Chapter 45
Su Ran and Guji set off again.
He still carried a small travel bag, and the small leaves were holding Guji's tentacles, but compared to before, the green color seemed to have become dull and gray.
And Guji was led and kept walking forward.
"Just now... that person said we just need to go west." Su Ran stepped on the stone step by step. "We have to hurry. My healing power must last until we get there..."
For some reason, Su Ran always had a bad feeling.
Although the sky was as pure as before and no longer had the strange red color, the quieter it was, the more indescribable the feeling was, just like the calm before the storm.
But this kind of weather has occurred many times before - whether it is the Manlot area, the new city, or the sea city, natural disasters always appear inadvertently in an unexpected way.
"Guji." Su Ran said, "We have to be careful."
"Gululu!"
Guji agreed.
So they both stood on tiptoe—one on the root, the other on the tentacle. They walked forward cautiously, and after only a few steps, Su Ran saw a huge black shadow.
They hid behind the cliff.
A lot of broken rocks fell down, and Su Ran grabbed Guji and clung to the rocks.
The huge shadow approached, and the light outlined an irregular creature, a huge dodecagonal object. Su Ran did not see its face, and neither did Guji. He only knew that when it passed by, its powerful breathing almost blew him and Guji away.
Guji immediately used his mushroom painting skills.
He used his little tentacles to trace the mud in front of him, drawing a stroke on the left, then a stroke on the right - until finally, Guji stopped his tentacles.
As a member of the Mushroom Tribe with a good painting gene, he was unable to depict any shape of this creature.
It seemed as if this monster was changing every moment and every second. It was so random and difficult to describe.
At this moment, Guji only drew a few strokes, and the shadow of the monster became blurred again, and there was no trace of the original shadow.
"Gugujiji?"
He tried to draw again in distress, but it still didn't work. And when he looked at Su Ran, he found that he was slightly tilting the small flower bud, and bit by bit, the small leaves slowly loosened, as if he suddenly became weak and fell heavily backwards.
Guji: “!!!”
The moment Su Ran fell off the cliff, he suddenly stretched out his octopus tentacles and grabbed Su Ran's small leaf.
"Gugu..." Guji called him softly, "Hurry up, Gugu... Don't be discovered, Gugu..."
Despite his anxiety, he could only keep calling out in a low voice, fearing that the monster would hear the noise.
However, the huge shadow still noticed them and slowly turned around.
Guji: "Oh no!"
The monster's unique breath came again, and heavy footsteps started from the cave two hundred meters away. It kept walking along the path on the side of the mountain, approaching step by step.
Now there was nothing Guji could do.
He could only keep calling Su Ran, and only when he woke up could he be pulled to the ground.
Just as the monster station was about to drop rocks, Su Ran hooked the small leaf and instantly regained consciousness. Guji's tentacles exerted even more force, pulling Su Ran and suddenly dragging the small flower bud directly onto the ground.
The overwhelming consciousness returned, and Su Ran finally realized something.
He kicked the roots and shrunk himself into a small rose. Amid the monster's screams, he rolled down the mountain with Guji.
The stone scratched a little of his roots, but Su Ran still held the little mushroom tightly and refused to let go.
I don't know how long it rolled until everything was quiet.
Su Ran just barely let go of the small leaf.
He hung his small flower buds, breathing slightly, and wanted to stand up, but he had no strength. He had to lean against the rock, using his roots to support himself.
Guji finally understood.
Su Ran is weak because he gave the "healing power" to that bad guy.
So...his healing powers have begun to fade?
Guji grabbed his little leaf and couldn't help crying.
"It's okay." Su Ran raised the small flower bud and said softly, "Maybe the next time I'm deformed... I'll have the power to heal again."
After hearing this, Guji still cried several times.
Seeing this, Su Ran comforted Guji instead. Even though his healing power had just been taken away and his roots had become a little gray, he couldn't bear to see his friend sad for him.
So Su Ran comforted her again.
"It's really okay." Su Ran raised the small leaf, made a hook like Popeye, and then said, "I'm strong too!"
Guji just looked at him and said nothing more.
Growing up among wild mushrooms, it has seen so many deformed creatures.
But I've never seen such a creature that considers other people.
In this era, all creatures will use their distorted abilities to compete for resources in order to survive. For example, their mushroom family always wants to obtain some hard beetle shells to resist the attacks of wild beasts.
But this little rose was thinking about others.
Sadness is also because he can no longer save others and cannot have any positive influence in this era.
Then Guji stretched out its soft tentacles and held Su Ran's small leaf, as if to say - everything will be fine, they can each save the people they cherish most, and they can also have more powerful power.
Su Ran: "Guji..."
He had no reason to be discouraged anymore!
Colonel's little rose, you must cheer up.
Thinking of this, Guji and Su Ran set off.
Even though he fainted just now, Su Ran didn't feel any discomfort at all.
Just like what the man said, his healing power did not disappear immediately. Until now, he only felt a little tired.
But time did not allow him to stop. Su Ran stood on tiptoe on the rhizome, picked a few mutated small fruits, squeezed out the juice, and poured it into his small water cup.
"Okay, now..." He filled up another small cup and gave it to Guji, "Operation Rescue the Colonel, let's set off again!"
With the help of birds flying by the roadside, they found out the location of the west.
The blood-red sunset was the direction the man pointed to, so they walked from the cliff across one flat land, hillside, and dry riverbed after another.
These were all things that this great canyon possessed, like countless objects, adsorbed on it. Looking deeper, there was endless black fog, with no visible bottom, yet a faint red glow emanated from the edges.
Su Ran knew that this was what humans called the "abyss."
This term only appeared for a second, and he seemed to remember something. He pulled up the little mushroom and crawled towards the black fog.
The incoming mist soaked everything.
When the thick fog dissipated, a faint red light shone from the front of the rock, and a large group of caves appeared before their eyes.
After being stunned for a few seconds, Su Ran said in surprise: "How could this be... So many, so many holes..."
Under the red light, holes appeared on the left and right sides, like holes opened in the canyon, large and small, distributed above.
Su Ran took an eager look.
Although he tried very hard to distinguish them, they were so similar, all round rocks, that he couldn't tell which one was which. At the speed he and Guji were moving, they didn't have time to search for them one by one.
After just a few seconds, he hugged Xiao Ye Zi tightly and looked around again without giving up.
He couldn't find the colonel.
Human orientation is so abstract. Even though he knows east, south, west and north, he is like a rose and has no idea where exactly it is.
Su Ran: "Woo..."
He is not a GPS rose or a compass, so he has no way of knowing where these similar holes are.
Su Ran sat down on the ground.
He was extremely dejected, with his little flower bud hanging down, but he didn't notice that there was a very hidden cave on the right side behind him - there was a bare little stick on the top, and a tattered flag hung on it.
Until the sound of a flying bird came from behind him, he turned his head, discovered something, and stood up straight.
"One, two, three... it's the little stick that dropped the flag!"
Su Ran, carrying a small bag, counted again in disbelief.
——There were indeed three sticks, and the lake in front of them also had light green dried-up marks.
Could this be the cave they were looking for?!
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