Journey to the Rose

At the moment, everyone is trying their best to escape to higher ground, and it is unrealistic to turn back the same way.

Looking at their black assault rifles, it is impossible to fight head-on, after all, it is not clear how much firepower the opponent has.

Thinking of this, Ruan Xi felt a little melancholy.

He couldn't figure it out, it would be fine if people from his hometown were arresting him everywhere, but why are people from Beast City joining in the fun?

Is it really the same as what Lu Zhenghe said, the people in Zenith City are searching all over the land?

But why do they care so much about whether they are married or not? !

Ruan Xi's melancholy turned into confusion again.

Thinking, he scanned the car with his eyes.

Where can this be hidden?

Looking at the situation ahead, they must get out of the car to check later, and these orcs are equipped with so many guns, Lu Zhenghe will be outnumbered.

The off-road vehicle continued to drive forward, and the forest was left far behind them.

Without the blessing of nature, the temperature at the border of beast city began to rise, the air was hot and filled with an indescribable sour smell of sweat.

According to Lu Zhenghe's instructions, Ruan Xi crouched under the seat, the back of his head was covered with a hat, and a huge rucksack was piled up on his back, only a bare leather seat was exposed.

This made him have to think of the summer in his hometown.

Even if there are people coming and going on the street, every store will have an air conditioner with a suitable temperature, and the air-conditioning will blow out, so there is no need to worry about the discomfort of sweating.

This may be the gap in urban development, he thought.

"Should I just lie on my stomach like this? Can it work?" Ruan Xi lowered her voice.

Lu Zhenghe replied, "There is only this way."

Ruan Xi: "Otherwise... I will fight with them?"

"..."

Hearing Ruan Xi's answer, Lu Zhenghe felt his throat jump out.

Now Ruan Xi has no family and no backing, plus her personality dictates that she doesn't need to put on anything. When she shows her small fangs, her face looks like you're coming to beat me up.

But fortunately, Lu Zhenghe didn't want to fight him so much anymore.

"No matter what you heard, as long as there is no fight, you must not move," Lu Zhenghe worried, and added, "You have to promise me."

"Yes." Ruan Xi obediently agreed.

As if not at ease, Lu Zhenghe let out a long sigh, controlled the steering wheel with his left hand, stretched his right hand to the back seat, grabbed a bag of luggage stuck on the center console, and added [-]% to Ruan Xi's back.

Ruan Xi was suppressed with a muffled groan, feeling that she was some kind of sealed beast.

He even pressed me with something.

Isn't this taking the opportunity to retaliate?

It was well covered, but the weight was too heavy, no worse than the sandbags he added when he was practicing bodybuilding at home. If he added a few more bags, he wouldn't have to hide at all, and could be directly pressed to Guixi. .

"Can you still stand it?" Lu Zhenghe asked pretendingly that he couldn't die.

Ruan Xi took a breath, "I can bear it, I'm fine."

After a moment of silence, Lu Zhenghe stepped on the gas pedal harder, "Be more honest."

Okay.

This is because he was too naughty and uncontrollable before.

Ruan Xi thought angrily, and found a comfortable position to lie down, leaning her face to one side, practicing to lower her breathing as much as possible.

Because people in other cities look down on orcs, he hasn't studied them much, and he has never heard that orcs have gifted senses.If the orc's hearing is surprisingly good, then he will suffer today.

Entering the temporary inspection area, some dead tree-like lights began to stand on the side of the road.

Under the lamp, there were a few orcs chatting with their guns standing.

They looked very leisurely, without any sense of urgency, but the leader had sharp eyes, and his eyes kept shuttling back and forth among the passing vehicles.

The off-road vehicle approached slowly, and the orc in charge of Lu Zhenghe's vehicle raised his gun to signal him to stop.

Lu Zhenghe suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the other orcs did not double-team over immediately, nor did they react much.

Explain that these people only know what the person they are looking for looks like, but they don't know what kind of car the person they are looking for is hidden in.When he arrived in the next city, he had to remind Li Shen to arrange a new car to replace the old one.

"You," the orc said with difficulty in the lingua franca, "get out of the car."

Lu Zhenghe opened the door, stepped on the pedal from the driver's seat and got out of the car.

Holding a gun, the orc circled around this monster-like off-road vehicle like a routine, muttering in his mouth that he didn't know what he was talking about, and couldn't hide his envy in his eyes.

Lu Zhenghe guessed that this guy was admiring his car.

While sizing it up, Lu Zhenghe saw that the few matches with wooden sticks stuck in his waist, the paraffin wax of the medicine head and the medicine slurry had been worn down to the very last, and they could still be used barely.

Sure enough, it was said that orcs were interested in tobacco.

"That, that, that."

"What?" Lu Zhenghe pretended not to hear.

Before the orc's gun was pointed at the co-pilot to signal him to remove the luggage, Lu Zhenghe turned sideways, chose an extremely concealed posture, and spread out his palms. Inside were two packs of cigarettes from Xanadu.

The orc obviously hesitated for a moment.

This kind of cigarette is extremely rare in the south, and it is very expensive. It comes with a fairyland buff, which can make people very relaxed and happy.Coupled with the geographical location, inconvenient transportation and other reasons, it is difficult for people in Beast City to buy such rare cigarettes.Every year, the joint courts of various cities on the mainland will hear many cases of smuggling of this kind of cigarettes.

"In a hurry."

Lu Zhenghe moved his fingers a little, the cigarette case leaked, and a smell of tuberose came out.

He saw the orc's huge nostrils flaring, and his eyes were a little more blurred than before, more greedy.

Immediately afterwards, the cigarette in his palm was taken away.

The orc turned around quickly, moved the barrel of the gun, and signaled him to leave quickly.

"Thank you."

Lu Zhenghe turned his head back into the car, and the smile immediately disappeared from his face.

After igniting the engine of the off-road vehicle, Lu Zhenghe stepped on the accelerator, and immediately drove the vehicle out of the inspection area at the fastest speed without changing his face.

While turning the steering wheel, he looked at his watch and found that there was not much time left before the next ground fission.

"Did you pass the level successfully? I figured it out."

A weak voice came from under the co-pilot's hill.

Lu Zhenghe looked out the window for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Can you still hold on?"

There were crowds of people outside the window, and Ruan Xi attracted people's attention. If she appeared rashly now, it would inevitably be risky.The intersection out of the city is not far ahead, and it only takes a few more minutes to leave the city completely and go to a relatively safe and stable city.

persist in?

There is nothing I can do if I can't persist, and now I can only continue to lie on my stomach.

Ruan Xi didn't answer directly, but just said, "Drive faster."

"it is good."

As soon as the words fell, Lu Zhenghe stepped on the gas to accelerate, entered the desert area according to the driving route given by Li Shen, and successfully drove out of the beast city.

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Ruan Xi climbed out of the luggage by herself.

Because Oga, who was on the verge of estrus, was relatively weak, he really couldn't hold on anymore.

When he climbed out, Ruan Xi was holding his small Yanling knife tightly in his hand, and all the tactical equipment was tightly tied to his body.There was sweat on his forehead, his eyes were sharp, and he was watching every move around him closely.

Lu Zhenghe was driving, turning his head to look at him from time to time.

Finding that the surroundings are temporarily safe, Ruan Xi breathed a sigh of relief, tried to support half of his body, sat down on the passenger seat, and put the luggage bags one by one on the rear seat.

Once entering the desert area, the surrounding scene is another scene.

The signage on the side of the road flashed by.

Ruan Xi looked at the huge arrow symbol, and said to Lu Zhenghe, "You still have to take me to the top of the snow mountain."

"Yes." Lu Zhenghe replied.

"What's the difference between that and taking me to get married?"

"Who gets married is different."

"Why is it different?"

Lu Zhenghe held the steering wheel, his thoughts were in a mess like twine, "I said before, if you go to Zenith City with the Wei family, the person you marry may not necessarily be your fiancé, it may be his brother."

Ruan Xi said lightly, "So what? Aren't they all from the Wei family?"

It's like this again, when this marriage is mentioned, Lu Zhenghe will always fall into deathly silence.

After a long time, Lu Zhenghe gave the useless answer "It's not the same."

"What's the difference?"

"Different."

Listening to Lu Zhenghe repeating the answer, Ruan Xi became irritable, "You let me get out of the car. I suddenly remembered that there are still a few fish waiting for me to feed in Ruan's Manor."

Lu Zhenghe said angrily, "Your life is not as good as a few fish?"

"There is no point in my life now!"

"Ruan Xi."

"..."

"Ruan Xi?"

"Ah."

After calming down, Ruan Xi raised her eyes, but she didn't know where she was looking in the desert.

There is a red-hot sun hanging on the edge of the desert, and the intense light shines on every grain of sand, making Ruan Xi almost unable to open his eyes due to the stinging pain.

There was a golden dividing line, like a thin blade, separating the sand dunes from the orange sky.

Lu Zhenghe looked at him without saying a word, and did not answer for a long time.

She didn't know if it was because she was hungry or what, but Ruan Xi always felt uncomfortable in her stomach, so she couldn't help pressing it with her hands.Lu Zhenghe noticed his actions and asked, "Are you hungry?"

"A little bit." Ruan Xi rubbed her belly, feeling limp, and urgently needed something to fill it.

"I've heard that Nguyen Xi doesn't eat normal food."

"..."

Why are the rumors always so crazy? !

Taking a deep breath, Ruan Xi said slowly, "I eat hamburgers, barbecue, noodles, and rice. I can eat anything. If it's not possible, I can also eat hot pot with a strong taste. It would be best if some meat dishes are added. Hmm...it would also be good with some milk beer."

"You think well," Lu Zhenghe was amused, "In this situation, where can I still eat hot pot?"

Ruan Xi thought for a while and said, "It's fine if you have a base material bag."

"Well, maybe there will be one in curse city." Lu Zhenghe said seriously, his expression didn't look like he was joking.

"Cursed city? Will we be there soon?" Ruan Xi became excited.

This city is not far from his hometown, he has heard of it a long time ago.

In the textbook, the City of the Damned is an ancient and mysterious city. It is the third city from south to north on land. Like the previous city, it does not belong to any alliance.

It lives deep in the desert, without fixed walls or residences, and its residents have lived in exile all year round, generation after generation, and have never disappeared in this land.And because of the nature of the city, most of the people living here are prophets and mages, who know things that others don't know, and have many secret skills, and they are passed on from generation to generation, endlessly.

Lu Zhenghe said, "We have entered the territory of curse city."

Completely forgetting the unhappiness just now, Ruan Xi's eyes sparkled, "Will there be a prophet to prophesy for me?"

Lu Zhenghe smiled and said, "So you want to know what will happen to you in the future?"

Yes.

But what if the future alha is not you?

What if it's that nasty and impolite Wei eldest son?Doesn't it particularly affect mood and appetite.

After thinking about it, Ruan Xi gave a negative answer after a fierce ideological struggle, "Suddenly I don't want to."

"why?"

"The future may not be good."

"..." Lu Zhenghe stopped talking about this topic, "Are you hungry? Get out of the car and have something to eat."

"How long is it before the fission on the ground?" Ruan Xi suddenly remembered this serious practical problem.

"35 minutes," Lu Zhenghe said, "enough for a meal."

Ruan Xi was delighted, "Why are you still the same as before, you can't miss every meal."

"What?" Lu Zhenghe asked.

"Nothing." Ruan Xi immediately cut off the topic.

Ruan Xi remembered that when they were in school, every time they ate together, Lu Zhenghe always buried his head in eating like this, and didn't like to talk.

Ruan Xi herself has no appetite, but eating with Lu Zhenghe can eat a lot.

By the way, Ruan Xi recalled that Lu Zhenghe especially liked the beef made in the cafeteria, saying that the beef was very chewy, it was open for business, and it had no other taste.

So Ruan Xi said a lot, "Do you have anything you like to eat?"

"Beef." Lu Zhenghe said without thinking.

"Oh." Ruan Xi replied.

The grievance and powerlessness converged into a spring, which suddenly rushed to my heart.

He turned his face away for a while, wanting to scold himself for being weak, and pinched the back of his right hand with his left hand, trying to suppress the intense and uncomfortable soreness surging up in his eye sockets.

"By the way, because of the dense crowd and complex eyeliner along the way, we have to change to another car to avoid the Wei family's eyeliner. I will ask my comrades to come over to hand over." Lu Zhenghe said.

It was only then that Ruan Xi realized that someone around Lu Zhenghe had been secretly protecting him, "They have been following us?"

"Well, but don't worry," Lu Zhenghe thought that Ruan Xi didn't like excitement, "They are just traveling together, taking care of our safety by the way."

"Okay." Ruan Xi was a little disappointed.

With such a long distance, a few more people would be good.

In case he dies, there will still be someone standing by Lu Zhenghe in time.Although his combat effectiveness is not very good.However, it is obvious that Lu Zhenghe, who returned after his disappearance, has raised his force value by more than one level, and it is completely at the level that he can single-handedly throw all the Ruan family nursing team to the hospital.

Lu Zhenghe thought for a while, then continued, "Then can I let them come over?"

Did you hear me right, Lu Zhenghe is actually asking for his opinion?Ruan Xi was a little taken aback.

"Are you asking me?"

"Yes." Lu Zhenghe said firmly.

Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes."

Less than 5 minutes after he nodded, Lu Zhenghe stopped the off-road vehicle.

After stopping for a while, Ruan Xi also packed all her luggage in the car, grabbed the car door and jumped out of the car.As soon as the leather boots stepped on the brown-red sand, Ruan Xi felt soft and fluffy.He looked down at the tires of the vehicle, which had sagged slightly.

After getting out of the car, Ruan Xi was so hot that her clothes were soaked in sweat.

Lu Zhenghe had already rolled up his shirt, lowered his head and wiped his sweat.He wrapped the glove bandage around the tiger's mouth, then around the palm, and rewound it several times before raising his head and looking around.

"Is it hot?"

Lu Zhenghe put down the luggage he had picked up, got back into the car and found a bottle of mineral water for Ruan Xi, "Drink some water."

Ruan Xi took the water, and remembered the cursed city documentary I watched when I was a child, in which people from other cities entered here by mistake, and then all died of thirst because of insufficient water.

After thinking about it, he still said, "I'm not very thirsty, you drink first."

As if seeing through his worries, Lu Zhenghe laughed again, raised his hand, and wiped off Ruan Xi's dripping sweat with the bandage on the back of his hand, "We still have a lot of water." Then he continued to wrap the bandage as if nothing had happened.

"..."

Ruan Xi felt her heart beat hastily fell into the sand flow, turning into the shape of waves.

At this time, a giant army green pickup truck drove in the distance.

Curse·13 holds hands.