Chapter 22
Su Ran followed the little mushroom to the triangular building.
Just as he imagined, everything here was gray, just like the devil's castle in a fairy tale.
The towering building shone with a cold light. Unlike a residential area, this place looked more like a fortified area. Although it was just a single building, it was divided into three parts in the middle, about 20 meters high.
They were connected to each other by corridors, forming an equilateral triangle - in the center, there was a red sphere floating in the middle, which reminded Su Ran of the eyes of a monster in the abyss.
He took a few steps back in fear.
Even the small leaves trembled.
However, he wants to get the nutrient beads because he wants to stay in the human world.
Su Ran calmed down, he held onto the little mushroom's tentacles tightly and whispered, "I'm ready."
As the words fell, accompanied by the gurgling sound of mushrooms, they walked into the triangular building.
Mist gathered behind them, hiding the small figures.
*
Area B base conference room.
Qiao Ran and Anna were leaning against the windowsill, waiting for the weasel coffee to be made.
"How's the Abyss been these past two days?" Anna asked. "The fog's rising again."
Qiao Ran shook his head: "It's temporarily blocked today. No one can enter without the highest order from the military."
Anna: "Whose order?"
"Colonel Si."
Anna nodded and pressed the coffee making button: "Not surprising at all."
She paused for a few seconds as she spoke. "I always feel... that this distortion is not just natural, but more like someone deliberately manipulated it."
"We've never been so hectic when dealing with distortions before," Anna said. "During the fog incident, Colonel Si and you just happened to leave the building, and that's when Su Ran was attacked."
"You mean..." Qiao Ran pondered, "Is someone deliberately staring at Su Ran?"
"Maybe more than that."
Anna poured a cup of Weasel Coffee into a paper cup. "If this was targeting the distorted plants, we could still catch our breath. But now it feels more like an operation targeting humans. No matter which branch or department, someone must be using these distortions to secretly manipulate something."
"You must tell that to the Colonel."
"He should have noticed it." Anna said, "Just now, he said he was going on a mission, but he didn't say where."
Qiao Ran put away his usual playful smile.
He looked out the window. Above the city, a purple mist rose again. The tall buildings became blurry shadows. As the mist spread, both sunrise and sunset were completely swallowed up. Even the suspended residential islands were transformed into countless twisted black shadows.
*
At the other end of the city, the triangular building.
In order to avoid the patrolling research institute personnel, Su Ran crawled into the sewer.
The circular passage could not withstand a rose and a mushroom. They climbed over the wet garbage and climbed up the horizontal bars, one step at a time.
After an unknown amount of time, they came to a ventilation duct.
The outer shell was already rusted. Su Ran pushed it with a blade, and it fell to the ground with a clang.
"Fortunately..." Su Ran muttered softly, "It would have been terrible if we were discovered..."
Little Mushroom: "Gululu."
"What did you say?"
"Gululu, gululu..." Mushroom pulled him out of the vent and landed on the desk at the side, holding papers and photos, "gululu."
Only then did Su Ran discover a clue.
There are actually a lot of mushrooms in the photo.
They were numbered in sequence and covered with a transparent shell with purple mist inside.
The location of the collection was also specified—in the cave at Far Howling Mountain, among the vines beside Green Lake. The time was a month ago, after the eighth transformation began. Su Ran remembered that it was the time of the bird's transformation, when it carried him away from the Rose Family.
"No wonder you're so familiar with this place." Su Ran said, "Were you forced to be here as a subject for the distortion experiment?"
The little mushroom cried with tears in his eyes.
So Su Ran continued to ask: "What about your family? Where are the elders of the Mushroom Tribe?"
Little Mushroom almost fainted from crying.
He vigorously poked the paper with his tentacles and drew a circle.
It was like saying – his elder family had all disappeared because of this experiment.
"Is that so..." Su Ran felt sad. The wound was becoming increasingly uncomfortable. Besides the purple marks on the original small incision, more black marks appeared at the end.
Su Ran felt that if he were a human, he would become dull and lifeless like his flower bud.
"It's okay." Su Ran touched the cap of the small mushroom. "I'm here, the colonel is here too. There are a lot of good people here."
He paused for a few seconds and then asked, "Has this bad guy been caught?"
The little mushroom waved its tentacles.
In just a few seconds, he held a pencil and started drawing on the back of the paper.
He was an old man with a white beard and a cane, and the place where they were sitting was one of the old man's offices.
The more Su Ran looked at the stick figure, the more he thought it was Dr. Tariel.
"Was it him who did the distortion experiment?"
As soon as the words fell, the little mushroom drew a check mark.
Su Ran shook the flower bud.
It seems that he was staring at me and threatening to take me away... Maybe he wanted to capture me and do research on me.
Su Ran: "Then what should we do now?"
Without the nutrient beads, he would have died in the Triangle Building.
He didn't tell Si Chengyan or Qiao Ran that if they encountered an accident here, they might disappear on the spot like the creatures in the mushroom family.
Facing Su Ran's worry, the little mushroom patted its leaves and pointed at the paper: "Gurgle..."
The reason why he was able to escape was that he studied a lot of structures.
Believe him.
Su Ran: "Yeah!"
They quietly went out of the door and saw several masked researchers walking into their floor in the distance.
Su Ran had read quite a few cartoon books in the Rose Family, and this clicking sound was like the sound of the Grim Reaper passing by with a scythe.
They slipped all the way into the laboratory on the right.
Three nutrient beads appeared in front of Su Ran. Little Mushroom got Dr. Tariel's card from somewhere, opened the door familiarly, pulled Su Ran into the room, and opened the glass cover on the nutrient beads.
The laboratory was closed at this time and the light around was very dim. The little mushroom used its slender tentacles to pick up Su Ran and brought him to the cabinet.
The mycelium slowly lifted up his black rhizome. Su Ran held onto the test stand on the side and managed to stand up a little straighter.
As long as he gets this nutrient bead, he can survive.
Not only can it grow up, but it can also become a human being and will no longer mutate.
Just as he stretched out the blade, the sound of a door opening suddenly rang out behind them.
Then, an old voice was heard: "Let me see... which two deformed little cuties have arrived at my studio?"
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