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“Rainbow Crystals”

When Lin Xiaoyu pushed a cart full of tools through the corridor of the Botanical Garden greenhouse, the heaviest rainstorm of the year was falling outside the glass dome. The raindrops hit the glass and made a dense knocking sound, like countless tiny fingers knocking anxiously. She stopped and habitually checked the status of each plant – this was her daily routine as a gardener, and it had never changed in the past five years.

“The jacaranda needs to be pruned, and the staghorn fern needs to be repotted…” She whispered, her fingers brushing over a leaf of Monstera. Suddenly, a tingling pain came from her fingertips.

“Hiss–” Lin Xiaoyu retracted her hand and found that her fingertips were cut open. She looked at the edge of the leaf in confusion, where there was a thin layer of glittering crystals. Even more strange was that when she looked closer, the crystals seemed to sense her presence and suddenly glowed with a rainbow-colored halo.

Lin Xiaoyu squatted down and pulled away the dense foliage plants. In the most damp and dark corner of the greenhouse, a cluster of palm-sized colored crystals grew out of the soil. They were in the shape of perfect hexagonal prisms, with incredibly smooth surfaces and a liquid-like glow flowing inside. The most amazing thing was that these crystals seemed to be pulsating slightly with a certain rhythm, as if they had life.

She reached out her hand for some reason, and the moment her fingertips touched the crystals, a warm current rushed up her arm and onto her shoulders. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the greenhouse—the leaves of all the plants around were moving without wind, tilting slightly toward the crystals, as if they were saluting.

“This is impossible…” Lin Xiaoyu widened her eyes. She clearly saw that the dying Phalaenopsis next to the crystal was sprouting new buds at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the pale flower stems gradually became full and upright, and even produced a few small buds. And further away, a bunch of ordinary green radish leaves began to show golden lines on the edges, sparkling in the dim greenhouse.

That night, Lin Xiaoyu secretly brought back a small piece of crystal fragments. She placed it next to the half-dead succulent on the windowsill, and then fell asleep with trepidation. The next morning, she was awakened by a sweet fragrance – the succulent not only fully recovered, but also grew to three times its original size, with thick leaves showing a dreamy rainbow gradient, and a cluster of blue flowers blooming on the top.

Lin Xiaoyu touched the mutated plant with trembling hands, and suddenly found that colorful spots similar to crystal appeared on her fingertips. What’s more terrifying is that she can actually feel the “emotion” from the succulent – a simple, almost childlike joy.

“I’m dreaming…” She pinched her arm hard, and the pain was real enough. The crystal fragments flickered in the morning light, as if smiling at her.