Chapter 136, Repaying the Debt
After the dust cleared, Si Xu had disappeared.
Shen Bai ordered the convoy to regroup and was about to enter the city when a series of rustling sounds were heard around them.
Mutated zombies and mutant beasts jumped out from the grass on both sides of the road and surrounded the members of the Ability Team.
"What does Qin Huai mean by this?" The appearance of zombies and mutant beasts was not a coincidence. Zhong Qian looked at Shen Bai, "Is his target Professor Si?"
The level of these zombies and mutant beasts is not enough to subdue them, but they can slow them down.
Did Qin Huai do this to deliberately lure Si Xu forward and then trap them here?
Shen Bai shook his head, still not understanding Qin Huai's purpose.
"Don't think about that monster with ordinary people's thinking. Let's solve the current problem first."
I can't help much, but at least I can't hold Si Xu back.
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After traveling day and night and overcoming attacks from countless zombies and mutant beasts, Jiang Ran and his group finally arrived in Beihe City two weeks later.
"Is this Beihe City?" Jiang Ran took out a map and looked at it for a long time, but couldn't understand it. He could only hand it to Pei Xiao, "Captain Pei, do you know where the Beihe Laboratory is?"
Pei Xiao didn't even look at the map: "That kind of secret laboratory would definitely not be recorded on the map."
The man drove to an inn with a relatively intact access control system. "Clean this place out. You two can have a good rest here. I'll go to the city to investigate the situation and return before evening."
Jiang Ran didn't refuse: "Thank you for troubling Captain Pei."
Since they couldn't figure out the exact location of Beihe Laboratory, Pei Xiao would be a burden if he brought the two of them with him.
Jiang Ran and Qi Yao checked the safety of the inn and stayed there to wait for Pei Xiao to come back.
With the help of Mr. Si Xuzuo, Jiang Ran had a more comprehensive understanding of various firearms than before. At this moment, he was lying in front of the French window on the second floor, holding the sniper rifle left by Pei Xiao and observing the situation outside.
Qi Yao sat beside her, a silver chain hooked on her fingertips, in a daze.
Glancing at the mini photo frame hanging on the silver chain, Jiang Ran was curious: "Is the photo inside of it of you and your family?"
Qi Yao smiled gently and shook her head: "It's me and my sister."
She opened the small photo frame and handed it to Jiang Ran to see.
"We are twins."
In the small photo, two girls with similar looks are looking at the camera, one with a cold expression and the other with a flamboyant smile.
Jiang Ran got up, sat down cross-legged, took the photo frame, and stroked the yellowed photo with her fingers: "You sisters really look alike. If it weren't for the different expressions, I would never be able to tell who is who."
"Haha, right? Chu Yuan didn't make the distinction." Thinking of the ridiculous things the two sisters did four years ago, Qi Yao showed a nostalgic expression, "At that time, not only Chu Yuan, but even my parents didn't discover our secret..."
No one knows the secret of the twins except the two sisters who are in tune with each other.
Perhaps it was because it was rare to have a close friend, or perhaps it was because she finally had someone to talk to, Qi Yao told her friend her little secret as a story.
"...When Qi Yuan fell on the road, I was very close to her. I saw the car coming with my own eyes, but there was no time to brake, and then..."
The moment the car hit the girl, she didn't know where she got the courage from, but she rushed out and held her sister in her arms.
Qi Yao closed her eyes to hide the tears in her eyes.
"But she pushed me away."
Just like the telepathy between twins, when they encountered danger, she wanted to protect her, while she wanted to save her.
In fact, it was not pushed away completely, but there was just a slight push. In the end, in the car accident, it was Qi Yuan who died and Qi Yao who survived.
"I was in a coma for many days, and after I woke up, I started to express my self-blame and dissatisfaction with my parents through a childish hunger strike.
"Later, Mr. Chu came to our house. In order to protect the Qi family, my father hypnotized me and swapped my and my sister's identities."
When she opened her eyes again, she could no longer remember anything that had happened in the past.
Her mother told her that she was the second daughter of the Qi family, the younger twin sister Qi Yuan, and that she had an older sister who loved her very much and died in a car accident while trying to protect her.
Her life was saved by her sister, so she must live well.
"Ranran, I'll tell you a secret." The girl sniffed and leaned closer to Jiang Ran. Her eyes were red as she laughed softly, "Actually, at the engagement party, I was the one who exchanged engagement rings with Chu Yuan."
Jiang Ran opened his eyes wide, stunned: "Didn't you say that Qi Yuan would replace you and Chu Yuan..."
"Yes, the person who dated Chu Yuan as Qi Yao was Qi Yuan all along, but the person who attended the engagement ceremony on the day of the engagement was me."
It was the real Qi Yao, Chu Yuan’s nominal fiancée.
"You..." Are you two sisters teasing Captain Chu?
"Because Qi Yuan had diarrhea that day," Qi Yao added helplessly, "She was paralyzed in bed and couldn't move, so she had no choice but to beg me to go in her place."
"Diarrhea?" What an unseemly excuse. Jiang Ran wrinkled her nose. "What a coincidence."
Coincidence? Qi Yao lowered her eyes: "Ranran, it's not a coincidence."
"Why?"
"It's not a coincidence. Qi Yuan did it on purpose." Qi Yao smiled bitterly. "We are twins. In this world, no one understands each other better than us—Ran Ran. Qi Yuan knows very well in her heart. Like her, I like Chu Yuan too."
Her sister used a poor excuse to try to return everything that originally belonged to Qi Yao to her.
"The person she loves the most is me." The girl smiled and blinked, tears suddenly sliding down the corners of her eyes, "Just like, the person I love the most is her."
Qi Yuan is a fool. She always treats everyone warmly and nicely, thinking that they will be nice to her too.
"Knowing she did it on purpose, I had a fight with her." Qi Yao said hoarsely, "I tore up that page of the diary and warned her not to act on her own again. I kept emphasizing that I didn't like Chu Yuan and told her not to be so self-righteous and make decisions for me... Ranran, Qi Yuan is right, I'm a coward. But..."
However, at that time, she only hoped that when it was impossible for her to be happy, her sister could follow her heart and get the happiness that belonged to her.
"That idiot, after I scolded him, cried miserably and pitifully, and even got a scolding from my parents."
Qi Yao laughed briefly: "If it weren't for what happened later, Qi Yuan would be with Chu Yuan as she wished. She would definitely be very happy, and I..."
Seeing her happy, I can feel the same happiness.
"Because we are the closest people in this world."
Jiang Ran was unable to speak for a long time.
In silence, she looked down at the photo in her hand again.
Qi Yao, Qi Yuan.
It's true, these two sisters are so stupid that it makes people feel sad.
"In fact, the most innocent person in this whole story is Chu Yuan." Qi Yao put the necklace back on her neck with a firm look in her eyes. "Ranran, I can no longer give him back the girl he loves. At least, I hope to protect him well."
Use the life that Qi Yuan has saved to protect the man she loves deeply.
Just think of it as repaying the friendship I owe them.
(End of this chapter)
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