Madmen don't keep diaries

Chapter 213 212 Using the Water Control Bureau as a Gun
Shunzi pulled a folded piece of paper from his sleeve and placed it on the table.

Hong Shenghuo was about to take it, but Shunzi held the note down with his backhand.

The two looked at each other.

Hong Shenghuo sneered: "So you're not only here to make friends, but also to discuss business."

Shunzi said in a deep voice, "According to the rules, this news should have been delivered directly to the Admiral as a token of my loyalty. But right now, I have no time to worry about anything else, so I have no choice but to shamelessly ask the Admiral for some compensation."

Hong Shenghuo withdrew his hand, folded his arms and leaned back in his chair. He raised his chin towards Shunzi and said, "Tell me, I need to know what you want first."

Shunzi spoke directly: "I want to know about the Duke's wife. What kind of person is she? What has she done recently? Who has she met?"

"You are very brave."

Hong Shenghuo narrowed his eyes and said, "But have you forgotten that Wei Su'e is not only the Duke's wife, but also the President's sister? My Water Control Bureau is loyal to the President, and yet you want to use the Water Control Bureau to investigate Wei Su'e?"

Shunzi remained silent.

Hong Shenghuo stared at him for a long moment, then sighed, "I understand how you feel. You're eager to find out the truth about Feng Xiuhu's death, but asking me to help you investigate Wei Su'e is truly foolish. I'm only saying this to myself. Anyone else would have arrested you on the spot."

He shook his head: "Change your request."

Shunzi achieved his goal and took advantage of the situation to change his words: "Then check Konate Chen. He was there at the time. I don't believe there are no suspicious points about him."

Hong Shenghuo thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

Shunzi withdrew his hand.

Hong Shenghuo picked up the note and smiled at Shunzi, "I hope this message is worth the reward I paid."

Shunzi remained calm: "I'll know at a glance."

Hong Shenghuo unfolded the note and looked at it carefully.

There was a scrawled message on the paper: Old William, the tailor in the factory area, is actually a priest of the Church of Night and is suspected to be the thief who fired the cannon that night.

Hong Shenghuo couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He crumpled the ball of paper casually, and it caught fire and burned clean in an instant.

Then he asked Shunzi, "Who else knows about this?"

Shunzi shook his head: "Besides you and me, there is no one else."

Hong Shenghuo nodded and said solemnly, "Very good, this matter must not be spread outside. I will have someone deliver the reward you asked for after we investigate thoroughly."

Is this news worth it?

For the Water Conservancy Bureau, all they wanted to find out was who fired the cannon that night.

As for Hong Shenghuo, what he wanted to investigate was the person who damaged the ammunition box.

There was a high probability that these two were the same person, and Hong Shenghuo knew it very well, so he could use the name of investigating the person who fired the shot to investigate what he really wanted to investigate.

Therefore, this piece of information is extremely valuable - if the news is true, and Old William is really a priest of the Church of Night, then he does have the ability to sneak into the ship with the help of shadow spells; and once it is confirmed that it was Old William who fired the cannon that night, then Hong Shenghuo will have an important clue to what he wants to investigate.

……

What Hong Shenghuo didn't know was that he and the Water Control Bureau were being used as pawns by Feng Xiuhu.

The three people mentioned by Hong Shenghuo and Shunzi today are Wei Su'e, Konate Chen, and Old William.

These three people are related, so no matter who you investigate, it will all lead back to the same thing in the end.

The plan was proceeding in an orderly manner, and Feng Xiuhu was ready to sleep peacefully.

He is going to the spirit world tonight. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, he plans to stay overnight at Mike's house and not return to the Niangniang Courtyard.

Feng Xiuhu was lying on the sofa, and Mike had already returned to his room to rest.

Dim moonlight streamed into the living room through the window, illuminating Feng Xiuhu's legs. He formed a spell and sank his consciousness into the spirit world.

Still in Dream Forest.

Feng Xiuhu and Shi stared at each other.

Feng Xiuhu looked around but didn't see any trace of the fat owl.

"Where's Yin Owl?"

he asks.

Eclipse replied, "Last time, the storm suddenly broke in and frightened her. She's afraid of getting hurt, so she probably won't dare show up again for a while."

Feng Xiuhu complained, "After all, he's a primordial god who has lived from ancient times to the present day, yet he's so timid."

Eclipse had no choice but to explain for Yin Xiao: "She has always been like this, otherwise she wouldn't have been bullied by Xi Yi for so many years."

"Oh--"

Feng Xiuhu suddenly realized and pointed at Eclipse, saying, "So you chose to hide in Menglin because you thought she was easy to bully!"

Shi quickly covered Feng Xiuhu's mouth: "Don't talk nonsense!"

Then he lowered his voice again: "... Be careful not to let her hear you."

Feng Xiuhu pushed Shi away and squatted beside him: "Let's talk business."

"I must take advantage of this fake death to kill Konate Chen in one fell swoop. If he doesn't die, I won't be able to come back to life."

On this point, Shi and Feng Xiuhu were of the same mind: "It would be easy if we just killed him. I could just find a deserted place and blow him into rusty dust in one breath."

"But the difficulty is that he can't just die simply. He has to die with reason and justification, so that you can live with dignity."

Feng Xiuhu held his chin in his hand. "At least now we know why he wanted to kill me—he wanted to start with the factory and secretly prevent the Great Duke from gaining faith. The prerequisite for this step was to officially take over the Holy Temple. Unexpectedly, I was promoted by Vadracho, and this is what blocked his way."

Shi also squatted down, holding up his chin and maintaining the same posture as Feng Xiuhu - two identical "Feng Xiuhu" squatted in a row.

Eclipse said, "That's right. The time you encountered the gunman was the day you were promoted to priest. Before that, Konate Chen treated you quite well."

Feng Xiuhu said disdainfully, "He was nice to me back then because it was profitable. Konate Chen was using me—I arrested the Owl Man and put a dent in the factory. I wonder how happy he must have been."

At this point, Feng Xiuhu was suddenly stunned: "But I didn't know that at the time."

Eclipse glanced over: "What?"

Feng Xiuhu said: "I didn't know at the time that he was actually very happy."

Eclipse laughed dumbly: "How rare! He can just be happy about this kind of thing secretly. Why would he show it?"

Feng Xiuhu shook his head and said, "But he delivered a message for Lu Hongxi."

Eclipse didn't understand, so he scratched his neck with his feet - but it didn't hurt through his shoes, so he took off his shoes again.

Feng Xiuhu had already figured it out. He slammed his palm and said, "Konate Chen did it on purpose. He's been thinking about getting rid of Lalu Hongxi since then."

Eclipse still didn't understand: "How do you know this? Didn't Lu Hongxi take the initiative to ask Konate Chen for help?"

Feng Xiuhu continued, "It was Lu Hongxi who took the initiative to contact the church to resolve the Owlman issue. That's correct."

"But the problem is, he should be looking for Yukhu, not Konate Chen."

"His son Paul works for Yukhu, so since Lu Hongxi is here to ask for help, he must have found someone he knows—so why did Konate Chen have to be the middleman?"

Eclipse's eyes lit up: "Unless Konate Chen took the initiative to take it on himself."

(End of this chapter)