Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 250: Chapter 248: The Unkillable Monster

Lady Houtu was clearly playing dumb.

Shen Yue had no intention of beating around the bush.

”Is that so? Then what about your previous seven children? Were they also victims of a plot? Or did they die by accident?”

The moment she said this, Lady Houtu’s body went rigid. It was as if she’d never expected Shen Yue to know about the other seven children.

Her eyes darted around guiltily as she continued to feign ignorance.

”M-Miss A Yue, I don’t know what you’re talking about. What seven children...?”

”I only have two children, Le’er and Qi’er.”

Shen Yue narrowed her eyes at her, her voice turning cold.

”Lady Houtu, as a mother, how can you not feel any heartache or sorrow when nine of your children have died one after another over eight years?”

”They were your own flesh and blood. You endured the pain of being separated from your child year after year. Do you really want to keep covering for him? Or will you just let them continue what they’re doing?”

Shen Yue’s back-to-back questions seemed to strike a raw nerve in Lady Houtu, catching her completely off guard.

She sat on the ground, momentarily stunned, as if lost in thought.

A heavy silence spread over the ruins of the courtyard. Huang Ziyue, Bai Chaosi, and the others watched Lady Houtu with narrowed eyes.

Logically, even the coldest of mothers wouldn’t have zero reaction after losing nine children in a row.

She hadn’t even taken the slightest action...

And she was even trying her hardest to help the children’s murderer hide!

This could only mean one thing: Lady Houtu was very likely an accomplice!

As Huang Ziyue and Bai Chaosi came to this conclusion, they released their spiritual power. An invisible pressure bore down on Lady Houtu’s head.

Wu Huo said bluntly,

”Miss A Yue, why are you still wasting your breath on her? This woman is obviously an accomplice! I bet she doesn’t love her children one bit!”

He finished by spitting out viciously, ”Vile woman!”

Wu Huo’s words made Lady Houtu, who was lost in her emotions, turn deathly pale in an instant.

Her eyes seemed to hold some secret pain as she wrestled with her inner conflict.

But just as Wu Huo finished speaking, Shen Yue asked,

”Lady Houtu, do you really want the child in your womb to become his next test subject?”

At these words, Lady Houtu’s eyes flew wide open.

”You... how did you know I’m pregnant?”

Even Huang Ziyue and Bai Chaosi were taken aback. ’Test subject?’

’What does that mean?’

At the same time, Bai Chaosi and Wu Huo immediately glanced at Lady Houtu’s abdomen.

’This woman is pregnant?’

’How did we not notice at all?’

Shen Yue looked at her and said calmly,

”If I’m not mistaken, you’re the one who intentionally concealed your presence, aren’t you?”

Lady Houtu shot to her feet.

The shock on her face drained all the color from her lips.

Seeing her reaction, Shen Yue knew she was right.

She looked at her. ”I imagine you did this because you don’t want Hu Tu City Lord to discover your pregnancy. Am I right?”

Lady Houtu froze where she stood.

She never thought Shen Yue would know everything...

’Does that mean... he already knows?!’

Huang Ziyue and the others were also shocked to hear this.

’She hid her presence herself? To keep Hu Tu from finding out?’

’But... wasn’t she supposed to be an accomplice in her children’s deaths?’

’Why would she hide her pregnancy from Hu Tu?’

None of them could make sense of the situation.

As Lady Houtu’s face grew paler and paler with shock and terror, she suddenly grabbed Shen Yue’s arm.

Huang Ziyue was alarmed. ”What are you doing?”

He was about to make a move against Lady Houtu.

But then—

”Does he know, too?”

Limp with weakness, Lady Houtu clutched Shen Yue, looking up at her and asking.

Her eyes were filled with pure terror.

Huang Ziyue’s raised hand froze.

He had thought the woman was about to do something to Shen Yue...

Shen Yue, of course, knew who she was asking about. She steadied the woman’s weak, trembling body and said,

”Yes. Hu Tu already knows.”

At these words, the color drained completely from Lady Houtu’s face.

As if struck by a blow, she suddenly clutched her stomach and staggered a step backward.

She murmured,

”No, my baby... I can’t let him hurt my baby again...”

She immediately turned to Shen Yue, her voice a desperate, tear-filled plea.

”Miss A Yue, I’m begging you, please let me go! I can’t stay here! He’ll kill me, he’ll kill the baby in my womb...”

With that, she started to kneel before Shen Yue.

Shen Yue pulled her back up.

”Lady Houtu, why are you so afraid?”

”Don’t worry. With us here, he won’t dare harm you. If it comes to it, we’ll kill him for you.”

Hearing this seemed to trigger a traumatic response in Lady Houtu.

She looked at Shen Yue, then at Huang Ziyue and Bai Chaosi behind her.

”No! You have no idea how terrifying he is! You can’t kill him! Please, I’m begging you, let me leave! I can’t stay here...”

On the verge of a complete breakdown, she desperately wanted to flee.

But Shen Yue seemed determined to make her talk, prying the story out of her bit by bit.

”You say he can’t be killed. Do you think that we, top masters of the esteemed Flood Dragon Clan, are unable to protect you?”

When Lady Houtu heard this, she remembered that Shen Yue, Huang Ziyue, and the other one were all from the Flood Dragon Clan. Her emotions calmed slightly. She hesitated, as if torn between fear and the decision to speak.

Seeing this, Shen Yue pressed on.

”Why not trust us just this once, Lady Houtu? Perhaps this time, both you and your child can be saved.”

The woman listened, her gaze fixed on Shen Yue as if trying to ascertain something.

After a few breaths...

she seemed to finally make a decision. At last, she spoke.

”It’s not that I don’t trust you... It’s him. He really can’t be killed.”

”He’s a monster. He just can’t die.”

Shen Yue and Huang Ziyue exchanged a look.

’Can’t die?’

Then, Lady Houtu slowly began to tell them the whole story.

It turned out that a decade ago, Lady Houtu had been a female of the Raccoon Clan named Ge Miao. Her family had arranged for her to have four Beast Husbands.

But six months before she was to be married to them, Ge Miao met the man now known as Hu Tu in Li City.