Chapter 27
Su Ran was carried directly into the helicopter by Si Chengyan.
Fortunately, not many people saw this process.
It probably passed by several teams and a few hundred soldiers, and then caused a small-scale exclamation, but no one dared to say anything about Si Chengyan's identity.
Including the pilot, he just looked back and then immediately faced forward. Even before takeoff and landing, Su Ran never saw the pilot's face again.
"Let's go to Area B first," Anna said. "The medical department has been assembled, and the residents are evacuating in an orderly manner."
Si Chengyan: "Thank you."
"It's okay. We're all old teammates who've fought together." Anna smiled. "But, we have a new member joining today, right?"
As she spoke, she looked at Su Ran with a smile on her face. "Baby, it's nice to meet you again."
Su Ran called out "Sister Anna" in a low voice. Seeing the other party stretch out her hand, she also imitated the little rose's way of stretching out its leaves and shook hands with Anna.
"It seems you can already master the human form. Very impressive." Anna just finished speaking and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, I have a bit of an occupational disease."
Su Ran: "It's okay."
He tugged at the colonel's coat and leaned forward again.
After pulling aside the curtain hanging nearby, he took a small breath and said, "The abyss looks so scary."
In the small window, the cracks caused by the distortion have opened up. On the flat ground where Tariel fell, the depressions around it have deepened further. In the bottomless place, black mist continues to rise, covering the hole behind the flat ground.
"We need to contact the support department first." Si Chengyan said, "Triana will provide the information."
Su Ran nodded.
He glanced out the window again and saw that the black mist seemed to gather in front of the flat ground, forming the shape of a giant dragon. He blinked and looked again - it was just the spreading black mist.
Finally, they arrived at Area B.
Due to the evacuation of the people, this area seemed particularly empty, including the tents. Many soldiers were transferred to support the evacuation, so there were only scattered soldiers in the temporary camp taking shifts and resting.
Triana was already waiting there. Seeing Si Chengyan and the others get off the plane, she hurriedly signaled, "Colonel Si, let's talk further."
They hurried all the way and finally arrived at the tent where he and Su Ran had stayed before.
"We've already uncovered some information," Triana said. "A large aberration should have formed in the abyss."
"What exactly?"
"We have deployed internal personnel from the institute, and they will transmit the thermal imaging images of the detection later."
Triana paused and said, "Don't worry, there's no problem with this kind of internal personnel, but..."
Anna: "What's wrong?"
"We've had some trouble with Tariel's body," Triana said. "When you came to Area B, our researchers tried to bag it, but something strange happened."
As she spoke, she clicked a transmission button on her watch.
An image appears on the screen.
Su Ran couldn't help but gasp.
Tariel completely melted into the earth. His eyeballs, nose, mouth, and ears had become a faint arc, and could only be guessed at by the undulations of the earth. At this moment, his body seemed to have melted into the earth, becoming part of the soil.
"When did it start?"
"It should have just now," Triana said. "It has been reported to the base."
Si Chengyan nodded.
He lowered his eyes, turned on the intercom, and ordered all soldiers in the abyss to pay attention to the situation on the surface.
Su Ran asked in a low voice: "Could it be absorption?"
"There has never been such a situation before, and we don't know," Triana said. "Now we can only dig out some of the soil to see what's going on inside."
Su Ran responded.
For some reason, as a little rose, he always felt uneasy.
Afterwards, Si Chengyan held a remote meeting with the support department. According to the plan, he couldn't rest for too long. After the meeting, he needed to return to the Abyss immediately to carry out the next step.
Su Ran sat aside, holding a drawing board, and carefully recorded the contents of the meeting.
However, he only learned the human language.
It is still a little difficult for him to write about this. Maybe it is because he has not read a lot of texts, so he cannot fully understand a lot of the content.
So, Su Ran chose to record it in rose language.
The red light outside the tent fell in and became increasingly intense - the sky had become this color since they left the abyss. There was no night or day, and all the light blended together like paint, forming a brand new weather.
As the meeting progressed, Su Ran wrote a lot of rose language on the drawing board. The slender pen tip connected the complex patterns, forming a long string of symbols on the board.
Su Ran hasn't used the language of the Rose Tribe for a long time.
Ever since he left his family, he has been using human language more often, including when talking to his plant friends. They are all mutants, but he knows two languages. Just now, he even inexplicably understood the words of the little mushroom.
Why is this happening?
Is this also the effect of distortion?
Thinking of this, Su Ran paused on the drawing board.
He had been distracted since the beginning, and the mist provided a lot of divergent thinking, allowing him to unconsciously paint on the drawing board.
When I came back to my senses, I saw many monsters drawn on the board. They were waving sharp hooks and their red mouths were wide open. In addition, there was a weak little Huahua drawn on the side, who was scared and made exclamation marks.
Su Ran: "Hmm..."
His ability to distract himself seems to be exactly the same as when he was Little Rose.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a figure approaching from behind, and the next moment, the board in his hand was pulled away.
Su Ran: “?”
He turned around in confusion and saw that Anna and the others were gone.
The entire tent was empty, with only two beds, a simple bathtub, and a little mushroom sleeping soundly beside his hand - the same environment as when they had stayed here before.
"I'm going back to the Abyss later." Si Chengyan said, "You and Anna go to the support department together."
"no."
Su Ran shook her head: "I'll go with you."
"It's very dangerous there, and we need to investigate the situation in Tariel on the ground."
Su Ran looked at him in distress.
Although the colonel said so, he still felt that it was not possible.
As the colonel's little rose, he must use his healing power to protect the colonel at all times.
"How about I go back to the abyss with you and then join Triana." Su Ran said, "This time I promise I won't run around aimlessly."
Si Chengyan sighed softly. Although he was worried, he still acquiesced to Su Ran.
There were still forty minutes before they set off. Si Chengyan prepared the bath water and ran away with the little mushroom. He said to Su Ran, "Let's rinse off first."
"Then do you want to wash first?" Su Ran asked, "It was so dirty in the abyss before."
"It might be too late."
He paused for a few seconds and said, "We're about to set off."
Su Ran fell into deep thought, and after a while said: "But..."
He was indeed very dirty. The deformed mushroom had sprayed out a lot of black blood before. Although Si Chengyan helped wipe some of it off, it seemed that a bath was necessary now.
Colonel Si, it would be best if he could take a shower as well.
Even though they didn't have much time and the bathtub couldn't accommodate two adults, if he turned into a little rose... then he could just stay on Si Chengyan like before.
He could even help Si Chengyan take a bath like before.
So Su Ran pulled Si Chengyan to the bricks and stones. The mist wet his light gray hair, and his wet eyes were filled with lively light.
"Don't worry, I have a way." Su Ran said, "We can all wash it."
Si Chengyan nodded: "It doesn't matter."
Su Ran smiled and said, "It's okay."
Seeing him take off his military uniform, revealing his agile figure, Su Ran stood by the bathtub with confidence.
Just like before, he began to use his healing power. In order to save time, at the moment when white light gathered at his fingertips, he unbuttoned his clothes one by one with his other hand.
After all, time is in a hurry and they will take a plane to go to the abyss again soon.
So Su Ran moved a little closer, and with a click, she unbuttoned the last button of Si Chengyan's shirt with one hand.
After all, I'm going to turn back into a little rose.
This dress might make him unable to breathe.
A gentle white light lit up, enveloping the side of this handsome young man. After about two or three seconds, accompanied by the subtle friction sound of clothes falling, the white light dissipated like stars.
Su Ran: "Hmm?"
He felt something was wrong.
The whole room was silent for a few seconds, and Su Ran didn't react.
He saw the gauze of clothes falling on the ground, and then he raised his eyes and met Si Chengyan's gaze, and then he came to his senses.
There were no leaves, nor the familiar soft buds and slender roots, only moist water vapor that wet his snow-white skin.
Su Ran was completely stunned.
He couldn't change back now, he couldn't become a rose used to being naked.
Just a naked human being.
Doesn't that mean—
Is he going to take a bath with the colonel for the first time in this empty state?
The author has something to say:
Su Ran: ? ?
A colonel: I didn’t expect my wife to be so enthusiastic.
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