Journey to the Rose

Ruan Xi has good eyesight, and from a long distance, she saw that there was only someone in the driver's seat in the car.

It was a strange face with half of his face covered, he had never seen it before.

In the blink of an eye, another man with a parachute appeared on the front hood of the pickup truck. He had a crescent-shaped "ghost" crossbow hanging on his chest, and his goggles had been pushed to his forehead. Take off the airborne protection measures on your body quickly.

Ruan Xi remembered this person.

This person seems to be called Li Shen, the number one airborne member of the northern alliance in Lu Zhenghe's mouth, and Lu Zhenghe's comrade-in-arms.

Li Shen looked respectful, as if he was very nervous about whether his movements were done well, but on the other hand, Lu Zhenghe was lazily leaning against the side of the car, out of shape.

Then Ruan Xi looked up at the sky.

A small transport helicopter with no bombs attached has already flew away at the fastest speed. The huge propeller left a shadow on the sand, and then disappeared, as if it had never hovered at all just now.It appeared to be riddled with holes, and the fuselage clearly showed signs of being shot.

Looking in front of him again, Li Shen jumped off the hood of the pickup truck in the most formal posture, and then landed steadily on the ground.

It seems that he is not the same person who smashed the window and front windshield of the car now.

Li Shen first turned to Lu Zhenghe's direction, and made a very strange gesture, as if he wanted to bow, but then stopped the movement, bowing his head and coughing.

So the two saluted each other.

"Hello! We meet again." When greeting Ruan Xi, Li Shen had already sorted out his image.

Ruan Xi also responded to him, "Hello, Li Shen."

Li Shen was overjoyed, "You still remember me!"

Ruan Xi nodded.

When he faced people other than Lu Zhenghe, his attitude would change somewhat.Lu Zhenghe has already noticed this point.Ruan Xi is not very good at laughing, not very polite, and not very good at saying unnecessary words

But after thinking about it, he still said, "Don't be too polite, you don't need to use honorifics."

He smiled deeply, "Okay, thank you."

Ruan Xi "..."

After saying hello, Li Shen turned around and went to pick up Wen Kai in the car.

Pulling open the heavy car door, carefully covering the bullet marks on the door, he took out a bottle of Coke from the center console of the car, unscrewed it, and handed it to Ruan Xi, "You...do you want a drink?"

Ruan Xi's body stiffened for a moment, she took the drink, "Thank you."

Li Shen: "Don't be so polite!"

After speaking, he got into the car again.

Ruan Xi's tense expression eased a little.

Looking up at the helicopter that had already flown out of sight, he immediately turned his head, lowered his voice, and asked Lu Zhenghe quietly, "It turns out that the airspace of Curse City... can the Northern Alliance enter at will?"

Lu Zhenghe replied, "No."

How did it fly in just now?

Moreover, the one just now was still a two-seater gunship from its appearance. It seemed that the ammunition load was not small, and the short wingtips were also hung with ammunition, which was very aggressive.In this endless desert, it is easy to form a confrontation with the armored organization, and it is also easy to be shot down.So the bullet marks just now...indicate that it survived the shelling?

Ruan Xi was even more puzzled.

Seeing that he was seriously thinking about this issue, Lu Zhenghe explained, "Don't worry. Curse City doesn't have military capabilities, so there is no need to worry here, but it is not necessarily the case if you fly over other cities. The helicopter may be shot down at any time."

Ruan Xi narrowed his eyes.

What kind of friendship is this, even at the risk of being shot down and dying in the line of duty, I will come to help you.

Just as Lu Zhenghe was about to say something, Li Shen took down a tube of black equipment from the car, and muttered while checking, "Hey, fortunately, I went back to the Northern Alliance to replace the latest howitzer launcher. It will come in handy. But, at least..." In the middle of speaking, he suddenly fell silent, and swallowed the word "Young Master" into his throat.

Ruan Xizheng listened with gusto and asked curiously, "What's missing?"

"Less, drink less carbonated drinks." Li Shen laughed very hard.

"You gave me this."

Ruan Xi frowned, and shook the drink in her hand again, feeling that the more she drank, the better it tasted.

He looked at Lu Zhenghe, then at the drink, licking the sweetness in his mouth with the tip of his tongue, remembering that when he was growing up, this kind of drink was not allowed at home, and he often envied his classmates who could drink it.

At that time, Lu Zhenghe quit Coke in order to accompany him.

Fortunately, if he drank so much every day, he might not grow as tall as he is now.

Thinking of this, Ruan Xi took a small step and compared the height difference between her shoulders and Lu Zhenghe's.

Well, it seems that Lu Zhenghe has grown a lot taller.

Although there is not much difference...it is just right to kiss the lips without tiptoe and head up.

"I thought about what you said just now, and I have a lot of questions. Why did Li Shen dare to come by helicopter?" Ruan Xi continued to ask Lu Zhenghe in a low voice.

"Because I have the determination to die."

After Li Shen finished speaking, he turned his face to look at Lu Zhenghe, and said with the shape of his lips to serve the young master.

Lu Zhenghe nodded, then shook his head again.

Ok.

Li Shen knew what to say and what not to say, so he stopped talking and concentrated on helping Wen Kai carry the luggage on the car.

Wen Kai didn't get out of the car to greet Ruan Xi, but gave Lu Zhenghe a military salute from a distance through the car window, and then bent forward slightly.

After bending over, Li Shen seemed to say something else.

Ruan Xi's curious baby attribute came up again, "I found a problem."

"what?"

"They have great respect for you. Are you a big brother in the army?"

Lu Zhenghe replied unwillingly, "Yes."

Ruan Xi: "Are you stronger than them in terms of physical ability, actual combat, and theory?"

Lu Zhenghe strained his smile, "Yes."

Nguyen Xi "Can you also fall from a helicopter like him?"

Lu Zhenghe moved the corners of his lips, stretched out his hand to pinch the back of his neck, and said, "Ruan Xi, that's called airborne."

"you……"

Ruan Ximin was agitated, shrinking her neck, revealing half of the gleaming little Yanling knife edge out to frighten people, said angrily, "Don't touch me!"

Xiao Yanling's saber had a cold light, it was made too long and Ruan Xi couldn't draw it out all the time, but it seldom lost its chain at critical moments.

Lu Zhenghe was not in the least bit overwhelmed by this posture, he stood there calmly, with an expression of watching the show.

Ruan Xi suddenly remembered something, approached Lu Zhenghe, lowered his voice, "Can Li Shen beat you?"

"Can't beat it."

After finishing speaking, Lu Zhenghe saw Ruan Xi's expression of "really? I feel like you're lying to me", frowned slightly, and said, "Are you very interested in him?"

Ruan Xi didn't realize there was any problem, "Yes."

Lu Zhenghe continued to ask, "Why don't you ask if he is alha?"

Not noticing the change in Lu Zhenghe's expression, Ruan Xi said blankly, "Oh, what does that have to do with me."

"Indeed." Lu Zhenghe's tense expression relaxed a bit.

He got back into the off-road vehicle and took out a dark gray double-edged straight tactical knife.

After checking its integrity, Lu Zhenghe took Ruan Xi's hand, spread it out, compared the size, and said with satisfaction, "This is called a hell guard dog, for your self-defense."

As he said, he took out a chain made of small gold rings from his bag, passed through the handle of the straight knife, made a necklace, and hung it on Ruan Xi's neck with his hand, "The handle is non-slip. It is easy to get out of hand, the scabbard and blade are double-sided, and it is very lethal. In case of emergency, don’t use your knife that can’t be drawn out.”

After Lu Zhenghe finished his mouth, he flicked Ruan Xi's Xiaoyan Lingdao with his fingers.

"..."

Ruan Xi was cold, didn't say anything, turned around vigorously, the small Yanling saber sheath hanging on his back hit Lu Zhenghe's arm at once, causing Lu Zhenghe to groan in pain.

"It's not easy to start."

Lu Zhenghe rubbed his elbows, he was very pleased that Ruan Xi didn't return the tactical knife to him, "By the way, there seems to be a market in the city."

Ruan Xi raised her eyes, "Is there anything you want to buy?"

"Your wound here..." Lu Zhenghe moved closer, and the warm breath from the tip of his nose became hotter under such an environment, "I need to buy some medicine to wipe it on."

Every time Lu Zhenghe cares about this wound, Ruan Xi always thinks of what the other party said

—This is your face.

That means, does Lu Zhenghe also think he looks good?

Ruan Xi has no ability to distinguish his own appearance. He has been said to be good-looking since he was a child, and he has been held up to the ceiling. It is difficult for him to judge whose vision, and he does not understand that Lu Zhenghe thinks that he is good-looking from the bottom of his heart. Or just because everyone says so.

These two distinctions are not the same for Ruan Xi.

Suddenly, relying on her previous fleeing experience, Ruan Xi noticed something was wrong with the surrounding environment.

A gust of wind came, and the temperature suddenly rose a lot.

He squinted his eyes, feeling a hot air flow between his eyebrows and eyes.This kind of heat is not brought by the weather, it is wrapped in the smell of salty sea water, which is so stuffy that people can't breathe.

The sky and the earth are like a ball of fire, shaking from being burned.

There is no wind in the air, there is no cloud in the sky, and the boundless sense of oppression just falls vertically, and the roar of the earth can be heard in the distance.

"Get in the car." Lu Zhenghe gave an order decisively.

Ruan Xi nodded, stuffed the gold chain with the tactical straight knife into her underwear, fixed the knife on her back, stretched out her arms to hang on the car door, and followed Lu Zhenghe into the newly exchanged pickup truck through the window.

Li Shen and Wen Kai got into their previous big black off-road vehicle.

Because in the desert, the driving speed of the vehicle is naturally not as fast as on a flat and wide road, and Lu Zhenghe stepped on the accelerator with more force.In this kind of place, it is lucky that the tires do not slip, but I am afraid that if the sand sinks, the car and people will not be able to move.

Compared to Ruan Xi who turned his head frequently, Lu Zhenghe, who was concentrating on driving, seemed much calmer.

He tried to comfort Ruan Xi, "Although the road in the desert is difficult, you can definitely get out. The sound now should be from the last city. Apart from the collapse of the mountain, did you hear anything else?"

"The sound of quicksand... I can also smell the sea breeze," Ruan Xi brushed his sweaty hair, "I am most familiar with this smell."

Lu Zhenghe took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, it's far away from us."

Ruan Xi found that during the "hasty" escape all the way, Lu Zhenghe was not stingy with using words like "rest assured" to himself.

While thinking, Ruan Xi already clearly felt that the car body was leaning slightly backwards, and the shaking of the car body became more and more uncontrollable, as if it was about to be sucked into the vortex formed by sea water and sand in the next second.

Right now, there is flying sand and rocks, and the world is dark.

Not only in the rearview mirror, but even looking out from both sides of the car windows, you can see the desert dust being raised several meters high by the wind and sea water.

On the same road, many vehicles were originally small black spots, but they were submerged in sight when they were rushed by the noise of sand and stones.

Ruan Xi didn't even dare to open the window, because the desperate screams outside the window were too harsh.

Can we save people?

He asked himself this question countless times, but each time he was helpless before the disaster struck.Now in the vast desert, there is no way to protect oneself, the distance between cars is very far, and the ground is fissioned, there is no way to do it.

"Can we save people?" Ruan Xi couldn't help asking.

"Who can you save? Who can you save in this situation?" Lu Zhenghe paused slightly, his tone softened a lot, "After that, you can completely guarantee your own safety, and I will help you do what you want."

"I mean in the future." Ruan Xi watched too many people die in front of her.

He is still temporarily unable to adapt to the constant loss of life before his eyes.

But Lu Zhenghe was different, he belonged to the battlefield, he didn't know how much blood was on his hands, so naturally he took these life and death relatively lightly, and Ruan Xi also understood him.

The only thing that is certain is that Lu Zhenghe, as an alha with super strength, did not deny Ruan Xi's ability as an oga, which made Ruan Xi very pleased.

10 minutes have passed, and the ground fission is still going on.

Ruan Xi found that the fission this time was slower than the last time when she fled her hometown. Maybe it was because of the desert. The sea water was constantly blocked by the sand flow and sank, so the force of the stormy waves hitting the shore was not so violent, but the sky in front of her was already dark. Like an invisible haze covered by sand.

There was a gradual silence behind him, and the inside of the car was pitch black.

They didn't dare to stop, so they could only desperately open up a road until there was no movement around them.

The sky was still gray, full of sand, and countless birds broke free from the mountains and forests farther away.

Ruan Xi tightly held the rope with claws and the survival kit, ready to escape after the vehicle fell into the rift at any time.

"You can relax," Lu Zhenghe gritted his teeth, "It should be over soon."

After confirming the safety, Lu Zhenghe breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ruan Xi, look at the topographic map. How is the front?"

He put his wrist on the steering wheel and did not slow down the speed of the vehicle.The rear compartment of the pickup truck kept making noises due to luggage collisions.

"There is a cliff in front, just rush up from the side road," Ruan Xi observed the 3D terrain map in his hand, "After rushing up, drive another 500 meters into the hinterland, and you will find the cursed main city of curse city... It looks like It’s a very busy area.”

As he said that, Ruan Xi marked the crosses with a red pen on the roads he had traveled.

Lu Zhenghe turned his face to the side, checked Ruan Xi's seat belt, "Well, sit down."

Pickup trucks are different from off-road vehicles in that they are not so heavy, and naturally they are not so stable when driving in the desert.

Ruan Xi was already sweating from the catastrophe just now, and his arms clinging to the armrest had long lost strength. Now that he was temporarily safe, he simply leaned on the seat, bumping and bumping as he moved forward, and his broken hair fell from the top of his head He didn't care if he came down and covered his eyes.

While panting, a trace of familiar smell quietly swam through the tip of the nose, like water coming out of rose petals, being gently shaken off by the moonlight.

Ruan Xi finally felt better.

He was suddenly very grateful to fate, in such a critical moment, his alha could always be by his side to comfort him.No matter what form, Ruan Xi already felt content.

This high cliff has been the commanding height of Curse City since ancient times. Standing here, one can overlook the whole city, and even the city's desert border.

Ruan Xi stepped on the edge of the cliff and looked down, and found that the desert under the cliff had formed a temporary beach, and 100 meters away was an endless sea.

The sunken land and quicksand disappeared, and the beach was divided into several rifts by the moist seawater, and the sand was full of cars that had been inserted upside down, and some of the windows were even opened, and there were stalks sticking out of it. Pale and limp arms.

There are also some cars that are wrapped and submerged in the mud, and a vague car shape can only be seen by the shape of the sand pile on the beach.

The city of curse has not had rain in 400 years, but now because of the disaster, there is a "urban cemetery" made of mud.

"Come here, don't stand on the edge of the cliff." Lu Zhenghe went to pull his arm.

Ruan Xi lowered her head, staring blankly at the dried mud on her short boots, expressionless.

After a while, he said in a deep voice, "Why didn't the tsunami swallow all the cities directly?"

"Maybe God thinks that it is more cruel to destroy a little bit. God is in charge of the layout, and we just need to escape. Whoever survives is the creator of the world. Don't look at it."

Lu Zhenghe covered his eyes, and pulled him to the open space away from the cliff.

As soon as Ruan Xi was dragged back to the solid soil, the laces of his boots fell apart due to running.

He was about to squat down to tie it, but suddenly a 4D was stuffed into his arms.

Ruan Xi bowed her head.

He saw that Lu Zhenghe was half squatting to tie his loose shoelaces.

The shoelaces fluttered between those scarred hands.

Ruan Xi seemed to see Lu Zhenghe who squatted down to tie his shoelaces a few years ago through tactical gloves.

At that time, Ruan Xi would also want to serve Lu Zhenghe, but she was always pulled up by her arms and stood up, saying that you can't put your status so low.But Ruan Xi felt that there was never any identity between them.

The sound of soil clods collapsing and quicksand after the ground fission ended suddenly became less deafening at this moment.

The wind is still, he and he is bypassed by time.

Ruan Xi felt a kind of love suppressed in his heart, which made him breathless.

Just when he was about to reach out and touch Lu Zhenghe's furry head, Lu Zhenghe had already tied his shoelaces, got up and asked him, "What are you thinking?"

Ruan Xi saw the sunlight after the sandstorm dissipated into Lu Zhenghe's eyes.

The opponent's pupils were still bright and deep amber.

"Are we safe?" Ruan Xi asked.

He shook the handle of the gun in his hand, it was wet and full of sweat, like a stream flowing down from Lu Zhenghe's body, meandering to the depths of a certain mountain in his heart.Lie, and say not afraid.

The hands after tying the shoelaces were dirty, Lu Zhenghe wiped his face, and two light brown mud marks appeared on his left cheek.

He took the gun that Ruan Xi was holding in his arms, hung the end of the gun squarely on his shoulder, and then turned around, "Ruan Xi, no matter what the reason or purpose is, I will protect you."

In order to express comfort, he wanted to hold Ruan Xi, but his hands were too dirty, and he took them back before he touched anyone.

"Don't act like I'm weak, I can protect anyone. For example..."

Ruan Xi swallowed the word "you" silently, took a step forward, pinched Lu Zhenghe's chin with his hand, wanting to see his face painted like a cat.

Lu Zhenghe subconsciously covered Ruan Xi's touch with his hand, "It's dirty."

Seeing him hiding, Ruan Xi grabbed him very quickly, without even thinking about it, she grabbed Lu Zhenghe's muddy hand.

I don't know if it's because the mud is too slippery. When the two hands touch each other, the palm-to-palm contact turns into a real hand-holding.

Lu Zhenghe "..."

Ruan Xi "..."

What am I holding him for?

Why didn't he intend to get rid of me? !

Ruan Xi had the illusion of being slightly drunk.

He controlled the smell of pheromone that he wanted to release around him, feeling dizzy, like a little drunk, and even the strength to hold that hand tightly was about to disappear.

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