Madmen don't keep diaries

Chapter 346, 345 High Place
Laughter from the brothers could be heard from not far away.

"What kind of rats haven't I seen in my life? The only one I've never seen that can talk. Why don't you call him out and show everyone what he's made of?"

Mike, his face flushed with embarrassment, exclaimed, "He can not only talk, but he also wears a hat and a bow tie!"

The brothers laughed even harder.

Mike tried to get Shunzi to vouch for him: "If you don't believe me, ask Shunzi—he saw it too, that rat was taller than him!"

Shunzi was shy and didn't want to be laughed at, so she quickly shook her head and said, "I didn't see it."

The brothers, wiping away tears, laughed so hard they could barely breathe: "My god, taller than Brother Shunzi? That's getting more and more absurd! What did he eat to grow so strong?"

Shunzi said softly but confidently, "It's supposedly rice."

A small hand reached out from behind Feng Xiuhu and tugged at his clothes.

Feng Xiuhu looked down and saw that it was a small braid.

Her hands were covered in mud, and her face was smudged with dust.

Feng Xiuhu pulled the hem of his clothes out with disgust: "Fine, you've dirtied my clothes, now you'll have to pay me back."

He completely forgot that he had gotten the long gown by chance.

The girl with the pigtails pouted and glared at him, asking, "Where is he?"

Feng Xiuhu was taken aback, but then immediately realized what was happening and turned his neck to look around—Mr. Gray, who had just been standing there, had disappeared at some point.

"Yes, where is he?"

Feng Xiuhu also stared longingly at the little braid.

The two stared at each other for a moment, and then the man with the pigtail sighed helplessly: "He probably went home."

Feng Xiuhu pressed further, "Where does he live?"

The girl with the pigtail stared at him warily: "Why should I tell you?"

Feng Xiuhu sneered, squatted down, and whispered in Xiao Bianzi's ear, "...Long live Hydra."

The girl with the pigtail quickly stepped back, her gaze towards Feng Xiuhu becoming even more wary.

"You still can't win me over?"

Feng Xiuhu was shocked: "Are you really Mr. Gray's good friend?"

"My only friend!"

The little braid corrected him.

"That was before, not now."

Feng Xiuhu pointed to his nose: "I'm also Mr. Gray's friend, the best one at that."

The little braid trembled all over, as if struck by lightning.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and she shouted at Feng Xiuhu in a sobbing voice, "You're lying! I'm the best one!"

Feng Xiuhu argued forcefully: "I fought the evil god with him, but what have you done?"

The girl with the pigtails, her face pale, stammered, "I...I...I dug for crabs with him, and I even went to his house..."

"whispering sound."

Feng Xiuhu scoffed, "Everyone in the entire city has been there now."

Unable to bear this painful truth at such a young age, the little braid burst into tears, crying, "I'm going to ask him right now!"

After saying that, she turned and ran away into the distance.

Feng Xiuhu's scheme succeeded, and he quickly followed.

Xiao Bianzi wasn't moving fast, and Feng Xiuhu followed behind her onto the mudflats.

She cried as she stepped into the mud, cupping her hands to her mouth and shouting, "Mr. Grey! Mr. Grey!"

Feng Xiuhu added fuel to the fire from behind: "Oh~ so you don't know where he lives either?"

The girl with the pigtails cried even harder and collapsed to the ground.

She braced herself on the ground, letting her tears and snot drip into the mud: "How could this happen? We clearly promised to be each other's only one for life..."

Feng Xiuhu looked suspicious: "Have you been secretly reading romance novels?"

A hairy arm lifted the little braid out of the mud.

Mr. Gray looked at Feng Xiuhu helplessly: "Squad leader, it is wrong to bully women, and it is even more rude to bully a woman who is only five years old."

Feng Xiuhu lit a cigarette—one he'd recently swiped from Mike. "You can't keep hiding like this."

Mr. Gray looked apologetic: "I'm just used to it."

Feng Xiuhu asked him, "Do you know why I recommended you to the Goddess of Wind and Rain?"

Mr. Gray nodded and said, "Because you want me to protect Sail City in her place."

Feng Xiuhu shook his head with a smile: "No, because you are a new god."

Mr. Gray tilted his head slightly, looking puzzled. "Sorry, I didn't understand."

Feng Xiuhu looked at the Broken Wave Bridge in the distance, lost in thought for a moment: "You don't have the hatred of the original gods for humans, nor do you have the self-righteous ideas of the new gods. At least for now, you are pure enough."

"Actually, I don't know what will happen to Sail City in the future, or what I think it should be like, but if you were the one staying here, I think I might like it a little more."

"To make you...like?"

A look of doubt flashed across Mr. Gray's eyes.

Feng Xiuhu walked forward with a cigarette in his mouth, and Mr. Gray followed.

"I don't like Sail City as it is now."

He pointed to the white stone wall: "The bottom city needs a way out."

He raised his arm and pointed to an even higher place: "But the people up there are standing too high, they can't see what's below them, so we need to bring them down."

Mr. Gray looked at the collapsed white stone wall and said, "It might be quite difficult to rebuild the stairs."

Feng Xiuhu said, "It's always easy to get people below to move up, but it's not so simple to get people above to come down—even if you hold a knife to their throats, they'd rather die than move an inch."

Mr. Gray pondered for a moment: "Then what should we do?"

Feng Xiuhu stopped and looked up at the magnificent Broken Wave Bridge.

"Big bug?"

A response echoed in my mind: "Hmm?"

Feng Xiuhu said, "If you're going to put on a show, leave something behind to prove that you and Xijun were here."

"Good idea," said Shi.

Feng Xiuhu laughed, broke off a piece of rock from the reef at his feet, and said to the little braid nestled in Mr. Gray's arms, "Do you remember what I said?"

The girl with the pigtail raised her head and thought for a moment: "You went to Sanmazi to complain about me."

Feng Xiuhu's face darkened: "That's not it."

The boy with the pigtail thought for a moment and finally remembered: "You said that once I smashed down the wall, you would be my lackey."

Feng Xiuhu smiled and handed over the stone: "Try again."

"Just try it."

The little braid stubbornly raised her chin, took the stone, and jumped down from Mr. Gray's arms.

She raised the stone high, took a few running steps with her short legs, and threw the stone with a "whoosh".

The stone traced a parabola and floated lightly towards the Broken Wave Bridge.

The moment the stone struck the high wall, Shi's figure leaped out of Feng Xiuhu's body, rushing towards the Broken Wave Bridge with a red afterimage.

"Clap."

"Roar--!!"

As the knocking sound rang out, a tiger's roar echoed over the city.

The Broken Wave Bridge began to sway, and a few seconds later, red cracks, as if struck by lightning, instantly spread across the wall.

Fractured, collapsed.

Amidst the earth-shattering roar, this magnificent building, which had stood for over a thousand years, finally met its end.

A gust of air carrying dust swept in, and Mr. Gray used his body to shield the still-dazed Little Braid.

He heard Feng Xiuhu's voice.

"like this."

"Tear down the place where they were standing."

(End of this chapter)