The light was so strong that Xia Qiu could only see the lower half of the face of the person standing on the terrace.

The smile on the corner of his mouth was unfamiliar, the closer he got to it, the more he felt the difference between him and Ouyang Xiaoleng, ten years, maybe there were many changes in himself. When it really came time to face him, she was timid, wondering if he could accept himself now?

Her steps quickened with her heartbeat, and she ran to the edge of the terrace, how could she not come to him at once, the man's arms had already opened to her?

"Be careful!"

But again, there were people who interfered with her. Zhang Ke had already come to the terrace at some point, and he grabbed Xia Qiu's wrist tightly to stop her from moving forward.

The vague figure standing in the light in front of him suddenly turned into countless golden butterflies, and they flew into the air. Xia Qiu stretched out his free hand and tried to grab it into the air, but he couldn't keep them. She only felt her heart tighten, and tears burst out of her eyes without warning.

Zhang Ke on the side was a little at a loss, I don't know if it was because of his sudden appearance that Xia Qiu was frightened, and hurriedly asked her, "You don't care, right?!" It feels dangerous to see you rushing to the edge of the terrace in desperation! Did you see something?! Otherwise, I'll send you home?!! ”

Xia Qiu couldn't say a word, only choked up and kept nodding.

Zhang Ke came by car, he was busy taking all the things of Xia Qiu and Liu Lingmei, and called a substitute driver to send the two of them back first, and then went back to the X bar to entertain the rest. After everyone dispersed, I paid the bill and went home.

After taking a bath, Xia Qiu and Liu Lingmei lay on their backs on the bed together. Regarding what she experienced in the bar, no matter how Liu Lingmei asked, she didn't want to mention it again. It's not appropriate to be afraid of hearing her persuade yourself to give up, just afraid that she will worry about her.

"Did Du He send you a message today?" Liu Lingmei decided to break the silence.

"Well, he's worried about you." Xia Qiu said as she looked at the ceiling reflected by the faint light that came in through the curtains.

"Really? But when I was in Yongchuan, he sometimes didn't even have time to send me a text message all day. Although Liu Lingmei said this, her heart was still sweet.

"Let's call him tomorrow......" Xia Qiu took the opportunity to persuade her.

"Don't just talk about me, what's going on with you and that Zhang Ke?! Is there any possibility of development?!! To be honest, I think people are very nice! Liu Lingmei's words have been held in her stomach all night.

"We're good friends, don't speculate! He's especially popular in our company, and there's a bunch of little girls behind his ass! Xia Qiu hurriedly explained.

"The key is to see whose ass he's behind it!" Liu Lingmei stretched out a hand and gently poked Xia Qiu's waist with her fingers.

"Hahaha......" Xia Qiu couldn't help laughing, as if the strength of her whole body was instantly unloaded, and along with her back, she immediately turned her body and fought back.

Tired of laughing, the two girls fell asleep.

That night, Xia Qiu had a dream. The dream was a continuation of what had happened on the terrace of Bar X, and she ran through the golden butterflies again to the tall figure on the edge of the terrace, this time Zhang Ke did not appear, and no one pulled her back.

But she still couldn't see the man's eyes clearly, so she took his hand and asked, "Who are you?" ”

She saw him mouth changing, speculating that he might be talking to herself, but she couldn't hear a word.

"Where am I going to see you again?!" Xia Qiu intuitively felt that she was about to wake up from her dream, so she seized all the time and asked.

This time she read his lips, and what he said should be the word "Yongchuan".

Waking up from the dream, Xia Qiu has been thinking about that dream repeatedly. She knew she couldn't just take a trip based on the clues in her dreams, but her body had already begun to act. She checked the ticket to Yongchuan on the booking software on her mobile phone and bought the ticket without hesitation.

Genius shone slightly, and she bounced out of bed. Blackie heard her get out of bed and crawled out of her own nest in the living room, running around the living room excitedly, as if it knew what she was going to do.

"Xiao Hei, I want to go back to Yongchuan!" Xia Qiu lowered his head and stroked the head of Xiao Hei, who had been wagging his tail at him, and said.

From Xiao Hei's eyes, she seemed to see the shadow of Blackfall, although it was only a fleeting moment, and she couldn't help but think that it might be her own hallucination.

She left a note for her father and Liu Lingmei at the dining table, and went out with only a few simple belongings. After getting into the taxi, she sent a text message to Zhang Ke, thanking him for taking care of him the night before, and also wanting to ask him for leave. After sending the message, she realized that it was just past six o'clock in the morning, and it was estimated that Zhang Ke must still be in a dream.

Unexpectedly, I quickly received his reply:

"It's right to take care of girls, you're too polite, aren't you? I'll fill out the leave slip for you on Monday, don't worry! ”

Xia Qiu touched into the backpack, and the plum blossom hairpin transformed by the plum blade lay quietly inside, and over the years, the tips of her fingers had touched its coldness more than once. She always carried it with her, but could no longer transform it into a long knife.

According to Dong Muya, this should be because she is the contractor of the demon king fox Ouyang Xiaoleng, and the source of her power is Ouyang Xiaoleng, but because of the rupture of the maze between the human world and the demon world, she can no longer get strength from him. But Xia Qiu knew that there was another reason that Dong Muya had never said, that is, Ouyang Xiaoleng might no longer be in the world.

For some reason, the feeling of touching the plum blade again today was different from every time in the years since she separated from Ouyang Xiaoleng, and she seemed to have found the anxiety she had when she had just obtained this plum blossom hairpin. She began to mentally try to summon Plum Blade, though she wasn't sure if she would get a response.

At about 6:40, she finally stepped on the train back to Yongchuan, and there were only five minutes left before the train departed. At that time, I was in too much of a hurry to book tickets, and I only cared about choosing the earliest one. The train finally moved slowly away from the platform, and the cell phone in the backpack rang at the same time.

The first to call was her father, Xia Xuesong. Xia Xuesong didn't express any dissatisfaction with Xia Qiu's rare impulsiveness and willfulness, but just asked her if she had boarded the train, and he was relieved to know that the car had started, and hung up the phone after a few more words.

She wanted to take a nap on the train for a while, after all, she had drunk a lot of wine the night before, and her head was still spinning a little until she woke up in the morning, but when she thought that she was getting closer and closer to Yongchuan, she felt an inexplicable excitement, and this excitement made her eyes fill in at all.

This throbbing is very similar to the feeling when I was a child, every time I was forced to leave Yongchuan during the holiday to come to Beijing to find my father, I took the car back to Yongchuan. Thinking that her grandfather and grandmother would be waiting for her at the station, she would be able to run freely in the familiar Yongchuan forest, gulping down the purest air there. Only now, what she was looking forward to was the foreshadowing of the unveiling of that dream.

Xia Qiu felt that a figure was coming from the hallway, and from the afterglow, his silhouette looked very similar to the person standing on the terrace. But when she turned her face, the sun shone right through the car window to her eyes, and in the blink of an eye, the figure in the aisle disappeared.

Is it another hallucination? She sighed softly.

The frequent hallucinations in the past few days are indeed suspicious, at the beginning of the period, she thought it would be because of her mental problems, but yesterday Du He's text message seemed to be some kind of prompt. The reaction they detected from the demon world was becoming stronger and stronger, and could Ouyang Xiaoleng have already found a way to come back?

She suddenly remembered that there was a person who, like herself, also had an inseparable connection with the demon world, so she quickly dialed that person's phone, and that person was Dong Muya.

It was a young female voice who answered the phone, and Xia Qiu immediately heard that it was Ouyang Zi, the daughter of Dong Muya and Ouyang Hongye.

"Zizi, I'm Xia Qiu."

"Oh, Sister Xia Qiu!" Ouyang Zi's voice suddenly changed from flat to surprised.

"I'm looking for your mom for something!"

"Okay, you wait!" Ouyang Zi's voice calling out to Dong Muya came from the other end of the phone, "Mom! Sister Xia Qiu is looking for you! ”

"Teacher Dong!" Xia Qiu is still used to calling Dong Muya a teacher.

"Xia Qiu, what's wrong?" Dong Muya was preparing breakfast for Ouyang Zi and Min Entong, and she felt a little strange about Xia Qiu calling so early in the morning.

"I ...... On the train back to Yongchuan! Xia Qiu didn't know where to start talking about the reason why she suddenly returned to Yongchuan.

"Why so suddenly? Didn't you just come back before......" Dong Muya paused on the other end of the phone and asked, "Did you see anything too?" ”

"Hmm!" Xia Qiu felt as if he had a heart-to-heart connection with Dong Muya all of a sudden, and he could understand each other's meaning even if he didn't have to explain it completely, "Although it's always not clear and I can't talk to him, I'm pretty sure that person is him." ”

"I've seen Momiji more than once recently, if in previous years, he had hallucinations from time to time just because I missed him too much, but what I've seen in the last few days is different from the previous ones, I'm pretty sure it's him."

Dong Muya has seen Ouyang Hongye for several days in a row, the most recent time was after she fell asleep reading a book on the sofa in the afternoon the day before. As soon as she awoke she saw him, though not very clearly, and he sat on the couch next to her and looked at her quietly, as if he had been sitting for a long time, but when she was fully awake, he disappeared again.

Knowing that Xia Qiu had also seen Ouyang Xiaoleng, she was even more sure that the reason why she saw Ouyang Hongye was not because she missed it too much, but because he really appeared. But why couldn't he talk to her? And although it feels real, his appearance is vague.

The only conclusion is that the path connecting the demon world and the human world is still unstable at the moment.