Chapter 2
Su Ran walked on the beetle for a long time.
The monster's noise continued, and along with the rustling sound of the wind, it reached his ears.
They stopped at the mutated mushroom cap.
Su Ran hooked the beetle's small hook: "...Aren't you leaving?"
The beetle did not answer him, but only flapped its claws in agreement.
Under the dim light, Su Ran vaguely heard footsteps.
Step by step.
Getting closer.
Su Ran: “!”
Why are you following me?
At this moment, all the sounds in the cave seemed to be amplified. Su Ran had no time to think. He slid off the beetle's back and hid under the big red mushroom cap.
The fragrance of mutant fungi came over, and Su Ran shook his body. In an instant, the roots were covered with green mud. Seeing that the beetle was still in a daze, he stretched out his leaves and pulled it to hide in the cap.
Despite the tight time schedule, Su Ran still carefully avoided the mushroom stems.
We can’t let the mushroom cap bloom small flowers now.
Otherwise you will be discovered by the big monster!
Without doing anything else, Su Ran rolled up the leaves, and a feeling of uneasiness and tension spread throughout his body - if Xiao Miaomiao could also be nervous.
Time freezes at this moment.
Everything in the cave was weird. Dark shadows floated on the rocks, and the cliffs, rocks and barriers glowed with scarlet light.
In addition, within the limited field of vision, there are various unknown skeletal creatures, multi-ecological monsters, and amphibian corpses. They are piled on one side and appear to have been here for a long time, covered with fluorescent green robes.
——Round, just like his little flower bud.
After a few minutes, Su Ran stuck his head out, but despite stretching out his green stem, he could not see anything.
As a small seedling, Su Ran felt that he had done his best.
If this giant monster wants to eat it, then it has no choice but to...
Su Ran moved her small leaves, poked them a few times with the tip of the leaves, sobbed, and made a whimpering sound.
Suddenly, he saw the beetle waving its little claws and grabbing his rhizome.
Because of the distortion, there are two more waving claws.
"You want to..." Su Ran tried to guess what the beetle meant, "Do you want to take me somewhere?"
The beetle couldn't speak, so it could only keep waving its little claws. In the end, it simply used its sharp claws to draw an arch on the wet mud, adding a tiny drop of water.
Su Ran understood immediately.
It turns out that he was asked to talk about the pictures.
When he was in the Rose Family, the elders loved playing this game with him.
Su Ran held up the small leaves, even the flower buds were bulging, and he looked thoughtful.
"Hmm..." Su Ran frowned and looked at it for a while, then suddenly realized, "Could it be that... this is the nutrient bead I'm looking for?!"
The beetle waved its little paws and looked very happy.
At this time, Su Ran still remembered that he was hiding from the patrol of the big monster - so he followed the beetle, crawling under the mycelium, left and right, twisting his green roots, like pushing aside layers of gauze, and quietly slipped away.
Under the fluorescent light of the mutant mycelium, the scenery in front of him gradually became clear and appeared in front of Su Ran.
A tiny cliff cave platform.
A faint breeze blew in, moist and carrying the scent of earth. Everywhere I looked was the quiet earth, forest, and sky. Silently, the ever-changing thin clouds surged rapidly, like a giant beast taking a brief breath.
Su Ran's attention was all focused on the distance.
——A small drop of water hanging in the air.
At the tip below is a very small red core, glowing faintly.
Not long ago, when he was still in the Rose Family, he secretly flipped through the elders' booklet. At that time, the "nutrient beads" he saw were in this shape.
Very good!
Now you can grow up!
Su Ran crawled out from the crack, stretched his roots forward, and grabbed the water droplets with great force.
The moment I came into contact with the "Nutrient Beads"——
boom!
There was a loud bang.
A huge gap appeared above the rock, casting a luminous green light in. Reddish-brown dust fell, slamming heavily onto the mushroom cap.
Accompanied by countless loud noises, the sound of collapse was heard everywhere, and sharp stone pillars were scattered all over the ground.
Su Ran was so scared that he shrank into the crevice of the rock.
Wow - could it be that a big monster is coming?
The scenery in front of him was blocked by dust. Su Ran hid for a while, then opened his eyes with difficulty.
In the dust, he vaguely saw a bead falling from the platform, rolling and rolling, and finally disappearing under a group of mushroom caps.
Su Ran: “!”
Those must be nutrient beads!
Without hesitation, Su Ran rushed over as fast as a seedling could go. He shook the roots and stepped on the gravel, clattering, ignoring the thumping sound of the cave ceiling above his head.
After an unknown amount of time, the ground stopped shaking.
Even the cave fell silent.
An empty ground appeared in front of Su Ran. Due to the loud noise, the entire cave was turned upside down and no longer looked the same as before.
In addition, on his right side, the wall of the cave had turned into a pile of cliff rocks.
"Where are the nutrient beads..." he muttered softly, looking around for a long time, "I clearly saw them all..."
As a little rose, Su Ran wants to bloom quickly.
His eagerness forced him to take a few more steps forward. At this moment, he seemed to see a red shadow, wheels rolling into the shadows on one side.
Su Ran opened her eyes wide.
It turns out that the nutrient beads are in this big square shell!
Even though the elders had told him when he was in the Rose Family that he was not allowed to enter a stranger's house, but -
What could be more important than nutrition beads!
Su Ran couldn't wait to run over.
He held the small bud with the leaves and climbed up the shell, whispering to himself that he was not afraid of heights.
After finally reaching the top of the shell, before he could even catch his breath, the shell suddenly tilted forty-five degrees. Su Ran's constant chattering turned into a series of exclamations.
He helplessly grabbed a frame that looked like a skylight on one side, shook the leaves to the left, kicked the roots to the right, and swayed as if he was performing some difficult acrobatics.
Su Ran cried.
He is really afraid of heights. He grew up in the soil and has never grown on a tree.
However, you must always be aware of your surroundings so that you can cope with the current situation.
Su Ran looked around carefully.
To his left and right were overgrown vines, and below him lay the bottomless interior of a shell. Facing him was what seemed to be a table, a water cup, a book, and...
It’s nutrition beads!
Su Ran's eyes lit up.
At this time, the nutrient bead was not far from him, emitting a faint light.
After thinking for a few seconds, Su Ran let go of a leaf that was holding on the window frame. He and the small flower bud were exerting force, making a puff and trying to move towards that place.
It was just hooked, and the leaves were not wrapped around it, so the little rose fell down with a snap.
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The other end of the cave.
"Oh my god, the cracking level is level 5." Qiao Ran glanced at the recorder in his hand, bent down and came out of the arched cliff beside him, saying with lingering fear, "Thank goodness this small cave blocked it, otherwise we would have been turned into meat paste."
Si Chengyan said nothing.
The colonel's expression was more indifferent than that of others, such as Qiao Ran. He bent down and looked at the small mushroom caps.
Compared to before, these mushroom caps have grown twenty centimeters taller, looking even more bizarre.
"This mushroom cap..." Qiao Ran asked, "Colonel Si, have you found anything?"
"Not yet." Si Chengyan picked up a mushroom cap and casually threw it into the vacuum bag: "First collect the sample and send it back to the Institute of Qualitative Change."
Qiao Ran responded, then sighed and said, "If we don't find the aberration this time, we'll be questioned by those old guys from the research institute again when we return."
"As a military, all we have to do is investigate."
"That being said..."
Qiao Ran scratched his head.
The relationship between the military and the Institute of Qualitative Change has always been less than harmonious, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
In the past, the military had a higher status because it ensured the safety of the city. However, in the past two years, with the active development of Earth distortion, the Institute of Qualitative Change has taken on part of the responsibility.
But status is always in conflict.
As the base gained more attention, the Institute of Qualitative Change also expanded accordingly, with many more arrogant people.
Thinking of this, Qiao Ran got a headache.
He looked at Si Chengyan and found that he had been rummaging under the mushroom cap for a while and picked up a small white flower.
"Colonel Si, why did you pick this little white flower?" Qiao Ran looked at him. "You just ruled out the suspicion of this little flower."
Si Chengyan put the little white flower into his pocket. Qiao Ran felt a little happy: "Do you want to exchange your Biluochun and put it in your cup to make tea?"
The moment he finished speaking, the watch on his hand started ticking.
"Armored vehicle reports, illegal intrusion." Qiao Ran's tone became more serious. "We have located the invading creatures and are waiting for a response."
Si Chengyan put the remaining white flower into his pocket and looked at him.
For them who have been stationed in the wild for many years, such incidents are no longer strange.
Those insects with polypeptide limbs and large torsos often lose a certain degree of rationality due to their deformation - they have a strong destructive power against human things, whether it is fields and buildings, military vehicles, or stationed troops.
This is extremely dangerous.
Especially in the wild, the military often suffers huge losses when attacked by large arthropods, and even the entire team may be wiped out if they are not careful.
"Maybe the armored vehicle is damaged." Qiao Ran analyzed, "If they invade the cab and destroy the system, we're doomed."
Si Chengyan: "First, locate the target."
Qiao Ran responded and turned on the intelligent voice "Poke" to confirm the radar screen.
"Please wait a moment."
"Ultrasound locked, five seconds until return."
"Five, four, three..."
Poker's voice was cold, and with the ticking countdown, everything was hurried and tense, and Qiao Ran's eyes fell on the radar screen.
As an assistant, he was responsible for positioning data and promptly informing Si Chengyan of the location of large deformed objects.
The last second.
Qiao Ran said "eh".
He seemed to be in disbelief, and even rubbed his eyes, repeatedly confirming that he wished he could stick the radar on his face.
Si Chengyan: "What's wrong?"
"The target location..." Qiao Ran said in surprise, "is floating in your water cup."
The author has something to say:
A small cup of rose tea (bushi)
I'll be caught in the next chapter~
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