Ruan Ning kept her word and found a way to inform the training center of what she had seen the very evening she returned from the banquet hall.

The training center also expressed its attention to this matter. As soon as it received the news, it hurriedly sent people to the Hope Base.

The people who came specially from Chaoyang Base this time included Yu Xian and two other people, a man and a woman, whom Ruan Ning did not know.

After Ruan Ning accompanied Gu Huasheng to inspect all the Gu family's businesses in the base in the afternoon, they saw them coming. They first went to the residence of the Dawn Squad, and heard that she was no longer living there, so they came to the Gu family.

"Ms. Ruan, thank you for letting bygones be bygones and sending someone to tell us this news." Yu Xian went to question the fourth-level psychic Zheng Lin about the theft at the training center that day. Naturally, Zheng Lin refused to admit that she did it, and in the end, the two sides almost came to blows over it.

However, Yu Xian did not have enough evidence, and the clues stopped here, so she could only blame herself. Yu Xian had no way of confirming whether Zheng Lin had done it, and she had no time to deal with the theft in the past few days. She had been sending the wood-type mutants in the breeding center to work overtime to re-breed all the varieties and develop new varieties.

Ruan Ning smiled at her thanks and said nonchalantly, "It's just a small effort. Besides, Yiyi is very kind to me. I did this for her. Like you, I also want to catch the group that stole from the training center that day as soon as possible."

Seeing that she still cared about Yu Yiyi and was so loyal to their training center, Yu Xian looked at Ruan Ning with a much softer gaze, "Ms. Ruan, Yiyi has always missed you. This time, when she heard that we were coming to the Hope Base, she insisted on coming with us. However, because I was worried about the special circumstances this time, I did not agree. I will definitely bring her to see you next time."

Ruan Ning chatted with Yu Xian about Yu Yiyi's recent situation, then she thought of something and asked, "What's the current situation of the training center?" Because she knew that the training center could not focus all its attention on catching the murderer, the top priority now was to find a way to recover the losses.

However, now that someone has promoted the most valuable new species before them, it may not be easy for them to turn things around. Unless they can cultivate more valuable mutant plants during this period of time.

After learning about the strength of the Dawn Team, Yu Xian began to look at the weak girl in front of her with a new eye. She no longer regarded her as just a junior. She smiled bitterly and said, "The situation is not good. Now that something like this has happened, we can only take it one step at a time. I came here specially this time just to find out what the situation is with this Cui family you mentioned."

Ruan Ning also felt sorry for what happened to the training center. Just because of their lack of skills and low combat power, they suffered this unprovoked disaster. "If there is anything I can do to help you, just ask."

Yu Xian was very grateful for her kindness. Ruan Ning originally wanted to keep them at Gu's house for dinner, but the three of them had other things to deal with at Hope Base, so they left after saying that.

*****

Ruan Ning didn't know how many days she would stay at Gu's house, so when she moved from the villa, she brought her little girl along.

Xiaohua was the name Ruan Ning gave to the mutated plant.

However, its mental state seems to be not very good these days. It looks listless and its flower buds are still budding. Although it will rub Ruan Ning affectionately with its body when she approaches, it can be felt that it is not particularly happy.

"Xiaohua, what's wrong with you?" Ruan Ning came to the balcony to water it every day as usual. Seeing that Xiaohua was still like this, he couldn't help but feel a trace of worry in his eyes.

She had clearly remembered to water it and let it bask in the sun these past few days, but why did it seem to be getting worse and worse?

Ruan Ning was a little worried. She was afraid that if things continued like this, the little flower would wither.

She truly treated the mutant plant in front of her as her beloved pet, and sometimes came over to talk to it when she was bored.

The flower bud, which had lost its former vitality, rubbed against her palm, and the two green leaves beside it were still tightly wrapped around her little finger, preventing her from leaving.

Ruan Ning looked at it and felt that its movements were like those of a very hungry cat begging for food.

Ruan Ning paused and asked uncertainly, "Xiaohua, are you hungry?"

Unexpectedly, Xiaohua gave Ruan Ning a very positive response.

But the problem now is that after giving the response, Ruan Ning still has no idea what the mutant plant in front of her wants to eat. After all, she doesn't understand the language of plants and can only rely on its behavior to identify it.

Ruan Ning first ruled out the blood method. Gu Yicheng tried this method the day he brought it back from the Chaoyang base. It seemed that it had no interest in human blood and even seemed a little disgusted.

Ruan Ning thought about it, then took out several kinds of food from the space, including canned meat, biscuits, and other snacks.

But none of these could make Xiaohua react. It still looked uninterested and kept pulling at her fingers.

Just when Ruan Ning was at her wit's end, she took out a bag of crystal cores, and the little flower changed. It was like a person who had been hungry for a long time. A transparent thread-like thing stretched out from the flower bud, and before she could react, a crystal core was quickly rolled up from the bag and swallowed.

The process happened so fast that she almost didn't see it clearly even though she was right next to it.

"???" It was the first time that Ruan Ning saw a mutant plant that could eat crystal cores. And it ate them so ferociously, swallowing the whole thing directly without any pause or courtesy.

This is totally different from the image of a small, inconspicuous wild flower that she had imagined? ! !

When the flower bud swallowed the crystal core and closed, Ruan Ning moved the entire flowerpot into the room, then sat on the sofa and watched it eat.

I have to say, this little guy is amazing. Although he has been picking up colorless and transparent crystal cores to swallow, his digestion speed is very fast. He can basically digest one crystal core in one minute.

Thanks to Ruan Ning who has been helping the army treat their injuries these days and earned a lot of crystal cores, and there are also quite a few in the original small treasury. Otherwise, ordinary people really can't afford to support this mutant plant that can "eat" crystal cores.

About ten minutes passed, and the flower bud in the flowerpot finally stopped eating. After eating several crystal cores, Ruan Ning found that the little flower's mental state was indeed much better than before, and even the flower bud seemed to have grown a lot bigger.

Seeing this, Ruan Ning couldn't help but recall that afternoon when she got off the car, she also found that the flower bud had grown bigger. Could it be that it also took away the crystal core that day?

Xiaohua must be reluctant to part with this bag of crystal cores. Although she stopped eating, her "tentacles" kept lingering on the crystal cores. If her appetite was not limited to this much, Ruan Ning had no doubt that this bag of crystal cores would not be enough for her.

Ruan Ning found its food-guarding behavior a little amusing: "...Don't worry, these crystal cores are all for you. No one will compete with you for them."

Xiaohua seemed to understand what she said. The transparent tentacles put down the crystal core and changed direction to wrap around her slender white wrist.

Its transparent tentacles were covered with fine hairs that made her skin itch.

Ruan Ning touched the soft leaves of the small flower and closed her eyelids slightly. It just so happened that Yu Xian also came to the Hope Base this time. Maybe she could find some time to ask about this mutant plant? ?

Xiaohua came from a training center, and probably no one knew it better than Yu Xian.

However, Ruan Ning was a little hesitant. Yu Yiyi said that Xiaohua grew next to the big locust tree, and the big locust tree was the unspeakable secret of the breeding center.

Isn't it too abrupt for her to ask like this?