abyss rose

Chapter 78 Bubble

The strange fog dissipated, and the energy of the black vine would no longer affect the mutual fusion and mutation of species. The new ecology entered stability, and the journey to the new world officially set sail.

The two bases of human beings have been combined into one, and some researchers have focused their research on the habits of new ecological species.

The dense fog has covered the world for too long, and the people who finally managed to see the light of day eagerly want to re-understand this world that has been completely new without knowing it.

Shortly after the end of the war, the staff of the research institute regretted that all previous methods for extracting the energy of the black vines had lost their effectiveness, and the energy of the black vines could no longer be artificially extracted—the kind of abnormal energy that has affected the earth for more than 50 years, as if from The world has disappeared.

A few months later, the base completely stopped research on black vines, and announced that the buoyancy system of the floating city, which must rely on the energy of black vines to generate buoyancy, was completely abolished, and the base would no longer send people to recover and repair it.

Whether the Floating Void City fell back to the earth has become a heavy stroke in the history books outlined by blood and gunpowder.

It's just that most people don't know that there is still a little black vine under special care in the base research institute that claims to no longer study black vines.

Little Hei Teng doesn't like being locked up, or being noisy, or the nutrient solution in the laboratory, but likes pestering a mercenary who knows nothing about biology and doesn't care about base research.

That mercenary was Chai Yuening, and he was the captain of the No.13 mercenary team in the sixth district of the outer city. This team had made outstanding contributions to the base during a large-scale alien beast invasion. Free access to important places such as city defense centers and research institutes.

This is an unprecedented honor for a mercenary.

But she herself just wanted to stay in the research institute every day and watch the little black vine grow little by little.

This time, there is no broken tank to close it, no dark room, no big screen with green light, no sampling regardless of whether it hurts or not.

It is free, accompanied by Chai Yuening, and under the care of many people in the institute.

This little black vine is Chu Ci, not Chai Yuening's wishful thinking, everyone who knows Chu Ci thinks so.

Even Yi Shuyun, who has been in charge of guarding Chu Ci for so many years, said: "Quiet, well-behaved, and restless, she doesn't like anyone, but likes to cling to you. This is completely her habit."

It's just that no one can say for sure whether it has human consciousness and whether it can return to human appearance.

Yi Shuyun: "If it stays like this forever, will you guard it forever?"

Chai Yuening: "Otherwise?"

There was no sunlight in the underground base, and the incandescent lamps illuminated the entire room. Chai Yuening bowed her eyebrows and lowered her head, continuing to coax Xiao Hei Teng to supplement today's nutrient solution in a soft voice.

Yi Shuyun pursed his lips, said with a light smile, "You are worthy of her caring about you so much."

She said, pondered for a moment, and comforted in a low voice: "You will wait for her."

Chai Yuening: "Really?"

Yi Shuyun: "Yes."

Chai Yuening nodded, and didn't ask any other questions, just said: "Dr. Ge said that all creatures have stopped mutating, and humans will no longer become other species, and it is impossible for other species to acquire human characteristics. .”

Yi Shuyun leaned against the cold file cabinet and said lightly: "That's true, but Chu Ci fused into a human being before the mutation stopped, and she does have the ability to freely switch between the two body structures. So some things are not absolute, after all, people who had mutated bodies before the fog cleared could not return to their original appearance."

Yi Shuyun said, and added: "According to the data analysis of the previous inspections, she should be in a semi-comatose state now, not a physical coma, but a coma of consciousness. You know a vegetable, she is in a bit of a state. Like, but not all. Most of the vegetative people only retain the most instinctive nerve reflexes, energy absorption, and metabolic functions of the body. She is better than a vegetative person, she can carry out relatively slight voluntary movements, and she can stick to you every day, basically The cognitive ability has not been completely lost... Perhaps, this is not a semi-vegetative state, but a deep sleep that belongs to her. In this sleep state, she still has her own shallow consciousness, which will affect her actions. Behavior similar to 'sleepwalking'."

"In short, I don't think this matter is as bad as what Ge and Guang said, maybe she will really 'wake up' one day, just like when you took her away from the research institute and the floating city, didn't she also grow from a root Fuji, have you turned back into a person?"

"Thank you, Dr. Yi, there is really no need to comfort me." Chai Yuening raised the corner of her mouth slightly, with tears in her eyes, "I thought I lost her completely...I wanted to die there, my flesh and blood , my bones and blood should have rotted where she returned, and will be her nourishment forever, just like my promise to her, I will never leave her alone to face anything. But she came back, from her From the moment she wrapped around my body, I knew she was back."

"She can't bear me, just like I can't bear her." She smiled and said to Yi Shuyun, "We are still together, that's enough."

Yi Shuyun shook his head, said no more, pushed open the door and left quietly.

Chai Yuening was stunned for a moment, she looked at the little black vine that had just obediently soaked in the water tank filled with nutrient solution for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back a chuckle from the tip of her nose.

"Are you still sleepwalking?"

"Can you hear people talking while sleepwalking?"

"When will you be willing to wake up? You weren't like this before... I often don't sleep well, and I wake up early enough on weekdays. You, who can be before, wake up earlier than me every day..."

Waiting is day after day.

During this day-to-day waiting process, Chai Yuening also went to the ground with his reunited teammates and helped the base military perform some tasks.

The little black vines grow angrily all over the room without seeing her for a day. Every time Chai Yuening returns from a mission and opens the door of the temporary residence, he will be dumbfounded by the temporarily "grown" black vines in the room.

Fortunately, as long as Xiao Hei Teng sees her coming back, he will obediently shrink back to his original appearance, pretending that he has never lost his temper, and pretending that nothing happened in the house.

It is undoubtedly a huge project for the base to build a human city on the ground, but as time passed, tall buildings rose above the base.

One year after another, the ground base is finally about to be completed.

The old gentleman respected by everyone in the research institute died of old age, and he just fell asleep in the afternoon when Yi Shuyun pushed him to the ground base to bask in the sun.

The warm sun in early summer is the world's most gentle farewell to him.

His ashes will be buried in the ground, and someone will erect a tombstone for him at that time.

That is the way of burial in the old world, which was only reactivated a few months ago-human death, after the arrival of peace and tranquility, is finally worthy of being remembered and engraved once again.

Shi Wenlin left behind a small plastic bottle.

In that bottle, there is the bubble water mixed with infinite memories by those old hands last night, and there is also a bubble ring made of twisted wire.

Before he left, he was still telling Yi Shuyun that in his vague impression, the little girl Chu Ci liked to play this game very much.

Chai Yuening returned home and put the bottle on the table.

The little black vine hangs lazily on the hanger, and I don't know when it passed, but it has become more and more active recently.

"This is a gift that my husband wants to give you." Chai Yuening said, silent for a long time, and blew a row of wobbly bubbles in the room.

Bubbles shattered in mid-air, like an unattainable thought in her heart.

She turned and walked into the bathroom, closed the creaking door, turned on the hot water, and washed away the dust and mud brought back from the unfinished construction site.

There was a splashing sound of water, and the water droplets shattered on the blue and white tiles.

In a daze, she seemed to hear noises that did not belong to her in this small room.

She turned off the faucet, her breathing seemed to be blocked, she walked slowly to the door, and gently pushed open a crack in the door.

Warm water mist squeezed out from the gap, and a trace of coolness rushed in.

She saw countless colorful bubbles, big and small, wobbly, a little crowded but floating in all directions under the dim light.

Just like in the most beautiful dream of a children's balloon theme park, countless colorful balloons are released into the sky.

Chai Yuening was taken aback for a moment.

She leaned out her wet body—

Through the hazy water mist, beyond the colorful bubbles.

Carefully, with all due respect,

Finally, he was able to meet those clear pupils that seemed like a world away.