Chapter 60
Before Su Ci agreed, the little wolf cub had already taken the flute from the activity room, ran to the bathroom to flush it, and then carefully wiped off the water stains.
"Here, Su Su, it's been wiped clean!"
He held the flute in front of Su Ci like a treasure. Before the keeper blew the flute, he wiped the flute with a towel, and he still remembered it. This time he took it to wash it, there would be no reason for the keeper to refuse, right?
Su Ci looked at the child's eager green eyes, then looked at the other two children, and could only sigh and took the flute.
"Don't wash the bamboo flute in Zhengxing's hand with water." He sat down, thought about it, and reminded the boy.
Although it was blessed with magic, it was still made of paper. After touching water, the magic would probably break.
"Oh! That flute can't touch water? I know!" Little Langze agreed, then pulled the little white deer and sat down on the floor in front of Su Ci.
Little Zhengxing, who was curled up on the bed, also stood up, ran over, and sat down next to the little wolf cub.
The three children sat in a row, looking up at Su Ci.
Su Ci took out a bottle of water from the space button, took a sip, and then asked them: "Is it the same song as last time?"
Little Langze wanted to ask if there were any other ones? But seeing that the usually slow-moving Xiao Zhengxing had nodded, he had to change his words: "Yes! We want to ride a big yellow ox!"
Xiao Lujiao was slightly stunned. Although he didn't know what "riding a big yellow ox" meant, he still nodded hurriedly, "Yeah...right!" OK
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Su Ci put the flute horizontally, and then recalled the previous melody and began to play it.
However, the last time he played casually, it was impossible for Su Ci to completely repeat the previous flute sound, and the picture presented to the children by the music was also different from the previous one.
It was still the mountain fields, the clear and winding stream, and the shepherd boy riding the big yellow ox, but he had already walked down the stone bridge slowly and was walking into the dense woods.
Seeing the shepherd boy and the big yellow cow leaving, Xiao Zhengxing was a little disappointed, and then he saw -
accompanied by the cheerful shepherd's flute, a cool breeze with the fragrance of grass blew, and two birds flapped their wings, riding the wind, chasing and playing and flying past him.
They chased after the shepherd boy and the big yellow cow, circling and dancing, the crisp bird calls and the flute sound, plus the friction of leaves, the gurgling sound of water...
All kinds of sounds blended, presenting the spring scenery in front of them, not only full of rich and colorful colors, but also like an auditory feast.
The three children couldn't help but indulge in it.
At the same time, in room 303, A Yan, who was practicing the formation seriously, couldn't help but raise his head and stare at the ceiling in a daze.
He heard the sound of the flute again...
Was it the keeper playing the flute? A Yan listened to the flute music full of vitality and vigor, and couldn't help but close his eyes and listen carefully.
Without Su Ci's guidance with soul power and sound cultivation techniques, he heard a lot from the beautiful flute sound.
At the same time, a series of blurred pictures appeared in front of his eyes.
A Yan blinked in confusion.
Those pictures did not disappear, as if they had happened before. There was a figure in each scene, hazy and distant, and only the light golden long hair hanging behind the person could be vaguely seen, gently blown by the wind.
Along with the sound of the flute, the figure of the man was sometimes casual, sometimes gentle, and sometimes full of loneliness...
Who was it?
A Yan watched one of the scenes - in the heavy snow, the man sat under the withered peach tree, the sound of the flute was clear and lively, but... it made people feel no joy.
The area of his heart began to ache again.
He stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the man, wanting to pat him comfortingly, but before his hand touched him, the melodious flute sound stopped.
He couldn't touch the man, as if it had always been like this.
A Yan's eyes showed a trace of loss, but he soon felt confused again, who was that person? Why did he feel so familiar?
The child thought confusedly, and when he lowered his head, he saw the formation results that had been formed on the paper, and suddenly came to his senses.
You can't be distracted anymore. This is the homework assigned by the keeper. You have to complete it seriously!
Ah Yan held the pen and continued to draw the array structures on the white paper. He started to draw very slowly, but not in a laborious way. With each stroke, his pen tip was very straight and the lines were smooth. He almost perfectly replicated the example picture drawn by Su Ci.
After the first one was finished, the next ones took shape faster and faster.
However, the further he drew, the more the array structures he drew deviated from the example picture. However, judging from the spiritual charm emanating from the formation after it was formed, the ones that deviated from it were stronger.
Ah Yan also noticed this and he shook his head in confusion.
When he sketched according to the example drawing, he always felt that no matter how he drew, the feeling in his heart was not right. But how could the example drawing left by the keeper be wrong?
A Yan's heart was full of contradictions. Just when he was thinking about putting aside this formation structure for the time being and waiting for the keeper to come back and ask him again...
he suddenly stood up, and the next moment, he was in the elevator of the nursery with a pen in his hand.
A Yan was not panicked at all. He raised his head and saw the keeper standing beside him, looking down at him. He subconsciously showed a happy smile.
The ears on his head, which had turned pure white, also stood up and pressed against his black hair, looking like the hair had faded.
Su Ci reached out and touched the top of his head, then rubbed his furry ears.
He thought the furry ears on A Yan's head would disappear soon, but unexpectedly, the hair color became more and more refined, and the fur quality became better and better. The feel of the hair was no less than that of a wolf cub.
"Have you practiced the formation structure seriously?" Su Ci asked.
A Yan paused and nodded hesitantly.
Except for a moment of distraction in the middle, he was very serious the rest of the time...
Su Ci nodded, and did not delve into his hesitation, but said: "Come out with me." After
studying for a day, it's time to take a break.
"Yeah!"
Hearing that he could go out with the keeper, the child's black and red eyes suddenly became bright. He nodded his head vigorously, with a happy expression on his face and a happy smile.
Seeing him so happy, Su Ci's mood was also infected. He asked: "Ayan, do you like going out?"
Ayan shook his head. He looked at Su Ci carefully and stretched out his hand to him tentatively. When he found that Su Ci did not stop him, he hugged his legs, smiled with squinted eyes, and rubbed him with his cheek.
It's not that he likes going out, but that he likes the keeper.
Although he can't speak, the child's behavior clearly conveys his thoughts.
Su Ci looked at him, and finally, he didn't choose to push the distance between them.
The elevator slowly went down.
When the elevator door opened, A Yan took the initiative to let go of Su Ci's hand, waited for Su Ci to leave first, and then followed him closely, happily following the keeper's tail.
However, just after taking a few steps, he saw the pen he was still holding in his hand, and quickly put it back into the space button, then continued to walk on his short legs and continued to follow Su Ci.
Su Ci left the nursery, but it was not for nothing.
He had just played the flute for the three children, leaving the intoxicated little white deer in room 403. When he came to the corridor, he happened to receive a voice call from the nursery.
The person who called him was not Zhuang Shisong, but another staff member in charge of distributing vegetables and fruits.
Just as the little white deer said, today is indeed the day for the nursery to receive fresh fruits. However, they were supposed to be delivered to the door by robots, but this time there was a little surprise.
"Yesterday our cultivation garden harvested a batch of star chain fruits, all of which are of very good quality. The director said that they should be distributed to various departments of the base while they are in their best edible period."
The staff member's face was filled with the joy of a good harvest.
Obviously, the star chain fruits that grew wildly and bore fruit had no problems in the test results. On the contrary, they were the best quality fruits cultivated by the cultivation garden over the years.
Such fruits naturally could not be sold to other bases. After Wu Yunqin left enough seeds, he decided to distribute the rest to avoid wasting such good fruits.
The staff member contacted Su Ci mainly because the delivery robots were not enough, and wanted to ask if the nursery should send a nanny robot to get them first.
Su Ci originally wanted to go out for a walk, so he readily agreed. Because he was too lazy to go back to the dormitory, he teleported A Yan to his side -
no matter what, he couldn't leave A Yan alone in the nursery.
As for whether Xiao Langze and the other two would go berserk while he was away, Su Ci was not too worried.
When he played the flute for them just now, he incorporated the calming technique of Yin Xiu. Under the soothing and calming effect of the flute sound, they would not have the problem of blood force rioting in the short term.
At least, there would be no problem holding on until he came back from outside.
Su Ci took A Yan on the suspended bus and walked on the route to the plantation. His consciousness, as the bus moved forward, collected all the information around.
After the repair, the damage left by the blood rain in the base has been almost repaired, but it can be seen that the atmosphere in the base is much more tense than before.
The monsters in the blood rain actively attacked the buildings. This new change was like a haze. After the information was thoroughly spread, it shrouded almost everyone's heart.
Even those who have recently joined the base have been informed of the dangers that this new change may bring.
A lot of video footage from a dozen or twenty years ago, before the red mist faded, has been preserved. The tragedy that happened at that time constantly reminds the people still living on Hell Star how terrible the monsters in the red mist are.
Many people have the idea of leaving, but except for researchers and breeders, almost all positions in the base are military personnel. If they want to leave Hell Star, they can only submit an application for transfer.
After the application is approved, they may leave Hell Star with the supply spaceship. Even if someone is able to get approval in a short period of time, it will take at least two months before they can leave.
In two months, they had experienced many extreme weather events on Hell Star.
No one could guarantee that the monsters would continue to attack and destroy buildings when the next extreme weather event came. So it was no wonder that people in Base 24 were panicking.
All of this had little to do with Su Ci.
He watched for a while and then blocked out the information. When he arrived at the station of the cultivation garden and got off the suspended bus, Su Ci felt something different.
The concentration of resentment around the cultivation garden is obviously lower than other places, that is...
"Why does the cultivation garden smell like garlic today?"
Su Ci heard a familiar voice. He turned his head and saw Luo Shengfei standing not far away, complaining to a maintenance worker on the same team, "This garlic smell is too stinky..."
When he said this, he seemed to notice something, and he also looked over here, and then met Su Ci's eyes.
"Hey! Su the breeder, what a coincidence!" He greeted and ran over here.
Su Ci nodded at him, and then he said, "The task you entrusted to me is almost done, but it may not be exactly the same as before."
Luo Shengfei scratched his hair, "But there is no problem with the core, and the data has been preserved..."
"Well, thank you for your help."
"Hahaha, no trouble!" Luo Shengfei smiled brightly, "Then I have something to do first, I think I can send it to you later."
After that, he waved to Su Ci and returned to the maintenance team.
Su Ci looked at them, and from a distance, he could hear the other maintenance workers whispering.
"You said that the cultivation garden suddenly requested to go underground to collect water samples. What's going on? Is there something wrong with the underground river?"
"It shouldn't be the case, right? But I heard that some cultivators went to the logistics building to collect water today, and it seems that several other departments have also conducted water sampling inspections..."
The maintenance workers whispered to each other, worried about the sudden action of the cultivation garden after the blood rain.
If there is really a problem with the water source, then their future life on Hell Star will be in trouble, and it will not only be the threat from monsters.
Listening to their conversation, Su Ci knew that the cultivation garden had discovered that the water quality had been purified and began to investigate the matter.
Hearing the maintenance workers' discussion becoming more and more depressed, Su Ci quietly withdrew his gaze and hid his achievements and fame.
Soon, two researchers in protective clothing walked out of the plantation and followed the maintenance team. They were probably going to collect water samples from the underground river.
Su Ci, led by the robot, entered the plantation to collect the Star Chain Fruit.
"In the nursery, there are eight cubs and one keeper. 30 Star Chain Fruits are allocated. The fruits are being packed. Please wait." After the robot finished speaking, it turned and went into the warehouse.
The warehouse of the plantation was constantly filled with delivery robots coming in and out, and it looked very busy.
Su Ci and A Yan were waiting on the side. He yawned boredly and half-closed his eyes lazily.
A Yan then realized that the keeper brought him to the plantation to collect the Star Chain Fruit.
Thinking of the sweetness of the star chain fruit and the delicious dishes made from it, A Yan became happy.
With the star chain fruit, he can make more delicious food for the breeders! Thinking of the smile on the young man's face when he ate the food, A Yan was full of expectations.
He stared at the delivery robot entering and leaving the warehouse, his head moving left and right.
Not far from them was the greenhouse where the star chain fruit vines grew wildly. Outside the greenhouse, there were still some traces left by the wild growth of the vines, and they had not been completely cleaned up.
In the greenhouse, the star chain fruits had been picked, leaving behind clusters of vines of varying shades of color.
On the glass of the outer wall that was once covered with star-chain fruit vines, there were still a few small withered vines hanging, swaying in the wind.
At this time, a hand reached out and pinched one of the vines.
The hand was furry and covered with short golden hairs. The owner of the furry hand pinched the small piece of withered vine, stuffed it into his mouth, and then lay on the outer wall, with a furry face pressed against the glass, looking into the star-chain fruit greenhouse.
A Yan, who was turning his head and watching the robot coming out of the warehouse, suddenly stopped.
The figure lying on the glass seemed to have noticed something. It kept lying on the wall and looked behind it. Their
eyes met.
A Yan blinked and stared curiously at the creature that came out from nowhere.
Round eyes like black grapes, pink and white face, covered with golden fur that looked extremely dazzling in the sun.
It was actually a little monkey!
A little monkey that was thinner than A Yan and about as tall as Su Ci's knees!
The little monkey didn't seem to be shy. After meeting A Yan's eyes, it tilted its head slightly, and its cute appearance seemed a little silly. After
A Yan was stunned for a moment, he couldn't help but look up and gently pulled the keeper's clothes.
When Su Ci opened his eyes and looked down at him, he quickly pointed in the direction of the greenhouse, and Su Ci looked in the direction he was looking.
However, where was the little monkey under the outer wall of the greenhouse?
A Yan was slightly stunned, huh? Where is the little monkey?
He took two steps towards that direction, looked around, but still didn't see the little monkey, so he couldn't help but scratch his head.
Could he have seen it wrong?
While A Yan was confused, Su Ci was also looking at the greenhouse. He didn't say anything, nor did he ask A Yan what he wanted to show him.
At this time, the robot that went into the warehouse to pack finally came out with a small box.
"There are a total of 30 Star Chain Fruits here, 2 for each cub, 4 for each breeder, and the rest can be distributed freely. They are all here." The robot's electronic voice sounded emotionlessly, "Please check and sign here."
Su Ci signed his name skillfully, and then took the box of Star Chain Fruits.
He did not contact Zhuang Shisong, nor did he ask about the condition of the small garlic seedling, because...
smelling the garlic smell that almost permeated the entire cultivation garden, Su Ci could probably infer that the current condition of this small spiritual plant was not bad.
Su Ci put the fruit box into the space button and walked out of the cultivation garden with A Yan.
At this moment, in a greenhouse not far from him, Zhuang Shisong and Wei Ming were studying the data of the small garlic seedling, as well as the conditions of other plants in the greenhouse.
Just as Su Ci guessed, the growth of the small garlic seedling was very good.
After Su Ci's reminder, Zhuang Shisong and Wei Ming conducted experiments overnight and finally confirmed that this special garlic sprout was indeed not the purifying green plant they were looking for.
Although it was somewhat different from what they had imagined, Zhuang Shisong and his team were not disappointed, because the garlic sprout and the purifying green plant actually had similar effects.
They conducted several sets of experiments. First, they placed the garlic sprout in a sealed container. In a short period of time, the pollutant content in the container would drop sharply.
From this point of view, the ability of the garlic sprout seems to be purification.
However, when they added a special protective cover to the outside of this container that could prevent pollutant penetration to the maximum extent, they finally found that
the concentration of pollutants between the container and the protective cover increased over time, and then began to decrease very slowly over time.
From this experiment, Zhuang Shisong came to the preliminary conclusion that the ability of the small garlic sprouts should be...
to expel pollutants!
When he came to this conclusion, Zhuang Shisong felt incredible, because he had a feeling that this conclusion should be the right direction.
Such a supernatural power is actually more in line with the characteristics of the garlic plant. However, if it weren't for the reminder of the Su breeder, he might have to take a lot of detours to really figure this out.
The Su breeder should have thought that the ability of the small garlic sprouts should not be purification based on this point, right?
What a terrible and precious intuition!
Then Zhuang Shisong handed the task of investigating the water samples to other researchers, and after reading his and Wei Ming's reports, Wu Yunqin immediately made a decision and fully supported their research on the small garlic sprouts.
As for the reason why the cultivation garden is filled with the smell of garlic today,
Wei Ming collected the smell of small garlic sprouts and released it to other greenhouses. He is currently conducting an application experiment to see if the smell of mutated garlic sprouts can also repel pollutants.
If this experiment is successful, it will be of great significance, because Wei Ming not only thinks of its application in crop cultivation, but also in combat!
If the smell of small garlic sprouts can really repel pollutants, then will it also have a certain effect on the monsters in the red mist?
If this can be proven, then relevant weapons can be made, which will definitely play a key role in the base's fight against monsters!
Zhuang Shisong was observing and recording data, thinking about the next experimental plan, when he heard Wei Ming say, "The keeper of the nursery... just took the Star Chain Fruit away."
Zhuang Shisong nodded. In fact, according to regulations, the nursery could not distribute so many Star Chain Fruits, but after discussing with Wei Ming, he gave both of their quotas to Su Ci.
Hearing Wei Ming's words, Zhuang Shisong said, "Oh," and then continued to think.
At this time, Wei Ming said again: "You said... he can't really grow something in the nursery, right?"
Zhuang Shisong looked at him and gently pushed his glasses.
Facing his slightly teasing eyes, Wei Ming froze for a moment, then shook his head and said: "I still think he can't. The nursery is a place to raise cubs, and those cubs are a worry. No matter how strong his theoretical knowledge is, how much time can he have to study planting?"
Zhuang Shisong smiled and nodded.
Anyway... he was not the one who made the bet.
Su Ci brought A Yan to the station outside the cultivation garden to wait.
Suddenly, he looked up.
Above his head, he saw the awning set up on the side of the platform. At this moment, a thin and long tail tip hung down from the awning.
Then, a furry little head popped out, and it turned out to be the little monkey with golden body.