Chapter 23
Seeing Dr. Tariel coming, Su Ran took a small step back.
Compared to before, he felt that the other person's eye sockets seemed to have become much deeper, and there were many more wrinkles on his skin.
It was completely different from what he saw in the Colonel's communicator.
"It turns out to be a cute little rose." Tariel pointed his cane and walked over while looking at Su Ran. "What experiment is suitable for you..."
Before he could finish his words, the little mushroom was so scared that even its tentacles retracted into its cap.
Su Ran was also very scared, but at this time he thought of the colonel. If he were there, he would definitely be brave.
And he also needs to heal his wound quickly and tell the colonel about this huge conspiracy!
So he bravely stretched out his little leaf, protected the little mushroom and said, "Don't come over here!"
Tariel smiled. "Can you stop me?"
Su Ran: "As long as I'm here, I won't let you get close to us!"
As he spoke, he pulled the tentacles of the little mushroom.
Because of the distortion, the tentacles can be stretched indefinitely, and are only about two meters away from the ventilation vent.
Su Ran pulled the little mushroom with all his strength, and at the moment when Tariel pounced on him, he jumped up with all his might - at this moment, Tariel's fingers turned into a slender mantis hook, firmly grasping Su Ran's rhizome.
"Let me go!" Su Ran kicked her feet hard and shouted at the little mushroom, "Just go away and leave me alone!"
Little Mushroom: "Gugu——"
He refused to let go of Su Ran and continued to hold the small leaf with his tentacles.
In just a second, it seemed as if purple mist spread in, filling the entire room...
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When Su Ran woke up, he found that they were locked in a laboratory.
There is no guillotine and no test stand.
There were only a few rusty iron racks, tilted to one side, and some broken test tubes mixed with some indescribable pus-filled liquid, flowing all over the floor.
Su Ran leaned on the back of the little mushroom and stretched out his roots to look around.
No relevant exits were found.
It seems that here, it is dark and they will be locked in this laboratory forever.
Su Ran asked: "What should we do now?"
"Gululu, gurulu..."
It seems that there is nothing that can be done for mushrooms.
Just as they were about to look for another exit, they heard a sudden noise in the corner. It sounded like a giant beetle's legs scraping against the bricks, making a grunting sound.
Su Ran suddenly became alert.
"Who is it?"
"It turned out to be a little monster." The man took a look and casually defined it. He crawled out from the corner of the wall, and Su Ran saw his entire appearance.
This human, combined with the monster's limbs, had thick, jet-black hair covering its entire skin from the base of its neck. It was dense and dense, like thorns in the jungle. What shocked Su Ran even more was that this human's arms, starting at the elbows, transformed into beetle limbs, with hard black shells replacing bones and fingers transformed into sharp hooks.
When the man slowly crawled out of the corner and saw Su Ran, he sneered again: "What a little monster."
Su Ran: "No!"
I'm not a little monster.
He puffed up his bud and thought for several seconds, then raised his face and said seriously, "I'm just... just a little rose, I'm hurt, that's all."
If possible, he would like to add some adjectives.
for example.
Cute little roses.
A little flower with magical powers.
And, and—
Su Ran thought for a few seconds.
Oh, by the way, he is also a flower who knows idioms.
However - this is not the problem now, but how he should escape and heal the wound on the rhizome.
Su Ran felt very sad when she thought about this.
He really wants to be the colonel.
I want to snuggle into his arms, listen to those idiom stories, act coquettishly, and take a bath together.
The more Su Ran thought about it, the sadder she became, so she sat down on the ground with her little flower bud drooping.
"You look distressed," the man said. "What happened?"
Su Ran: "Nothing."
He didn't really want to pay any attention to this human, even though he was leaning there, dying.
Instead, the little mushroom chirped and waved its tentacles to communicate with the human.
"You're asking me... how long have I been here?" The man moved his beetle legs and said thoughtfully, "About fifty years or so."
"Due to a mutation, I became mutated and grew limbs. I've been imprisoned here for a long time."
Su Ran: "A long time?"
"Yes. I'm lucky, but also unfortunate." The man smiled. "My appearance is preserved forever, but I've lost my freedom. Because... I'm a member of the research institute, and I have to take on the responsibility of being studied."
Su Ran pulled Little Mushroom to sit next to the man.
"As for the other humans who were deformed, because it was the first deformation humanity had ever experienced, everyone was forced to leave the city." He paused, then added, "Whether they lived or died is unknown."
Little Mushroom: "Goo-goo."
The man laughed again: "You asked me my name? My name is Stan."
Su Ran: "Do you understand the language of mushrooms?"
"I'm a veteran of the Transmutation Institute. Of course, we all know the language systems possessed by these artificially mutated plants," Stanel said. "Including that Tariel. I knew his purpose from the very beginning."
“…What is it?”
"He wanted the whole aberration to merge with the human being, like plasticine, a wing here, a beetle hook there, and then fuse them together. Yes, just like me."
Stanel paused for a few seconds. "I'm talking about natural disasters, but it looks like a man-made disaster is coming too."
Su Ran hugged her little leaf tightly.
"All the mist here is to catalyze a final form." Stanel chuckled as he spoke. "Guess what will happen now, given that there were dead things infecting us before?"
"I have no idea……"
Stanner sighed. "Well, we'll find out soon enough. Do you have any other wishes?"
Su Ran: "I, I want to see the colonel."
After these words came out, Stan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "I've heard of him, his name is Si Chengyan?"
Su Ran started to cry when she heard it.
"So this is what the military likes." Stanler smiled. "Is it popular to treat aberrations as boyfriends now?"
"Boyfriend?"
Su Ran couldn't understand this word, but now he didn't have the energy to understand it. He rolled up the blackened root and whimpered softly, "I still want to see him, but I can't find the nutrient beads now."
It seemed that even this had become a small vision that he could not achieve.
"Nutrient beads?" Stanel paused for a few seconds and said to himself, "It looks familiar... You want to get this?"
Su Ran hummed: "Of course."
As he finished speaking, Stan's eyes shone with a faint light, as if he was very happy to resist Dr. Tariel's behavior.
He looked at Su Ran and said, "It's not impossible to see your boyfriend. There should be other ways to get the nutrient beads."
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