SIATOWITF Chapter 32
by VolareThe enormous ship was docked at the port, making the crowds look like grains of rice.
It wasn’t time yet, so only uniformed attendants and staff were walking around the port.
“Young Master An.”
As they arrived at the foot of the ship, the team leader, who had been waiting, immediately opened the car door.
“Thanks for your hard work.” Ji Mo An looked around. It was approaching noon, and the weather was getting hotter. The staff below the ship were bustling about.
“It’s our duty, it’s our duty.” The team leader subconsciously wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead, then gestured to the opposite side.
“Young Master, the corridor hasn’t been connected yet, so you’ll have to trouble yourself to use the boarding ladder.”
“Okay, the makeup team is in place, right?” Ji Mo An glanced at the boarding ladder, where several workers were hurrying to lay down the carpet.
“They’re here, they’re here. I’ll contact them.” The team leader took out his walkie-talkie and gestured for Ji Mo An to follow him.
“No need.” Ji Mo An nodded at him. Everyone here was rushing to meet the deadline, so there was no need to disrupt the system because of his arrival.
“We’ll go ourselves, Xuan Bai, come out.”
Why was this snake still wriggling in the car?
He bent down and saw Xuan Bai inching his way out, his clothes neatly pressed without a single wrinkle.
“…” He’s being picky now.
“This is…” The team leader was stunned when he saw Xuan Bai.
“A model, what do you think?” Ji Mo An was very satisfied with Xuan Bai. The only thing this bad snake was good for now was his face.
“Oh dear.” The team leader suddenly exclaimed, “You can’t take him to the Aerial garden on the sixth floor.”
“Hmm?”
“Those flowers were designed by Sister Li with great effort, and she’s waiting for the guests to praise them. If this gentleman goes, I’m afraid no one will look at the flowers.”
This guy… Ji Mo An chuckled, “Noted.”
“Did you hear that? Don’t go wandering around on the sixth floor.” He raised an eyebrow at Xuan Bai.
The snake obediently nodded.
Watching the young master leave, the team leader wiped his sweat again. He took out his phone and made another call.
“Sister Feng, you’re in trouble.”
“What’s wrong? Call me SisterÀi Lán when you’re outside.” A vague female voice came from the other end.
“Nothing, hehe.” The team leader played riddles, satisfied, and hung up the phone, humming a tune as he continued to direct the work.
Meanwhile…
“I think his head is going to be baked into popcorn.” The woman applying lipstick rolled her eyes at the screen, which was still on the contact list interface, “Zhou Zhou, get me a new powder puff.”
“Get it yourself in the cabinet, don’t you have hands?” The stylist next to her was holding a card and flipping through a new makeup box. “Sister Xiao Yu, please wait a moment, our young master is coming over.”
“You’re discriminating!” Ài Lán stood up with a howl.
“I am discriminating. Is your model the same as yours?”
“Annoying, I’m going to see where the young master is.” Ài Lán ran out in a hurry, and came back in a hurry a few minutes later.
“There’s a bug.”
“Hmm?”
“The young master brought a handsome guy over.”
“What, is a handsome guy bad?”
“Of course it’s good, but combined with our team leader’s call, it’s not good. If it goes well, it’s a great help, but if it doesn’t, it’s stealing our Xiao Yu’s spotlight. I finally managed to suppress that surnamed Feng to snatch the main show.” Ài Lán gritted her teeth.
“No one dares to steal your spotlight, he’s just here to take a look, he won’t be on stage.” Ji Mo An heard Ài Lán’s incompetent rage as soon as he came in.
“An Shao.” Everyone in the makeup room stood up together.
“No need to do this, sit down.” Ji Mo An looked at the room full of people greeting him, and couldn’t help but laugh.
“An Shao, are you really not going on stage?” Ài Lán instantly relaxed, stretching her neck to look behind him.
“No.” Ji Mo An pressed Xuan Bai onto a chair, surrounded by curious gazes.
“Zhou Zhou, give him a hairstyle.”
“Okay, Young Master.” The chief stylist immediately twirled the scissors handsomely twice.
“Why are all the waiters on the ship unfamiliar faces?” Ji Mo An stood next to Xuan Bai and watched for a while. After seeing that there were no problems, he sat on the sofa and chatted with Ài Lán.
“An Shao, don’t even mention it.” Ài Lán suddenly became interested, “Except for a few supervisors, the rest of the waiters seem to be hired specifically, each of them is strong and sturdy, I suspect they were recruited according to the standards of bodyguards.”
Indeed strong… Ji Mo An recalled, and even a few waiters carrying heavy objects had arms thicker than his legs.
“Hey, An Shao, how’s our Xiao Yu’s makeup today?” Ài Lán rolled her eyes and secretly waved to her model.
“Of course the opening model is good.” Ji Mo An squinted at Xuan Bai, and sure enough, he found that the snake was staring at him in the mirror.
“Oh, I still think the makeup I did with Mrs. Mu last time…”
“How long will the hairstyle take?” Ji Mo An stood up and walked behind Xuan Bai.
“A little trim and perm. An Shao, this one…”
“Xuan Bai.”
“From my point of view… after the perm, Mr. Xuan can tie up half of his hair in the back, pull up the side, and add a few highlights. It’ll be almost time for the gala when it’s done.” The stylist wrote and drew on the tablet, and soon drew up several plans.
“Okay.” Ji Mo An nodded, “Call me when it’s done.”
“Okay, Young Master.”
Ji Mo An left the makeup room, and the people inside relaxed all of a sudden.
“Handsome guy, is my plan okay?” Zhou Zhou brushed all of Xuan Bai’s hair behind him, revealing his face, which had been covered by his hair.
“It’s a good thing he’s not going on stage…” Ài Lán smacked her lips.
“…” Xuan Bai looked at her in the mirror again, then silently lowered his head.
…
When the golden eyes lit up again, the black snake swam under people’s feet, following a figure moving forward.
That person didn’t look very old, and he was very conspicuous in his uniform, mixed in with a group of tall and strong waiters.
He was holding a stack of champagne glasses and suddenly flashed backwards, leaving the team.
Xuan Bai immediately followed, and he followed the young man into the banquet hall, watching him squat down under countless eyes.
The snake opened its mouth and bit the young man’s calf, the sharp teeth easily piercing the fabric and deeply embedded in the firm flesh.
Thump…
Within a few seconds, the young man’s lips turned blue, and he rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.
My poison is still quite useful~ Xuan Bai climbed onto the young man’s chest, smug.
Blue flames sprang from the snake’s pupils and soared into the young man’s forehead.
The next second, the young man opened his eyes, his empty pupils quietly looking at Xuan Bai.
Gradually, blue flames appeared in the young man’s eyes, and the young man’s expression gradually became vivid.
A few minutes later, the young man sat up and gave Xuan Bai a weird smile.
“No, don’t control his body.” Xuan Bai tapped the young man’s forehead, and the flames in the young man’s eyes dimmed a lot.
“Be a recorder, he will be of great use in the future.”
The young man blinked and nodded slowly.
“Take it slow, don’t be discovered by anyone.”
The young man tilted his head, and the weird smile gradually faded.
“Not bad.” Xuan Bai unconsciously tapped the ground with the tip of his tail, and quickly disappeared into the crowd again.
The flames in the young man’s eyes gradually faded, and he just sat there blankly on the ground, surrounded by people coming and going, but no one reacted to him.
After an unknown amount of time, the young man suddenly sneezed.
His pupils lit up for a moment, and he looked around blankly.
“Damn, why am I sitting on the ground?” The young man quickly touched his body, and looked up to see the glass cups piled up like a tower in front of him.
“Was this place arranged like this just now?” He stared blankly at the banquet hall that had been arranged, and then looked at the old clock hanging in the air.
“Damn it!” He suddenly covered his mouth. “I installed a camera for three hours?”
“It’s over, it’s over… what’s going on… there must be something wrong with Eleven’s device, I have to get out of here quickly.” The young man jumped up, ran out of the banquet hall through the back door, and rushed to the top deck of the cruise ship.
“Why are you coming out now?” On the railing of the cruise ship, a figure in a black robe was standing steadily on the wrist-thick horizontal column.
Seeing the young man come out, he jumped down lightly.
“Thirteen, you came just in time.” The young man’s face lit up.
“Because I’ve been waiting here.” The black-clothed man called Thirteen reached out and grabbed the young man’s shoulder, “How is it, was it smooth?”
“Sort of.” The young man also grabbed his hand, “There seems to be something wrong with Eleven’s device, I should have briefly lost consciousness, but fortunately the shield is still there, and no one found me. Everything that should be installed has been installed.”
“Good.” The black-clothed man nodded, and a pair of black wings suddenly opened on his back.
“How are Seventeen and the others?” The young man narrowed his eyes in the wind, and at this time he could see the fiery red sun gradually setting.
“They…” The black-clothed man snorted, “They couldn’t have failed more miserably.”
“Ah? Tell me in detail!”
“Didn’t they arrange to meet Bai Yan?”
“Yeah.”
“Guess who he brought with him?”
“He called the police?”
“It’s better to call the police; he brought that captain from the Central Control Bureau… Heh…” The black-clothed man sneered, “Seventeen and Eighteen were so scared that they didn’t dare to come out all night, and Twelve had to rescue them in the end.”
“Damn, are you talking about that surnamed Lin? Isn’t Bai Yan on bad terms with him?”
“How would I know? All I know is that if our NHE Association is finished, it’s inseparable from those two unreliable things, Seventeen and Eighteen!”
“Um…” The young man scratched his chin in the air, “Think on the bright side, at least the one surnamed Lin didn’t sleep all night, did he?”
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Indeed, he didn’t sleep all night…
“You two, what did you go do?” At the cruise ship’s boarding ladder, Ji Mo An, who finally contacted Bai Yan and Lin Mo, looked at the huge dark circles under Bai Yan’s eyes with some confusion.
“Caught some wind.” Lin Mo opened his mouth calmly, his dark circles were not as obvious as Bai Yan’s, but he couldn’t hide his haggardness.
“Caught some wind?”
“Yes, at the dock.” Lin Mo nodded, and he pointed to the distant road, “That dock over there.”
“President An…” Bai Yan felt like he was about to die, “Our car inexplicably had a flat tire halfway, fifteen kilometers, the two of us walked back! Not only did our phones run out of battery, but we didn’t even run into a car in the middle! Why does all the misfortune happen together…”
“…” It was really miserable.
All the words stuck in his throat, and Ji Mo An could only sigh.
“Go rest, go to the reception desk to get your guest room keys first.”
“Woo…”
Ji Mo An looked at the two people’s somewhat crooked backs and helplessly called Xuan Bai.
Fortunately, the bad snake’s styling was finished.
He looked at the sky, night was approaching. On the cruise ship, a pianist in alǐfú had gracefully walked towards the white grand piano standing in the center of the pool.
The light music flowed in all directions through the microphone, and the lights on the boarding corridor lit up softly.
Every attendant showed a proper smile, and the etiquette ladies stood in rows on the deck, smiling.
“Young Master An.” A low, pleasant male voice sounded from behind, and Ji Mo An turned around to find that Xuan Bai had come behind him at some point.
“Not bad.” Ji Mo An nodded, “Very good-looking.”
The man’s half-long hair was tied into an exquisite braid, intertwined and braided together, and the slightly curly hair on the side of his ears was highlighted in blue, setting off the deep red on his earlobes even more profoundly.
The supervisor was right, when the bad snake stood there, no one would look at the flowers.
“Brother, I’m a little nervous.” Xuan Bai blinked, gently grabbing Ji Mo An’s cuff and shaking it slightly.
“What are you nervous about?” Ji Mo An looked at the guests coming to the dock one after another, and found it a little funny that even a shameless snake would be nervous.
“Maybe I’m nervous that you’re going to introduce me to your mother.”
“In the capacity of a model.” Ji Mo An quickly added a prefix.
“Okay~” Xuan Bai shook his sleeves again, and didn’t say anything else.
The snake was indeed a little nervous, but it was a nervous excitement.
Because…
It’s a gala, and a stage.
The gala is Ji Mo An’s gala.
And the stage is Xuan Bai’s stage.
And on this stage, who… is the real performer?
Central Control Bureau?
NHE Association?
Or the Ouroboros from the Infinite World?