Chapter 63
When lying on the bird's back again, Su Ran couldn't help but whimper softly.
He felt wronged and sad, but he could not relieve this emotion. He could only bury the small flower bud in the feathers of the flying bird and did not lift it up for a long time.
In the past, when he was sad, he would play with his friends in the Rose family.
Or you can walk alone for half a day and watch the sunset from a lighthouse on an abandoned coast.
But now, he couldn't see anything.
Their entire race was going to flee to the vines, and even the colonel was going to be separated from him.
Su Ran cried softly again.
When the bird saw this, it stretched out its wings and patted Su Ran's little flower bud - it didn't need all eight wings to fly, so it used two wings to comfort Su Ran.
They flew for a while.
Until finally, Su Ran saw the familiar deep wooded area.
"The cave is on the left." Su Ran thanked him politely, "Thank you, little bird."
Fei Niao nodded and took Su Ran there.
The Rose Elder lay quietly on the rock before her, its roots curled slightly and turning black. Su Ran grabbed its single leaf and whispered, "It's okay."
That's true.
A faint light slowly lit up from his leaves, and then slowly entered the elder's leaf veins.
After an unknown amount of time, Elder Rose moved.
Su Ran: "Elder!"
He couldn't help but hug the other leaf and started crying again.
The scene of the elder falling in the fog was still vivid in his mind, and he was really happy to see Elder Rose now.
"I was too naughty before, and always made you worry..." Su Ran sobbed softly, "I won't do that again in the future!"
He said a lot, until finally, when he felt the elder slowly straighten his roots, the whimpering sound finally stopped.
Perhaps because she had just woken up, Elder Rose's voice was very soft: "Child... I'm fine."
Su Ran: "That's good..."
He held the elder for a while until he came back to his senses when he heard Lurt's voice.
"Going to the Vine Family?" Lurt patted the bird perched on his arm, listening to the other side's chirping, "Do you need me to take you there?"
Su Ran: "You... know I don't want to go back?"
"Of course."
"When I became a bat, I also thought about not staying in the wild and returning to the human world," Lurt said. "Everyone will return to where they fall."
Su Ran: "So... did you go back in the end?"
"What do you think?"
"I think you must have gone home." Su Ran looked serious.
"How should I put it," Lurt said, "I later realized that the world is in chaos and a complete mess, so I can find a place to stay anywhere."
Su Ran looked at him and said nothing more.
In fact, he didn't quite understand what Lurt said, but he understood one sentence.
The world is very big.
As tiny creatures, they never have the right to choose.
Whether it was him or the colonel, they could only make passive choices, and now the choice had arrived.
Thinking of this, Su Ran promised Luerte that after he returned from the temporary camp not far away in a few days, he would bring him and Elder Rose back to the Vine Family.
Luther readily agreed to this.
At the same time, at Su Ran's small request, he agreed not to tell the colonel about his whereabouts, nor to reveal anything about their movements.
So Su Ran stayed with the elder for a while.
He didn't remember how long it took after that, he just agreed on a time.
When Lurt returns from the wild, they can return to the Vine Family.
The days that followed were also simple. After taking care of the elders every day, Su Ran would find a rock and sit down alone.
Every day he would stare blankly at the falling sunlight through the tall trees. Sometimes he would wonder what the colonel was doing, but more often he would think of him.
Somehow, those memories eventually became visions—
He wanted a peaceful world, with no distortion, no danger, nothing.
The Rose Family no longer has to travel in fear, and humans no longer have to lose their homes. They can just be free and watch the stars in the wilderness or the sunset from the lighthouse, whatever they want.
After helping the elder brew Biluochun tea, Su Ran sat alone in front of a stone, holding the small cup, quietly without saying a word.
And here, he saw the elder take a sip of tea.
He rolled the cup with the only leaf he had. Seeing Su Ran looking unhappy, he asked, "What's wrong?"
"I..." Su Ran said softly, "Nothing."
"Is it because of that human?"
"No, no." Su Ran said quickly, waving the small leaf, "He's fine!"
Elder Rose smiled and took another sip of tea: "Tell me, what happened?"
Su Ran held the flower bud down for a long while before looking at the elder.
Memories of him and the colonel seemed to resurface before his eyes. Then, as if recalling a distant story, or perhaps trying to sort out his emotions, he slowly began to speak...
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