Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 251: Chapter 249: I Discovered It Too Late

As the City Lord’s Wife, her food, clothing, and accommodations were the very best in all of Li City. Hu Tu never treated her poorly.

Even her family received Hu Tu’s care.

It was a classic case of one person’s success elevating their entire family.

But the good days didn’t last. Nine years ago, nearly a year after their marriage, Ge Miao’s family members began to disappear one after another.

When Ge Miao heard the news, she anxiously demanded that Hu Tu send people to search for them.

Hu Tu’s heart ached for Ge Miao, so of course, he accepted without hesitation. He spent several months away investigating the matter.

However, all his efforts yielded were the cold corpses of Ge Miao’s family.

First, it was her Father. Then her four older brothers, followed by her two younger brothers. Then, it was her female mother, and finally, even her female mother’s other two Beast Husbands met a brutal end.

Faced with the deaths of her family, Ge Miao sank into a deep grief. She refused to eat or drink and fell gravely ill, remaining a recluse for an entire year.

Naturally, Hu Tu did everything in his power to comfort and care for Ge Miao. During this time, their bond grew stronger, and she became pregnant with their first child.

It was a set of twins. After the children were born, Hu Tu doted on them at first. He personally taught them how to use their spiritual power and even nourished them with his own, causing the two children to grow very quickly.

In just over a year, the two children had already grown to look like six-year-olds. This made Ge Miao believe her children were exceptionally gifted, born with extraordinary spiritual power.

During this time, she also became pregnant with her second child.

Hu Tu said he wanted her to rest and focus on her pregnancy, so he took the two children out hunting. But when he returned, the children were two cold corpses.

Seeing her children lying lifeless before her, their necks bitten through by a wild beast, she cried until she fainted.

When she woke up, three days had passed. Hu Tu had already arranged the children’s funerals.

And while she was unconscious, she had given birth to her second child.

Her second pregnancy also resulted in twins. Fearing she would lose her children again, she was exceptionally careful this time, personally overseeing their every step.

Except for when Hu Tu needed to teach them about spiritual power, she was practically inseparable from the children.

Like the first set of twins, these two children were gifted and intelligent, with remarkable spiritual power. They grew faster than other children, reaching the same height as their deceased older siblings in less than a year.

When they walked down the street, people would even praise them, saying they had never seen children who grew so fast and had such outstanding talent for spiritual power.

And she, too, had always believed that her children were simply exceptional, possessing a talent that no one else could match.

Hearing this, Shen Yue, Huang Ziyue, and Bai Chaosi were all somewhat puzzled.

This was precisely the point that had puzzled Shen Yue earlier...

When she learned that nine children had died in the City Lord Mansion over eight years, each one appearing to be around seven or eight years old, she had thought it was impossible.

Children in the Beast World grow extremely slowly. Even the cubs of High level Beast Clan members, born with extraordinary spiritual power, would only grow slightly faster than ordinary cubs. This faster growth only referred to transforming into their human form quicker and earlier than the Low level Beast Clan; it was utterly absurd to suggest one could grow to the size of a seven or eight-year-old in a single year!

Even her own children, all of whom possessed the precious bloodline of the royal family with pure SSS+ spiritual power, couldn’t achieve that kind of growth.

But Hu Tu was just an ordinary Pallas’s cat, a member of a mid-level Beast Clan. How could his children possibly grow to the size of a seven or eight-year-old in one year?

Wu Huo voiced this thought directly:

”That’s impossible. We all grew up from childhood. Even children from my Flood Dragon Clan, with spiritual power ranging from S-rank to SSS+, could never grow to the size of a seven-year-old in a single year. And he’s just a Pallas’s cat!”

Listening, Bai Chaosi added unhurriedly:

”That’s not the point. No child in the entire Beast World, no matter how gifted their spiritual power, can grow seven years in one. They grow one year at a time!”

Hearing this, a bitter smile appeared on Ge Miao’s face.

Seeing this, Shen Yue asked, ”My lady, did you truly never realize there was a problem with your children’s growth?”

Ge Miao slowly sank to the ground, her expression a mixture of remorse and sorrow.

”You’re right, there was a problem. But unfortunately, I realized it far too late...”

She continued her story. Back then, she had been overjoyed for her children, believing they were special, one-in-a-million.

That was until she took the children out to play on the street again and came to an apothecary. The shop sold all sorts of potions and tonics prepared by Healing System Doctors.

Ge Miao had intended to buy some medicinal supplements for her children and herself, but she ran into an old man at the entrance.

When the old man saw her two children and the supplements in her hand, he immediately shook his head.

”Madam, a Forbidden Curse has been placed on these two children. I’m afraid they won’t live long. It’s useless to buy those supplements!”

She was utterly shocked. Thinking the old man was a lunatic, she cursed at him and prepared to leave the apothecary.

But as she was leaving, the old man grabbed her and continued.

”Madam, this old one means no harm. These children should be toddlers, but they have been forcefully aged. Going against the natural order like this will only bring harm to them and to you!”

She immediately shook the old man off and hurried away with her children.

But the old man’s words—’should be toddlers, but they have been forcefully aged’—planted a seed of doubt in her heart.

After all, her children’s growth truly was astonishing.

But she didn’t dare to consider the worst.

Until, a month later, tragedy struck again.

This time, they drowned after falling into a lake right before her eyes.

The water wasn’t even deep, yet it had easily drowned children who possessed spiritual power...

In her overwhelming grief, she remembered the old man’s words...

At that moment, like a startled bird, she rushed back to the apothecary to find the old man. But the shop owner told her something else.

A month ago, right after the old man had spoken to her in the shop, he was arrested by men from the City Lord Mansion.

Yet she hadn’t heard a single word about it.

She began to feel afraid...

And by the greatest of coincidences, she was pregnant again.

Two identical experiences in a row, coupled with the old man’s words, made her begin to suspect Hu Tu.

From that point on, she gradually discovered that nothing in the mansion was as it seemed.

When she started secretly following Hu Tu, she found that the servants who were supposedly rotated out of service every year were actually being imprisoned in an underground water dungeon.

They were poisoned so they couldn’t speak, and they were whipped...

At the time, she thought he was merely cruel and still held on to some illusion about him...

But that was until she discovered several letters in his study.

The familiar handwriting on them made her eyes redden.

They were letters sent by her brothers and her female mother...

The contents of the letters were her female mother and brothers’ final testaments, exposing Hu Tu’s true face before they died.

She couldn’t believe it. Her entire family had been killed by Hu Tu.

In that moment, her world came crashing down!

The letters said that while hunting, Ge Miao’s Father and brothers had accidentally discovered Hu Tu in the West City Forest, throwing dozens of city residents into the woods, brutally feeding them to a monster.