Journey to the Rose

A day later, they stopped and went, and finally drove the vehicle out of the main city of dawn.

In order to avoid the pursuit and pursuit of the Wei family, Wen Kai gritted his teeth and chose a road that was not the main road.

Let those who commit crimes below find us in the vast traffic!When Wen Kai checked the map, he rarely got angry, blamed himself and was angry.Because of my negligence along the way, there were indeed many problems that should not have occurred, and the risks could obviously be avoided.

Li Shen said why did you go early?

Then Wen Kai stuffed his mouth with an omelet wrapped in cheese.

Then, the road to the next city began to be tortuous and difficult, which was about to test the performance of the two military vehicles.

But fortunately, the sky ahead gradually began to brighten, and there was a tendency to pay the electricity bill again during the day.

At dawn, everything in the world is separated from the dark night, and everything becomes bright and lovely.

Opening the sunroof of the pickup truck, Li Shen sniffed a pheromone smell floating in the car that can't be detected unless you smell it carefully. He glanced at Wen Kai provocatively, and said teasingly: "Your smell is so greasy. It's still mine. It smells better."

"..."

Pheromone shaming?

Wen Kai blushed with anger and said fiercely, "Get out of my car."

"It's thicker." Li Shen teased him.

Looking up at the sky, the gloomy purple is gone, replaced by snow-white fish-like clouds.

Under the strangely shaped clouds, there are mountain roads that are not easy to climb, streams of tens of meters flying down, and stretching green and black mountain peaks.

They crossed the once-bustling food city in the main city all the way, passed the large mall, looked at the city that could not be seen clearly, and looked at the once-abandoned living area.

Fortunately, most of the residents of Dawn City escaped relatively quickly and had a strong sense of crisis. There should not be too many casualties in this sinking.However, the road ahead should be blocked. After all, the number of people fleeing along the way will only increase. Everyone is going to one place, just to see if they have the ability to survive.

Lu Zhenghe could already walk on the ground, but his steps were still unsteady.

Occasionally, he was kicked by Ruan Xi and begged for mercy with a smile on his face because of his presumptuous words. This made Ruan Xi wonder if Lu Zhenghe really changed four years later, and his temperament changed a lot.

On the road they picked up a hare that had been hit and killed by another vehicle.

Ruan Xi stood on the side of the road holding the hare's ears, not feeling hungry, and wanted to find a place to bury it, counting as clearing the roadblock, otherwise it would be bad to be hit by another vehicle again.

As a result, Li Shen happily rushed out of the car, grabbed the rabbit and planted it in the grass, saying that today he would eat meat and cook a dish with the flavor of the Northland for everyone.

Ruan Xi nodded, washed the blood off her hands with water, trotted back to the car, stepped on the brakes slowly, and parked the car on the side of the road.

Lu Zhenghe saw how he had just caught a rabbit, and asked him, "Aren't you afraid?"

Ruan Xi didn't bother to answer, but just looked back at him to see if he had honestly placed his leg in a position that would help the wound heal.

After a while, he remembered to answer Lu Zhenghe's question, "I have been in a hunting ground since I was in school. It's just that riding a horse made me uncomfortable, so I haven't participated in hunting before."

Oh, it was because I fell several times while riding a horse, and my butt hurt like hell. Once I fell on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.

The subordinates in charge of training with him thought it was "unsightly" and affected the face of the Ruan family, so they opened the umbrella in broad daylight to cover Ruan Xi who was on the ground, and kept urging him: "Stand up quickly!"

Thinking of these absurd things, Ruan Xi was angry and funny.But now everything has passed, and he doesn't know what kind of mood he should use to recall them.

Lu Zhenghe didn't answer, thinking that everyone in Zenith City should like Ruan Xi very much.He is free, frank, brave and intelligent.

Ruan Xi put her hands on her knees, "Is your leg better?"

"It's much better." Lu Zhenghe couldn't wait to run and fight, "I can guarantee that the wound will not open."

When he said this, Ruan Xi was roughly lifting his leg, placing his leg next to the center console armrest box in the car, and gently loosening the gauze that was about to be changed.

Suddenly, the wound felt cool and itchy.It is exposed to the air.

"……I think,"

Ruan Xi was silent for a moment, and frowned slightly, "You can't guarantee it."

The wound has indeed healed a lot, but it has not yet reached the point where he can move freely.If it is disturbed and tossed, it will definitely crack again.

The cities ahead are more troubled by disasters, and no one can control the uncertain factors. We must recover before we can move on.

They need to avoid all avoidable risks, and must not let impatience and stupidity be buried with them.

He has already lost Lu Zhenghe once, and there can be no second time.

Ruan Xi originally thought that Lu Zhenghe would resist, and would say some things that men are used to say, to be brave.

This is the nature of a top alpha with strong self-confidence.But luckily he didn't.

"You have the final say." Lu Zhenghe responded in this way.

"what?"

"I was injured, and I have also witnessed your strength. I listen to you now."

Lu Zhenghe just leaned on the leather seat in the back seat, although he was a wounded and defeated lion, he was in high spirits.

He turned his head to look at the sky, and then turned back, the resolute outline of his face was shrouded in the emerging sunlight, and an enviable shadow was printed in the dark.

That's fine, Ruan Xi thought.

Stay honest, don't say anything annoying, don't fight with others, Lu Zhenghe, you should be a statue!

If you want to fight, you can with me.

Thinking of this, Ruan Xi gritted her teeth lightly.

"Do you know what I want to do now?"

"What?"

"I want to pull you up and go to the side of the road to fight again, like the first time we met." Ruan Xi pursed her lips, recalling the too intense and disorderly hand-to-hand fight that night, and felt more and more that the two of them were alone and were fighting with the beast The ground is no different.

Lu Zhenghe didn't even think about it, and said with a smile: "Oh, then I will definitely lose."

After giving him a blank look, Ruan Xi said, "Talk like you deliberately lost to me."

Lu Zhenghe: "..."

How about not?

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Ruan Xi and Lu Zhenghe rested in the car for several hours.

When I woke up again, the sky was a little darker than before.It looked like it was getting dark.

As promised, Li Shen made delicious roasted rabbits, one was divided into four portions, and everyone enjoyed it.

Ruan Xi hadn't eaten hot food for a long time, so he licked his lips happily, a bit missing the bowl of beef noodles that he didn't have in Ruan's Manor.

Relatively speaking, Lu Zhenghe was miserable because he couldn't get out of the car.

He could only sit on the off-road vehicle, open the door, and watch his spouse chatting with his subordinates, with their eyes twisted, as if they were talking about embarrassing things that would make the whole continent burst into laughter.He is generally not interested in such embarrassing things.

But at the moment, Lu Zhenghe had to wonder whether Li Shen would spread some funny rumors about himself that were not true.

Why did Ruan Xi never smile like this when talking to herself?

Lu Zhenghe was very upset.

"Hey, tell me, although there is a morning glow in the sky in that city, it is more like the scenery at sunset, why is it called the City of Dawn?" Li Shen asked.

Wen Kai ate politely, and there was still a lot of roasted rabbit left in his hand.

After thinking for a while, he replied loudly: "Probably the plan of the day lies in the morning, so it seems more hopeful to choose a name related to the morning?"

"Wen Kai is right." Ruan Xi didn't have time to talk, and didn't have the time to think about it, she just wanted to eat seriously.

It's a pity that Li Shen didn't give up the opportunity to chat with his future sister-in-law, "Ruan Xi, do you know? There is also a rumor that seeing the aurora will be a good omen."

"Aurora?" Ruan Xi had only seen this word in textbooks.

"Yeah! In the beginning of autumn this year, I came here on a mission, and then..." Li Shen said, suddenly remembered that his "good omen" meant that after returning, he got the Wei family and announced his marriage with the Ruan family. The "big happy event".

However, of course he couldn't just say that, otherwise his head would be chopped off by Lu Zhenghe with the kitchen knife on the flight stove.

"Really?"

Ruan Xi's curiosity has always been as full as a honey pot, "Then what?"

"Then I won the lottery!" Li Shen bit the bullet and said.

"..."

What good is money?

Ruan Xi thought about it, maybe this is a good omen for a traveler like Li Shen.

After eating the roasted rabbit and admiring the sky, the relaxed and joyful atmosphere was strong, and Li Shen told Ruan Xi that he wanted to learn sword skills from him.

"He didn't tell you?" Li Shen seldom called Lu Zhenghe's name, afraid of making a mistake, he simply used "he" to refer to him.

"What?" Ruan Xi was at a loss.

"I actually wanted to ask you the first time I saw you. Why are you so good at swordsmanship? If you put it in our place, it would be among the best. It's a pity that I haven't heard of your legend in Jianghu..." Li Shen stared at Ruan Ruan Xi kept peeking at the handle of the Xiaoyan Lingdao.

Ruan Xi understood, "In the rumors of this world, I'm just a vase, right?"

It turned out that I actually knew.

Li Shen suddenly felt that chatting with his sister-in-law was very hard, "It's not..."

Although he has not seen the power of Li Shen's "ghost crossbow" with his own eyes, Ruan Xi can see how lethal it is based on the sharp lines of the cold weapon.

Man's thirst for strength and hunting is adored.

Ruan Xi licked her lips subconsciously, and asked, "Your arrows are so powerful, do you still need to learn knives?"

"Need. I'm better in melee combat, one less..." Li Shen bit the tip of his tongue, cursed himself for being stupid, and quickly changed his words, "One Lu Zhenghe, yes, Lu Zhenghe, can kill two of me in melee combat."

The power disparity is so big?

Ruan Xi said, "Aren't you all alphas?"

"Yes, but there will always be gaps between people that can't be made up by hard work. For example, talent and physique." Li Shen's tone was mysterious, "Let me tell you quietly, he is the strongest alpha I have ever seen."

"Where are you?" Ruan Xi saw that Li Shen followed his own train of thought, and pursued the victory.

"Yes."

"He is the strongest? Is his military rank higher than all of you?"

"Ah, this is..."

Li Shen realized that Lu Zhenghe had emphasized from the very beginning that "we are now comrades in arms of equal rank", so he could only scratch his head, feeling a little unbearable, "Not necessarily! We are actually all the same."

Realizing the lawlessness of fabricating identities, Li Shen added something to help, "I mean, in addition to regular training, we will also organize some more brutal competitions, such as shooting, such as free fighting, In this way, an alpha with very personal fighting power is selected in a team. He is always the fighter who wins."

Ruan Xi muttered: "Soldier? He can tell me that he is an officer."

what?

Why is the confession wrong?

"Uh, almost! Our security team is relatively loosely managed. It's officers and soldiers." Why didn't the young master play his cards according to the agreed routine!Why did you reveal your identity!

Li Shen's heart was roaring.

"It looks looser."

Ruan Xi talked for a long time, but didn't come up with a reason, so she stopped asking.

Li Shen: "..."

It's over, people mistakenly think that our army management is loose, let the young master know, will I be beaten?

Ruan Xi didn't continue this false topic that couldn't be talked about anymore, she turned sideways.Then he raised his hand and pulled out the Xiaoyan Lingdao neatly.

Under the not-so-bright sky, the back of the knife still exudes a charming luster, as if coated with several thin layers of gold.At the same time, together with Lu Zhenghe who was watching and chatting not far away, the three of them were all engrossed in admiring.

Few people have seen Ruan Xi practice the sword.

"The knife is nothing powerful," Ruan Xi didn't know how to teach Li Shen, and was deeply confused, the teaching movements seemed a little clumsy, "Just..."

Seeing his confused look, Li Shen smiled, "Just making gestures?"

Ruan Xi always feels that the speed and posture of her moves are all natural, and she doesn't need to think too much at all. After all, she has been learning every day since she was a child.

He thought for a while, raised his head, his expression was serious, but his eyes were softened by the last light of the setting sun.

"First, you have someone you want to protect very much. Imagine that person standing behind you," he said.

Just like Lu Zhenghe, behind me.