Chapter 88
Hanging Island.
The sea breeze blew, bringing with it a moist scent, across the scattered islands.
Three full months had passed since the last incident.
Human settlements have since been divided into more than 200 areas, each of which has the ability to move independently and can also be combined when conditions are met.
The underground research institute was completely sealed off. During the Star Project, Sirtu disappeared completely. No one knew what became of him in the end. It seemed that he was completely decomposed at the moment when the areas completely collapsed.
Triana once organized a group of researchers to study the two divided areas. After extensive exploration, they concluded that Sirtu had indeed disappeared.
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Anna walked out from a building on the side.
It was a three-story stone house with a long row of lighthouses and windmills on the left. Behind the house were lush green vines and mushrooms. When they saw Anna, they chirped and greeted her.
Anna smiled gently. She held a special watering can in her hand and watered the vines and mushrooms.
Jiji, Gugu and Gulu were all there. After the Star Project, they chose a suspended area as their residence.
Well, they can choose to return to nature and rebuild their homes in a field or a cave.
but……
They have a very good friend who always comforts them with small leaves and can also help them cure their illnesses, making them feel that they must thank him and stay with him.
Thinking of this, Guji climbed up again, and its cap just reached the gap in the wall, but was kicked down by the sharp tip of a green vine.
"Gugu, Ji!" Guji expressed his dissatisfaction, waving his deformed little tentacles. "Gu! Twist, twist, you're going too far!"
Niuniu grunted and kicked again.
Guji is unhappy.
After the last fog, they also learned a little human language. Although they spoke haltingly, at least they didn't have to chatter a lot.
After that incident, Niuniu was rescued by the support institute, and with careful treatment, his vines were re-fused.
Guji is unhappy.
But even though his friends gently warned him to take good rest, he still went to complain.
Just as he climbed to the other side of the stone house, he was grabbed by a pair of slender white hands and carefully placed in their palms.
"Hey, Guji, stop being naughty." The person who spoke was a handsome young man, whose smile seemed to be filled with the warm sunshine of spring breeze. "What are you doing?"
"He, they bullied me!"
"So what?" Su Ran pulled its little tentacles.
"I'm here to complain!"
Facing this angry little mushroom, the boy smiled and tapped its cap: "If I open the window and you get ejected, you'll definitely groan in pain again."
Guji shook the mushroom cap and rubbed it against the boy's palm to show that he was fine.
But anyway, it really doesn't matter to him.
Su Ran can cure him!
So Guji held the boy's fingers again and rubbed them for a long time.
At this moment, a cold yet gentle voice sounded from behind him. The young man only took a glance, and his eyes immediately brightened up: "Colonel Si!"
"Anna said you can't use your second ability too much, even if it's just a few..." Si Chengyan walked to his side and placed Guji on the vine. "How do you feel now?"
“It’s pretty much the same as before, actually.”
"That's good." Si Chengyan rubbed Su Ran's hair.
Su Ran looked into his blue eyes and thought of that day again.
The moment the Star Project was fully launched, he thought he was going to lose him completely, but what he didn't expect was that the moment he turned into a little rose that day, the light at his fingertips became stronger and stronger - and this light did not disappear when he turned into a rose, but became even more powerful.
In the end, this light becomes a protective shield.
Like scattered light, or the last stars left in the world, at the moment when the Star Plan was fully launched, the iron plates behind them collapsed, and gaps appeared in the glued and split areas, which unexpectedly became a protective umbrella when the areas were split.
As dust and smoke rose, Su Ran still looked at him, and slowly tightened her grip on his fingertips with the leaves.
"What are you thinking about?" Si Chengyan hugged Su Ran from behind, turned sideways and rested his chin on the other's shoulder.
"Um……"
Su Ran didn't reply immediately. After a while, she tilted her head and said, "I want to bask in the sun for a while."
Si Chengyan chuckled a few times.
On their way back, they happened to run into Triana and the others. After seeing Si Chengyan and Su Ran, they nodded and greeted: "Colonel."
"There's a district merger happening tonight. Would you like to check it out?" she said. "This merger involves Districts 36 and 205. Headquarters has approved their application."
Seeing Si Chengyan's gaze lightly fall on her, Triana added: "I heard from the applicant that they want to float to the Haicheng area this time to carry out seasonal fishing activities."
"Haicheng?" Su Ran suddenly became interested.
He hadn't been there for a long time. Since the last time, the surface of Haicheng had been covered by most of the ocean. Finally, the support institute established more than one hundred and eighty detection points on the ocean currents to conduct detection through some changes in flow rate.
So he listened very carefully to Triana's description and the matters concerning the district combination. After the conversation ended and Triana and the other researchers left, Su Ran propped his head up on a shelf and muttered, "Haicheng..."
"Want to go?"
"Hmm..." Su Ran thought seriously for a few seconds, then smiled, "I still really want to go."
His previous experience in Haicheng was not a good memory, but after all, this was his third city in the human world. After the Old City and the New City, he also spent several months in Haicheng.
The key is.
He was completely grown up in Colonel Si's bed at that time.
Accompany him to sleep every day, tell him stories, and many other things.
Thinking of this, Su Ran had a different feeling towards Haicheng.
He turned to look at Si Chengyan. Before he could speak, he saw a faint smile in his eyes, so he asked, "Do you know what I'm thinking?"
Si Chengyan nodded.
Without waiting for Su Ran's reply, he said, "Let's go together."
Su Ran: "Is it okay?"
"Of course." Si Chengyan said, "I haven't been there for a long time."
"But have you been very busy lately?" Su Ran whispered, "You don't even have time to tell me stories."
"not busy."
"Then you..." Su Ran looked at him with wide eyes, "I want to hear a story..."
Si Chengyan smiled and said, "Okay, then let's go to the attic of the lighthouse tonight and listen."
After the Star Project, nearly every district had windmills and lighthouses built. Although all of the districts on the Hanging Island were powered by a special power plant, some elements of the old city—such as windmills—were still retained. Furthermore, all districts had lighthouses, large and small, to connect the various research institutes and provide guidance when districts were merged.
So, on this evening, when the districts were being merged, Si Chengyan took Su Ran to a lighthouse in a certain district. It was a white lighthouse with a blue ocean pattern. A small mark had been twisted in the corner, with a few green vines painted on it.
While Su Ran was waiting for Colonel Si, she also drew some cute little flowers - just as cute as he was.
After a rose experiences its second superpower, it needs a certain number of times to transform back to its original form. This is the case with Su Ran now. After losing his healing power, he will easily get tired after regaining his second superpower thanks to the elder's bead.
Therefore, a rose is more suitable for him to rest anytime and anywhere.
For example, pocket No. 1 on Colonel Si's shirt, pocket No. 2 on his trousers, and pocket No. 3 on his coat all became Su Ran's best choices for sleeping.
Thinking of this, Su Ran waved the leaves again, and the slender roots rolled up the small crayon, and crookedly drew a stick figure on the wall to represent Colonel Si.
After finishing everything, he sat down on the ground, holding the little crayon, and waited for the colonel obediently.
"Why hasn't the colonel come yet?" Su Ran muttered softly, changed the direction of the crayon, and continued to wait quietly for the colonel.
After an unknown amount of time, a slender figure appeared in the thick shadow of the night.
Su Ran straightened up, not caring about the crayon anymore, and threw it aside while shouting, "Colonel Si!"
I saw a hint of smile in the other person's eyes.
Si Chengyan usually didn't smile, perhaps due to various reasons. However, under special circumstances, his supernatural powers would make his blue eyes grow even colder and darker, emitting a very chilling aura.
But now, even with her deep blue eyes, Su Ran still stretched out her small leaves, hugged the colonel's fingers, and was taken into his pocket.
"You're using your powers again." Su Ran poked his head out of his pocket. "Sister Anna said we're all in the recovery period."
"Special reasons."
Si Chengyan raised his hand and rubbed his little flower bud.
"When we merged the areas, perhaps we were too close to the surface, and some aberrations made of water mist eroded our buildings." Si Chengyan explained with a rare patience, "So we used it a little."
"That's what you said..." Su Ran looked at him, "But I don't believe it's just a little bit."
After all, the terms used by this human being are completely different from the terms used by his small rose.
——Even if it is the same, this human's tolerance threshold is different from that of ordinary people. Therefore, Su Ran maintained a very rigorous analytical attitude towards every word of Colonel Si.
Su Ran rolled up the small leaf again, folding it like a human, and began to think in his pocket. At this moment, Si Chengyan's voice came over: "Then... how can I believe it?"
Su Ran: "Hmm?"
"I mean," Si Chengyan said as he led Su Ran up to the lighthouse tower, "is there something we need to do to undo what just happened?"
He paused, then smiled and said, "Like watering the plants? Telling stories? Or any other requests?"
This was the first time Su Ran had seen a human being with such natural conditions.
And she did it so willingly and happily—this was beyond the knowledge of his little rose.
But there is one thing Su Ran is very clear about.
Little Rose makes the choice.
He wants them all anyway!
So Su Ran happily took a bath in the tower and played with bubbles for a while. The leaves of his tree looked even more beautiful and green with crystal water droplets.
When he finished washing and ran out, Si Chengyan was sitting not far away, his eyes fixed on the distance.
The soft light outlined his handsome profile. He pursed his lips, looking very cold, yet perfect and impeccable. His blue eyes seemed to merge with the sea not far away, with shining stars, glittering and dazzling in his eyes.
Su Ran looked at him for a while.
He didn't know how long it was before he came back to his senses when he saw the other person looking at him.
As usual, Su Ran ran to Si Chengyan, rolled up her leaves, and pretended to hug him - at least so that he could climb onto his sleeves.
But this time was different—the colonel didn't do as he wished. He simply reached out and pressed his blades, then squinted at him.
Su Ran was stunned for a second or two, not quite reacting, "What's wrong?"
Without any answer, Si Chengyan looked at him for a while and then let go of his hand.
So Su Ran was stunned for a few seconds, then became slightly angry, and looked at him with her hands on her hips.
It looked like an angry little rose.
The Colonel had never teased him like that before.
Even if he had washed himself, watered himself, and put himself in the sun box to bask in the sun for a while, he wouldn't be allowed to climb up his sleeve alone.
He groaned and plucked his own leaves.
I don’t know if it was because she was too cute with her hands on her hips, or something else, but Su Ran’s response finally worked.
He was held back in Si Chengyan's palm.
Then, he carefully placed it on his body, just below his uniform pocket.
Su Ran lay in the other's arms with a clear conscience.
A gentle breeze blew in from the distant wilderness, carrying a hint of the ocean's moisture, tinging the surroundings with a hint of the unique night air. After a long period of silence, Su Ran felt the urge to do something, just like before, so he waved his small blade and tentatively poked the colonel's chest.
Seeing that the other party didn't react, Su Ran became bolder.
He pushed the root downwards, slid to his waist, adjusted his position, and hugged the colonel again - although he was still lying on his stomach, this angle allowed him to turn around and see the distant scenery.
After doing this, he poked the colonel's waist again. Even through the shirt, Su Ran could feel the other's tight and strong muscles.
But this time, after he stabbed it, the leaf was immediately pulled.
The other person's breathing slowed down for a moment: "Don't move."
"I just want to hold you." Su Ran raised her flower bud and looked at him, innocent and pure. "Or maybe you want me to turn into a human form, so that it will be more comfortable to hold you?"
Si Chengyan did not answer this question, but smiled.
This time the smile seemed different from before, even the laughter was a little hoarse.
When he met Su Ran's gaze again, his eyes narrowed slightly. After a moment, he slowly asked, "Are you sure you want to continue?"
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