mind.
Shen Yang.
(End of this chapter)
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