SIATOWITF Chapter 86

Chapter 86: He wants the snake; he wants the snake to willingly submit to him. Fight…

Chapter 86: He wants the snake; he wants the snake to willingly submit to him. Fight…

He was about to go crazy…

When Ji Mo An’s consciousness fully returned, he had already been forced onto a helicopter heading towards the national border.

All the bosses were down for the count.

The mighty and powerful bosses who strutted around on the ground were now slumped over in disarray the moment the helicopter took off, lying motionless in the not-so-comfortable seats.

Ji Mo An held the teary-eyed Chopstick Snake and looked at the only boss who still had a bit of life left in him.

A palm-sized, semi-transparent little figure floated up and down around the helicopter’s glass, emitting starlight all over its body.

He originally thought those memories would gradually return over time, but instead, countless chaotic scenes flooded out, forcefully occupying his brain.

“…” Ji Mo An lowered his head, watching the Chopstick Snake tightly wrap its tail around his wrist and then stuff its little head into his pocket.

He actually remembered some things about him and Xuan Bai.

But he didn’t dare to say it. Even though the snake was looking at him with its sparkling eyes, he still pretended to know nothing out of guilt.

His abilities had fully integrated. Ji Mo An crooked his finger, and the entire helicopter shook violently.

Amidst the pilot’s terrified screams and the background noise of bosses falling to the floor, Ji Mo An guiltily retracted his hand.

His past was completely different from what he thought…

He used to fight with the snake, fighting to the death. Ji Mo An silently raised his hand to cover his eyes. He originally thought that when the snake said, “You used to fight me like this!” after he collapsed the bookshelf in the hotel, it was just foreplay or a minor squabble.

Unexpectedly…

Ji Mo An clearly recalled a fragment with no context. He and the snake fought so fiercely that the entire building collapsed, and both sides were pinned under heavy boards with only half a breath left.

And then… what happened then…

Then he crawled out of the ruins earlier than the snake because the snake’s tail was too long and was completely crushed by the ceiling.

Excitement, trembling. Those emotions gradually climbed into his heart, stimulating his heart and body to tremble simultaneously.

In reality, Ji Mo An raised his hand to cover the Chopstick Snake’s head, synchronizing with that emotion that was neither past nor future.

He thought he should leave because he was still in the instance.

That was a multi-player instance where players and monsters were both enemies.

He should leave and find a place to heal… but he didn’t. He was too crazy… like he had taken stimulants…

He walked towards the snake that was still pushing the ceiling, looking at the blood-stained black scales, looking at the golden vertical pupils that were narrowed into a slit.

The Ouroboros at that time was completely different from now, staring at him with eyes like a beast, ready to pounce and bite off his throat at any moment.

And what did he do? He raised his hand and slapped the snake, with a force so great that it cleared the snake’s mind a bit.

Then he grabbed the snake’s hair, and as his emotions peaked, he bit down hard amidst the deafening sound of his heartbeat.

That wasn’t a kiss, it was more like a tearing bite. His teeth broke the snake’s lips, and scarlet blood dyed his white fangs red.

He stunned the snake with the bite, scaring it so much that it didn’t dare to move, even forgetting to secrete venom.

The “him” in the memory raised his eyes, seeing a hint of fear in the snake’s golden pupils. He heard the threatening hiss gradually extinguish, turning into a broken whimper.

The moment he released his hand, the snake ran. The snake smashed a hole in the instance, escaping from the crack.

And then, after the snake ran away?

After the snake ran away, he sat on the ground and laughed softly, spitting the transparent snake scales out of his mouth and then carefully wiping the blood on his hands with a handkerchief.

Not only his blood, but also the snake’s blood.

He changed his clothes, and with a wave of his hand, he crushed the ruins into powder, covering up all traces. Then he put on a gentle smile again and told the players traveling with him that he hadn’t found any clues in the town, nor had he discovered any special buildings.

But something had changed. He suddenly wanted the snake, wanted that powerful boss to willingly submit to him. He unconsciously widened his eyes. Just thinking about that image made his heart beat fast.

But the snake ran away, and at that time, he wasn’t worried at all that the snake would completely stay away from him. He was even abnormally certain that the snake would continue to chase him.

Because he still had the snake’s thing in his hand, and that was his only capital.

So after that, he suppressed his level and constantly entered low-level instances, fighting S-rank bosses in those fragile places, even unlocking powerful abilities in advance.

Every fight left him covered in wounds and on the verge of death. He recklessly designed traps, even occasionally showing weakness to let himself step into the abyss of death.

But a human’s body was ultimately no match for a boss. Until one time, he was really tired. After killing countless players and monsters in the leveling instance’s battle royale, he hadn’t even had time to bandage himself or catch his breath when he met the snake again, who had come to fight him.

He might as well just die. He looked at the snake’s still icy pupils and inexplicably felt like he was dealing with a wolf that couldn’t be tamed.

It was pointless… The irrepressible flame in his heart suddenly dissipated, and he gave up resisting the moment the snake’s tail lashed out.

Kill him, and the snake’s things would automatically unbind from him. Killing him would end his miserable life.

He half-lay on the ground, the blood from his forehead blurring his vision, his heart as cold as if it were wrapped in ice.

This damn everything…

Then cold scales covered his neck, exposing the most vulnerable part of a human being. He even tilted his head back to make it easier for the snake to sever his neck.

He gave up the will to live, but the imagined suffocation didn’t happen because the snake hesitated.

Snake scales slid across his neck, the sharp edges leaving bloody marks on the fragile skin.

The aorta was pulsing just beneath that layer of skin, and the hateful player would die completely without even needing much force.

But the snake hesitated. It didn’t even seem to understand why it was hesitating because the scales wrapped around its neck were loose and tight.

Finally, the snake’s tail retreated, and the black snake let out a threatening growl at the unconscious player before leaving the instance.

Ji Mo An won. In that instant, he knew he had won.

The extinguished flame ignited again, even more vigorously than before. He laughed, even though every rise and fall of his chest brought tearing pain to his body. But that was the most comfortable laugh he had ever had, every syllable coming from the bottom of his heart.

He didn’t want to die anymore; he had hope again.

He got up from the ground and dragged his broken body to cut off the head of the gatekeeper boss.

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Returning to the gathering place belonging to the players, he spent all his savings to buy the best recovery potions and sweet candy. Then he borrowed the maximum amount from the points bank to buy a dagger.

An A-grade dagger, the highest level weapon he could touch.

Success or failure depended on this one move. He spent money to enter a low-level instance that he shouldn’t have been able to enter. It was the most elaborate trap he had ever designed, using a desperate fighting style to fight the boss with his bare hands.

Finally, he forced the snake into a cave and inserted the dagger into the snake’s neck with his hands that were showing bone.

The snake made a whimper for the second time, and that sound made him incomparably excited.

“This is an F-grade instance. You can’t beat me,” he threatened the snake.

“It’s because you didn’t listen to my explanation.”

“It was the system that forced it on me. I’m also a victim…”

He suppressed his excitement and pushed the blame onto the snake and the system.

After hitting and scolding, he had to give something sweet.

He controlled his trembling fingers and poured the healing potion on the snake’s wound.

Deliberately, he turned the label of the potion bottle in front of the snake’s eyes and tore off the grade label of the bandage in front of the snake.

That was the most expensive healing potion and the best hemostatic bandage. No player would be willing to use it, but he used it all on the snake, to heal a boss who wanted to kill him.

Because he had beaten the snake too hard and scared the snake. That wouldn’t do. He had to coax it a little.

So he raised his hand, and the snake thought it was going to be beaten again. But when it ducked its head, the dagger stuck in its throat hurt so much that the snake wanted to cry.

But it wasn’t beaten. That hand landed on its hair and gently rubbed it.

Like rubbing a dog’s head.

“What’s your name?” He took out the candy and lightly shook it in front of the snake.

The snake was still hissing, but it didn’t matter because the snake’s eyes followed the candy around.

“You have to be good. I still have to clear the instance. I’ll use the last bottle of repair fluid for you. There are many people in this instance who want to kill me…” He slowed his voice and showed weakness to the snake.

To please it further, he put the candy in his palm and moved it to the snake’s lips.

This was a very dangerous move. As soon as the snake turned its head, it could insert its fangs into his flesh.

He had seen the power of snake venom. As soon as he got a little on him, he would die in agony.

After a few minutes of stalemate, the snake tentatively extended its slender tongue as if it had compromised and gently touched the candy.

So good… Waves of accomplishment surged from the bottom of his heart, and his body began to tremble slightly with excitement again.

But the snake would be even better.

The snake’s tongue tasted the sweetness, and it hesitated and retracted it, but it quickly probed out again to lick his fingertips.

Licking those scarred and bloody fingertips.

So good, so good.

He rubbed the snake’s head again, making his tone even softer.

“Come find me, okay? I’ll finish this instance, but I don’t have any money. All my money was used to buy candy and bandages, and recovery agents… I don’t have the ability to come find you again. Many players bully me. I’ll get hurt, and I don’t have any money to buy recovery agents to heal. I can only wait in the player lobby to heal slowly…”

“Come find me, okay… I might die in the player lobby…”

He stood up, but the ability suppressing the snake didn’t disappear at all.

Because he was lying. This instance was specially prepared for the snake. In the F-grade solo instance, there wasn’t even one NPC that could pose a threat to him, except for the ridiculously weak gatekeeper.

He simply cut off the gatekeeper NPC’s head and ran away.

Then he returned to the player lobby, back to his own little house.

He told too many lies. For example, the money was actually spent on buying the dagger to beat the snake, and no players dared to bully him because those people had already had their necks twisted off by him.

The recovery agent hadn’t been used up either. That was what he used to save his life.

He couldn’t bear to let the bait out without catching the wolf. He endured the heartache and sold all his collections and treasures at low prices, even giving away all the props except those used to save his life as favors.

He used the money he exchanged to pay off half of his debts, and then he got a set of old furniture from the recycling center.

Creating an atmosphere that he was having a hard time.

He didn’t even heal. He stubbornly stood by the window, wearing tattered clothes and hugging his knees, letting the blood flow all over the floor.

Take a gamble… He didn’t regret it.

He lasted a whole day until night fell again.

Finally, just when his patience was about to run out, a slender black snake quietly drilled through the night and poked its head in through the window that had been smashed on purpose.

It was a form he had never seen before, a delicate and small body with watery golden eyes.

Milky white little teeth rested on the scales, like two inverted triangles.

He had won because the snake was wagging a light pink recovery agent on the tip of its tail.

That was the best agent, a life-saving prop that A+ grade players couldn’t bear to use, a top-level medicine that 99% of players couldn’t unlock.

It could revive the dead and heal the flesh.

He had won… A feeling of exhaustion surged up, and in the moment before he lost consciousness, he saw a scaly hand opening that bottle of agent.

The memory ended here.

Even for the current Ji Mo An, the most impressive memories were still the fear that flashed in the snake’s eyes for the first time and the pitiful whimper.

It was… so exciting.

Ha… Was he so crazy before… Ji Mo An rubbed his hair hard.

The Ji Mo An at that time was single-mindedly thinking about pressing the snake under his feet, using any means to trick and deceive it. But the current Ji Mo An hadn’t experienced those things and still retained the gentleness and kindness that belonged to a human.

So he felt guilty! Super guilty!

He absolutely couldn’t let slip and reveal how badly he had fooled the ignorant, innocent snake before!

No, that wasn’t right… He should have thought of it earlier.

Because he was never a passive person.

The words “stubborn mule” had almost run through half of his life. His grandfather often scolded him like that, but the Old Master himself was also a stubborn mule.

Before his death, Ji Mo An’s life could even be described as uninhibited. He was a favored son of heaven, the designated heir of the family. He got whatever he wanted, and even if it was just because he said he was comfortable, his family would permanently book the hotel room he liked, even if he only went there once a year.

But pampering wasn’t spoiling. His family was harmonious. His parents stayed by his side until he came of age, sheltering him from the wind and rain while shaping everything about him.

He could tear up the invitation from the noble academy and bury himself in his studies, relying on his own strength to pass the examination for City Number One High School.

He could also leave whenever he wanted, even skipping the final exam to take his sister skiing abroad. He could run abroad to exchange because he was bored.

He got whatever he wanted.

So after his death, he wanted the snake, and he had to get the snake at all costs.

There was no failure in Ji Mo An’s dictionary, even if he would play himself to death.

But the Ji Mo An of this life hadn’t entered the Star System. The speeding car collided on the highway, and the soul that had been resurrected from the dead and the huge pain in his forehead told him the preciousness of life.

So he restrained himself and became more stable.

But it was just restraint.

He had also made all the disobedient old employees dare not speak when he took over the company, and he had also been so poisonous that he made the people who wanted to please him cry.

Everyone knew that the Ji family’s heir was not to be trifled with, even though that heir had become more stable due to the increase in experience and no longer opened his mouth easily.

If he entered Star System again, he might still do this. But compared to the Ji Mo An at the age of twenty, the current Ji Mo An might use a more selfish method to lure the snake closer little by little.

But there was no if.

Because the snake had fallen into the trap and hadn’t come out, even diligently digging the pit deeper for itself.

Ji Mo An came back to his senses, looking at the scenery quickly receding outside the window. Looking at the gradually increasing greenery and the changed style of the houses, he took a deep breath.

Absolutely, he absolutely couldn’t let slip and let the ignorant, innocent snake know how badly he had deceived it before.

He won the snake because the snake was also a child favored by Star System and didn’t have much heart.

“Have you ever thought about why you died in Star System?”

The little person who was originally lie on the window floated to Ji Mo An’s eyes. The little Yun Chuan was golden all over, as delicate as a small figure.

“…” Ji Mo An didn’t speak, just gently rubbed the Chopstick Snake hiding in his arms with his fingers.

“Your emotions are very intense. You should have remembered something.” Yun Chuan blinked his eyes and pointed his little finger at the disheveled bosses.

“I blocked their senses because you don’t seem to want others to know about the restoration of your memories.”

“Thank you.” Ji Mo An pursed his lips.

He had forgotten about this… The bosses could sense emotions.

“I don’t know. I only restored part of my memory, but I don’t think I died because of the instance.”

“Losde is watching you.” Yun Chuan floated around in the air, his face sometimes blurry and sometimes clear. “My people just told me that he completely went to Earth on the day Popos sent you back to Earth. This can’t be a coincidence.”

“The NHE Association has been watching me for six years.” Ji Mo An raised his head.

“No, maybe more than six years. I think your death is related to him.”