Even if Grandma Arno finds him now, that's his fate, it has nothing to do with us. Let's not drag ourselves into this. Even if Grandma Arno hasn't found him now, she will eventually, and then we'll be implicated for harboring and protecting humans.
"But……"
"No buts, Dudu. We really don't need to fight the entire Spirit Fox Clan for Mu Nanxun. Let him fend for himself."
Yu'er pleaded earnestly. Compared to Mu Nanxun, she clearly wanted to protect Chen Dudu more. As long as Chen Dudu was alright, she couldn't care less about others.
As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Dudu's conflicted expression turned to shock. She stared at Yu'er's back, her mouth slightly open, wanting to explain something, but she couldn't utter a single word.
"Dudu, what's wrong? I'm talking to you, Dudu."
Seeing Chen Dudu staring blankly, Yu'er asked worriedly. Then, following Chen Dudu's gaze, she turned around and froze on the spot.
It is Yi Yi.
And that lion.
How did they get here? Didn't Yi Yi overhear her conversation with Chen Dudu?
Yu'er took a deep breath, walked a few steps, and stood in front of Yi Yi. Before she could explain, Yi Yi asked, "Yu'er, you and Dudu knew about Mu Mu's whereabouts all along, didn't you?"
"..." Yu'er didn't speak. Chen Dudu didn't know how to talk to her, so she lowered her head.
"Mumu is right here with you, but you didn't tell me. You know perfectly well how worried I was about Mumu." Tears welled up in her eyes, but she refused to let them fall.
Her two best friends were deceiving her about the very thing she cared about most.
If she hadn't accidentally discovered Mao Mao's kidnapping and rescued her, she wouldn't have been brought here by Mao Mao, nor would she have overheard Chen Dudu and Yu'er's conversation. She wouldn't have known that Mu Mu had been here all along, and that she originally had a chance to see Mu Mu and take him away from here.
“Yi Yi, since you’ve already heard it, we won’t hide it from you anymore. Yes, Mu Nanxun fell off the cliff into the pool and drifted to the shore with Mao Mao. Dudu found them and rescued them, and has been keeping them in the basement of the treatment room ever since. Mao Mao only suffered minor injuries and recovered quickly. But Mu Nanxun has multiple gunshot wounds, knife wounds, and crocodile bite wounds. Several times, he almost couldn’t hold on…”
"Mumu..." It turned out that Mumu had suffered such serious injuries, barely escaping death, but she knew nothing about it. Even when Xiao Fang came back to report, he didn't tell her any of this, only saying that he and Mao Mao were forced to fall into the water.
Therefore, she always believed that the all-powerful Mu Nanxun was alright, especially since he was such a good swimmer. So, she firmly believed that he was not dead, but she never imagined that he was experiencing something more painful than death in a place she didn't know.
"You have no idea how much effort Dudu put in to save his life."
Yu'er took a deep breath and continued, "We were worried that the scent emanating from Mu Nanxun would be detected by other spirit foxes, and we were even more worried that Grandma Arno would discover that there were humans here. So, Dudu used herbs that could mask the scent to cover the entrance to the basement cave, and had Mao Mao guard the basement, by Mu Nanxun's side."
"Why didn't you tell me these things?" She clearly asked them, but Dudu pretended to know nothing at the time.
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