Chapter 88: A City Where You Can See Stars
"It's a notebook." Without dwelling on Guo Zhehao's hesitant answer, Si Xu came up with the answer himself.
Qin Huai was holding a notebook in his hand. Looking at the familiar cover, Si Xu's smile became even colder.
That notebook belonged to Jiang Yize - he had seen Jiang Yize take it out more than once in the laboratory before. The cover of the notebook was a beautiful sketch of plum blossoms blooming in the snow.
For the boy who had lived in the laboratory since he could remember, the plum blossoms in the painting that he had never seen before were really very special, so when he was not doing experiments, he loved to stare at the painting.
Every time he caught his gaze, Jiang Yize would show off to him with a little pride about his wife's superb painting skills - a grown man in his early thirties, when he said the word Mu Mu, the smile that could not be concealed between his eyebrows was like a child who got candy.
Because of Jiang Yize and the girl he mentioned, Mu Mu, he was deeply impressed by this notebook.
Qin Huai left the blockade area quietly and returned here again after getting the notebook from Jiang's house.
Although he had little contact with Qin Huai, he knew that the man was very vengeful and had once bitten off the ear of a staff member in the laboratory.
The base tried to kill him, but when they failed to capture him they set up a blockade and trapped him for half a year. It was only natural that he would come back for revenge.
Unexpectedly, when seeing his former subordinate being killed, Si Xu was not as angry as Chu Yuan, but strangely understood Qin Huai's thoughts.
In this apocalypse, the strong are respected. Min He and the members of the fourth team were not as skilled as others, so they should not have any complaints about being killed.
but……
"That guy and I really don't get along."
For him, revenge was as simple as a single blow, clean and sharp. He would deliberately use cruel means to torture his opponent, leaving them to die in agony and despair...
"Boring." The man gave a brief comment.
"Professor Si..." Hearing Si Xu's mumbling, Guo Zhehao hesitated and asked, "Will you avenge Captain Min and the members of Team 4?"
Qin Huai's superpowers are too strange. With so many people with superpowers in Xiling base, I'm afraid only Si Xu can deal with him.
"Revenge?" Si Xu asked in confusion, "Why do you say that?"
Guo Zhehao was stunned and blurted out, "Captain Min and the others were hurt so badly by Qin Huai, aren't you going to avenge them?"
Compared to Guo Zhehao's excitement, Si Xu's expression was very calm: "I won't seek revenge."
"you……"
"Si Xu!" A clear female voice interrupted Guo Zhehao's angry questioning.
Outside the open door, the girl's slender figure floated in like a butterfly spreading its wings.
She skipped to the young man and grabbed his hand. Her fair cheeks were slightly flushed with surprise.
"Why are you here? When did you arrive? Have you finished your work in the lab? Did you come to see me?"
Hearing her string of questions, Si Xu patiently replied, "Well, I'll come find you."
"Hehe." After getting the key answer, Jiang Ran's silly smile became more obvious.
After greeting Guo Zhehao, she took Si Xu by the hand and walked out: "Si Xu, come and take a look. Captain Chu and I found something very important in the blockade area."
Watching the two people leave, the intense emotion in the man's eyes was replaced by anger. He clenched his fists, his eyes fixed on the last frame of the video, and his pupils suddenly turned red.
…
Qin Huai escaped, and the blockade line had lost its meaning of existence, so there was naturally no point for them to stay here.
After coming out of the blockade, Chu Yuan held a brief internal meeting to arrange the next work. Jiang Ran, holding Si Xu's hand, waited at the door of the conference room. After Chu Yuan finished the meeting, he pushed the door open and walked in.
"Seventh Brother." Seeing Si Xu again, Chu Yuan exhaled and apologized guiltily, "It's my fault that I was useless and let Qin Huai run away."
That guy's ability evolved too quickly. If I let him escape this time, I don't know how he will evolve when we meet again next time.
"No need to apologize." Si Xu said matter-of-factly, "It's great that you survived the confrontation with Qin Huai."
Qin Huai was the most cunning person, and he had a mutated psychic ability that no one knew about. It was very difficult for Chu Yuan to break the influence of his mental power.
"Seventh Brother, Qin Huai..."
"I will kill him." Si Xu replied, "I am worried about leaving that mad dog roaming around outside."
After Si Xu said this, Chu Yuan stopped dwelling on Qin Huai. "I'm planning to have the team return to base tomorrow, but I'm going to take Qi Yuan to Fengyang first. Seventh Brother, what are your plans going forward?"
"Let's go to the Jiang family first." It's not easy to come here, so it won't be a wrong idea to go to the Jiang family first.
After a few seconds of pause, before Chu Yuan spoke, Si Xu added, "Jiang Ran, come with me." After saying that, he put one hand on the top of the girl's head and rubbed it.
Chu Yuan: "...I understand."
…
Not liking the cold architectural style of the blockade line and the bloodstains everywhere inside, Si Xu took Jiang Ran to rest in the car at night.
Without the bright lights, you can see the sky full of stars at night.
Jiang Ran leaned on the lowered car window, looked at the starry sky, then looked at the young man leaning against the car, with a smile on his face.
After smoking a cigarette, Si Xu lowered his eyes and glanced at the smiling girl: "Jiang Ran."
"Um?"
"Do you like stars?"
"like."
"In the world you live in, can you see a starry sky like this?"
Jiang Ran blinked.
When asked this question, she was a little confused for a moment.
The world she lived in... Only a few months had passed since she came here, and she realized that her impression of that original world had become blurred without her knowing when.
"Some places do." Jiang Ran recalled, slowly describing the world he had lived in. "In the city where I live, at night, the street lights and the lights in the shopping malls and stores are turned on. It's so bright that you can't see the starry sky or the stars."
"Do you like cities like that?"
“…”
"Think carefully, don't you think that a city like this where you can see the stars is better?"
This question...
Jiang Ran was silent for a moment and shook his head firmly.
Si Xu raised an eyebrow in surprise and chuckled, "You don't like a city where you can see the stars? Don't you like stars?"
"I like stars, but I also like bustling cities." Jiang Ran, leaning on the windowsill with his chin resting on his arms, sighed softly, "Although there may be many bad people and bad things happening in such a city.
However, I feel very happy when I wake up in the morning and hear the laughter and play of the children in the orphanage.
Many strangers seem to be in a hurry, but they will still slow down to help elderly people with mobility issues when crossing red lights. The owner of a breakfast shop feeds the stray dogs on the street corner with leftovers every morning. Once, a child in an orphanage came down with acute gastroenteritis, and the taxi driver took us to the hospital for free...
Oh, by the way, when I was at the orphanage, I would receive clothes, books, and toys donated to the orphanage by many people. They would not leave their names, and they never came to the orphanage to ask us for anything in return.
The little girl looked at the starry sky, smiled slightly, and described the world she once lived in with words full of gratitude.
"Si Xu, even though you can't see the stars in that city, it's still beautiful—full of the everyday, mundane, yet also very special."
Is that so? Si Xu took out a cigarette, but before he lit it, he suddenly remembered something and stopped lighting it.
Jiang Ran tilted her head and looked at him, puzzled: "Si Xu?"
"Can you stand the smell of smoke?" he asked.
So she was worried about him? She opened the car door, got out, and took the lighter from his hand.
With a clear "hiss" sound, a small flame danced in the night wind.
Jiang Ran shielded herself from the wind with her hands and held the lighter in front of him: "It's okay with me, but it's better to smoke less."
She wanted to light his cigarette? Si Xu smiled and lowered his head to light the cigarette with the light in her hand.
"Jiang Ran."
"Hmm."
"I've never seen a world like that." Si Xu looked up at the dark blue sky and the stars dotted on it, his tone a little regretful, "I don't know what this city originally looked like."
(End of this chapter)
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