Without disturbing Diogo and Arthur, who were still feasting wildly, the two rabbits worked themselves to the bone all night, sweating buckets and gasping for breath. They scrubbed Diogo's carefully constructed palace complex cleaner than if ten thousand starving dogs had licked it over—even cockroaches would starve to death there.
As dawn neared, the two rabbits returned to Lin Qi's room, drenched in sweat.
The moment they entered, the two rabbits flopped onto the floor with their tongues hanging out. Then they began laughing as though possessed, their entire bodies convulsing madly, their fur standing on end. Lin Qi and Donkey stared at them in utter bewilderment, thinking they had gone out to steal something only to leave their brains behind.
"What's so funny?" Donkey asked the two rabbits curiously, a cigar clenched in his mouth and a bottle of liquor in his arms.
"They're definitely going to be shocked!" The rabbits laughed so hard tears sprayed from their eyes. "After tonight, nobody in the city will be able to find even a single pair of spare trousers to change into!"
Lin Qi's mouth twitched. The bottle in Donkey's hoof hit the floor with a clang. He gave himself a fierce smack on the forehead with a hoof, then muttered in a low voice, "Yes, I remember now. It seems something like this happened before! You stole some woman's intimate clothes and hid them in my room? Did that happen?"
The two rabbits' expressions abruptly stiffened into something ugly. Their wildly twitching bodies froze like statues, and they laboriously raised their heads, their neck bones making harsh cracking sounds. After a long while, the rabbits finally split their three-lobed mouths into smiles at the same time. "How could that be? We told you, we've absolutely never had dealings with you