Journey to the Rose

In the early morning of the second day, Ruan Xi woke up.

The morning glow slowly illuminates the new life, and the nightmare of last night seems to have never happened.

The land below has pressed the pause button for the endless cutting, and the restless crust has gradually returned to an invisible long-term calm.

Ruan Xi struggled to get up from the back seat of the off-road vehicle.

He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, and found that the hemp rope on his body had been untied.

The vehicle is in the silent mountain forest.

The fallen leaves were trampled under his feet, forming a thick layer, as if they were rotting, emitting an unspeakable smell.

In the mountain forest, there are dense and endless towering ancient trees and artificially opened one-way roads, which meander and lead to unknown directions.

In Ruan Xi's memory, Beast City is a natural barrier bestowed by God on Abze City. Since ancient times, it has been a defense line against external armed forces.

Going north, the weather is not as cold as Abze City.

Ruan Xi put on the thin coat that covered the back seat of the car, and looked out of the car window. Lu Zhenghe was squatting by a small river in the forest to dismantle his gun.

Lu Zhenghe is a person who dismantles guns when nothing happens, which belongs to the daily maintenance of his favorite guns.

He had just removed the spring and handle on the left side of the transmitter, and spread a large piece of cloth on the grass.Although he heard the sound of footsteps and breathing coming from behind him, Lu Zhenghe didn't look back.

Is that what men don't love anymore!

Ruan Xi was surprised at how vigilant he was, so she didn't say too much, and chose to go straight to the point, "You... where are you from?"

"Zenith." Lu Zhenghe took off the burst lever.

"Then do you know Wei Zheng?" Ruan Xi took a few steps forward, watching him dismantle the gun with great interest.

"I know," Lu Zhenghe paused, and said, "It's your fiancé."

Ruan Xi shook her head and said indifferently, "It doesn't count."

Lu Zhenghe said, "Why not? The whole land knows about it."

Ruan Xi still retorted, "If I didn't agree, I wouldn't."

"But you're already engaged to him."

Lu Zhenghe was not interested in this topic, he answered as if it was a routine, pressed the magazine latch, and took out the magazine from the slot, "If you go to Zenith City this way, why don't you marry him?"

"I have someone I like." The silvery dawn in the morning fell on Ruan Xi's eyelashes.

"Really?" Lu Zhenghe stopped holding the frame of the machine gun for a while, and then continued to press the spring guide back, pinching the spiral lug, "Is it an alha?"

"..."

Ruan Xi was silent, wondering why it was so abruptly defined as oga when he usually used inhibitors.

Lu Zhenghe thought that he would be punched head-on in the next second, but Ruan Xi not only didn't hit him, but lowered his head like a defeated beast.

Ruan Xi's ears turned red, and she fell silent.

Lu Zhenghe felt strange, why is this person so obedient now?

Not wanting to continue talking about gender, Ruan Xi changed the subject with difficulty, "Your gun is at close range?"

"Well, the long-range lethality is not enough, but it is easy to be damaged in close combat," Lu Zhenghe said, throwing a dark black gadget in his hand to Ruan Xi, "This is the front iron sight, which can be folded. Here it is for you For shooting."

Thinking of the shooting lessons she always skipped, Ruan Xi said, "I use a knife."

"In case I die one day, you have to learn to use a gun by yourself." Lu Zhenghe's tone was very light.

Lu Zhenghe died once in his heart four years ago, is it possible to die again now?Thinking of this possibility, Ruan Xi subconsciously wanted to escape.

"Why don't you use iron sights?" he asked.

Lu Zhenghe blinked at him, "Because I hit every shot."

Since this doomsday prophecy is true, is it also true that... the rumor that those who can get him can win all wars?

Ruan Xi asked dubiously, "Am I a task given to you by your chief?"

"Sir?" Lu Zhenghe squinted his eyes, and he didn't know what he was laughing at, "I don't look like a sir?"

Ruan Xi shook her head and commented indifferently, "No, you are more like a gangster in the army."

"..."

"Aren't the officers all uncles in their 50s or [-]s?"

Lu Zhenghe smiled and showed a row of white teeth, "There are also 20-year-old young talents."

When we were together before, Lu Zhenghe was full of hostility like "don't get close to strangers", Ruan Xi rarely saw him smile, and he only smiled at himself.It is estimated that Lu Zhenghe really broke his brain in the past four years, and now he is glib and smirking at every turn, making people want to punch people a few times.

Ruan Xi gave him a white look, "Shameless."

Beast City has always had a lot of changes, so if there is any trouble around you, you need to be more vigilant.

While the two were talking, Lu Zhenghe moved his ears, as if he heard something passing by in the forest, he quickly stepped back to block the way in front of Ruan Xi.

The atmosphere is heavy and solemn.

The sun shines through the gaps in the shade of the trees, shining and blackening, making people afraid to go deeper into the forest.

After a while, seeing that there was no movement around them, the two relaxed their vigilance.Lu Zhenghe continued to play with his "toy" with his head down, and had no intention of continuing to talk to Ruan Xi.

"You have been these years..." Ruan Xi realized that the wording was inappropriate, and changed her words, "What do you do?"

Pulling out the gun that was loaded and unloaded, Lu Zhenghe put the tactical light on, squeezed the handle, and replied, "I'm training."

"you're a soldier?"

"Not counting."

"Why not?"

Lu Zhenghe didn't understand why Ruan Xi's curiosity was so strong, but he still thought about it seriously for a while, and felt that the Northern Alliance could only be regarded as a branch of the family's armed forces, "Because I only belong to my city."

Ruan Xi remembered that several cities in the north would unite for drills, so she asked, "Your city...belongs to the Northern Alliance?"

"Well, we have a security team," Lu Zhenghe asked back, "You don't have any?"

"My family used to have... Now there are only two or three people in the nursing home." Ruan Xi recalled the scene where the two of them hid from the patrol of the home security team together, and felt pain in his heart as if being pulled by something.

After watching Lu Zhenghe dismantle the gun, Ruan Xi ran to the river and squatted to wash his face, brushed away the drops of water hanging from his face, and looked in the mirror on the sparkling water.

After running around all night, his face was haggard, and his reflection in the water was chaotically mixed into an invisible thing.

There were several wrinkles on the surface of the water.

After a while, it was blown into a small vortex by the wind.

Ruan Xi rubbed the corners of her eyes, stood up on her knees, took off all the cumbersome clothes on her body, wrapped them in her arms, and planned to find a place in the car to put them away.

Now that a catastrophe is imminent, the whole journey is fleeing, there is no time to make a concave shape, everything has to be light.

Before he got to the front of the car, Ruan Xi saw Lu Zhenghe leaning against the off-road vehicle, looking at the luggage bag he had spilled on the back seat.

"Dry paper towels, wet paper towels, portable perfume, facial cleanser, scabbard protective cloth, small shawl," Lu Zhenghe read the names of the items while reading, without hiding his smile, "I brought all of them? Are you so ruthless?"

Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, to guard against you."

Lu Zhenghe didn't take it seriously, and continued to pick up the things left outside and stuff them into the duffel bag, "In the medicine box, there are also Jianweixiaoshi tablets... and books? "Wild Survival Manual", "How to Sorting Garbage", "Which Kind of Trash?" Fungi are poisonous"...It seems that you are really planning to run away from marriage alone."

"none of your business."

Ruan Xi snatched the few pamphlets hidden in the side pockets, and randomly stuffed them inside.

He was trying his best to treat Lu Zhenghe as a stranger he just met, and wanted to be wary of him, wanting to guard against him, but Ruan Xi found it really difficult to do so.As soon as he sees this person, he will unconsciously want to get close.

"Light-emitting diode restrainer..."

Lu Zhenghe weighed the "flashlight" in his hand. This is a self-defense tool that can temporarily blind the enemy, dizziness, or even nausea and vomiting. They rarely use it during military training.

Ruan Xi reached out and snatched the subduer, "You know what to do."

Lu Zhenghe took a deep breath and asked, "Why didn't you use it against me?"

Unable to answer for a while, Ruan Xi could only say, "I remember now, I will clean you up later."

"And a tactical holster? This one works."

Lu Zhenghe didn't care about what he said, just smiled, took off Ruan Xi's tactical holster and put it on Ruan Xi's thigh, and slipped a pistol into it.

Ruan Xi knew that the road ahead was dangerous, so she didn't resist Lu Zhenghe's approach and let him go.

It's just that when Lu Zhenghe's fingers brushed his thigh, Ruan Xi couldn't help trembling as if his whole body was electrified... He understood that this familiar feeling of closeness was something that no one else in this world could replace.

"Why are you shaking?" Lu Zhenghe noticed his slight trembling.

Ruan Xi's ears warmed up, and he said casually, "It's cold."

Lu Zhenghe also moved neatly, took off his coat and put it on his shoulders, "Put it on."

Ruan Xi "..."

He didn't respond, but still pinched the neckline of the clothes with his fingers, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and repeatedly confirmed that the smell on the clothes was also Lu Zhenghe's, which he couldn't be more familiar with.

He hadn't felt this feeling for many years.

After installing the holster, Ruan Xi took out the restraint device from the luggage bag and put it into the gap in the holster, and focused on the armed belt around Lu Zhenghe's waist, "What's in your belt?"

"..." Lu Zhenghe was silent for a moment, "This is an armed belt."

"Oh," Ruan Xi looked up, deliberately annoyed him, "what else is in your belt besides cockroaches?"

Lu Zhenghe said, "Daggers, small magazines, flashlights, infrared cameras...and sugar."

Ruan Xi wanted to laugh, but she had to tense her expression, so she twitched the corners of her mouth and snorted coldly, "Are you still embarrassed to laugh at me?"

Glancing at him, Lu Zhenghe opened the door and got into the car, "I'm just afraid that you are too disobedient, so I have to give you some candy."

After speaking, he really peeled a candy and handed it to Ruan Xi's lips.

Ruan Xi was not polite, she opened her mouth and rolled the sugar into her mouth with the tip of her tongue.

His reaction was very natural, without shyness, subconscious avoidance of close range, and no resistance to touching the screen, as if it was just something that was not intimate at all.

On the contrary, Lu Zhenghe was a little taken aback.

Just as he was about to get in the car, Lu Zhenghe suddenly felt Ruan Xi's cold fingertips touching the back of his ear, pinching and pressing on the cartilage behind the ear, and kneading repeatedly until his neck was covered with ears. It's all red.

"What are you touching?" Lu Zhenghe didn't raise his head.

"Have you not been implanted with a memory chip?" Ruan Xi fell into doubt again, "Did you really break your brain?"

Otherwise, how could you not remember me?

Lu Zhenghe touched the tip of his nose unconsciously, but said nothing.

A little closer to Lu Zhenghe, Ruan Xi whispered in a whisper, "Did you suffer from some incurable disease?"

Medicine is so advanced now, not to mention that Lu Zhenghe said that he lives in the most prosperous city of Zenith, and there should be no incurable diseases, so... Ruan Xi thought, and gradually shifted his gaze to Lu Zhenghe's lower body.

Ruan Xi said quietly, "Is it because..." that you don't want to recognize me?

Lu Zhenghe "?"

What was he thinking about?The expression is so strange.

·

After getting in the car, Lu Zhenghe shook the map with one hand, and he had a panoramic view of the entire land.

"Do you know where the disaster will stop?" Lu Zhenghe asked.

"Where?" Ruan Xi turned to look at him.

"look at the map."

Lu Zhenghe took a shot and pressed Ruan Xi's turned face, "There is another word in the prophecy, saying that on the top of the snow mountain in Zenith City, there may be the last refuge of the entire land."

After reading the land map, Lu Zhenghe took out the compass to look at the direction, and said that he was going north to the canyon.

The prophecy only said when the disaster would start, but it didn't say a word about the suspension of the disaster. They couldn't stay where they were, and they had to reorganize and set off immediately.

The off-road vehicle drove ahead at high speed, and a long smoke was drawn from the exhaust pipe.

There was a damp, earthy smell in the air, and it was obvious that it had just rained.The mosquitoes flew low, frightened, and rushed forward desperately, and then burrowed into the vegetation, and disappeared, leaving only the rustling leaves.

Ruan Xi didn't like the forest very much, the humid air made his skin sticky and greasy.

The reason why beast city is called "beast city" is because some ferocious species that are both human and beast appear in the city from time to time, but now that the land is about to sink, the whole city seems to have calmed down.

As he was entering the first road into the city, Lu Zhenghe had sharp eyes and saw the newly posted big-character poster on the stone pillar beside the road.

He parked the car on the side, didn't open the door, stretched out his hand from the car window, and tore off the entire notice.

Ruan Xi's name was written on the notice, with a photo on it, and a line of words at the bottom, saying that there would be a great reward for sending it to Zenith City, and it was signed with a seal with a Xuanwu totem painted on it.

It belongs to Wei Hong.

It should have been posted before I arrived in Abze City.

Even if you post it, this photo is still distorted, blurry, and not very good-looking.

Although Ruan Xi doesn't have time to worry about this now.

After reading it, Lu Zhenghe handed the notice to Ruan Xi, who was sleeping in the co-pilot, and said, "People from the Wei family."

Ruan Xi just glanced at it hastily, "Yeah."

Seeing that he didn't respond, not even showing too much resistance, Lu Zhenghe felt a little uncomfortable.He resisted the movement of tearing up the notice and asked, "Do you want to go with them?"

"No," Ruan Xi said, "I don't have a home anyway."

Lu Zhenghe got a little stronger in his hands, and directly tore the notice in half, and crumpled it into a ball of shredded paper.

After adjusting a comfortable sleeping position, Ruan Xi tilted her head and leaned against the seat cushion, with her face facing out of the window, she whispered, "I'll be where you are."

Beast 8 feeds you and the inhibitor is dropped!