SIATOWITF Chapter 64

Chapter 64: Did You Turn on Beauty Filters? Guilt

Chapter 64: Did You Turn on Beauty Filters? Guilt

Several crisp “thump, thump” sounds suddenly rang out in the flames, silencing the chaotic noise in an instant.

“Meow, meow~” The brawl ended with the kitten’s mouth being covered.

Looks like they’re done fighting… Xuan Bai poked his head out from under his belly again, looking expectantly at the flames.

“Cough, cough… Bobos.” It was still Yu Li speaking, but ‘somehow’ his voice sounded a bit leaky.

“Here.” The snake wagged its tail.

“Found it. It’s Losde, the gatekeeper boss from the A-level instance dungeon, *The Thirteenth Belief*.”

“Losde?” Xuan Bai tilted his head, thinking. “Doesn’t ring a bell.”

“That’s normal. There are tons of A-level instances.” The other side readily agreed with his point of view. “But this instance was promoted from B+ level to A-level five years ago.”

“Promoted?” Alexa, who was soothing the cat, chimed in. “He’s not a direct descendant of the Father God, right? I don’t recognize him either.”

“No, when has Father God ever created a boss below A-level?” Yu Li replied. “*The Thirteenth Belief* wasn’t created by Father God either. Its creator was the former head of the instance creation department, and it was created seventy years ago. Logically speaking, it’s not eligible for promotion.”

“Then how did it pass the audit?” Nan Sheng’s voice also piped up. “I’m going to file a complaint against them. Last time I applied to downgrade my boss to an F-level NPC, they wouldn’t agree. Isn’t my request more reasonable than this?”

“Your boss is lucky to have you.”

“Thanks, it’s my duty.”

“I think so too. I’ll write a complaint letter right now.”

“…” Xuan Bai coiled in front of the flames, listening to the conversation in the flames instantly veer off course by a mile.

“Hey.” The snake wanted to go home, wanted to beat up his colleagues.

“Cough, cough.” Yu Li coughed twice. “The problem is that every piece of audit material for his promotion to A-level passed. I went to look at it, and there’s nothing obviously wrong with it.”

Nothing obviously wrong…

Xuan Bai narrowed his eyes. The biggest problem was that there was nothing obviously wrong.

“Including meeting the condition of zero player survival for ten consecutive instance runs?”

“Yes, including that. His instance accommodates 11 players at a time, and a total of 110 players have participated in ten instance runs. That’s absolutely impossible for a non-direct descendant B-level instance.”

“Impossible. A B-level instance should be audited for the pass conditions after five consecutive instances of zero survival. How could no one have discovered the problem until now?”

“So, it’s the former head of the creation department. A few years ago, he was dismissed for serious violations of rules by forming factions. Father God personally dismissed him, so you know how it is.”

“Yu Li, you…”

“I’m warning you, don’t hit me. If you hit me again, I’ll die in front of you.”

“Who cares about you?”

“Cough, cough… In short, give him an invitation to the exhibition. He’s guaranteed to come. Mo Sang said that he can create clones and relies on absorbing player emotions to obtain energy. The boss has already sent Shadow over there. They said that the instance is also Losde’s clone, so we’re not going to move against him for now.”

“The main body is on Earth, with me. He might send a clone to investigate,” Xuan Bai knew what he meant.

“But be careful, he can control his believers. He will inevitably recruit a group of his own followers on Earth. I’ll send you his information now, including the faces of all his clones since his birth. He may not appear with the face you sent us.”

“Oh, right, each of his faces corresponds to a body, and he can only mobilize the believers corresponding to that body. So, the celebrity identity you mentioned will most likely be saved for last.”

“Preliminary estimates are that he has seven bodies on Earth, including the main body. In twelve system hours at the latest, we will send you all the information on Earth. That’s all.”

“Can the celebrity identity be confirmed as him?” Xuan Bai transformed into human form and sat cross-legged on the ground.

“Anyway, it’s not the main body. Ugh, in twelve system hours, we’ll find out his underwear size and send it to you. Just do whatever you want with him.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the flame trembled, shrank to the size of a fist, and flew around his shoulders in circles.

Xuan Bai narrowed his eyes, thoughtfully stroking his chin.

Believers, celebrity.

He suddenly remembered that Ji Mo An had brought a thick stack of information when he suddenly came back to snatch his snake nest that day.

The snake had seen it. It was a celebrity whose reputation had collapsed, a celebrity who had lost fans, and also fans who had lost their believers.

So, Xuan Bai crawled out from under the table. He looked at the tattered cloak he had piled in a corner and hummed softly.

The snake used to be sneaky, but now the snake is out in the open.

The snake has to be handsome, has to make Ji Mo An swoon.

He grabbed the flame and shook it, causing gold ornaments engraved with mysterious patterns to clatter to the ground.

The snake’s gold net headdress, the snake’s tassel earrings, and the armbands, bracelets, leg bands, and gold waist chain. The snake had been abstaining for so long in order to come to Earth and get close to Ji Mo An~!

Xuan Bai quickly put on all his old friends, making a clanging sound as he walked.

The handsome snake walked out of the room, completely eliminating the blinding spell on his body.

He proudly raised his chin and walked through the crowd, eliciting bursts of gasps of admiration.

The face personally sculpted by the main god was naturally flawless, and it would become the focus of the crowd wherever it went.

“Snake Bro! Wow… how come you…”

The commotion caused in the corridor naturally quickly reached the ears of the higher-ups. Fourteen happily ran over, only to freeze in place.

“Give me your phone.” Xuan Bai took the phone from the young man’s hand and skillfully unlocked it. He clicked on the trending searches, and sure enough, the top results were all about collapsed celebrity’s terms.

Tax evasion, cheating… countless people unfollowing and turning against him…

The snake raised an eyebrow, secretly calculating the charges that were about to be pressed on the traitor.

It had to be heavy, it had to be heavy… The fewer fans who believed in him, the smaller the impact on human society.

There must be a close connection between the main body and the clone. A boss who was promoted from B-level cannot maintain the long-term independent existence of all bodies.

So… the identity of his clone was particularly important.

“Wipe away your drool.” Xuan Bai stuffed the phone back into Fourteen’s hand, looking at his silly expression with some disgust.

“Snake Bro, I feel like you’re not quite the same as before?” Fourteen held the phone as if he were making an offering.

“It just feels… it just feels…” He stammered for a long time without being able to say what it was.

“It feels like he was covered in gauze before, and you’d forget him as soon as you turned your head.” Thirteen, who was standing next to him, said softly, then twisted his wing feathers a little awkwardly.

“Can you still forget now?” Xuan Bai looked at the young man’s blushing face with a smile that was not quite a smile.

Thirteen and Fourteen shook their heads like rattles.

So, the swollen-headed snake directly gave up on finding Su Nai and took a detour to find Ji Mo An in his room.

…

Wants a drink.

Ji Mo An sat on the bed with a large cotton quilt pressed on his legs.

God knows what those doctors were thinking, wrapping him in a cotton quilt in the middle of summer. Anyway, his throat was so dry that it was about to burst into flames.

But he couldn’t speak.

Partly because his throat hurt terribly, and mostly because when he woke up, he saw his grandfather by the bed. He had just wanted to open his mouth when he was slapped on the mouth.

It hurt so much… It hurt more than his throat. He didn’t dare to speak, afraid that his grandfather would slap him again if he spoke.

Click… While he was lost in thought, the doorknob suddenly pressed down.

Could it be that Grandfather was back? Ji Mo An resigned himself to pulling the big cotton quilt back over his body. He had only secretly lifted the quilt after Grandfather had been called out.

The door was opened a crack, and a head peeked in.

Xuan Bai?

Ji Mo An was stunned. How did he suddenly feel that Xuan Bai was better-looking than before?

He was already very good-looking…

“Hehe~” Xuan Bai looked at Ji Mo An’s expression and happily slipped into the room.

Look at me, look at me, look at me! The snake circled the bed, then knelt on the ground and hugged Ji Mo An’s waist, rubbing against him hard.

“How come… did you turn on beauty filters?” Ji Mo An fiddled with the golden chains that were intertwined with Xuan Bai’s dark hair. He could see the snake’s sparkling golden eyes as soon as he lowered his head.

They were extremely beautiful, like the sunlight streaming in from the window.

“The snake removed the suggestion.” Xuan Bai was just waiting for Ji Mo An to praise him. If he still had a tail, it would definitely be wagging in the air.

“In the past, in order not to attract the attention of humans, the snake blurred the image of the snake in their eyes.”

“So, in the past, the you in my eyes was also a blurred version of you?” Ji Mo An cupped the snake’s face in his hands. This face was now far more exquisite than he remembered.

“Just a little~” If it was a ten-level blur in the eyes of ordinary people, then it was only a five-level blur in Ji Mo An’s eyes.

“…” This kid… Ji Mo An pinched the snake’s cheeks.

How could he grow to be like this?

“I was afraid that you would discover that the way I look in your eyes is different from the way I look in other people’s eyes. I didn’t deliberately hide it from you…” Xuan Bai thought that Ji Mo An was dissatisfied with him using suggestions, so he explained while rubbing against Ji Mo An’s hand.

“No, this time I should be the one saying thank you.” Ji Mo An shook his head. Before today, he had never known that the wounds caused by words could be so painful.

In the past, the snake would be hurt and bleed every time he said something he shouldn’t, but he never showed any pain or impatience.

So it was this painful… Only by experiencing it firsthand did he know how painful it was.

“It must have hurt a lot. I’m sorry for making you say so many things you shouldn’t have said in the past.” Ji Mo An stroked the snake’s eyebrows with his thumb, touching the layer of fine, dense, transparent scales.

“It’s nothing. Bosses are born to worship blood and death. Being injured is just…” The snake’s speed slowed down. He secretly looked at Ji Mo An’s expression and tried to analyze the emotions in the air.

“Painful, painful…” Xuan Bai instantly became teary-eyed. “Painful, painful, it only gets better with kisses.”

No one could be more spoiled than the snake!

Kisses, the snake wants kisses.

Ji Mo An lowered his head and gently kissed the snake’s eyebrows. The fine, dense scales were a bit hard and a bit cold.

Looking into those golden eyes, Ji Mo An knew very clearly that he was kissing a non-human creature.

What kind of person was Ji Mo An in the past…?

That hand covered in calluses and wounds surfaced in his mind again. Ji Mo An ran his fingers through the snake’s long hair and gently kissed the snake’s lips.

He couldn’t wait to recover his memories, to taste his and the snake’s past.

His heartbeat gradually accelerated, and the temperature rose steadily. His parched lips regained their moisture, and a flush on the corner of the snake’s eyes became more and more obvious.

“Brother…” The snake drawled, stickily wrapping his tongue around Ji Mo An’s fingers.

“The snake wants…”

Knock, knock, knock…

Three urgent knocks fell on the door, and Ji Mo Lin pushed the door open and entered.

The old man with gray hair saw the two people on the bed, all mushy and hugging each other, and slammed the door shut.

There was a loud bang.

“…” He must be getting old and seeing things.

A second later, Old Master Lin suddenly pushed the door open again.

Okay.

The one person and one snake, who were originally staring at each other, now stared straight at the old man.

[Guilt]

The current head of the Ji Mo family, who had lived his life correctly, suddenly understood the meaning of this word.

Was it still too late to close the door?

Ji Mo Lin blocked the doctor behind him, looking at the sky, the ground, and the hanging paintings with some embarrassment.