Chapter 25
Unlike before, Su Ran was very serious and grabbed the nutrient beads with force.
At this moment, he heard a creaking sound.
Having been in the wild for so long, he had long been accustomed to this. Whether it was the rubbing of leaves between plants or the calls of animals, these were all normal. But now he heard a chewing sound that was different from the ones he had heard before.
Without time to think, he rolled up the leaves and rolled down the cliff holding the nutrient beads.
In an instant, gray dust rose up and immediately covered the little rose.
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The other side of the cave.
With a subtle sound, Si Chengyan stood up and finished taking samples on the right side. He leaned against the cliff edge, looking at the no signal on the walkie-talkie, and fell into a brief moment of thought.
For the military, this is a very dangerous signal. Losing contact means that even if he encounters danger, he cannot contact the system combat center in time. At this time, he is in the abyss at the bottom of the city, and the smoke bombs for calling for help in the wild will not work.
The slimy gloves were taken off, and Si Chengyan took out three crystals from his pocket.
——The red guillotine.
He never intended to give the nutrient beads to the research institute.
After Su Ran made his selection, he quietly took three similar blood-dripping darts from under a nearby mushroom umbrella. These three were not much different from Su Ran's choice, but they didn't trigger anything when they were near him.
"Qualitative Change Research Institute." Si Chengyan's tone was very cold, and he muttered to himself, "What will you do after you get this?"
Although the military and the entire base personnel believed that eliminating risks should be the responsibility of the Qualitative Change Institute, Si Chengyan disagreed.
A long time ago, he had experienced an accident in which the Institute of Qualitative Change was involved. For human beings, they were a completely new perspective, a kind of scientific madman.
Si Chengyan raised his eyes.
He grabbed the Flying Guillotine and put it back into his pocket.
The vision in front of him was still dim, and it seemed that the distortion had deepened at this moment. The white shells that had been stepped on by Qiao Ran had grown back on the cliff.
Compared to the blood-dropping darts at the other end, there are more white hard shells here. The smallest is as big as a thumb, and the largest can be a palm. They are densely packed and unevenly distributed. They seem to have life and are still growing in the soil.
Just then—
A sudden alarm sounded from the watch!
"Alert! Distortion value fluctuates!"
"Alert again, unusual activity detected, value fluctuations!"
"Please report to the military as soon as possible, code number 4M3R, there are abnormal fluctuations!"
Si Chengyan frowned, and at this time many white shells emerged on the surface - the wet cement incubated all of this, like human gums, new white shells were emerging in an extremely regular manner.
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The side cliff of the cave.
Compared to the Dongxue branch where Si Chengyan is located, it is very quiet here, with only the sound of dripping water.
The blood-dropping stones on the edge of the cliff were emitting a dim red light. They were still intact and very sharp, like countless gems inlaid on the stone walls and the cave ceiling.
Unknown water drops continued to fall, making the ground muddy.
I don’t know how long it took, but in the dim light, a small leaf swayed out.
He grabbed a stone and slowly swung it.
Su Ran looked at the scenery in front of him and seemed stunned for a few seconds.
Then he looked at himself.
The leaves are still green.
There are also purple and black rhizomes and fluffy little flower buds.
Su Ran: “?”
He paused and looked at the nutrient bead beside him - it was also intact, not damaged, and still looked like a blood dropper.
After thinking for a minute, Su Ran suddenly remembered something.
Yes, his leaves cannot digest solids, just like the candy the researcher gave him before, he can only use his leaves to hold it and spin it around.
So - does that mean that as long as we crush it, we can absorb it?
Su Ran started his experiment immediately.
He climbed up the nutrient bead with a grunt, knocking it left and right.
Seeing no response, Su Ran pulled apart the roots, sat down on top of the blood-dripping device, and grabbed the sharp corner on top with great force.
His entire flower bud was straining, bulging, and in the end there was just a popping sound, and the beads and the rose fell down.
When Su Ran used the leaves to prop up the flower bud, the bead was still intact in front of him, and its shape had not changed at all.
Su Ran: "Woo woo."
He can't use the nutrient beads anymore.
When he was in the Rose Family, he was always naughty. When the Rose Elder said a few words, he would sneak behind the big tree stump to catch small butterflies, and he didn't care about the use of the nutrient beads at all.
But now—
He has to succeed.
Just when Su Ran was gathering his strength and trying again, a short and fat figure appeared from the side.
"Little mushroom!" Su Ran straightened up his roots, "How did you get here?"
The little mushroom held up its tentacles and chattered. Su Ran was very surprised at first, and then the bud drooped. "You said... the colonel has lost contact?"
"Gululu, I don't know if it's right, but that's what the military said."
The little mushroom said, grabbing his tentacle and saying, "I'm so sorry."
Su Ran started to whimper when she heard that, and said slowly: "I don't blame you..."
For some reason, after he understood the language of mushrooms, it seemed to become more difficult for him to express himself in human language.
In this case, he must get this bead!
"Little Mushroom, listen to me. I'm in trouble right now." Su Ran said, "I can't absorb the nutrient beads. Do you know what's going on?"
"Gulu, I think I know." The little mushroom shook its tentacles, "That's what the Mushroom Elder said."
"What is it?"
"To be crushed, grunt."
Su Ran: "...crushed?"
"It just turns into lots of fragments, grunt, similar to fine powder, or directly into granules."
The more Su Ran listened, the slimmer her hope seemed.
He had already tried very hard, but what should he do with this powder?
He's not a carnivorous plant!
Wow, if only it were this kind of flower now.
Seeing Su Ran crying, the little mushroom was also very depressed. He sat beside her with his mushroom butt, covered his cap with his little tentacles, and started to cry.
But in just a few seconds, he felt something was wrong.
He met Su Ran's strange gaze.
"Gulu, gurgle?" A few scattered syllables were uttered at that moment, and then Su Ran was heard saying: "I want to mutate!"
The little mushroom heard it and said, "Gulp!"
What are you talking about!
Has the bud been knocked?
Su Ran repeated firmly, "I want to mutate into the fierce and adorable Huahua!"
After he finished speaking, Su Ran didn't wait for Mushroom to say anything else and ran directly to the center of the cave.
In the very center of this abyss, in the center of the crack, is the source of the chewing sound.
They came from the central position, although subtle, but still continuous, like a wild beast lurking in it, constantly grinding its teeth waiting for prey.
And that place, in Su Ran's opinion, was precisely the most vulnerable to infection. His roots had already been injured, so next up were the leaves, the flower buds, and the thorny hairs—he wanted to rupture all of them and then infect them.
He had no choice but to do this.
Su Ran instantly turned into a fearless flower. He ran, snapping, snapping, and reached the center of the cave at the fastest speed.
What comes into view is a large area of luminous grass, which has various shapes and is uneven up and down. Walking a little further, there are mutated fungi attached to the corners and the ground, as well as uneven cliffs that look like small hills.
"Wait a minute, just stay here." Su Ran said to Mushroom, "If something's wrong with me, just run away... Or, just leave now, okay?"
Little Mushroom: "Stop!"
Su Ran is his savior.
"If you're in any trouble, Gulu, I can help..." said the little mushroom, "My mutation is greater than yours, and I'm from that research institute. I'll be fine!"
"Then if you see me getting aggressive," Su Ran reminded him, "run away immediately."
The little mushroom nodded to indicate that it was okay!
The whole cave became quiet.
Little Mushroom stood at the farthest edge of the cliff, leaving the entire center position to Su Ran.
Compared to the sticky mud, the road here is relatively hard. Su Ran struggled to climb up the rocks on one side of the cliff with the nutrient beads.
For a small seedling, this stone was already very tall, but there were large patches of purple fluorescence on it, like contaminants from a cave, spread across it in large patches.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Su Ran finally reached the top.
He held up his rhizome, as if hesitating, but only for a second before he resolutely scratched the leaf with the tip of the nutrient bead—fresh plant fluid immediately flowed out and dripped onto the side of the rhizome.
The little mushroom exclaimed in the distance.
But Su Ran continued to scratch, once, twice, three times... as if he could not feel the pain, and did not stop until all the leaves and roots were scratched.
Finally, there are the flower buds.
This is the pride of their rose family. If it is scratched, it will be disfigured and will no longer be a beautiful little rose.
Su Ran thought of this and cried, whimpering.
But after just a few seconds, he suppressed his emotions, raised the leaves, and with a snap, the tip of the bead directly cut through the flower bud.
Su Ran couldn't remember what he felt afterwards. He seemed to have swayed a few times and fell on the purple pollutants. It also seemed that everything around him was red light, filling his vision.
The field of vision continued to shrink and become narrower, and finally the nutrient beads disappeared. It seemed that they were eaten by him because a chattering sound was heard.
But it was only for a moment, and a magical feeling came from the flower bud.
Like a warm current in early spring, it flows continuously, spreading through the roots, stems and leaves.
At the same time, a gentle white light immediately gathered around him. Unlike the power of healing, it was more of a soft glimmer. They gathered and scattered into star-like lights, then slowly dissipated...
Finally, just before the nutrient bead was consumed, a pair of slender white hands tightly grasped it.
But the rock wall was slippery, and he accidentally slipped down. Perhaps because he had just become a human, his movements were clumsy and even a little uncoordinated.
Panic swept over this beautiful young man. The corners of his eyes turned slightly red, and a layer of mist covered his eyes. At this moment, he folded his arms, kept backing away, and curled himself up in a corner.
At this moment, footsteps and the sound of a pistol being loaded were heard not far away.
Immediately afterwards, a familiar cold voice sounded. It was only one day, but Su Ran felt that he had not heard the other person's voice for a long time.
Si Chengyan: "Who's there?"
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