Chapter 53, Smash Him
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the power supply in the residential area of the base was cut off on time.
Shen Yang held the candlestick in one hand and supported the old man with the other. The footsteps of the two people echoed in the corridor, further highlighting the emptiness of the villa.
"Grandpa, go to bed early."
Shen Yang placed the candlestick on the table, retreated to the door, and gently closed it.
"I know what's going on with Ranran, so don't worry, Grandpa."
Feeling quite confident about this eldest grandson, Shen Lang waved his hand to let him go out, took off his shoes and lay down on the bed.
The candlelight flickered, casting dark shadows on the ceiling like a monster with bared fangs and claws.
The old man stared at the shadow for a moment, then turned to lie on his side and closed his eyes.
Ranran...that child is back, it’s fine as long as she’s back, the Shen family doesn’t mind keeping an extra idle person.
However, she insisted on getting involved with Si Xu.
Judging from the information obtained by the people below after investigation, she followed Si Xu all the way and was protected by Si Xu. It seems that she has something going on with Si Xu.
Women are the most loyal. Since she has followed Si Xu, he does not expect his granddaughter to stand on the side of their Shen family.
Just like her mother.
Thinking of his deceased daughter, Shen Lang frowned and coughed twice, trying to cough out the anger in his body.
…
After sending the old man back to his room, Shen Yang returned to the study alone, sorted out the documents the old man had placed on the table, stuffed them back into the file bag, and put them in the drawer.
Humming a little tune, he went out and ran into Zheng Li who was checking the safety of the apartment in the corridor. Shen Yang greeted him with a smile.
"Uncle Zheng, go to bed early after the examination."
"Where are you going so late?" Zheng Li raised his hand and nodded at him, saying seriously, "Today's weather is not suitable for stealing women."
Shen Yang, the eldest son of the Shen family, is a playboy. Almost all the pretty girls in the base have had affairs with him... When those young people talked about this topic, they could not hide their envy.
After all, the old man was born in a traditional era and could not agree with his young master's behavior. He would remind him whenever he got the chance.
"Thank you, Uncle Zheng, for your advice." Not taking the old man's warning to heart, Shen Yang smiled nonchalantly, "I just couldn't sleep, so I just took a walk."
After saying that, without giving Zheng Li a chance to speak again, he waved his hand and went downstairs in a hurry.
"Ah!" Shen Yang's figure disappeared outside the gate in an instant. Zheng Li sighed, "This kid... is really a worry."
Speaking of which, the reason why Chen Lang hated Si Xu was fundamentally to protect his grandson.
If Si Xu had not intervened, the entire Xiling base would have been in chaos because of the Yu family - but Shen Yang didn't stay away from Yu Huang, but instead got together with him. As a result... the Yu family fell, and Shen Yang was almost beaten to death by Si Xu.
"Oh!" Thinking of this, the old man let out another long sigh.
Now there is a delicate balance between the Shen family and the laboratory, and Miss Ranran is entangled with Professor Si. I don’t know which direction the wind of this base will blow.
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After the lights were turned off at the base, Chu Yuan staggered out of Gu Yunqing's residence. Su Qin walked him downstairs - Gu Yunqing was drunk and rolling on the ground, so she couldn't see him off.
"Let's go." A gust of cold wind blew by, and Chu Yuan shivered. He wrapped his coat tightly around him and waved at Su Qin, "Let's go back—I'm afraid Gu Yunqing will drown himself in the toilet."
Su Qin laughed: "No - that guy would only sing love songs for one night at most."
It sounded like a complaint, but there was a faint smile in the girl's voice, gentle and bright.
Chu Yuan glanced at her and smacked his lips: "You are truly in love with him to be able to listen to him sing love songs all night long."
Gu Yunqing is tone-deaf, and not a single note in his song is in tune.
"Why, are you envious?" Su Qin said earnestly, "Chu Chu, it's been more than half a year since the end of the world. I'm afraid your fiancée has already... You're not young anymore, it's time to find a girl to settle down..."
"Don't call me Chuchu!" Chu Yuan darkened his innocent baby face and said angrily, "Aqin, with your tone, if someone doesn't know you, they would think you are my mother."
Things like finding someone to live a good life with, these words, his mother probably thinks are outdated and can't say them out loud.
"Well, my dear son, hurry up and find a girl, get married and have children..."
Chu Yuan was furious: "Su Qin! You're asking for a fight!"
A roar came from the second-floor balcony: "Who dares to hit my Qinqin! I will fight you!"
The two looked up and saw Gu Yunqing with half of his body hanging on the balcony, swaying in the wind.
Afraid that the man would kick his legs and fly down from the balcony, Su Qin said "goodbye" and went upstairs quickly.
The sound of the wind and Gu Yunqing's singing were in his ears. Chu Yuan rubbed his ears, smiled to himself, and walked back in the snow.
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It was after midnight when the inspectors finally let a group of newcomers out of the observation room.
"No bite wounds, no viruses. You have passed the base's security check. A staff member will take you to the newcomer registration office for registration.
The base strives to protect everyone's right to survive, so everyone here must abide by the base's rules—the base's regulations and survival rules. The staff at the registration office will tell you."
The man who brought them out was wearing the black uniform of the base's special power team. He looked ferocious and spoke with a strong voice, which was very intimidating.
"Now, please wait here for a moment. The docking staff will be here soon."
After he finished speaking, he said a few words to his assistant and returned to his office.
It was snowing heavily outside. In order to save electricity, all the street lights were turned off except for the door of the examination room.
"It's so cold." Shu Yue hugged her arms and stamped her feet. "Didn't they say the staff would come? Why haven't they come yet?"
"Wait." The people around her comforted her, "Everyone is waiting."
Shu Yue snorted and continued to mumble.
"Hey, big brother." A newcomer spoke to the psychic guarding them, "Why is this base so quiet? And there are no lights."
Apart from the patrolling special power team, there was not a single idle person to be seen.
The psychic smiled good-naturedly and answered the newcomer's question: "The base provides free electricity from 7pm to 11pm, and there's a curfew after 11pm. It's already 12pm, so there aren't many people here."
"Curfew?" someone answered. "That's good. It's safe."
"Brother, I want to ask something." Someone else spoke up, "I heard that people with special abilities at Xiling Base can take on missions on their own, is that right?"
"Yes." The eldest brother answered every question. "In the base, except for the members of the special ability team affiliated with the military, other ordinary special ability users can form their own teams and go to the administrative hall to receive missions and exchange them for points."
"integral?"
"Well, the base has public places like a vegetable market and supermarket, and everything in there needs to be exchanged for points."
"Won't the ordinary people who just entered the base starve to death?" Ordinary people are not like those with special abilities, and it is impossible for them to go out on missions.
Having heard this question countless times, the psychic calmly replied, "Ordinary people naturally have ordinary jobs."
"Can't ordinary people join the special power team and go on missions?" Shu Yue asked curiously, "They can't fight, but they can do logistics and so on."
"If there's a special ability team willing to take you with them, that's not impossible," the man said, hinting, "However, this is the end of the world after all, and the world outside the base is too dangerous. Unless there's something special going on, special ability teams generally don't take ordinary people with them on missions."
Special uses, such as venting desires, or being used as bait to lure away zombies...
Shu Yue only thought of the former.
She showed a disgusted expression and muttered, "I thought a large base would be normal, but everyone here is a pervert, huh."
Hearing her mumbling, the man pretended not to hear and was too lazy to argue with her.
A group of people were waiting in the wind and snow. They were wary of each other at first, but then they slowly started chatting.
Shu Yue was good-looking, and soon a man came over to talk to her.
"Little sister, what kind of superpower are you?" The man smiled with his yellow teeth, and his malicious eyes lingered on Shu Yue's face for a moment, then moved to her chest.
Knowing what the man meant, Shu Yue rolled her eyes and ignored him.
"Hey, I don't think you have special abilities?" The man exchanged glances with his companions and continued to lean towards Shu Yue. "I heard you ask a question just now. You want to go out on a mission with the special ability team, right? Otherwise, once you're settled, you can follow us brothers? We promise to protect you well~"
"That's disgusting." Before the man could finish, Shu Yue shouted, "I don't want to team up with you guys. Stay away from me!"
After she finished speaking, the psychic guarding them glanced at their position and said coldly: "Be quiet!"
Dahuangya quickly smiled and said, "Hey, I know, I know." He responded with his mouth, but reached out and pinched the girl's butt hard.
"What are you doing?!" Shu Yue pushed his hand away and screamed, "You touch a girl's butt casually, do you have any moral integrity?"
"Haha." The man lowered his voice and laughed shamelessly, "Let me try it out and see how it feels."
"You're a hooligan!" The girl's cheeks flushed with anger. Knowing she was no match for this scoundrel, she simply looked at the psychic and said, "Are you guys not going to do anything about this situation?!"
The psychic glanced at her and asked, "What's going on?"
Irritated by the man's unhurried attitude, Shu Yue rushed over to him, pointed at him, and angrily said, "Aren't you part of the military at the base? The girls at your base were being bullied, and you turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it?!"
The man was helpless: "Little sister, I really didn't see it."
There was no light, only wind. He wasn't a god, so how could he notice everyone? And this girl got angry when she didn't agree with him. When I asked her what was going on, she didn't say anything!
Shu Yue was about to yell when someone came out of the office and yelled at them: "It's the middle of the night, what are you arguing about? Can't you let us rest?!"
The psychic stood at attention and saluted: "Sir, I will pay attention!"
"Hasn't the contact person arrived yet?" The officer yawned, rubbed his red eyes, and turned to the person at the monitoring table. "Contact them and tell them to hurry up—are those people in the logistics department just there to eat and do nothing? They always drag their feet when we meet up..."
While he was speaking, Shu Yue, who was angry and ignored, went straight back to the man and slapped him in the face.
"Dirty hands! No manners!"
He could have dodged it, but the man was slapped anyway. He raised his hand to stop the brother behind him and smiled nonchalantly: "Sister, you haven't eaten yet, right? It's so boring with such little energy."
"you!"
"Shu Yue." A faint voice beside her interrupted her roar. Then something was stuffed into her hand. The voice said, "Hit him."
As if bewitched, Shu Yue grabbed the thing the man handed over and smashed it on the man's head.
With a "clang", the wine bottle broke and glass shards flew everywhere.
The man's laughter stopped abruptly. He was stunned for two seconds, rolled his eyes and looked up, and his vision was immediately stained red by the blood flowing from his forehead.
"Fuck you!" The man felt the pain only after seeing the blood. He held his head and pointed at Shu Yue, "You bitch! How dare you hit me!"
Shu Yue was also frightened by the scene before her. She screamed, threw away the bottleneck in her hand, and took two steps back: "It's not me! It's not me!"
"That's you! Bitch! I'm not done with you!"
"It's not her." Someone answered for Shu Yue.
A small, frail figure walked up to Shu Yue. She weighed the bottle in her hand and asked in a serious tone, "Was that powerful enough? Was it interesting?"
Seeing clearly who was standing in front of her, Shu Yue murmured: "Qi Yuan..." Was it her who handed her the bottle of wine?
"Who are you?" Big Yellow Teeth shouted harshly, "Her companion?!"
"I'm just a bystander who sees injustice." The little girl still gave a serious answer that sounded like a cold joke, "I saw you touching her butt without her consent."
"Huh?" Big Yellow Teeth looked at Passerby A - the girl was pretty, but unfortunately there was an obvious scar on her right cheek, which ruined the overall beauty of her face.
"Are you trying to be a hero and save the damsel in distress?" Da Huangya's companion sneered, "Little sister, have you graduated from high school? Do you want me to help you with your Chuunibyou?"
"I'm about to graduate from college." Qi Yuan replied expressionlessly, "I'm not a little sister."
"Qi Yuan." Shu Yue clenched her fists as the girl blocked her from behind. "You asked me to hit him..." She suddenly became furious and raised her hand to push the girl away. "Do you want me to kill someone? I almost killed someone because of you!"
Qi Yuan was caught off guard by the sudden attack from the person behind him, and his already frail body was pushed onto the snow.
She quickly got up and patted the snow off her body: "Don't you want to hit him?" She threw the bottle, "That's me meddling in other people's business - you guys continue, I don't care."
"Huh?" Da Huangya thought this woman was sick. "Are you out of your mind?" He pressed the wound on his head. "You said you don't care, and then you don't care. You hit me and you want to run away?"
"I didn't hit him." Qi Yuan pointed at Shu Yue and said, "She did."
Shu Yue: "..." For the first time, she was choked by the girl's shamelessness and was speechless.
Da Huangya was so angry that he laughed: "Girl, did you run away from the hospital? The kind that specializes in treating mental disorders - do your family know that you ran away and acted wild?"
Qi Yuan blinked his eyes: "My family members are all dead."
Big Yellow Teeth: "..." Like Shu Yue, he was choked and speechless.
While the two were in a stalemate, someone approached on the snow.
"What's going on?" The man stopped a few steps away from the crowd. His face could not be seen clearly, but the displeasure in his voice was obvious.
"Captain Chu!" The officers and psychics watching the show were shocked and stood at attention.
"I'm asking you guys, what's going on?" Chu Yuan said lazily, holding a lollipop in his mouth. "Why are you making so much noise so late? Don't you know the rules of the base?"
Third update
(End of this chapter)
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