Chapter 08

"Haha! Little Flower, little flower, humans are back again!"

Ever since the three parrots knew that Lin Ling had completely penetrated into the abyss, they became arrogant all of a sudden and dared to hover near the abyss for food, just like one person's success and all his relatives and friends prospering.

"What what?"

Lin Ling suddenly stood up from the sea of ​​flowers at the edge of the giant pit, ran to the big rock that had become the boundary of the abyss, and shared the latest news with the three parrots.

"Haha, last night when I went out to look for food, I found about a dozen people carrying large and small bags back to the base, and then the base started to have water and electricity!"

Three parrots landed on the boulder and flapped their wings with joy.

"Haha! This genius plan is indeed correct!"

The parrot head in the middle screamed excitedly, and the two parrot heads next to it kept echoing the word "genius". The loud and brassy voices made the little flower fairy cover her ears.

"Plan? What plan?" Lin Ling immediately caught the most crucial word in the noisy scene.

The three heads of the three parrots looked left and right, and their eyes rolled around as if they were giving each other some secret signals.

"Haha, we don't have any plans!"

"I will not reveal my brilliant plan to trick you into becoming the Abyss's spouse so that the Abyss will stop expanding—"

"I will never tell you that this is all for our master to move back to the Seventh Base!"

Three voices rang out almost at the same time, and the original parrot's head in the middle froze in place for a moment.

"Haha what are you guys doing!!!"

Lin Ling was shocked by the three parrots' audacious plan.

Before he could react, the three parrots in mid-air started fighting with each other. Feathers were flying everywhere and the heads of the two parrots on the left and right were almost pecked off.

"Stop—" Lin Ling held his breath and shouted, "If you keep hitting me, I'll pull out all your hair! I can't catch you, but Shi Changyuan can always catch you."

It was not known whether it was the threat of having their hair plucked or the fear of the abyss, but the three parrots finally stopped. Each of them had its own guilty conscience, and they looked left and right, refusing to meet Lin Ling's gaze.

"If you confess, I will punish you leniently; if you resist, I will punish you severely! Tell me the truth!" Lin Ling pounded the stone in front of him. "What do you mean by tricking me into becoming the spouse of the Deep Abyss?"

Lin Ling stuttered over the word "spouse" and his ears immediately felt hot. "Shen Yuan and I are just friends. How can you slander my innocence out of thin air?"

When the three parrots saw that their plan was exposed, they immediately revealed their entire plan.

"Deep Abyss was not moving around to find food or a mate. He was just looking for something very important that he had lost."

Seeing that the three parrots had some misunderstanding about the relationship between the two, the little flower demon emphasized, "We are friends."

The three parrots became more rebellious when they saw the little flower demon emphasized this matter again and again, and suddenly started shouting loudly.

"Quack, friend?" The three-headed parrot flapped its wings and asked, "If I become the friend of the abyss, will I not have to worry about being swallowed by the abyss?"

"If I become friends with the Abyss, can I also stick a bunch of colorful feathers on its head?"

"If I become Shen Yuan's friend, can I hug Shen Yuan?"

The three parrots were very self-aware. "Then I will probably be swallowed by the abyss. Quack."

The little flower fairy was confused by the series of rhetorical questions, and finally added the word "good" to the relationship between the two, changing them from friends to "good" friends.

"I, we are good friends!"

"Besides, the abyss and plants are not of the same category, so they cannot be mates." Lin Ling tried to convince the three parrots with reason, "They have no way of communicating, nor can they reproduce."

This sentence makes sense. The three parrots nodded synchronously, but one of them suddenly looked at Lin Ling halfway through nodding, with a puzzled tone.

"Haha, but you both have human bodies, so why don't you just fall in love in a human way?"

The little flower demon suddenly widened his eyes.

When he was about to say something, the three parrots seemed to see someone and turned around and flew away in panic.

"What are you talking about?"

Shi Changyuan appeared behind Lin Ling at some point and asked softly.

Ever since he met Lin Ling's parrot friend, his progress in learning human language has skyrocketed, and he can now express himself fluently and accurately.

Lin Ling turned around and looked at Shi Changyuan. For some reason, she also felt a little guilty.

He blinked, avoiding Shi Changyuan's direct gaze, and summarized the human news brought by the three parrots.

"Then, its other two heads said two words. I didn't hear them clearly. It seemed to be about a spouse or his master."

The little flower demon lied and blinked guiltily again, but fortunately Shi Changyuan didn't notice it and he immediately changed the subject.

"Before the deformity, the little parrot was probably raised by a human, but his owner moved away because of relocation. The little parrot hopes that the owner will come back."

Although he didn't know the hidden truth, when Lin Ling learned about it, he was not too angry about their plan to deceive him.

Shi Changyuan listened to the little flower fairy's sigh, lowered his eyes and looked at the little flower fairy in front of him, and suddenly said in a serious tone, "I will not abandon you."

The sudden formal atmosphere made Lin Ling stunned for a moment. He looked at Shi Changyuan's deep eyes which were full of seriousness, and his earlobes which had originally cooled down immediately became burning like fire again.

Seeing that Lin Ling was in a daze and didn't seem to be able to react, Shi Changyuan reached out and pinched his face, then spoke again, as if hinting at something, "I won't leave without saying goodbye."

"...I heard it." Lin Ling rubbed his ears with his hands, and immediately returned to normal, no longer restrained or dodging his gaze.

His human friends had left without saying goodbye before, and Lin Ling didn't even see them for the last time. He was sad for a long time because of this.

Shenyuan's words were just a way of secretly expressing his anger on his behalf!

Human friends are just ordinary friends. Shenyuan compares himself with his human friends, but doesn't that still mean they are friends?

It's just that the abyss does it better than its human friends.

I've already said that they are good friends! The three parrots are really misleading!

"The humans are back. Lingling, do you want to meet them?" Shi Changyuan pinched the little flower demon's face again, his tone a little unpleasant.

Lin Ling knew that Shen Yuan didn't like humans very much, especially since he had just stood up for him. Lin Ling narrowed his eyes, took a step forward, hugged him, and soothed him, "I know, I'm just going to return something."

"Humans have helped me a lot in the past, otherwise I would have withered long ago." The little flower demon stood on tiptoe and hung on Shen Yuan's body, rubbing against Shi Changyuan affectionately.

"According to human terms, this is called repaying a favor. After repaying the favor, I can leave now."

[After repaying his kindness, his seeds will have no connection with humans anymore.]

Shi Changyuan thought to himself.

【His seed will be his seed alone.】

[You can also... return to the abyss. 】

"Okay, I'll take you there."

Shi Changyuan immediately turned from passive to active, dragged Lin Ling with him, and teleported to the gate of the seventh base. He felt the life fluctuations inside, and after a few more teleports, he found the seventh base monitoring station.

“The humans are all here.”

He looked at the base hidden underground, stood in front of the door, and pushed the little flower demon beside him, "Go quickly and come back quickly."

Lin Ling turned around, eyes full of doubt. Before she could even ask, "Aren't you coming with me?", Shi Changyuan said, "I'll wait for you."

He lowered his head and reached out to touch the black shadow on Lin Ling's hand. "It will protect you."

The little flower demon looked at the mark on her hand, nodded heavily, then pushed open the door and walked in.

Lin Ling's intrusion made the entire surveillance station nervous, and a shrill alarm sounded, but the alarm only sounded for a few seconds before stopping.

The little flower demon suspected that someone knew her, so she stood there obediently, waiting for humans to show up.

No one knew what the people inside discussed or what kind of mental preparations they made. They watched the terrifying abyss waves in the base, appear outside the gate of the surveillance station, and then watched the waves stop outside the gate.

Soon, several footsteps were heard in the quiet corridor, but as the distance got closer, they became one, as if someone was coming alone.

"Sister Mo?"

Lin Ling seemed to hear the sound of heavy footsteps. Suddenly, a head popped out from the corner of the corridor, revealing a pair of sparkling eyes.

It’s an acquaintance!

"...Xiaohua?"

The researcher, who was originally on high alert, relaxed his guard immediately when he saw Lin Ling suddenly appear, and his face was full of surprise: "Is it really you?!"

"Yeah, yeah, I saw someone came back, so I came over to take a look."

Lin Ling was holding a can of fertilizer in her hand and handed it to Team Leader Mo, "I'm here to return the fertilizer. While you were away, I made a new friend. He helps me water and fertilize the plants."

“I’m taking good care of myself too!”

When Lin Ling mentioned this "new friend", Team Leader Mo immediately thought of the sea of ​​white-petaled golden-stamen flowers at the entrance to the abyss.

"Yes, he is the abyss you mentioned." Lin Ling knew that humans were afraid of Shi Changyuan, and hurriedly explained for his friend.

"The Abyss started to move because it lost its seeds. It has stopped expanding now, but I want to help it find its seeds."

"He's been looking for a long time. Can you help?"

In just a few sentences, Lin Ling revealed the answer that they had spent years searching for.

Team Leader Mo had no reason not to agree. Regardless of whether the news was true or false, whether from the perspective of friends or from the perspective of humanity as a whole, they would give it a try.

"Of course."

The process of repaying a favor was simpler than Lin Ling had imagined. When he was about to leave, he suddenly seemed to remember something, turned around and looked at Team Leader Mo, the human in front of him, again.

"Oh, I have another question for you."

The little flower demon was embarrassed for a moment, her face suddenly turned red, and she asked haltingly, "How do you humans fall in love?"

Team leader Mo paused, "Falling in love???"