When putting Lin Xuefeng into the tree cocoon, Zhou Qian hesitated briefly.
Because the rose flower on the opponent's chest could be seen with the naked eye taking root into the broken heart, and also wrapped by its fibrous roots was the severed black tree trunk inside the chest cavity mixed with visceral fragments.
He had never dealt with this situation before and didn't know whether to pull out the trunk.
After only a moment of hesitation, the dense fibrous roots were connected to the small roots of the rose like gossamers, and then the entire tree cocoon suddenly took root downwards, and the eyes were gradually woven like a spider web.
Zhou Qian paused, then took a step back with Huaiyu, and saw that the white tree cocoon had completely enveloped him.
After watching quietly for a while, Zhou Qian touched Huai Yu's hand: "Why is it still so cold?"
He no longer wanted to worry about Lin Xuefeng, who could no longer help him. Instead, he hurriedly packed out the previously cleaned bathtub, set up a pot to boil water again, and at the same time poured a bowl of porridge for Huaiyu:
"Don't wash your hair when you're full, don't take a shower when you're hungry... Eat something first."
In fact, if he had seen the sunflowers early tomorrow morning according to his original estimate, he would have driven back and made a fire to boil water to prepare cocoons... all of this should have been arranged before Huaiyu came back.
But who would have expected that she would come back early.
At this moment, Zhou Qian looked at Huaiyu, who was huddled by the stove, slowly warming himself and drinking porridge, and asked, "Did you not rest at night and have been on the road?"
Huaiyu laughed mischievously: "I fell asleep too..."
I slept for six hours for several nights in a row, and spent the rest of my time traveling. Otherwise, if she was holding Lin Xuefeng, who was so heavy, she would be afraid that she would be unable to bring him back if she let it go in one breath.
Zhou Qian didn't know what to say.
At this moment, looking at the swollen wound on her hand, she finally sighed: "Can't I use supernatural powers to transport it?"
Huaiyu shook his head: "It's difficult."
The branches have load-bearing capacity, but the crown width is difficult to spread forward a hundred or ten meters. She could make the vines grow, but she couldn't let them drag such a heavy thing a long distance - plus the ice, Lin Xuefeng weighed several hundred kilograms!
You can't just spawn a huge plant every few dozen meters, and then spawn another one dozens of meters later, right?
That way, she might collapse from exhaustion before finishing the kilometer.
Huaiyu was able to pull because of the low friction of the frozen soil. In addition, when she was pushed hard, she really had a lot of strength.
She was so tired, and the physical exhaustion was gathering even more intensely than before. At this moment, after finishing the porridge, he said a few words and started to take a nap next to the stove.
Zhou Qian looked sad for a while.
But he touched Huaiyu's hand again - it was still cold.
In this state, even if you sleep, you will not be relaxed, and your body may still get sick.
Therefore, he could only wait patiently for the water to be boiled to collect a bucket, and then urged Huaiyu to go in and take a dip first——
"Soak for fifteen minutes, no more. Don't think about taking a shower or scrubbing, just soak. It doesn't matter if it's dirty or not. You can rub it again when you've recovered."
He closed the carriage door and shouted outside: "I'll call you in fifteen minutes. Don't wake up if you fall asleep and choke."
Huaiyu: ...she won’t be stuck in this situation. Zhou Qian, who was guarding outside the door, looked at Huaiyu's coat in the basin and sighed silently: I would have kept Chen Xing here if I had known better. He is a big man, and it is not convenient for him to wash clothes now.
……
He said he wouldn't be that sleepy, but in fact, after Huaiyu got back into bed with his whole body soaked in warmth, he immediately fell into a deep sleep.
She didn't even wake up when Zhou Qian came in to move the bucket.
This sleep was deeper and more thorough than before. After all, the matter that worried her most was finally solved. Even if her life or death was still uncertain, in Huaiyu's consciousness, she had done everything she could do.
Zhou Qian also knew what she was thinking, so even though he was worried that she was hungry, he still didn't wake her up. He checked Huaiyu's waterproof backpack, unzipped it and sorted out the contents one by one——
The clothes that took up most of the backpack were gone.
Instead, there were two plastic bags containing bones that had long since decayed and weathered. You could hear them shattering into pieces without applying much force when you squeezed them.
And among the broken bones, there were also pieces of cloth made of special materials. The name engraved by laser was so clear that he immediately understood why Huaiyu worked so hard and even lost his clothes in the end. Willing to put these down.
Zhou Qian gathered them together with complicated thoughts, then took out the two boxes of injections that he had exchanged at a high price but had not used, and put the bones and fabrics in them.
Like Huai Yu, he couldn't figure out how a normal settlement mission would allow these siblings to go to such a deep place. But just like Huaiyu can approach there through the underground river, who can say that all the coincidences in this world are not destined by God?
The rest of the scattered things were sorted again, and Zhou Qian went to the grass to find the three eggs that the chicken had just laid, and then went to look at the tree cocoon that was not moving at all——
It only lasted a few hours when he was so seriously injured. It has been twenty hours now, and there is still no change here, except for a slight trace of pink on the outside.
Zhou Qian calmed down.
Now that things have come to this, there is no point in being anxious. He has always been the most particular about working hard and never giving up. Now that he has been in the wilderness for several months, he has gradually learned to see God's will.
……
At the same time, Huaiyu saw her home in her dream.
The home standing next to the Rose Corridor at such a close distance, and the swaying bamboo forest behind the house.
Now that the weather is freezing, the row of "Kangbiao" brand automatic waterers standing in the vegetable garden has already reduced the frequency of irrigation. However, because there is no one to harvest and manage it, the cabbage, radish, water spinach, and coriander in the field are mixed with weeds. As lush as they are.
The house is still quiet, and the row of sauce vats and pickle vats in the bamboo forest tunnel are also peaceful.
Farther away, Gao Ming had a few new bamboo trees in front of his door, and he still hadn't given up on his goal. His tall, thin and slovenly body stood in front of those bamboo trees. His whole body was thin and slender and wrapped in a large cotton-padded jacket. He looked more like Frankenstein.
Tsk!
Huaiyu became proud: For a person like this, without her friendly help, he wouldn't have any respect at all!
And judging from his expression, he was still not satisfied with the ordinary-height bamboo.
Huh?
Huaiyu was curious: Can you see so clearly?
Then she remembered the dream she had had before, about her last dream about Huaiyu, being seriously injured and about to die, and the roses in Sanqing Mountain...
She suddenly understood: So this is the complete perspective of the Rose Corridor!
Seeing so far and so comprehensively!
She likes it so much! (End of chapter)