Chapter 18

Su Ran dragged her small pillow and threw it onto Si Chengyan's bed.

Then he wrapped himself in the blanket and tucked himself in.

First time sleeping with a human.

It was better to be with Si Chengyan, which made Su Ran feel at ease.

So he wanted to get closer to Si Chengyan, twisting and turning in the blanket, like a curled rose.

Just then, a muffled thunder sounded in the sky.

Su Ran hid under the blanket in fear, leaving only the small leaves exposed.

After hiding there for only a few tens of seconds, he felt himself lifted into the air, and both the rose and the blanket were picked up.

The colonel held him close to his hand and patted him through the blanket.

"Don't be afraid anymore." A familiar voice came from the top of the blanket. Although it sounded clumsy or unskilled, Su Ran felt that the colonel had tried very hard.

This is to comfort him.

Su Ran stretched out the small flower bud and tapped the other person's fingertips with the leaf to express her gratitude.

For some reason, although there was a violent storm outside the window, he suddenly felt at ease - it seemed that his decision to go to the colonel with the small pillow and blanket was the right one.

"Then would you be afraid?" Su Ran asked, "Are humans afraid too?"

"Everything will happen."

"But after a period of time, you won't be afraid anymore." Si Chengyan's voice was very low, like a violin humming in the night.

Su Ran was puzzled and looked at him from under the blanket: "What is that?"

Si Chengyan didn't say anything else.

He looked at Su Ran, whose profile was outlined in the dim light. He raised his hand and rubbed the flower bud.

Su Ran still didn't understand. After thinking for a few seconds, she felt that that "stage" might be growing up, such as growing into a strong adult rose.

But this is relative to his idea of ​​being a plant, and for the Colonel, what are the stages that he goes through?

Su Ran felt that the colonel must have some unknown experience, but now, as a rose, he was too sleepy.

So he slowly climbed onto the back of Si Chengyan's hand and patted him with the blade of a leaf: "Don't be afraid anymore, don't be afraid anymore..."

Su Ran slept for a very long time.

Next to the Colonel, he had a truly good sleep, just like when he was next to Elder Rose, a comfortable and steady feeling. When he woke up, it was already noon. Si Chengyan was gone, and the camp was very quiet - just like an ordinary afternoon.

After getting up, Su Ran saw two cups of dog ball juice and a cup of dew on the table.

Su Ran enjoyed breakfast happily.

Just then, Anna's voice came from outside the tent.

"Baby." Anna opened the curtain. "Colonel Si has gone to a meeting. We need to go provide support and give the residents some supplies."

"When will he come back?"

"It's not clear yet," Anna said, "but it shouldn't be too late. After all, you're here, my dear. The colonel must be worried about you."

Su Ran hummed, then unsteadily climbed onto the cart. Two green roots stepped on the wheels, slid and smeared with mud. Anna smiled, picked Su Ran up, and put him in the medical kit.

This time they are responsible for assisting Area B.

Five large armored vehicles set out from the temporary camp and eventually stopped in Area A.

The damaged site has been cleaned up, and the broken bricks and stones have been collected and transported back to the Institute of Transmutation to prevent further mutations. Some of the affected residents have been evacuated to emergency facilities.

From the moment we entered the base, this was a real trip.

Everything is new.

The ground is made of hard bricks and stones, or rather, a special kind of strong cement. Anna said that such bricks and stones are not easy to crack, and ordinary beasts cannot create gaps.

As soon as he got off the car, Su Ran was attracted by a huge eye - it was a red eye with a white outer pupil. There were red bloodshot at the edge of the eye, radiating in an irregular pattern, which reminded him of the monster in the abyss.

"This is the Flying Eye Bar," Anna introduced. "It's been temporarily requisitioned as a distribution center for supplies."

"bar?"

"It's a place for drinking," Anna said. "The owner is a shapeshifter. We saved a pair of his wings, so we have a good relationship. So he gave this place to us."

Su Ran listened with a confused look.

Shapeshifter?

What is this, a race of humans?

With doubts, Su Ran followed Anna into the bar - finally, Su Ran got an explanation about this term.

"Soldiers can't have such powers." Anna said, tying a gray ribbon to Su Ran's flower bud, "because there will be uncertainty."

"In other words, it is potentially dangerous."

Su Ran: "Danger?"

Anna nodded and continued, "Every human infected by the aberration will be divided into benign and dangerous, just like you. The benign category will undergo regular testing and can move freely within the aberration range."

"I haven't seen such humans in Manlot..."

"That's because of the old city. The shapeshifters are in the new city. If a mutation is discovered, the base can take immediate action."

Su Ran shook the small flower bud.

So that's how it is.

He did not ask any further questions, but took on the responsibility of rescuing the little rose and was responsible for distributing the meals.

Walking out from here, outside the bar, Anna and the others were responsible for distributing medical supplies, such as mercurochrome, bandages, and Band-Aids. When necessary, they would give some medicine or transfer the patients to the medical department for treatment.

Further in is Su Ran’s restaurant.

Two large jars contained vegetable soup and pumpkin porridge, with scattered carrots and broccoli floating on top. Compared to the clear soup, Su Ran's pumpkin porridge was thicker, with yellow millet and pumpkin mixed together. Even Su Ran, the rose, loved it.

He held the handle of the spoon with the blade and scooped pumpkin porridge into everyone's bowl very carefully.

Then he said to them in a baby voice, "Go inside, there is bread and rice."

So Su Ran saw more deformed people, some with beetle legs on their hands, and some with butterfly wings on their backs. Although they were very different from normal people, apart from the deformities, they were not much different from ordinary humans.

Two hours later, Su Ran dragged an empty plastic bucket and walked towards the backstage area behind the house.

"Pumpkin soup, pumpkin soup..." Su Ran stretched out his roots and kept searching on the shelf, "Where is it..."

Just then, he heard a slight click.

Something seemed to have broken.

Su Ran paused in extending the leaf. He slowly turned the flower bud and saw a faint red light coming from the bushes not far away.

He took a few steps out of curiosity. He was the only one in the backstage area at this time, and no one noticed that a small rose was missing.

Until a crack appeared before his eyes.

Su Ran: "This is..."

The red water droplets glowed brightly, shining on his leaves, and a strange feeling came over him - it seemed that all this, the red night light in the sky, the whistling wind, and the low roar of unknown beasts in the distance, turned into an indescribable sensation at this moment.

Are there nutritional beads inside?

Su Ran decided to find out.

After watching for a few seconds, he grabbed the leaves and nimbly moved in, completely disappearing into the bushes.

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Su Ran: Let’s start our growing-up journey!

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