Chapter 30
Su Ran followed the large army into the city.
Just like Si Chengyan said, everything here is so different from inland cities.
Everything was damp. It was even different from the old city of Manlotte that I had visited before. The ground was covered with green moss, and on top of it, there were small white dots, mixing together to form an indescribable mixture.
At the same time, the entire city cluster appeared in front of us - it was a place completely different from the inland. Most of them were made of hard stones and built into a fortress. Therefore, everything here was a round bungalow, forming a shadow of varying sizes in the distance.
Su Ran sat on the colonel's shoulders and looked at everything around him.
He didn't like the feeling of humidity because roses needed sunlight, but it was too humid here, and from his point of view, it might even get moldy.
Su Ran shook the small leaves, making a snapping sound.
At this moment, he saw the surrounding scenery gradually receding, and Si Chengyan brought Su Ran to the front building area, near a sea area.
"This is Haicheng." Si Chengyan introduced, "It's called Haicheng because it's by the sea."
Su Ran tilted her flower bud: "Hmm..."
This explanation really fits the Colonel's character.
Si Chengyan didn't say anything after that, so Su Ran decided to look at this human city from Little Rose's perspective. How should I put it? Compared to the new city, this city is definitely shabby and full of the feeling of age.
According to the colonel, coastal cities were very prosperous in the past because they were centers of economic trade and merchant ships could pass through directly.
but--
Because of the distortion, unidentified beasts also appeared in the sea.
Therefore, coastal trade was banned and hunting was only possible in small areas. Su Ran felt this when he followed Si Chengyan to the military area for dinner.
Su Ran sat on a dedicated little chair, Lulu beside her. It was called a dedicated chair, but it was actually just a small area separated by a pile of small books, making a small table.
Because it is an age of distortion, humans are very cautious about natural resources.
The main food of Haicheng is the small fish and seaweed that are hunted - they are cooked into fish paste together with potatoes and cabbage that is easy to store.
Su Ran tried hard to absorb it with her small leaves.
He leaned over the plate, carefully extended a leaf, and gently touched it. With a soft pop, the porridge was absorbed into the dish bit by bit, flowing along the veins of the leaf, and was eaten by Su Ran.
Then, he swung the small leaf again, touched it once, and the second time...
Su Ran didn't put away the leaves until the leaves and rhizomes were covered with fish paste.
It ate so much that it became a big rose-shaped cat face.
Before Su Ran could say anything, Si Chengyan took out a small tissue and wiped Su Ran from head to toe like a kitten.
Su Ran looked at Si Chengyan embarrassedly, stretched out a small leaf and tickled his fingers: "Sorry."
"Will we go back?" Su Ran asked, "When will we go back to Xincheng?"
"We may need to stay here temporarily for a while." Si Chengyan said, "Once the recycling plan in Xincheng is over, we will move back."
"but……"
Si Chengyan knew what Su Ran was worried about, so he said, "It's okay."
"The residential area in District B will also be rebuilt," Si Chengyan said. "By then, if we like the architectural style of District B, we can go back."
Su Ran: "That's not what I meant."
He just wanted to ask about the future plans.
After all, wherever the colonel is, that is his little Rose's home.
Thinking of this, Su Ran leaned against Si Chengyan again to express his comfort.
After finishing their meal, they returned to the residential area of Haicheng. Like the rest of Haicheng, it was built of stone. They walked around several corners and finally arrived at a small building labeled "Registration Office."
After just a few knocks on the door, a soft octopus body stretched out from the crack.
When Su Ran took out the flower bud from Si Chengyan's pocket, she happened to see this scene, so she was so scared that she hid in the pocket.
"A little rose."
Suddenly, a voice came over, an extremely old voice: "Is this your appendage, this human colonel?"
"No." Si Chengyan said, "Live with me."
"I understand." The old voice was still speaking. Judging from the distance, Su Ran felt that it was gradually approaching them. "Please follow me."
After saying that, he chuckled twice and said, "Little Rose, don't be afraid. I'm not some giant man-eating monster."
Su Ran: "Hmm?"
This old octopus can talk.
He then stuck his head out and saw the old man's full appearance - he was a human, but not a human. His gray beard and old face gave him the features of an ordinary old man, but downwards, from his wrists all the way to his neck, in addition to the normal human limbs, he also had four soft tentacles.
Like an octopus, it has suckers and long arms.
Su Ran took a look and became like a confused rose.
I didn’t know what to say, but it didn’t seem very polite to keep staring at the old man.
So Su Ran whispered, "Hello."
"Very polite," said the old octopus. "It seems the colonel made a good choice."
"No...I..." Su Ran suddenly became incoherent. After a few seconds, he said, "Can I ask a question?"
"Go ahead."
Su Ran: "Are you human?"
The old octopus smiled again, and this time, even the octopus compound eyes on his forehead moved: "Of course."
"I'm human, and I have a Level 2 Deformation Certificate," said the old octopus. "So, I'm not dangerous to you."
"Of course, if I were threatening, the colonel wouldn't talk to me."
He paused for a few seconds and said, "My name is Enli, I'm the housing manager here, nice to meet you."
*
Enli took them to the room.
Like any elderly man, Enli loved to chat, so he led the way while he chattered. Su Ran then learned that Haicheng was also experiencing an unknown distortion crisis.
Many large, unidentified footprints always appeared in the square, on the white walls of the church, and on the sand. But no matter how the guards of Haicheng staked out their positions, such footprints would always appear randomly in unexpected places.
Therefore, Enli felt that this was an opportunity.
"Colonel, we knew you were coming a long time ago." Enli opened the door. "Therefore, we hope you and the military can help us..."
"That's natural," Colonel Si said. "The base has already provided the information."
"Thank you so much, thank you, and thank the base for me..." Enli's tone was unable to conceal his excitement. He said, "Then please have a good rest with your little rose. I won't disturb you anymore."
After saying that, Enli dragged his long tentacles, squeezed the wall of the corridor, and walked away softly.
Su Ran and Si Chengyan entered the room.
It was a very clean and tidy room. From the doorway, there was a small balcony, with a view of the vast ocean and the distant grey sky. Walking into the room, on the left were two large cabinets and a dining table.
Just one look at the cabinet and Su Ran decided to name it "The Colonel's Biluochun Area." Opposite the cabinet was a kitchen, adjacent to the bedroom.
Maybe because it is located on the coast, the whole room is not as bright and clean as the ones in the new city. On the contrary, it has a bit of an old smell, and even the bedding and sofa sets are made of beige linen.
Su Ran was placed on the bed.
While the colonel was answering the phone, Su Ran bent his body and patted all the pillows one by one.
In the end, he kept two.
They were placed side by side, one for Si Chengyan and one for him.
This way they can sleep together.
Su Ran didn't have much nostalgia for his old quilt and blanket. No matter how soft they were, he felt it was not as happy as sleeping with Colonel Si.
Si Chengyan's voice came from the balcony.
Seeing that the call was not over yet, Su Ran continued to mumble, spread the quilt again, and folded up the small corners.
After finishing all this, Little Rose Snail sat down on the bed and waited obediently for the colonel to come back.
"What are you going to do later?" Su Ran asked, "I want to see if that old man has any evidence of distortion."
"Aberration proof is only for humans."
"I can also transform into this form." Su Ran stood up, pointed the tip of the leaf at the ceiling, and made a transformation gesture, "Transform into a little rose human."
A faint smile appeared in Si Chengyan's eyes.
He shook his head: "No."
"No matter what form it becomes, we must focus on the most basic form." Si Chengyan turned off the communicator and took out the dog ball juice from his carry-on luggage. "However, we need to go for a test."
"It's the semi-annual screening, and the data will be uploaded to the base." He said, "Therefore, the evaluation criteria will be modified based on most of the test values, and..."
Su Ran: "What?"
"We will make a simultaneous judgment based on the distortion activity."
Su Ran: "Like this."
——Just like before in Xincheng, when he was caught by that bad old man, the same detection method was used.
What was his value at that time?
Uh-huh……
Su Ran knocked on the flower bud, but really couldn't remember.
I have the impression that it was Anna who told him, and the value at that time should have been within the benign range.
Su Ran felt helpless about forgetting such an important value, and thought of herself as a rose with only a seven-second memory.
In the afternoon, Su Ran set off.
Also with him were small mushrooms and other miscellaneous deformed creatures.
Lulu was brought here by Anna, who said that he could be kept with her temporarily and would be allowed to leave when a suitable pair of mushrooms was found.
But the premise of all this is that Lulu is a benign little mushroom.
If it is an intermediate state, it means being exiled or imprisoned, or even directly disposed of if the person is dangerous.
"This is the testing center." Anna stopped in front of a large stone house and said to Su Ran and Lulu, "For safety reasons, we can't go in."
Su Ran held Lulu's tentacles and responded obediently.
"Don't be afraid." Anna said to Su Ran, "If there is no problem, the colonel will come to pick you up after the meeting."
So Su Ran responded obediently: "Yeah."
Of course he's not afraid.
I have to wait until the colonel comes back tonight, hug him, rub his chest and ask for idiom stories.
Thinking of this, Su Ran turned around, stepped forward, and walked directly towards the big house.
Following them were a small octopus, a hamster with two mutated tails, a strange bird with three heads, and a group of more than a dozen deformed creatures who entered the testing center.
Su Ran felt that he certainly would not be afraid, even though Lulu was shaking like a trembling mushroom. He stayed calmly at the white table. After the root sat down, it stretched out its small leaves and allowed the research institute to take samples.
He watched as a tiny cell was removed from a leaf, and then he watched as the tiny sample was sent into a large circular detector.
Lulu next to him also took some tissue.
Compared to Su Ran's calmness, he turned around and cried out in pain, and finally fainted from the injection and fell to the ground unconscious.
Perhaps Su Ran was just too cute, or perhaps just too well-behaved, because she remained silent throughout the entire process. So the researcher giving Su Ran a small dried fish as a token of encouragement, Su Ran sat in the waiting area, holding the dried fish, and waited.
——The screen in front of me still shows the old range value.
Starting from level 30, it is an intermediate deformer, and at level 60, it is a dangerous deformer. Under this screen, there is a note message - waiting for the updated version.
So Su Ran began another long wait. He leaned against the little mushroom, holding the dried fish and looking at the humans around him. They also had an area that regularly monitored their own abnormal reactions.
This was an area even larger than their distorted object. There were many people waiting, about fifty or sixty people, and they kept coming in. Correspondingly, the distance between the chairs while waiting was much larger than that in the new city.
But it's also true that the humans here have deformed tentacles like octopus.
Although the suction cups and soft arms that grow from the arms can provide soft protection for humans, they can accidentally hurt other people.
If you think about it this way, it makes sense.
In this way, Su Ran watched the octopus humans queuing for a while.
Finally, he felt sleepy and waves of sleepiness came over him. His buds budded little by little, but the test results had not come out yet, so he couldn't fall asleep directly.
But maybe it was because time was too long. In the end, somehow, he used the dried fish as a pillow and fell asleep on the table, snoring.
From time to time, he would make some noises and talk in his sleep.
After an unknown amount of time, a voice suddenly came over: "Su Ran."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ran was startled and jumped up from the dried fish.
The little rose was a little confused at first, twisting its leaves around a few times before it finally caught on. He was a little nervous, so he suppressed his nervousness and whispered, "I am."
The researcher not far away pushed up his glasses with his tentacles and said expressionlessly, "Come here and get your report."
Su Ran climbed down from the table carefully.
Then, he walked over with a click.
As long as he can pass this time and is not an intermediate state mutant, he can stay with Si Chengyan.
but……
The test he had done before was a long time ago, and he had never been injured or mutated, which is why this happened.
But now, he is a grown-up deformed little rose.
It also became a cute little chattering flower.
Can he still stay with the Colonel?
Su Ran was not sure about this question.
He stepped forward cautiously, then quietly plucked the leaves, waiting for the researcher's final judgment.
After more than ten seconds, accompanied by a rustling sound, the test results on the paper appeared directly in front of him.
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