An Zhe followed his gaze. Eden truly did look like a hive. His thoughts suddenly moved and he glanced back at the three bright red flowers beside the bed. The colour and shape were a bit familiar to him. It was from a long time ago, when An Ze read a book about when human civilization was still prosperous and it was a common plant.

“Rose…” He murmured.

“It is a rose.” Lu Feng’s voice was light.

When the children in his class had free time, they would play house games and stimulate planting flowers, using different coloured paper as flowers. However, there seemed to be real roses in the Garden of Eden.

“Does the Garden of Eden grow roses?”

Lu Feng’s answer was short. “No.”

Just as An Zhe thought his answer was over, Lu Feng spoke again.

“She likes plants but the base doesn’t.” His voice was calm. “I trained in the wilderness since I was 16 and collected some seeds. The Lighthouse gave them to her after determining it was safe.”

“Then the madam planted it?” An Zhe asked.

“En.”

An Zhe suddenly remembered the sealed plant seeds in Lu Feng’s office cabinet a month ago. He thought that Lu Feng must pay great attention to his mother. Today at the Lighthouse, Mrs Lu was going to submit some reports and looked like a researcher. Thus, he wondered, “Is Mrs Lu a scientist?”

Lu Feng was silent for a while before replying. “Yes.”

Then Lu Feng suddenly stated, “You know the girl from the Garden of Eden.”

An Zhe nodded. Lu Feng had seen Lily and An Zhe had nothing to hide.

“How much do you know?”

An Zhe guessed that the colonel was asking him how much he knew about Eden. He recalled Lily’s words and replied, “I know the Rose Declaration.”

He saw Lu Feng looking out the window like he was recalling the past. Lu Feng opened his mouth. “It was said that when she was 12 years old, due to her intellectual talent, the base believed her involvement in scientific research would make a greater contribution to humanity than giving birth and she was sent to the Lighthouse to study.”

“That’s great.”

He was always curious about people with superior IQs.

“Then she applied to be transferred back to the Garden of Eden, to take on reproductive responsibilities while studying improved techniques for the cultivation of embryos.”

“And then?”

“No then. She is still doing so.”

An Zhe recalled the appearance of Mrs Lu. Even though she was wearing a mask and only her eyes could be seen, she left a deep impression on him. He exclaimed, “She is very beautiful.”

“Thank you.”

An Zhe looked back on today and wondered, “Do you have a good relationship with her?”

“No.”

An Zhe blinked. “Why?”

He felt that Lu Feng was very concerned about his mother.