Journey to the Rose

On the first night when Wen Kai and Li Shen came back, the entire temporary camp was very quiet.

Because he was worried, Ruan Xi was supposed to go back to sleep in the tent after visiting the two companions, but he couldn't sleep because of tossing and turning, and he didn't rest at all, so he went back to the medical company wrapped in a cloak.

Sure enough, Lu Zhenghe didn't sleep either, he was leaning against the curtain of the medical company with his gun in his arms, his eyes slightly closed.

He seemed worried about other people guarding, and wanted to guard here for a while by himself.

Ruan Xi felt distressed.

You are the young master, idiot.

The entire city of Sable is filled with aimless nights within 24 hours a day, making people confused day and night, and have no concept of time at all.

On the second day of recuperation, Lu Zhenghe went to the car to rest.

Wen Kai just woke up after a full sleep and drank a bowl of tomato and beef brisket porridge cooked by Ruan Xi.

As soon as Wen Kai ate the sour-sweet food like tomato, his appetite whetted, and he ate two or three bowls with a smile. Finally, he couldn't eat any more. He rubbed his stomach and leaned against the bedside, saying that beef is a must for the army, but where is the tomato? come...

Ruan Xi said, the young master brought people into the mountains to look for it, he knew you like to eat.

Li Shen was hanging his head beside him, looking like "why did you wake me up when I'm still asleep?", holding a freshly cooked beef bone in his hand, gnawing sickly, while saying: "Young master So kind to you..."

"Don't hurt me," Wen Kai wanted to grab the big bone and hit him on the head with a hammer, "This is your favorite food too!"

Knowing that he was going to be scolded, Li Shen shrank back to the edge of the bed in fright, showing a mouthful of white teeth, and smiled brightly: "I like to eat everything, and it is very easy to feed myself."

Ruan Xi silently observed from the side.

In the past, according to Lu Zhenghe, these two people were just plastic brothers fighting, and their relationship was too good, so they looked sticky, but after talking with Wen Kai, he looked like "flirtatious".

In addition... Bo Yang, who had woken up early, was still sitting on another bed.

The picture is even weirder!

The medical company allocated four empty beds, one for Li Shen, one for Bo Yang, and the worst thing was that Wen Kai's bed was still in the middle.

Bo Yang also didn't speak the whole time, just turned his back to them, served a bowl of dumplings by himself, and his eyes illuminated a small area around him.He eats very quietly in the corner and is not at all unpleasant.

It seems that Li Shen really doesn't like Bo Yang.

But he always peeks at what people are eating!

Ruan Xi had a bit of a knowledge blind spot in this area, and she didn't quite understand it, so she gave up thinking about it.

but……

Bo Yang's bowl of dumplings looks delicious, I'll ask Lu Zhenghe later if he can let the cooking work continue.

"Ruan Xi, are you hungry?"

Li Shen stood up with his plate in his hand, he was still standing still, he staggered and almost fell again, Ruan Xi rushed over to support him: "Don't get out of bed casually..."

Wen Kai couldn't stand it anymore, and pretended to be angry: "Can you stop making trouble for Ruan Xi?"

"Oh, how could I be so ashamed in front of Ruan Xi."

With an embarrassed smile, Li Shen turned his head to look at Bo Yang again, as if he really didn't want to be seen by Bo Yang like he was such an idiot.

"It's ok."

After catching this point, Ruan Xi pursed her lips, didn't say anything, and didn't tease him.

"When I get back to Zenith City, I'll bake cold noodles for you," Li Shen said, "add some eggs, add some ham, and it's best to put a chicken fillet in it... Wow, absolutely!"

Wen Kai had to remind him: "Don't mess with Ruan Xi. When we return to Zenith City, all the cold noodles sellers will run away."

"Ok."

Li Shen felt lost when he thought that the roasted cold noodles were gone.

But Ruan Xi hadn't eaten any grilled cold noodles, and didn't know if it was good or not, so she just nodded, expressing that she still had a little expectation.

"Ruan Xi, has the young master given instructions, how soon should we leave?"

Wen Kai said, "Although the speed of ground fission has slowed down during this period, it is not as sudden as before in the south. But I sent someone to inquire, and they said that the ground fission is about to break through the north-south dividing line. ..."

Ruan Xi replied: "He said that we will leave after you wake up."

"That……"

Li Shen wanted to say something, but found that he hadn't finished his food, so he quickly lowered his head two or three times to finish it.

Wen Kai said: "Don't do that! I'll give you another 5 minutes to finish eating. If you can't finish eating, you can take the big beef bone and go on the road."

Ruan Xi couldn't help laughing.

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In the sky, the stars are slowly rising, and the leaves in the night are fluttering with the wind, like battle flags representing victory.

After a brief rest, a battalion with a total of more than 300 people set off again and left the Sable City River Valley without any loss of personnel.

It is ready to start again.

Ruan Xi was full because Lu Zhenghe made him a fish dumpling.

Although there is no oily chili sauce, he hasn't eaten dumplings for a long time, and he doesn't have any requirements for the taste of the food, as long as it can satisfy his appetite and fill his stomach.

But the dumplings made by the Northern Alliance Army are really too big!

Ruan Xi made a gesture and felt that it was as big as the three he ate in his hometown.

Forget it, it’s still served in a stainless steel basin, but this is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the little soldier from the cooking company even brought a bowl of soy sauce for him to dip in.

Ruan Xi knew that the conditions were tough and she couldn't ask for too much, but she couldn't help asking, how do you eat dumplings with soy sauce?

Lu Zhenghe stood motionless beside him, with a very indifferent expression, and said, we just ate with soy sauce.

"Chili," Ruan Xi still resisted, although it was ineffective, "It's better to use chili!"

"soy sauce."

"chili."

"..."

The convoy is on the move.

For the convenience of cooperation, Lu Zhenghe, Ruan Xi, Wen Kai, and Li Shen sat in the same armored command vehicle. Wen Kai was in charge of driving, and Li Shen was in charge of observing the surrounding movement from the co-pilot.

This kind of car can command troops to move quickly, and the roof can extend out of the car, enough to grasp the situation.

The vehicle that Bo Yang was in was a "pioneer", a wheeled reconnaissance vehicle with the brightest headlights on, driving in front of the team.

Wen Kai took out the wrinkled land map from Wen Kai's pocket, looked at it for a while, shook his head, and took out a completely different map from the lining of his clothes, saying: "The south is gone, you That map seems superfluous...Look at me, the northern alliance's meticulously drawn version of the northern map is absolutely accurate."

Wen Kai didn't even want to talk to him, turned his head slightly, and said to Lu Zhenghe, "Young Master, there is only one straight road for us to leave the city, and we have to walk out of the entire river valley."

"I know, let's go." Lu Zhenghe relaxed and leaned against the back of the seat.

Every year, he has to walk the road from Quaggy City to Zenith City.

He couldn't be more familiar with the scenery along the way, but this time it was completely different.With Ruan Xi by his side, he seemed to be on the road for the first time.

The car continued to drive forward.

Ruan Xi saw something falling from the night, like snow falling from the sky, covering the front windshield of the armored vehicle profusely.

Wen Kai was very calm, and explained to Ruan Xi: "Sable City lacks light and has no photosynthesis. These are the corpses of some floating creatures."

Then, he pressed the wiper directly and smiled: "Just wipe it off."

"...Corpse?" It was time for Ruan Xi's curious baby again.

Because Wen Kai was driving, he couldn't spend all his time explaining to Ruan Xi, so he had to stop talking and concentrate on observing the road ahead.After all, it is so dark, walking down depends entirely on the light, and it is inevitable that there will be unexpected situations on the road.

So Lu Zhenghe took the baton, hugged Ruan Xi towards him, and said softly, "Look out of the window."

Ruan Xi followed his gaze.

The further you go into the city, the greater the water flow of the small stream in the valley, gradually spreading on the hard sandy ground, forming shallow riverbanks.

In the dark, some glowing creatures live on the river beach.

They moved slowly with the current, like meteors falling from the top of the dome.

Lu Zhenghe said: "Look, in this environment, these small fish have evolved light-emitting fins and teeth like light bulbs to lure other creatures closer. When there is no artificial light, Sable City is very dark."

Ruan Xi was stunned for a moment, and opened her mouth, "Fish...the cooking company is not made of dumplings."

"Definitely," Li Shen said, "Five days after eating, you will become a night light."

"..."

Although Ruan Xi, who has been touched in the blind spot of knowledge, is easy to deceive, she is still smart.

Lu Zhenghe coughed and had to correct himself: "It's the dumplings made of these fish, but you won't become a night light."

"..."

Really?

Ruan Xi suddenly felt a little choked in her throat.

The car continued to drive forward.

Until they left the river valley area, they came to a low-shrub jungle like a dead wasteland.

At this time, the temperature in the north has already played a role. Under the illumination of the headlights, crystal clear hoarfrost hangs on the leaves of the plants.

The darkness was still boundless, and in invisible places, Ruan Xi could clearly feel the breathing of other strangers. They were refugees heading north with luggage on their backs, shuttling through the darkness.

"It's like a cemetery here, as if all the creatures died here."

Ruan Xi came here for the first time, but Lu Zhenghe and the others are no strangers to such suffocating black.

"It is not necessarily death that sleeps forever, and the undead who have experienced strange eternity will also die."

After trying to understand this sentence, Li Shen still frowned, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you talking about?"

Wen Kai was very indifferent at first: "Abdullah Alhasad said it."

"Who is that?" Li Shen asked.

"A poet." Wen Kai lost his composure and didn't want to answer, but he still said, "He wrote this sentence in the Necronomicon."

Li Shen was still confused: "What book?"

Wen Kai almost wanted to roll his eyes, more and more he felt that he was talking to a duck, "A magic book."

"Can you still do magic?"

"Well," Wen Kai smiled and stared at him, "When I learn it, I'll be the first to make you disappear."

Li Shen: "..."

Tear·93 "I will use it to protect the person I love the most."