Knowing the chirp of summer, the hot season.

Because it is rural, the forests in the nearby mountains have not been damaged too much.

The lush trees form a sea of forests, the afternoon sun is like a wisp of golden sand, through the layers of branches and leaves sprinkled on the forest grass, the slow cool mountain breeze blows, and the rattling branches and leaves sway out a crisp and pleasant sound of nature.

"Whoa!"

In a corner of the forest, the branches and leaves of a bush were separated, and a flaxen-haired teenager ran out of the bushes in a panic.

As he ran, he looked back from time to time as if some beast was chasing him again.

In fact, it's pretty much the same, and what is chasing him is a monster that is even more terrifying than a beast and is in the eyes of most people in fantasy!

Unable to be seen by ordinary people with the naked eye, closely following the boy was a monster with a skull mask on the upper half of its face, blue-gray skin, six arms, and a tadpole-like tail.

Its massive body of several meters flew nimbly in the mountains and forests, chasing it, and from time to time it let out a sharp and strange laugh.

"Hand it over!

A cold voice sounded behind him from time to time, and Natsume Takashi, who has been dealing with youkai since he was a child and knows the nature of some youkai well, understands that he must not hand over his friends to these evil monsters.

"I miscalculated.,I thought it was a monster who came to ask for a name.,Damn.,Teacher Cat doesn't know where to run.。 ”

I'm used to being chased and run away constantly, and although the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, there are not too many obstacles for Natsume to escape.

"But since just now, I have deviated from the familiar path, and I don't know if I can go back before the sun goes down. ”

"Can't bring trouble to Uncle Zi and Aunt Tazi!"

Noticing that the surroundings were already unfamiliar, Natsume was faintly anxious, and if he got lost in the deep mountains and wanted to get out, it would be troublesome.

When he was anxious, Natsume suddenly found that there was a cave in front of him, and there were many vines and branches growing around the cave, wild flowers and yuro, this natural disguise made it difficult to spot, and if he hadn't happened to notice it in front of him, he wouldn't have found that there was a cave here.

Without much more thought, he hurriedly picked up the dead vines outside the cave and hid inside, and then hurriedly restored the dead vines and branches that were blocked, and hurriedly held his breath and looked out.

He breathed a sigh of relief as he watched through the gaps in the foliage as he watched the youkai chasing him continue to move forward.

Bang bang! bang...

The heart that had been tense relaxed, and the heart behind the chest began to beat violently, swallowing saliva, and the throat was still dry and uncomfortable.

However, he couldn't go out at this time, and after resting for a while and calming his breath a lot, Natsume had time to look at where he was.

The ground at the entrance of the cave has spots of sunlight penetrating through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the vines, and I can barely see some of the surrounding environment, unlike the lush growth of plants outside the cave entrance, the surrounding mountain walls inside the cave are bare.

The deeper passage was a little more invisible, but at the end of the passage, which was about ten meters away, he noticed a new light shining on the rock face.

"Another exit?"

He got up and groped his way forward, and when he reached the end of the passage, the bend was not another exit as he had imagined, but a large grotto.

The environment inside the grotto is still bare, and in the center of the cave, there is a living spring.

The water is crystal clear, and fresh water is constantly gushing out of the bubbles.

Natsume hurriedly walked to the spring water, took two sips of the spring water.

Perhaps because he was thirsty, the spring water was unexpectedly clear after drinking it, and even the energy he had just consumed seemed to have recovered.

His throat was no longer uncomfortable, and he washed his face with water again.

"What is this? marbles?"

He saw a bead at the bottom of the fountain, and reached out to pick it up, two or three times larger than a regular marble.

At the bottom of the water, the beads are as clear as flowing water, but when you hold them in your hand, they turn into a deep blue like the sea.

"It's amazing, I'll show it to Aunt Tazi when I go back. Curious, he put the bead in his pocket, oblivious to the fact that the flowing water had disappeared when he picked it up.

As he was about to leave, Natsume saw another passage on the other side of the grotto.

He continued deeper along the passage, and inside was a grotto that was slightly smaller than before.

However, compared with the grotto just now, the ground of this grotto is unusually flat, and the ridges of the rock walls on all sides are square, which is different from the irregular oval grotto just now, and it seems that it was not naturally developed.

And unlike the bare grotto outside without a trace of greenery, in this slightly smaller grotto, there is a rock wall covered with blue-green ancient vines, these blue-green thick ancient vines grow and connect to part of the ground under the rock wall, at the corner between the ground and the rock wall, these ancient vines are strangely entangled, woven into a natural chair back.

"It's. . . ？”

Natsume suddenly stood in place, his thoughts a little unable to turn around because of what he suddenly saw.

On the back of the natural chair woven with turquoise vines, he saw a beautiful girl leaning quietly, her eyes closed, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

The slender figure looks a little thin, the delicate and beautiful face is pale like a sickly, there is no trace of blood, it looks a little haggard, and the black hair that can hang down to the knees like silk is scattered on the ancient vine like flowing water, and the beauty of the blue-green ancient vine is thrilling!

Natsume clearly knew that the girl was not a human being, whether it was from the sleeping posture without a little breathing, or from the girl's blue and white plain dress, which was very different from this era, the girl should obviously be the kind of stranger he knew before, that is, the type of monster.

But I don't have the same vigilance as I used to be when I first met youkai, so maybe people are really so-called visual animals.

"Whoa..."

He was awakened by the sound of reptiles crossing the ancient vines, and when he looked up, he saw a pair of scarlet snake pupils, an emerald green giant snake entrenched above the girl, and the scarlet snake pupils stared at him coldly.

"Ahh

Natsume was frightened by the sudden appearance of the giant snake and sat to the ground.

Fortunately, he was often chased by all kinds of vicious monsters, so he reacted quickly, and hurriedly got up and ran back.

The emerald green serpent watched him leave indifferently, and when the cave regained its calm, the serpent slowly crawled back to the ancient vine and continued to guard the girl.

It is precisely because its color is similar to the color of the ancient vine that Natsume did not notice it at the first time.

Ten days later.

Awakening from its cultivation, Jing slowly and carefully climbed down from the ancient vine silently, it looked at the girl's still sleeping face, and the cold snake eyes flashed with a look of remembrance.

Soon the reminiscence faded away, and it crawled outside.

In order to protect the girl's sleep from being disturbed by outsiders, it has stayed in the cave for two hundred years without leaving a step.

Nearly 10 generations have passed for mankind in the past 200 years, and even many countries may not exist for that long.

In these long years, being alone has been guarding the girl's sleep, and has never had any contact with the outside world, and it is a long time to be a monster.

I guess I'll feel lonely!

Many people think so.

However, for Jing, as long as she can stay by this adult's side and protect her, no matter how many years have passed, she will not feel a trace of loneliness!

It's incredibly happy!!

When I was hungry and thirsty, I went to the cave outside to drink the spring water of a living spring that the girl lit before she fell asleep, these springs contained incomparably abundant spiritual power, just a small drink, it can make it not drink or eat for a long time, and it is also of great help to the cultivation of Jing himself.

The reason why it took about two hundred years to cultivate from a small snake that had just opened its spiritual wisdom to the current big monster has a lot to do with this spring.

But when he came to the cave outside, and looked at the spring in the center of the cave, which had dried up completely, an emotion that had never been called anger rose from the bottom of his heart.

It wasn't because his cultivation was interrupted, but because the treasure that the Lord had given him for the time being was actually stolen.

"Damn thief!"

Except for a short period of time when he was taken by the adult to live in the outside world when he first opened his spiritual wisdom, Jing who had stayed in the grotto for a long time and never went out was actually very simple and couldn't say anything vicious.

It's just that the anger in the bottom of its heart has also aroused the ferocious beastliness it has been hiding all along.

Find the thief, kill him, and take back the treasure!

This obsession made it leave the grotto for the first time.