Journey to the Rose

Chapter 56

The hand that Ruan Xi used to hold the space-time mirror trembled.

He blinked, the wind seemed to blow some gravel in, his eyes were dry and itchy, it was the foreign body sensation he couldn't escape, just like the pain he couldn't escape at this moment.Turning his head and rubbing the end of his eyes, he took a deep breath and used this short few seconds to hide his panic.

After a while, Ruan Xicai said: "That group photo...you have seen it a long time ago?"'

Lu Zhenghe suddenly felt that he had made a mistake again, "Yes."

"When and where?"

"Beast City."

Beast City, how long ago was that before their long journey sounded the beginning drum.

Ruan Xi tried hard to recall the only remaining time between the two of them during this journey, and came to the conclusion: it was probably when Beast City asked Lu Zhenghe to get facial cleanser.

The secret is discovered, and the road is open.

"sorry."

Without asking Ruan Xi to say a word, Lu Zhenghe turned sideways, blocking most of his sight with his broad back, with his back facing the lush growth of vines, he kissed Ruan Xi with some flattering comfort.

He reached out and wiped the corner of Ruan Xi's mouth with his fingertips.Lu Zhenghe knew that at this time, no matter how much he said, it would be useless.

They need more honesty.

"What are you rubbing..."

"Wipe it for you." He moved closer and kissed Ruan Xi's side face flatteringly.

"Okay, let's hurry up..."

In this situation, Ruan Xi did not avoid his closeness, and her impatience was indeed soothed by her lover's pheromone, "I've finished reading mine, it's time to read yours."

Ruan Xi shuddered as the wind blew into the gaps in her clothes.

Lu Zhenghe took the space-time mirror.

The space-time mirror doesn't look like a gemstone, but more like a calm, calm sea when there is no wind.It is the same as what Li Shen said, the overall color is excessively blue and white, which is the color where the sea and the sky meet.

At this time, it became slightly black, and sporadic light spots appeared in the distance where the sea and the sky meet from time to time.

As the waves rolled, a helicopter appeared and hovered above the sea.The violent wind disturbed by the propellers spread across the water, and the originally silent blue-black had waves.

"Do you have any memory of this scene?" Ruan Xi asked.

Lu Zhenghe: "No, it doesn't feel like what happened in recent years."

"That was before you lost your memory."

"You mean, when I was still in Ablaze City?"

"Well, look at this beach, does it look like the one I went to find you?"

Recalling the heart-piercing episode of Ruan Xi just now, Lu Zhenghe was speechless for a while, as if there was another thorn in his throat that he couldn't swallow no matter what.He said, "Like."

"Helicopter..."

Ruan Xi thought quickly, "We don't have this in our city, it's obviously an outsider."

The image fed back by the space-time mirror has just begun, and Lu Zhenghe has already seen the helicopter's ownership from the painting on the surface: "It belongs to the Northern Alliance."

After all, he has practiced in the control tower for two or three years, and even in the darkest sea at night, he can still recognize his special "comrades in arms".

A dozen or so adults were hoisted from the helicopter, and they should be fully developed adult alphas.They were fully equipped, and the two leaders held guns that looked like submachine guns in their arms, as if they were rushing to land on the beach.

They are attacking towards the front step by step, and the picture is constantly regressing.

It was Lu Zhenghe who was retreating.

"What are they holding?"

"I think it looks like an anesthesia.drunk.gun." Lu Zhenghe was completely unfamiliar with this memory. He seemed to be watching some part of someone else's performance. "As long as the bullet is made of triangular shape and coated with a large dose of anesthetic, it will not only It dazzles and leaves superficial wounds. After the shot hits the target, the victim quickly collapses and loses consciousness."

"Oh……"

Originally, they wanted to continue to say something, but both of them blocked their words for everything that was presented next.

Those who came to attack Lu Zhenghe stepped onto the beach. They formed a circle from which no one could escape, holding their guns, and aimed eleven black muzzles at Lu Zhenghe.The wind picked up, and the sea rolled up waves in the middle of the night, pushing the sea water to the beach wave after wave, as if pushing them away and sending them to the other end of the sea.

The screen flickered.

Ruan Xi seemed to feel that someone had hit his chest with a sap, and asked in a low voice, "Did you get shot?"

"It should be," Lu Zhenghe said, "but I can't remember it at all."

Then, a bloody hand appeared on the screen.It should be after being shot, Lu Zhenghe went to cover the injured part. The wound was not big, but there was still a trace of blood sticking to his hand.He is looking down at his hands.

Indeed, Lu Zhenghe was shot.

Lu Zhenghe, who has no professional training, no guns, weapons, and weapons for self-defense, and even no gender differentiation, is very fragile at the age of 16.

He adjusted his breathing, clenched his fists, and still desperately kicked the person who approached him first with his legs. The person who was kicked opened his mouth, probably letting out a cry of pain.

The man knelt down on the ground holding the gun, and wanted to hit Lu Zhenghe's head with the butt of the gun, but the arm that raised the butt was hurriedly stopped by the other hand.

The man seemed to have been scolded, but he didn't dare to attack, so he could only lie on the ground, covering his legs, and endured Lu Zhenghe's kicks and kicks several times, and finally the pain was unbearable. Comrades".

"Are they fighting among themselves?" Ruan Xi wondered.

"He probably wanted to beat me and make me submit," Lu Zhenghe said in a calm tone, "but I am the young master of the future, and everyone is afraid that I won't be able to forget, and they will wait for an opportunity to retaliate in the future, so they dare not touch me."

Someone turned on the small military searchlight overhead.

As soon as the light was turned on, the dark environment was slightly brightened, and the light was dimmed, illuminating this small spot on the beach while shaking.

Judging from the surrounding environment, Ruan Xi recognized that this is an inaccessible shoal outside the city of Ablaze. Only fishermen go here during the fishing season, and there are not many people here at ordinary times.Why is Lu Zhenghe running here if he has nothing to do, no wonder no one came to rescue him when he was captured!

Ruan Xi couldn't help asking, "What are you doing here?"

"I..." Lu Zhenghe really thought about it for a few seconds, and answered truthfully: "I don't remember."

Sighing, Ruan Xi chose to give up.

It's been so long, and it seems that I still haven't remembered anything.

With the help of the searchlight, Ruan Xi felt that one of the group of people with half-covered faces looked very familiar—that was the one standing in the corner, and he was also holding an anesthesia gun in his hand.

Compared with these executors, his attitude is more inclined to wait and see, a little timid, and has no intention of attacking Lu Zhenghe.This person looks a little younger than the others, half the size difference, he should be the youngest in this group.

Ruan Xi narrowed his eyes.

Afterwards, he turned his gaze to Lu Zhenghe, who also turned his gaze over.Not because of anything else, just because both of them saw it.

This person is Li Shen.

Four years ago, Li Shen was still a little childish.

The screen flickered again.

The image became blurred and pitch black, the light source weakened, Lu Zhenghe was struggling, and the scene was so chaotic that it was no longer possible to see who was who.

Lu Zhenghe's palm was bloodied, and he was still holding something desperately in his palm. Judging from the outline, he could vaguely recognize that it was a light-colored cloth pouch, and the golden tassels hanging from the edge were shining.Before he could see clearly, the pouch was snatched away by the people who surrounded him, and he threw it on the beach.

Until the final color turned into bottomless darkness, Ruan Xi was startled, and then pulled away from everything she saw.

"What did I take?"

Last night's raindrops fell from the vines, and slid into Lu Zhenghe's skin along his neck and back.He moved his Adam's apple, feeling his throat dry up due to tension.

Ruan Xi has no emotions.

He believed there was no crueler torture than seeing a loved one hurt.

Hearing Lu Zhenghe's question, Ruan Xi cooled down his anger for a while, and then said: "The things that all underage teenagers in Ablaze City have are called safe hanging. You have no parents since you were a child, and I have been going to work every year since I met you. I got one from everywhere, and I gave you four in total, and you said too many, and it’s inconvenient to carry with you, so I’ll let you choose the one you like the most.”

Lu Zhenghe was slightly stunned, and said, "Can't I have it after I'm an adult?"

"If you like it," Ruan Xi was aggravated by the soreness rising from her throat, "I'll get it for you when I have a chance to go back to Ablaze City in the future."

"Okay." Lu Zhenghe responded to him.

"This should...should be your last memory of your previous self," Ruan Xi said, "After that, did you wake up in bed in Zenith City?"

The new environment is cold and novel, accompanied by the mysterious songs of the north, and the new identity is slightly but majestic.The boy from the sea opened the window, and the endless blue sea was no longer visible, but the snow-capped mountains stretching to the sky.

He is the future leader of the North, and ice and snow are destined to freeze his past.Forgetting is a kind of destiny that happens, it is no longer a kind of guilt dedicated only to Ruan Xi.

Lu Zhenghe was questioned.

He felt heartbroken, because he couldn't answer Ruan Xi's question, and he saw the pain in the eyes of the other party, who was so eager to ask him for an answer.

After thinking about it carefully, Lu Zhenghe said, "That's right."

Ruan Xi slightly raised his eyebrows.

He asked: "Do you know that Li Shen once participated in this operation?"

"do not know."

"It seems that your family trusts him very much. Since you joined the army, there has been Li Shen who has been by your side as your right-hand man, right?"

Lu Zhenghe nodded: "Yes."

Ruan Xi didn't say much, just stretched out her index finger, tapped the smooth surface of the time-space mirror, and said, "Okay. The time-space mirror wants to tell us something."

So the eyes of the two people once again focused on the surface of the gem.

The space-time mirror is emitting a faint light.

This time, the "memory" is simpler. It was on the campus playground, the sunset was just right, and there were classmates walking by from time to time, playing and playing, rushing by.

In the picture, Ruan Xi's face gradually appeared. It looked the same as now, but the brows and eyes were more immature, with a lively expression, a little more arrogant than now.

What Ruan Xi was talking about couldn't be determined by the shape of his mouth, Lu Zhenghe reached out to hold him, but he didn't dodge, but seemed to be angry.

He hasn't grown up to be calm when things happen, and he can't calm down when he's in a bad mood. His ears are red and the tip of his nose is red with anger. He stands still in anger and aggrieved, no matter how much Lu Zhenghe coaxes him.

As the sun sets, Wan Dao's soft orange-red beams spread across the green field.

Ruan Xi was dragged by Lu Zhenghe's wrist, and the two teenagers who hadn't learned how to deal with relationships seemed very flustered.As soon as Lu Zhenghe changed his usual attitude of not allowing strangers to enter, he pulled Ruan Xi's hands until red marks appeared and did not let go.While tugging, Ruan Xi took a deep breath and said something to Lu Zhenghe.

According to the shape of the mouth...

It seems to be... If it happens again next time, shall we separate?

Huh, the picture is a bit blurry.

Ruan Xi thought that the space-time mirror had fogged up, so she twisted her cuffs and wanted to wipe it off, but Lu Zhenghe grabbed his hand and said sullenly, "It seems that I'm crying...?"

Ugh.

The tender Ruan Xi in the picture sighed, and embraced the boyfriend in front of her.

The image on the space-time mirror instantly turned into the fabric of Ruan Xi's sky blue school uniform, and tears dripped on the fabric, slowly smudged into a water stain, quietly and quietly.

Lu Zhenghe was shocked by "himself" again, turned his head slowly, and focused his eyes on Ruan Xi's innocent expression.He asked, "What is this?"

Ruan Xi looked very calm: "This is your incomplete body before evolution."

"..."

It turns out that "I" can have two faces?

Lu Zhenghe thought for a while, and analyzed rationally: "This is me four years ago, right?"

"Ah."

"Why are we arguing?"

"Forgot. There are so many people on the playground, I guess you might be smiling at some omega," Ruan Xi said, poking an upward arc at the corner of her lips with her index finger, "Like this."

Lu Zhenghe didn't speak, but had an expression of "Do you think it's possible?"

After thinking about it, Lu Zhenghe took the initiative to summarize his memories: "It turns out that we not only fight, but also quarrel."

Ruan Xi frowned, "I can do it now." But to be honest, he didn't expect that just one quarrel would cause a lot of damage, even if people were forced to cry, it would leave such a deep memory in Lu Zhenghe's long river of memory impression.

"I don't want it." Lu Zhenghe cast a begging look at him.

"Once in the taro ball shop in front of the school, I sat face to face with you. You were reading a book about astrology, and I watched every page you turned. There was a couple sitting next to us. They They hugged each other intimately. That winter, the city of ablaze was extremely cold, so they wore scarves, but they even kissed each other through the scarves."

"and then?"

Ruan Xi's thoughts wandered, she paused, and continued to narrate: "After a few minutes, they suddenly quarreled, and the girl broke the spoon of the taro ball shop. You were interrupted, but you didn't speak, wrote A note was handed to me, only six words, 'Is this love'."

"Well," Lu Zhenghe smiled, "how did you answer me?"

"I'll tell you, 'Do you know why people in love quarrel'? You shook your head. I said..." Ruan Xi paused and took a deep breath, "It's because their expectations and demands on each other are too high Yes. There is someone who can accompany me to do many things and let me see every day, I am already very happy."

"What do I say?"

"You asked me, do you have any requirements for you? I said no, no matter what happens in the future, just remember me." Ruan Xi smiled, "At that time, my thinking was relatively simple, and I was thinking about going to the same university , I want to meet secretly under the sculpture in the central square every day, and if one day my house won’t let me out, you can visit me at the back door in the back garden covered with wild roses, and I’ll dig out to see you.”

Lu Zhenghe couldn't laugh anymore, "I remember that you planted roses in your back garden."

"That's because I like it." Ruan Xi rubbed her hands, the pain was like melting snow on her chest, "In the first year after you disappeared, the family asked the gardener to replace the wild roses, and the stepmother said that the vines represent a lifetime of entanglement, which has a bad meaning .”

"Why do you like roses?" Lu Zhenghe said, "It was after I left you that I differentiated and had the smell of pheromones."

"I've always liked it."

After protesting softly, Ruan Xi's hand was pulled into Lu Zhenghe's embrace, and his fingers that were about to be frozen to death finally returned to temperature, and he scratched Lu Zhenghe's palm with satisfaction, and continued: "Four years ago, a classmate in the classroom once It’s all gone, you ask me, what’s my favorite flavor? I said the taste of hot pot. You said that this taste is a bit difficult, and it’s not something that ordinary people can differentiate.”

"That is indeed difficult."

Lu Zhenghe raised the corners of his lips, "Perhaps the land needs a food city."

Ruan Xi raised her voice and said, "Then I thought about it, and I said that I like the scent of roses the most. You said that other alphas would definitely laugh at you, because it doesn't symbolize masculine strength. In the end, you really smell like this."

"I don't care what other people think."

"Really?"

"Although in the beginning... this smell did affect my majesty."

Lu Zhenghe pretended to be stern, and he was about to be amused, "At that time, the rumored version in the army was: the new young master is rose-flavored, like the most charming female omega of the Zenith City Song and Dance Troupe. But now no one dares Having said that, I also think it smells good.”

Four years, neither long nor short.

From a "little master" who entered the Union Army through the back door, he became a leader who made the northern region fearful.Fortunately, the current him has experienced new hardships and picked up all the previous things.

There is still enough time to make up for what he has lost, forgotten and even failed.

Key·57 buns are delicious.