Chapter 15

Xiaohua happily made a plan to decorate Abyss, and then found the star light he wanted from the pocket space of Abyss.

The space of the abyss is void, and can be expanded infinitely as long as Shi Changyuan wants to extend it. But since Lin Ling wants to build a "wall" to hang star lights, the abyss can also be solid.

Xiaohua found some horizontal and some vertical star lights. He took the vertical star lights and first stood on the bed, trying to hang a row of them at different heights on the ceiling.

"How do I hang this up?" Lin Ling tilted his head back and stretched out his hands, looking at the darkness above.

"Do you want to hang it up?"

As soon as Shi Changyuan finished speaking, a black shadow stretched out from somewhere, hooked around Xiaohua's fingertips, then rolled up the thread of the star lamp and returned to the sky.

The star lights were perfectly integrated into the ceiling.

Xiaohua exclaimed "Wow" and continued to hang up the other star lights in the same way.

"Can it be a little shorter? And move a little to the left." Lin Ling only needed to give instructions, and he didn't even have to stand on tiptoe. The black shadow would extend infinitely on its own, then wrap around Xiaohua's fingers and take the star light from his hand.

The vertically hanging star lights were hung up, and they were horizontally around the wall. When Lin Ling discovered the existence of the black shadow, the nails that were originally mentioned in the instructions were now replaced by the black shadow.

"Decoration complete?"

Shi Changyuan followed Lin Ling all the way, helping to clear the tangled wires of the star light, and finally put the switch in Lin Ling's hand.

"It's done, our cozy room will be finished soon!"

Lin Ling admired her own masterpiece, and then turned on the power switch that Shi Changyuan handed over to her with great anticipation.

The abyss was still pitch black, and the stars hung quietly on the walls.

"Maybe the battery is out." Lin Ling checked it over and over for a long time and made an inference based on his three years of human life experience.

He found a small hole for the batteries on the back of the power switch, and inside it lay three button batteries.

He knew that some things needed energy to operate, and electricity was the most important one.

"This is easy to solve. Just replace a few batteries." Lin Ling looked at the small battery and then at Shi Changyuan. "You should have swallowed it before, right?"

Of course there is.

Shi Changyuan looked at the button batteries that were about the size of a fingernail and were lying in Xiaohua's palm. In the abyss space, finding these batteries among a pile of messy things was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"It may... take a long time to find it." Shi Changyuan reminded gently.

"It doesn't matter!" Lin Ling put the small batteries into his pocket, "Take your time to look for it. I can go ask the humans first!"

"Sister Mo and the others must know about this."

Shenyuan did not say anything about Xiaohua's suggestion, but from the way he picked up Lin Ling again, it could be seen that he did not want to stay in Shenyuan and search alone.

"Well, it seems you want to go to the human base with me."

Lin Ling has already gotten used to Shen Yuan hugging him from time to time, just like humans would occasionally disturb their sleeping kittens, and he has also found some more comfortable positions, such as holding him with one hand and sitting on Shen Yuan's arm.

This posture requires a certain amount of arm strength, but the abyss is always stable and seems more indestructible than rocks, which makes Xiaohua feel at ease.

When Shi Changyuan brought Lin Ling back to the surface, it was raining heavily outside. The water was already a flood, carrying a large amount of mud and sand, rolling in from the high ground, destroying many plants in an unstoppable manner.

Lin Ling was wearing a yellow duck raincoat, looking at the edge of the abyss, which was already at chest height. From time to time, some huge rocks and debris suddenly rushed out from the deep water.

The Abyss came forward and hugged Xiaohua, then disappeared into the distance. The huge rocks and debris fell into the Abyss and were swallowed up in an instant.

But Shi Changyuan felt that the little flower in his arms seemed to be frightened.

He patted Lin Ling's head gently and said comfortingly, "It's okay. There is nothing in the abyss that can hurt Xiaohua."

No matter what, Lin Ling had survived three years of extreme environments in the apocalypse by following the humans. It didn't take long for him to recover and he no longer had time to worry about the human base.

"Tomorrow's heavy rain will probably start to submerge the human base." Shi Changyuan said to Lin Ling, "But tomorrow I will expand the scope of swallowing."

"Okay." Xiaohua nodded, which meant that Shenyuan would have to work harder!

He looked around the area encircled by the abyss. Most of it was already covered with small white flowers. "Will these small white flowers be drowned?"

Shi Changyuan was silent for a while and said, "No."

"Expand the abyss a little further forward and use the extra space for drainage instead of the area inside, so the little white flowers won't be flooded."

In fact, the best and fastest way is to let the flood directly rush into the tiankeng, which will cover a wide area and be highly efficient, but it will indeed submerge the sea of ​​white flowers planted by Lin Ling.

But humans only asked him to help swallow the flood, without saying anything about the speed or time.

Shi Changyuan's gaze shifted from the flood to the white sea of ​​flowers. Not to mention whether the scale in his heart had tilted, in his heart, they were not even comparable.

Xiaohua didn't think about it that way. She just nodded and shifted her attention again.

"The water outside is so high now, how can we get to the base?" Lin Ling asked, "Can your teleportation get us there in an instant?"

Shi Changyuan shook his head, "The distance is not enough, we need a place to stay."

But where can we find a place to stay in this turbulent torrent?

"Hold on."

Shi Changyuan seemed to have thought of a solution. He picked up Lin Ling again and then teleported to the middle of the vast torrent.

From this angle, Lin Ling could already see that only half of the base wall had been flooded. The base gate had long been blocked, and on the base wall, there were still a few people wearing raincoats, using pumps to continuously drain the accumulated water from the city.

Lin Ling looked at the floodwaters surging beneath his and Shi Changyuan's feet, and suddenly felt dizzy.

How did he teleport into the air?

Before Lin Ling could even scream, Shi Changyuan landed steadily in the middle of the torrent, with a speedboat under his feet.

"Hold on tight."

Shi Changyuan placed Lin Ling on the back seat of the speedboat and stepped forward to take control of the steering wheel.

With a loud "boom", the two of them went upstream, causing a large splash of water.

"Wow...Wow..." Xiaohua had never ridden on this kind of water transportation before. It was really thrilling. Her face was blushing and her heart was beating fast.

Oh my god! This is really cool! !

The yellow-haired young man who was diligently draining the water on the city wall looked at the rumbling sound of the motor in the distance with envy in his eyes.

"It's really artificial. If it is driven like this, it will be scrapped if it picks up debris under the flood."

And it also has certain dangers.

But Shenyuan and Xiaohua are not fragile humans! It doesn’t matter how they act! ! !

Shi Changyuan drove the speedboat to the city gate, then turned the steering wheel 180 degrees, let go of Xiaohua, picked up her, and teleported directly to the city wall.

The speedboat had no one on board and roared in the opposite direction of the base, instantly disappearing from everyone's sight. Then, in the distance, a faint sound of what sounded like a violent collision was heard.

"Wow!" The yellow-haired young man at the side was stunned. "You know it will be scrapped, so you just scrap it?"

The yellow-haired young man didn't know what Shenyuan and Xiaohua were here for, and he was hesitant for a moment, not knowing whether he should go up and entertain them.

But it was obvious that Shenyuan didn't want to pay attention to the humans next to him. He looked at the situation in the base and found that the water was not high, probably only up to the ankles. Then he took out a pair of rain boots and helped Xiaohua put on them.

"Go ahead."

Just like the first time he sent Xiaohua to repay his gratitude, he stood at the door of the surveillance station, pushed Lin Ling, and let Lin Ling enter the human base by himself.

Lin Ling looked back and saw that Shi Changyuan looked like he was going to wait for him there, so he walked forward, asked for directions, and went to find Sister Mo Cheng, leaving Shenyuan and the yellow-haired young man looking at each other in bewilderment.

The vanguard team has moved to another place for refuge. When Lin Ling came and explained his purpose from beginning to end, Mo Cheng not only deepened Shen Yuan's attention to Xiao Hua, but also silently noticed another piece of information.

——What the abyss swallowed up did not disappear.

It's good news.

"Sorry, Xiaohua, we no longer produce this kind of battery. It's a pity for you to come here in the heavy rain."

Mo Cheng looked at Lin Ling apologetically, "Batteries are a way of storing energy that has too high a loss, so our current power source is solar energy."

Mo Cheng took a small solar device from the lab table nearby and said to Lin Ling, "How about I help you modify the star light?"

Lin Ling shook his head.

"But there is no sun in the abyss."

Mo Cheng was stunned, and seemed to want to say something, but after hesitating for a while, she didn't say much. She thought about it and continued to give Xiaohua advice.

"Otherwise, when the rainstorm is over, Lin Ling can go to other bases to have a look. I think someone still has this kind of battery and can trade it with others."

“It just means you may have to go to a few more places.”

Lin Ling nodded and understood.

When Xiaohua returned empty-handed, Shi Changyuan was stunned for a moment, but said nothing and took Lin Ling back again.

Mo Cheng looked at the surveillance of the two people coming and going, feeling a little emotional.

Sure enough, if it weren't for Xiaohua, Shenyuan wouldn't want to deal with humans at all, and he wasn't interested in the life and death of humans at all.

She watched as all the major human bases were struggling to drain water, but this was already a good situation. Humans could not expect a non-human to help them withstand all disasters.

But...she was a little worried about Xiaohua.

If she remembered correctly, the abyss probably brought the little flower's body into the abyss. If there is no sunlight in the abyss, and the flowers cannot even use solar energy, then wouldn't the little flower not be able to get sunlight?

The leaves of plants that are deprived of sunlight for a long time will gradually turn yellow, wither, or even die.

Do you know these abysses?

Mo Cheng quickly organized professional treatments for plant care, and then gathered various flower-growing experts to hold another emergency meeting.

"My fellow countrymen, the content of this meeting is also extremely important. It concerns the survival of mankind. Please be sure to attend on time!"

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"Don't be sad, the stars will always shine."

Xiaohua returned empty-handed, but for some reason it was Shi Changyuan who was in a bad mood. Lin Ling reached out and poked Shenyuan's cheeks, trying to make him smile.

"We can take advantage of the rainstorm to search in the abyss, or wait until the rainstorm is over and then go to other bases to look."

"It just so happens that I haven't visited other human bases yet!"

Shi Changyuan looked at Lin Ling, who was still jumping around in front of him, and felt a little overwhelmed for a moment.

In fact, when he heard Xiaohua talking about solar energy, he had already realized that there was no sunlight in the abyss.

Plants need sunlight and rain to grow and survive.

Shi Changyuan realized later that the seeds had actually been stuck in the abyss and could not grow out at all. No matter how much water he poured or how much fertilizer he applied, they would not be able to take root and sprout.

The seeds will just fall asleep with him.

Due to some accidents, the little flower left the abyss and sprouted. Now the main body has returned to the abyss, but if the plant does not see the sun for a long time...

Shi Changyuan reached out and held Lin Ling's fingers, which had not yet been retracted, and pinched the still healthy little flower.

Plants become malnourished, fragile, weak, and diseased.

"Without sunshine, isn't Xiaohua worried?" Shi Changyuan was silent for a long time before asking.

"Um?"

Xiaohua stuck to Shi Changyuan and heard him suddenly ask a strange question without any context.

"What?" Lin Ling hugged Shi Changyuan's neck and rubbed his cheeks, absorbing the warm body temperature.

"The sun."

The Abyss made it clearer, "Little Flower needs the sun, but there is none in the Abyss."

"If there's nothing, then there's nothing." Lin Lingsi didn't care. She sat on the edge of the bed holding the doll, waiting for Shi Changyuan to help her dry her hair.

"But the little flower will get sick if it doesn't get sunlight."

Lin Ling looked at the worried Shen Yuan and tilted his head, "But there are some outside."

"When we go out to play every day, we can also bring the flower pot with my real self, and we can go out to bask in the sun together and then come back."

"It's just a little troublesome." Lin Ling thought about the feasibility of this matter and felt a little embarrassed. Then he quickly became confident and said, "Anyway, you are not allowed to dislike me!"

"Yeah." The tension in Shi Changyuan's heart finally relaxed, and he nodded.

"I don't mind."

Xiaohua doesn't mind that the abyss can't survive there and doesn't want to leave. So how could the abyss mind that Xiaohua can't survive there?

So the next day, when Mo Cheng summarized a bunch of professional experience on how to raise plants in the dark and parachuted into the abyss by helicopter, Lin Ling had not yet gotten up. Shi Changyuan took advantage of the lull in the heavy rain to move the flower pots outside so that the plants could fully carry out photosynthesis.

Shi Changyuan looked at the pile of books and equipment that were slowly landing on his territory on a parachute, and felt a little amused when he realized what was inside.

For some reason, the abyss and humans are particularly extreme and pessimistic about this matter.

The abyss will never harm Lin Ling.

But he was particularly worried that Lin Ling would completely leave the abyss because in Shi Changyuan's eyes, the abyss swallowed up the sunlight, preventing it from getting in, which was equivalent to swallowing up Xiaohua's vitality, even if it was not his subjective wish.

His seeds were accidentally lost before, and he could still find them back, but what if the seeds wanted to leave on their own?

So I am deeply pessimistic.

In contrast, humans appear to be extremely extreme.

They seemed to have tacitly accepted that the Abyss would use force to keep Xiaohua in the Abyss, even if it meant both sides would suffer losses.

So they were worried that the fragile Xiaohua would die, so they put together a "win-win method" overnight and sent a device that could simulate sunlight so that Xiaohua could survive in the abyss. It was as if Xiaohua was going to be locked up and never allowed to go out.

Among those data, there is even research data on genetically modified dark plants.

Shi Changyuan was shocked when he saw those words. He just felt that humans are indeed humans, creatures with the most complex emotions. Isn't this just doing harmful things in the name of love?

The Abyss does not quite understand this kind of human emotion.

When Lin Ling woke up, he ran outside to bask in the sun with Shi Changyuan. Shenyuan told Xiaohua about this as if it were a new story.

Xiaohua laughed suddenly, and her laugh was particularly happy.

"Hahahahahaha, don't you know? Humans love to do this kind of thing the most."

Xiaohua sat on the edge of the abyss, surrounded by a sea of ​​flowers, basking in the rare sunshine during the rainy season, and smiled so hard that she fell into Shi Changyuan's arms.

"Humans have a special term for this kind of thing!"

"They call it forced love."

Lin Ling's eyes narrowed. "There are also novels with special themes. Many people like them!"

"Oh, how come you don't even know this?"