But this is not her own business after all, and she is not qualified to forgive Duke and give him a happy life on behalf of those victims.

Zhou You heard this and said to Gao Zhanying behind him: "Please go and inform Brother Tao, who is presiding over the execution, and ask them to send Duke over to identify him, and I will confirm the status of this rat king in the rat tribe.

"

Duke was also delivered fixed on a wooden board.

At this time, the flesh and blood on his two forearms had been stripped to pieces, and even the bones could be seen.

His crotch was already empty.

However, he is indeed not dead yet.

At this time, Duke had long lost his previous stubbornness, tenacity and calmness, his expression was gloomy, and he seemed to be in extremely poor condition.

The moment he saw Zhou You, Duke's lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but all he could say was "ho ho" and he couldn't say a single word.

But there was a sense of begging in his eyes.

"Dr. Lin, please give him a dose of adrenaline to cheer him up."

After waiting for a moment, Duke was finally able to speak, and immediately wailed, "Mr. Zhou, just give me a good time and let me die quickly. Please. I beg you..."

Zhou You ignored him and just turned his gaze aside, "This is the master you are loyal to, the rat king of this litter of rat tribes. You should recognize him, right?"

What's the point of begging for mercy now?

If Duke had shown such remorse earlier, Zhou You might have been able to show mercy to him.

But since he had previously felt that he was a hero and wanted to die standing, thinking that he was a fellow rat, Zhou You decided to satisfy him and let him have the style of a martyr among rats that he wanted.

If he could really stiffen his neck and endure the torture of the hard workers until he died, then maybe Zhou You would really regard him as a person and secretly keep his name in his heart. Perhaps many years later, Du

Ke is still eligible to appear in Zhou You's memoirs.

It's a pity that Duke seemed to have only been tough-talking for a short time, but he still couldn't hold on to the end, and it was just that people looked down upon him.

Duke followed his wandering gaze and looked to the side, seeing the Silver Rat King on the side.

Duke's pupils shrank sharply, looking very shocked.

He recognized the mouse.

Previously, Duke was actually not sure.

During these days, this medium-sized mouse with silvery hair would hide among the rats and secretly observe itself from time to time.

For a long time, Duke suspected that the rat might be the "eyes" of the Rat King, or perhaps the mouthpiece.

He had thought that the silver rat was heading towards the Rat King, but he had never found any evidence, and he had never seen any other rats showing respect to the silver rat, so he rejected his conjecture.

Now exposed by Zhou You's words and combined with the memories in his heart, Duke can conclude that this is indeed the Rat King.

He murmured to himself: "How is it possible...this...why...why can you catch it! It is so careful! This is impossible!"

Zhou You smiled slightly.

He got the answer he wanted, and only said: "Nothing is impossible. A complete loser in human society like you thinks that rats are omnipotent, and you have become a spiritual rat, so you feel that

This kind of thing is impossible. Okay, Lao Gao, please send Duke back and let them continue cutting. They should finish cutting each one at a time and send him on his way. We can't delay too long."

Duke was pulled away again amid all kinds of wailing.

Zhou You then squatted down in front of the Rat King again and looked at the Rat King in front of him carefully.

"I really hope you can understand what I say, or you can speak human words and say something to me." Zhou You said slowly.

But he immediately shook his head, "But this is indeed a bit difficult. After all, your vocal cords and ours have different vocal structures. Are you right? Oh, I really hope I can communicate with you more. I really want to know more about you."

What are you thinking about in your mind? How do you think about problems? When you try to think about more complex logical thinking, what language is running in your brain? Is it the various squeaks like the human mother tongue?

Or are there other ways to bypass language and form pure thinking without language carrier?”

Zhou You talked a lot to himself here, but unfortunately the Rat King didn't respond at all, not even a change in his eyes.

However, when Zhou You was talking, he seemed to move his steps deliberately and accidentally, slowly approaching the Rat King's mouth.

Finally, when Zhou You's neck almost entered the position where the prone rat king could bite directly if he raised his head.

The Rat King, who was dying just a moment ago, suddenly popped up his head and bit Zhou You's neck like lightning.

If it were human beings in the past, they would definitely not be able to react in time, but now the neural reaction speed of human beings is stronger than that of mice, and Zhou You, as a second-awakened transcendent, is much stronger than ordinary humans.

In his eyes, the Rat King's movements seemed to be in slow motion.

He just tilted his head slightly in an understatement, then raised his hand and punched the Rat King on the chin, causing him to squeak in pain and completely failed.

However, the Rat King didn't seem too upset after being punched. When he confirmed that he had no chance to sneak attack, he lazily lay back on the board and continued to pretend to be dead.

Next, no matter what Zhou You said, it still didn't respond at all.

After a while, Zhou You seemed to feel bored. He stood up and walked to the side. He said to An Xin, the head of the Zhou family's animal breeding team, who had taken his place in advance and had been observing here for a long time: "An Xin, do you think it has anything?"

Do you understand what I’m saying?”

An Xin shook his head, "Sorry Mr. Zhou, I can't judge. It's possible that it really doesn't understand a word, but it's also possible that it understands, but it's just pretending in front of you."

Yes, Zhou You's previous soliloquy seemed meaningless, but it was also a new scientific experiment on the Rat King.

The purpose of the experiment is to verify whether the current Rat King can understand human speech.

This is very important and related to many strategic actions in the future.

In the past tense, there was a saying that was often circulated among the older generation in rural areas.

If you want to take action against rats in your home, such as using rat poison or setting up traps, be sure not to speak out at home, otherwise the rats will hear you and take precautions, and then these methods will not be effective.

Although this statement is a bit superstitious, after all, its theoretical basis is that rats can understand human speech, and they must be very proficient in it, which is much more complicated than dogs that can only recognize some basic commands.

But these rumors from the older generation are often considered to be groundless and may not be without reason.

Perhaps there were indeed extremely smart rats in history who accomplished many feats that seemed unreasonable to ordinary people, which ultimately led to this superstition settling into the memory of the older generation of humans.

Young people often would rather believe what they have than what they have not.

Zhou You asked again: "Then An Xin, do you have any way to find out its true thoughts?"

An Xin thought for a while and suggested: "Let Black and White give it a try? After all, cats were the natural enemies of mice for a long time in the past. Even if mice today have evolved into intelligent species, the fear of mice in genetic memory may still be there.

exist?"

Zhou You: "Okay, give it a try. I'll bring Black and White over."

The black and white they mentioned was the black and white cow cat adopted by Zhou You.

After nearly twenty days of cultivation, this little milk cat has grown up a lot.

Under An Xin's careful feeding, the cow cat has weighed close to a pound, has become more active, and has remembered the taste of traveling.

During this expedition, both Zhou You and Luo Xun brought their own cats with them. An Xin was usually responsible for taking care of them, but now it was time to raise the cat for a thousand days and use it for a while.

Zhouyou came to the truck where the cat room was installed. The little cow cat inside was bored and licking each other's fur with Luo Xun's cat.

It seems to have caught the scent early.

As soon as Zhouxuan got into the back of the truck, he had already stood up, stretched his neck and looked at the door of the back compartment.

As soon as it saw Zhou You, it immediately began to bleat excitedly.

Zhou You has worked tirelessly to sleep with it in his arms for a long time, but now it has finally blossomed and the relationship between man and cat has become much closer.

The other cat, Luo Xun, was also a little excited at first, but when he looked up and saw that Luo Xun was not among the people coming, he wilted again.

Three minutes later, one person and one cat returned to the Rat King.

Just as An Xin expected.

The Rat King does have a strong reaction to cats.

Even if it was just a little milk cat, the moment he saw the cat, the instinctive fear engraved deep in his blood still made the Rat King's body tremble slightly, and the hair on his body stood on end.

It began to grit its teeth and struggle, trying to break free from control.

However, the crossbow arrows that nailed its limbs were inserted too tightly into the wooden board. No matter how hard it struggled to endure the pain, it was all in vain. It only caused white blood to flow out from its limbs, and the skin was torn apart.

About a few days ago, An Xin had started to smell the blood of mice, but had not yet started to feed it meat.

In order to slowly develop the kitten's instinct to eat mice, Anxin would sometimes lock the kitten in an adjacent cage with other adult cats, and then put live mice into the adult cat's cage.

The purpose of what he did was to let the little cat understand that mice are delicious food that can be eaten.

According to the growth rate of cats, it will take at least one month at the earliest before the kittens can actually start eating mice.

However, even though Black and White had never actually eaten rat meat once before, the moment it saw the rat king, it had already become excited and wanted to rush forward.

But Zhou You grabbed it from behind.

Even though the Rat King was at the end of his strength and was firmly under control, if this little guy who lacked combat experience really had to charge forward and enter the Rat King's attack range, there was no telling who would be killed.

If the little milk cat struggles hard at this time, it may be able to break free from Zhou You's control.

But after it felt the tug on its neck, it looked back with some fear and nervousness, then obediently stepped back and rubbed its head against Zhou You's body.

At this time, An Xin asked someone to drive an electric-driven chariot with a total equipment mass of ten kilograms next to it, parked it next to it, and locked the wheels.
To be continued...