Journey to the Rose

If it were someone else who told Ruan Xi the news, he would definitely go there without hesitation.

But this was Gu Zirong whom he had just met not long ago.

Although Ruan Xi lives in a simple environment and has never met too many people, he is relatively innocent, but he is often full of guard against strangers, even if he has known them before, he will have psychological distrust.

Moreover, why didn't Gu Zirong tell his superiors the news, Li Shen, Wen Kai, and even Lu Zhenghe are not people who don't listen to opinions.

Why did Gu Zirong convey this information to me?

Thinking about it, Ruan Xi spoke bluntly and asked this question: "Who else did you tell this news to?"

"It's just you." Gu Zirong smiled, and an invisible sense of estrangement began to appear between the two of them.

"Why didn't you tell your superiors?" Ruan Xi asked.

"Because they will definitely not agree to let me act without authorization, and it is not completely safe there, and I dare not take everyone there."

There was a glint in Gu Zirong's eyes. He turned his head and looked at the burning mountain fire on the border in the distance. The sky there was already slightly red.After freezing for a long time, Gu Zirong continued his topic: "Now the captain can't find a solution. Either wait for a rain, or I have to take the risk."

Ruan Xi looked unhappy, and said, "What can be the tool to put out the fire?"

"I don't know either." Gu Zirong shrugged, his eyes rolled, "It might be a treasure left by some god." His eyes seemed a little cloudy, like a statue without thought.

"Nonsense," Ruan Xi frowned, "Do you believe what your comrades say?"

Gu Zirong said: "Is there any other way? Everyone is the same, I want to live too."

He was right.

They have no other choice now, so they can only try all the possibilities.

Looking around, Ruan Xi saw that those mountain fires were burning too hard, as if a certain level had been added suddenly... Since it wasn't raining, it was unlikely that the fire would be caused by lightning strikes.

There are only two possibilities for causing a fire: the property of the fire city, or man-made.

Then who would build such a high wall of fire here?

Ruan Xi stared at the invisible darkness in the forest, and remembered what Song Shumian said, according to the alphabetical order, the next city is a place of ice and snow, and they need to get there as soon as possible.

Gu Zirong moved his lips, and sweat trickled down his neck drop by drop.He said: "You know, if you don't want to do it, you can only die."

Yes, even if it is dangerous, you should try it.

But he felt cheated.

But Gu Zirong is a soldier, he is definitely not as powerful as Lu Zhenghe, and he has nothing to be afraid of.

Ruan Xi thought, and met Gu Zirong with eager eyes, trying to see some clues from the other's expression.

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The high temperature generated by the flame burning hits the face.

When the wind mixed with hot air blows, the charred vegetation falls to the ground.

It's midnight now, and there are only Gu Zirong and Ruan Xi on the way to the border.

Why choose midnight, because usually as long as Lu Zhenghe is awake, except for very special circumstances, he basically won't let Ruan Xi leave his sight.As for why Ruan Xi didn't call Lu Zhenghe together, it was because he felt that one of them had to survive, and it didn't matter who it was.

As the saying goes: only hard work will win.

The current survival is all based on luck.If you are lucky, let yourself do any dangerous actions.

However, it is extremely difficult to get up while sleeping together and not let Lu Zhenghe find out.Several times, when Ruan Xi moved a little, Lu Zhenghe turned around.

With the light of the fire, Ruan Xi carefully observed the sleeping face of his sweetheart again.

It has to be said that no matter how powerful a person falls asleep, they will all be beaten back to their original form, revealing the most vulnerable and child-like appearance, and Lu Zhenghe is no exception.

As soon as Lu Zhenghe fell asleep, the war and blood had nothing to do with him, he just closed his eyes tightly and breathed evenly, no different from a seventeen or eighteen year old boy.The years obviously took him away, and it seemed that he was favored by others, without leaving any traces.

Even though it was night, the sky was still illuminated with different shades of color by the light of the fire.

The further you go into the mountains, the redder the sky becomes.As soon as he looked up, the dome had turned into charcoal, and it was only necessary to take a crucible tongs to turn it over, changing the red night back to the black night.

Ruan Xi was very cautious all the way, and shifted the vigilance against the fire to Gu Zirong.Gu Zirong didn't speak for a long time, and just followed behind Ruan Xi obediently, as if he was not the one to guide the way, but Ruan Xi was.

After walking for a while, stretches of wildfires leaped into view one after another.

A heat that engulfed the flesh rushed to the face, as if it wanted to melt the person into a puddle of mud.

Fire is reckless and unreasonable to nature, it devours everything and turns the jungle into barrenness.

Ruan Xi wondered why the Huocheng, which was barren of grass, could have an invisible bush here, until he found that there was water flowing from a distance under his feet.The next city is the city of glaciers, where there are mountains and plains of silver.

It should be that these temporary wildfires affected the hard ice and let the winter die on the other side.

Walking through the flattest section of the road in the valley under the darkness of night, Ruan Xi found another small hill that needed to be crossed. The road had come to an end, replaced by scorched earth and fallen ash, and under the hill was a river bed as wide as the road.

The river bed is dry and cracked, looking like it existed in the last geological time.

Ruan Xi felt more and more frightened as he walked, even though his little goose feather knife had been wiped very sharp.

With his back facing the overwhelming mountain fire, he felt the heat burning from his back.

After a pause, he turned his head and stopped to wait for Gu Zirong, "Where is the fire extinguisher you mentioned?"

"Ah, that's in the wildfire,"

Gu Zirong stood still, smiled wryly, and seemed unable to say a word for a long time, hesitatingly said: "But... I can't let you in."

Can't let me in?

What did you call me here for?

In this situation where there was no way out, Ruan Xi had no choice but to let go of her usual gentleness and sneered, "Are you scared?"

"I do not have!"

Gu Zirong's eyes widened, and his voice trembled, "I just think, I think maybe my comrades are lying to me. The fire is too big, and it must be a dead end..."

Ruan Xi squinted his eyes and looked at him——

Gu Zirong's previous "weirdness" seems to have disappeared, and this is the sunny and simple young man introduced by Li Shen at the beginning.So what just happened?

Once close to the fire scene, the sense of existence of other things is weakened.

Ruan Xi stared blankly at the charred leaves, feeling that the fire seemed to be a little smaller than when it first came.At this time, he suddenly had an idea from the bottom of his heart: go and have a look.

"I..." Ruan Xi opened her mouth, as if she wanted to confirm whether she was still normal.

However, he had to admit that at this moment, he felt a powerful impetus from fate, an invisible mysterious force pushing him forward.

Gu Zirong's eyes were much clearer, and he kept calling out, "What's wrong with you?"

"Stay where you are and don't move." Ruan Xi sighed and couldn't help but take a step, "I'll go over and have a look."

"Ruan Xi..." Gu Zirong called him.

Ruan Xi didn't seem to hear.

What is inside?

What made Gu Zirong and I want to go this way?

Ruan Xi was full of doubts, but he didn't have time to waste time with Gu Zirong. In order to find out the truth, Ruan Xi mustered up the courage and walked closer to the burning forest.

But before stepping into the area full of flames, the heat that ordinary people can't bear is enough to kill him at the entrance.

With a long sigh, he couldn't figure out what was going on with Gu Zirong, and was considering whether to leave here and return to the camping area.Before he started, he stopped because there was an unspeakable urge tugging at his ankle.

"Ruan Xi."

He heard an unfamiliar male voice, almost the same as the one that popped out of his mind just now.

who is it?

Ruan Xi wanted to look for it, but found that Gu Zirong was missing.

He looked around anxiously, but saw a faint figure in the wildfire, who looked like Gu Zirong.How did he get there?

A few steps forward, Ruan Xi heard the voice say again: "Why do you want to destroy your marriage?"

who?I?

Stopping in her tracks, Ruan Xi suddenly opened her eyes wide and stopped moving forward.

He felt that the person in front of him was not Gu Zirong, but he really remembered that there was no one else around.

Ruan Xi turned her head and found that Gu Zirong was sleeping on a rock tens of meters away from the sea of ​​flames. He seemed to be sick, his face was flushed, and the sweat on his forehead was much denser than before.

But the more serious problem now is that there is another person in front of Ruan Xi's eyes.

Someone he didn't know at all.

This man was leaning against the sea of ​​fire. He was wearing a brown leather turtleneck, a leather vest, and his boots were polished extremely smooth by shoe polish. He had a long and exaggerated sapphire pendant hanging around his neck. It looked like a The style of the northern aristocrats.

A northerner, and an alpha.

Ruan Xi was even more vigilant. He took a step forward with his left leg and retreated with his hind leg, assuming a posture ready to fight.He had seen this string of sapphire jewelry—"Mirror of Tianchi" in the publication "Land Rare Award", which is a rare gemstone from the north.

but……

Looking down, Ruan Xi found that the man was missing a leg.

His face was pale, his facial muscles were distorted, and there was a trace of gloom between his brows, giving Ruan Xi a feeling that he hadn't seen the sun for a long time.

He seemed to be sitting in a wheelchair, and he looked like he was still recovering from a serious illness. He exuded a gloomy aura even more than Lu Zhenghe's.This gloom is even more suffocating, because he is not as charming as Lu Zhenghe.

stranger……

No, Ruan Xi decided to call him "this person" for the time being.

The man in the fire looked at him with a kind of pity, with a pathetic look.Ruan Xi had to be forced to take half a step back by this strange look, and stepped on the scorched grass, only to hear soft noises, and the black charcoal-like debris slowly dispersed.

The two looked at each other for a moment.

Ruan Xi was about to ask, but this person took the lead again: "You think my body is incomplete, don't you? But you should have been my spouse, my omega."

"I?"

Ruan Xi felt that he might have some neurological problems, so she didn't want to get too entangled with him, and didn't listen to his words, so she cut to the point and said, "Who are you?"

The man boasted, "I am your spouse."

spouse.

No way... The silhouette of the muscular man in "People Times" is not like this either.

Frowning slightly, Ruan Xi was taken aback, "Are you Wei Zheng?"

"Wei Zheng is not your spouse, he is just my fake." The other party sneered, "Do you know? The Wei family is best at collecting substitutes, and he is just one of them."

Why is this guy talking so much bullshit.

"Who else could it be if it wasn't Wei Zheng, could it be you?" Ruan Xi couldn't help feeling horrified seeing him smile.

From the beginning to the end, the Wei family, including his father and stepmother, said in front of him: Wei Zheng.

Ruan Xi felt that he had fallen into the sad situation of "arranged marriage", which was about to be written down in someone else's family tree, but he didn't even know what his fiancé looked like.He doesn't love that stranger, but he is curious about him.

"it's me."

God of the land above!

Ruan Xi couldn't help touching her ears to confirm that she heard the brazen answer.

Although he was full of question marks, he remained calm on the surface, pretending to be playing with the situation in his hands, and said with a sneer: "Don't lie, the marriage letter written by the Wei family is Wei Zheng .”

However, the other party just shook his head, as if despising him: "Ridiculous."

Ruan Xi: "?"

He gritted his teeth, his eyes continued to be cold: "I'm sick."

"So you can still curse..." The man rubbed his nose, and his eyes fell on Ruan Xi more, as if he had a little interest in Ruan Xi, "That's just a marriage letter. Before the ceremony, he can be someone else .”

His eyes were explicit, presumptuous, full of hostility and playfulness, and for the first time in his life, Ruan Xi felt that he was raped by someone's gaze.

"you……"

In the middle of speaking, Ruan Xi noticed his unsound lower limbs again, and then observed his temperament, cool and domineering tone, and suddenly realized that this is a high-ranking person who cannot fully rise to the top because of his physical incompleteness.

Thinking of the person who chased and killed her just because of the marriage contract, Ruan Xi suddenly realized: "Are you Wei Hong?"

"You are indeed the omega God gave me. You are very smart."

Wei Hong let out a long breath and finally smiled.

He began to fiddle with the expensive emerald ring on his thumb, and his tone became slow, with a posture of "you hit me", and said: "Since you have recognized me, then you should stop talking to my brother." Playing this boring teenage summer camp adventure game. Play any more and you'll die on the road."

"Your brother?" Ruan Xi didn't know what he was talking about.

"Ah, I was careless. It seems that you don't know yet? It's too much. How can anyone on this land be willing to lie to Ruan Xi?" Wei Hong raised his eyes, projecting a feeling of regret Ruan Xi suddenly felt that he was regarded as an ant that could be trampled to death at any time.

I hate his look, and even more so, his tone of voice.

Tired of playing yin and yang tricks with him, Ruan Xi pulled out the Xiaoyan Lingdao from his side with his backhand, his eyes shone with a cold light, as sharp as a blade, "Speak clearly if you want to speak, and lean your neck if you don't speak. make you shut up."

"Don't be so excited." Wei Hong seemed to be comforting a wild cat with fur.

Ruan Xi stared at him.

Wei Hong obviously avoided answering, and just threw another bombshell: "Ruan Xi, do you know why there is a sign in his name?"

"Who?"

Ruan Xi couldn't tell whether Wei Hong was referring to "Lu Zhenghe" or "Wei Zheng".

"Whether it's land or a spouse, he will take it from me and plunder it from me. The Northern Alliance and you, including Zenith City, are actually my property." Wei Hong said calmly It's the turbulent waves that are about to erupt, calm yet lurking in the posture of eruption, "He wants to conquer you in the past, and also conquer you in the future. Because his nature is to conquer!"

Lu Zhenghe?

Wei Zheng?

By this time, Ruan Xi already had a vague answer in his heart, but he still asked: "You mean Lu Zhenghe? Or your brother Wei Zheng?"

Wei Hong laughed, his eyes were deep and bottomless, "Pay attention to my words. It's him, not them."

"..."

Ruan Xi's eyes widened suddenly, completely speechless.

At this moment, it was as if an arm raised a hammer, beating his heart frantically with the most ruthless and heaviest force, and the sharp pain made him unable to stand still.

Although Wei Hong now looks like a patient about to be sent to the psychiatric emergency department in Ablaze City, Ruan Xi still cannot ignore the authenticity of his words.

Lu Zhenghe who suddenly appeared in his backyard, the lost memory, the powerful northern alliance, his "comrades" who are sincerely convinced by him, the marriage contract on his lips at any time, and the task of escorting himself back to Zenith City——

All these are connected by the truth that "Wei Zheng is Lu Zhenghe".

But Ruan Xi is Ruan Xi.

He is good at scrutiny, he knows how to hide.

For the first time, he wished so much that the flame could burn a little more violently, so as to dry up the physical tears that he could hardly hold back, so that he would not be so painful and embarrassing at this time.

"Then, your brother," Ruan Xi stopped his nose sour, tried hard to control his emotions, and cursed himself for his fragility, "Why did you take what belongs to you logically?"

He followed what Wei Hong wanted to hear.

"Because of my legs...then luck favored him."

Wei Hong smiled evilly, and his tone was light, as if answering that the ferocious fire is not enough to roast a Dorper goat.

It seems that before Wei Hong lost a leg, the Wei family had no plans to give everything to Lu Zhenghe.In other words, it was fate that Wei Hong broke his leg, and Lu Zhenghe's arrival was so logical.

Ruan Xi thought about it, recalling that Lu Zhenghe once said that his father told him that he had lived in the military camp since he was a child, which was obviously his father lying to him.

Why did the members of the Wei family hide Lu Zhenghe's past?Is it because he is afraid that he will not obediently stay in the Wei family, work hard and train soldiers for the Wei family?What is the relationship between Lu Zhenghe and the Wei family?

Ruan Xi chose another entry point: "Where is he from?"

Wei Hong was slightly taken aback, caught the change in Ruan Xi's slack expression, and said: "After my father brought my brother back, he never mentioned his past. What, you fell in love with him? Still need to know his past? "

Well, Ruan Xi already knew.

Not from Zenith.

There is only one possibility for a man to be picked up by the leader to be the heir when he is about to become an adult in his teens. There is only one possibility for such a situation, and that is - Lu Zhenghe is the illegitimate son of the Wei family.

Thinking of this, Ruan Xi turned his eyes to Wei Hong again.

No wonder, although the two brothers have very different temperaments, one is cunning, the other is dull... But they both have a gloomy feeling that belongs to the coldness of the north.This made Lu Zhenghe out of place in Shining City, and became a person who dissociated from the crowd.

"Nothing to do with you."

Ruan Xi took a few steps back, he already knew what he wanted.

"You should go back with me."

"not going back."

"You really don't consider marrying me? I'm the eldest son of the Wei family, and your fate is up to me..."

"Not consider."

"That's right," Wei Hong narrowed his eyes, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, "You and my brother will surely die if you continue to move forward."

"Really? "The Prophecy of 26 Cities" doesn't say that the grooms will die on the honeymoon journey, this is a marriage contract guided by fate," Ruan Xi walked back a few steps, leaving a complete area for herself to attack with a knife, " Besides, I'm already his omega."

Wei Hong said: "He didn't mark you."

Ruan Xi just replied: "It will be soon. Wish us a happy wedding, brother."

The fire was fierce and getting hotter.

But in the woods that were almost gone, and even in the scorched soil under his feet, he could feel the cool air coming from the next city.Every trace of cold wind shuttles between the two people.

Ruan Xi suddenly understood the prophecy she received in curse city——

"Where the seasons turn, marriages will turn."

Fire·34 "Tell me about his marriage."