Journey to the Rose

Where am I and where are you?

Hearing what he said, Lu Zhenghe was taken aback.

Afterwards, Lu Zhenghe turned his head and said to Ruan Xi, "Why?"

Because the place where you were before is my home.

But tonight is different.

Ruan Xi was silent for a while, then said coldly, "Because following you has a way out."

"So afraid of death." Lu Zhenghe continued to hold the steering wheel firmly, and he couldn't hear any wrong emotions at all.

Ruan Xi's eyes dimmed.

He wanted to forget the image of Lu Zhenghe that was imprinted in his pupils just now, because that profile just now overlapped with the profile of Lu Zhenghe in school uniform before.

Obviously the curvature of Adam's apple, sharp edges and corners, and strong shoulders are all the same as before, so why is he not this person?

You've lost it all.

Compared with death, how important is it?

"I'm not afraid."

After a while, Ruan Xi replied.

·

After entering the main city territory of Beast City, the sky above their heads was dark.

The scenery of the forest plays and moves like a movie screen in the rearview mirror, and the dark colors are like floods coming from all directions.

Due to the disconnected information, this land does not seem to have a premonition of the imminent disaster. There are still a few pedestrians on the road in the forest, and the strong wind blows the intertwined branches in the air.

However, the people of Beast City cannot be called human beings. Lu Zhenghe can recognize their sharp claws hidden under the cuffs with a slight squint.

"If you're tired, let me drive." Ruan Xi left such a sentence before falling asleep.

He wasn't sleepy at first, but he fell asleep watching Lu Zhenghe drive.

In the past, he often told Lu Zhenghe that when he became an adult, he must learn to drive, and then buy a particularly beautiful sports car. The first thing he did was to drive Lu Zhenghe to the beach by the sea.

He still remembered Lu Zhenghe asking him, what if the waves come?

Ruan Xi said, then it becomes a boat, and we can go to invisible places on the other side of the sea.

……

The further you go into the forest, the brighter the street lights in the forest. Considering the extraordinary night vision ability of the orcs, Lu Zhenghe found a place to pull over, found a mask from the luggage bag, tied the head and tail with a slipknot, Gently covered half of Ruan Xi's face.

In just such a moment, Lu Zhenghe noticed that Ruan Xi looked much more cute when she was asleep.

Ruan Xi is really good looking.

Lu Zhenghe suddenly understood why there were people in every city-state on the land staring at Ruan Xi.

This person is not the same as the rumors.

According to the rumors, Ruan Xi, the only son of the Ruan family, is a master who basically doesn't talk to others. He has a cold face all day long, and he has no emotions.Before coming, the brothers in the team joked about whether the sister-in-law-to-be was sexually frigid, and they were punished by Lu Zhenghe to burst into tears. Now they are probably still performing handstands on the training ground and holding the butt of the gun.

But when facing himself, Ruan Xi's temper is unpredictable, and he is extremely easily angered.

There seemed to be a thousand needles in those eyes, and they seemed to be filled with water. They were magnificent and flowing.His expression also changed quickly according to his mood, and he didn't hide his thoughts at all. Sunny days and rainy days just alternated on his face.

This is the "task" he needs to "escort" back to the snow mountain.

Although he was extremely indifferent to this marriage contract at first, now he has to do it.

Lu Zhenghe looked at him in silence for a while.

As soon as the mask fell off, Ruan Xi felt itchy on his face, so he opened his eyes and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing," Lu Zhenghe said, "Go to sleep."

As soon as the words fell, Ruan Xi suddenly jumped up from the co-pilot, stretched out his arm like an arrow off the string to Lu Zhenghe's unsteady steering wheel, grabbed it hard, and quickly swung it in a circle to the left.

"Go!" Ruan Xi shouted.

"呲-"

The sound of the tires skidding on the ground almost pierced the eardrums.

Lu Zhenghe looked to the right, and the beast city was roaring tirelessly with the night as the background. The ground that was originally intact had cracks, one, two, ten...

He reacted immediately and gave the accelerator a few times hard, and the off-road vehicle, like a giant beast, slammed into the open space in the distance.

Hearing that there was no movement around, Lu Zhenghe slowed down a little, "Stopped?"

Before Ruan Xi could answer, still in shock, she turned her head to look at the ground surface that had stopped cracking in the rearview mirror.

The birds in the woods were frightened and panicked, flapping their wings and flying to the sky. For a while, they covered the sky like dark clouds.

The surroundings were filled with the sound of alarm sirens, and Ruan Xi just leaned on the co-pilot's seat, watching the "human figure" in the distance transform into a beast shape, and fled crazily towards the depths of the jungle.For a while, there were only a few vehicles on the road that obviously came from a foreign land.

Lu Zhenghe raised his hand to hold Ruan Xi's curious head, and put on a mask for him.

Ruan Xi knew why he was wearing a mask and didn't resist, so he let him go obediently, then glanced out the window to see Lu Zhenghe opened the door and got out of the car, holding a ground surface detector from nowhere, on the ground Detect something bit by bit.

"Is this for earthquakes?" Ruan Xi asked.

Lu Zhenghe took the detector, "Well, but there should be no problem in the last ten hours or so, we can rest here overnight."

As the night was dark, Ruan Xi caught sight of the dark circles under Lu Zhenghe's eyes, thinking that this man had indeed not slept for a while, so she said, "I'll drive, you sleep."

"I'll make the bed first, we'll change it." Lu Zhenghe said.

Then Lu Zhenghe went to the trunk to get the quilt, put all the rear seats down, and put two pillows on them. He half-kneeled on the "bed" he had made, and stretched out his hand to open the sunroof of the off-road vehicle. The muscle lines caught Ruan Xi's attention.

Seeing the sunroof of the off-road vehicle opened, Ruan Xi subconsciously looked up.

"When we get to a safe place, we can still see the stars and the moon." Lu Zhenghe said.

Slightly startled, Ruan Xi looked away, "It's not necessary."

Lu Zhenghe got out of the car and checked the rearview mirror.

Before Ruan Xi could see the night sky clearly, a heavy object seemed to fall on the front hood of the off-road vehicle, making a loud "boom".

Ruan Xi turned around quickly.

A man in a training uniform and a mask was lying on the front windshield. His goggles were not removed, and his expression could not be seen clearly. Judging from the distorted expression, Ruan Xi could tell that this man was He fell and grinned.

The next second, Ruan Xi noticed a camouflage crossbow in his right hand.

This weapon is called "Ghost". It attacks silently and has a strong penetration.

He judged very quickly that this person was dangerous.

In the next second, I saw this man put the hand that was not holding the crossbow on Lu Zhenghe's shoulder blade——

Ruan Xi took out the Xiaoyan Lingdao from the tactical holster on his thigh, weighed it a little or two, then opened the door to get out of the car, turned over and rode on the hood, and slammed the handle of the knife on the man's back heavily.

It was almost Ruan Xi's subconscious reaction to fight back against the people who were attacking Lu Zhenghe.

He retracted the hilt of the saber, pulled out the Xiaoyan Lingdao, and dodged it backwards. At the same time, he pushed to block the crossbow that was sweeping in front of him. human neck.

Turning his head, Li Shen dodged the fatal blow, and took several steps back, "Ahem!"

He grabbed his neck, gasped for breath, and cast his eyes on Lu Zhenghe as if asking for help, "Damn it, don't you? Why are you so ruthless? Kill people as soon as you come up?"

Now there are people around, Lu Zhenghe couldn't call Ruan Xi's name, so he had to stand sideways in front of Li Shen.

As soon as he moved, Ruan Xi immediately withdrew the knife.

"This is my comrade-in-arms, Li Shen." Lu Zhenghe introduced.

"Your accomplice." Ruan Xi stated.

Lu Zhenghe had no choice but to say, "Well...you can understand it this way."

Ruan Xi stared at him coldly.

Li Shen was numb all over, and saw that Ruan Xi's Little Yanling Saber still had a piece of his own mask hanging on the tip of the knife, and shivered instantly, "You, hello..."

Wiping the sweat from her hands, Ruan Xi turned her face away and said in a low voice, "Hi, I'm Ruan Xi."

"Wow." Li Shen sighed.

The temperature of Ruan Xi's eyes suddenly turned cold again, and they swept across Li Shen like a knife.

He understood what the "wow" meant, and seeing Lu Zhenghe standing in front of Li Shen, he felt even more panicked, raised his hand, and covered his face tightly with the mask, without saying hello , turned around and got into the car again.

Li Shen took out two bottles of Coke from his rucksack, unscrewed one bottle, took a few sips, and said "Oh...it's too spicy."

"What is spicy?" Lu Zhenghe asked.

Li Shen felt a chill down his spine, and hurriedly shook the drink in his hand, "I said Coke is spicy!"

Lu Zhenghe looked down at the Coke in his hand, walked back to the window of the driver's cab, bent his fingers to tap on the window, and asked, "Would you like a drink?"

Ruan Xi glanced at the drink in his hand, turned her head to the other side of the car window, "Thank you, I won't drink."

Lu Zhenghe didn't respond, seeing his Adam's apple move, he put the Coke on the center console of the cab.

Guessing that Li Shen had something to say, Lu Zhenghe led Li Shen to the back of the car.

Because as the No. [-] paratrooper in the Northern Alliance and a first-level ground-air technician, Li Shen really shouldn't appear on the windshield of his off-road vehicle in such a distressed posture.

Lu Zhenghe asked him, "How long has it been since you trained?"

"You know, young master, except for the Northern Alliance, other cities in the South are no-fly zones. We may be shot down any time a helicopter comes over. We can fall, but you can't! Well, so I The airborne landing was a little sloppy..." Li Shen was struggling for the last time.

Lu Zhenghe nodded, "Be more polite next time, lest Ruan Xi misunderstand."

"You care about him so much?" Li Shen took another sip of Coca-Cola, staring at the car, and said, "But...is that how he treats you?"

"What kind of attitude can we have towards strangers who fight when we meet?" Lu Zhenghe asked rhetorically.

"Huh? Stranger?"

"I didn't say I was Wei Zheng."

"Why?" Li Shen really didn't understand, "Why didn't you tell him that you are his fiance?"

Moving his Adam's apple, Lu Zhenghe didn't speak.

Seeing that he was silent, Li Shen became bolder and said in a low voice, "Anyway, they are going to get married. If you don't decisively let him know now, if he is really robbed by your brother..."

"Shut up." Lu Zhenghe thought to find a tape to seal Li Shen's mouth now.

"Then what are you hiding from him?"

"If I really marked him, Wei Hong might not let him survive. And until the end, it's still unknown whether I can save him." Lu Zhenghe said.

The northern alliance troops under Lu Zhenghe are stationed in the swamp city at the northern end of the land, and the northern and southern ends have also signed an agreement, declaring that they cannot cross the border.If Lu Zhenghe retreated a city at this time, then he would have even less chance of winning in the future. Now he can only rely on his own strength to send Ruan Xi to his own area, and finally return to the predicted safe peak of the snow mountain.

"And, he..."

Lu Zhenghe counted the time with his fingers, and swallowed the phrase "the estrus is coming soon" into his throat, he did not allow anyone but him to know this secret.

"I can't smell him," Li Shen said, "he can't be alha, can he?"

The words "None of your business" were clearly reflected in Lu Zhenghe's eyes.

He took out a few tubes of inhibitors from the armed belt around his waist, twisted the seal with his fingertips, and then took out a cigarette from the armed belt and bit it in his mouth, "You don't have to worry about this."

In fact, whether Ruan Xi is an alha or an oga, Lu Zhenghe is still not completely sure, but judging from Ruan Xi's reaction after smelling his pheromone, it should be an oga that didn't run away.

Inhibitors must be used, Lu Zhenghe is not the kind of person who takes advantage of others' dangers.

What's more, Ruan Xi said some words that he didn't understand from time to time, Lu Zhenghe wasn't even sure if the young master was still clear-headed or not.

But Lu Zhenghe didn't want to continue talking about this.

Lu Zhenghe asked him, "Are you here alone?"

"No, I followed four secretly and drove two cars. We were all worried about you. What if you belched, what would we do?" Li Shen elbowed his waist, "What's next for you guys, go on Hurry up?"

"I built a bed in the car to let him rest for a while. You can't always sleep on the seat."

"What's wrong with the seat? When did you go out to practice and have a bed to sleep in?"

"You compare with him?"

"Depend on."

Li Shen shrank his neck, lowered his head and played with his crossbow, feeling that there was really no reason to refute.

It is not advisable to stay outside the car for a long time, Li Shen pointed in a general direction, Lu Zhenghe probably knew which two cars followed secretly.

Before leaving, Li Shen looked inside the car curiously, saw the silhouette in the car under the lights, like a painting, and repeatedly confirmed, "Is this really Ruan Xi?"

"It's Ruan Xi."

"He, does he have siblings or something?"

Lu Zhenghe slapped his head hard and his head became dizzy, "No."

Before leaving, Li Shen hesitated for a while, and decided to remind him, "Seriously, don't underestimate the enemy, and be on guard against Ruan Xi. I always feel that he is too murderous."

"He had a lot of opportunities to kill me, but he didn't."

After Lu Zhenghe finished speaking, he rubbed his wrists, somehow thinking of Ruan Xi's sleepy face.

Through the fragments of impressions, many associated images subconsciously appeared in his mind one after another - such as Ruan Xi sleeping on the table, Ruan Xi's hand clenched into a fist by the pillow, and even I even pinched a corner of the dark red quilt...

The information made him stunned again, but he didn't think it happened.

·

This night, Lu Zhenghe found a hotel with a 24-hour shower in the empty animal city.

He had just parked his car downstairs in the hotel when it started to rain.

The rain broke out in a heavy, beastly way, and everywhere it fell was connected by water, full of noise and confusion.

Lu Zhenghe pinched the alarm clock to set the time, and opened the car door, "Ruan Xi, go up and take a shower? After that, you may not have time to take a shower in other cities."

"Yes?" Ruan Xi looked at the pouring rain and the dark sky outside, feeling uncertain.

Seeing him not moving, Lu Zhenghe mistakenly thought that Ruan Xi didn't want to get wet, so he bent down, got into the passenger seat, and passed his arm through Ruan Xi's leg without any explanation, "I'll carry you up."

"Need not……"

Lu Zhenghe ignored him and started directly.

With such a hug, Ruan Xi didn't feel abrupt at all.

Ruan Xi was just taken aback, then reached out and grabbed the coat she had draped over the back of the chair, shook it, flipped it off, and draped the coat on Lu Zhenghe's head.

Both of his hands were free, so he closed his neckline, "You keep out the rain."

Lu Zhenghe's eyebrows and eyes were exposed in this small gap, and Ruan Xi seemed to smell the rose scent belonging to Lu Zhenghe in the humid air around him.

But Ruan Xi didn't notice that the inhibitor he was going upstairs to inject rolled out of his pocket and fell on the seat in the car.

Beast 9 are you kidding, can Ruan Xi take a bath in the river?