Chapter 2 Twilight Nightmare

In the dark cave, the beating ghosts and fire shadows reflect one by one, and above them is a woman holding a fire weapon. Her loose bun hung down from one side of her cheek, revealing only the black pupils on one side and blood-red lips, and the purple robe dragged from her body to the bottom of the throne.

"Lord Rasha's mother." A weak ghost servant stepped forward and said tremblingly on the ground.

"Where is the human girl I need?" The woman asked with a smile, looking so charming.

"I was going to get it, but..." At this point, the ghost servant's body was almost paralyzed.

"But what is it?" Rasha's mother put away her smile.

"But he killed a sword, which not only saved the girl, but also seriously injured me."

"Oh? It's interesting! Where did it hurt you?" The woman laughed again.

"This, this, and this." The ghost servant pointed to several wounds on his body.

The woman still looked at it with a smile, then raised the firearm in her hand and unexpectedly released a flame at the ghost servant. It screamed and struggled on the ground a few times, and then turned into a black and smeared charcoal.

The ghost servants standing next to them looked at what happened, and no one dared to say more word. Rasha's mother's moodiness is sinister and vicious. They can't understand it. If they don't pay attention, they may be buried under her firearm. She usually eats the same kind of internal organs and bone and blood, but she eats the heart of a fresh human girl every ten years to increase her demonic power and maintain her ageless face.

Who dares to save the delicious food she looks like? Rasha's mother thought about it, and an anger rushed to the top of her head. She knocked over all the wine pots and cups in front of her with her sleeves, clenching her hands tightly into fists.

Xia Qiu's heart is still beating wildly, and her hands and feet are also cold. She has just experienced a terrible thing, saying that the experience is more like a dream, and now she is obediently following Ouyang Xiao Leng and walking out of the Yongchuan forest.

After visiting the whole campus in the afternoon, the first year of senior high school can leave the school. Xia Qiu felt that it was still early. Thinking that he would become busy at the beginning of class tomorrow, it would be better to go to Yongchuan Forest today.

She walked all the way to the Silver Moon Lake along the forest path. At this time, the heat wave began to recede slowly at this time, and gusts of breeze came from the heart of the lake. In her opinion, the gray-blue lake is very similar to the eyes of the little fox she once saved, but at the same time, it is so similar to Ouyang Xiao Leng's eyes. She sat down on the shore, then took out the mp3 and put the headphones on it from her schoolbag. It happened to be a piano song called "Looking for a Cat", and there was a trace of sleepiness.

I don't know when the music stopped, and it was replaced by occasional noise. She tried to open her eyes, but everything in her eyes became a little blurred as if it were wrapped in a layer of dusk fog. A pair of blood-stained eyes in the fog were staring at her, intuitively telling her that those eyes did not belong to human beings. She was so scared that despite the weakness of her limbs, she tried her best to get up and run out of the forest.

The forest was originally the place she was most familiar with, but this time she lost her way, as if she was trapped and couldn't get out anyway. A red light came through not far away, and her feet were involuntarily attracted. The light came from a crack on the ground, which was so narrow that only when you lay on the ground could you see the crack.

Her eyesight through the layers of rock in the cracks go straight to the magma rolling at the bottom, and countless chains hang horizontally and vertically on the magma. The huge cages made of metal on the chain were imprisoned with monsters she had never seen before. From time to time, those monsters were burned by the bursting magma, making a sad cry. Their ferocious faces became more distorted by pain. They also seemed to find her. Suddenly, they raised their heads at the same time and stretched out their claws to her. She was so scared that she fell to the ground and got up and ran in no direction.

She once again returned to the place where she should have been lying by the lake, but what reflected in her eyes was a more incredible scene. Her body was still lying in the previous place, so who was she standing here now? But she didn't have time to think about this problem at all, because what scared her more was still behind, that is, the ghost-like figure standing next to her and the bright dagger in her hand. The high dagger could stab her at any time. She knew that she had to do something to stop it.

"The wind moves the leaf dance!"

When she was at a loss, a distant and strange voice came. With the sound, countless flame-like red maple leaves stabbed at the evil spirit, which made it temporarily put down the dagger and flashed to one side.

"The wind stops and the flame rises, cut!"

The voice sounded again. A young man in white waved his sword and hit the evil spirit. The silver light emitted by his body and the sword made Xia Qiu unable to see his movements clearly. He only felt that the light not only drove away the evil spirit, but also cut off the unpleasant yellowness in the air.

The teenager waved the sword in his hand twice in the air, and the sword disappeared. He slowly walked to Xia Qiu, who was lying on the ground, and patted her on the face a few times.

"Hey..."

Xia Qiu, who was looking at all this, only felt that the closer he approached the teenager, the more dazzling the silver light on his body was, so he had no choice but to close his eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a sea of stars, and the dusk fog disappeared. She seemed to wake up from a nightmare. Although she returned to the original world, she still had lingering palpitations.

She sat up and found Ouyang Xiao Leng standing beside her. He crossed his hands on his chest and looked at her. Although there was still no expression on his face, there was uncontrollable anger in his eyes, as if she had done something wrong.

"Why are you here?" Xia Qiu rubbed her eyes and asked, and Ouyang Xiao Leng's figure in front of her overlapped with the teenager she had just dreamed of.

"I..." Ouyang Xiao Leng wanted to stop talking. If he hadn't arrived in time just now, she would have been killed by the evil spirit. How can someone be stupid enough to fall asleep by the lake? Although he was angry, he couldn't explain to her that the forest was actually connected to another world, a world full of dangers that she didn't know. He had to suppress his anger and said to her, "Let's go, I'll send you back!"

Although Xia Qiu couldn't guess the reason why Ouyang Xiao Leng was angry, she just woke up from such a terrible dream. At this moment, she hopes to have someone to accompany her anyway. As soon as I stood up, my eyes suddenly darkened and I almost fell down.

Ouyang Xiaomeng hugged her in his arms like a launch. Her face just pressed against his chest, and his powerful and rapid heartbeat came into her ears, making her breathing chaotic. After a few seconds of pause, he suddenly bounced away from her and deliberately turned his eyes aside to hide his embarrassment. How glad he was that her body was still so warm and her life was still so fresh, but he had to hide his thoughts.

Xia Qiu followed Ouyang Xiao Leng out of the forest. His footsteps were so fast that his feet were still weak regardless of her.

"Can I take your hand?" She asked him tentatively.

He didn't answer, but silently stretched out a hand in her direction for her to hold it. The temperature came from his palm and gradually calmed the trembling in her heart. Occasionally, he would stop and twitch his nose a few times, as if he were looking for some smell, and then continued to pull her away. It was not until the light began to appear in front of him that he let go of her hand and still walked in front of her.

She followed him and didn't know how he knew the direction of her family. There were more and more places on him that she couldn't figure out. At first, she was just attracted by his name, and then his rare but familiar eyes, and then how he appeared in the Yongchuan Forest to wake her up... On the first day we met, he became a mystery.

When she was about to get home, Xia Qiu saw her grandmother standing behind the fence and looking at her. As soon as she saw her, she smiled and waved to her. Seeing grandma's smile, she was completely relieved.

"I've been telling your grandfather that why hasn't Xiaoqiu come back? He said that you must have met a new classmate at school. Sure enough!" Grandma looked at the teenager beside Xia Qiu and nodded with a smile.

"Well, this is Ouyang Xiao Leng sitting in my back row! Can he stay at home for dinner today? Xia Qiu didn't know how to explain what had just happened to her grandmother, so she had to push Ouyang Xiao Leng out as a shield.

"Of course, welcome!"

Ouyang Xiao Leng was inexplicably pulled into Xia Qiu's house and was pressed by her to sit down at the dining table. She had no chance to refuse. This is the first time he has visited a human home in 16 years. The lighting in the restaurant is very soft, and the laughter of Xia Qiu and grandma comes from time to time in the kitchen. The empty table was filled with dishes in a short time, and Xia Qiu also sat down with her grandparents.

He never thought of having too much contact with strange human beings, because it was a very troublesome thing. He needed to fabricate too many lies to cover up his identity and background, so he looked extremely unnatural in the face of Xia Qiu's questions. But they didn't care. They still smiled kindly and kept picking vegetables into his bowl, as if he belonged to this family. Suddenly, an unprecedented feeling surged into his heart and made him feel very warm.

After dinner, Ouyang Xiao Leng and Xia Qiu sat on the steps at the gate, holding a can of coke and drinking silently. Although he was very familiar with her smile and every move, sitting next to her like this still made his blood boil. He knew that in addition to missing, there was also the call of the crown of the demon king in his body. He must leave immediately, otherwise he would soon be unable to resist this call and show his original appearance.

"Remember not to go to the Yongchuan Forest after dark!" He couldn't help telling her again before he left.

Xia Qiu looked at Ouyang Xiaomeng's back and speculated the meaning of his words. His tone sounded like a joke. There should be some danger in the forest. She recalled the dream she had just had, and her body shivered involuntarily.

Ouyang Xiao Leng came out of Xia Qiu's home and returned to the Yongchuan Forest. Recently, some unknown monsters have frequently appeared in the forest. He must check again whether the seal set by Ouyang Hongye around the forest has been damaged. If these monsters run out of the forest, it will definitely cause chaos. Although he doesn't know the purpose of these monsters, attacking human beings is absolutely not allowed. Except for that person's men, he can't think of anyone who dares to break this rule.

After confirming that all the seals were intact, he flew to the thousand-year-old banyan tree in the forest where he often sat. I can't count how many times he sits here and looks at Xia Qiu quietly. She is so different. Obviously, she is such a weak human girl, but there is always perseverance in her eyes. She didn't know that the banyan tree on the campus was the child of the banyan tree, and many years ago, he met her in front of this tree.

"I saw your child today. It's already a pretty big tree." Ouyang said coldly.

The branches and leaves of the old banyan tree rustled in the breeze, as if they were responding to him.

While half asleep and half awake, the sound of the alarm clock sounded from the bedside. The alarm clock was specially set the night before Xia Qiu. As usual, she would wake up naturally in the morning, but she couldn't sleep until late last night.

Her head is always recalling yesterday's nightmare and what Ouyang Xiao Leng said. They are like Pandora's box, and Ouyang Xiao Leng may be the key to opening the Pandora's box, which makes people think. She also remembered the legend about the road to the demon world in the Yongchuan Forest. If the legend was really good, her ordinary life would definitely become a legend, and the yearning for the legend soon drove away the fear brought by the nightmare.

When Xia Qiu came to school, he saw Ouyang Xiao Leng lying on the table at a glance. He was sleeping soundly, often with a cold and expressionless face, but now he was as innocent as a child. A girl in the class was carefully coming over and wanted to take a picture of him with her mobile phone. Unexpectedly, the sound of the camera was not turned off, and the harsh click suddenly woke him up.

Ouyang sat up coldly and stretched out a hand to the girl with no expression on his face. Although he didn't say anything, the aura emanating from him still made the girl obediently put her mobile phone in his hand. He lowered his head and pressed a few keys to delete the photo, and then returned the mobile phone to her. The girl curled her lips awkwardly and went back to her position.

Xia Qiu stood there and looked at what had just happened. Although it was really not good to take pictures of others without permission, it was really rare for such a person not to show mercy to girls. On the way to school, she practiced how to say hello to him and talk to him naturally, but now the aura emanating from him made her a little timid.

Ouyang Xiao Leng also sensed her fear of him from Xia Qiu's eyes. He was very resistant to coming to Yongchuan High School. For him, his adoptive father Ouyang Hongye arranged him to come here for the sake of the Blood Alliance.

He once really longed for freedom. In his childhood, he wanted to be friends with human children, but most of the time he was protected in the Ouyang ancient house and lived like a prisoner. Now, he has long been used to loneliness and doesn't know how to communicate with others, but they sent him here again.

In the afternoon physical education class, boys were arranged to practice basketball, while girls practiced volleyball. Ouyang Xiao Leng only watched the sport on TV and had no intention to participate in it at all. He just walked around the field.

Even so, his figure still attracts many girls practicing volleyball on the court next to them, who have been whispering about him. Liu Lingmei was always absent-minded about the ball passed to her by Xia Qiu. From time to time, she looked at the direction of Ouyang Xiao Leng. Xia Qiu often ran to the side of the court to pick up the ball she didn't receive.

"Be careful!"

When Xia Qiu was bending down to pick up the ball, she heard someone shouting at her. As soon as she raised her head, she saw a basketball flying towards her face. The ball was so fast that she knew that she could not avoid it, so she had to close her eyes.

With a bang, the blue ball that should have hit her was caught by Ouyang Xiao Leng. He moved from the center of the blue court in front of her almost instantly. While grabbing the ball, he also took a deep breath.

"Can anyone see how he just passed by? It's like flying!" Just now, the boy who reminded Xia Qiu asked the others around him in surprise.

"It's almost as fast as McGrady I saw in the NBA yesterday."

The boy beside him responded to him. The rest of the people who saw this scene were so shocked that they couldn't speak. They just stood there and looked at Ouyang Xiao Leng.

Ouyang Xiao Leng also realized that he had made another eye-catching move. No matter what danger Xia Qiu encountered, his body would be reflexively launched to protect her, and there was no time to think about the consequences.

He had to think of a way to hide the speed that was not in line with human reason. He recalled the movements of the players in basketball games he had seen on TV in the past, and then pretended to take the ball into the ground naturally and sent it into the basket with a beautiful basket.

As a result, although everyone recovered from the state of surprise just now, they fell into another state of worship. In the following time of that class, he had no choice but to play basketball with the boys in the class and became their center.

Xia Qiu happened to see Ouyang Xiao Lengfei's movements when she came to help her block the basketball. The explosive power and speed are definitely not what ordinary human beings should have. Although she felt incredible, she still wanted to say thank you, but before she could speak, he ran back to the basketball court.

In her eyes, Ouyang Xiao Leng has more and more suspicious things. After physical education class, the others were out of breath and sweating profusely, but he was still no different from before. His breathing was smooth, and there was no sweat on his face and T-shirt. What kind of person is he? She put a big question mark in her heart. But what was more strange to her was that he, who seemed indifferent, was the first person to appear beside her when she felt afraid and in danger.

She wanted to talk to him after school, but she was called by Du He. She and Liu Lingmei were invited to his house to play badminton. Although she was a little hesitant, she couldn't help Lingmei's repeated begging and agreed. There was also a boy named Dong Haofan who had a good relationship with Du He.

This is the first time she has come to Du He's house in Xia Qiu. She especially likes their yard. In addition to flower beds and grape racks, there is also an open space in the yard to play badminton. She and Du He were divided into a group, while Liu Lingmei and Dong Haofan were in a group. It was also interesting to use the points system in every game, whether it was single or doubles. After a few rounds, almost all of them were won by her and Du He. They clasped high, cheered and rejoiced together, making her temporarily put aside those questions about Ouyang Xiao Leng.

After dinner, Du He sent Xia Qiu home and talked to her about the summer vacation and her impressions of the new teachers. She was attracted by his topic and smiled from time to time. She found that when she was with Du He, her mood was very calm, and her movements and expressions were also very natural. When she was about to get home, the other Xia Qiu's upset figure appeared in front of her again. Although it was so far away, she still saw him, but he disappeared all of a sudden.

Ouyang Xiao Leng didn't know why he stood outside Xia Qiu's house. He, who had already returned home, began to worry about Xia Qiu again. The girl who could sleep in the Yongchuan forest, let her go of what kind of danger she would fall into. He first searched in the Yongchuan forest and couldn't help coming to the place where she lived, and happened to bump into Xia Qiu and Du He walking together.

The smile on Xia Qiu's face when he looked at Du He made Ouyang Xiao Leng's heart sting a little. He thought she didn't see him, so he hurriedly avoided it. For so many years, he has been silently guarding her and has never thought of letting her know, but why has she never smiled at herself like that?