As the car accelerated, everything seemed to be moving backwards. Pedestrians, trees, isolation belts, and buildings on both sides that looked like they were built by alien visitors and shot straight into the clouds were shrouded in dark tones that could be brought about by cloudy skies and smog, making Xia Qiu feel depressed. She leaned against the car window and slowly closed her eyes, falling asleep and waking up along the way.
"Hey, we're here."
Someone gently shook her shoulders. She thought it was Ouyang Xiaoleng, but when she opened her eyes, she saw Mo Han. She couldn't help but smile, who else could it be besides him? She has been away from Yongchuan for many years. After the war, she left that place.
That war caused both them and Qingyun to suffer losses. After she returned to the human world, the confusing path between the demon world and the human world was completely destroyed. Frustrated, she was greatly stimulated both physically and mentally, and she barely finished high school. But her time seemed to have stood still forever at the age of sixteen. All the happiness, colors and memories in her life were sealed in that year. This feeling has always been with her, and it is especially obvious at this moment.
Mohan loosened the seat belt for her, ran down to her side, opened the car door, and helped her out of the car.
"Thank you!" When she landed on her feet, she swayed slightly and couldn't help but take a few deep breaths. However, the air she sucked into her lungs made her even more uncomfortable. No matter how long it took, the air here still made her unable to sleep. adapt.
"Shall I take you up?" Mo Han locked the car and was about to help her walk into the community.
"No, I'm feeling better. Just go back by yourself! You should go back to the company. There is still a lot of work for you to handle, right?" Xia Qiu reluctantly cheered up and said that she didn't want to owe Mo Han any more favors. From the moment she entered the company, this man took special care of her.
"Okay!" Mo Han said helplessly, "Then just send me a message when you get home!"
Xia Qiu watched his car drive out of her sight, and then walked into the community in a daze. There were not many people in the community at this time. Only a few elderly people and their children gathered to play in an open space with simple facilities. That place faced the flower bed.
She slowly walked towards the flower bed and sat down. Looking at the children playing carefree, she felt that the suffocation she had felt a little better. Min Endong and Dong Muya have been looking for a way to reconnect the demon world and the human world, and promised her that they would notify her as soon as there is any progress. But she was disappointed again and again. The hope of returning to that place was very slim, and the possibility of reuniting with Ouyang Xiaoleng seemed to be completely cut off.
Now, she would only go back to Yongchuan during holidays and sit by Yinyue Lake for a whole day. Occasionally she would have hallucinations, and the non-existent passage reappeared in the middle of the building with the lost path leading to Ouyang's ancient house. But when she moved forward, there were only cold walls.
Everyone was urging her to move forward, even Dong Muya, who was waiting for Ouyang Hongye like her, told her the same thing. In her opinion, unlike her, she was still young and should not give up all opportunities and hope for unpredictable results. But she couldn't get rid of the constraints of her heart. She could still summon the plum blade, which was proof to her that as long as the blood alliance between her and Ouyang Xiaolen still existed, they would definitely be able to meet each other.
A child's ball slipped from her hand and rolled towards her. She picked up the ball with her head, smiled at the child and said, "Here!"
The child smiled and shook his head at her. Others in the yard also stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes to her. They all had smiles on their faces, as if they wanted to tell her that they The tranquility and peace she enjoys now are inseparable from the bloody battles she and her companions once fought.
"Are you going to give it to me?" she asked the child.
The child nodded as he walked towards her. The moment his little hand touched the ball, it formed a small black hole in her hand. The black hole looked very familiar, and she was dragged into the memory.
"The underworld. The black hole" she said to herself, and then shouted out a name with all her strength, "Hyacinth!"
A blue butterfly flew out of the black hole between her hands. When it flapped its wings, golden powder fell down. The powder flickered in front of her eyes, emitting a dazzling light that made her blink. .
The scenery around her suddenly changed, and she returned to the black hole where she was flying with Hyacinth and the wake warrior. The physical discomfort just now had disappeared, and now her whole body felt as if a heavy load had been lifted, so relaxed. So free.
She can finally return to him again. Although she doesn't know whether the future she mistakenly broke into is reality or just a reflection of the fear that exists in her subconscious, now she just wants to seize the opportunity in front of her. .
The gold powder dropped from the wings of the blue butterfly had turned into dazzling rays of light. She followed the guidance of those rays and kept flying. Finally, she found the main body of the light source. The staircase-like Qingyang City was right in front of them.
"I saw it, Qingliang is right there!" She shouted to Hyacinth, knowing in her heart that it was her inseparable thoughts and feelings for Ouyang Xiaolen that brought her back.
Hyacinth nodded and signaled to the guard warriors behind her, asking them to follow closely.
They finally broke through the shackles of the black hole together and landed in the square in front of Qingyang Chengwangzi Palace, where many Demon Spirit Clan warriors had gathered, and Ouyang Xiaoleng and others had also arrived.
Heyin and Heye's father and son gathered all the male demon spirits in the square to wait for the review of the demon king fox Ouyang Xiaoleng. The physically strong among them will be incorporated into the elite troops coming from the royal city, while the old and weak will be responsible for managing some of the secret passages and traps built in the lower city together with women and children.
Although the men of the Demon Spirit Clan in the city are all old, everyone hopes that they can be selected into the army and do their best to protect Qingyang and the Demon Realm. No one wants to be screened out.
But many of them have to rely on crutches to barely stand. The old injuries they suffered in the war when they were young have returned again in old age.
Heyin comforted several members of the same race who had just been screened out and were not suitable to participate in the battle, and said: "Even if you can't fight the enemy head-on to the death, you can still contribute to this war."
"It's just that we are too old. The injuries on my body were those I suffered more than two hundred years ago when I was in the army of the first demon king Hu Li." The eyes of the old man from the Demon Spirit Tribe, who was leaning on a cane, became moist.
"The secret passages and traps are very important this time, because Qingyun has an elusive demon soldier called the Air Water Demon. They can move freely in space by relying on liquids, and secret passages and traps are a good way to deal with them!" Heyin continued to persuade him.
The old man nodded and left together with several other old men from the Demon Spirit Tribe who were unsuccessful.
Just when the screening was about to end, a black cloud suddenly appeared in the sky. The black cloud came out of nowhere, and you could tell at a glance that it was not an ordinary dark cloud. Their first reaction was that it might be a sign of Qingyun's arrival, so they all prepared for war.
"I didn't expect the enemy to come so quickly!" Ouyang Hongye said to Wang Yue beside him.
"Wait! Look!" Ling Yu discovered that a ray of light gradually emerged from the black clouds, and the blurry human figure accompanying the light seemed to him to be Xia Qiu.
"It's Xia Qiu! And... Hyacinthus!" Qianqi shouted immediately.
Ouyang Xiaoleng focused all his attention on that ray of light. He had been worried about whether Xia Qiu could return from the underworld smoothly, but he never thought that she would return to him in this way.
Like him, Xia Qiu was also unable to explain why she appeared above Qingyang. She even couldn't believe that what she saw in front of her was reality or an illusion created by the black hole.
She remembered that the underworld was completely isolated from the outside world, and time there also stood still, so even if it felt like she had been there for a while, in fact, when she left, she would find that time had not moved forward. But this time it was not the case. Through the black hole, she reunited with Ouyang Xiaoleng and others directly in Qingyang.
According to the original plan, they should go to Qingyang on the second day after she entered the underworld. Considering the time on the road, it would be at least two days. Could it be that those black holes really have unlimited possibilities as Demon King Yanluo said, in addition to being connected to each other? The present also leads to the past and future. If that's the case, then what was she experiencing in the black hole, and is that really what's going to happen in the future
In that so-called future, she had long been separated from Ouyang Xiaoleng. Since all the confusing paths leading to the demon world and the human world were severely damaged, she could not find a way to return to him. But now she couldn't tell anyone what she saw, especially she couldn't say a single word to Ouyang Xiaoleng, because she knew that it would definitely affect his mood before the war.
She and Hyacinth landed on the square in front of the Wangzi Palace on the seventh floor of Qingyang City. Ouyang Xiaoleng stretched out his hands to hug her. He thought that his cold hands seemed extremely warm at this time. Today, he was still dressed in pure white, with only a light silver armor covering his upper body. The sunlight cast a little gold in his deep gray-blue eyes, reminding her of the kaleidoscope that surrounded her in the black hole just now.
"Master Demon King Fox, I was entrusted by Demon King Yanluo, the former master of the Underworld, to lead two hundred spiritual warriors here to listen to your orders!" Hyacinth returned from the butterfly form to a human after landing, and knelt down on one knee. He fell in front of Ouyang Xiaoleng and said.
The male demon warriors had to disperse to both sides to make room for this huge group of warriors. Seeing these behemoths again made Qianqi take a breath of air reflexively. He still remembered the last time he met them on a narrow road in the underworld and what a fierce battle he experienced. Unexpectedly, seeing them again this time was completely different from last time. They lined up neatly as soon as they landed.
"The three of us suffered a lot last time we saw them, and Hyacinth..." He said to Ling Yu beside him. At that time, it was Hyacinth who sacrificed himself to stop the last guard warrior for them, so that they could Was able to enter Lingqian Palace.
"Wow!" Lingyu just stared at them and sighed, "If they join, the tree demon will have nothing to fear!"