Journey to the Rose

At this time, the sky darkened again.

Everyone gathered at the entrance to the city, lined up, and entered the city one by one.In the distance, the mountains in the north are silent there. Looking from a distance, it seems that you can hear the silent surging under the splash of snow water.

The night cast a cold and dark prison, locking them firmly inside.

They saw shimmering trees on either side of the road.

That luster was red, as if leading them to reawaken the memory from the city of fire.Those wildfires all over the mountains are also of this color, like giant beasts transformed from red chain snakes, devouring all vegetation and air.

Holding the cat in his arms, Lu Zhenghe's heroic temperament suddenly became more tender.He always lowered his eyes, and his eyes fell on the fur ball in his arms.

Through the faint firelight in the background, the arc from Lu Zhenghe's forehead to chin is tough and sharp.

He opened his mouth, exhaled a breath of refreshing air, and then relaxed his whole body. There was a slight look of fatigue between his brows, but he was also very resilient, like a sharp knife that had just been unsheathed, capable of dedicating everything to his precious ones at any time.

Looking carefully at the current Lu Zhenghe, Wen Kai suddenly felt that the young master has grown up a lot along the way——

Compared with the previous state of being easily irritable, he became calm and calm, learned to judge on the spot, and his fighting ability has also improved.

Is it like this when you have someone you love?

Wen Kai didn't quite understand.

Wen Kai picked up a one-meter-long wooden stick from nowhere, and tapped on the ground all the way, observing carefully, afraid of any ambush or pit, because he had only left the dungeon not long ago, and the nearby ground would inevitably collapse easily.

He pointed to the trees, turned back while walking, and said to Lu Zhenghe, "The trees here can breathe fire, because they may be mutated. We have to stay away from them."

"You didn't tell me sooner."

Li Shen glared at him angrily, turned his head, hugged the charred bow head of his "ghost crossbow" and stroked it a few times.The bow and crossbow were all hot, and it was still a little hot to hold it in the hand.

Wen Kai: "..."

In fact, he really wanted to question Li Shen, what are you holding it for, can your thing still work?I'm so afraid that it will fall apart as soon as I shoot it.

"Oh," Li Shen seemed to see his worry, touched his nose, and said, "Only the bow head was burnt, so it's fine."

The people of Ogre City don't seem to have much patience.

They didn't have any discipline, nor were they very strict. They just walked around the gate of the city impatiently with their weapons in hand, and from time to time drove off the slow-moving outsiders with their axes, and kept shouting: "speed up, speed up! "

Although it's such a hostile attitude, it's much better than the beast city people.

At least when the lights on the watchtower shone on Lu Zhenghe's group, they didn't stay for a short time, and they didn't attack them immediately, indicating that the last attack was probably just a personal act.

It has to be said that although they are almost the same species as the beast city people, they have weird looks, are stronger, have more developed limbs, love to gather together, are good at doing things, and are warlike. An inherent ugliness.

Lu Zhenghe noticed that although there was no large-scale security situation, there were rows of black containers placed very densely at the entrance.The container is not quiet, but it seems that something inside is vibrating.

"Another place where the residents are warlike?"

Li Shen stared at the ax carrying a cold light in the hand of an ogre city man, and had to lament that the level was getting more and more difficult along the way.

"A good war may not always win." Lu Zhenghe said, soothing the cat in his arms.

The kitten was touched comfortably, stretched out its limbs, stretched out, and the cat's claws bloomed.

Lu Zhenghe was attracted by the little plum blossom, stretched out his hand, and gently pressed the kitten's paw, it was soft and bouncy, like pinching some kind of air cushion... Suddenly flashed in his mind the edge of the beach in Ablaze City, on the beach, Little yellow ducks piled up in groups by children.The same is true, it will bounce back when you press it, like a toy.

The image was only fleeting.

Beside, Wen Kai watched quietly, afraid that Ruan Xi would be bald by the young master.

It's rare to see such a soft little creature in this kind of day with ups and downs and swords and swords. Wen Kai was a little bit defensive, and he was happy to see it. He really wanted to touch it, but he didn't dare to say it.

"Wen Kai, come on,"

Lu Zhenghe lifted the kitten Ruan Xi's forelimb, and raised his chin to Wen Kai, "You help him bandage it."

The kitten stretched its limbs very cooperatively, wagged its tail, and was about to play dead.

Curious about the scene where a certain military doctor bandaged a kitten, Li Shen leaned over and peeked at Lu Zhenghe's cuffs of inconspicuous beige-gold fluff, and whispered, "Ruan Xi lost her hair."

When the kitten heard it, its ears moved, its back arched, its fangs were exposed, and it looked like it was about to attack.

Lu Zhenghe subconsciously protected the kitten's mouth, feeling the kitten sticking out its tongue, and gently licked his palm.The barbs on the surface of the tongue are like soft brushes, which make Lu Zhenghe's hands tremble.

How to become a cat is bad.

He looked at Li Shen expressionlessly: "He's not fur, and it doesn't matter if he loses his hair."

Wen Kai was also very speechless, a brain crash hit the back of Li Shen's head: "Can you not mess with it!"

"I do not have……"

Shrinking his neck, deeply wronged, decided not to speak.

Military doctors are military doctors, and they can be used as veterinarians at critical moments.In less than 2 minutes, Wen Kai quickly bandaged the kitten's arm and tied a bow. It looked like a little house cat carefully fed by its owner.

The kitten didn't seem to like the bow, so it scratched and scratched with its other uninjured paw, but it couldn't get it off, so it simply gave up and resisted.

Lu Zhenghe saw that he was having fun, so he tied Wen Kai's bow even tighter, so that the kitten couldn't dig it out anymore, so he buried his head in Lu Zhenghe's arms, slightly showing half of his head, There are only four words on the whole cat's face: I am a patient.

The grand entrance of Ogre City was comparable to that of Holy City. The crowd in front of them was black and dense, and everyone was covered in mud.

Gradually, shocking cries erupted from the crowd at the front entrance, like a rusty dagger trying to cut through the night.If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, it would be hard for Wen Kai to believe that the piercing and strange scream came from a human throat.

After turning into a kitten, Ruan Xi seemed to have a feline nature, she became much less timid, and trembled in shock.

Lu Zhenghe subconsciously covered its mouth again, covering its mouth with a "meow".

"what's the situation?"

Lu Zhenghe pulled up the zipper of the training uniform to hide the kitten better.In order to hide the eyes and ears, in order not to be found that there is an omega here, Lu Zhenghe carried the kitten into his clothes.

"I'm going to inquire about it."

Wen Kai turned around, took out a monocular night vision binoculars, and looked ahead.He chose a relatively tall rock, propped his hands on the rock face, and struggled to climb up, taking a brief look.

The trees with open flames glowed and formed curtains.It was blown away by the wind, and the firelight reflected the whole picture of the entrance to the city.

Wen Kai got off the rock.

He couldn't see what was going on there, so he had to move forward to push aside the crowd and secretly listen to the discussion of the crowd in front of him.Then he was shocked and returned to his team.

Lu Zhenghe went up to meet him, put the gun aside, and protected him: "How is it?"

"The situation is a bit complicated," Wen Kai said.

"What's wrong?" Li Shen took a step forward, feeling nervous.

"It's not like some moth in Holy City. You don't need to register some personal privacy, and you don't need to say your name. You just need to..." Wen Kai drew a long tail, and looked at Li Shen with a shy smile.

"What do you want?" Li Shen was in a daze, pointing to himself, "Do you want a show?"

"I want to donate a piece of food for them," Wen Kai continued to smile, with eyebrows and eyes crooked, "with a team as a unit."

"team?"

"Just treat us as a tourist group."

"Who would travel to such a place!!!"

"Well, I'm talking hypothetical."

"One food, why only one food..."

Li Shen's brain was running fast. Suddenly, he widened his eyes and remembered the meaning of the word "ogre". A possible guess came to his mind. He frowned, and muttered: "The people of Ogre city used to rely on eating human wages. Born, are they..."

"Yes." Wen Kai looked into his eyes firmly, "Need to eat people."

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It is undoubtedly cruel and difficult to choose one person from a group of people to sacrifice.

The same goes for the other strangers present, looking at each other with imperceptible surprise in their eyes——

Because in the past few decades or hundreds of years, I have heard that Ogre City has signed the "Prohibition of Hunting and Killing the People of Another 25 Cities and Observing the Covenant of Civilization" proposed by the North and the South. Why would they choose to break the agreement when the catastrophe is imminent?Is it because of food shortages?

Everyone's breathing became rapid, their hearts beat intensively in their chests, and they all pricked up their ears to listen to the sound of the road ahead...

Some of the people chosen by their companions to be locked up seemed to have gone mad, screaming, shouting and insulting with the loudest voice——

"You barbarians living in the south! Sooner or later you will be swallowed up by land punishment!"

"Ogre! Violated the promise of the land!"

"Why me?"

Lu Zhenghe's eyes were red, he clenched his fists hard, breathing heavily, desperately resisting the urge to go forward and kill all the people in Ogre City.No, or they are not worthy of being called human beings at all.

Sensing his restraint, Wen Kai patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, and said in a low voice: "Young master, we always have a solution. Let Li Shen go to find out the way, and we will know everything."

"……Um."

Lu Zhenghe turned his eyes away, and clenched his fists again and again.

At this time, the kitten seemed to notice his displeasure and let out a cry.Lu Zhenghe had to bow his head to appease it.

Fortunately, cat meat is sour.

A captive wearing glasses jumped out.

He looked very knowledgeable and swears in some local languages ​​fluently.A man from Ogre City who was holding an ax was furious after being scolded, and he slashed at the ground at his feet, and the crowd screamed again.

Li Shen said softly: "Why don't the people of Ogre City kill him now?"

"It's like eating crabs," Wen Kai said, "you have to kill and eat now."

Combining all aspects of escape ability and combat ability, Li Shen volunteered and decided to let himself be the ticket to enter Ogre City.

He read the answer from the container next to him. These captured "offerings" should not be disposed of on the spot, but transported to a certain place for centralized processing.

Li Shen took off his "ghost crossbow" and hung it on Wen Kai's body, and took a dagger that could be attached to his underwear from Lu Zhenghe.

"Young master, remember to save me."

He whispered, then turned back, clenched his hands into fists, and lightly thumped Lu Zhenghe's chest, the kitten in his arms stretched out its snow-white paws again, and fisted Lu Zhenghe.

"Ruan Xi, wish me luck." Li Shen said.

Callout:

*Ogre city ogre setting is based on a race in the legend of European gods and monsters.

The young master of Ogre·77 was kicked out by the cat.