In the dim cave, the dancing ghost fire shadow reflected the ghostly ghosts one after another, and above them was a woman with a firearm in her arms. Her loosely coiled bun hung down one cheek, revealing only one side of her black pupils and blood-red lips, and her purple robe dragged from her body to the bottom of the throne.

"Mother Rakshasa ." A weak ghost servant stepped forward, lay on the ground and said tremblingly.

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

"I was about to get it, but ......," said the ghost servant's body, which was almost paralyzed.

"But what?" Mother Rakshasa put away her smile.

"But he killed a sword-wielding man, and not only saved the girl, but also severely wounded me."

"Oh? 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, and then casually raised the firearm in her hand, and unexpectedly released a stream of flames towards the ghost servant. I saw it scream and struggle on the ground a few times, and then it turned into a piece of black charcoal.

The ghost servants standing next to them watched everything that happened, and no one dared to say a word. Mother Rakshasa is moody, insidious and vicious, and they know it all the most, and if they are not careful, they may be buried under her firearms. She usually feeds on the internal organs and blood of her own kind, but every ten years she feeds on the hearts of fresh human girls to increase her demonic powers and maintain her ageless appearance.

Who dares to save the delicacy she fancies? Mother Rakshasa thought about it, and a wave of anger rushed over her head, and she knocked over all the wine jugs and cups in front of her with her sleeves, and clenched her hands into fists.

Xia Qiu's heart was still beating wildly, and her hands and feet were also very cold. She had just experienced something terrifying, and it was more like a dream to say that it was an experience, and at this moment she was obediently following Ouyang Xiaoleng towards the outside of the Yongchuan Forest.

After visiting the entire campus in the afternoon, the first year of high school can leave the school. Xia Qiu felt that it was still early, thinking that it would be busy when class started tomorrow, so it was better to go to Yongchuan Forest today.

She walked along the forest path all the way to the shore of Silvermoon Lake, where the midday heat began to slowly recede, and a breeze came from the middle of the lake. In her opinion, the gray-blue lake water was very similar to the eyes of the little fox she had saved, but at the same time, it was also similar to Ouyang Xiaoleng's eyes. She sat down on the shore, then took out the mp3 from her schoolbag and put the headphones on it, and just happened to play a piano song called "Looking for a Cat", and listened to it with a hint of sleepiness.

At some point, the music stopped, replaced by a noise that came and went. She tried to open her eyes, but everything in her eyes seemed to be enveloped in a layer of twilight mist, and became a little blurry. A pair of bloodshot cloudy eyes were staring at her in the mist, and her instinct told her that they were not human. She was terrified, and despite the weakness of her limbs, she struggled to get up and run out of the forest.

The forest was a place she knew all too well, but this time she got lost, as if she was trapped, and she couldn't get out anyway. A red light came through not far away, and her feet were involuntarily attracted to it. The light came from a crack in the ground, which was so narrow that you could only see inside it if you were lying on the ground.

Her gaze reached the cascading rocks in the cracks, to the tumbling magma at the bottom, and countless chains hung horizontally and vertically from the lava. The chains were filled with monsters she had never seen before, and from time to time they were burned by the bursting magma and let out a terrible scream, and their already hideous faces became more distorted by pain. They seemed to have spotted her, too, and suddenly raised their heads at the same time and reached for her, and she was so frightened that she fell to the ground, got up and ran directionlessly.

She once again returned to the place where she should have been lying by the lake, but what caught her eyes was an even more unbelievable scene, her body was still lying in the same place before, so who was this self standing here now? But she didn't have time to think about it, because what terrified her even more was the demon-like figure standing beside her lying down and the dagger in its hand, which was held high and could stab her at any moment, and she knew she had to do something to stop it.

"The Wind Moves the Leaf Dance!"

Just as she was at a loss, a distant and unfamiliar voice came. With that sound, countless red maple leaves like flames stabbed towards the demon, forcing it to temporarily put down the dagger it was holding and flash to the side.

"The wind stops blazing, slash!"

The voice sounded again, and a young man in white brandished his sword and slashed at the demon, the silver light emitted by his body and the sword made Xia Qiu unable to see his movements clearly, only to feel that the light not only drove away the evil spirit, but also cut off the unpleasant dusk in the air.

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

"Hey..."

Xia Qiu, who was watching all this from the side, only felt that the closer the young man became, the more dazzling he was by the silver light emitted by him, and he had to close his eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a sea of stars, the dusk-colored mist disappeared, and she seemed to have woken up from a nightmare, and although she had returned to the original world, she still had lingering palpitations.

She sat up and found Ouyang Xiaoleng standing beside her, looking at her with his hands crossed over his chest. Although his face was still expressionless, there was an irrepressible anger in his eyes, as if she had done something wrong.

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

"I ......" Ouyang Xiao stopped talking coldly. If he hadn't arrived in time, she would have been killed by the demon. How could anyone be stupid enough to fall asleep by a lake? He was angry, but he couldn't explain to her that the forest was connected to another world, a world full of dangers that she didn't know about, so he could only suppress his anger and say to her, "Let's go, I'll send you back!" ”

Although Xia Qiu couldn't guess the reason why Ouyang Xiaoleng was angry, she had just woken up from such a terrible dream, and at this moment, she hoped that someone would be by her side no matter what. As soon as he stood up, it suddenly became dark in front of him, and he almost fell.

Ouyang Xiaoleng hugged her into his arms, her face was right against his chest, and his powerful and rapid heartbeat reached her ears, making her breathing become chaotic. After a few seconds of pause, he suddenly bounced away from her, deliberately turning his gaze to the side to hide his embarrassment. He was glad that her body was still so warm, and her life was still so alive, but he had to hide his thoughts.

Xia Qiu followed Ouyang Xiaoleng towards the outside of the forest, his steps were so fast that he didn't care that her feet were still weak.

"May I hold your hand?" She asked him tentatively.

He didn't answer, just silently held out a hand in her direction for her to hold. The temperature came from the palm of his hand, gradually calming the shiver in her heart. Occasionally he would stop and twitch lightly with his nose a few times, as if looking for something scenting, before continuing to pull her along. It wasn't until the lights began to appear in front of him that he let go of her hand and walked in front of her.

She followed him, not knowing how he could know the direction of her house, and there were more and more places in him that she couldn't guess. At first she was only attracted by his name, then by his rare but familiar eyes, and then by how he would appear in the forest of Yongchuan to wake her up...... The first day they met, he became a mystery.

When she was about to get home, Xia Qiu saw her grandmother standing behind the fence from a distance, and smiled and waved to her when she saw her. Seeing her grandmother's smile, she was completely relieved.

"I've been talking to your grandfather, why hasn't Xiaoqiu come back, he said you must have met a new classmate at school or something, sure enough!" Grandma looked at the young man beside Xia Qiu and nodded with a smile.

"Well, this is Ouyang Xiaoleng sitting in the back row of me! 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 Xiaoleng out first as a shield.

"Of course, welcome!"

Ouyang Xiaoleng was inexplicably pulled into Xia Qiu's house, and was pressed by her to sit down at the dining table, with no chance to refuse at all. It was his first time in sixteen years that he had been a guest in a human home, the dining room was softly lit, and the kitchen was filled with the laughter of Xia Qiu and his grandmother. The originally empty table was filled with dishes after a while, and Xia Qiu also sat down with her grandparents.

He never wanted to have too much interaction with strange humans, because it was a very troublesome thing, and he needed to make up too many lies to cover up his identity and background, so he seemed extremely unnatural in the face of Xia Qiu's grandparents' questions. But they didn't care, still smiling kindly, and kept bringing food to his bowl, as if he also belonged to this family. Suddenly, a feeling that he had never felt before came over him, and it made him feel very warm.

After dinner, Ouyang Xiaoleng and Xia Qiu sat on the steps of the gate together, each holding a can of Coke and drinking it silently. Although he was familiar with her smile and every move, sitting next to her so close still made his blood boil. He knew that in addition to missing it, there was also the summoning of the Demon King's Crown in his body, and he had to leave immediately, otherwise he would soon be unable to resist this summoning and show his true appearance.

"Remember, don't go to the Yongchuan Forest after dark!" Before leaving, he couldn't help but tell her again.

Xia Qiu looked at Ouyang Xiaoleng's back and speculated on the meaning of his words. His tone sounded like he wasn't joking, there was something dangerous in that forest, and she shuddered as she thought back to the dream she had just had.

Ouyang Xiaoleng came out of Xia Qiu's house and returned to the Yongchuan Forest, and some monsters of unknown origin have frequently appeared in the forest recently. He had to check again if the seals set by Ouyang Hongye around the forest had been broken, if these monsters ran outside the forest, it would definitely cause chaos. Although he didn't know the purpose of these youkai, attacking humans was absolutely not allowed, and he couldn't think of anyone else who would dare to break this rule except for that person's men.

After making sure that all the seals were still intact, he flew to sit on the thousand-year-old banyan tree where he used to sit in the forest. I can't count how many times, he just sat here and looked at Xia Qiu quietly, she was so different, obviously she was such a weak human girl, but there was always perseverance in her eyes. She didn't know that the banyan tree in the school was the child of the banyan tree, and it was in front of this tree that he met her many years ago.

"Today I saw your child, and it's already a pretty big tree." Ouyang Xiaoleng said.

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

Half-asleep, the sound of the alarm clock rings from the side of the bed. The alarm clock was set the night before Xia Qiu, and she usually woke up naturally in the morning, but she couldn't sleep until late at night yesterday.

Her mind is always recalling yesterday's nightmare and what Ouyang Xiaoleng said, they are like Pandora's box, and Ouyang Xiaoleng may be the key to open this Pandora's box, which makes people think about it. She thought of the legend about the road to the demon world in the Yongchuan Forest, and if that legend was true, how good it would be, her ordinary life would surely become a legend, and the yearning for that legend would soon drive away the fear of the nightmare.

When Xia Qiu came to school, he saw Ouyang Xiaoleng lying on the table at a glance, he was sleeping deeply, and his often cold and expressionless face was as innocent as a child at the moment. A girl in the class was cautiously walking over and wanted to take a picture of him with her mobile phone, but there was no sound of turning off the camera, and the shrill clicking sound woke him up at once.

Ouyang Xiao sat up coldly and stretched out a hand to the girl with an expressionless face. Although he didn't speak, the aura from his body still made the girl obediently put the phone in his hand. He lowered his head and pressed a few keys to delete the photo, then returned the phone to her, and the girl pouted in embarrassment and went back to her place.

Xia Qiu stood there and watched everything that had just happened, although it was really not good to take pictures of others without permission, but it was really rare for someone to show such mercy to girls. Originally, on the way to school, she was practicing how to greet him in her heart, and then talking to him naturally, but the aura that emanated from him made her a little timid.

Ouyang Xiaoleng also sensed her fear of him from Xia Qiu's eyes, he was originally very resistant to coming to Yongchuan High School to study, for him, the reason why his adoptive father Ouyang Hongye arranged for him to come here must be for the blood alliance.

He had a genuine desire for freedom, and in his childhood, he wanted to be friends with human children, but most of the time he was protected in the Ouyang Ancient Mansion and lived like a prisoner. Now, he was used to being lonely and didn't know how to communicate with people, but they sent him here again.

In the afternoon PE class, the boys were assigned to practice basketball and the girls practiced volleyball on the side. Ouyang Xiaoleng had only watched this sport on TV, and had no intention of participating in it at all, just walking around the field in a coping manner.

Even so, his figure still attracted many girls practicing volleyball on the field next to him, and they kept whispering about him. Liu Lingmei was always absent-minded about the ball passed to her by Xia Qiu, and looked at Ouyang Xiaoleng's direction from time to time, Xia Qiu often had to run to the sidelines to pick up the ball she didn't catch.

"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 fast, and she knew that she couldn't dodge it, so she had to close her eyes.

With a bang, the blue ball that should have smashed her was grabbed by Ouyang Xiaoleng, and he moved from the center of the basketball court to her almost instantly, and he also exhaled deeply while grabbing the ball.

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

"It's about the same speed as the Maddie I saw in the NBA yesterday."

The boy beside him responded to him, and the rest of the people who saw this scene were so shocked that they couldn't speak, just stood there shaking their heads and looking at Ouyang Xiaoleng.

Ouyang Xiaoleng also realized that he had made another remarkable move, no matter what danger Xia Qiu encountered, his body would reflexively mobilize to protect her, and he didn't have time to think about the consequences at all.

He had to find a way to disguise the unnatural speed of the game, recalling the movements of the players he had seen on TV in the past, and then pretending to be natural to take the ball into the field and put it in the basket with a beautiful layup.

As a result, although everyone recovered from the state of surprise just now, they fell into another state of worship. For the rest of that class, he was forced to play basketball with the boys in his class and became their centerpiece.

Xia Qiu happened to see Ouyang Xiaoleng's movements when she flew over to help her block the basketball, that kind of explosive power and speed was definitely not what ordinary humans should have. She thought it was incredible, but she still wanted to say thank you, but before she could say anything, he ran back to the basketball court.

In her eyes, Ouyang Xiaoleng became more and more suspicious. After PE class, everyone else was panting and sweating profusely, but he was still the same as before, breathing steadily, and there was not a trace of sweat on his face or T-shirt. What kind of person is he? She put a big question mark in her mind. But what made her even more strange was that he, who seemed indifferent, was the first person to appear next to her when she was scared and in danger.

She wanted to talk to him after school, but Du He called her over, and 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, so she agreed, and there was a boy named Dong Haofan who had a good relationship with Du He.

This is Xia Qiu's first time at Du He's house, and she especially likes their yard, which has a large space for playing badminton in addition to flower beds and grape trellises. She and Du He were divided into a group, and Liu Lingmei was in a group with Dong Haofan, and each game used a point system for both singles and doubles, which was also interesting. After a few rounds, almost all of them were won by her and Du He, and they high-fived, cheered, and jumped together, making her temporarily put aside those questions about Ouyang Xiaoleng.

After dinner, Du He sent Xia Qiu home, chatting with her about the summer vacation and her impressions of the new teachers along the way, she was attracted by his topic, and smiled from time to time. She found that when she was with Du He, her mood was calm, and her movements and expressions were natural. When she was about to get home, the figure that was distraught in Xia Qiu appeared in front of her again. Although it was so far away, she still saw him, but suddenly he disappeared.

Ouyang Xiaoleng didn't know why he was standing outside Xia Qiu's house, but he had already returned home, but he began to worry about Xia Qiu, this girl who could sleep in the Yongchuan forest, and let her go no matter what kind of danger she would fall into. He first searched in the Yongchuan forest and then came to her place involuntarily, just in time 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 Xiaoleng's heart tingle, and he thought that she didn't see him, so he hurriedly avoided it. For so many years, he had been silently guarding her, and he had never thought to let her know, but why did he never smile like that to herself?