Chapter 38.1 - Ji Anran Taking a Gamble
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When Gao Xun had first noticed the ice ball, he had already moved to turn the steering wheel, trying to dodge it.
But it wasn’t until the ice ball had landed on the ground and the shards started to fly that he finally realized, the other party’s target wasn’t them who were in the minibus but the tires of their minibus!
The rear portion of the minibus became deformed, but a metal wall was quickly erected to block the shards of ice that were coming over, so the tires remained intact.
Seeing the raging fireball coming from the front, Geng Yan shouted with a darkened expression, "Get out, finish these people off first!"
When everyone was out of the car, Geng Yan quickly stored the car away.
Enemies with a fire-ability user can be very troublesome because there would be gasoline in the car. If they don't get off, they would have to face the risk of being blasted by the car explosion if they couldn’t completely block all of the other’s attacks!
Ji Anran was a wind-ability holder, so with the aid of his ability, his speed was frighteningly fast.
"You’re a wind-ability user?!" One of the assailants had a face full of shock.
As they had made Geng Yan’s team their target, it was only natural that they had sought out some relevant information about the team. But those pieces of information had only said that weather forecaster Ji Anran uses a crossbow as his weapon and hadn’t mentioned at all that Ji Anran had a wind-type ability!
Ji Anran sneered and quickly reaped that man's life.
"It’s normal for you guys not to know. The few that did know, aside from my teammates, have long been dead six-feet under!"
The strength of this team wasn’t bad, but they had miscalculated the strength of third-order abilities and hadn’t expected the variable that was Ji Anran, so they soon fell.
They had originally planned to take down the weakest, Ji Anran, then use him to threaten Geng Yan, the ex-lover, but who knew...
After resolving this first team, Geng Yan took and stored away the supplies that these dead people had with them.
Soon, the team continued on their way back to the base.
"Just when will the people of the base be back already? Our research institute has just finished developing the ability stimulating serum, now, we’re just waiting for the people above to send down commendations and to promote it."
"It should be very soon. Aren’t I sorting out the reagents to get them ready to be sent out right now? The dean even feels that these won’t be enough and wants us to rush and make another batch as soon as possible."
Chen Xiaohui wandered over to ask about the progress.
"Didn't we just rush out 24 today? Why did you write down one less available to be sold to the base?“
"The dean said he wanted to reserve one. From what I heard, it's so he can use it to please his sweetheart. It’s also not really our place to say anything about it." The man shrugged.
The dean deserved the most credit this time with the experiment, so even if he wanted to keep a few for himself, the base wouldn’t have had any opinions about it.
Chen Xiaohui, who had originally wanted to involve himself with the sales, had a glimmering flash through in his eyes. "So it’s like that..."
The person who the dean liked was Wei Yanhua, and Wei Yanhua was a person who didn’t like to socialize very much and was just a homebody before the apocalypse. Wei Yanhua didn't have many friends, so to need an ability stimulating serum, there was probably just Ji Anran that one person.
How pitiful, the him, who was once a powerful wind-ability user, is now reduced to the point where he has to form a team with the powerful metal-ability user in order to not be looked down upon. How could those from the past life, who both respected and feared Ji Anran, ever imagine that Ji Anran would one day yearn to get an ability stimulant?
"By the way, Xiaohui, your luck this time was great as usual. You manage to choose the best neutralizing ingredient within two tries for this experiment, your contribution also isn’t small. Pity that the dean only wanted one serum, otherwise if he took a few more, you would also be able to use your credit to take one as well. Although you might not be able to use it yourself, at least it’s a sum of money."
"I don't care about these sorts of things. I’ll be very gratified as long as I manage to develop something useful to everyone." Chen Xiaohui had a small smile.
Compared to when he had just been reborn, Chen Xiaohui has made quite a great progress. But he hadn’t been a particularly smart person to begin with, so naturally, even if there was some genetic mutation this life, he wouldn’t become too different.
However, this colleague was an addict sunken into his scientific research, so also naturally, the other wouldn’t be able to compare with Chen Xiaohui’s small machinations.
So without any ounce of suspecting the other, he continued to chatter with Chen Xiaohui.
After filling out all the records, the colleague picked up the reagents that were on the shelf and placed them into the safe.
"Are you going to send something to the dean? Then I won't keep you up anymore."
The colleague nodded. "Okay."
"Ah! I got so enthused by our chat that I forgot what I came here for, Zhou-jie was asking for you. Hurry and go take a look, she must be getting impatient."
As soon as the colleague heard this, he immediately ran over.
In fact, it wasn’t that he wasn’t attentive enough about the reagents, it was just that he felt Chen Xiaohui was reassuring enough that he neglected to lock them up properly.
Chen Xiaohui’s original plan was to use the position and power of being a researcher to deal with Ji Anran, so from long ago he had already paid secret attention to the monitoring within the research institute, just so that he wouldn’t be caught on camera when it was time to act.
He moved to a different position, then nonchalantly picked up a technical book from the shelf on the desk.
He carefully opened the safe and swapped the serum[1].
As someone who slacks off as a researcher, he can openly wear gloves and so wasn’t afraid of leaving any fingerprints.
After finishing the job, Chen Xiaohui placed the book back while pretending it hadn’t interested and quickly left.
[1] I have no clue how he knew which one to swap. Pretty sure there was more than one in there.
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Ji Anran's become so badass ☆_☆
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