Chapter 14
When Si Chengyan pushed the door open, he heard Su Ran humming.
His gaze moved forward, and he saw a clean bed, a spotless table, and a cabinet filled with Biluochun tea.
Even with the help of Snail Rose Su Ran, it became more tidy.
but……
He walked towards the kitchen.
If someone told him right now that a monster had blown up his kitchen, he would believe it without hesitation. Pots and pans were scattered all over the floor, dotted with specks of batter, and there was a trail of flour on the counter, which looked like the trace of a small flour rose that had just flown away.
At this moment, Su Ran was in the center of the paste, holding a small spoon floating in the middle, looking weak, pitiful and helpless.
Seeing Si Chengyan coming, he shook the leaves and chirped.
Wow, my whole body is wet.
Si Chengyan brought the bowl and the rose into the bathroom.
Then, put a little clean water in the bathtub, patted the flour off the Su Ran flower bud, took it out and gently put it in.
Cool water droplets fell on the leaves and dripped along the veins bit by bit. Su Ran sat obediently in the middle and let Si Chengyan rub his furry little bud.
When the massage reaches a comfortable spot, he will hum a few times to express his satisfaction.
It's like a rose that likes to take a bath.
"Shower gel." Si Chengyan asked, "Is it okay?"
"Hmm..." Su Ran thought for a few seconds: "It should work, right?"
He wasn't sure either.
But since it has been defined as a benign deformity, it proves that it is super powerful and there is nothing wrong with it.
So Su Ran asked for some shower gel and rubbed it carefully on the leaves. After a while, small bubbles appeared on the leaf veins, crystal clear.
It’s so fun.
Su Ran felt very curious.
He snapped his leaves left and right, chasing bubbles with his small leaves.
Until the end, Si Chengyan washed Su Ran clean, rinsed her inside and out with cold water, then wrapped her in a blanket and put her on the bed.
Su Ran hummed comfortably.
So the colonel rubbed him a few more times as a massage after bathing.
The colonel's fingers were calloused, and the flower bud felt very comfortable when touched.
"Don't you want to take a shower?" Su Ran held the colonel's finger and said seriously, "I can help you take a shower."
When Si Chengyan heard this, a smile appeared in his eyes: "No need."
"Well..." Su Ran said while touching the small flower bud, "Then let's do it next time."
As Rose, bathing between creatures is normal.
As a member of Colonel Si's exclusive logistics unit, Little Rose helps with bathing, which is a matter of course.
Even if humans wear clothes, it is easy to untie them piece by piece.
He can help too.
Thinking of this, Su Ran added the incident of "taking a bath with the colonel" into the little notebook.
And its importance is equal to that of nutrient beads.
*
Su Ran did not go back to her little quilt.
The colonel said that there was a meeting in the evening and I needed to attend it and would be back at midnight.
So he had the colonel's bed.
The faint scent of cedar lingered between the quilts, and Su Ran felt at ease. He grasped the edge of the quilt and said obediently, "You go ahead and do your work. I can tell myself a bedtime story."
"Yeah." Si Chengyan said, "I'll be back in a while."
"It's okay."
Su Ran said softly, "I won't run away."
Just now, they made a pinky promise that if the meeting was over in the next few days and no more mutants appeared, they would go to the wild to look for nutrient beads.
What he needs to do now is to conserve his energy so that when he finds the nutrient beads, he can grow up all of a sudden.
"When will you be back?" Su Ran said, "I feel uneasy when you are not around."
"After the meeting."
Su Ran grabbed the edge of the quilt: "Really?"
Si Chengyan didn't say anything, but reached out and rubbed his flower bud. After a while, he said softly, "Of course, we'll go find the nutrient beads later."
Su Ran finally felt relieved, closed the small leaves, and went to sleep soundly.
You must come back soon.
I will be very good and you don't have to worry about me sleeping.
So Su Ran stayed in bed obediently and asked Si Chengyan to open the window. With the damp mist, he could feel like he was in the wild and fall asleep faster.
"Once upon a time, there was a little rose with a red hat. She met the big bad wolf..."
Su Ran imitated Elder Rose's tone and told herself the story softly.
In a daze, he saw Si Chengyan put something that looked like a wristband next to the pillow. Just as he was about to speak, he fell asleep with a snore.
*
Seeing that Su Ran fell asleep, Si Chengyan got up.
His gaze fell out the window - the surroundings became quiet at this time, and the fog lingered in the city, covering the buildings in varying distances and forming continuous black shadows.
Just like in the wild, whether it is the abyss or the mining area, the dark unknown often lies on such nights.
Si Chengyan is used to it.
Having survived in the wild for so many years, he had already experienced countless crises. It would be a lie to say that he had never nearly lost his life. He had also seen his former comrades killed by monsters.
Just now.
He has a small rose plant.
Si Chengyan found it difficult to describe this feeling. To many people, it was a "pet" because in the end times, many military officers would choose to raise some benign deformed creatures to relieve stress.
But he felt that it was not the case at all. Su Ran's arrival could not be categorized in this way. It was as if he was holding something in his heart, and it was definitely not what they thought.
But there is only one thing.
Now he completely understands.
Everything in this land was too cruel for this little rose.
At this time, Qiao Ran was waiting outside the door. They were about to go to the United Front Center to arrange the next task.
"Colonel, where is the detection system on your wrist?" Qiao Ran asked doubtfully, "Did you forget to wear it?"
Si Chengyan: "I gave it to Su Ran."
"You never let go of this." Qiao Ran's tone was full of surprise. "Officers are the priority attack group of the aberrations. Without real-time broadcasts, how much danger would they be in..."
"It's okay." Si Chengyan said, "I know."
Qiao Ran sighed: "You are still the same. Even our team can't persuade you."
Si Chengyan didn't continue the topic and asked, "Is the latest report from the base out?"
"I always feel like something has gotten in here that shouldn't be there," Qiao Ran said. "Solids are infecting solids, organisms are infecting non-organisms... The order of this world has long been disrupted. What else is waiting for us?"
"Qiao Ran." Si Chengyan said lightly.
"I know that as a captain, I shouldn't have those emotions." Qiao Ran waved his hand, "But the frequency of the recent distortions has made every soldier panic."
This is indeed true.
Apart from Si Chengyan, he had never seen anyone as calm as him in the army.
In the selection more than ten years ago, among the millions of new recruits, only Si Chengyan skipped the level and entered the United Front Work Center, becoming the youngest officer.
The two of them stopped talking. In the distance, the thick fog remained, and did not dissipate at all with the passage of time. On the contrary, the purple fluorescence became even stronger.
The whole world - or this era - has become increasingly distant from human beings.
The base has been foggy for a long time.
Although there are occasional sunny days, rainy and foggy weather has become more common since the 1311th Unit went to the field to collect data.
According to the institute, the mist drifted in from the abyss and the wilderness, and due to frequent distortion activities, unknown pollutants were brought into the water vapor, giving it a light purple color.
"This is the repair shop's investigation report." Qiao Ran handed the paper version to Si Chengyan. "We thought at the time that because the vehicle was damaged and the repairman had a cut on his arm, the person and the object merged, just like what happened with Manlot."
He paused for a few seconds and said, "But this time it's not the case."
"The vehicle wasn't damaged at all. The military investigated for a long time and couldn't find even a broken part," Qiao Ran said. "We only know that it was foggy that day, and the fusion of the vehicle and the human occurred without any warning..."
Si Chengyan said nothing.
He looked at the building surrounded by fog and fell into thought.
If it's not broken, what is it?
Because of the distortion activity, the infection between solids has been noticed by them.
Whether it is a living thing or a dead thing, as long as it is in a state of aggregation of matter and meets the conditions of human injury and object damage, it will infect each other.
Could it be that...
A bold idea came into Si Chengyan's mind.
What if the infection mechanism this time wasn't solid, but was instead catalyzed by some other substance? Or, in other words, if it wasn't catalysis, it was the source of this infection, like the current one...
The moment this thought came to mind, a loud noise was heard in the sky.
A flash of lightning suddenly exploded.
Immediately afterwards, Poke's alarm sounded, rapid and dense - in a place they could not see, the surging fog seemed to have life, all rushing towards the room where Su Ran was.
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