I don't know how long I slept, but Xia Qiu's mind gradually woke up. She opened her eyes with difficulty and found that she was still lying in the same place as before, with no strength at all. After trying many times, she finally got up with support.
Looking around the room, she always felt that something was wrong. She still clearly remembered the situation in the room before she lay down. At that time, the room was still a mess, with books and items scattered on the floor. However, the room was different now, and everything was in good condition. It was on the shelf. Did someone tidy it up while she was sleeping? This abnormal feeling caused an inexplicable fear to surge through her body. Although her feet were still soft, she no longer cared about that much and only wanted to see the situation of other people in the outer room.
She leaned against the wall and walked to the outside room, and found that the furnishings there were also very neat and even spotless. However, Qian Qi, Feng Huo and Ouyang Hongye were all missing. At this time, her body was a little more flexible than before. She walked to the platform outside the house, but could not find Ouyang Xiaolen and Wang Yue. In a hurry, she I looked around on the platform, but couldn't find them anywhere.
She tried to shout their names loudly, but no sound came out of her throat. Only then did she realize that it was clearly night when she fell asleep, but now it was daytime. what on earth is it? Where did everyone else go? She never felt that she had slept for so long, and she didn't believe that they would abandon her and leave! She was thinking about these questions when she saw a group of black smoke appearing in the sky in the distance. The smoke was like a dark cloud flying at low altitude, and more like ink that had just been dripped into the water. As soon as it was slowly released in the water, it started to appear again. It condensed, then released, and it repeatedly attacked in her direction, and was in front of her in a blink of an eye.
She had no time to dodge. Just when she thought she was about to be surrounded by this black cloud, the black shadow passed through her body, as if she didn't exist, and she only felt a cool breeze blowing by. She quickly turned around and saw the black shadow quickly transforming into a human form in the bird room. Only then did she realize that she had seen the ink-like black smoke just now. It was the suspected Qingyun subordinate named Hei Yun who had attacked her. people. Is this her dream? She didn't understand why she dreamed about this person, but she had an intuition that told her it wasn't a dream.
When she was sure that the person suspected of being Hei Yun could not feel her presence at all, she relaxed and began to observe his every move. He dusted off the dust on his black cloak, and then picked it up from the low table. Teapot, fill a cup, put it to your mouth and drink it in one gulp, then fill another cup, and drink three cups in a row, looking like you came from a long way from somewhere.
When he put down his cup and walked towards the back room, Xia Qiu followed him in. She saw him picking up a book from the shelf, sitting on the chair next to him and reading quickly. She leaned over to see what he was reading. What, but it's a pity that the words in the book are like symbols, and she doesn't recognize any of them, but she seems to have seen some of them in the royal city of Yongchuan. The book looked very old. She guessed that it was left by the former Lord of Zangquetai City. The man flipped through it for a while, frowned, and closed the book. It seemed that he did not find it in the book. As for what he needed, he put the book back on the shelf and took another one to read. After flipping through many books in this way, his eyes locked on a black book. He spent a long time reading the book until there was a sound from outside. He closed the book and saw a black wolf. Walked in slowly.
It bowed its head respectfully to him with a completely anthropomorphic movement and said. "Chief, as Lord Qingyun predicted, the people in the royal city are heading in this direction and are expected to arrive here at night. Please leave as soon as possible to avoid alerting the enemy and attracting Lord Qingyun's attention."
After hearing this, he asked: "I understand, you go back first, I will leave here later and return to Lord Qingyun. Besides, Lord Qingyun and others don't know about my being here?"
"Yes, please don't worry! That subordinate retreated first!" Hei Lang bowed his head deeply again, then walked backwards and left the bird house.
After the black wolf left, he reluctantly looked at the black book in his hand. Xia Qiu also took this opportunity to try his best to remember the shapes of the symbols on the cover of the book, and then he hesitated and stuffed the book into himself. inside pocket of the cloak. The next scene seemed to be that when they came to this room, the room was in a mess, deliberately pretending to be uninhabited. He threw all the things in the shelves to the ground, and destroyed as much furniture as possible in the room, letting the people outside The room looked messy, and then he reviewed the room again to make sure there were no omissions, and then left.
Xia Qiu tried to follow him because she thought that if she followed him, she might be able to find out where Qingyun was hiding. But just when she followed him out of the outhouse and wanted to fly off the platform with him, she was pulled back by a mysterious force. That kind of force Just like an exhaust fan, it rotated and pulled her back to the place where she was originally lying in the back room. She also lost consciousness at the same moment.
When she opened her eyes again, she found a pair of gray-blue pupils looking at her. Ouyang Xiaoleng was lying on the ground not far from her, not even covered by a blanket. When he saw her waking up, he turned his face to one side unnaturally at first, and then realized that doing so seemed more awkward. He turned back again, with a gentleness on his face that was rarely seen in ordinary times, and the two of them stared quietly at each other. They looked at each other without speaking.
This subtlety couldn't help but make her heart move, but then she began to suspect that this was just another dream of hers. After all, everything in front of her was so beautiful that it was unreal. She stretched out her hand to reach his face. He looked at her in surprise, but still let her hand caress his cheek. She felt his warmth and looked at the ground behind him. It still looked as messy as when she came here, and she was sure that she had truly returned to the real world.
However, the beauty in front of her was instantly shattered by everything she had just experienced. This was not the first time that she felt like her soul was separated from her body. She had had a similar experience before in the Yongchuan Forest. It seemed like a dream but not a dream. It was as if she had traveled to another time and space, and the feeling of depression and fear suffocated her.
Ouyang Xiaoleng noticed her uneasiness. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, which were a little sore from not sleeping all night. He looked at her doubtfully and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I had a strange dream...it might not be a dream. I don't know if I should tell Hongye and the others!"
Xia Qiu also sat up. Because she couldn't define what that feeling was, she became a little incoherent. However, she still turned out a blank piece of paper under the shelf and tried her best to remember the symbols on the cover of the book she saw. Or draw words.
She pushed the drawn paper in front of Ouyang Xiaoleng and asked, "Can you recognize what this is?"
He took it and looked at it, and replied in surprise: "This is an ancient demon world writing, similar to the oracle bone inscriptions in the human world. I seem to have seen these words somewhere before." He felt that they must have flashed before his eyes, but I couldn't remember where it came from, so I asked, "Besides this, what else did you see?"
Xia Qiu responded with a more frightened expression on his face: "I saw the person who appeared in this room, I mean the person who appeared here before us. He got the news before we arrived and left here in a hurry. .”
"What kind of person appears here?"
"It is most likely the person who once attacked me in Yongchuan - Hei Yun. He has been looking at the books that were placed on this shelf before, as if he was looking for something. Finally, one of them caught his attention. I couldn't understand the content of that book, so I only remembered the symbols on the cover." She pointed to the piece of paper she just handed to Xiao Leng, and then continued, "At this moment, I walked in from the outside. A black wolf told him that just as Qingyun said, the people from the royal city were about to arrive here, and asked him to quickly return to where they were stationed to avoid disturbing the situation and making Qingyun displeased."
She tried her best to repeat to Ouyang Xiaoleng what she heard in her dream word for word. He pondered for a while after listening to it. He couldn't tell what the meaning of her dream was, but his intuition told him that this dream was not what it seemed on the surface. So simple, he believed that if it was just an ordinary dream, it would not make her so uneasy. He had also heard something about Hei Yun. He only knew that in the era of his grandfather Ouyang Li, this person had not yet appeared. When his father Ouyang Xueye took charge of the demon world, he suddenly became Qingyun's general. He had the command With an intimidating speed, a big knife that can cut off everything, and an unknown mysterious origin, he is a mysterious figure. Unlike Qingyun's other subordinates, he never tortured or humiliated those who lost to him. Even he gave enough respect to his enemies. No one can figure out his details. His strength, speed and fighting style are extremely unique and different from any monster. Even Master Yong and other elders of the monster world cannot tell his origin.
"Do you think I should tell Hongye about this? Is it making a fuss out of a molehill? Maybe it's just a dream." Xia Qiu expressed his concerns and uneasiness.
"Did they mention where Qingyun's residence is?" He was not in a hurry to answer his question. Even if he was not sure, he still asked with a glimmer of hope.
She replied with some frustration: "No, they didn't say that. I wanted to go with them, but as soon as I left the Bird House, I seemed to be pulled back by some force, and then I didn't know anything."
"I think I should talk to Momiji because that sounds like a lucid dream."
Ouyang Xiaoleng felt that Xia Qiu's description was very similar to a lucid dream, but he had never heard that a lucid dream could reveal what happened at different times in the same space.
"What is a lucid dream?" Xia Qiu heard another word that was quite unfamiliar to him.
"Lucid dreams, also called soul separation, are dreams made when consciousness is awake. The dreamer will be very clear that he is in a dream and can think normally. A few people will think more quickly than usual in lucid dreams, and even fewer will think more quickly in lucid dreams than usual. People can do whatever they want in a lucid dream, create the things they want, and see the people they want to see." Ouyang Xiaoleng explained.