Chapter 72, You Are My One and Only
The little girl looked serious. Si Xu rested one arm on the armrest of the sofa, looked at her sideways, and pretended to listen attentively.
"Si Xu, I already know where my problem lies—I shouldn't be complacent just because I have superpowers, and I shouldn't be smug just because I beat a fourth-level superpower user.
"Carelessness can get me into trouble without me even realizing it, and it could even cost me my life.
"From today on, I will be more careful than before. I will not let anyone know about my ability. I will use it where it is needed to protect myself and you."
The little girl spoke passionately, and in her eyes, which were still watery, she saw his figure, gentle and focused.
Si Xu smiled slightly: "I don't need your protection - you have the ability, protecting yourself is the most important thing."
"No, I will definitely protect you, I..."
"Jiang Ran." Si Xu interrupted her, his tone was gentler and more serious than ever before. "Remember, use your abilities to protect yourself—and if necessary, abandon me."
If necessary, abandon me.
She was right, this person never took his life seriously.
He is alive because he is strong, so strong that no one can threaten his life.
If one day an enemy stronger than him appears, he will definitely give his life without any regrets.
To him, life or death was never something worth caring about.
"Si Xu."
There was a fire burning in her heart, she was very angry and very sad. Jiang Ran moved her lips and called his name, her nose inexplicably sore, and when she spoke again, her voice was a little choked.
"I'm serious too—to me, no one in this world is more important than you. So, whether it's necessary or not, I will protect you in my own way."
She wanted to tell him that he was more important in her heart than in his own heart - Si Xu, who belonged to Jiang Ran, was a unique existence in this world, an existence that she would definitely protect and would never abandon no matter what.
"Si Xu, you are unique and irreplaceable to me."
Irreplaceable.
Like a small stone thrown into the lake of his heart, it caused ripples on the surface of the lake that was not affected by any wind or rain.
Si Xu didn't know what was wrong with him. Even when he was hugging a girl to sleep, he had never felt such emotions as he did now.
He felt inexplicably happy and sad, and his eyes turned red with an unprecedented bitterness. He wanted to hold the girl in his arms and hear her repeat what she had just said in a soft voice.
Those words made his heart beat fast.
After Jiang Ran finished speaking, Si Xu remained silent for a long time.
He looked at her quietly, his light brown eyes seemed to be devoid of any emotion, yet seemed to be churning with all kinds of intense feelings.
Jiang Ran thought: What a weird person.
He was so silent that she didn't know whether he was happy or angry after hearing those words.
While I was hesitating, the person opposite me suddenly stretched out his hand.
He held her waist and held her in his arms again.
Rubbing against her neck like a spoiled cat, he murmured cheerfully, "Jiang Ran, you're so good to me."
Jiang Ran, you are so nice to me.
This one sentence made Jiang Ran's eyes suddenly wet.
What an idiot.
How had she been good to him? Did she treat him well by saying those meaningless sweet words? How could he trust her so easily? What if she said those words to deceive his feelings? What would he do?
It was just a confession, so I foolishly told her, you are so good to me.
So in his heart, being nice to him is such a simple thing?
Idiot, idiot.
"Well, Si Xu, I will always be good to you." She pinched his cheek and smiled softly in his bright eyes, "So, you have to be good to yourself too - please, for my sake, take yourself more seriously."
Si Xu nodded with a smile: "Okay."
She said that he was her one and only, and if she treated him well, he would do his best to protect her and her uniqueness.
…
The two of them snuggled on the sofa for a long time, and Jiang Ran thought about today's business.
When the two of them went out, they met Chu Yuan and the special ability team on patrol at the door.
"Hey, Seventh Brother."
Chu Yuan waved from a distance, turned around and said a few words to the team members, then quickly walked up to the two of them.
He glanced at Jiang Ran and smiled harmlessly: "You must be the Ranran girl that Gu Yunqing mentioned. Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Chu Yuan."
"Hello, Captain Chu."
Chu Yuan, the captain of the first team of the superpower team, is the person with the highest superpower level in the Xiling base except Si Xu, and he also has the most aggressive gold-type superpower.
In the novel, Luo Rui said that Chu Yuan was Si Xu's most important right-hand man. To deal with Si Xu, the first person to get rid of was Chu Yuan.
However, before Luo Rui could formulate a plan, Chu Yuan disappeared during a mission and never returned.
Probably, he was forced offline by the author - a tool like Jiang Ranran.
"Are you going out?" Chu Yuan asked, "To visit the base?"
Si Xu simply replied with one word: "Yeah."
"Seventh Brother." Chu Yuan raised his eyebrows as he looked at Si Xu. "You seem to have changed a lot today. You're different from usual. What happy things happened to you?"
Si Xu had no expression on his face: "Yeah."
Chu Yuan was curious: "What's the matter?" It must be a big deal if it can change Seventh Brother's entire aura.
"Jiang Ran confessed to me." Si Xu's face was expressionless, with a hint of smugness in his eyes, "And she said I was her..."
"Si Xu!" Jiang Ran hurriedly tugged at Si Xu's sleeve to interrupt him. Her face flushed as she whispered, "Stop talking."
This guy is always like this... He is not shy, but she is!
Afraid the man wouldn't listen, she added, "Besides, I won't say that kind of thing to you anymore."
Si Xu just shut up.
Really shut up? Seventh Brother is so obedient, tsk tsk. Chu Yuan laughed: "Oh, so it's because of Ranran."
Seeing Jiang Ran's embarrassment, he skipped the topic: "Seventh Brother, I just came from my inspection and saw that the market in the north is open. You can take Ranran to have a look."
Without waiting for Si Xu to answer, he glanced at his watch and said, "I'm going to continue my patrol. Ranran, if you're free tomorrow, let's have dinner together."
Jiang Ran: "Thank you."
"I'm leaving now. You guys take your time shopping and have fun."
With Chu Yuan's suggestion, Si Xu took Jiang Ran for a walk and arrived at the market in the north.
The market is open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. All the goods in the shops are provided by the base and can be exchanged for points.
There are many people in the market, including those with special abilities and ordinary people, who are choosing what they need in front of various stalls.
Every few meters, there are people from the base's superpower team maintaining order.
Jiang Ran looked at each stall and stopped in front of a fruit stall: "Fruits are very expensive now, right?"
"Whether it's expensive or not depends on what you buy." The stall owner is a man in his forties who looks very kind.
Jiang Ran pointed at the apple: "This one?"
"100 points each."
As far as she knew, each member of the Civilian Special Ability Team could get 10 points for completing a primary task.
"So, one apple requires ten missions to exchange?" Jiang Ran murmured, "That's really a bit expensive."
The stall owner smiled and didn't answer.
“It’s so expensive, will anyone buy it?”
"Yes, of course there are some," the stall owner laughed. "In the apocalypse, fruit is very precious. Every time the market opens, only my stall sells out."
Jiang Ran was even more surprised: "Is that so."
The two were chatting when there was a commotion in the market.
"Get lost! You lunatic! Stop squatting here blocking the road!"
"Exactly, it's so dirty. Why don't they just throw these people out of the base?"
"Don't go over there, be careful she might bite you."
"It's unlucky to run into a lunatic even when walking around the market!"
"She ran away from the slums, didn't she? Your special power team doesn't care about her? You let her run around here?"
“…”
Madman? Psychopath? Are there still such people in the base?
Jiang Ran was curious and took Si Xu's hand and walked towards the center of the noise.
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