Journey to the Rose

The arena is even bigger than Ruan Xi imagined.

The interior here is a circular venue, which can bring all eyes from all directions to the center of the stage.

It is huge and majestic, like a mountain rising from the ground, standing tall and firmly in the night.It also has a lot of spouts for the audience to enter and exit, and it seems that there is no need to worry about sudden chaos.

Ruan Xi had to lament the creativity of the people of Jewel City, which is a magnificence that has never been copied by other cities.

Now, the world seems to have returned to peace.

In fact, it is not necessarily quiet.In the huge arena, hundreds of people who came to take refuge gathered at once.Some of them were crying, some were making noise, and some were laughing. Their voices echoed in the limited space, and they were all in various states after surviving. Ruan Xi didn't feel noisy.

He was only thankful that the bangs from the destruction had stopped.

For the time being, there will be no sounds of landslides and tsunamis, and only the sounds of life are left in my ears.

"According to the current situation, only half of the city has been destroyed, and the other half that remains for the time being is behind this arena." Wen Kai was on the lookout.

Lu Zhenghe asked: "When is the right time to leave?"

"Tomorrow morning, it's safer for us to spend the night here now," Wen Kai said, "After all, it's still dark, and the situation in the other half of Jewel City is still unclear."

So Lu Zhenghe adopted Wen Kai's suggestion.

"There are also lights here," Wen Kai pointed to the top wall lamp in the arena, "they are brighter than the ones outside."

Ruan Xi opened her eyes wide: "It's candlelight!"

Wen Kai nodded, frowned, fell into a state of thinking, and said softly: "It seems that there are still people guarding here, otherwise the candle would not have been lit for so long."

Thinking of the lights illuminating the darkness, Nguyen said, "Those lights outside never seem to go out."

Wen Kai explained: "That's what the ever-burning lamp is like."

"Is it really an ever-burning lamp?"

"Well, this is also a kind of expression from the people of Jewel City to the dead."

As soon as the words fell, Ruan Xi could hear a trace of a horror story from Wen Kai's mouth, and he subconsciously moved his butt to Lu Zhenghe's side.Knowing that it was cold at night, Lu Zhenghe took off his coat and covered the laps of the two of them, reached out to hug Ruan Xi and patted his back, trying to comfort him.

"Many people have died here."

Lu Zhenghe dropped another new bomb expressionlessly, then curled up the corners of his lips, enjoying Ruan Xi's trembling and dependence at that moment like a prank.

Then, he added: "Don't be afraid, those undead are definitely not here anymore."

Whether you're here or not, it's scary to say that all of a sudden, okay?Ruan Xi didn't want to admit that she was timid, so she sat up straight and used her eyes to resist Lu Zhenghe's "malicious intimidation".

He glanced here and there curiously, and his eyes were attracted by the dark brown mud on the ground.

Ruan Xi's hands were itchy, she wiped some mud with her fingertips, and looked closer: "Why is it a little red?"

Lu Zhenghe said: "Go down a few more steps, get closer to the dueling platform, grab a handful of soil and rub it in your hands, it may also be the color of blood."

Ruan Xi: "..."

real or fake?

No, no matter how fierce the battle is, the blood of the people on the duel stage cannot be splashed here.

Lu Zhenghe seemed to think he was funny, grabbed Ruan Xi's hand and wiped it, and said, "Okay, don't touch it if you're afraid."

"Then I'll touch you!" Ruan Xi bit her lower lip, put her warm hands on Lu Zhenghe's waist and abdomen in a mess, and pinched it hard a few times.

On the other side, the condition of Li Shen, who was placed on the audience seat to rest, gradually improved.

Lu Zhenghe got up in an instant, took Ruan Xi, and hurried over with a kettle that still had half a bottle of water.Song Shumian was inconvenient to move around, Gu Zirong stayed in place to take care of him, and was always on guard to observe the surrounding situation.

The dizziness in his head gradually faded, and Li Shen propped his arms behind his back, and after a while, he sat up and observed the situation around him.The first thing he said was: "I, I thought I was dead..."

Ruan Xi made a face at him: "This is hell."

But Ruan Xi didn't consider that she had already painted the face of a cat, making such an expression was not scary at all, it was only funny.

"I know I'm not dead when I see you." Li Shen rubbed his temples, "Because the young master will protect you."

"All right."

Lu Zhenghe's face became thinner again at this time, he handed over the water bottle, "Are you feeling better?"

"Don't worry, maybe I'm just too tired," Li Shen grinned, looked around, and pointed to a corner not far away, "Why is there an enoki mushroom over there?"

Ruan Xi followed the direction of the finger and looked over - it was the blonde Wen Kai.

He was lying on the air inlet of the arch, holding a telescope in his hand, and looking out for the situation of the city through the ever-burning lights on the pilasters.It has to be said that Wen Kai is a very capable subordinate, he has the strongest insight and knowledge reserve, Ruan Xi thinks that there is almost nothing Wen Kai does not know.

"...that's Wen Kai." Ruan Xi reminded.

"Sorry, it looks like I'm still a little dizzy. I have to lie down again." Li Shen laughed, and lay down again on his back, covering half of his face with his coat.

After a lot of tossing in front, the time has come to the middle of the night.The people in the arena were exhausted, and they all prepared to rest on the spot, and they all fell silent.

Wen Kai looked at the road for a while, then ran back from the arch at the top of the arena with a low waist.The arch he used as a "watchtower" was located in the northeast of the entire arena, which Wen Kai said was the only way out of the city.

Ruan Xi asked why he knew it was the northeast?

Wen Kai said that because our land runs from south to north, its shape is narrow and long.Look, is the direction of Zenith city just to the northeast?

After briefly talking about the way to go next, Wen Kai started to yawn as he spoke.

Lu Zhenghe saw that he was tired all the way, and the blue and black circle became more and more obvious at the moment, and he couldn't bear it, so he asked Wen Kai to take the time to rest.

Wen Kai nodded, and found an empty place to sit cross-legged on the spot, instead of lying down, he stayed by Li Shen's side, leaning his back against the soil base of the upper step, and dozed off with his head tilted.

He was cold, so he stretched out his hand and pulled off the clothes covering Li Shen's stomach, Li Shen also felt cold, fell into a drowsy sleep, grabbed the clothes and refused to give them back, so the two of them stuck their hands on the clothes, neither would let the other, After a while, the two fell asleep again because they were too tired.

"The two of them seem to have a good relationship." Ruan Xi pulled Lu Zhenghe's sleeve and whispered.

"It has always been good. They are comrades-in-arms in the Northern Alliance," Lu Zhenghe said. "In addition to the friendship in battle, they are more like a symbiotic relationship."

Symbiosis?

When Ruan Xi heard the word "symbiosis", she still felt a little romantic in her heart.

He remembered that when he was in school, the teacher said that "symbiosis" refers to the mutual benefit and dependence between two different organisms. In this environment where everyone is at risk, there is also a symbiosis between humans and the environment.Lu Zhenghe used this word here, it should be to emphasize the close connection between the two of them.

He raised his head from Lu Zhenghe's arms and asked, "Are you and I too?"

Lu Zhenghe smiled, there was an inexplicable meaning in his eyes.

"You are to me," he replied.

"Ok."

You are to me too.

Ruan Xi leaned on Lu Zhenghe, quietly swallowing these words into her throat.Feeling the powerful heat source from his lover, he was so comfortable that he arched directly on Lu Zhenghe's body, without any aloofness.

After arching for a while, Ruan Xi felt drowsy, yawned a little, squinted his eyes half-closed, felt Lu Zhenghe shaking his body slightly, and a smell of pheromone that made him feel at ease and comfortable came into his nostrils quietly.

Yes, it is quite good at coaxing people to sleep.

With this shake, Ruan Xi's drowsiness suddenly surged.

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Not long after I slept, it was dawn.

Ruan Xi was awakened by the glare of the sun, his body was warm, and his lover was beside him, such a comfortable environment made him want to stay in bed again.He almost forgot how long he hadn't seen such a dazzling sun, it seemed that this kind of weather would only appear at the seaside——

By the way, Jewel City was only half flooded by the sea last night, which is already the sea.

Ah, I'm so sleepy, and the surrounding area is very quiet, why don't I just sleep a little longer... It's almost the weekend, and I'm going to stay in bed on the weekend morning!Although fleeing has made people seem to have lost the concept of working days and rest days.

Before closing his eyes secretly for the second time, he was immediately hugged and pushed up by Lu Zhenghe.

"Get up," Lu Zhenghe said softly, "there will be a tsunami in 10 minutes."

what? !

At this time, Ruan Xi used her amazing mobility, jumped up quickly, grabbed her coat and put it on, then fiddled with the Xiaoyan Lingdao on her back to her chest, and stood upright in front of Lu Zhenghe. Salute.

No, there seems to be something missing around...

Ruan Xi turned her head and looked around the inside of the arena, and found that many people who stayed overnight were gone, leaving only some fragmented traces.

all run away?

Ruan Xi reacted quickly, grabbing Lu Zhenghe's collar and was about to run away, but he was dragged back and wrapped around his waist, hugging him in front of him.

Lu Zhenghe said, "Why are you running?"

"Everyone else ran away. Isn't there still 10 minutes?"

"Scare you, I want you to get up quickly."

Dodging Ruan Xi's palm, Lu Zhenghe held his wrist with an extremely sincere expression, and he couldn't tell that he was deliberately playing tricks: "But Wen Kai said it's better for us to leave earlier."

Ruan Xi was angry, pretending to be angry and glaring at Lu Zhenghe.It's too bad. I want to hit someone but I feel that violence can't solve the problem, and I can't beat it, so I can only stare at it.

After staring for a while, he felt that it was meaningless to be so angry, and Lu Zhenghe was still making fun of him.Forget it, how angry are you with this kind of life!

So Ruan Xi stabbed the other party with her arm again shamelessly, and asked, "Then why don't we leave now?"

"Let's go," Lu Zhenghe packed up his things and got up, "Wen Kai and the others are waiting for us."

Since the first floor was submerged by the black sea water, they could only choose to climb the rope and slide down from the outer wall of the arena.

Lu Zhenghe first landed on both feet, and then he took off the gun that could easily hurt people and handed it to Li Shen. He opened his arms, raised his head and looked at the archway upstairs, and saw Ruan Xi poking out half of his head cautiously.

Ruan Xi is a little afraid of heights, this is a secret that only the Ruan family knows.

But... this is only the height of the second and third floors, not too exaggerated.

With courage, Ruan Ximo recited "I am a man" a hundred times, and looked out of the arch very bravely, and his courage disappeared in an instant.He couldn't hold on to the rope for a long time, and he didn't dare to slide down.

"Come down," Lu Zhenghe's figure did add reliable persuasion, "I'll follow you."

The scenes suddenly overlapped.

There has always been a rumor in the city of Ablaze that Ruan Xi almost broke his leg on the fence of Ruan's Manor because he had fallen in love with his parents and escaped to meet his boyfriend.

There are various versions of rumors in casinos, restaurants, teahouses, and even vegetable markets with extremely complicated sources of information.Some said that he posted to meet others; some said that he had broken his leg, so he did not show up at school for so long; some also said that he had eloped out of town with his boyfriend and was arrested by his family back.

Right and wrong, there is a lot of disturbance, and there are all kinds of gossip.It's nothing more than the listener laughing, and the speaker laughing too. As for what he was laughing at, Ruan Xi couldn't understand and didn't know.

But the only real thing is that he did climb over the wall to see Lu Zhenghe.

The sun was shining brightly during the day, and the light seemed to be lost to the night.Ruan Xi remembered that she looked up at the night sky before sex, and saw the endless stars above her head.

"Look, there are so many stars!" Ruan Xi was riding on the top of the wall, pointing out to Lu Zhenghe with surprise.

"Don't be distracted, be careful."

Lu Zhenghe was not in the mood to look at the stars, he only cared about whether Ruan Xi would suddenly fall down, stood on tiptoe, and opened his arms, as if he was ready, "Otherwise, don't fuck, I just came to see you."

"I do not."

Ruan Xi changed the leg on the other side of the wall and sat on the top of the wall, "I'm going to jump, can you catch me?"

"Don't worry," Lu Zhenghe's voice was bright with the peculiar brilliance of teenagers, "I'll follow you."

Ruan Xi jumped down without hesitation.

Then he fell heavily into Lu Zhenghe's arms, and the two of them slumped on the ground together, looked at each other, then fell silent, and then laughed sullenly together.No one could hide the love in their eyes, which was bold and intense.

Later the wall was demolished because it was too old.

He later embroidered stars into his pre-wedding gown.

The memory ends.

Ruan Xi held back those fragile emotions that shouldn't be there now, and staggered back a few steps.

After calming down, he poked his furry head a little further out of the arch until most of his body was exposed, until he could see Lu Zhenghe's face clearly.

Time has never spared anyone, and now the man who was talking about catching him in the lower place has grown into an adult male.

He opened his mouth and shouted again: "What did you say?"

Lu Zhenghe also raised his voice and said, "Don't worry, I'll follow you."

Jewel·52 "What is your most painful memory?"