I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 118
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 118: No Such Person Found
After leaving the crop experimental base, Jiang Ran said goodbye to the two at the door.
The girl had a sweet smile and a sweet voice. After saying goodbye, she got close to Pei Xiao while Shen Bai was greeting the staff and whispered, "Pei Xiao, did you come here specially to kill Shen Yang?"
Looking down at her, Pei Xiao asked with a faint smile, "Do you expect me to do that? Isn't he your brother?"
Jiang Ran's face was full of sincerity. "I care about him precisely because he’s my brother."
I couldn't tell that at all. Pei Xiao's mouth twitched slightly. He wanted to expose the girl's blatant lie, but in the end he just shrugged his shoulders and said resignedly, "I really want to kill Shen Yang, but unfortunately, Shen Yang isn’t in the base."
He wasn’t in the base? Jiang Ran blinked and said, dragging out her voice, "You came at the wrong time."
Whenever Captain Pei came to visit in the future, her cousin would probably be "not in the base".
Jiang Ran sighed.
To be honest, she really wanted to see Pei Xiao and Shen Yang fight. At least this would divert Pei Xiao’s attention away from Si Xu.
The girl was thinking unkindly whether she should find an excuse to get Shen Yang out from the Shen family’s house.
After much thought, she felt that this was too unkind and could only give up with regret.
"Ranran." Noticing that the two of them were whispering behind his back, Shen Bai walked over to Jiang Ran. "Aren't you going home? Why aren't you leaving?"
Jiang Ran was unhappy. "Second Brother, how could you drive me away like this? I used my off-work time to be your guide. You should thank me."
"I'm afraid that if you're delayed for too long, Si Xu will come here to find you." Shen Bai hinted, "You know I don't like to cause trouble for myself."
If Si Xu came over, he and Pei Xiao were bound to hurt each other –– oh, Pei Xiao would probably be the suffering party.
Pei Xiao was a guest of the base after all. If he came in unharmed and left with injuries, what would the people in other bases think?
That would be troublesome, a great deal of trouble.
Shen Bai's reminder was so obvious that Jiang Ran nodded with a reluctant look on her face. "Then I shan't disturb you. You guys can take your time to visit."
After taking two steps, she looked back and scuttled toward them. "Captain Pei, I have another question."
"What?"
"How come you have time to drop by Xiling Base?"
Drop by? Pei Xiao said seriously, "I was entrusted by my father to come to Xiling Base for a study visit. I’m not just dropping by."
"I see. Captain Pei, was Dongchao Base established on the basis of Dongchao City? Are you familiar with Dongchao Base?"
"Quite. Dongchao is where I grew up."
Jiang Ran responded with an "oh" and asked casually, "Is there a scientist named Si Nian in Dongchao Base?"
"Scientist?" Pei Xiao's eyes shifted away from her. He recalled carefully for a moment, and shook his head. "No, I haven't heard of this name."
Jiang Ran sighed. "I’ve asked all my questions. Thank you, Captain Pei."
The girl wasn’t as excited as before when she left. Her retreating figure looked listless, like a quail caught in the rain.
Pei Xiao pondered over it.
Si Nian? A scientist? Judging from Jiang Ranran's tone, she had never been to Dongchao City, so how did she know a scientist in Dongchao City?
Si Nian, was that scientist’s surname Si?
……
Pei Xiao had never heard of Si Nian's name. Could it be that Si Nian wasn’t a scientist? Then why did Jiang Yize ask Shen Muxin to take the virus information to Dongchao City to find Si Nian?
Deep in thought, the girl didn't notice someone coming from the side. The person walked side by side with her for a distance, and when he saw that she didn't react, he snorted lightly.
"Jiang Ran." He frowned. "What are you thinking about?" She was so absorbed in thought that she didn't even notice him.
"Huh?" Jiang Ran was brought out of her deep thought by the familiar voice and smiled. "Si Xu, are you here to pick me up from work?"
She naturally held his hand, and they walked side by side in the afterglow of the sunset, their shadows stretched out long and thin.
"I came to pick you up." The girl had something on her mind, but since she didn't say it, he didn't ask any further questions. "Jiang Ran, you got off work early today."
The girl wanted to work, so he found her an assistant job at the experimental base, intending to let her do some work there.
Unexpectedly, the girl insisted on going to work and getting off work at normal hours every day, clocking in at eight in the morning and getting off work at six in the afternoon. In just a few days, she had a clear understanding of the various situations of the experimental base. Yesterday, when he went to pick her up from work, the staff who guided her even praised her to him.
The man didn’t feel happy about his girlfriend being praised. He was becoming more and more dissatisfied after being neglected for several days. However, seeing that the girl was full of energy, he didn't want to interfere with her too much.
When talking about her work, there was a hint of resentment in his tone.
"Yeah, we finished our work early today, and then I met Second Brother, so I showed him and his guest around the experimental base."
"Guest?" Knowing who that person was, Si Xu paused slightly. "Pei Xiao?"
"Uh, yes." Jiang Ran looked cautiously at the man's expression. "Have you met Captain Pei?"
Si Xu said coldly, "Yes."
"Did you guys... fight again?" Su Qin said that the two of them would fight every time they met.
"Jiang Ran, do I look like such a childish person?" Si Xu sneered. "That guy is the one who starts a fight every time we meet."
As long as that guy didn't provoke him, he had no interest in fighting with him.
"Oh, that's right."
Noticing a hint of grievance in his expression, Jiang Ran took his arm and coaxed him softly, "Captain Pei is so childish. You shouldn’t bother with him."
"He’s not childish." Si Xu said sarcastically, "Jiang Ran, everyone thinks that every time he fights with me, it's because of his half-sister, Pei Wan'er –– so many people say this that I almost believed it."
Wasn’t that so? Jiang Ran intuitively felt that there was a deeper connection behind this. In a flash, she recalled what Wei Yage had once said.
Si Xu's biological mother was the eldest daughter of the Huo family in Beichen, and the eldest daughter's fiancé was the young master of the Pei family.
"You and Pei Xiao..." Jiang Ran hesitated, "Are you blood brothers?"
If Si Xu was really the illegitimate child born by Huo Zhisang before she married into the Pei family, then he and Pei Xiao would be half-brothers.
Making no secret of his disgust for this identity, Si Xu frowned. "I don't know."
"You don't know?"
"Maybe Huo Zhisang lied to me, or maybe Pei Xiao isn’t her biological son..." Si Xu said, "Like you said, I also doubt what Huo Zhisang said. However, that idiot Pei Xiao seems to know the relationship between Huo Zhisang and me, so..."
Therefore, he made trouble for Si Xu everywhere because he knew that Si Xu was his mother's illegitimate son and his brother.
That was probably the reason why Pei Xiao could not forgive himself or Si Xu. Despite being Pei Wan’er’s brothers, they failed to protect her.
