SIATOWITF Chapter 30
by Volare“I plan to go find Lin Mo.” Leaving the study, Ji Mo An didn’t rush to find Lin Mo. Instead, he went to the guest room on the third floor.
“Don’t like Lin Mo.” Xuan Bai immediately showed his little fangs.
“Not taking you.” Ji Mo An tapped his head. Those little teeth were indeed sharp, perfect for getting stuck on things.
“?” The snake immediately tilted his head. “Then I like Lin Mo.”
“Liking him doesn’t mean I’ll take you.” Ji Mo An seriously considered the problem of placing the snake. Although this thing didn’t have legs, it ran faster than anyone.
“Okay…” Surprisingly, the snake didn’t beg to be taken along. “Then hang me on the tree. I promise I won’t go anywhere.”
He looked at the lush Money Tree standing in the corner of the wall, eager to climb up.
The snake seemed very well-behaved, exuding a sense of trust.
So Ji Mo An decisively called Special Assistant Bai, who had run to the kitchen to scrounge for snacks.
“Help me keep an eye on the snake, and don’t let Xin Xin and the others touch it.”
Xuan Bai had countless past offenses. Ji Mo An would never believe this snake’s nonsense about not running around.
“You got it, An-zong.” Special Assistant Bai’s body exuded the aroma of food, clearly indicating he hadn’t missed out on good food.
“Come here, Er Hua.” He carefully took the box, peering into the little black snake coiled inside.
“Okay.” Ji Mo An nodded, striding out.
[Bai Er Hua]
After confirming that the door was completely closed, Ji Mo An silently covered his mouth.
Why did Bai Yan still remember that ghost name? One second later and he would have burst out laughing.
The thought of Xuan Bai, dressed in a suit looking all dignified, bearing the name Bai Er Hua… such a strong sense of incongruity.
Oh right… there was also a husky named Hei Da Hua raised in the old house… then if…
“…” He couldn’t think anymore. Ji Mo An silently slapped himself, forcibly erasing the bizarre images from his mind.
Important business first, important business first.
He repeated it several times in his mind before calling Lin Mo to arrange a place to meet.
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Meanwhile, the temporary “keeper,” Bai Yan, was also eavesdropping on his boss’s footsteps.
After confirming that his boss wouldn’t be back, Bai Yan immediately put on a mysterious smile.
He took out a small sealed bag from his pocket and placed it next to the box, pouring out a clump of white plastic wrap from inside.
A small black head rose from the box. Xuan Bai had poked his head out to see what was happening.
Looking at the snake’s round eyes, Bai Yan’s heart pounded with affection. He tore open the plastic wrap and used small tweezers to pick up a pink and white marbled piece of meat.
Smells good.
Xuan Bai sniffed it, tilting his head at Bai Yan.
“Try it. I even had the chef lightly sear it.” Bai Yan ingratiatingly brought the small piece of meat to the snake’s mouth. “Snowflake Wagyu beef, air-shipped from Japan this morning. Here, you take the first bite.”
Xuan Bai sniffed again.
This time, he wasn’t smelling the beef, but the emotions radiating from Bai Yan.
Anticipation, extreme anticipation.
What did the human want? Xuan Bai was suddenly a little curious, so he opened his mouth and swallowed the lightly cooked beef.
“Come, come.” Bai Yan opened his palm, using his other hand to carefully hold the snake’s body.
He who eats of a man’s food should obey his command, he who takes a man’s money is in his power. Xuan Bai moved slightly, but didn’t break free from his hand.
“So well-behaved, no wonder An-zong likes you so much.” Bai Yan held the snake, took a photo with his phone, and then sent it to his private little group.
[From now on, everyone please call me Snake-Holding Heavenly King? Bai.] He @’d all members.
“…” Xuan Bai poked his head out and followed Bai Yan to look at his group chat, only to see a group of office workers in high spirits on their day off begin to frantically praise the snake.
What kind of weird stuff was this… Mommy kiss? Sack? Abacus?
The snake used up all his patience dealing with the bored and ignorant humans. After seeing those few strange lines, he immediately crawled out of Bai Yan’s hand and retreated back into his little wooden box.
Annoying snake.
“Oh, you can understand?” Bai Yan curiously wanted to touch the snake’s head but was hissed at.
[hh, the snake is shy and ran back by himself, and even glared at me.] He quickly reported the progress in the group, but halfway through typing the message, Bai Yan suddenly saw a message from an unfamiliar avatar.
[Good looking.]
Who was this person? Bai Yan was stunned. He clicked on the person’s avatar but found that the page was for adding a friend.
Add a friend?
Everyone in this group was invited in by Bai Yan himself. How could there be a stranger?
He looked at the number of people in the group chat and found that it hadn’t increased.
[Who is this person?] Bai Yan felt something wasn’t right. He took a screenshot and sent it privately to Emily, who was frantically sending colorful sacks.
[?] The other party quickly sent a question mark.
[In the group, how come I don’t have this friend?]
[Ah?]
[This.] Bai Yan sent the screenshot of the person’s message to Emily.
[Ah????] Emily sent several big question marks in a row.
[No, Brother Bai, there isn’t one!]
[Damn, where did this person come from? I don’t have them here!]
Didn’t have one?
Bai Yan’s heart jumped. He clicked on the screenshot Emily sent him.
There was indeed no statement from that unfamiliar avatar in that series of chat records.
Now there were only two possibilities… Bai Yan shivered slightly and reopened the group chat.
First, this person really didn’t appear in other people’s chat logs.
Second, Emily deleted the record before sending him the screenshot.
But the probability of either was very small. Bai Yan sent messages to several other friends.
Without exception, he received the same answer.
[None.]
No… was it haunted?
Bai Yan clicked on the members of the group again. The unfamiliar avatar was sitting squarely next to his avatar.
No way… this thing was too weird… Bai Yan glanced at the snake lying in the box, steeled his heart and directly disbanded the group chat.
But should he tell the boss…
He hesitated, after all, the problematic photo was of the boss’s snake. And this group…
Although the boss turned a blind eye to them building a gossip group in private, it was still a group that couldn’t be brought out into the open.
Or… should he just say it?
There was more than just the little snake’s photo in the group…
Bai Yan picked up his phone hesitantly, but suddenly saw a new pop-up window.
[“.” requests to add you as a friend.]
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“How is it a visa?” On the other side, Ji Mo An picked up a small booklet and flipped through it. “A business visa?”
“Yes.” Lin Mo opened the document bag, placing all the materials one by one on the table.
“The approval time for a work visa is longer, so I first applied for a business visa.”
“You got him a foreign citizenship?” Ji Mo An was a little surprised. Did Lin Mo have that kind of power?
“…”
“An-zong, I don’t have that kind of power…” Lin Mo felt for the first time that his boss was a bit out of touch with reality. “Mr. Xuan was originally a citizen of Iceland. Perhaps his expression wasn’t accurate when he first came to China, causing you to mistakenly believe he was a black household.”
“Look.” He flipped through a few pages of copied data. “I happen to have acquaintances in the Icelandic government. They helped me search for some information. Here is Mr. Xuan’s school record in the local system. However, there are indeed no records of Mr. Xuan’s entry and exit, so I suspect Mr. Xuan used illegal means to enter China.”
“…” Ji Mo An was silent.
An Icelander.
This was just something he had casually made up.
Why would it actually exist!
“Give it to me.” Before his brain’s CPU started to smoke, Ji Mo An organized all the materials and put them back in the bag.
“I will find him and ask him clearly.”
“Okay, An-zong.” Lin Mo’s eyes flickered, and he didn’t say anything else.
Ji Mo An knew Xuan Bai’s identity better than anyone.
First of all, Xuan Bai was a snake, a snake that didn’t belong to this world. Second, Xuan Bai didn’t know Icelandic at all. Third, Iceland was just something he said off the cuff. He didn’t think he could accurately guess right among the 200+ countries and regions.
So chaotic.
What was this snake’s background? And this snake was hiding a lot of things from him.
It couldn’t be that he just said Xuan Bai was from Iceland, and then a pile of identity information would pop up out of nowhere in the Icelandic government system waiting for Lin Mo to investigate, right?
Ji Mo An stared at the empty space in front of him, but what he saw seemed to be a large ball of tangled thread.
Bad snake!
Ji Mo An looked at the time, preparing to go to Bai Yan’s place to retrieve the bad snake.
One mystery followed another, but what he didn’t know was that the one standing in the middle of the mystery…
Was it Xuan Bai or…
Him?
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Third floor guest room, Ji Mo An successfully took over the snake.
Very well-behaved, didn’t run around.
But Bai Yan felt a little out of it.
“Remember to come down for lunch.” Ji Mo An looked at the snake resting his head on his wrist, frowning slightly.
“Okay, An-zong.” Bai Yan pursed his lips, hesitating before swallowing the words back into his stomach.
“Xuan Bai.” Returning to his room, Ji Mo An threw the snake onto the bed.
The snake immediately transformed into human form and sat up wrapped in the blanket.
“Special Assistant Bai is acting strange oh~” Before Ji Mo An could speak, Xuan Bai preemptively spoke.
“I originally wanted to sneak away to find you while Special Assistant Bai wasn’t paying attention.”
“…” How could this snake say it so openly? Ji Mo An once again felt that his choice to find someone to watch Xuan Bai was absolutely correct.
If he had really been bewitched by the snake and hung the snake on the tree, maybe he would have been looking at the information given by Lin Mo with the snake.
“But Special Assistant Bai’s emotions… uh… he was clubbing.” Xuan Bai searched for a descriptive word.
“Clubbing?”
“Uh… also oh, your Vice Guild Leader came to ask me out again.” Xuan Bai suddenly changed the topic.
“Didn’t I tell you to refuse?”
“Yes oh, so it’s ‘again’.”
“Refuse, and don’t go anywhere before the banquet starts.” Ji Mo An rubbed his forehead, handing the document bag to Xuan Bai. “Take a look, your identity verification.”
“Are we going to be on the same account?” Xuan Bai was very happy. He opened the bag, and soon that expression froze on his face.
“Wow, you did it, I’m an Icelander.”
“…” Looking at Xuan Bai’s attitude, he didn’t seem to know about the identity thing…
Ji Mo An suddenly felt even more chaotic.
Then who would…
“Knock knock.” There was a sudden knock on the door.
This chaotic morning came to an end with the servant’s knock.
It was lunchtime.
“I’ll take Xin Xin to the horse farm this afternoon to choose a pony, so I’ll be back later.” Ji Mo An stood up and locked all the identity information in the bedside table.
“We’re going to choose a pony?” Xuan Bai turned back into a little snake.
“Not we, but I.” Ji Mo An noticed that Xuan Bai’s speech was particularly fixated on adding himself in. “Xuan Bai, can you be obedient for once?”
The snake obediently tilted his head.
“Stay here, don’t go anywhere. I’ll be back a little later at night, Bai Yan will go with me. Aside from him, I don’t feel comfortable letting anyone watch you.”
“As for all the other messes, we’ll solve them after the charity banquet.”
The snake obediently nodded.
Only then did Ji Mo An draw the curtains, and then lock the door and leave the room.
It was noon, but the room with the curtains drawn was extremely dim.
The snake burrowed into the quilt, and a wisp of blue flame emerged from his eyes, leaping continuously in the air.
“You guys recorded my information over in Iceland?” Xuan Bai tilted his head.
The flame flickered twice, seeming very happy.
“Congratulations, you’ve made the mess even messier. You might as well have randomly found a country to record it in or really let me be a black household.”
The flame slapped the quilt, rolling around and splashing about.
“However, after rejecting them a few times, those people have already contacted Bai Yan. What do you think?”
The flame swished, drawing circles in the air.
“No need to rush, it’s relatively simple to deal with those people. Oh? You’re asking me what I’m going to do next?”
The golden-eyed black snake slowly burrowed under Ji Mo An’s pillow, coiling himself into several circles.
“Naturally, I’m going to sleep.”
“Me? I have so many black pots on my body right now that I can’t even count them all. That old man is now going further and further down the rabbit hole, and in the end, I’ll have to protect him.”
Xuan Bai chuckled softly, burying his head into his body.
But what could he do? That was family, Ji Mo An’s most important family.