"Shu Qian, you too shut up!"

Shu Qiu shouted at Shu Qianleng, who was still lying on Shu Dabao and crying.

Shu Qian paused in his howling, he opened his mouth, and finally swallowed the sobs into his stomach.

Only the constantly shaking body showed that Shu Qian was still crying.

Shu Qiu glanced at Shu Qian with some annoyance. Just as he was about to ask the priest to go and see what happened to Shu Dabao, he heard another cry from behind him: "Ah - my Dabao, what happened to you?"

It’s the female from Shuqiu, Shu Dabao’s grandmother Fu Qing is here.

She cried and screamed and rushed to Shu Dabao's side, her hands trembling as she stroked Shu Dabao's bloodstained face, and then she cried out sharply: "My Dabao, Shuqiu, please find a way to save my Dabao. If anything happens to my Dabao, I will not live either--"

Seeing Fu Qing coming, Shu Qian, who had been suppressing his tears, suddenly felt that his backer had come.

He burst into tears again: "My poor Dabao, you lost your mother when you were young. You finally grew up, but you suffered such a misfortune. My poor Dabao!"

The cries of mother and child mixed together, sharp and annoying.

For a moment, Shuqiu felt his temples throbbing.

"what--"

Just as Shu Qiu was about to stop the two again and ask the priest to go and check on Shu Dabao, Shu Dabao suddenly let out a very short scream that was filled with great pain.

The scream scared Fu Qing and Shu Qian, who were lying on Shu Dabao and crying.

When they reacted, they saw thick black blood with a foul smell flowing out of Shu Dabao's eyes, nose, and ears.

And Shu Dabao, who had still some breath just now, was now completely motionless.

"Dabao!"

Fu Qing and Shu Qian rushed to put their hands under Shu Dabao's nose, but there was no breath at all.

Shu Qian instantly burst into a heart-wrenching cry, but Fu Qing suddenly turned his head and stared at Shu Qiu.

"Father..."

Shu Wan, who was behind Shu Qiu, looked at Shu Dabao's appearance at this moment and wanted to say something.

Shuqiu raised his hand to stop him. He first waved at the rat beastmen around him and asked them to leave quickly.

The terrified rat beasts felt relieved and left quickly without looking back.

After all the rat beastmen had left, Shuqiu said to Shuwan behind him, "Go find your second brother right now and ask him to return to the Shadow Forest as quickly as possible, and then inform the king about this."

"Yes, Father."

Shu Wan nodded at Shu Qiu and immediately turned and left.

After Shu Wan left, Shu Qiu looked at Shu Dabao's body expressionlessly, then said to Fu Qing and Shu Qian in a light tone: "Since he is my grandson, I will not send this body to the king. You can deal with it yourselves."

Fu Qing came back to his senses after hearing Shuqiu's words.

She no longer had the crazy look she had just now, only a complicated expression on her face: "Shuqiu, he is your grandson..."

"grandson?

Heh~ Ah Qing, before you say this to me, shouldn't you ask yourself, do you treat him as your grandson?"

There was a hint of sarcasm in Rathill's eyes.

"Of course I didn't. I protected and pampered him like the apple of my eye..."

Fu Qing suddenly became excited.

"Okay, Ah Qing, what kind of person are you and what kind of person am I? Aren't we... very clear about each other?

He is just a scapegoat to you, and you treat him well just to make yourself feel less guilty.

If you really treated him as your grandson, why did you repeatedly stop me from asking the priest to check on him?"

At this point, Shuqiu chuckled at Fuqing again: "Ah Qing, let's not act like this between you and me."

After hearing what Shuqiu said, Fu Qing suddenly calmed down: "Okay, if that's the case, then let me ask you, I checked his body every day, but I never found anything wrong.

How did you do that to him, and how did you hide it from me?"

"Ah Qing, you know, I can't possibly tell you.

Besides, it is his honor to sacrifice his life for that great cause.

But don't worry, as compensation to you, I won't do anything.

Of course, the premise is that he won't come to ruin our business.

So, Ah Qing, you have to keep an eye on him and don't let him do anything stupid."

After Shu Qiu finished speaking, he looked at Shu Qian coldly. His eyes were icy, and it didn’t seem like he was looking at his son at all.

"Rathill, he's your son! Your only—"

"So what? As long as I can help that person, I am willing to sacrifice my entire Gray Squirrel clan, let alone a son."

Shuqiu's expression at this moment was somewhat crazy.

"Father, mother..."

Shu Qian, who was still immersed in the grief of losing his son, lifted his face, which was covered with tears and snot, from Shu Dabao after hearing the conversation between Shu Qiu and Fu Qing.

He stared blankly at the parents in front of him who seemed to have no sadness at all about Shu Dabao's death, and felt a little confused for a moment.

And why couldn't he understand what they were saying?

After hearing Shu Qian's voice, Shu Qiu's expression returned to its original state again: "A Qing, I think you should know how to tell him about this."

After saying this, Rathill turned around and prepared to leave.

But just as he took two steps, Fu Qing's voice came from behind him: "Shuqiu, even if I sacrifice my life for the one you serve, will you still say something like today, that it is my honor to sacrifice my life for that person's great cause."

Rathill paused, then continued forward, saying one word at the same time: "Yes."

Tears rolled down Fu Qing's eyes with the word "yes".

But she quickly raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, then turned around and waved her right hand in front of Shu Qian, who had a confused look on his face.

A purple light appeared out of nowhere in the palm of her hand.

When Shu Qian saw this light, he felt that his brain suddenly became chaotic.

Then, his body fell limply on Shu Dabao's corpse, and then automatically transformed into a beast form.

His animal form was not that of an ordinary gray mouse, but a purple mouse with fluffy hair.

Fu Qing first carefully placed Shu Qian in the palm of his left hand, and then placed his right hand on Shu Dabao's body.

Shu Dabao's body slowly turned into nothingness under the cover of purple light.

After Shu Dabao's body disappeared, Fu Qing stood up carrying Shu Qian. She looked in the direction where Shu Qiu had left, with reluctance flashing in her eyes, but in the end she turned around and left the gray mouse clan.

Shuqiu, who had already returned to the hall used by the gray rat clan for sacrifices, seemed to sense something. He raised his head and glanced in the direction where Fu Qing left.

But he soon withdrew his gaze and walked quickly to the stone wall on the right side of the sacrificial hall.

He raised his hand and tapped somewhere on the stone wall. He heard a slight sound, and then a hole with strange symbols engraved inside appeared on the stone wall. In the hole was a stone bowl filled with black liquid.

Shuqiu picked up the stone bowl very carefully and walked to the center of the sacrificial hall.

In the center of the sacrificial hall stood a stone pillar that was also carved with strange symbols. Shuqiu poured the black liquid in the bowl onto the stone pillar.

After the symbol on the stone pillar came into contact with the black liquid, it emitted a dazzling black light, and then the black liquid disappeared.

Shuqiu put the empty stone bowl back into the hole, then tapped somewhere on the stone wall, and the hole on the wall immediately disappeared.

After doing all this, Shuqiu stood in front of the stone wall for a while before walking out of the sacrificial hall.

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