Part 2
Afterward, Zhu Ran told Z about the move. After communicating about their preferred decor styles and the things they each liked, Z said goodbye first because he had things to attend to.
Closing his optical computer, Zefaer retracted the smile on his face, transforming back into the fearsome Emperor.
He strode out of the reception room and down the corridor.
It wasn’t until Zefaer’s silhouette vanished at the end of the hall that the staff members in Sovar Palace dared to peek out from behind the pillars.
When they entered the wrecked reception room—filled with the marks of violent spiritual power—they all shrunk back, trembling like quails.
These traces of powerful, frenzied spiritual power…
His Majesty was truly terrifying!
They must never cross His Majesty in the future, or they would end up just like this room—sliced to pieces.
Everyone assumed Zefaer was enraged because of the Byron incident.
No one could have imagined that the heartless Emperor had thrown such a fit because he was jealous.
And no one knew that the Emperor, who had just made such a mess of the room, had immediately turned around and used emojis to act cute and win someone’s favor.
Who could have possibly imagined that?
The next day, in his house in the central district of Aispu Star, Zhu Ran had already packed several boxes. The boxes contained his clothes and daily household items.
Although he had only lived there for a month, he had gathered quite a few things—enough to fill two large boxes.
These were the traces of Zhu Ran’s life here.
Having finished the packing, Zhu Ran went to the balcony to rest on his lounge chair for a bit.
The three new varieties of catalyzed plants undoubtedly added a unique scenery to the balcony.
The sunflowers were growing exceptionally well. Basking in the sunlight every day, they radiated a joyful aura, turning their heads wherever the sun was, full of youthful vitality.
The warm balcony space had also become more layered thanks to the scents of the Eucalyptus and Camellia.
Mixed with the other floral and woody fragrances, it didn’t feel cluttered or jarring.
However, because the ceiling wasn’t very high, the dense leaves of the Camellia and Eucalyptus—which could have grown even taller—had already reached the roof. They were forced to suppress their growth.
Zhu Ran reached out and stroked their leaves, soothing their urge to break through the ceiling.
“You’ll be able to grow taller once we move. Can you endure it for one more day?”
Enveloped in Zhu Ran’s natural aura, the Camellia and Eucalyptus stretched their branches and leaves, no longer in a hurry to grow.
Zhu Ran logged into the Xinggou app to check the interactive comments from yesterday; the names users came up with for the flowers were still bizarre.
[Anonymous: Sunlight Flower, Pink Butterfly Flower, Natural Green Tree]
[User123: Weiwei, Yunshi, Momo]
[Gardener: Golden Smile, Green Moemoe, Pink Dudu]
[Sunset: Sunset of Beaumont]
[Programmer: GAVA, D++, Gython…]
[Child: This flower looks like the sun. Is it a Sun Flower?]
…
“The names seem to have improved a bit compared to before, perhaps because there are more female customers now.”
“But… why are there people naming flowers after programming languages? It turns out some of my followers are programmers.”
Zhu Ran smiled softly as he scrolled through the comments.
“Someone answered ‘Sun Flower.’ Since that’s an alias for the Sunflower, I’ll count it as correct!”
Because Zhu Ran had placed a hidden QR code on the flower images that disabled reverse image searching, it made identifying the plants much harder. Unless someone took the time to look through literature, it was difficult for an ordinary person to know their real names.
‘Sun Flower’ was half-correct, so Zhu Ran counted it.
Zhu Ran used a global search; only one person had answered ‘Sun Flower.’ Besides them, Prof. Lai—who had correctly identified the Rose and Star Beauty last time—had also answered correctly again.
Prof. Lai: [Sunflower of the genus Helianthus in the family Asteraceae; Eucalyptus of the genus Eucalyptus in the family Myrtaceae; and Camellia of the genus Camellia in the family Theaceae, variety should be Gongfen.]
“As expected, this customer is a professional. Everything is correct.”
Zhu Ran quickly contacted the two customers, asking for their contact information and addresses.
The person who had answered ‘Sun Flower’ was a user named ‘Moe Dragon.’ After communicating, it turned out the user was a young boy who had fallen in love with natural plants because of the Star Beauty and aspired to become a botanist.
Moe Dragon: [Big brother, I will definitely cultivate massive fields of Star Beauties and Sunflowers in the future.]
Zhu: [Good. I’ll be waiting for that day to come.]
While communicating with Moe Dragon, Prof. Lai also replied quickly.
Prof. Lai: [The address hasn’t changed.]
Prof. Lai: [The new plants are all very beautiful.]
Prof. Lai: [Eucalyptus trees grow quite tall; twelve meters is the norm, and they can exceed thirty meters if cultivated well. How do you plan to grow them? In a folded space?]
Folded space was an interstellar technology that could present an area ten times larger than the actual physical footprint.
This technology was widely used for starship exhibition rooms, research labs, and other massive engineering projects.
Zhu Ran knew of the technology but didn’t plan to put natural plants into an enclosed folded space.
Zhu: [I plan to plant them at home. I just hope my neighbors won’t mind me blocking their sunlight.]
Prof. Lai: [Natural plants are so precious, and Eucalyptus also has air-purifying effects. Your neighbors will love it.]
As they chatted, Zhu Ran took a single Sunflower, a small branch with seven or eight Camellia blossoms, and two Eucalyptus sprigs to wrap into a bouquet.
The Sunflower was bright and eye-catching, radiating a sense of innocence. The Gongfen Camellias were delicate, like a charming young girl, releasing a drifting fragrance. The Eucalyptus sprigs provided a sophisticated greyish-blue accent, their leaves covered in a thin layer of white frost, creating a poetic aesthetic.
The combination of these three plants looked like a painting, with distinct color layers and elegant silhouettes.
“It seems a bouquet service can enter trial operations as well.”
Before the apocalypse, flower shops generally provided wrapping services after a purchase or sold pre-arranged bouquets.
Previously, Zhuying Anxiang didn’t have enough varieties to offer such a service, but now that he had more species and greenery like Eucalyptus to act as accents, he could certainly try it out.
Zhu Ran thought it over, then printed out Prof. Lai’s address and affixed it to the light green wrapping paper.
The moment he stuck it on, Zhu Ran tilted his head in surprise. “Greenwater White Crane Community, No. 8?”
Zhu Ran checked his own deed again: Greenwater White Crane Community, No. 7.
“Wait? Is it really that much of a coincidence? Is this Prof. Lai my neighbor?”
Zhu Ran was stunned.
He then remembered Z’s data had mentioned that the Greenwater White Crane Community was mostly inhabited by researchers and university professors.
It really was quite a coincidence.
Zhu: [It’s packed and about to be shipped.]
Zhu: [By the way, you know quite a lot about natural plants. Do you work in the industry?]
Prof. Lai: [Mm, I’m a researcher at the Plant Research Institute.]
Prof. Lai: [We use professional, precision instruments to cultivate natural plants at the institute, but they never grow as well as the ones you cultivate. If we have the chance, I’d love to exchange ideas.]
Zhu: [Alright. There will be a chance in the future.]
On the other end, Lai Ze had taken a week’s leave and was in the small laboratory he had built at home, attempting to cultivate the roses from Zhuying Anxiang through cuttings.
He had set the cultivation pod to the optimal environment for natural plants and was waiting quietly for the cuttings to take root.
The result, unsurprisingly, was failure.
No matter how meticulously Lai Ze tended to them, the separated rose branches withered day by day without ever developing a single bud. Eventually, they lost all vitality, just like every other failed natural plant.
“Oh dear, withered again.”
Lai Ze felt regretful as he activated the disinfection and decomposition device.
With a blast of high-temperature mist, the withered rose branches were reduced to dust and sucked into the waste bin.
“Just why won’t it work?”
Lai Ze picked up his optical computer to search through literature, deep in thought.
It was at that moment that he received the shop owner’s message: ‘There will be a chance in the future.’
Lai Ze smiled softly, a look as gentle as always, yet touched with a hint of sharpness.
Prof. Lai: [I look forward to it.]
As night fell, Zhu Ran received the eco-zone design sketches from Yan You based on the three new plants. There were five designs in total.
One sketch showed a towering, majestic Eucalyptus tree wreathed in mist, its canopy as vast as an ocean. Sunlight filtered through the leaves in beautiful pale gold beams, with dust motes and iridescent spots dancing in the light, radiating an otherworldly beauty and divinity.
This was the stunning Eucalyptus grove.
The design was simple, focusing only on the Eucalyptus, yet the use of light and mist perfectly highlighted the tree’s breathtaking features.
It was pure, natural beauty.
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