SIATOWITF Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Hello there, Traitor. Ji Mo An wants to beat the snake with a stick, not the snake itself…

Chapter 66: Hello there, Traitor. Ji Mo An wants to beat the snake with a stick, not the snake itself…

“Twenty-four hundred years to produce such a ridiculous thing,” Ji Mo An said, hands in his pockets, sitting by the window, lost in deep thought.

“What do you mean, ‘ridiculous thing’?” the snake protested, tapping the floor with its tail.

“Literal meaning,” Ji Mo An replied, stepping on the tip of the snake’s tail, blankly watching the setting sun gradually sink into the horizon.

“Just be serious at work; now is after-work time,” the snake flicked its tail, slowly climbing onto the windowsill and coiling into a lump.

“You have work?” Ji Mo An asked, surprised.

“Of course, I do.” The snake sharply raised its head. “Don’t look at us with human understanding. Time is just a word to us. Just like ants wonder how humans can live for a hundred years, humans can’t comprehend our eternity.”

“We followed the Father God across countless times and spaces, defying the laws of the world and the paradoxes of time.” Xuan Bai transformed into a human shape, gazing at the fiery sunset. “You have to find some fun for yourself. If your mental state is too normal, you’ll go crazy.”

“Brother… the snake is not as good as you think,” Xuan Bai murmured, leaning against Ji Mo An, gently nuzzling his hair with the tip of his nose. “We met in an accident.”

Crimson blood beads seeped from his brow, outlining the patterns of transparent scales.

The snake smelled his blood and had no choice but to close its mouth and bury its head in Ji Mo An’s shoulder.

An accident, an unpleasant one.

But if it weren’t for that accident, Ji Mo An would have just been a lost soul in the Ouroboros dungeon.

Ordinary, a lost soul.

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The following days passed quickly. Ability users and countless well-trained soldiers from all over the world rushed to Cangzhou to receive urgent training.

A magnificent house was quickly built in the manor, and countless luxurious decorations were transported in boxes by a convoy.

“Mr. Ji,” Bai Yan politely knocked on the door. He and his team had been working non-stop these past few days, their C and D drives simultaneously overloaded.

“What is it?” Ji Mo An was also dealing with matters, but due to his physical condition, he wasn’t as busy as the others.

“All the invitations have been sent out, and we’ve received quite a few replies,” Bai Yan said, pulling up a record. “The Teacher Yun you asked me to pay special attention to, his agent replied that his schedule conflicts.”

“Schedule conflicts?” Ji Mo An took the materials. “Then he can’t come. What schedule does he have?”

“It’s unclear, but his agent said he’s currently abroad. I’ve investigated, and he has no business collaborations in the country recently.”

“Alright, no need to invite him again.” Ji Mo An nodded, signaling Bai Yan to leave.

[Yun Yi Luo] was the face that the snake had parsed from his memories, also the suspected traitor of the stars.

Ask Xuan Bai… Ji Mo An gently bit his lower lip.

These past few days, the snake had been running around with Su Nai and the others, and he only caught a glimpse of it late at night, never able to find its shadow.

Acting mysteriously, he wondered what kind of dirty deeds they were up to.

The phone rang for a full thirty seconds before being answered, and a noisy sound came from the other end.

“Xuan Bai, the invitation.”

The other party hung up the phone. At the same time, a flame the size of a thumb shot out from the air, wriggling and stretching out a screen more than twenty centimeters long.

The snake’s face appeared in the flame.

“What’s wrong?” Xuan Bai’s voice echoed, the background behind him extremely dark, vaguely showing walls splattered with a large amount of stains.

“The other party replied, saying he can’t come, his schedule conflicts.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Xuan Bai replied almost instantly. “Don’t worry about him, he will come.”

“Okay, you…” Ji Mo An didn’t finish speaking before the flame dissipated in front of him.

“…” But the snake never hung up on him first…

Where did Xuan Bai go…? Ji Mo An stared at the place where the flame had disappeared for a long time, feeling a faint unease in his heart.

–Isolated Island Base–

After a few days of not seeing it, the isolated island base had become a terrifying sight.

“Ha… ha…” Fourteen sat in a puddle of mud, beads of cold sweat falling from his forehead in strings.

The snake stood high up, its outstretched hand not yet retracted.

“Get up quickly.” Su Nai jumped out of the air and pulled Fourteen away, and a black, clawing, and dancing viscous liquid instantly submerged the flat ground.

The stench of corroded walls and plants spread out, causing those fighting to cough non-stop.

“Wear it.” Jing Junze jumped down from the wall the moment the viscous liquid touched her, casually throwing two simple gas masks to Su Nai and Fourteen.

“This thing is toxic, cough cough…” Fourteen covered his throat, his throat dry, swollen, and painful. “Do you have any more? My Snake Bro too…”

He looked up, his words cut short.

Xuan Bai had already changed places, his legs bent as he sat on a relatively clean platform, his arms resting on his knees, swaying gently.

A cluster of blue flames danced with the movements of his fingers, drawing strange patterns.

“Take care of yourself first.” Jing Junze kicked Fourteen’s leg, the viscous liquid brushing past the young man’s hair with a sizzling sound.

“Director.” Tang Lin quickly flashed to Jing Junze’s side, an invisible shield enveloping the two.

“Saving your life is the most important thing.” Jing Junze lowered his voice, vigilantly looking around.

The snake would save Fourteen and Su Nai in times of crisis, but that didn’t mean it would save the Seventh Bureau’s people. Jing Junze and Tang Lin, who followed the two experimental subjects, undoubtedly became the most vulnerable to injury.

Sizzle… sizzle… The viscous liquid poured in from all directions, almost covering all the walls. It gushed out from the gaps in large quantities, little by little forcing everyone together.

Hiss… The sound of fabric rubbing together rang out, and the four were already standing back to back.

There was no way out. This damn thing was completely unaffected by abilities. All attacks disappeared after entering the viscous liquid.

Tick… A drop of cold sweat slid down Fourteen’s cheek, and before it could land, it was lifted up and devoured by the viscous liquid.

Where was Xuan Bai? Where had Xuan Bai gone?

“Boss… woo…” Fourteen’s voice was already tearful, and he hugged Su Nai’s arm, searching for Xuan Bai’s figure.

“…” Su Nai’s face wasn’t good either. Her abilities seemed to be suppressed, and she couldn’t use them at all.

Sizzle… sizzle… The shield propped up by Tang Lin emitted bursts of white smoke, and the spider-web-like cracks became more and more numerous.

“It’s over, sob sob… I haven’t told Thirteen my password yet, sob sob sob…” Fourteen sobbed and wiped his tears, watching helplessly as the viscous liquid gathered into a black wall several meters high and pressed down on them.

Crack… Tang Lin’s shield broke in response.

“Waaahhh! Snake Bro, aahhh! Help me, aahhh!” Fourteen screamed, covering his head.

“Aahhh…”

“Aahhh… ah… ah?”

The young man screamed for more than ten seconds, unharmed, and tremblingly opened his eyes before rushing out to hug Xuan Bai’s arm.

He wanted to punch him.

Xuan Bai stood in front of the four of them, watching Fourteen’s snot fall on his cloak.

“St… Stone turned…” Tang Lin didn’t dare to breathe heavily, the viscous liquid so close to him that it corroded a hole in his glasses.

One second… just one second… and he would have gone blind.

“Careful!” He had just carefully moved his head when he saw an even larger stream of viscous liquid attacking Xuan Bai from a tricky angle.

“…” Xuan Bai turned around and stretched out his hand, and the viscous liquid was covered with a layer of gray shell the moment it hit his fingertip.

Crack… Crack… The sound of petrification rang out, and those black viscous liquids turned into motionless stones in an instant.

It was resolved, taking less than ten seconds in total.

“Th… Thank you…” Tang Lin wiped away his cold sweat and thanked him.

“…” The snake didn’t speak, but lowered its eyes and gently flicked the dust from the corner of its clothes before pulling Fourteen, who was clinging to him, off and putting him back next to Su Nai.

“I still prefer Snake Bro when he’s with An-ge,” Fourteen said, watching Xuan Bai turn and walk deeper into the passage, pitifully tugging on Su Nai’s clothes.

He didn’t speak or smile, and was as aloof as if he had become a different person. He even lacked the gentleness he had when he took them to the anime convention.

“Say less.” Su Nai flicked Fourteen’s forehead. She had seen Xuan Bai’s strength. The scene of her being injured on the operating table that day was still vivid in her mind.

Funny, acting pitiful… those methods of showing weakness were not for children.

The woman lowered her eyes, pressing thousands of words into her heart.

She vaguely knew why Xuan Bai insisted on bringing her back to the isolated island base, even with the three people who insisted on coming along.

It was a wish.

That wish.

She wanted to kill the Seer with her own hands, and Ouroboros had accepted her wish.

The group followed the snake, turning left and right, and traveled all the way through the completely changed isolated island base.

Perhaps feeling that humans were too weak, all the following monsters were killed by Xuan Bai alone.

Kill one when it comes, kill a pair when they come.

The snake’s movements were so fast that they couldn’t be seen clearly, and everywhere it passed was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

“How could… how could it be like this…” Fourteen’s eyes were red, and he had been kept in the dark about the secrets of the base.

But now, all the ugliness was displayed before his eyes.

Crack…

With a crisp sound, Xuan Bai directly twisted off the head of a huge monster.

The head with three faces rolled a few times until it stopped at Su Nai’s feet.

Su Nai gritted her teeth and kicked the head hard.

“Please wait!” Tang Lin suddenly stopped her. He used his ability to turn the head over, his brows furrowed.

“This is… Boss, I seem to have seen that face… it’s Researcher Uncle…” Fourteen saw an irregular red birthmark on that twisted face.

“It’s the researcher who defected back then. His face…” Tang Lin took out a camera and took pictures of the head.

“Come here.” The snake stood in the distance and spoke coldly.

“…” Tang Lin had no choice but to take back the words that came to his lips and trotted to Xuan Bai’s side.

This road was full of dangers, and countless twisted monsters tried every means to launch attacks. Although the snake was wringing necks in the front, it was too lazy to care about the monsters chasing up from behind.

“They are all failed experimental subjects and researchers who wanted to quit,” Su Nai glanced at Tang Lin, suppressing the trembling in her voice.

“They lost their self-awareness and only knew how to attack and go crazy. But before they were injected with drugs, they were just ordinary children.”

“I have done a lot of dirty work for the Guild Leader and the Seer. Some children were still holding my hand and asking me when they could go home, and a few minutes later they would become delirious and have mutated limbs due to rejection.”

“And I… I couldn’t do anything.”

Su Nai shook her head, looking at Fourteen with some sadness.

“Out of hundreds of experimental subjects, only a few of us survived.”

“Fourteen, the twelve experimental subjects that the Seer called away before he fell asleep, they…” Su Nai couldn’t say the remaining half of the sentence because tears had already filled her face.

“I want to kill him, I will kill him, I hate him…”

“Boss…” Fourteen grabbed Su Nai’s hand helplessly, and tears fell in large strings.

“…” Jing Junze followed behind them, looking at the crystal tears with a complex expression.

Finally, she sighed.

“It will all pass.” She took out a handkerchief from her combat uniform and gently wiped away the tears from the corner of Su Nai’s eyes.

It was a very beautiful handkerchief, with an orchid embroidered on the corner.

That was made by Mrs. Jing Xiuzhi for Jing Junze, because her precious son had also suffered from drugs.

This was the last handkerchief, and Jing Junze had never used it.

Thump.

The wall of the corridor was violently pushed down, but the gushing monsters turned into stone blocks before they could grab Fourteen’s clothes.

Xuan Bai took off his tattered cloak and threw an object to Su Nai.

It was a knife, a very beautiful knife, with a dark black body and light golden patterns engraved on it, outlining the shape of a snake.

“This is…” Su Nai held the knife, staring blankly at Xuan Bai walking towards her.

“Bite your hand and smear the blood on the pattern.” Xuan Bai narrowed his eyes slightly, his narrow pupils shrinking like a needle.

Su Nai did as she was told. She bit a little hard, and blood dripped into the pattern and overflowed onto the blade.

The knife was clearly held upside down, but the blood flowed upwards along the pattern’s trajectory.

The moment the light golden snake was completely stained red, the pattern suddenly came to life.

The red snake pattern charged left and right on the blade, and Su Nai grabbed the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands to prevent the knife from flying out of her hand.

The snake was struggling, and the knife was shaking.

Su Nai gritted her teeth and suppressed the knife, even though her palms were already covered in blood.

“Boss…” Fourteen was a little anxious. He was just about to step forward to help when Xuan Bai stopped him in place with a glance.

Cold, piercingly cold. The young man, who was stared at by the snake’s pupils, couldn’t even breathe and could only stand stiffly in place.

He didn’t know how long it had been, but the struggle of the knife gradually subsided.

Su Nai’s hands were already red, and blood had almost covered the entire blade.

“Hiss…” The snake pattern made a hissing cry that belonged to snakes, and suddenly turned its direction and rushed towards the hilt of the knife.

Su Nai’s body shook, and in that instant, she seemed to have established a subtle connection with the knife.

A golden pupil opened on the hilt of the knife, the narrow pupil contracting and expanding.

Exactly the same as Xuan Bai’s eyes.

In the next second, several lines of small characters floated above the hilt of the knife.

It was done… Xuan Bai also blinked his eyes and released his constraint on Fourteen.

[Congratulations player… Muddled… Muddled…]

[Congratulations Su Nai, you have obtained an S-level item.]

[Item: A Good Knife (S-level)

Item Description: For living beings: Ignores all enemy defenses, and all wounds caused by this knife cannot be healed. For non-living things: Everything this knife touches will turn into stone.

Note: The most satisfying creation of the alchemist Ouroboros. Whoever obtains this knife obtains the world. But be careful, if you steal Ouroboros’s treasure, you must be prepared to be hunted to the ends of the earth.]

Ouroboros’s… treasure?

Su Nai looked at Xuan Bai in surprise.

She easily caught a trace of reluctance in the snake’s eyes.

“It’s just lent to you, remember to return it to me.” Xuan Bai blinked his eyes and stopped looking at his treasure knife.

That was a treasure knife that he had forged for three hundred years in the dungeon.

Originally, it was going to be given to Ji Mo An, but Ji Mo An didn’t want it…

Sad!

Ji Mo An wanted to beat the snake with a stick, not his treasure knife! Just because he didn’t like the name the snake gave the treasure knife!

A Good Knife, what an accurate name.

Su Nai couldn’t perceive emotions, so she naturally didn’t know what the snake was thinking.

She gently touched the knife to the wall next to her, and the entire wall instantly turned into stone.

“Are you ready?” The snake squinted at Su Nai.

As the saying goes, bad students have many stationery. Ten Su Nais combined couldn’t beat the Seer. But with his treasure knife… Heh…

Ouroboros’s knife was invincible.

“Yeah!” Su Nai’s heart was pounding, and she could feel that the moment she held the knife, all the suppressed abilities were released.

“Then… please carry out your revenge.”

Xuan Bai walked forward, and petrification spread from the soles of his feet to the entire foundation.

The unsupported floor finally collapsed, and large pieces of rock fell, directly smashing through the ceiling of the ninth floor of the laboratory.

In the heavy smoke, only the snake’s golden pupils shone like flames.

“Hello there, traitor.”

The great infinite snake Ouroboros curled the corners of its lips and looked at the puddle of mud clinging to the ground.

How ugly… The snake’s eyes overflowed with ridicule and disdain as it walked to the side, revealing Su Nai holding the knife.

“Your little friend is here to kill you.”