Chapter 43
Before Su Ran left, he didn't look at Elder Rose again.
Although he was reluctant to leave, he was a strong little rose and he had to cheer up. So he walked out of the tree hole on the side with determination. The sunlight fell from the outer edge of the tree, outlining a very determined little figure.
Su Ran set off with the little mushroom.
Before this, he had asked the mushroom if it wanted to be given a name.
Even though Gugu and Lulu were missing, Su Ran felt that they had to be given a name.
"Hmm..." Su Ran tilted her little flower bud, "You keep cooing and chirping. How about I call you Guji?"
The little mushroom nodded, meaning that he didn't quite understand.
"It's just a code name." Su Ran said, "For example, I used to know a little mushroom named Lulu, who lived with me in Haicheng. There was also a little octopus named Gugu..."
Little Mushroom: “!!”
This Lulu should be his missing brother.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help it and started to cry loudly.
At this moment, Su Ran played a comforting role and patted his cap: "Don't be afraid, I'm here! Then... I'll call you Guji."
As he spoke, he shared some dog ball juice.
The sunlight above his head fell, followed by the sunset, and then the sky seemed to be dyed with a hazy color, turning into a pink and blue sky.
Compared to the sky in Haicheng, the night in the wild is always pure and clean, with a hint of distant breeze and tiny stars appearing in Su Ran's sight.
When he was still a little boy, the elders told him that long ago, there was only one big sun and one moon in the world, and the sky was also one color.
But after a major distortion, many different scarlet-red lights appeared in the sky. Each region was split apart, forming a completely different sky.
Su Ran didn’t understand it before.
However, after spending so many days in the human world, he finally understood a little about the current world rules.
Everything is subject to unspeakable laws, and everything is breaking through the survival experience of all living things.
After a short rest, he set out on his journey again with Guji.
They quietly followed an armored vehicle in the wild, hid behind a license plate that was missing half a piece when no one was paying attention, and crawled across the cliffs, the wilds, and the wilderness.
In the end, Su Ran was pulled out of the car by Guji.
They fell on a ball of moving deformed cotton, and were then thrown to the ground by the cotton in disgust. However, despite this, Su Ran was cushioned and did not fall into a rose paste.
"Hmm..." Su Ran shook the little flower bud and started to gurgle.
In front of them was a layered cliff, almost every layer extending downwards, with many sharp cliff rocks sticking out from inside, stacked up layer by layer.
Su Ran saw countless white bones and animal things, which belonged to nature, and now they were falling down with the whistling cliff wind.
"Gugu, ji!" The little mushroom stretched out its tentacles, "Gugu, ji!"
Su Ran: "Is this the place?"
The little mushroom was very sure and pointed down to the bottomless cliff: "Ji!"
After getting Guji's confirmation, Su Ran carefully climbed down from the cliff.
The ups and downs in the past had given him some experience.
For example, the rhizome cannot be stretched too straight, otherwise the center of gravity will be unstable. Or when pulling the small leaves, you must not grab the vines, otherwise you may fall off the cliff together.
Under this survival rule, Su Ran leaned down little by little. His blades were stretched straight, and he gathered all his strength, constantly checking with Guji to make sure it was the Colonel and the others.
I don’t know how long it took, but when Su Ran descended to a certain height, he heard Guji scream - it seemed that he was lost.
"Are there no more small flags?" Su Ran asked, "Isn't it here?"
Guji shook his head.
Not only was there nothing there, it was completely different from the cliff he left.
However, Guji was a mushroom that was good at leading the way, and their family had a strong navigation gene. So he pulled Su Ran, as if to say - leave everything to me, don't worry!
So they walked for a long, long time.
In the end, they didn't find any location and stayed in a small cave to rest.
Su Ran took out the small blanket. He was really tired. A day of running around had already exceeded Rose's limit. At this time, he saw Guji cooking food. He put two small carrots on the fire and roasted them.
"Gee, I don't need it." Su Ran didn't know how to answer, "I..."
If I become a human, I can actually still eat.
but……
The whereabouts of the second nutrient bead is still unknown. He has no way to find it, nor can he turn into a carnivorous plant by himself again - this is another risk.
So Su Ran put all his energy into finding the colonel.
Even if he couldn't become a mature rose, he could still stay in the colonel's arms and listen to his stories about his great adventures in the human world.
Therefore, Su Ran did not disappoint Guji and took the small carrot. He planned to keep it with him so that he could eat it in one bite when he turned into a human.
Just as he spread out the small blanket and was about to take a short rest, a human cough suddenly rang out.
Su Ran: “!!”
He jumped up and looked around, but didn't see any trace of human beings.
Suddenly, a voice said slowly: "Don't look for me, I'm here."
After saying that, he came out from behind a rock and slowly crawled a few times, then his shadow gradually appeared under the night sky.
Seeing this, Su Ran grabbed the small blanket.
The man's lower body completely disappeared, and in its place were five or six huge tree roots, which were constantly wriggling - as if looking for the land to take root.
The upper half of his body was human, though his skin was wrinkled, like the bark of a dead tree. In his right hand, he held a water cup, which was mostly broken, and muddy water slowly dripped out and flowed onto the ground.
When I saw Su Ran, I was not surprised at all.
It seems that this man has never been too curious about deformed objects.
Su Ran raised the flower bud suspiciously and asked carefully, "Who are you?"
"He could die here at any moment... He's just a human." He smiled, like peeling bark and leaves. "Don't worry... He's not a bad person."
Su Ran still did not let down his guard.
The small leaves are stretched straight, like a bud thinking
Both the colonel and Elder Rose told him not to trust strangers.
But, but…
If you have any information or know anything, you can still refer to it.
After all, he is lost now, and the colonel may be in danger. He is willing to try all methods as long as the colonel can come back.
So Su Ran straightened up, wrapped the small blanket around herself, and approached him step by step.
At the end, he asked, "Then why are you here?"
"This is a very long story." The man leaned against the rock, "And this time, I'm not here to tell you a story like Colonel Si did."
Su Ran shuddered when he heard this.
Without hesitation, he grabbed one of his tree roots and became anxious.
"How do you know the Colonel?"
"His experience and past are probably better understood by no one than our team."
Su Ran: "...What do you mean?"
"It's a long story," the man said. "We were once comrades. In an accident, the entire team was wiped out, leaving only Colonel Si."
Su Ran still had an expression of disbelief.
The colonel once mentioned this incident and said it was related to the scar on his waist.
So he tilted his little flower bud and stared at the man. It was strange, because he used to be able to see sadness, anger, or joy in human eyes.
But this person covered it up perfectly.
In other words, he didn't have the mentality of a soldier following the colonel. Instead, he had a cold tone, and even a hint of an indescribable feeling.
Private, indifferent? I'm afraid neither.
But it's complicated - it's what it took to become like this.
While Su Ran was stunned, he saw the man turn his head and look at them.
In his wrinkled eyes, yellow liquid flowed out from his black pupils, unknown and sticky, dripping onto the wide collar. He looked at Su Ran, looking her up and down, as if thinking about something.
Then, he said slowly: "I know where they are, but the premise is..."
"You have to exchange something with me first."
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