It's late afternoon, and in Qingyang City, where the sky is getting darker, warm orange light shines from the small windows of every household, making summer and autumn nostalgic for the nights in Yongchuan. She hasn't been home for a long time. Her grandfather's busy figure in the courtyard and her grandmother's kind eyes are so far away from her at this moment.
With an uneasy mood, she followed Heyin and his son back to the small house where they lived. Heyin's wife had already started preparing dinner for everyone. She had no idea what was going to happen next, so she had no choice but to stay at their home.
Although his parents were still frustrated by what the sudden appearance of the human girl said, Heye was the happiest one from beginning to end. He jumped around like a little monkey and chirped around Xia Qiu. Stop, it saved her a lot of worries.
She temporarily lived in their house like this. During the day, she helped Heyin's wife do some work in the herb field or at home. In her free time, she played games with Heyin. After a few days of observation, there was nothing around here except Heye. There are only two younger children, and those two children have already encountered Guiyin one after another, and their lives are in danger.
When she heard other people in the city talking about how rare it was for children to live to the age of hinges, Xia Qiu felt even more love for him. She thought that if she could have a younger brother, she would really like him. Can be as innocent and cute as a hinge.
One day just after lunch, Heye mysteriously pulled Xia Qiu out of the house and said to her: "Sister Xia Qiu, I want to take you to see the new friend I met the day before yesterday!"
Xia Qiu nodded and followed him to the bushes at the edge of the herb field. There was a spider web on a small tree, with a fist-sized black spider with red and yellow patterns on it. She looked carefully. Look, the spiders were just like the ones she saw in the empty houses in her own time and space. They should be the same kind.
Heye tilted his head and smiled at her, then stretched out a hand in the direction of the spider web, and the big spider jumped onto his hand.
"Poisonous!" Xia Qiu couldn't help but become nervous when he saw it. He was afraid that the hinge would be bitten by a spider, and he shouted while trying to knock it off his hand.
But he turned around and rushed towards her with his back, using his small body to protect the spider, and said proudly: "That's my new friend. Even though it looks like this, it actually can't bite." If you’re human, at least you won’t bite me, if you don’t believe me, just reach out!”
Although Xia Qiu was doubtful about his words, seeing that the spider had been in his hand for so long without harming him, she listened to his words and reached out her hand.
Hinye put the big spider into her hand, moving very gently and slowly, for fear of accidentally dropping it to the ground. It was obvious that he liked his friend very much.
"Nine Eyes, this is Sister Xia Qiu!" Heye introduced to the big spider.
The spider moved a few times in Xia Qiu's palm and aimed its eyes at her. In her memory, the spider's strength should be extremely poor, but this spider was different. The nine single eyes were very powerful, and eight of them were very powerful. It was only black, but one was red. It rolled its eyes and looked at her for a long time, obviously trying to remember her appearance.
"You also gave it a name?" Xia Qiu no longer felt that the big spider was so scary. Looking at its round body in front of her, she felt that the name Heye was just right.
"Well, I was the first to find it on this tree, and you are the second person to see it. Like me, Jiuyan has no companions and is alone, but now I have sister Xia Qiu to accompany me. , so I want to introduce you to it, so that it has an extra friend!" When Heye said this, his slightly melancholy face looked like an adult.
"Sister came from a place more than a hundred years from now. At that time, Jiuyan had many friends." Xia Qiu comforted him with a smile.
"Really? That's great! But I know I couldn't see what happened at that time!" He stretched out his hand again, and the big spider jumped onto his hand obediently and let him stroke it back and forth.
Xia Qiu understood the meaning behind his words. Although he seemed carefree on the surface, in fact he already knew a lot about Guiyin. He must have deliberately pretended to be happy in order not to make his parents sad. look. Thinking like this, she finally couldn't hold back her tears and had to turn away and look at the sky.
At night, she and Heye slept on two beds in the back room, just like they did for a few days after she came here. Heyin's wife watched her son fall asleep and then went to the outhouse. As soon as Heyin saw her going out, he turned over and rushed towards Xia Qiu and asked, "Sister Xia Qiu, are you asleep?"
Xia Qiu also faced him and said, "Huh?"
Heye told her, "Don't tell my father and my mother about Jiuyan, it's our secret! I'm afraid they won't let me play with Jiuyan if they find out!"
Xia Qiu agreed: "Okay!"
"It's a deal!" Ke Heyin was obviously still not reassured and added another sentence.
"It's a deal!"
Xia Qiu thought he would say something else to her, but there was no reply from the other side. After a while, the sound of hinges' even and slightly heavy breathing came. She knew that he was asleep, so she closed her eyes.
The bright moonlight outside the window made it difficult for her to fall asleep. Although her life with Heyin's family was very harmonious during the day, allowing her to temporarily forget her worries, in the dead of night she had to worry about the future.
These days, she would go to the pool almost every now and then, expecting that a passage connecting her world would appear in the pool, but unfortunately, the passage never appeared again. Regarding the matter of the Seven Sound Gate, the demon spirits here were also very tight-lipped, so she never found out anything.
The fear of being trapped in a strange world made her helpless. How she wished that Ouyang Xiaoleng could suddenly appear by her side to give her strength and bring her back to her original world. What would happen if there was no going back? Should she stay in Qingyang or should she go somewhere else
Drowsily, she entered a state of semi-sleep. Her body was heavy but her brain was very clear. She recalled that she had not entered a state of disembodiment in sleep for some time. She did not know why she was in a state that did not belong to her. The world would enter it again.
Around the fourth watch, the moonlight outside the window was suddenly blocked by a dark shadow, bringing a chill that shrank her pores. She couldn't help but wake up and quietly observe what was about to happen.
The huge black shadow entered through the wall, bypassed the bed where she was sleeping under the window, walked straight to the hinged bed and stood there. After pausing in front of the bed for a while, the black shadow split open from the position of the head of the bed. A big hole was made like a mouth, and a thick pipe stuck out from the inside in an attempt to damage the hinge.
When he was as anxious as a spark, Xia Qiu's body, which was weak just now, got strength from nowhere. He jumped up from the bed and summoned the plum blade to point directly at the black shadow.
The black shadow had no choice but to retract the tube protruding from its mouth, turned to Xia Qiu, and rushed towards her with arms waving. Xia Qiu dodged to the side and then struck with a knife. It was unknown whether it was because he was injured by her knife, but the black shadow actually escaped from the wall through which he had entered the room before.
Xia Qiu followed closely without thinking. When she arrived outside, she realized that she had passed through the wall. She was led by the black shadow to the open space outside the house. Through the moonlight, the appearance of the black shadow was revealed in front of her. Wuyi is just a human-shaped black smoke, with no facial features visible and no way to tell the difference between the front and back.
She clenched the plum blade in her hand and scolded: "Who are you? Why do you want to harm Heye?"
"He has been destined to be my provider since birth. This is none of your business as a human being. If you insist on stopping me, then I will have no choice but to be rude to you." The shadow answered her.
"Are you the Saru Red Demon?" Xia Qiu asked, remembering that they had said before that the instigator of Onigakure was probably the Demon Spirit Clan's former great hero, the Saru Red Demon.
"That's right!" The black figure didn't hide anything and answered neatly.
"Unless you can defeat me, I will never allow you to hurt Hinye!"
After knowing the other party's true identity, Xia Qiu became much calmer. She felt that she must defeat him. These days of getting along day and night, she developed a kind of family-like friendship with Heye. Although she knew the power of the Ape Red Demon in her heart, she knew that this was definitely not the time to retreat.
If she can defeat the powerful enemy in front of her and return to her own world, then she can change history, and she and Heye will meet again in Qingyang City more than a hundred years later. How wonderful will it be? On the other hand, if Heye survives, Kui will no longer be the only son of the demon spirit, and the war between the demon horse cavalry regiment and the demon spirit clan will probably be avoided.
While she was thinking, the dark figure challenged her. He put one hand behind his back and said, "To deal with a yellow-haired girl like you, one of my hands is enough!"
Xia Qiu rarely takes the initiative to attack, but this time she will use offense as defense to find out how powerful the opponent is. She jumped into the air, her body was so light when her soul left for the first time. With a wave of the plum blade in her hand, she brought up a whirlpool of demon power, turned into a pink lightning and rushed towards the Ape Red Demon, but he remained calm and calm. The outside arm blocks.
Xia Qiu was ejected before she could realize what was going on. He jumped forward and almost stepped on her. She tried to duck to one side, and almost at the same time she heard a muffled thud, and the sound around her was heard. The sand and soil were shaken up by Lao Gao. If the force of this kick really stepped on her, it would definitely cause great harm to her.
She knew that at this moment, even without the help of her companions, she had to cheer up and never be overwhelmed by his momentum. She once again concentrated her energy to launch another round of attacks on the Ape Red Demon, swinging her sword to slash horizontally and vertically countless times, but the Ape Red Demon easily responded to the attack with only one hand as he said at the beginning, and would use it whenever he found an opportunity. Perform that stunt where you jump up and then step down hard.
She knew that her chances of winning would become even slimmer if she continued like this, so she no longer hesitated and tried to speed up the attack. Only by letting the opponent use his full strength as soon as possible could she know whether her current strength could compete with him.