Chapter 131 Back to the Past

Farewell to her companions for the time being. Xia Qiu went all the way up the road in the center of the city to the fourth floor of Qingyang City. The gate in the seven-tone gate she was responsible for opening was just on this floor.

She also got the same spherical compass as others from Dong Muya. At this time, the fourth layer was silent, and only her shadow accompanied her. The buildings on this floor are denser than any other floor, and the small brick-red houses are connected one by one.

Looking from the window, the patterns in these rooms are very similar, and they are all covered with dust or cobwebs because they have not been inhabited for a long time. The spider with a red and yellow pattern on a black background on the spider web has a fist-sized body and extremely long legs. You can know at a glance that it is highly poisonous. Probably these houses have been empty for too long, so now they have become the owners here.

She walked along the path to the southwest to an angle of about 210 degrees. There was an empty field here. The buildings on both sides seemed to have been cut off out of thin air, and suddenly left this open space.

In the center of the open space, there is a circular pool that is less in harmony with the surrounding scenery. She stepped forward and found that the water filled in the pool was clear but bottomless, and there was a square stone tablet standing on the edge of the pool.

The stone tablet reads, "Those with gifted powers can enter the wonderland, those with pure bodies can save their lives, those with a pure heart are lucky to see the true face, and the three can be solved by one side."

These sentences are not difficult to understand literally, and they are basically in line with the conditions that the person who can open the gate of the sign described in the syno. But she didn't quite understand whether she should enter the pool, and what puzzled her was why she didn't mention the pool before the sound. Did you deliberately hide them? Or is there anything difficult to say?

Although she doesn't know what will happen when she enters the pool in front of her alone, she can't stop here after so many adventures. The gate was still waiting for her to open, and the Qilie array was still waiting for her to crack it with her companions. She summoned up the courage to take a deep breath, and then pinched her nose and jumped into the pool.

The pool was extremely cold, which made her body tremble in the process of sinking. After slowly adapting to the feeling of underwater, she opened her eyes and looked around. The edge of the pool was gradually becoming blurred and she seemed to be in an open water.

The light green water was empty, and the endless loneliness made her forget to hold her breath. I don't know when she began to breathe normally. It was strange that she didn't choke water. Suddenly, the sinking feeling turned into a floating feeling, and she was suddenly lifted up by the buoyancy and came to the surface of the water.

It is still the previous pond, and it looks no different from the fourth floor of Qingyang City that she has just seen. If it hadn't been for the bustling demons that kept passing by the pond, she would really think she had returned to the origin.

The Moling people in front of her are dressed in simple clothes, and their appearance is similar to the consonance. They are solid, their upper limbs look slightly long, their hair is thick, their noses are flat, their cheeks are slightly bulging, some carry bamboo baskets, some hold dustpans, and their faces are more melancholy. They seem to have just returned from work in the herb field.

When the wet human girl suddenly appeared in front of them, it really scared them. Almost at the same time, they stopped and surrounded the edge of the pool and stared at her without blinking.

"It's human!" A little boy from the demon clan jumped to the edge of the pool and pointed to Xia Qiu and shouted happily.

The original tense atmosphere was dissolved by the child's innocent words. Everyone no longer looked at her as if they were watching the monster. The little boy grinned and showed the missing two teeth, and then as if he suddenly remembered it. He suddenly squeezed his mouth and stretched out a hand to her. She pulled up from the pool.

At this time, a demon woman also stepped forward and said, "What can I do if my clothes are soaked in such a cold weather?! Go back with me and change your clothes. If you have anything, I'll talk about it later!"

The little boy let go of Xia Qiu's hand, ran to the woman and took her arm. He turned around and winked at Xia Qiu and said, "This is my mother!"

Xia Qiu inexplicably felt that there was an indescribable sense of intimacy in the mother and son, which made her have no defense against them. She followed them without thinking about it. The demon clans on both sides have changed from surprise at the beginning to novelty. They made way for the mother and son of the same clan to lead Xia Qiu away.

She was taken into a small house not far away. The little boy's mother found clean clothes for her and asked her to change them in the inner room. She boiled some water on the stove outside and made a pot of hot tea. When she changed her clothes and came out of the room, she poured a cup and handed it to her.

The little boy has been waiting impatiently outside for a long time. Now there are 100,000 people in his stomach. Why are they eagerly waiting for Xia Qiu to answer? It is also extremely difficult for him to wait for a while. As soon as he saw her come out, he immediately came over and asked, "Sister, where are you from? How did you get to that pool?"

"I..." Xia Qiu didn't know how to answer his question. She was not sure whether the world she was living in was real or how to calculate the time of the demon world, but she thought that Dong Muya once said that the ape red demon was the Qingyang City built by the demon clan more than 700 years ago. Why don't you ask? Ask them how long the city has been built, so that they can calculate the approximate time here, so she asked, "How long has this city been built?"

"It's been more than 500 years." The child calculated with his fingers and then answered, and then looked at his mother uncertainly. Seeing that she nodded silently, he was relieved.

After listening to the child's words, Xia Qiu's heart suddenly tightened. I'm afraid that the ghost had already started more than a hundred years ago. No wonder she just looked at the city that there were no children, most of whom were elderly people. Although the demon lived much longer than human beings, the little boy's mother seemed to be fifty or sixty years old. She guessed that she might be hundreds of years old.

The child's mother saw the strangeness on Xia Qiu's face and asked tentatively, "Do you know what's going on here?"

Xia Qiu didn't want to hide it, so she nodded and answered, "Yes! Maybe you won't believe that I came from the world more than a hundred years later!"

The child's mother was still holding a teapot in her hand and wanted to give Xia Qiu another cup, but after hearing this, the teapot in her hand fell to the ground and smashed.

She trembled incoherently and asked, "What has this place become more than a hundred years later? Children... I mean, are there any young people here?"

"There is only one named Kui, and the rest..." Xia Qiu looked at the mother's sad eyes and couldn't bear to go on.

"I don't know what cursed the demon clan has suffered. All children can't live to be ten years old!" Speaking of this woman's voice, she was a little choked. She touched her son's little head and continued, "Xiaoye's brothers and sisters were not spared. Alas, it seems that Xiaoye is also..."

"Do you believe what I say?" Xia Qiu couldn't believe that she believed in herself so quickly.

"You, a human being, can actually come to the demon world, and you know that ghosts are different from ordinary people! I also want to ask you about the demons who left Qingyang City? Haven't their descendants survived? The child's mother continued to ask with a trace of luck.

Xia Qiu shook his head and silently turned his eyes to the little boy who was still sad, but he came over and grabbed her hand and asked, "Sister, play with me for a while!"

"Ha ha, because there are too few children in this city, Xiaoye is very happy to see you!" The child's mother shook her head with a wry smile.

Xia Qiu suddenly felt that no matter which world they were in, mothers would always be the same. Even if they were tormented and tortured by the pain in their hearts, they were so kind when facing their children.

The little boy was said by his mother and buried his head in her stomach with a little shyness and rubbed for a while. Such a healthy and lovely child may not be killed by the ghost in a long time. Such a reality makes Xia Qiu feel like a knife, but he can only allow the heartache to be depressed in the body and not let them turn into tears.

The conversation with the mother and son just now made her temporarily forget her mission to get here. At this moment, she suddenly remembered, so she asked, "I'm here to know about the seven-tone gate!"

As soon as she heard that she talked about the seven-tone gate, the child's mother became a little defensive, because for the magic clan, the seven-tone gate is a secret that is absolutely not allowed to be told to outsiders. She was hesitating how to refuse her, but a man came in.

Xia Qiu looked up and saw that the man was not someone else's consonant. Although he looked a little younger than he is now, there was no obvious change.

"Dad!" The little boy shouted and opened his hands and rushed to the sound.

"He Ye!" Heyin rubbed his son's hair hard, and then turned his eyes to Xia Qiu's body and asked, "Just now, I heard that a human suddenly appeared in the city and was taken home by you, so I rushed back. Is it her?"

"Yes! She came from the world more than a hundred years later!" The child's mother couldn't suppress the surprised expression on her face when she said this.

Heyin was interested when he heard his wife say this, and listened to her completely repeat the conversation with Xia Qiu just now, with a complicated look in her eyes and asked, "What are you calling?"

"Summer and Autumn!" Xia Qiu, who was beside him, answered him.

"Well, did you really come here from that pool?" I still want to confirm the harmony again.

"Uh-huh!" Xia Qiu nodded and looked at him with doubts. Suddenly, it was a little difficult for her to accept him to see him more than a hundred years ago.

"Then I think you need to stay here for a while." He said calmly.

"I need to know about the seven-tone gate. If you can't tell me, I have to go back and think of other ways." Xia Qiu didn't quite understand the meaning of the consonant.

"I'll take you to have a look, and you will know!"

After saying that, He Yin led Xia Qiu back to the direction of the pool, and He Ye also followed them. When they came to the pool, the sound pointed to the front and said, "Look!"

Xia Qiu leaned forward and looked forward. The pool was very shallow, and it could not pass her waist at most. She was immediately shocked. This means that the passage connecting her world has disappeared. While her companions were busy looking for a way to open the seven-tone gate, she was trapped in Qingyang City more than a hundred years ago. Is it true that she was blinded by the consonant, as guessed before? What does he want to trick her here?

She looked up at the consonant in front of her. From his facial expression, he looked so calm, and it was indeed as if he had just met her, but maybe this was another trick of his. She was trapped in layers of fog as if she was trapped in a world that did not belong to her own. For a moment, she didn't know it. Where to go.