Journey to the Rose

Lu Zhenghe swore that this was the most difficult two hours he had ever experienced.

For a full two hours, six to ten minutes, he watched the legendary precious and fragile Ruan Xi make moves and dismantle them, beating his well-trained men for many years with just a knife no longer than his arm, and caught him off guard.

What Li Shen used was also a saber, but that saber wasn't very powerful, it was a military saber kept in the car for self-defense at all times.But obviously, Li Shen's backwardness was not only due to weapons.

Holding the Xiaoyan Lingdao in one hand, Ruan Xi seemed to be no longer that Ruan Xi, but a soldier on the battlefield, with a will tempered by steel and blood.

Lu Zhenghe appreciates the strong, and the same for Ruan Xi.

Although he is proud and likes to make decisions, as a leader, he is very good at seeing the strengths in others.This time, he felt more and more that after the last battle, Ruan Xi had a different temperament.

That temperament is intriguing and attractive.

After a few battles, Li Shen didn't see clearly how Ruan Xi made his moves, he just felt that he moved too fast, without sloppiness, attacking himself as if he was a scarecrow target, but he was always able to hold back his strength, and every time he was about to hit Stop when you hit the nail on the head.

In the last round, Li Shen's knife barely resisted Ruan Xi's slash.

Condescending, Ruan Xi clenched the handle of the knife with both hands and exerted force on her wrist.Then, he lowered his center of gravity, and calmly put all his strength over the Xiaoyan Lingdao.

"No...it can't be done," Li Shen's strength was directed upwards, and he couldn't resist Ruan Xi's downward force, "The tip of the knife is too close to me..."

"Push the knife away with your weapon." Ruan Xi said.

"No..." Li Shen's eyes focused on the tip of the knife.

He stared at Li Shen who didn't dare to breathe, and said expressionlessly: "Very good. Have you imagined that there is someone behind you?"

"Think about it!"

Only then did Li Shen feel Ruan Xi's coldness.That is for fighting.

Ruan Xi exerted more force on his hands, but Li Shen half knelt on the ground, was pressed another inch, and let out a muffled snort.

He suddenly raised the corners of his lips, smiled like a child who had eaten candy, and asked curiously, "Who are you thinking of?"

"Yes..." Li Shen's resisting wrist trembled slightly, "It's our city."

"good."

As expected of someone who wants to protect the city, he always thinks about his own people and land.

After thinking about it, Ruan Xi withdrew her strength, raised the handle of the knife with one arm, and the sharp blade flew in an arc in the air.

He put the knife back into the sheath in the blink of an eye, and said loudly: "You have won. If I chop down again, the tip of your knife will hurt me."

"call--"

Only then did Li Shen relax all his strength, and sat down on the ground.

But just as his butt hit the ground, he received a look from Lu Zhenghe on the off-road vehicle not far away.

He quickly wiped the dust off his pants and struggled to get up, even though his legs had no strength.To be honest, if I underestimated Ruan Xi a little bit, and I was careless, I almost confessed here just now.

Fortunately, he was not injured, otherwise Wen Kai, a gloating person, would spread the news of his loss to the young master's spouse throughout the army when he returned home, and he might add embellishments by saying that he was almost chopped into a beautifully presented salmon sashimi.

Oh, and the other party is still an omega.

Also, how can a boy from the Northern Union army sit on the ground because of defeat!

He should pick up the knife again, practice hard for several months, and then find Ruan Xi for a desperate duel.But not to die means that sister-in-law can kill him, but he cannot kill sister-in-law.

"Ruan Xi!"

Li Shen stopped him from retreating, "Wait for me to practice for a while. Try again next time?"

"Yes! I hope you can exchange for a long knife that is as valuable as mine." Ruan Xi readily agreed.

Wen Kai on the side put down the single-power telescope and finished the work of observing the sky.

After testing Li Shen's background, Ruan Xi began to observe Wen Kai silently.

Medicine, astronomy, individual assault, military vehicle driving... He seems to know everything.

"It's getting dark, let's get some rest. There is no sign of the next ground fission, so we can stay here for one night. But when I call everyone tomorrow, everyone will get up," Wen Kai said, looking at the With a downcast look at Li Shen, "Don't be angry about getting up."

Li Shen gritted his teeth and said, "Only cowards will have it!"

"Maybe." Wen Kai shrugged, bowed habitually to Ruan Xi, and then bowed in the direction of Lu Zhenghe, "Good night to you too."

Lu Zhenghe nodded, and waved his hand to indicate that he was almost finished, "Good night!"

Putting away the scabbard, Ruan Xi trotted back to the SUV.

"Ruan Xi, don't move." Lu Zhenghe suddenly stopped him, "Stand over."

Ruan Xi hadn't had time to climb into the car.

To be honest, he was still a little nervous, after all, he and Lu Zhenghe were going to stay alone in the car all night, and Lu Zhenghe was still fully awake.Right now, Lu Zhenghe is leaning against the car door, expressionless, wondering what villain's idea he is planning.

"what happened?"

"I saw the aurora, from your eyes."

As soon as the words fell, Ruan Xi was surprised to see that the originally dark sky gradually took on some other colors.

Those turquoise rivers flow in the night, and the lines are vivid and rippling.The river flows into the mountains and plains, startling snow-white butterflies.

The night sky was illuminated with a bottomless dark green, like a curtain, it was blown over their heads by the wind and blended with Lu Zhenghe's combat uniform.

"Li Shen said seeing the aurora is a good sign!" Ruan Xi's dull mood was swept away.

"You don't make a wish?"

"May!"

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head, closed his eyes, and leaned obediently beside Lu Zhenghe, unable to tell whether it was from the surface or from the heart.

Ruan Xi lowered her head unpreparedly, and the glands on the back of her neck were exposed to Lu Zhenghe's eyes again, as if they were more bulging than before.

"It's over?" Lu Zhenghe watched him raise his head.

"Ok!"

"So short? What's the promise? Do you hope you don't marry someone from the Wei family?"

Ruan Xi listened to his question in a playful tone, and said angrily: "It's none of your business!"

Lu Zhenghe stretched out his hand to pinch his nose: "You can't even ask."

With a "snap", Ruan Xi slapped away his claws trying to make trouble, "It won't work."

Lu Zhenghe suppressed a smile, "Stingy."

"When it's such a good time, you can't get involved in unhappy things."

I don't know why Lu Zhenghe still quarreled with him, Ruan Xi didn't bother to argue with him, "I promised..." He stopped talking, and looked at Lu Zhenghe with a lovely sly look in his eyes, "Don't tell You. It won’t work if you say it.”

My wish is to wish you a speedy recovery.

But Ruan Xi didn't say it.

Lu Zhenghe saw the expression on his face when he picked up a gold bar, and said happily, "You still say I'm superstitious?"

"It's so beautiful," Ruan Xi didn't want to talk to him, and resisted the urge to kick him, "Although the journey was tiring and dangerous, I saw a lot of beautiful scenery."

"There are more beautiful scenery in the north, waiting for me to show you."

As Lu Zhenghe said, the silver and green halos brought by the aurora sprinkled layers of brilliance on the bridge of his nose, creating a sense of clean mystery in his whole body.

Ruan Xi rubbed her hands, her eyes sparkled, and she wanted to record this moment.

After admiring the changes in the sky for a while, he asked, "Are there any auroras in the north?"

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhenghe recalled the content that some female soldiers in the alliance often gathered together to discuss, and recalled: "Yes, in addition to Dawn City, there is a city in the north that will also have this phenomenon. But the aurora in Dawn City is very rare , the city to the north of us has them every day."

Faced with this scene, Ruan Xi also had to admire: "It seems that the sun appears at night."

"I think that the aurora stores sunlight and releases it at night." Lu Zhenghe was thinking of some explanations that should be as objective as possible.

Ruan Xi tried to recall some of the legends she heard, "In the south, people in Dawn City believed that it was a fox running in the forest and onto the hillside. In winter, the hillside was covered with unmelted snow. The tail lifted the white snow and swept it into the air."

"We didn't say that in the north," Lu Zhenghe laughed, surprised at the romance in the south, "We think it is more like the creatures of the dead. Those creatures are rushing to the sky, and they are about to go to the next world. This is what they left behind. There are bloodstains under it. Sometimes the wind is too loud at night in winter, and strange noises can be heard..."

As he spoke, his volume also dropped.

Ruan Xi clearly heard the wind blowing in her ears, as if it was surrounding their souls.Those voices were small or loud, and the gems fell on the white ossuary.

Lu Zhenghe quietly added: "We believe this is the footsteps of the deceased walking on the snow."

·

The morning after the aurora was very clear.

The mountain road into the earthquake city was very difficult, Ruan Xi did not dare to be careless, and ordered Lu Zhenghe to temporarily turn off the headset.

Because Lu Zhenghe was afraid that he would be sleepy and bored while driving, they had already listened to the speakerphone for half an hour, listening to Li Shen and Wen Kai discussing the drunkenness and wine in the city of fairyland, and the white lace garters in the city of holiness.

Ruan Xi couldn't help but wonder, could alphas only talk about these boring topics?

"What white lace garter?" He still couldn't hold back his damn curiosity.

Lu Zhenghe turned his face to look at him.

The eyes of the two idiots met in the air.

After a while, Lu Zhenghe said angrily: "You don't know? I thought it was very famous."

"It's just famous in the Northern League. I heard that the city of Zenith is full of lechers." Ruan Xi complained.

Have it?

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhenghe replied very generously: "I admit it."

Ruan Xi: "..."

snort!

It was obviously made up by me, why did I still approve it!

"Well, it's just..." Lu Zhenghe felt that a family like Ruan Xi must have strict controls on this aspect. Ruan Xi probably didn't understand this at all, and was trying to express it in some words, "The omega of the holy city, no matter Both men and women, it is popular to wear a pure white lace garter on the leg to symbolize purity."

Ruan Xi raised her eyebrows and asked back, "Is it pretty?"

"I do not know."

Lu Zhenghe didn't lie, he was indeed tired of military affairs, he seldom cared about these romantic affairs, let alone went to the holy city to find some omega wearing white lace garters, "I'm not interested, so I haven't seen it."

Ruan Xi stepped on the accelerator harder, resisting the choking impulse, "You better be!"

After finishing speaking, Ruan Xi beat the steering wheel to death, allowing the off-road vehicle to drive steadily across the circling road.All his attention was on the front, and he didn't have time to see what strange things Lu Zhenghe was doing in the co-pilot seat.

But he could clearly feel a pair of eyes falling on him.

Lu Zhenghe is looking at him.

That gaze should be hot, sliding from the lower abdomen to the thigh, which happened to be the area of ​​the damn white lace garter, Ruan Xi could guess what he was thinking, but he was not sure, his ears were already red, and he had no time to cover them. Live in the tightly wrapped legs of the combat uniform.

Forget it, let him see it.

Look at it without missing a piece of meat. Anyway, I touched it many times four years ago.

Lu Zhenghe's Adam's apple seemed to move, it was a swallowing movement.

Done!

The ears are redder.