Chapter 85
When Su Ran heard this, he wanted to explain.
——Just like before.
But when he met those deep blue eyes, he swallowed all the words of explanation.
For some reason, he looked different from the colonel he knew. His eyes were very dark, almost on the verge of bursting, like the undercurrent before a storm, appearing before Su Ran's eyes.
He had never seen such a colonel.
I've never been stared at like this by him before.
"I……"
Before he finished speaking, Su Ran felt the force on his wrist deepen.
"What are you doing?" Si Chengyan asked.
It was still the same tone as before, just like when she was raising and watering him, but Su Ran just looked at him quietly - everything seemed to be quiet at this moment.
The air on the Hanging Island was chilly, making a slight humming sound as it brushed against the iron sheets. After a few seconds, Su Ran slowly spoke, "Well, I want to do an experiment..."
"What experiment?"
"At once……"
Su Ran pointed slightly.
"But it's okay," he said, feigning composure. "I'm different from humans. When I was attacked by the purple mist while I was sound asleep in New City, I didn't feel any discomfort."
To be honest, Su Ran had a glimmer of hope. After all, he was a small rose, and he had previously possessed the ability to heal others. Perhaps absorbing the mist would only transform him into a more deformed flower.
Seeing Si Chengyan pursed his lips and said nothing, he waved his hand again and said with a smile: "Look at me..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard the other party interrupt him: "You are always like this."
"What?"
Su Ran shuddered slightly, his gaze fixed on the thick fog for a few seconds, then he looked away without saying anything.
The Colonel seemed angry.
To be honest, Su Ran is standing here now, thinking very open-mindedly. He always thinks that as long as the colonel and Elder Rose are fine, and all the flowers and plants that have been cured are fine, that's enough.
But the Colonel didn't look worried, but rather had an expression he had never had before.
"Come back with me."
"I..." Although Su Ran did not refuse the colonel, he still took a few steps back, stood beside the shelf, and shook his head.
This was his first time rebelling against Si Chengyan.
"sorry."
Su Ran apologized slightly.
In his opinion, this is an unsolvable problem, and he doesn't want any of his human friends to get hurt or take such risks.
According to Anna and Triana's speculation, pressing this button will guide the unknown fog into the Lighthouse Research Institute. No matter who it is, he feels distressed.
After hearing this answer, Si Chengyan paused, looked at Su Ran and asked, "Why?"
"Um?"
"You're always apologizing."
Su Ran was stunned: "I just..."
"You don't owe anyone anything, not even me." Si Chengyan said, "I've been thinking about whether I was too reckless that day, rashly bringing you back and then putting all the risks on you."
"Is it rash..." Su Ran lowered her eyelashes, "But I..."
He didn't know why, but the more he heard these words, the sadder he became.
He didn't want anyone to blame him, and the distance between him and Si Chengyan was so great. If that day, he had just been a little rose content with the status quo, not looking for the nutrient beads, and not following the colonel back to the human world, would the colonel have been less upset?
But there is no time machine for bedtime stories these days.
It's all a lie, there's no going back.
"Look at me." Si Chengyan's tone was different from before, and his cold voice became inexplicably hoarse. "Do you know what I'm saying?"
Su Ran shuddered again.
After a while, he whispered, "I don't know."
They were silent for a few seconds. During this brief moment, Su Ran's thoughts became confused. He felt sad, but not a mixture of emotions, just a simple sadness—like a rose without sunlight and water, as if it had lost something completely, completely separated from its roots.
Si Chengyan looked at Su Ran and asked after a few seconds: "If I hadn't come here this time, would you have pressed that button behind my back?"
Su Ran: "But I'm not human..."
He didn't continue, but, at this moment, his meaning was clear.
"What are the odds?" Si Chengyan said, grabbing his wrist tightly and frowning as he asked, "Can we gamble?"
When these words fell, both of them fell silent.
When Su Ran came to his senses, he found himself crying, and he didn't know why. But at this moment, his emotions burst open, and all the worries and self-blame he had accumulated over the past few days came out.
"But you never told me that you always chose to carry the past behind your back..." Su Ran raised her eyes again and looked directly into Si Chengyan's deep blue eyes. "What should I do?"
His voice was trembling with excitement, and he couldn't even stop himself from shaking.
"I can only guess, wondering if you're in danger out in the wild... but there's nothing I can do..." Su Ran sobbed, his voice becoming hurried. Even so, he couldn't form a complete sentence. "I don't have the power to heal anymore... I can't help you at all."
If everything depends on ability, then this world is too cold.
But he had to understand it this way.
——Because it’s too cruel here.
"I don't know what to do, or how to keep up with you and help..." The more Su Ran thought about it, the sadder he became. This feeling of powerlessness kept emerging from the bottom of his heart, and he had no way to relieve it, just like those injured plant friends he saw after he lost his healing power.
But many times, these are unsolvable.
At that time, he had no way of knowing the colonel's location and had to make a deal with Siltu - just like he couldn't save Niuniu and other companions now, it was a fact that there was no other way.
Si Chengyan's eyes darkened a little, turning into a light blue color. He didn't let go of Su Ran's wrist and whispered, "Do you think... I care about this?"
Su Ran was stunned.
He subconsciously looked at Si Chengyan, and when he was about to open his mouth to say something, he felt the ground he was standing on shook.
Then the voices of Poker and Triana were heard.
"Colonel Si, are you at the Lighthouse Research Institute now?"
"what happens?"
"Those things from New City and Sea City have all emerged," Triana said. "It's mainly due to the fog and the ocean currents that can transform into attacking objects. Now they're all surging here."
"What?!" Su Ran looked at Si Chengyan, "But our—"
Before he finished speaking, the ground they were standing on shook several times again. The originally hard stone material was no longer there, and it became like a fragile plastic sheet.
Su Ran didn't have time to say anything, and didn't even have time to look at Si Chengyan. A deep crack suddenly appeared where they were standing.
Gram sound.
It was a very light sound of a screw dropping.
Then, like dominoes, more cracking sounds were heard. They were rapid and crisp, but each one was different, as if responding to those unknown undercurrents in the distance.
Under the blood-red sky, the Lighthouse Research Institute collapsed.
The author has something to say:
I'm back.
I overestimated myself before and thought that if I became yang, the fever would go away, but I ended up coughing like crazy (.)
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Please take good care of yourself and protect yourself during this period, muah.
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