Journey to the Rose

As expected by Ruan Xi, Beast City is an undeveloped primitive tribe.

Here, even the so-called hotels are tree houses. If they want to reach the guest rooms, they need to climb up the soft ladder made of rattan.

It has been rainy for many days here, the air is humid, and the vines are covered with moss.

Lu Zhenghe couldn't grasp it steadily, and he still had a person in his arms, not to mention his strength, and it was difficult to climb a tree for free.Seeing the bruises on his palms, Ruan Xi simply pushed Lu Zhenghe away, jumped, and fell steadily under the big tree next to him.

In just a few seconds, the rain pouring down from the forest soaked his hair.

Looking at his empty arms, Lu Zhenghe frowned and said, "I have the responsibility to protect you."

What responsibility?

Responsibilities of Zenith residents?

"I can do it myself." Ruan Xi didn't care about these.

Not to die, Lu Zhenghe grabbed his wrist and added, "But you are the bridegroom of our Zenith city."

……

so what.

bastard.

His marriage is known all over the world, and it is commonplace to tell it from anyone, but Lu Zhenghe can't say it.

Ruan Xi turned her head and slapped Lu Zhenghe's chest, "I'm not right now."

After finishing speaking, he took out the hand-wrapped bandage from his pocket, wrapped his hands in two or three strokes, cast a provocative look at Lu Zhenghe, grabbed the vines hanging from above, and climbed towards the top of the tree first.

The latter staggered from the beating, looking at his back, he felt strange.This palm is obviously neither painful nor itchy, but it seems to be hitting the heart in an impartial way.

Ruan Xi climbed to the top, followed by Lu Zhenghe.

After pushing aside the branches to get a glimpse of the whole interior of the tree house, the two of them were already drenched.

The originally lush leaves suddenly broke away from the branches, and the world seemed to be left only with the noise of heavy rain.

The rain was coming at the wrong time, and it doesn't look like it's going to stop now.

There was no reception at the hotel's front desk, and the chandelier on the roof of the tree house was still on, rusted from too much humidity.The doors of each room were wide open, and everywhere was a mess after fleeing.

Lu Zhenghe casually flipped through the visitor registration record at the front desk, and found that the latest date was this afternoon, but the number of guests staying has been very small.

"It seems that the beast city has entered a state of alert, and our movements are much slower." He lifted the carbine hanging behind his back, leaned his back against the wall, and opened a door of a guest room with a gun barrel, walked in and walked around , backed out again, pointed to the room, and said to Ruan Xi, "Go and wash it? Get comfortable."

"What about you?"

"I'll go to the warehouse to see if there's anything I can get."

"You don't wash?"

"Me?" Lu Zhenghe didn't expect that Ruan Xi would ask him if he should take a bath, "I can just find any river to flush."

Ruan Xi nodded, "Then I can do it too."

Lu Zhenghe "..."

Just kidding, can Ruan Xi take a bath in the river?

If this is said, it will definitely be one of the coldest jokes of this century.

What if someone peeps?What if the water is not clean enough?What should I do if the water suddenly rises?Some fish kissed his ass...

Lu Zhenghe stopped thinking wildly and felt a little headache.

"You can't." He firmly denied.

"I can," Ruan Xi decided to set up a point of view for Lu Zhenghe that he doesn't need to be treated differently from the very beginning, "I can do anything alha can do."

Lu Zhenghe raised his arm tentatively, "Then how about breaking your wrist?"

boring.

Glancing at the arm with blue veins and slightly protruding muscles, Ruan Xi thought about her own, and really felt the disparity in strength.

He coughed to cover up his embarrassment, pretending to be calm and said, "I don't want it."

"I can do it for a while, but I don't want it for a while," Lu Zhenghe suddenly smiled, "You are as difficult to coax as the rumors say."

Hearing him say "rumored", Ruan Xi was at a loss for words.

The land sank, his hometown disappeared, and Lu Zhenghe needed to understand himself from "rumors"... If he hadn't accidentally kicked a plank and his foot hurt, he would have thought that he was still living in a dream.

"Forget it, I won't compete with you."

Ruan Xi decided not to pay any attention to Lu Zhenghe, angrily picked up his luggage and rucksack, and pushed open the door of the first guest room next door.

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Unfortunately, the smell in the room was unbearable.

Ruan Xi pinched his nose, he remembered the zoo he visited in Abze City when he was a child.Every hot summer there, there will be such a smell of beasts.

The decoration of the room is very sloppy, the bed seems to be paved with hay, covered with a layer of white cotton cloth, the cotton cloth has turned yellow.

He finally understood why Lu Zhenghe wanted him to take a bath, but taking a bath now is too much of a waste of time, his first priority is to get an injection of inhibitors.

A period of time had passed on the way from city a to city b. It was unexpected to meet Lu Zhenghe, and the close contact stimulated him even more, so he had to get an injection as an early warning.

Ruan Xi picked up her coat and was about to take it out of her pocket when the door suddenly rang.

"Ruan Xi," it was Lu Zhenghe's voice, "If you take a shower, can you just close the bathroom door? I need to guard you in the guest room."

In the next second, Ruan Xi directly opened the door of the guest room, revealing her head, "I don't take a shower, I'll change my clothes, wash my face, and then go on my way with you."

"Not washing?" Lu Zhenghe frowned.

"Escape is the most important thing. You can't take a shower if you're not completely safe."

"Then how do you take a shower?"

"..."

Why is this person so stubborn?

Ruan Xi said bluntly, "I will wash in the river with you."

"You really don't want to wash?"

Lu Zhenghe unconsciously clenched the weapon in his hand, turned his head towards the door, and said thoughtfully, "Then I'll wash it."

As he said, Lu Zhenghe put the gun strap on one shoulder, bit the hem of his shirt, raised his head, and took off his pure black jacket two or three times, revealing his muscles that were no longer tightly wrapped under the cuffs.

With bare arms, he took out a lighter and a pack of crumpled cigarettes from his camouflage pants pocket, and said in a low voice, "I'll smoke a cigarette before going. Are you sure you don't want to wash it?"

Time flies too fast, Ruan Xi thought.

In my memory, Lu Zhenghe's muscle lines have always been smooth and compact, but after a few years of absence, Lu Zhenghe is obviously different after the youthfulness has faded.This body has more scars, more stories, and more secrets that are not known to outsiders. These are the regrets that Ruan Xi lacks.

"Ruan Xi." Lu Zhenghe called him again.

"Ok?"

Ruan Xi suddenly came to her senses, subconsciously picked up the towel on the back of the chair and walked to the bathroom, "Okay. I'll wash right away, I'll be quick."

He was still cold on the surface, but he was actually holding his breath.

If you don't hold your breath, the whole room will have a very faint smell of wine.He couldn't describe this taste, like some sticky sweetness in the air.

As a result, he himself seemed drunk and not drunk.

He still remembered that in the year when he split up, he didn't know who leaked the news. Some people said that the entire Ruan family manor had opened a winery, and some people said that Ruan Xi's pheromone was wine-flavored...

A few days later, the largest gambling house in Abze City opened, betting on whether it was liquor, foreign wine, or red wine. Ruan Xi couldn't laugh or cry at the time, so he called Song Shumian and asked him to release the news that it was glutinous rice.

As a result, on the last day, when he sniffed his underwear repeatedly, he always felt a sweet and greasy fragrance.

However, the only thing he can be sure of right now is...

He blushed just now.

Because this is one of the manifestations of estrus.

After rushing into the bathroom, Ruan Xi quickly took off her shirt and turned on the faucet.

It wasn't until the bathroom was steaming hot that he realized he had been careless enough not to bring in the coat with the suppressant and pillow in it.

How to do?

It would be too strange to take a coat after taking a shower, a shrewd person like Lu Zhenghe would definitely be suspicious.Ruan Xi still doesn't know the current Lu Zhenghe, and she is still not at ease in exposing her gender to the other party as a "vulnerable".

He suddenly remembered that his luggage rucksack was on the cabinet at the entrance.

Opening the curtain of the bathroom, Ruan Xi asked Lu Zhenghe cautiously, "Can you get me some facial cleanser?"

"cleasing milk?"

Lu Zhenghe repeated these three words curiously.

Is it so delicate?

When he was training soldiers in the Northern Alliance, he only occasionally saw someone in the barracks who would use it, and it was mostly female soldiers who sold it privately, and male soldiers rarely used it on their faces.

"Where?" he asked.

"It's in the luggage bag at the door." Ruan Xi replied.

For the sake of safety, Lu Zhenghe did not put down his gun from the beginning to the end.

Holding the gun, he strode to the door, and directly opened the half-opened rucksack with the barrel of the gun.

The distance was too far, and he didn't see clearly what tubular objects were inside.

He got a little closer, but Lu Zhenghe didn't see it either, so he simply put the gun under his elbow and reached for it in his rucksack.

nor.

Hearing the rushing water in the bathroom, Lu Zhenghe knew he was in a hurry, so he didn't ask much, and opened the bag inside his rucksack.He reached out and took out what Ruan Xi wanted.

At this moment, Ruan Xi gently opened the door of the bathroom, and pulled the coat that had just been left on the back of the chair into the bathroom.

Lu Zhenghe actually felt that Ruan Xi came out, but he didn't turn his head, because all his attention was attracted to the bottom corner fabric of the inner layer.

There's a little photo in there.

This photo is inconspicuous, with only a small corner exposed.

But Lu Zhenghe noticed it.

He frowned and glanced at the closed bathroom door, the sound of water still didn't stop.

Lu Zhenghe took out the photo.

This color photo is only half the size in the palm of your hand. The protagonists are two men who seem to be on the verge of adulthood. Their blurred faces are slightly green. They are dressed in school uniforms and have a red background. According to.

Of these two people, one looks like Ruan Xi who is still in high school, while the other has a face similar to his own.

The photo has been around for some years, and probably due to frequent use, the surface of the photo has been worn out so that it is hard to see clearly.Lu Zhenghe could only recognize the faces of the two in the photo through their outlines.

Lu Zhenghe suddenly felt that everything in front of him became dark, just like on the way at night.

"Give it to me, please?" Ruan Xi's voice came from the bathroom.

Ruan Xi remembered seeing Lu Zhenghe holding facial cleanser just now, and didn't understand why this person moved so slowly.

Could it be that he misremembered and put it in the pocket outside the rucksack?

"Okay." Lu Zhenghe replied.

Opening the bathroom door a crack, Ruan Xi took the items from Lu Zhenghe.

He held his breath, afraid that there would be a scent of wine flowing out of the mist in the bathroom.

As soon as Lu Zhenghe left, Ruan Xi leaned against the bathroom wall made of white tiles.

He felt the torrent of hot water cascading down his back like a waterfall, and the water splashed around his feet.

Almost exhausted, Ruan Xi slowly sat down on the ground.

His eyes had started to turn red, and his broken hair was all messed up.

Ruan Xi couldn't appreciate himself in the mirror in a mess, and he didn't want to look at it. He couldn't remember how he got through this situation last time, but he clearly noticed that the fluctuation this time was worse than any other time. More violent exception.

After shaking off the water on her hands, Ruan Xi reached into the left pocket of the coat and fumbled.

It’s over.

He didn't touch the suppressant.

"..."

Ruan Xi was silent for a moment, then grabbed the right pocket and turned it inside out.

nor.

There was only one needle lying alone in the palm of his hand.

Could it be that he didn't take it out in advance and put it away?

Still in the backpack?

Did you see Lu Zhenghe when he was helping him find something just now?

Ruan Xi searched again and again for the coat, Ruan Xi was sure that the inhibitor was gone, he was not a dawdling person, and knew that there was really no other way, so he quietly opened the bathroom door a small crack, and smoothly put the heat The water was twisted into cold water, took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly, trying to make his strange pheromone smell less.

Before she could speak, Ruan Xi heard Lu Zhenghe's question from the room, "What are you looking for? Is your inhibitor?"

Beast·10 because we believe in destiny.