Journey to the Rose

Lu Zhenghe vaguely remembered that the prophecy said that "destruction will come before dawn".

The night was getting darker, and the off-road vehicle drove smoothly into the quiet and spacious road.

The sound of water in the distance disappeared, and the surroundings fell into an eerie silence.

In terms of geographical location, Ruan's Manor is located in an area closer to the seaside of Abze City. Now that a huge tsunami has landed, there are still no fleeing people on the road close to the city.

Is there really a prophecy?

Or is it just raining a little harder today than usual?

Standing up slightly, Ruan Xi looked in the rearview mirror and saw a motorcycle driving in the same direction behind the car.

A couple of young couples were sitting in the car, laughing and joking, both wearing helmets, and they seemed to be out for a walk to enjoy the night breeze.

After about a minute, the man in charge of riding the bicycle let go of the accelerator handle and stopped the car.The woman was still on the back seat, and the man circled the motorcycle, looked back at the endless road behind him, and scratched his head.

What's wrong, their car broke down?

Ruan Xizheng was curious, and only heard a choked scream from the empty road around, and the two people suddenly disappeared with their motorcycles.

The next moment, the sound of thunder came from the sky, and the road behind the off-road vehicle began to break and collapse, like a toy train track smashed by a child's punch. The originally straight road suddenly fell apart. The sea water fell violently, creating a torrent.

"Whoa-"

The surging sea water splashed onto the rear windshield of the off-road vehicle, and the water droplets ticked down along the glass, as if turning into a heavy rainstorm.

Ruan Xi was taken aback by the water.

He even felt that the sea water suddenly overflowed his head, beat again and again, making his brain buzzing.

"Sit still!" Lu Zhenghe snarled, stepping on the gas pedal harder.

In an instant, the horsepower of the off-road vehicle surged, and it drove towards the main city like an arrow from the string.In the distance, landslides and earth cracked, and the water flowed mightily. Many flying sand and stones scrambled to knock on the car body.

"it is good!"

Ruan Xi was not someone who would cause trouble, he quickly knelt down from the back seat, still worried, and kept looking in the direction of home.

It was pitch black everywhere now, and he couldn't do anything, the most important thing was to keep what was in front of him.

Ruan Xi stuck her shoulders sideways between the leather seats of the driver's seat and the passenger's seat, and asked Lu Zhenghe, "Can the gs in your car still work?"

"Yes." Lu Zhenghe replied.

Ruan Xi continued, "It seems that the city is still safe, so you don't go from the coastline. When you pass through the city, you throw me on the side of the road in the city. I will find a way to go home."

"No," Lu Zhenghe refused Ruan Xi's request again, took out the binoculars from the storage compartment of the car door and looked into the main city, "The ground south of here has collapsed and cracked, you go back and die?"

"All?" Ruan Xi looked back in panic.

The prophecy came to fruition so violently that people were almost unprepared. Lu Zhenghe really couldn't open his mouth to say something like "Your house is probably gone."

He turned his head and glanced at the pale Ruan Xi from the corner of his eye, unable to say anything else to comfort him.

At the same time, the off-road vehicle accelerated wildly and swooped down directly to the suspension bridge in the main city.

Now it was approaching midnight, most of the residents of Abze City had gone home to rest, only some entertainment venues were still open, and the TV Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the city, towered majestically above the clouds.Looking up, there are vehicles parked everywhere in front of the commercial club with flashing neon lights, and there are pedestrians rushing home after work overtime on the road.

Suddenly, through the front windshield, Lu Zhenghe saw that the spire of the TV tower that was broadcasting advertisements in a loop broke, and the spire was crumbling in the air.

While he was dying, a huge and violent explosion erupted from the bottom of the TV tower, and for a moment, the light from the explosion illuminated half of the sky.

The neon lights of the entertainment venue flickered quickly, and the spire of the blown-off TV tower fell straight down, hitting a nearby commercial building.The commercial building was cut off in the middle, and the glass curtain wall reflecting the firelight was shattered into flakes.

One after another, the second and third explosions resounded through the sky one after another, and the cars on the street were also triggered by alarms.The people who spent the night in the entertainment venue filed out, all looking in the direction of the TV tower, screaming and running around.

Why would someone detonate the bomb buried in the city at this time?

"Lu Zhenghe!" Ruan Xi was bound in the back seat, unable to move freely, and his vision was not as wide as that of Lu Zhenghe, so he could only ask, "Look, where in the main city was bombed?"

Lu Zhenghe replied, "TV tower."

"The tallest one?"

"Correct."

"But if you want to go through the city to the next city, you must pass there." Ruan Xi said.

"There is another way," Lu Zhenghe beat the steering wheel to death, stepped on the gas pedal and turned to another road, "From here you can go directly to the road to the next city."

Just after the explosion, the ground cracking sound came from a distance. Ruan Xi saw that the suspension bridge that the car passed by just now collapsed, and the stone bricks paving the ground in the city were cracked everywhere, and they kept slamming towards the shops on both sides of the street. hit.

Amidst the constant sound of car sirens and the cries of the crowd, the buildings in the direction of entering the city disappeared one after another. Residential buildings did not even have the qualifications to be razed to the ground, and disappeared without a trace in the cracked canyon.

It is twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and many people have died in their sleep.

With a "bang", Ruan Xi slammed his shoulder into the car door, accidentally touching the button of the car window with his shoulder, the car window was lowered halfway, and a familiar smell of salty sea water came to the face, and the sea water outside the window slapped into the car It fell on Ruan Xi's face.

His hair was all wet.

He stuck out the tip of his tongue and licked it, feeling the salty taste, making him even more sure that it was really sea water.The prophecy is true, the shipwreck that will destroy the entire land is coming.

The water washed the car windows very clean, and Ruan Xi could see clearly how the residents ran away in despair just by leaning on the car door, and how they were swallowed by huge waves and thrown into the abyss of the earth.Endless wailing and tears mixed together and intertwined into a new flood, which was about to swallow Ruan Xi's mouth and nose.

"I can't just leave like this..." He thought of his home that may no longer exist, his eyes were red, he panted and shook his head, "Lu Zhenghe, let me go..."

"It's too late, and I didn't expect it to come so soon! If you don't leave, you and I will die here!" Knowing that Ruan Xi was tied up and had no way to escape, Lu Zhenghe persuaded him in a soft tone, "You survive first, Think about something else, okay?"

"咚咚-"

The window at the other end of the back seat was knocked, and a passerby who was about to be dragged into the whirlpool by the flood clung to the car door, knocked on the window, and looked hopefully at Ruan Xi who was sitting in the back seat.

"Someone!" Ruan Xi strenuously stood up to the door at the other end, but before she could press the window, the person calling for help was gone.

"what--!"

There was only one shriek in the air.

Ruan Xi stared blankly at the traces drawn by the five fingers. The next second, another wave of waves hit the car window, and the finger marks disappeared without a trace, as if the call for help just now had never happened.

Fortunately, the ground of the new road chosen by Lu Zhenghe only had a slight fracture, and he could barely drive.After a while, the waves behind the car subsided temporarily, and the mountains were still shaking in the distance, and there were more and more people fleeing desperately in cars on the road.

Lu Zhenghe, who was leading the way in the front seat, didn't know what happened just now, only heard that there was no movement in the back seat, so he called his name "Ruan Xi?"

"In..." Ruan Xi stiffened all over.

The man's eyes before he died were like steel ropes, strangling his neck so hard that he couldn't breathe.

Lu Zhenghe called him again, "Ruan Xi, are you okay?"

"I, I'm fine." Ruan Xi tried to calm her breath, and gently smelled a strong smell of roses in the air in the car.

"Go to sleep, I'll call you when we arrive." Lu Zhenghe said.

It's time to go to bed now, and Ruan Xi is too sleepy after a day of tossing about the bachelor party.As soon as he smelled the scent of pheromone that haunted his dreams, he gradually relaxed his tense nerves and felt much more at ease. He just wanted to use sleep to escape everything.

The car that Lu Zhenghe drove was rickety, like the cradle he was still using when he was a child until he was three years old.He thought of his biological mother who had passed away for many years and his special feelings for the Ruan family, and combined with everything that happened in reality just now, Ruan Xi couldn't help but feel sour on the tip of his nose.

After a while, he fell asleep while the vehicle was driving.

·

The night wind is still there.

The moon outside the clouds disappeared from its shadow at some point, and the night was as dark as ink. It seemed that the huge and frightening disaster half an hour ago had never happened.

On the highway, there were more and more vehicles heading towards Beast City, but the surroundings were as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.

Everyone didn't honk their horns as they usually do when they are on their way, and there are no too loud cries or screams. Only the sirens erupting from the only remaining buildings in the city are pale and powerless, making the environment fall into a kind of direct confrontation. In the oppressive calm of death.

Exhaling a long breath, Lu Zhenghe turned on the communication headset.

Li Shen's elated voice came from the earphone, "Young master, how are you doing? Did you succeed in marrying me?"

"Almost died, but it's safe for now," Lu Zhenghe whispered, "Where have you been?"

Due to the bad signal, Lu Zhenghe spoke intermittently, and Li Shen couldn't hear clearly, so he screamed, "Who is dead? My sister-in-law is dead?"

Another subordinate's mourning came from the earphone, "Young master, my condolences."

"Condolences." Someone next to him added.

"..."

Lu Zhenghe wanted to turn off the communicator.

He looked at the sky at the junction of the two cities, and decided to explain to his baby, "He is intact and sleeping in the back seat."

"How about it, is he as good-looking as the rumors? Did you mark him?" Li Shen's mood changed quickly, and he was beaming instantly.

We got into a fight as soon as we met, and still tagged?

Ruan Xi is not so easy to bully.

Lu Zhenghe said with a headache, "No."

Suddenly, there was a push on the other end of the headset, and another subordinate grabbed the microphone, "Young master!"

"what?"

"We just got the latest news that Wei Hong has sent someone to the Northern Alliance to inquire about intelligence. Fortunately, after we tried our best to disguise, and the closed drill has already started, the family still doesn't know that you are fleeing..."

"I came out to work," Lu Zhenghe corrected him, "How is our situation now?"

"There is no major problem for the time being. Now I know that you are not training in the Northern Alliance. Only a few of our subordinates." The subordinate who just received the news and came to report was still out of breath, "But you know, Well, we can hide it for a while but not for a lifetime..."

"I don't need a lifetime."

"You shouldn't have picked up the bride in person! Why is it necessary? You're just making fun of your own life..."

Lu Zhenghe interrupted, "But if I don't come out, Ruan Xi will be taken away by Wei Hong."

Lu Zhenghe has an older brother named Wei Hong, who is five years older than him. Four years ago, he made a mistake in participating in the Northern Alliance helicopter airborne drill. He managed to save his life, but broke his leg.

Four years ago, the 16-year-old Lu Zhenghe differentiated into alha earlier than his peers. The Wei family took Lu Zhenghe, who had been secretly raised on the other side of the land, back home after receiving the news, and focused on cultivating him as an heir.

After arriving at Wei's house, he became strange and brand new.

The excuse given by the Wei family was that he had a serious illness during the secret training, and he couldn't remember anything when he woke up.

After gaining his father's trust, he was sent to the Northern Alliance for military training. There was nothing special in the army, and all his subordinates were asked to call him a name that had nothing to do with the Wei family.That day, he didn't know why, but he blurted out that he should call Lu Zhenghe.

But Wei Hong, who was not disabled originally, is the first heir.

Therefore, it was Wei Hong who should have married Ruan Xi, not him.

Lu Zhenghe also understood that as long as Ruan Xi fell into Wei Hong's hands, there might be no possibility of him surviving.So this dear, he must come to pick him up in person.

"Li Shen." Lu Zhenghe summoned to the communication machine.

The other end responds with a quick "Yes!"

"I will rush back to the Northern Alliance as soon as possible," Lu Zhenghe said in a low voice. "Although the family said that Ruan Xixu was to be assigned to me, it might be impossible when we actually arrive in Zenith City."

"Now you are going to beast city?"

Lu Zhenghe turned his head and checked to see if Ruan Xi was really asleep, then pressed his throat and said in a very low voice, "Well, my brother has trouble with his legs and feet, so he probably won't come to snatch people in person, and will only stay under the headquarters of Zenith City Ruan Xi was searched everywhere. He should think that Ruan Xi escaped marriage. But if I don't show up for a long time, he may suspect me. "

"Understood." The other end replied.

Picking up the communicator, Lu Zhenghe said in a deep voice, "Helicopter?"

The subordinate delivered the signal "'Alligator' is in place."

"Air?"

"Airborne to keep up! Reserve team to keep up!"

"You continue to patrol in the north, and continue to report any abnormalities. Once I enter the northern territory, I will notify you to escort." Lu Zhenghe ordered.

There was a tidy reply from the other end, "Yes!"

After the communication was hung up, Lu Zhenghe frowned.

In the beginning, he wanted to bypass the family and pick up Ruan Xi himself to get married to ensure safety, so he went to Ruan's Manor one night in advance.

He never expected that those damned prophecies would really come true. Before he had time to deal with his relationship with Ruan Xi, the disaster and family struggle had already begun.

Turning on the volume button, an intermittent news broadcast sounded from the radio, "Currently, the cause of the large-scale subsidence of the entire city of Abze has not yet been ascertained, and some... say it is related to the prophecy...we will...please don't... ...chaotic... 呵呵呵..."

The current sound is very weak.

The traffic ahead was still moving, Lu Zhenghe slowed down, raised his arms, and adjusted the rearview mirror.Ruan Xi in the rearview mirror was sleeping very peacefully, her eyelashes drooping, and she moved her lips from time to time.

"Ding dong."

A message popped up on his communicator——

"Welcome to Beast Beast City, Tourism Office of City B! Tomorrow the temperature will be 89 degrees and it will be rainy. To protect your rights and interests, please enter the country through official channels. For tourism complaints, please dial 12345."

Beast·7 "I will be where you are."