Journey to the Rose

When was the last ground fission, Ruan Xi couldn't remember clearly.

Now they were in the city, but the sea water was slowly oozing out from under their feet, which had to cause panic.The moment the flashlight shines on, the situation in front of me gradually becomes clear.Li Shen took a deep breath and hesitated, "We..."

"Run!"

Wen Kai yelled and ran ahead, no matter who was beside him, he grabbed both sleeves and pushed forward.

So screams and noises were mixed together, and the crowd began to scramble to move forward again.Some people dropped something while running, and they no longer picked it up, but became manic and yelled, as if this high-pressure state had suppressed their nerves to the point of collapse.

At this moment, the ground tilted.

The direction close to the city gate and the tide seemed to be carried on a scale, and collapsed suddenly, while the ground close to the arena was naturally "prized".

Surprisingly, there are no obvious cracks in the ground yet.

People who ran faster fell heavily to the ground, their centers of gravity were unstable, and their hands were too late to support their backs, like people wrestling and rolling from the hillside to the foot of the hill, and rolled backwards towards a lower place.

Gu Zirong was carrying Song Shumian on his back, exhausted, staggered, half-kneeling and fell to the ground, reached out and grabbed the only stone that could support him, and shouted: "Captain Li Shen!"

Li Shen turned around and grabbed him by the wrist, squatted on the ground, fixed his body firmly so as not to fall, and shouted while panting: "You ask Shumian to hold you tighter! Don't be thrown out!"

"Get down!" Wen Kai made a trumpet shape with his hands, and shouted at the chaotic crowd, "Get down! You can't even run now!"

His throat was about to break.

For the first time, he felt that he was so powerless as a doctor in the face of life.

The scene was chaotic, until the sea breeze blew even stronger, and the stench from the ocean was overwhelming. "I'm going to die! I can't run out!" The people who fell to the lowest point and couldn't get up fell down and wailed in the dark.

Ruan Xi knelt on the ground staggeringly, next to Lu Zhenghe who was also lying on the ground.

Anyone with a little experience in avoiding danger understands that when the ground is shaking and tilting, standing upright will definitely cause you to fall, and there is no possibility of controlling your body at all.

Because he was lying on the ground and his body was close enough to the ground, Ruan Xi obviously felt that the ground was continuously oozing sea water. The clothes on his arms, knees and calves were all soaked, and there was an unpleasant fishy smell in the sea water. Like from the ground.

He held Lu Zhenghe's hand tightly, anxiously, and said, "Will the sea water rush up from somewhere on the ground? Like a whale spouting water vapor..."

Lu Zhenghe said: "This time the fission is very different, what you said is not impossible."

At this time, Wen Kai stumbled towards him, accidentally lost his footing with a "plop", fell straight in front of Lu Zhenghe, and got up in a panic.

He held the map tightly in his hand, kept touching the Suli Sea and the Eternal Sea, and gestured to Lu Zhenghe: "Young master, young master, I suspect that the sea water on both sides collided, which caused the ground to tilt. Next..."

Before he could finish his sentence, there were sharp cries for help in his ears.Accompanied by the cry for help, there was the crisp sound of something hard being chopped and split in half, and the sea water broke the ground unscrupulously.Ruan Xi remembered the sound of him sharing biscuits with his companions every time on the way.

Wen Kai hurriedly looked back at the situation behind him.He was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "Young master, the ground is cracked."

The originally calm ground was cracked, the gap was so big, it was too dark, and the lights of the arena were far away, no one could clearly see what was happening around them.In the faint light of the ever-burning lamp, one could vaguely see the entire land in front of the arena broken into pieces, like lotus leaves floating on the water surface of a pond.

On these fragmented pieces of land, there are still people standing and lying down panicked. There are some hands firmly grasping the edge of each piece of land, people who fell into it because they stepped on the crack.

Ruan Xi was unlucky, she didn't stand in a safe position, she stepped into the air, her whole lower body was hanging above the sea, blood flowed profusely from her forehead, which was scratched by the rocks on the edge of the land.

Feeling dizzy, there are only two things he can be sure of now: First, the land south of the Jewel Arena in Jewel City has been shattered into a sea, which will soon be swallowed by huge waves; second, he and Lu Zhenghe are still alive.

Ruan Xi raised his head in struggle.

The ever-burning lamps beside the pilasters of the arena are still on, watching the fire from the other side, as if the gods are watching all this with cold eyes.His heart was beating very fast, like a villain hiding in his chest and beating drums crazily, challenging his fear and unbearable bottom line all the time.In this situation, there is not even a hospital for the injured.

The ground bumped a bit, making Ruan Xi almost unable to kneel.

He was held tightly by Lu Zhenghe's arm, and the two supported each other to stand up, struggling to climb to the ground, but felt that the lower body was soaked in water and the strength was too great, and he couldn't exert any strength at all.

It took a lot of effort for Lu Zhenghe to pull Ruan Xi ashore, and the two of them didn't dare to rest, they got up and stepped on the ground closer to the arena through the crack.

The black sea water swept across the divided land piece by piece, swallowing everything, and the sea and the sky became one.

Not only the lower body that had just been soaked in seawater, Ruan Xi strode forward with difficulty, even his top and hair were wet by the oncoming seawater.He licked the corners of his lips, and a salty taste spread from the tip of his tongue, like an expired can of herring in the cellar.

In such a desperate situation, standing still is definitely not the best option.

So Wen Kai commanded everyone to insist on three words: go north.

With sharp eyes, Ruan Xi caught a glimpse of Li Shen who seemed physically exhausted.Li Shen was supporting Song Shumian with Gu Zirong.

But the situation was not very optimistic. Li Shen walked crookedly, not as energetic as usual, and he didn't seem to be tired. In the end, he stepped on one leg and fell into the crack.The ground was broken and uneven, and the rocks on the fault were sharp and sharp. He was hurt by the fall, and only after he fell awake did he gain some strength.

Song Shumian stood on one foot, reached out and together with Gu Zirong desperately dragged Li Shen up again.

Seeing Li Shen's confused expression, Ruan Xi felt something was wrong, and said to Lu Zhenghe, "Why can't Li Shen stand up?"

"Because the colors of the sea and the sky are too close. He has been in a state of high pressure for a long time, which may have caused his head to faint slightly. According to the words of the flying professional, it is because of space confusion," Lu Zhenghe took Ruan Xi's hand and comforted him in turn , "Don't worry, Gu Zirong and Song Shumian are taking him with them."

"But Gu Zirong..."

"I know."

Lu Zhenghe stopped his words, "Ruan Xi, we need manpower now."

"How do you know?" Ruan Xi was surprised.

"There was something wrong with your attitude towards him that morning in Huocheng," Lu Zhenghe said, "but I didn't ask you."

Ruan Xi was lost in thought.

That's right, Song Shumian needs to be taken care of along the way, and Gu Zirong has no other unfavorable threats, which is really not enough... Ruan Xi thought, and decided to do the same as Lu Zhenghe thought, although the pass is sad, but it must be passed first Lose.

The arena is close at hand.

At one moment it was illuminated by white light, and at another moment it sank into a dense, heavy abyss.

Someone nearby screamed and turned around, shouting: "What light!"

"The ground is cracked, the city must be gone!" someone responded.

Ruan Xi couldn't tell which city they were from from their accents, and hurriedly turned around to look, and found that many people stopped and knelt down on the spot in the direction of the south. What is the last commemoration.

Ruan Xi was out of breath, and whispered, "What are they worshiping?"

"It's from the holy city," Lu Zhenghe said after running for a while, "there are not many people left in the previous cities."

From the few words of Lu Zhenghe, Ruan Xi seemed to hear the roar of the mountains, the noise of the ocean and the swan song of the land.

He closed his eyes, and the scenes of the destruction of the previous cities flashed repeatedly before his eyes, and the most frequent scene was still his hometown that he watched collapsed.

As Wen Kai predicted, the ground fission did not last long.

The subsidence of the ground and the influx of sea water once again turned several small cities in the south into deeper seas, where the seas of the Suli Sea and the Eternal Sea, which were once far apart, met here.

Under the shroud of night, people can't see the color of the sea water clearly, only know that they have almost merged into one.

The land is continuously swallowed by the sea, and the inland becomes the coast, which is then washed and filled by the sea, forming a new submarine continental shelf, leaving ravines of different depths.

The world stood still for a moment.

Ruan Xi watched helplessly as the cracked ground not far away was swallowed up by the seawater slapping ashore.In just a few seconds, such a large piece of land disappeared in the turbulence of the water.

When I was a child in a nature class at school, the teacher said that there were only endless caves, sand, and disgusting slime on the seabed, but no one had ever been there, so it was just a guess.Now Ruan Xi knows that there must still be those lost cities in the south on the bottom of the sea today.

Stopped?

All those who survived the fission held their breath and looked at each other in blank dismay. No one dared to say a word, for fear of breaking the calm of the sea.Until most people arrived around the arena one after another.

The sea water only rushed to the foot of the arena building, and did not move forward recklessly.

It became gentle, and slowly retreated to the shoal a few meters away, and then returned to the tide, quietly and regularly sweeping away the sand on the coast.

In less than half an hour, the center of Jewel City, which was once located in the south, has turned into the mudflat closest to the sea in the south.It's not even as good as a mudflat. It's more appropriate to call it a swamp. After all, you don't know whether you are dead or alive when you step on it.

Wen Kai went alone, without any burden, and his movements were agile enough, and he was the first to reach the gate of the arena.

Due to the scour of the sea water, the first floor of the arena has been flooded with stagnant water, giving off an unpleasant smell.Seeing that the first floor could not be used as a shelter, Wen Kai hurried up to the second floor. On the second floor, he found a few ropes hanging behind the door, and then threw the ropes out of the arch on the second floor, leading to the first floor.

"Come up!"

Wen Kai took out the detector that he carried with him, and gestured to Lu Zhenghe, "For the time being, nothing will happen, hurry up, everyone enter the arena to avoid it!"

Afterwards, Wen Kai ran for a while and observed several nearby arches.He knew that there was not enough manpower, and the others could only come in from the first floor.Running down the stairs on the second floor to the first floor, Wen Kai managed to open the five iron doors on the first floor.

Ruan Xi held Lu Zhenghe's hand tightly.

He bent down slightly, finally breathed a sigh of relief, supported his knees, rested for only a few seconds, and straightened up again.Lu Zhenghe was about to turn around to call him, when he saw Ruan Xi casually wiped his face, as if he wanted to wipe off the sweat, but because the black sea water on his hands was like ink, it slanted on his originally fair cheeks A few black marks were left on it.

"Smear it more, so that no one will recognize you at a glance."

"what?"

"Wipe a cat."

After finishing speaking, Lu Zhenghe raised his hand, splashed the black sea water on his hand, and put a few more marks on Ruan Xi's other side of the face.

Jewel·51 "I'll follow you."