The man paused for a moment before asking, “Are you sick?”
“No, mushrooms do not get sick,” Xu Xiaoshou replied.
“How do know that mushrooms do not get sick?”
“Because I am a mushroom!”
“No, you are not!”
“Oh, that’s right. I’m not. You are.”
“I am not a mushroom!”
The man replied furiously only to realize that ever since the spiritual array had exploded, he had been talking with the person who had caused the explosion about whether or not he was a mushroom.
This…
He straightened his body, squinted his eyes, and asked, “Who are you? And how did you come to this place?”
In a similar fashion, Xu Xiaoshou stood up and said without any fear, “That’s a question I want to ask you as well. Who are you? And how did you enter the City Lord Mansion? What motives do you have?”
“?”
The man seemed to be stunned and asked, “Don’t you recognize me?”
“Do I need to recognize you?”
As he asked that, Xu Xiaoshou suddenly realized something was amiss.
He had already inquired about all the strong cultivators within the City Lord Mansion, but there seemed to be nothing about this man.
He knew that within Tiansang City’s City Lord Mansion, there was still one weird man. That man was the mayor.
This man was someone who did not do his work. He had mysteriously disappeared a few years ago, which meant that all the affairs of the City Lord Mansion had to be settled by Fu Xing.
In the beginning, everyone thought that it was just a guise.
After all, in many organizations, the heads would use this method of handling matters from afar.
As time passed, everyone started to realize something wasn’t right.
The mayor did not appear in front of anyone at all. It was as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth.
There was a common rumor that even the servants and guards in the City Lord Mansion had never seen this man again.
It was just like he was…
Dead.
There was another myth that said Tiansang City’s mayor had actually been so addicted to spiritual arrays that he was studying them day and night without coming out.
He studied them to the point that he went crazy and had to be imprisoned by the City Lord Mansion.
Regarding this myth, Xu Xiaoshou did not believe it at all.
But the spiritual array…
He glanced at the man in front of him.
Could it be possible that the man had not become totally insane but had only almost become crazy?
“Are you the mayor?”
Xu Xiaoshou directly asked the question in his heart.
The air was silent for a second.
The man let out a sigh.
“Have the people of this city really forgotten about me?”
Xu Xiaoshou’s eyes widened to a stare. “Are you really the mayor? Fu Xing’s father?”
“My name is Fu Zhi.”
His raspy voice settled in the air.
The man had his hands behind his back as he stood barefooted on the black and burned ground. His toenails were digging deep into the ground.
His scorched and curly hair moved with the breeze as if they were the movements of willows in the autumn wind.
His tattered clothes hung on his body like pieces of rags. The years of unwashed smells emanated from them and swayed with the wind.
Xu Xiaoshou could not believe his eyes at all that this person was the mayor.
‘Even a f*cking beggar would be clothed better than you!’
“Say yes.”
“?”
“Just say it!”
“Yes?” Fu Zhi hesitated.
Xu Xiaoshou looked at the notification board. ‘Is there no reaction?’
His heart skipped a beat. “Now, say no!”