"Boss, are you just going to let them go?" Ao Tong said unwillingly as he looked at the mermaid walking away. The other party was the king who conspired with the Cocoon Rat to murder them. How could he expose it so easily?

"I will get this debt back from the mermaid tribe." Ao Wu said.

But not now. The mermaid did not directly participate in the assassination operation, and immediately evacuated after Ao Wu warned. If the Frostwolves take the initiative to attack, then the ones who broke the covenant will become the Frostwolves."

Ao Wu knew about Yun Wuzhen's past with Yu Fangqing, so it was not difficult to think that these mermaids came for Yun Wuzhen, but they dared to scheme against Yunhu and Frost Wolf like this. He hoped that the island owner behind them could also bear this responsibility.

as a result of.

The meeting of the seven royal clans was coming soon, and he would naturally want an explanation from the mermaid clan when the time came.

After the mermaids evacuated, only Frost Wolf and Cocoon Rat were left facing each other across the river.

At this moment, there are only two hostages left on the ship, a few cocoon orcs, and Brother Shujin Shuran, who has just returned to his body.

Shujin understood that now that the plan failed, even if he went back, he would be severely punished and the status he had worked so hard to achieve would plummet. But even so, he still wanted to live.

Shujin grasped at the last straw, Shuang Yu.

Shuang Yu was blindfolded again, with her hands tied behind her back, and Shujin held a knife against her neck. The tip of the knife had penetrated into her skin, and blood was dripping down along the blood groove on the knife.

Shujin just pulled Shuangyu, staggered to the deck, and threatened the Frostwolf on the river bank: "Let us go, or I will kill him."

"I can let you go, but in order to ensure the safety of Lord Shuangyu, I have to follow you." Ao Tong didn't think Shujin could really run away.

There is no mermaid to help them control the situation around the river. As long as they delay for a while, the high priest can lead his people to set up an ambush downstream, and freeze the Shujin and others who collided with the boat and people in the river. By then they will naturally be able to

Capture all the opponents alive. So now we just need to delay.

Ao Tong was not worried that Shujin was greedy for life and afraid of death, but he was worried that he would drag Shuang Yu along with him even if he risked his life.

Shujin heard Ao Tong relax. At this time, he couldn't think too much. He just wanted to escape as soon as possible. He urged the cocoon orcs who were sailing the boat to sail the merchant ship out of the inlet and head south.

"Senior brother, leave Shuangyu to me. You can rest for a while." Shuran stood up and approached Shujin with a pale face.

Shujin looked at Shuran who came up to him suspiciously. He had just cheated the other party in the palace. Maybe the other party didn't hold any grudge at all?

Shu Jincai was not so naive. He took a step back and said defensively: "No need, I don't want to rest right now."

At this moment, something unexpected happened.

Shujin only wanted to guard against Shuran in front of him, but he did not expect that the cocoon orc behind him suddenly attacked and stabbed Shujin's neck with a dagger. If Hang Shiqi was present, he would find that the position where the dagger penetrated was the same as the previous one.

The moment Jin stabbed Shuran was exactly the same.

Ao Tong, who was standing by, was stunned and didn't understand why such a scene of fratricide suddenly broke out.

Shuang Yu was held by the cocoon orc and dragged to the side with An Qing.

"You!" A large amount of blood welled up from Shujin's throat. He stared at Shuran in disbelief, but could not say another word.

In Shu Jin's impression, Shu Ran is just a junior fellow student with a submissive personality and average talent. Apart from having a good-looking face and being able to please his master, he is of no use.

So Shujin couldn't figure out why the other party wanted to kill him, how could he dare to kill him? How could he control the cocoon orc behind him without telling him?

"I know that senior brother doesn't like me. I don't care if you stabbed me on purpose." Shuran lowered her eyes, stepped on Shujin's head with the toe of her shoe and crushed it. She leaned down and said with the power that only two people could

I heard a voice saying: "How can we let Shuang Yu go back? His eyes will reveal many secrets. I didn't expect that the senior brother would be so greedy for life and afraid of death. For his own life, he would let the secrets of the whole clan follow him.

Exposed. The teacher will be very disappointed if he finds out."

"Ho-ho-" Shujin didn't want to die. He covered the wound on his neck, but the blood couldn't stop coming out.

Shuran admired Shujin's embarrassment and narrowed his eyes happily: "But senior brother should have fully realized his mistake, so he decided to use his own life to put an end to this failure. Right?"

No, Shujin grabbed Shuran's trousers with all his strength. His eyes were full of the desire to live. He didn't want to die. Even if he lived in the dark underground all his life, even if he was always weak and humble and rejected by others, he still wanted to live.

"Want to live? Tsk, I gave you a chance. Brother, you probably don't know yet, right? The idea of ​​breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn has actually been realized." Shuran squatted down, put away his usual well-behaved manner, and revealed a bit of the arrogance of a superior person.

They obviously have the same face, but they seem to be two completely different people: "Actually, you should call me Junior Uncle. Junior Nephew of Shujin."

Shujin's eyes widened, and his dilated pupils were filled with fear. It was obvious that his life had come to an end. But this time, it was his own body that died, and there would be no chance for him to come back again.

On his deathbed, Shujin recalled some old things.

He did have a junior uncle who was a few years older than him. The junior uncle was as talented and brilliant as his master. However, there were differences between the two when it came to the use of Yuan Yu.

The master proposed the idea of ​​summoning consciousness and making a cocoon orc, but the young master wanted to use this idea on the cocoon orc himself, using Yuan Yu to give the soul a place to stay and reincarnate, and proposed the concept of breaking out of the cocoon, rebirth, and immortality.

The master soon succeeded, and the Cocoon Orcs were produced in batches. With their help, the Cocoon Orcs continued to hoard supplies and wealth, and the original underground dens were expanded to the size of the current palace.

The young master's uncle's idea failed. He tried to separate the human soul from the body, kill the body, and then replace the soul with a new shell. But the process was too painful and no one could endure it alive. Several apprentices died because of

His crazy research led to his death.

The junior uncle who lost the experimental materials turned his thoughts to several of Shujin's senior brothers.

Shujin was not outstanding among his master's apprentices at that time. In order to gain a higher status, Shujin secretly cooperated with his junior uncle and packaged several senior brothers to be used as materials for his junior uncle. Of course, as expected, they all died.

Shujin then became the most senior disciple of the master, and gradually he was taken seriously by the master.

But even though he had cooperated with his junior uncle, Shujin himself was also afraid of his existence. In his opinion, his junior junior uncle was a madman and a devil. In Shujin's eyes, his junior junior uncle was not doing research, he was simply doing research.

Killing people. So after killing several of his senior brothers, Shujin refused his junior uncle's request to participate in the experiment and severed all contact with him.

Another half year later, he heard from his master about the death of his junior uncle. It turned out that the junior junior uncle could not find the experimental materials, so he directly tormented the experiment on himself. When he died, the body was tortured and deformed.

, his miserable appearance made many new disciples vomit. It also gave Shujin, who was still young at the time, nightmares for several years.

Shujin buried his junior uncle with his own hands under the instructions of his master. He thought the matter was over, but he didn't expect...

Calculating the time, Shuran was brought back by the master about two years after the death of his little uncle. He was seven or eight years old and had a white jade dumpling made of pink and jade. Everyone who saw it said that it was so beautiful that it looked nothing like this.

The cocoon rat looks like a more beautiful-looking group rat orc.

Because Shuran's talent was average and his personality was soft, and he was completely different from his junior uncle, no one connected them at all. If the other party hadn't personally admitted it, Shujin would never have thought to his death that that terrifying junior junior uncle had become his own.

Junior brother, he really succeeded.

After Shuran dealt with Shujin, she unceremoniously kicked the opponent's body into the river, turned around and smiled at An Qing and Shuang Yu. The smile was exciting and cruel.

Although An Qing didn't hear what the two of them were talking about just now, he realized the moment Shujin was killed that the other party might not give them a chance to wait for rescue in peace.

As a member of the hunting team, he could untie the simple knots used by Cocoon to tie their hands with his eyes closed. When he saw the Cocoon orcs surrounding them, he immediately threw out a handful of purple bone coins.

The purple bone coins exploded into fireworks in the air, and the hit Cocoon Orcs fell into the water one after another. An Qing took the opportunity to pull up Shuangyu, help him untie the rope behind him, and push Shuangyu into the water: "Let's go!"

Shuang Yu was blindfolded and didn't know what was going on around her. She could only follow An Qing's push and jump into the water, while groping for the cloth tied around her eyes.

"Don't look back, swim forward!" An Qing's voice sounded a bit sharp.

Shuang Yu obediently paddled forward twice. His brother was stronger than him. If he stayed here at this time, being caught would only hinder his brother.

Ahead, Ao Tong had already jumped into the river and was rushing in this direction to meet him.

"Boom!" A violent roar sounded from behind Shuangyu, and the hot water waves pushed him towards the shore.

Shuang Yu just remembered something at this time and turned around in disbelief. He saw the merchant ship being engulfed in huge flames, the ship's planks burning in pieces on the river, and there were flickering sparks in the sky, pattering along with the rising river water.

It fell, making the dark night glow red.

The stars rolled back and blood and fire spread across the sky.

"Brother!" Shuang Yu's tearful cry tore through the chaotic night.

Support from the Priesthood finally arrived, and the ice spread inward from the river bank, gradually freezing the entire bay. Ao Tong jumped onto the ice, and quickly pulled Shuang Yu, who was about to swim back to the boat, to the river to prevent him from doing so.

Also frozen.

"Brother!" Shuangyu pushed Ao Tong away and stumbled towards the direction of the ship.

Ao Wu and his party also walked towards Hezhong on the ice.

The fire has been extinguished, and there are scorch marks everywhere on the broken merchant ship, but there is a layer of frost on the outside.

On the deck, the Cocoon Orcs were dead and seriously injured. As for Shu Ran, she had already lost her breath.

An Qing's broken body was leaning against the bow of the boat, with only one breath left, breathing weakly.

"My brother is still alive, save him quickly, come save him!" Shuangyu turned and shouted to the people in the priest's court.

Several healing priests trotted forward in a hurry, and a steady stream of life energy was sent into An Qing's body, but the faces of the healing priests became increasingly ugly.

The oldest priest among them, Shuang Ming, sighed regretfully towards Shuang Yu: "He was injured too badly and his internal organs were shattered. There is no way he can be saved. All we can do to help him is a few words."

Shuang Yu's originally ugly face suddenly turned as pale as paper. She trembled her lips and tears fell from her eyes: "No, he is still alive and can be saved. You guys think of a way. Uncle Ming, you

He is the best healing priest in the north, you must have a way, right?"

Shuangming looked at Shuangyu's pitiful expression and couldn't bear to look away: "Xiaoyu, if you have anything to say, take advantage of this time and hurry up. Mingshu can only try to help you fight for a while."

"Ahem, there's nothing to fight for. Please show mercy and stop torturing me." An Qing spat out a large mouthful of blood, which was mixed with some broken internal organs, and said in a hoarse voice: "It hurts so much."

"Brother." Shuang Yu quickly squatted down again, hugged An Qing who was covered in blood, and apologized incoherently: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I'm sorry..."

"It's all your fault, you shouldn't have been born in the first place." An Qing said angrily. After saying this, the blood in her throat choked her trachea, and she grabbed Shuangyu's sleeve and coughed desperately.

Shuang Yu trembled and stared at An Qing with tearful eyes. For the first time, she felt that what the other party said might be right. If it were not for him, his mother would not die, his brother would not die, and they might always live happily. As long as

If my brother is not dead, then there will be no life without him...

"An Yu." An Qing suddenly called Shuang Yu by her previous name: "You don't owe me anything. After so many years, it's enough."

"Not enough, not enough brother. I would rather you blame me and scold me all the time, as long as you live." Shuang Yu burst into tears.
To be continued...