"Are you upset?"
The president stopped chanting and asked with great interest.
"Of course it would be a lie to say I'm not." Smiling remained calm. "It's raining heavily across the world, and all living things are merely struggling to survive. No one is bearing anything more for me. I hid away my sadness long ago."
"Compared to sadness, I'm more curious. What kind of person offered what kind of price to make Wuzhiqi betray me, betray the tribe, and betray his hatred?"
The president smiled. "Not every fish wants to live in the same ocean. Perhaps he simply fell in love with Yanjing's sweet bananas. Perhaps he merely wanted to forget his hatred... But no matter what, when he chose to betray us, it meant he believed he could live a better life by leaving us."
"Besides, as the demon ape closest to humanity..." The president lowered his voice. "Isn't forgetting loyalty for profit always their defining trait? Behemoth Master, in the long years you've lived through, how many silent betrayals like this have you witnessed? How many 'fish' like this have you seen trying to leap out of the ocean?"
"After tonight, we'll all be ashore, so stop bringing up what happened in the ocean."
Smiling raised a hand, and the entire ceiling was torn away, revealing a moonlit night filled with glittering stars. The people who had yet to recover from Wuzhiqi's sneak attack on Zong Taiji now stared at the night sky outside, utterly at a loss, like someone sitting on the toilet when the door suddenly exploded.
"Shi Pantou, Sasa Jue Luo, Jurchen Elf, come outside with me and defend against the enemy. Buy the president time to summon the sacred sword." Smiling looked at Dark Naga. "Sihis, what will you do?"
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