Chapter 39
After the colonel ended the call, Su Ran was still drawing.
The tiny leaves lay on the white paper, carefully painting the scene of the rose family, stroke by stroke.
Si Chengyan's gaze fell on it.
Large vines, layered and overlapping, surrounded the center of the two large trees, painted by Su Ran as strips of green. This was the "deep tree area" Triana had mentioned earlier.
It is sandwiched between the abyss and the cave, but unexpectedly, it has become a safe area.
This is a unique advantage, and what is even more coincidental is that the "Deep Tree Area" is only more than 100 kilometers away from the new city. In other words, Su Ran was carried away by a bird and landed in a cave. He was then brought back to the Manlot area from the wild by Si Chengyan, and then returned to the new city again.
After going around in circles, they ended up back where they started.
"Come and see—" Su Ran put down the crayon and saw Si Chengyan was lost in thought, jumping up and down. "I've finished it."
As he spoke, he picked up the paper, wobbled it, and placed it in front of Si Chengyan's eyes. Perhaps because of the height, Su Ran stretched out his roots, and the leaves held up the paper, and the roots kept snapping, swaying left and right.
Si Chengyan put him on the sofa.
Then, sit next to him and look at his paintings quietly.
"This is where the Rose Family lives." Su Ran explained, "There are many tall trees, many small mushrooms, small sunflowers, and small water lilies..."
"Is it close?"
"Well... they are all our neighbors."
Su Ran held up the leaves, thinking like a flower bud: "The little mushrooms are very greedy. They like to secretly pick all the raspberries and hide them under their caps. The little sunflower is more lively, but you must not follow it into the sun, otherwise I will become a dry seedling..."
Si Chengyan listened quietly, his emotions were not revealed, but his expression seemed a little serious.
Su Ran thought so, so he asked again: "Colonel, don't you like listening to my neighbors?"
"How could that be?" Si Chengyan took a pillow from the side and gently placed it behind Su Ran.
The movements were very gentle, so gentle that they didn't seem like the movements or strength Si Chengyan would use. At this moment, he was about to get a small blanket.
At this moment, his fingertips were pressed down.
Su Ran pressed the small leaf with a serious look, as if he knew something, but also as if he didn't.
They stared at each other for a few seconds, but didn't say anything.
After a while, Su Ran let go of the small leaf, leaned on the small pillow, touched the roots comfortably a few times, just like a human taking a rest, and hummed a nursery rhyme softly.
It seems that everything just now was just an illusion.
Si Chengyan touched his little bud: "Go take a shower?"
"Colonel, are you coming?"
"We're leaving tomorrow, so we need to pack up."
"Oh well."
Su Ran went to the bathroom obediently.
As a rose living in the human world, he learned how to block the bathtub, then drain the water, and how to use the shower skillfully - although most of the time, the first two steps would be completed by the colonel.
But this time, when Su Ran was pulling the shower head and pressing it down continuously, he discovered something strange.
When he took a bath in the past, the colonel would always put a lot of soaps in front of him, including those made with honey, spices, sesame leaves, and some strange soaps, and let him choose.
But today when he was taking a shower, he found that small pieces had been cut off and put into small transparent bags.
"Hmm..." Su Ran held the shower head and was stunned for dozens of seconds.
When he came to his senses, he saw that the water from the shower had already overflowed his roots and was approaching the buds.
Su Ran started to remedy the situation in a hurry, but he lost his balance and turned the shower head over, turning it into a small fountain.
He was being baptized by the fountain, gurgling and jumping from side to side while floating in the bathtub, looking weak, pitiful and helpless - until Si Chengyan pushed the door open and came in, he was picked up and placed on the edge of the bathtub.
"That was a close call." Su Ran said with lingering fear, "I almost drowned."
The moment he finished speaking, he heard Si Chengyan say, "You should avoid the pond from now on, okay?"
Su Ran: "Huh? Why?"
For some reason, Si Chengyan's expression was a bit serious, and it was like the expression of Elder Rose - reminding him of the rules of survival in the wild.
Su Ran didn't understand.
He even felt that the colonel had been nagging him a lot recently, always telling him about the precautions to take in the wild.
It's like he's going on a long journey.
Although he always had this intuition, including when he pressed the back of the colonel's hand just now, it didn't mean it would come true - after all, he was the colonel's little rose.
Su Ran thought about this and felt relieved.
He stayed in the bathtub obediently, without bothering the colonel, and finished his bath.
I rolled in the soft bath towel, wrapped myself up, and went to the living room.
In just over ten minutes, Si Chengyan packed a lot of things. There was his little pillow, blanket, crayons, a doll, and a small flower pot. He also packed his Puppy Ball juice into small individual bottles, complete with straws.
Su Ran: "Are you...packing your luggage?"
After he finished speaking, he pulled up the bath towel and took a few more glances.
Not knowing what she was thinking, Su Ran shook the flower bud, ran over, and grabbed the back of Si Chengyan's hand: "No, no, Su Ran, don't go!"
It looked like the colonel hadn't sorted his luggage, but had only sorted his things.
Are you going to throw him away?
Woohoo, no, no, no! He wants to stay by Si Chengyan's side for the rest of his life!
"Su Ran will be a better boy, okay?" Su Ran said anxiously, even with a soft cry in her voice, "If you do something wrong or get into trouble, just tell me, Su Ran will be a better boy."
Si Chengyan sighed softly and placed Su Ran in his palm: "I won't abandon you."
"Then why..."
"The journey back to Xincheng is long, so we need to prepare early." Si Chengyan said, "Anna and I will all pack."
Su Ran drooped the small leaf and asked, "Really?"
"I'm not lying to you."
Su Ran stayed in the colonel's palm for a few seconds, then whispered, "Then... let me help too."
After saying this, they packed several pieces of luggage together.
I heard from Si Chengyan that this kind of packaged goods will be put into military aircraft as necessary supplies to facilitate soldiers to be resupplied at any time.
While listening to this kind of popular science talk from humans, Su Ran had just finished packing the last large bag and tied it with a bow.
After all this was over, he went back to bed obediently.
Gugululu was already fast asleep. They were leaning against each other, like two snoring little dolls, sleeping on the windowsill.
The wait for the Colonel to come was always long, especially tonight, before the upcoming migration to the new city.
Su Ran hid under the quilt, staring at the living room.
For Su Ran, Little Rose needed to stay alert as they were leaving tomorrow. But the colonel seemed to have a lot more to do. Just now, he saw a stack of new atlases on the table, covering the terrain near the new city and related research.
Su Ran didn't become alert until the lights in the living room went out.
He skillfully got under the quilt and arched his back. When Si Chengyan lifted the quilt and sat on the bed, Su Ran happened to be next to him. She pulled up his pajamas and got into his chest.
Human body temperature was always reassuring. Su Ran lay on Si Chengyan's chest, feeling the other's heartbeat. After a few seconds, he emerged from his pajamas and looked directly into those deep blue eyes.
It looked like a sea with reflections of stars, and Su Ran looked at it for a long time.
Until the end, Si Chengyan asked: "Do you want a bedtime story?"
"Hmm..." Su Ran thought for a few seconds, "I want to hear something else."
"What?"
Su Ran: "A story of human adventure."
Si Chengyan's eyes flickered with a faint smile: "Why do you want to hear this?"
"Because humans are really amazing." Su Ran answered without hesitation, like a little rose blown by humans. "I admire them so much."
Si Chengyan listened to Su Ran's words, recalled for a few seconds, and said, "Then let's start with a story from long ago."
"At that time, there was a new recruit who had just graduated from the training team and was responsible for surveying the terrain."
"As good as you?"
Si Chengyan didn't answer, but just raised the corner of his mouth slightly.
"He was very ambitious and graduated with straight A's. So when the mission came down from base, he wanted to immediately complete the terrain survey and upload it to the base," Si Chengyan said. "So he set out, leading a formation of people, heading west from the base."
"It's a mountainous area. Although it's not a deep abyss, there are always storms." His voice was soft, as if he was soothing a child to sleep. "But they resolved every crisis, just like omnipotent adventurers."
Su Ran: "Wow..."
"Following the exploration, they arrived near a cliff." Si Chengyan said, "This new recruit discovered that there is a strong distortion factor in a cave... Well, let's call it a treasure for now."
"He wants to enter this cave so he can find out the cause of the previous distortion. This is undoubtedly a huge step forward."
"Then what?"
“Nature was stopped.”
"The others said it wasn't their mission and they didn't need to be responsible," Si Chengyan said. "But this new recruit felt he couldn't just sit back and watch, so he set out alone late one night."
Su Ran exclaimed "Wow" again, completely immersed in the story.
"There were many of his comrades in the formation, as well as highly respected teachers who had once led him. Therefore, he had no choice but to set out on his own..." Si Chengyan's tone suddenly became very serious, "It became the decision he regretted the most in his life, and the one he blamed himself for the most."
They were silent for a few seconds.
After a while, Su Ran suddenly said, "How could that be?"
"I don't know what happened afterwards, nor do I understand what the treasure is or how much it means to humanity," Su Ran said. "But this new recruit is thinking about humanity, so he shouldn't blame himself."
He paused for a few seconds and said, "Because it is a great thing for a living being to make sacrifices for a group. We in the Rose Family wouldn't say that everyone can consider other roses."
Si Chengyan fell silent.
Seeing this, Su Ran pressed a kiss against his chest and said, "Okay, if you know that new recruit, just follow my instructions and say a few words of comfort first... If he wants to say more, I can continue to be a listening little rose."
As soon as the words fell, Si Chengyan smiled and said, "Okay."
Just as Su Ran was looking at him and wanted to ask about the follow-up, an unknown vibration made him stunned.
The red light outside the window suddenly changed color.
From the original light red, it turned into white light, and then blue light. They came straight through the window, illuminating everything in the room.
"what happened--"
"careful!"
Before Su Ran could come to her senses, Si Chengyan suddenly pulled her.
Crash!
There was a loud bang.
The whole earth shook.
The glass on their side was completely shattered, mixed with tiles from flower pots, flying everywhere and hitting the wall heavily.
Si Chengyan protected Su Ran and used his body to block the fragments. Even though his shirt was torn and the tiny fragments left bloody marks on his back, he did not move.
At this moment, behind the balcony, an octopus tentacle close to the two pillars stretched out into the balcony. It was sticky and disgusting, with a suction cup that kept contracting. In just one second, it rushed directly into the window.
They didn't know the source or where it came from, but it suddenly appeared before their eyes like the will of some god.
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