I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 150 Breaking the Illusion

The moment Meng Qi bent over and entered the cave, she heard a "poof" sound from ahead. Her eyes lit up, thinking that the sneak attack had succeeded.

It was indeed a success, but it wasn't a complete success; it didn't deliver the final blow.

When Meng Qi looked up into the cave, she was stunned. Holy crap, Black Maple was even more dazzling than a fox. This wasn't a sneak attack; it was an open attack.

She couldn't help but curse, "How desperate would someone have to be to make a knife handle like this?"

When Lu Xiaowu in his sea of ​​consciousness saw Hei Feng come out, he was excited and wanted to ask his junior sister if she liked the gift he had given her.

Last night, because the two had just officially met and he was processing the impact of his junior sister, he forgot about Hei Feng for a moment and didn't think to ask her.

But now he didn't dare to ask, shrinking his head and staying in his sea of ​​consciousness, muttering to himself, "No matter what, it's still very beautiful, you can't deny that, right?"
Hei Feng slashed the red-tailed fox in the back with his knife, intending to finish it off with another blow. However, the little fox endured the pain in its back, raised its front paw and slammed it on the ground. From there, a ripple like water spread out from the fox towards Meng Qi and Hei Feng.

With a buzzing sound, Meng Qi felt a jolt in her ears, like tinnitus, and couldn't hear any other sounds.

"Junior Sister? Junior Sister?"

After an unknown amount of time, Meng Qi vaguely heard her fifth senior brother calling out. She slowly opened her eyes and then froze.

Looking at the red bricks and green tiles in front of me, the familiar iron gate, and the familiar tall figure walking out from inside the iron gate.

"grandfather?"

Meng Jiu walked past her carrying a shovel, as if she hadn't seen her, but after a few steps she stopped, turned around and called out to her with a smile, "Xiao Qi, hurry up."

Meng Qi breathed a sigh of relief. She knew it; how could her grandfather not see her?

She patted her bottom and got up from the ground, but before she could go forward, a little cannonball shot out from the courtyard inside the big iron gate, shouting loudly in a childish voice, "Grandpa, you walked too fast!"

Meng Qi was stunned to see her four-year-old self carrying the little hoe her grandfather had made for her, running over happily. Then Meng Jiu reached out his big hand and took the four-year-old Meng Qi's hand, leading her forward.

Watching the backs of the father and son snuggling together intimately, Meng Qi felt a strange pang of jealousy—that was her grandfather!
No, this is wrong.
The sudden hunger pangs in her stomach snapped her back to reality. She had eaten so much for breakfast; there was no way she could be hungry so quickly.

This is an illusion, the Red-Tailed Fox's Time Illusion!
"Junior Sister, are you awake?"

The voice of her fifth senior brother echoed in her mind. Meng Qi asked him, "How much time has passed?"

"Uh, less than an hour."

One shichen is two hours, so it must have been at least one hour?

so long.

Meng Qi frowned. Xiao Le and Dongfang Shuo must be getting impatient. She hadn't managed to lure the fox out, and who knew what they would do to get up here.

Not to mention how difficult it is to get up here, the problem is that even if they do get up here, it won't be easy for the two big guys to get in.

No, we need to find a way to break the illusion as soon as possible.

Meng Qi looked up and around, and found that everything here was almost exactly the same as Yunmeng Village in reality. To be honest, she really couldn't bear to destroy it with her own hands.

She now understood a little how the Red-tailed Fox's illusion was created: it captured the most beautiful and longed-for moment in a person's heart, making them intoxicated and unwilling to leave.

She was very tired in the period before the college entrance examination. At that time, she had to study and train at the same time, which made her extremely irritable. Whenever this happened, she had to close her eyes and silently recite the calming mantra in her heart.

She forced herself to remain calm. Even so, she still missed her grandfather, wanted to go back to her childhood, and wanted to go back to her grandfather's house.

She had originally planned to go back immediately after the college entrance examination, but due to the abnormal situation in Sanqing Mountain, she had to postpone it.

The red-tailed fox's illusion exploited this deep-seated feeling in her heart, knowing that she longed for Yunmeng Village and was attached to her grandfather, which is why she placed her in the illusion.

I won't figure it out, nor will I break it.

really?
Meng Qi stood in front of the red iron gate, stared at it for a few seconds, and then closed her eyes.

Leaves fluttered and branches danced wildly around Meng Qi. Everything of wood in the vicinity was swept up by a tornado, swirling and flying into the air, surrounding her completely.

Click, click.
From near to far, trees, big and small, all sprouted from the ground, their tangled roots and soil converging crookedly toward her, leaving behind pits of varying sizes on the once flat and peaceful rural land.

This made the whole village look messy.

Suddenly, all the trees went berserk, attacking the surrounding gates, walls, and houses. One tree even crashed down on Meng Jiu and four-year-old Meng Qi.

With a soft "poof," the two vanished from the spot like bubbles.

Then the knocked-down gate disappeared, the collapsed courtyard wall disappeared, and finally the house whipped by tree branches disappeared.
"So the way to break the illusion is to control or destroy everything that appears in the Red-tailed Fox's illusion."

As Lu Xiaowu watched the illusion surrounding his junior sister slowly shatter, he murmured to himself, "After I've condensed my true form, if I encounter a red-tailed fox again, I won't kill it. I'll let it create an illusion for me to play with."

He found it quite interesting to watch his junior sister smash the illusion, and he wanted to try it too.

He couldn't get out of his junior sister's sea of ​​consciousness while he was in the illusion, because it was his junior sister's illusion, and he would be rejected by it.

After emerging from the illusion, Meng Qi knelt down on the ground with a thud.

The hole was too low; it reached my head.

"Junior Sister, the Red-tailed Fox has run out of the cave."

After the illusion shattered, the injured little fox knew it was no match for Meng Qi and the colorful knife, so it ran out of the fox den before they could react.

But just as it reached the foot of the mountain, a long spear fell from the sky. The red-tailed fox rolled away to dodge it, but in doing so, it touched the wound on its back, causing it to grimace in pain.

In that brief moment of distraction, an explosive talisman was thrown at it. With a loud bang, rubble flew everywhere, and the red-tailed fox was blasted half a meter into the air before crashing back to the ground with a thud.

Wei Xiaole and Dongfang Shuo stood guard on either side, one holding a gun and the other a talisman. When the dust obscuring their vision cleared, they saw the red-tailed fox lying on the ground, its white fur now red, its eyes closed, motionless.

"died?"

"Not necessarily. Fox demons are cunning. Let's wait and see."

Just then, Meng Qi emerged from the fox den and swiftly descended to the foot of the mountain.

The two men breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that she was alright.

Dongfang Shuo said, "You've really worried us. We've been inside for more than half an hour. If you don't come out soon, we'll have to climb up the mountain from the other side and try to slide down."

More than half an hour?
(End of this chapter)