It's evening, and in this green city where the sky is getting darker, the warm orange light shines through the small windows of every household, making Xia and Qiu miss the night of Yongchuan. It's been a long time since I've been home, and my grandfather's busy figure in the courtyard, and my grandmother's kind gaze, are so far away from her at the moment.

With trepidation, she followed the father and son back to the little house where they lived. Heyin's wife had already started to prepare dinner for everyone, and she had no idea what was going to happen next, so she had to stay at their house obediently.

Although her parents were still frustrated by what the human girl suddenly said, Hinge was always the happiest one, jumping around Xia Qiu like a little monkey and chattering non-stop, but it saved her a lot of worries.

She stayed in their house for the time being, helping Heyin's wife to do some work in the herb field or at home during the day, and playing games with Hingye in her spare time, and after a few days of observation, there were only two younger children around except Hingo, and those two children had already encountered the ghost hidden and their lives were in danger.

When she heard other people in the city say that it is very rare for a child to live to such a size as Hinge, Xia Qiu felt more pity for him in her heart, she thought that if she could have a younger brother, she really hoped that he could be as innocent and cute as Hingye.

One day, just after lunch, Hingye mysteriously pulled Xia Qiu out of the house and said to her, "Sister Xia Qiu, I want to take you to see the new friends I met the day before yesterday!" ”

Xia Qiu nodded, and followed him to the bushes at the edge of the herb field, where there was a spider web on a small tree, and on top of it was a fist-sized spider with red and yellow patterns on a black background, and when she looked closely, the spider should be the same species as she had seen in those empty houses in her own time and space.

Hinge tilted his head and grinned at her, then held out a hand in the direction of the cobweb, and the spider jumped onto his hand with a whoosh.

"Poisonous!" Xia Qiu couldn't help but get nervous when he saw it, afraid that the hinge would be bitten by a spider, and shouted while trying to knock it off his hand.

But he turned his back and rushed to her, and protected the spider with his small body, and said proudly: "It's my new friend, don't look at it like this, it doesn't actually bite people, at least it won't bite me, don't believe you reach out!" ”

Although Xia Qiu was skeptical of his words, seeing that the spider had not hurt him for so long, he listened to his words and stretched out his hand.

Hinge put the big spider in her hand, very gently and slowly, for fear that he would accidentally drop it to the ground, and it was obvious that he loved this friend of his.

"Nine Eyes, this is Sister Xia Qiu!" Hinge introduced to the spider.

The spider moved a few times in Xia Qiu's palm, and aimed its eyes at her, in her memory, the spider's strength should be extremely poor, but this spider is different, nine single eyes are very bright, eight of them are black, one is red, it rolled its eyes and looked at her for a long time, obviously trying to remember her appearance.

"You also gave it a name?" Xia Qiu didn't think the big spider was so scary at this time, looking at its round body in front of her, she felt that the name Hinge was just right.

"Well, I was the first to spot it on this tree, and you're the second to see it. Nine Eyes has no partners like me, and is a lonely one, but now I have Sister Xia Qiu with me, so I'm going to introduce you to it, so that it also has one more friend! Hinge said this with a slightly melancholy cheek, like an adult.

"My sister is here from now on to count more than a hundred years from now, and at that time Nine Eyes had a lot of friends." Xia Qiu smiled and comforted him.

"Really? That's great! But I know that I can't see what happened at that time! He stretched out his hand again, and the spider obediently jumped into his hand and let him stroke it back and forth.

Xia Qiu heard the meaning of his words, although he seemed carefree on the surface, but in fact, he already knew a lot about ghosts in his heart, and he must have deliberately pretended to be quick in order not to make his parents sad. Thinking like this, she finally couldn't hold back her tears, so she had to turn her face away and look at the sky.

At night, she and Hinge slept in two separate beds in the back room, just as she had been for a few days after she arrived. Heyin's wife went to the outhouse after watching her son fall asleep, and as soon as Heye saw that she was out, she turned over and rushed in the direction of Xia Qiu and asked, "Sister Xia Qiu, have you slept?" ”

Xia Qiu also faced him and responded, "Huh? ”

Heyed told her: "Don't tell my father and my mother about the Nine Eyes, that's our secret!" I'm afraid they won't let me play with Nine Eyes if they find out! ”

Xia Qiu promised: "Okay! ”

"It's a deal!" But the conjunctions were obviously still not at ease, and added another sentence.

"It's a deal!"

Xia Qiu thought that he would say something to himself, but there was no response from the other side. After a while, the sound of hinge breathing was even, slightly heavy, and she knew that he was asleep, so she closed her eyes too.

The bright moonlight outside the window made it difficult for her to fall asleep, although the life with the Heyin family during the day was very harmonious, so that she could forget her troubles for a while, but in the dead of night she had to worry about the road ahead.

These days, she would hardly go to the edge of the pool every once in a while, expecting another passage to connect her world to appear, but it had not reappeared. Regarding the matter of the Seven Sound Gate, the Demon Spirit Clan here is also silent, so that she has never found anything.

The fear of being trapped in a strange world made her helpless, and how she wished that Ouyang Xiaoleng could suddenly appear beside her and give her strength and bring her back to her original world. What if I can't go back? Should she stay in Qingyang forever or should she go somewhere else?

In a daze, she entered a state of semi-sleep, her body was heavy, but her brain was very clear, and she remembered that she had not been in a state of dispossession in her sleep for some time, and she did not know why she had entered it again in a world that did not belong to her.

About the fourth watch, the moonlight outside the window was suddenly obscured by a dark shadow, bringing a chill that made her pores shrink, and she couldn't help but wake up and quietly observe what was about to happen.

The huge black shadow entered through the wall, bypassed the bed she slept on under the window, walked straight to the side of the hinge's bed, and after a moment of pause in front of the bed, a large mouth hole was cracked in the position of the black shadow's head, and a thick pipe stretched out of it to try to hurt the hinge.

When he was as anxious as a spark, Xia Qiu's weak body just now came from nowhere, and he jumped up from the bed all of a sudden, calling out the plum blade and pointing directly at the black shadow.

The black shadow had no choice but to retract the tube that had come out of its mouth, turn to Xia Qiu, and wave its arms at her. Xia Qiu flashed to the side and then slashed down, and I don't know if it was because of her knife, the black shadow escaped from the wall that entered the room before.

Xia Qiu followed without thinking about it, and when she arrived outside, she found that she had passed through the wall, and she was led by a black shadow to the open space outside the house, and by the moonlight, the appearance of the black shadow was revealed in front of her, that is, a black smoke in the shape of a human, and she couldn't see her facial features, and she couldn't tell the front and back.

She clenched the plum blade in her hand and reprimanded, "Who are you?" Why harm the hinge? ”

"He was destined to be my provider from birth, and this is not your human business, and if you insist on stopping me, then I will only be unkind to you." The shadow replied to her.

"Are you an ape red devil?" Xia Qiu remembered that they had said that the initiator of the Demon Hidden was probably the Great Hero of the Demon Spirit Clan, the Ape Red Demon, and asked.

"That's right!" The black shadow did not hide it, and replied cleanly.

"Unless you can bring me down, I will never allow you to hurt Hinge!"

After knowing the other party's true identity, Xia Qiu calmed down a lot, and she felt that she had to defeat him. These days of getting along with each other day and night have made her have a kind of family-like friendship with Hingye, although she knows in her heart the strength of the ape red devil, she knows that this is not the time to retreat.

If she can defeat the fierce opponent in front of her and return to her own world, then she can change history, and she and Hinge will meet again in Qingyang City more than a hundred years later, what a wonderful thing; On the other hand, if Hinge survives, Kui will no longer be the only son of the Demon Spirit, and the war between the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment and the Demon Spirit Clan will probably be avoided as a result.

While she was thinking, the black shadow challenged her, and he put one hand behind his back and said, "To deal with a yellow-haired girl like you, my one hand is enough!" ”

Xia Qiu rarely takes the initiative to attack, but this time she has to attack and defend to find out how powerful the other party is. She jumped into the air, her body was so light when she left for the first time, and the plum blade in her hand swept up a cyclone of demonic power, turning into a pink lightning flash and rushing towards the ape red demon, but he didn't panic and blocked it with the arm that remained outside.

Xia Qiu was bounced out before he could react to what was going on, he immediately jumped forward, almost stepping on her body, she flashed to the side with great effort, and almost at the same time heard a muffled bang, and the surrounding sand was shaken up, according to the force of this kick, if it really stepped on her body, it would definitely cause great damage to her.

She knew that at such a moment, she had to pull herself together even without the help of her companions, and she must not be overwhelmed by his momentum. She once again focused on launching another round of attacks at the Ape Red Devil, slashing and slashing with her sword countless times, but the Ape Red Devil did as he had said at the beginning, with only one hand at ease, and when he found an opportunity, he would use the stunt of jumping up and stepping down vigorously.

She knew that if she continued like this, her chances of winning would become even slimmer, so she no longer hesitated, and tried to speed up the attack, only by letting the opponent use all her strength as soon as possible could she know if she could compete with it now.