Chapter 64
Su Ran did not feel at ease when facing the elders.
He had a lot to express, but strangely enough, he always didn't know how to continue when he was about to speak.
Su Ran drooped her little flower bud: "Actually... I..."
The elder looked at him, holding the cup.
After a while, he shook the bud: "Don't say anything, child. I understand you."
"No, I still have to say it." Su Ran was stubborn. He put down the small water cup and said seriously, "I like the colonel."
Elder Rose: "Which one do you like?"
Su Ran thought for a few seconds: "It's just... I like it very much."
He didn't understand why the elder asked him this, nor did he understand the difference between the word "like".
In Su Ran's view, "like" is a verb, just like the relationship between him and Elder Rose.
However, Su Ran felt that something was different.
He picked up the water cup again and stared at his reflection in the cup.
I had only been away from the colonel for a few days, but I missed him so much.
And now... where is he? And what is he doing?
——Is it at a human base, a temporary camp, the wild, or somewhere else?
While I was stunned, I saw a black figure flying from the distance.
"Lurt!"
Su Ran immediately stood up and waved the small green leaf - perhaps because of the crystal core before, even though he no longer had the healing power, the leaf was still emitting light again.
He watched Lurt land on the flat ground not far away, flap its wings a few times, and then fold its bat wings.
When he saw Su Ran, he was not as relaxed and energetic as before. He just said lightly: "Kids, I'm here to pick you up and take you to Shenshu District."
Su Ran knew that his expression was the kind of expression that humans with sadness and separation would have.
However, he seemed to be hesitant to speak. In the end, he just looked at Su Ran and confirmed again: "Are you sure?"
"Huh? What?" Su Ran asked.
Lu Erte shook his head, smiled and said, "Don't take it to heart, I'm just asking."
Su Ran nodded at the small flower bud and responded.
"After I go back this time, we may not be able to meet for a long time." Su Ran said while looking at Lu Erte, "Thank you."
"fine."
"Why are you helping us?"
Lu Erte smiled, dusted himself off, and sat down beside the big rock next to Su Ran: "Because...Colonel Si once saved me."
Su Ran tilted his head in confusion: "Saved you?"
"It's a story from a long time ago, so long ago... I can't even remember it." Luart said, "I was only a few years old at the time, still stumbling when I walked. Then one day, when I was walking with my parents, we got separated in a cave."
"I was lost at the time, and all I could see was mutated purple-red mud and fungi. I walked for a long time, covered in blood, until some deformed wings sprouted from my body," Lurt said. "Then when I finally found the cave entrance, I saw the bodies of my parents."
Su Ran: "Well, then what?"
"What happened next... you'll never guess." Lurt said, "I saw a detachment."
"Team?"
"To be honest, I don't remember much, but at that time, before I finally passed out, I saw a man appear in the squad and run straight towards me."
Hearing this, Su Ran suddenly understood something.
He looked at Lurt and slowly confirmed: "Could it be... the colonel?"
"Yes, it was Si Chengyan." Lu Erte took the cup of water handed to him by Su Ran, "But I heard that the entire team was wiped out afterwards."
"I don't know how much of an impact this incident had on the colonel, but after this incident, he was transferred to the main base and never went into the field as a topographical surveyor again."
Lurt spoke slowly, as if he was thinking about something. "Perhaps this matter is a hurdle that no one can get over. I think the colonel will definitely blame himself."
"But this is just a rumor now. Only those who have experienced it can know the truth." Lurt said, "I think I am one of them."
Su Ran rolled up the leaves and looked at Lu Erte.
He had indeed heard this story from many people.
Whether it was what Anna mentioned, the tree man's crazy venting, or Lurt's other perspective.
But he had never heard the colonel say it.
It seemed that to some extent, he was carrying something alone - but he chose not to say anything, to bear it alone, and to completely bury this experience in distant memory.
Just when he was stunned, he heard Lu Erte say: "I will take you there now."
"You can avoid some deformed beasts at night," he said. "Birds are flying abnormally now, so it might be dangerous."
As he said this, a bird nearby swooped over to express its protest.
Su Ran put away his previous mood, looked at Luerte and Fei Niao, and smiled. He stretched out a small leaf, patted Fei Niao's wings, and said, "Let's go together."
Since he chose to stay in the deep woods area, he had to think about all the consequences.
He couldn't leave the elders, nor could he leave the colonel - and now, this was the only choice he had.
Su Ran dropped the small flower bud, which was finally picked up by Lurt and put into his pocket. He followed Elder Rose and went to the Vine Family again.
This was an area covered with vines in the distance, so Su Ran and Elder Rose stayed there.
According to Vine, the Rose clan should not be wiped out.
Su Ran felt relieved after hearing this.
He decided to wait until the elder's injury healed and then go find other rose companions.
While the elder was recuperating, he had a tree stump and a small nest made of haystacks - the outside was protected by vines, and the inside was his home.
Most of the time, he is still unhappy.
So he sat alone on the tree stump, using the small crayons, small envelopes and pieces of paper given by his vine friends, and scribbled and wrote every day, from sunrise to sunset.
Su Ran drew a picture of her little rose's experience.
Just like the comic books he read as a child, he drew a lot, until the end of the paper, with only the last page left.
So, what to draw?
Su Ran flipped back a few pages and thought for three or four seconds.
——He decided to paint the future.
The wilderness and lighthouse in his memory were still there, and he wanted to paint them, and then add himself and the colonel to the picture.
Although now, it is impossible for him to go to these places with the colonel. The world is changing too fast and no longer allows them to go there.
However, the painting can be kept.
So Su Ran carefully drew the lighthouse and the golden sunset, with the endless wilderness on the side. They seemed to sway slightly in the breeze, and in the front, the two figures were him and the colonel.
"I really hope this day will come..." Su Ran whispered as he signed his name at the end, "Let's write the colonel and my name here."
After a few seconds, Su Ran wrote his name and the words "Stay in the vine area" at the bottom of the drawing paper.
But in the end, he couldn't help but write down the words "I like the Colonel very much, and I miss the Colonel very much. I want to go to the lighthouse to watch the sunrise together."
As if this would make him feel better.
After doing all this, Su Ran looked at his album for a while, and soon he fell asleep.
He was really too tired.
So much so that he didn't wake up when the bird landed.
Fei Niao looked at the small desk where Su Ran was lying.
After gently scraping it with his wings, a map fell out from the side of the tree stump and landed lightly on the ground. It was the map to the base that Su Ran brought back.
The bird looked at it for a few seconds, then picked up the piece of paper with the lighthouse and the wilderness, flapped its wings, and flew towards the human base.
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Love letter from little rose.
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