Chapter 81, Target is Jiang Family
Jiangning and Xiling are separated by Qinghe City and Fengyang City. Due to concerns about the blockade, the entire team traveled light and arrived in Jiangning in just three days.
This wasn't Chu Yuan's first time in Jiangning. Looking at the location Si Xu had specially marked on the map, he called Jiang Ran over and said, "Sister Ranran, this place isn't far from the Jiang family. I'll arrange for someone to take you there first."
"Well..." Jiang Ran pursed her lips as she looked at the team members who had finally stopped to rest after three days of travel. "I'll go to the blockade area with you."
The journey was smooth and unobstructed, which showed that the road between Xiling and Jiangning had been specially cleared - this further demonstrated the importance of the Jiangning blockade area.
If that powerful person really had psychic abilities as Si Xu said, Jiang Ran would actually feel relieved.
The nullification of supernatural powers can be considered a perfect restraint against psychic powers.
"I'll go to the blockade area with you." Jiang Ran repeated again, his tone firm, "I can protect myself, Captain Chu, don't worry, I won't cause any trouble for the team."
Chu Yuan shook his head: "It's not that I'm afraid of you causing trouble, but Seventh Brother specifically ordered it - sister Ranran, you know, if I don't listen to him, Seventh Brother will beat me."
Without waiting for Jiang Ran to reply, he said, "Besides, you're not going alone—Qi Yuan." He pulled the little girl who was circling around him to his side, "Qi Yuan, go with you."
"Hey?" Qi Yuan blurted out, "Why?"
"You don't have any special abilities, so following me would only hinder me." Chu Yuan didn't give his fiancée any face at all. "You and Ranran go to her house and wait. Once I've dealt with this problem, I'll take you to Fengyang."
Feeling that his words made sense, Qi Yuan said "Oh" and looked at Jiang Ran: "Ranran, please give me more advice."
Chu Yuan said this, but Jiang Ran didn't insist on her decision. She glanced at the nearby city and asked, "How long will it take to get to the blockade area from this road?"
Chu Yuan was already familiar with the route: "Thirty minutes, if we don't encounter a swarm of zombies."
"Did you notify Team 4 before coming?"
Chu Yuan sighed: "The Fourth Battalion still hasn't responded, I'm afraid..."
"If it weren't for the equipment problem, I'm afraid Team 4 would be in great danger." This was the question Jiang Ran had been thinking about the entire journey. "Captain Chu, everyone is resting now, let's make a hypothesis."
The little girl's serious look when talking about serious matters was quite similar to Si Xu. Chu Yuan did not scold her for being nosy, but put on an attitude of listening attentively and waited for her to continue.
"Let's assume Team 4 didn't respond and it had nothing to do with the equipment. Let's assume the worst case scenario—that Team 4 made some mistake in their work, or that they failed to completely contain that person, causing their escape and the utter annihilation of the Special Ability Team."
The base had already made this assumption when they set out, so what the little girl said now was all nonsense to him.
Chu Yuan still patiently accompanied her in making an analysis: "Yes, it is very likely that the fourth team has been wiped out."
"Without the special power team guarding the line, the person in the blockade will definitely be fearless. If I were him, I wouldn't continue to wait there." Jiang Ran said, "After all, Si Xu is at Xiling Base. If the person coming this time is Si Xu, he will only die if he waits there."
"You mean, he's escaped now?"
"If he didn't escape, there must be a reason for him to stay." Jiang Ran said, "Let's think about it - eliminate one hypothesis. Team 4 didn't escape because of their own negligence, but because that person is very strong, so strong that the special ability team can't trap him."
"That's possible."
"Why did he choose now?"
Chu Yuan was stunned: "What?"
"That person, why did he choose to take action now?" Jiang Ran asked, "He's been trapped in Jiangning for more than half a year, and he chose to take action a few days ago. Why?"
“…”
"Going back a bit further—why did he choose Jiangning?" Jiang Ran asked, "China is such a vast land, he could have easily moved far away from Xiling, but he chose Jiangning, which is so close to Xiling."
"Why..." Chu Yuan thought of a possibility, "Maybe it's because..."
"The Jiang family is in Jiangning." Jiang Ran continued, "I've been thinking about this all the way here—I think that person's choice is very strange. Put yourself in their shoes. In the entire Jiangning, the only family I can exploit is the Jiang family."
Jiang Yize's home - the place where the professor of genetic engineering and the head of Xiling Laboratory lived, preserves very important things that are worthy of that person's covetousness.
It's not impossible.
Chu Yuan made a prompt decision: "Let's go to the Jiang family first."
Jiang Ran didn't know that person well, but he could still think of this... If that person's goal was really the Jiang family, then everything he did at the beginning was just a deception.
"It was to deceive us." Chu Yuan murmured, "He knew from the beginning..."
Qi Yuan had been completely bewildered by what she had heard, but when she saw Chu Yuan's serious expression, she swallowed all the questions in her heart - what on earth were they talking about? Why did everyone suddenly become so serious?
With Chu Yuan's instructions, the convoy set off again. Instead of heading to the blockade area immediately, it went straight to the Jiang family.
Qi Yuan and Jiang Ran were sitting in the back. Seeing Chu Yuan's cold expression in the passenger seat, she tugged at Jiang Ran's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Why did you suddenly go to Jiang's house together?" Didn't they say that they were just going to take them there?
Along the way, they had become familiar with Qi Yuan. Jiang Ran leaned close to her ear and explained to her in the same low voice: "Because there is a bad guy who may have gone to the Jiang family."
"Are we going to catch the bad guys?"
Jiang Ran sighed: "If that person is still in the Jiang family." He shouldn't be in the Jiang family. He is not stupid. Is he waiting to be caught?
Qi Yuan was still confused and just thought it sounded very impressive.
…
When the convoy arrived at the Jiang family's house, the members of the special power team quickly cleared out the zombies wandering around the villa, broke open the closed door and went into the house to check.
Chu Yuan got out of the car, frowned and looked at the villa standing alone by the lake, and the smile on his lips gradually turned cold.
"You guys wait in the car, I'll go in and take a look."
The team members who entered the house to search took quite a long time.
"I'll go in with you!" Jiang Ran jumped out of the car and pulled out his gun. "I'm very familiar with the structure inside and can lead you."
"You..." Just as he was about to refuse, he heard several painful howls coming from the villa.
Chu Yuan's face changed slightly, and without further delay, he rushed into the villa.
Jiang Ran followed closely behind him and ran in.
Chu Yuan moved quickly, and by the time Jiang Ran chased into the villa, he was no longer visible.
The first floor of the villa was very empty, and at first glance, there was no one there. Her footsteps echoed in the quiet hall, which seemed a bit scary.
The screams should have come from the second floor. Jiang Ran didn't hesitate and ran up to the second floor.
“Tick-tock.”
It was like raindrops falling on the ground, making a clear sound.
Jiang Ran subconsciously stopped and looked up at the stairs.
The zombie biting one of her arms stared at her blankly, blood dripping from the corner of its mouth.
The uniform on that arm belongs to a member of the Special Ability Team.
Jiang Ran decisively raised his gun, pointed it at it, and fired.
The zombie stood there motionless, and the bullet was split by the invisible wind blade the moment it approached her.
It's a wind-related ability.
After confirming the zombie's ability, Jiang Ran did not hesitate and continued to walk up the stairs - there was no need to worry about its ability, she just needed to find an opportunity to smash its head.
The zombie didn't seem to smell her and just chewed the arm in its mouth.
"If you come any closer," a gentle, low, and somewhat lazy voice suddenly sounded from behind the zombie, "I'll let it kill you."
“Dong——” “Dong——” “Dong——”
The clock in the hall chimed punctually. As if receiving some kind of order, the zombie at the stairs dropped the arm it was biting, and stood sideways with its head lowered.
Behind it, a young man put one hand in his pocket and took two slow steps forward, completely exposed to Jiang Ran's sight.
(End of this chapter)
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