I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 277 Conditions
The moment the cage disappeared, Meng Yanxu suddenly opened his eyes.

"Sister-in-law?"

"Yan Xu, is Liu Liu alright?"

"She's alright. That snake demon tried to kill her, but the fairy protected her."

Meng Shulan was confused. "You mean, the fairy has woken up?"

Things happened too fast, and Meng Yanxu wasn't really sure whether the fairy had woken up or not. He only saw a wisp of pale green light emerge from the jade pendant when the snake demon grabbed Liu Liu, and the fairy's shadow could be vaguely seen. But it only appeared for a moment and then disappeared, leaving only that wisp of pale green light to wrap around the two of them, making it impossible for the snake demon to do anything to them.

Later, they couldn't get out of the cage, and the snake demon couldn't catch them either, so the stalemate has continued until now.

Now that the cage is gone, the faint glow that had become indistinguishable in color has also disappeared.

"How are you? Can you walk?"

Seeing that Meng Yanxu's face was pale and his true energy was not very strong, Meng Shulan quickly placed her hand on his back and transferred some energy to him.

"Thank you, Auntie, I feel much better."

"Okay, let's go out first."

Meng Shulan wanted to hug Liu Liu, but Meng Yanxu stopped her, saying, "Let me do it, Aunt. She got tired from channeling her inner energy into the jade pendant."

Meng Shulan nodded. It's the right thing to do to hold your own girlfriend.

The three of them quickly left the secret room, but did not go out into the backyard. They sat down to rest at a round table near the stone archway.

"Your uncle went to check another secret room and will be back soon. Are you hungry? Would you like to eat something?"

Meng Yanxu felt alright. Xiao Qi also gave him a storage bag, which Liu Liu made into a sachet and tied around his waist. It contained a lot of food and supplies, so even though he had been locked up for more than twenty days, he didn't starve himself.

Liu Liu has been unconscious for several days due to the influence of the fairy, and she will definitely be hungry when she wakes up.

"Since you're not hungry, tell me what happened."

It's already 3:30 a.m., and it will be dawn in a little over two hours. Meng Shulan seems to have been busy all night, but she hasn't actually fought a single battle, so apart from being a little sleepy, she can't say she's tired.

Right now, all she wants to do is get to the bottom of things, and find the fairy statue.

She knew that the statue contained the fairy's own blood, otherwise she wouldn't be able to directly absorb the people's offerings. But there was also a risk; if someone did something to the statue, it would naturally be very detrimental to the fairy.

However, putting aside whether anyone would have the courage to do so over the past thousands of years, temples are always guarded by people with high levels of spiritual cultivation, so even if someone had the intention, they wouldn't have the opportunity.

But this time it was different. It was the Liu family members who were guarding the Liuxian Temple who embezzled the statue. They colluded with outsiders and the snake demon to seal the statue using some means.

Once the statue containing the heart's blood of the fairy maiden is sealed, the first thing affected is the divine soul nurtured within the jade pendant, directly causing it to fall into a deep slumber.

It's not that the fairy was careless; in fact, no one had ever dared to do such a thing before or after she became an immortal.

After her statue was sealed away, it was moved to a different location, and then Liu Zhu's statue was placed in that spot.

Unfortunately, even though the snake demon Liu Zhu occupied the fairy's shrine, it couldn't absorb any of the people's offerings. Therefore, it conspired with the Huang family and Liu Dewen to lure Liu Zhu over, obtain her jade pendant, and then absorb the fairy's soul from within, making it its own.

In this way, it will surely be able to embark on the same path to immortality as Fairy Liu.

"Aunt, the fairy's statue is in Liu Liu's storage bag." Meng Shulan placed a mat on the ground, settled Liu Liu on it, and then covered her with a thin blanket.

Then she began to listen to Meng Yanxu recount what happened after they arrived. "At that time, we saw the statue of the fairy in the side room. We threw Huang Lao Er in first, and only went in after finding that there was no problem. But just as we were about to get close to the statue, the floor suddenly collapsed. To be precise, someone triggered a mechanism, causing us to fall from above into the secret room below. Before we could even stand up, a large cage suddenly appeared and trapped both of us inside."

"Then the snake demon appeared and attacked with deadly moves. However, whenever Liu Liu was in danger, the fairy would always come out to protect her, and she even protected me."

This reminded Meng Shulan of Xiao Qi and Lu Xiaowu when they were five years old. At that time, the gray fox wanted to eat Xiao Qi, but Xiao Wu emerged from her consciousness before he had fully recovered and killed the gray fox to save her.

Hmm, it seems that Xiao Wu and the fairy have the same function.

"Fortunately, Liu Liu was quick-witted and reacted quickly. Just as the floor disappeared and we were about to fall, she swiftly reached out and touched the fairy statue, putting it into her storage bag. Otherwise, who knows what might have happened in the next few days."

For example, the snake demon could threaten them by breaking the statue, or use the statue to do something else. In short, if the fairy's statue is in the enemy's hands, they can easily control them.

Because Liu Liu said that the statue contained the fairy's heart's blood, and the statue could not be destroyed.

After Meng Shulan had a general understanding of what had happened, her phone rang.

"Old Xia."

"The person you sent the message to is from the Huang family. It seems that Liu Liu and Yan Xu's accident is related to the Huang family. Also, that Huang Lao Er is very suspicious."

"Liu Liu and Yan Xu have been found. Yan Xu is unharmed, but Liu Liu is unconscious."

"You two are pretty fast! What happened to Liu Liu? Where are you now? Should we take her to the hospital?"

"No need. She fainted from exhaustion after channeling her inner energy into the jade pendant. I just checked on her, and she's fine. She'll probably wake up soon."

"Then you should hurry down the mountain and go back to rest."

Xia Yunsong didn't ask what exactly happened. He figured that since it had already happened, what difference would it make if people found out sooner or later?
The most important thing is to let people who have been busy all night get some rest.

“You need to call some colleagues and police officers over. There are secret rooms under Liuxian Temple, and there are obviously a lot of dead people in one of them. Old Lin went to check and hasn’t come back yet. I just came up from down there not long ago, and the smell of rotting corpses is particularly strong.”

"Okay, I'll call someone right away."

Sure enough, Liu Liu woke up not long after.

"How do you feel? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

Meng Yanxu helped her sit up and let her lean on him.

"Thank goodness," Liu Liu paused, then looked at Meng Shulan and asked, "Aunt Lan, when did you get here? Did you save us?"

To be precise, it was the fox demon Zi Ji who saved it. After she had the snake demon Liu Zhu put the cage back in, she knocked the snake unconscious and took it away.

Before leaving, I clearly told her that she was going to Qingzhou to find Xiao Qi and ask if she still needed snake gall or snake blood, which could be used to make medicinal wine.

Meng Shulan could tell from the question about the infused liquor that Zi Ji wanted to talk to Xiao Qi about something.

Could this fox be trying to get Xiao Qi to do something for her in exchange for saving them?

The more Meng Shulan thought about it, the more likely it seemed. She didn't have time to answer Liu Liu's question and quickly took out her phone to call Xiao Qi.
(End of this chapter)