Chapter 120: Casting a Comprehensive Net
When encountering a crisis, many people in the apocalypse would use ordinary people as bait to attract zombies to avoid the crisis. Wei Yage naturally had the choice to do so. Jiang Ran felt that she had no right to blame her.
However, since ordinary people are not considered companions in her eyes and have no right to survive, there is no need for her to establish an image of justice and fairness for herself.
She used a cold exterior and seemingly fair and upright speech and behavior to maintain her good image in the eyes of everyone in the base, but when the real crisis came, she pushed the ordinary people who placed their hopes in her out to die...
Jiang Ran looked sarcastic.
She can accept a person who is selfless and loving, and can also accept a person who is completely bad. However, what she hates most is people who are two-faced.
"However, after Ranran mentioned that, I also feel that the people in Team Six are not as upright as they appear."
Once the conversation started, some girls continued to complain about Jiang Ran.
"Last time, Lily and I ran into the deputy captain under Captain Wei—yes, that's Captain Zou—at the bar after work. He knew we were lab staff, so he came over to chat us up and asked a lot of questions about Professor Si."
"Is it related to Professor Si?" The girls who were listening to the gossip glanced at Jiang Ran, and someone asked awkwardly, "Why is Deputy Captain Zou asking about Professor Si?"
"Well, Captain Wei likes Professor Si." The former looked at Jiang Ran and muttered, "Captain Wei likes Professor Si, but Professor Si has a girlfriend. Deputy Captain Zou came to ask me about Professor Si's relationship with his girlfriend, and about Professor Si's personal hobbies and stuff. He also asked about work..."
Did he actually find out about the staff? Jiang Ran laughed, but also felt a little curious: "How did you answer?"
"How can I answer?" the girl said helplessly. "Although we work with Professor Si on a daily basis, we really don't know him well. But as I said, Professor Si and Ranran have a good relationship and often go to get off work together. But do you know what kind of reaction that Deputy Captain Zou gave me?"
"What's the reaction?"
"He just gave me a cold smile and left without even saying thank you. Lily was so angry that she secretly scolded him several times for being rude."
"Oh, come to think of it, a member of Team Six came to see me." It was a seemingly random incident, but once someone mentioned it, it immediately brought back related memories. "He struck up a conversation for no apparent reason, and then he started asking about Professor Si, saying he was a fanboy of Professor Si. I didn't think much of it at the time, so I just said a few words about not knowing him well, and that was that."
"I've encountered that before." The girl frowned. "It was the guy on duty at the gate. When he was helping me move some documents, he asked Professor Si about it. I told him I wasn't familiar with him, so he didn't say anything."
"So, Team Six is trying to find out about Professor Si in various ways?"
After the words fell, several people looked at Jiang Ran in unison.
There are six people here, three of whom have been approached by members of the sixth team, and have all been asked about things related to Si Xu. Fortunately, they don't have much interaction with Si Xu and have not been exposed to the core work of the laboratory, so even if they said something, it would not be a big deal.
But what about the entire lab? How many people had spoken to Team Six, accidentally or intentionally leaking information about Si Xu and the lab to them?
She wouldn't believe that the members of Team Six had no one to direct them, as they cast such a wide net against all the laboratory staff.
Jiang Ran's mind was filled with thoughts, but his face remained calm. "Wei Ya Ge's persistence in pursuing Si Xu, even resorting to despicable tactics, shows that my Si Xu is charming. I'm very happy."
The girls who were gossiping: "..." They unknowingly ate a handful of dog food and were not happy.
"But Ranran, you are so confident, aren't you afraid that Professor Si will really change his mind?" The girl asked this in a teasing tone, obviously meaning it as a joke.
Jiang Ran thought seriously for a moment and asked, "Wei Ya Ge isn't as young as me, not as pretty as me, not as cute as me, not as gentle and considerate as me. As the saying goes, people strive for higher things. Unless Si Xu is blind, he wouldn't go to her even if he climbed the wall. If you give the man who owns the moon a firefly, do you think he will want it?"
She said it as if it was a matter of course, and nodded to confirm herself. The girls were amused by her expression and burst into laughter.
"Ranran, you are so narcissistic!"
"Does Professor Si know that you're so narcissistic? Or do you usually talk like this in front of him?"
"Professor Si seems so unkind, but it turns out he likes reserved girls like you. Haha, this is eye-opening."
After laughing and joking for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, the girls packed up their things and went home, leaving Jiang Ran alone in the lounge reading.
Hearing the footsteps approaching, Jiang Ran thought it was a staff member. She looked up and was about to say hello, but saw Pei Xiao standing at the door with a glass in his hand, looking around the lounge in a daze.
"Pei Xiao, can you get some water?" Thinking he was in the wrong place, Jiang Ran reminded him, "The men's lounge is across the street."
"No, I'm here to get some tea." He hadn't expected someone to be in the lounge after get off work. Fortunately, it was someone he knew, so it wasn't too awkward. Pei Xiao didn't go in, but just stood at the door, not looking away. "Chen Yao said there was a can of tea in her cabinet, and asked me to get some."
"Chen Yao's cabinet?" Jiang Ran put down the book, stood up and walked to the cabinet, muttering, "Sister Chen Yao's cabinet, Sister Chen Yao...ah, this."
She turned around and looked at Pei Xiao: "Private lockers all have passwords. Did Sister Shen Yao tell you the password?"
"Um."
"Come in and get it yourself." Jiang Ran stepped aside, "It's better not to tell me this kind of private password."
Jiang Ran was the only one in the lounge. Pei Xiao didn't refuse when he heard that. He walked to Chen Yao's cabinet, entered the password, found the tea leaves, and closed the cabinet in one go.
While he was entering the password, Jiang Ran returned to her seat and continued reading. When he closed the cabinet door, Jiang Ran said, "Captain Pei, take care."
The man walked to the door but did not leave immediately.
"Jiang Ranran." He called her name in a deep voice.
Jiang Ran looked at him doubtfully: "Huh?"
The young man looked a little conflicted, his Adam's apple rolling. After hesitating for a long time, he finally asked, "Do you really like Si Xu?"
"Huh?" What kind of question was that? When he asked this, the girl's first reaction was that it was related to Pei Wan'er. Her voice became a little colder as she spoke, "Captain Pei, this question has nothing to do with you, right?"
Sensing the girl's hostility, Pei Xiao touched the tip of his nose helplessly and explained, "If you don't want to answer, forget it."
After he finished speaking, he no longer looked at the girl's expression and left quickly, as if he was running away.
(End of this chapter)
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