Journey to the Rose

The third shot was fired by Li Shen.

Before the first shot was fired, Li Shen had already taken over the inspection work, set up guns and scopes in the back row, and watched from left to right to see if anyone was in ambush.But his main object of protection is Ruan Xi.

Neither he nor Wen Kai thought that the Wei family had armed forces to dare to shoot Lu Zhenghe.

Not to mention that adults would kill minors.

"A student was shot!" Wen Kai said in surprise.

"I saw it."

Li Shen shot over the helmet of the sniper who was ambushing in the distance.

"Your hand is shaking, you missed the shot." Wen Kai packed the medicine box and was about to rush out of the car.

Li Shen was so angry that his crown was cracked, a flame in his chest was burning extremely, and he regretted his carelessness, he gritted his teeth and said: "When the escort task is completed, I will go back and find someone to see whose head is blown off, and all will be dealt with by military law." ! I'm going to shoot a mortar through his leg!"

"Okay, I'll help you reload the cannon."

Wen Kai didn't have time to think about it, he was already sweating profusely, and said repeatedly: "The young master must have hurt his leg. I'll go and have a look. Be careful, be careful."

"Just be careful, why are you still stuttering?"

Li Shen hastily carried the "ghost crossbow" on his back, tied another crossbow on his calf, and said in a low voice, "Go! I'll cover you!"

The streetlights on Central Axis Avenue had long since gone out, and the city had never been so dark.

The fleeing vehicles sped past on both sides.

When they rushed to Lu Zhenghe's side, they found that Ruan Xi was one step ahead of them and was already dragging Lu Zhenghe to the off-road vehicle.

Lu Zhenghe's calf was bleeding, and he was still carrying guns and weapons, and his other leg was unable to support his whole body.

He couldn't get up.

Fortunately, the calf is still feeling, the bullet did not penetrate, it is not useless, and it can still be used after the injury is healed.

He opened his mouth, his voice hoarse: "I'm fine."

"You pull it down."

Ruan Xi feels that this sentence is the same concept as a drunk person saying "I'm not drunk".

While supporting Lu Zhenghe, he gave up using his long-distance and useless Xiaoyan Lingdao, regardless of the recoil force, but picked a rear-discharged grenade launcher and carried it on his shoulder.

"Wen Kai stay and help him deal with the wound," Ruan Xi said, "Li Shen, go and see those children."

Although he was talking to Li Shen, his eyes couldn't leave Lu Zhenghe.

Love can be illusory and imaginary, but the physical pain derived from love makes him unable to ignore everything in front of him.This shot hurt the opponent, but at the same time he also hurt himself.

"Okay," Li Shen turned his head, "I leave it to you."

Then Li Shen returned to the group of children, and continued to wait for their parents to claim them by the side of the road.

For the rest of their lives, no one knew whose parents were still alive. They just hugged each other and cried, and stared at the boy's body on the ground in a daze.

Ruan Xi remembered that it was the first day of deep winter.

Although each city has different cultures and methods of counting years, that day was the deep winter of Abze City.In the deep winter when the dead boy was about the same age, his father always took him to the beach to feel the gradually cooling sea breeze.

The sea breeze is coming, and the maple leaves are falling in the eyes, spreading a strong red.

Because of the climate, the city of Abze only shed its maple leaves every winter.

And that was just a kid.

Ruan Xi couldn't bear to look at it. After Lu Zhenghe was settled, Ruan Xi got out of the car again, helped the boy close his eyes with his hands, and stuffed the extra-rich cocoa block into the boy's pocket.Ruan Xi hugged him into the grass of the green belt beside the road, broke off a flower and put it beside him for the first time.

God protects those who come from the top of the snow mountain.

Lu Zhenghe has been rescued by him and Wen Kai back to the off-road vehicle, everything is safe.

Chen Hui from the City of Dawn seemed no longer beautiful, and the charming halo made Ruan Xi feel a headache.

Lu Zhenghe lay in the car overnight, he and Wen Kai also stayed overnight, Li Shen stayed on the pickup truck in front to guard the supplies, shouting through the headset once every half an hour on average: Are you awake?

It was not a serious gunshot wound.

Lu Zhenghe's military boots were taken off, and a large piece of fabric was cut off from his trouser legs.

Ruan Xi watched Wen Kai take out the bullet with tweezers.

Blood flowed into the off-road vehicle, and the small space was filled with a bloody smell.Ruan Xi was sitting in the back row, Lu Zhenghe was pillowing on his leg, eyes closed, lips were pale, and seemed to be exhausted, and fell asleep in an unknown dream.

Judging from Lu Zhenghe's reaction after being injured, the message Ruan Xi read out is:

— it is not uncommon for him to be shot.

Ruan Xi watched Wen Kai bandage and disinfect Lu Zhenghe's wound, and then check with all the crude instruments.Wen Kai's movements are very skilled and skilled, but he always feels nervous when dealing with Lu Zhenghe.

After finishing all the work that needs to be done, Wen Kai clasped his palms together, palms facing upwards, as if spreading out towards the sky, and murmured like a poem: "The God of the Snow Mountain and the Alliance are here to bless you."

you?

Wen Kai once again used honorifics that should not be used between brothers.

But now Ruan Xi has no time to question this, everything is about safety.

"Ruan Xi."

"what happened?"

He heard Lu Zhenghe calling him softly.

"Ah. Well, I, I'll go back to the car first," Wen Kai panicked after seeing the battle, and quickly put the headset and microphone into Ruan Xi's hands, "I don't need to change the medicine for now, wait..." He looked down at his watch, dripping with sweat, "In two hours, I'll come back and change his dressing. You guys rest for a while."

Seeing movement here, Li Shen immediately trotted over with his defensive gun and crossbow.

When Wen Kai turned around, Ruan Xi realized that he had taken off his military cap, and his hair was as golden as the sun shining on his head.Wen Kai turned his head and smiled at him, emphasizing again very politely: "Please take good care of him."

Ruan Xi quickly said: "Okay, don't worry! Be careful."

"Ruan Xi?" The person on the lap made a muffled sound again, the volume was as low as a mosquito, and it seemed to be very weak.

"I'm here." Ruan Xi lowered her head, her hair covered her brows and eyes, and the warm sun shining on the waves rose from the bottom of her eyes.

The lights in the car are dim, so dark that the world seems to be only a small circle.

They are safe and sound.

Lu Zhenghe opened his mouth, and only said one word: "It hurts."

He... seems to be showing softness?

Ruan Xi's heart skipped a beat.

"The legs will be fine." Ruan Xi couldn't imagine the pain of the flesh being embedded by bullets. Although it was lucky that he didn't hurt the bones, he was still so distressed that his heart and scalp were numb. "Why don't you go to sleep first. Don't think about these things. We're safe for now."

"But my head hurts too..."

The honorable young master tasted the joy of "acting like a baby", and the volume became lower and lower, "Is there a way for me not to have a headache?"

"What?" Ruan Xi didn't hear clearly, and lowered her head a little.

Then Lu Zhenghe smelled the faint scent of wine on Ruan Xi's neck, which was the unique scent of omega.

It was not the first time he had smelled Ruan Xi's exclusive scent, but he had never smelled it when he was bleeding, in pain, or even weak.

The smell of wine mixed with the smell of blood that had been lingering in the air for several hours, falling into the nostrils of the two who were close at hand.

A cloud named Ambiguous rises up.

"I smell it," he said.

"What?" Ruan Xi was at a loss.

"The smell of wine," Lu Zhenghe said in a deep voice, "the smell of your pheromones."

"Will it hurt less if you smell it?"

Ruan Xi asked, while getting closer.His neck was about to touch Lu Zhenghe's lips, and the breaths of the two quickened respectively.Lu Zhenghe's breathing made him tremble.

"Yeah." Lu Zhenghe was shameless, "The legs also feel better."

The slightly drunken and smoky aroma of wine in the air is getting heavier and thicker.

Ruan Xi: "..."

Lu Zhenghe: "I feel a little better."

Ruan Xi's face became hot, and she feigned anger and said, "Where is this function?"

Suddenly, Wen Kai's anxious voice came from the headset: "Report! Li Shen went after the murderer. He was alone and didn't tell me, so I rested for a while, and I didn't see anyone when I opened my eyes..."

Lu Zhenghe raised his voice a bit: "The one who came to shoot us in the evening?"

"Well," Wen Kai replied, "He seems to know the whereabouts of the other party."

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A day later, Li Shen came back full of travel and dust.

The dirty three lime marks on his face were replaced.The replacement color is a striking red, that kind of red is a little black, a little coagulated, and a little sticky, more like blood.

Li Shen opened the car door, threw the "ghost crossbow" into the car, ran to the nearest small pool and washed his face, showing tired eyes.

He squatted nearby all night, and the "ghost crossbow" was also accurate, assisting him to silently shoot and kill the soldier whose head was grazed by his shot, as well as the soldier's observer.That's the one watching the wind direction and speed for the sniper.

The sharp long arrow pierced the chest and pierced the chest. Li Shen still couldn't forget the dead child lying on the ground.

In his hand, he still held the thick cocoa block produced in Dawn City.

All day long, Lu Zhenghe lay in the back seat of the off-road vehicle to recuperate from his injuries.

Wen Kai reported the news of Lu Zhenghe's injury to the Northern Alliance headquarters. The headquarters wanted to send additional officers and soldiers to escort him, but Lu Zhenghe refused.

He said that the city of dawn is the city of earthquakes, because the crustal movement is active all year round, and it coincides with the fission of the ground, and the survival rate is low.Now stay in Dawn City to recuperate for a few days, and when his legs recover, he can continue on the road.

In order to take care of Lu Zhenghe, Ruan Xi didn't close her eyes last night, and now she couldn't hold on anymore, she ate some matcha croissants, leaned on the back seat and fell asleep.Although Lu Zhenghe couldn't walk, he could still sit, so he sat up with his arms propped up, and took a warm quilt for Ruan Xi from the front seat.

There was no delay in the journey, and after Ruan Xi woke up, they started on the road again.

Ruan Xi's driving skills are not bad, stable, fast, and remarkable, and there is almost no sense of discomfort for the passengers.

It's just that he has a bad bad habit, that is, he likes to secretly glance at Lu Zhenghe from the corner of his eye when he is free, but he will always be caught by Lu Zhenghe.

Ruan Xi asked, saying that you don't look at me, how do you know that I look at you?Unexpectedly, Lu Zhenghe's face became thicker and thicker, and he said directly, I am indeed looking at you.I'm watching when you tell me the story of me and Su Lihai.

"It's Su Lihai's story," Ruan Xi adjusted the turn signal and turned on all the vehicle lights to the maximum. "It's not the story of you and Su Lihai."

"But you're talking about me and Su Lihai."

"Have it?"

"Have."

"Who can testify?"

It was rare for Lu Zhenghe to argue with him, "I can!"

"Okay, okay, there is no story about you and Su Lihai. Only the legend of Su Lihai, do you want to hear it?" Ruan Xi knew that he had said "you and Su Lihai", but he could not tell Lu Zhenghe, so he could only comfort him in this way.

When he heard that it had nothing to do with him, he didn't know whether he was angry or tired, Lu Zhenghe just said: "You should drive first."

The Suli Sea is the sea along the coast of Abze City. The sea water is pure, the coastline is tortuous, sloping from north to south, and the coast has the oldest rocks on the land.

Legend has it that there are singing mermen, smiling whales, hermit crabs walking forward, and starfish that can be brought back to life after eating.

The legend also tells that there is a small island in the Suli Sea, which is rich in gemstone deposits. Unfortunately, it has only been recorded in various folklore, and treasure-hunting adventurers often get lost in the vast sea.

In addition, the cliffs and forest vegetation along the coast form a unique and spectacular landscape. Almost every inch of the beach there has traces of Ruan Xi and Lu Zhenghe's seventeen or eighteen years old.

There they kiss and hug.

They look beyond distant, unexplored lands.

Blown by the sea breeze together, the whole body smelled of salt, and it made me catch a cold and sneeze.

"26 City History" records that as early as many, many years ago, the glaciers disappeared and the land returned to the right track. The ancestors of the southern coastal tribes made a living by fishing by the sea, and later built a temple to worship the god who brought them the sea.

Later, in order to avoid the unexpected tsunami, Abze City ushered in an overall relocation of the city center, leaving behind some families who had lived on the coast for many years, and the Ruan family was one of them.

It is said that the place where the Nguyen Manor is located was once a temple dedicated to the God of the Sea.In addition to the official history, the "Prophecy of 26 Cities", which is widely circulated among the people, also predicts that after a hundred years, a son will be born in the temple, which will be the pearl of the oyster and will be stored on the top of the snow mountain.

He drove the car, recalling the fragments of Su Lihai.

But for him who cherishes everything now, even these clips are enough.

It is only moments that make up eternity.

Dawn 22-24 (three in one)