Journey to the Rose

The desert at night is silent.

The surrounding temperature dropped several degrees suddenly, and many tents were erected in the open space of the large square in the center of the city. Some people lit candles, some lit flashlights, and the light source was weak, attracting unknown birds in the dark Circling quickly.

The management of Curse City is loose. At night, there are no people in charge of security, and every household closes their doors and windows. Most of them do not accept these refugees who fled from other cities.

Because there is too much sand on the ground, there are many people in the open space, and the desert is cold at night, Lu Zhenghe decided to put Ruan Xi's bed in the car after deliberation.

As for myself, I can spend the night on Li Shen's off-road vehicle.

Now is the time before the break, and the central square is very lively.

Suddenly there was a force behind him, and Ruan Xi was staggered and pushed towards the pickup truck. The broken hair on his forehead and the veil covering his face were blown open to both sides by the cool wind coming not far away.

He barely stood still, watching Lu Zhenghe open the car door with a look of surprise.

The latter was raising his chin, signaling himself to get in the car.

Only then did Ruan Xi understand what it meant.

The lights are dim.

Under his gaze, Lu Zhenghe pinched off a piece of unburned cigarette, folded the cigarette in half, twisted it between his fingers and hid it behind his back.

A scorching sensation spread across the fingertips.

Lu Zhenghe didn't say much, just looked up at the sky for a while, and then slowly said: "It's too late now, you go to bed early. We will continue on our way when the sun shines tomorrow." After finishing speaking, he turned around Go to the trunk of the off-road vehicle on the other side and pull out a stack of quilts, find the pillows, spread them on the thighs and pat them loose, then move the arms and put all the pillows and quilts into the pickup truck.

For some reason, Ruan Xi felt that Lu Zhenghe was not very happy.

He could feel the other party's subtle emotional changes, like an instinct, as sensitive and real as if his heart was blocked by something.

After making the bed, Lu Zhenghe stretched out his arms to test the comfort of the bed.

He stated calmly: "Sleep here tonight, don't run around, don't show your face. Curse City is the third city in the south, and now most of the refugees here are from Abze City, and they should all know you. Car keys I unplug it, and if there is something to do, just slap on the car door, and I will come right away."

Ruan Xi sat on the soft leather cushion of the pickup truck and asked him, "Where are you going?"

"I'll sleep in Li Shen's car." Lu Zhenghe replied.

"In the car? Can three people sleep?" Ruan Xi said, looking at the back of the front seat that Lu Zhenghe had put down, only to find that there was no space in front, and Lu Zhenghe only left the driver's seat for emergency use.

He has been in that off-road vehicle before, and he knows that there are so many luggage and supplies in the back seat, and there can only be two people at most, even the trunk is full, and there are three people together, how can they sleep?

The only solution is to take a person to sleep on the desert.

In fact, I heard that there is a sleeping bag, and it is not impossible to sleep in the desert, but it is too cold at night.

When Lu Zhenghe was breathing just now, Ruan Xi could almost see white mist coming out from between his lips and teeth... Needless to say, the temperature in the desert usually drops to a very low level at night.

"It's okay, don't worry about me." Lu Zhenghe turned to leave, "You have a good rest."

Outside the car window, the sparks of fire in the central square are like fireflies hiding in the jungle in summer night.

The interior of the car seems to have become a dark world.

Just when everything was about to enter the silence, suddenly there was the sudden sound of cups clashing and conversations entering the ears.

Ruan Xi rubbed her eyes, no sleepiness at all, barely got up with her arms on her arms, and tried to see the situation outside the window through the half-opened car window.

It's a gray van.

The van was parked in the central square, two of the four doors were wide open, and two foldable dining tables were opened beside the doors. Several bottles of beer were placed on the dining table, surrounded by a few young people who were preparing to drink and chat.Their van also had a glowing sign on the windshield that read in bold letters:

— The Wandering Bar.

The zipper of a tent under the street lamp in the central square was opened, and a human face peeked out from inside, with sleepy eyes, he said angrily, "Go to sleep! We have to go on the road tomorrow."

"You don't sleep, but others still want to sleep. They are all from Abze City, so they can't interact with each other..." There were also those who didn't pull up the tents, and the oil lamps were carefully lit at the door, vaguely illuminating the swaying figures inside the tents.

The people entertaining themselves in the vagabond bars are finally reacting.

Someone didn't look back, and said with disgust on his face: "Now there are no Abze city people, and the family is extinct! Even Abze city is gone!"

"Look, this is your Ruan Xi's wedding wine," one of the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys raised his glass and shouted with a smile, "Cheers!"

"Yes! When he gets married, all the people on the continent will die."

Another man with long curly hair also raised the wine bottles, letting them collide in the air, and the beer foam splashed out along the mouth of the glass, "You people, instead of trying to control us here, why don't you spend some time?" It took me a while to find Ruan Xi's whereabouts! The Wei family searched for him with great fanfare, indicating that this person must not have gone to the top of the snow-capped mountains, but he did not know which city among the 26 cities...Anyway, he must not be here with us, and he must be better than us. These dying civilians run faster. By the way, I heard that Ruan Xi is still an omega, and the pheromone smell is..."

"boom--"

As soon as he finished speaking, the beer glass bottle that he had held high in his hand and hadn't put it down erupted with a muffled sound.In an instant, the glass bottle exploded in the air, and countless emerald green fragments plunged obliquely into the sand.

Accompanied by screams, the small folding table in the wandering bar was overturned.

The people who had been drinking all stood up in a panic, looking at each other, "Someone shot!"

"Which direction did you come from?"

"I don't know, I didn't see where the bullet went!"

"It's all fucking you, just have a drink in the middle of the night! What about Ruan Xi..."

Ruan Xi, who was mentioned, just listened quietly.

He didn't come out after changing clothes, and he didn't get out of the car from the other side to find Lu Zhenghe. Instead, he propped his chin on the back of his hand, and leaned against the car window secretly, observing everything that happened in the central square with a cold expression.

Now the hometown is gone.

How other people think of him and how they talk about him outside is not very important to Ruan Xi.

The most urgent task now is to find the root of all this and try to find a way to solve it, even if it can be done in a modest way.

There was a knock on the car door.

Ruan Xi turned her head and heard a low voice from outside the car door: "Get out of the car."

Pressing on the light, the interior of the car was still as dark as dusk that was about to usher in a storm.Ruan Xi turned her head under the light, her eyes were bright, and she saw clearly who was outside the window.He grabbed the coat that was resting on the back of the chair, refastened the weapon straps, threw back the covers and got out of the car.

Stepping on the soft sand, Ruan Xi almost lost his footing, but was supported by Lu Zhenghe.

After stabilizing his arms, Lu Zhenghe let him go gently, and said, "I brought you a cloak, put it on. There are also two backpack sleeping bags, one for each person. Put it on your back and go."

"You are dressed much less than me," Ruan Xi glanced at the fabric he was wearing, "Aren't you cold?"

"I'm alpha." Lu Zhenghe replied.

"so what,"

This time it was Ruan Xi's turn to lean a little to the right and bump him with his shoulder, "Straight men have cancer."

Lu Zhenghe said calmly, as if his skin had suddenly become very thick: "I'm not a straight man."

Ruan Xi: "..."

The two of them walked on the sandy ground step by step in the night.

There are hardly any upright figures in the desert at night. Apart from the central square, there are also sporadic sleepers scattered around the market.

Ruan Xi looked around, while Lu Zhenghe quietly followed.

The two of them stepped unsteadily in the sand, leaning left and right, and their shoulders bumped into each other from time to time.

The scales are tipping towards each other.

Seeing Ruan Xi looking around, Lu Zhenghe laughed and reminded him: "Don't look around, if someone knows you, they will take you away immediately and exchange for a bounty."

"Am I worth a lot?"

Ruan Xi didn't take off the veil, but felt a little bored, "Not many people in our city know what I look like, otherwise Wei Hong would have caught me long ago. Where are we going now?"

"Live in a place with few people."

"Sleeping in the sand?"

"is it okay?"

"Yes!" Ruan Xi was still a little excited, rubbing her palms together, "Is there a bonfire?"

Lu Zhenghe couldn't help asking: "Are you going to hold a party?"

"Then you have to give me a show," Ruan Xi looked around for dry firewood, "I'm afraid of the cold."

Lu Zhenghe nodded, and began to take off his coat without saying a word.

Seeing how he didn't take his body seriously, Ruan Xi suddenly felt an unknown fire in his heart, and said seriously: "You should take care of yourself, there is nowhere to find you when you are sick. doctor."

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhenghe said, "Wen Kai is a military doctor."

When he answered this way, Ruan Xi became even more angry, and didn't know what to say to express his worry.

Lu Zhenghe stopped in his tracks, the hand holding the jacket stopped awkwardly, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ruan Xi pursed her lips, "..."

"Ruan Xi."

Lu Zhenghe tried to call him, and pulled his shoulders hard, not understanding why Ruan Xi, who has been a little obedient lately, has turned back into the guarded little hedgehog when we first met, "I just don't want you to listen to those people talking nonsense anymore , I took you out. You relax a little bit."

A fragile place in my heart was lightly touched with a finger, and Ruan Xi relaxed.He leaned back slightly, raised his head, let out a long sigh, and said, "I know."

He slowly looked away.

Under the night, the boundless darkness melted into his eyes like water.

A foot in military boots stepped on the sand, and Lu Zhenghe drew a circle on the ground with his toes.

Then he put down his backpack and said, "Let's just rest here. You look around, I'm going to find firewood." Then he actually went to find dry firewood.

More than ten minutes later, Lu Zhenghe returned with a large pile of firewood.

And Ruan Xi was not idle, he put the gun bag and scabbard aside, and spread the sleeping bag neatly on the sand.

A few minutes later, a small flame rose from the sand.

Ruan Xi bent her eyebrows, stretched out the palms of her hands, roasted them for a while, rubbed them together for a while, her eyes were brightly illuminated by the fire, and those orange-red waves were shaking like silk.Lu Zhenghe didn't know if Ruan Xi was really blushing, or because the temperature of the flame was too high.

"It has to be extinguished after a while," Lu Zhenghe reminded him, "It can't be burned overnight, the target is too obvious."

Ruan Xi nodded, took a few steps back, and began to sweat all over her body, "It's gone."

Soon after putting out the fire, Ruan Xi felt cold again.

He really hates his cold physique, he looks like something in winter, his hands and feet are cold, and he needs something to keep him warm at any time.After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that there were one or two bottles of wine in his backpack.He had put it in a long time ago and never opened it.

"Drink some wine?" Ruan hoped for him.

drink wine?

Lu Zhenghe hesitated.

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Ruan Xi picked up the wine bottle from his backpack and took a sip with his head raised.

He drank a big gulp in a daze, and for the first time felt the feeling of soju exploding in his stomach.The soaring burning sensation emerged from the throat, as if buzzing in his head, making his cheeks flush, even his eyebrows and eyes red.

After a while, Ruan Xi was still not feeling well, coughed several times, and immediately choked out a few tears that hung at the end of her eyes.

When he turned his head to look at Lu Zhenghe again, his eyes were foggy.

"Why are you drinking in such a hurry." Lu Zhenghe sighed, and handed over the paper to wipe his mouth.

Ruan Xi dodged his approach, sticking out her tongue to lick the wine from the corner of her lips into her throat.He took a step or two back, "Tell me, do we have any way to prevent the land from sinking?"

He also took a sip of wine, Lu Zhenghe said calmly: "I haven't found it yet."

"I remember you saying that the top of the snow mountain might be the safest place... In other words, even if we go to the last city, we might not survive, right?"

"If the whole land is going to disappear, then the final sinking must be the top of the snow mountain."

Ruan Xi crossed her legs and held in a long breath until she blushed and her neck was thick, and then let it out: "Forget it... Maybe everyone will die in the end."

"Actually, I helped you escape from marriage, and I have another purpose," Lu Zhenghe said suddenly, "I have been cursed."

"Curse?" Ruan Xi pricked up her ears.

"That's why I want to come here." Lu Zhenghe smiled, stepping on the soft ground of curse city.

Lu Zhenghe looked like a person with a good capacity for alcohol. He picked up a bottle, tilted his neck to drink it, put it down when he was comfortable, exhaled, and said with a smile: "Do you know? I used to fight in the Northern League, and I met a man from The prophet of curse city, he said that the omega I was destined to appear before I was an adult. But now that I am an adult, I have not met my omega for a long time. "

When you are not an adult, you will meet your destined omega——

The amount of information in this passage was too much, it completely woke up Ruan Xi's wine.

Curse·16 He is the most special person on this land.