SIATOWITF Chapter 55
by VolareChapter 55: Ji Mo An! Gave the snake money! Wants to be called by its real name…
The days that followed didn’t seem much different, except that the snake managed to get a few more kisses.
But that was about it. The celebrity endorsement incident had already exploded on the trending searches, and the company’s business became so busy that Ji Mo An was coming home almost every day under the starlight.
In his study, Ji Mo An lifelessly typed with one hand, while also knocking the snake’s head for secretly drinking coffee.
This snake, aside from sneaking onto his bed at night to sleep on his chest, was incredibly well-behaved, not doing anything else to anger him.
But it also didn’t do anything else. It just idled around on the floor all day long.
He really should get it up and find a job, Ji Mo An thought as he vigorously poked at the computer, waking up Special Assistant Bai, who had already started dozing off on the other side.
“Ah… ahhh… the trending searches are rising again…” Bai Yan said, covering his face as he looked at the online battles in the exposé area.
“…” Trending searches? Rising?
That was the content of their previous meeting.
Ji Mo An glanced at the time; it was already close to eleven-thirty.
Everyone was exhausted, except for the idle snake.
Oh well.
“Let’s stop here for today, continue tomorrow morning. Thanks for your hard work, everyone.” Ji Mo An looked at the other managers on the screen, who were barely holding on, and knew that continuing the meeting today would be pointless.
As soon as he said this, the light that had been lost in the eyes of all the wage slaves returned.
Finally! Off! Work!
–
After the meeting ended, the snake hesitantly came over again.
“I’m leaving~”
?
Ji Mo An was stunned, thinking the snake wanted a kiss.
“Where are you going?”
“Going to pick someone up, going to the comic convention tomorrow afternoon~”
Oh right, there was a comic convention… He’d been so busy these days that he’d even ordered Tang Lin to monitor the data.
“Go ahead, I’ll make time for it. You don’t need to worry about the Bureau Seven side.”
Ji Mo An stroked the snake’s tail, thinking in his heart about having Special Assistant Bai take over management for a day tomorrow.
It was just that poor Special Assistant Bai was going to lose more hair again.
“Hug~” The snake turned around and bit itself, then held a small black scale in Ji Mo An’s hand.
“If you want to find me, break my scale.”
“Go quickly, aren’t you afraid of going bald?” Ji Mo An said, laughing a little as he weighed the rice grain-sized scale.
“Won’t, it grows back quickly.” Xuan Bai shook his tail and swam towards the window, turning back every few steps.
His scales did grow back very quickly; new scales could basically grow back completely in a day or two. But if he returned to his homeland…
Growing back in a quarter of an hour would be slow. The snake proudly raised its head and Whoosh slid out of the window.
Ji Mo An followed behind him and closed the window, then remembered that the snake had given him a snake scale before as well.
He’d put them together, he thought, as he walked towards the display case in the living room.
Click…
Ji Mo An opened the glass display case and suddenly froze.
In the center of the countless dazzling gemstones, there was actually a fan-shaped black object, bigger than his hand.
At the same time, his left hand felt heavy. Ji Mo An lowered his head.
The scale, which had originally been the size of a grain of rice, had suddenly grown dozens of times larger. Under the light, a faint totem could even be seen on the surface of the pitch-black, glossy scale.
The snake scale had grown bigger.
Ji Mo An picked up the black object in the display case; it was also a snake scale.
The two scales were different in size, but they were both equally dazzlingly black.
Could it be… that the scales had returned to their original size?
Ji Mo An stacked the two scales together, and the scales collided, making a crisp sound.
Xuan Bai was always changing size in front of him, but he had never known what Xuan Bai’s largest form could reach.
No way… both of these scales had even been bitten off from the snake’s tail.
Then the scales on the snake’s body must be at least twice as big as this, Ji Mo An subconsciously pictured the snake’s true form.
How big would that be…
Even the snake’s teeth would be half a meter long… then the snake’s pupils must be even bigger…
A blurry image suddenly flashed in his mind, followed by a sharp pain like needles.
Ji Mo An clutched his forehead and staggered to his knees, wave after wave of intense pain making his vision go black.
It had been so long since he had felt pain… it was even more intense than the phantom pains he had felt before.
Pain so intense that his fingers spasmed, pain so intense that his pupils lost focus.
The two snake scales fell to the ground, clicked as his trembling fingertips pressed down on them, collided with the ground.
Suddenly, the snake scale underneath made a faint cracking sound, and a thin crack snaked along the scale’s texture.
Warm, moist white light flowed out along the crack, slowly flowing towards Ji Mo An’s fingers.
They quickly climbed up his skin, leaving only a trail of silver behind.
The pain seemed to lessen…
Ji Mo An gasped for breath and raised his head. He saw himself reflected in the glass of the display case.
Pale face, covered in cold sweat.
But on the corner of his forehead that had been causing the pain, there was actually a beautiful star and moon totem covering it, emitting a faint silver light.
Under Ji Mo An’s gaze, the totem’s light gradually weakened, and it seemed to melt into the skin on the corner of his forehead, completely driving away the pain.
But this time, the memory did not leave with the pain.
Ji Mo An saw it, saw a snake.
Or rather… Xuan Bai’s true form.
It was an incredibly huge snake, bigger than anything he had imagined.
The giant snake coiled around a huge and luxurious palace, arrogantly looking down on the insignificance of the ground.
The snake’s body floated in the air, twisted into a figure-eight shape, each scale carrying unparalleled pressure.
But the snake was crying.
Beneath the snake’s golden pupils was water, were tears.
Within the snake’s golden pupils was pain, was fear.
Ji Mo An stared blankly at the beautiful gemstones in the display case, the teardrop-shaped diamonds dazzlingly bright under the light.
But why was the snake crying? It was so huge and sacred.
Why was the snake crying?
Ji Mo An pressed his chest, his heart was beating, his heart was aching.
–
“Finally arrived…”
On the deserted rocky beach, only the frame of a ship was left, blown ashore by the waves.
Fourteen leapt from the railing to the ground, and the broken ship finally gave way, completely turning into broken planks of wood.
“Boss, God. We’ve teleported one hundred and four times in the past few days, teleporting three times in the shortest hour! I feel like my cells have already started rearranging themselves.” Fourteen lay on the ground, half-dead, a small crab crawling out from his neck and pinching his flesh hard.
“Glug glug~” Fifteen, whose main body was sand, was especially delighted. This was his first time leaving the base.
He rolled up the small crab and bounced and jumped all the way across the rocks, frolicking.
“There are no humans within ten kilometers.” Thirteen descended from the sky, turning to look at the green vines being pushed by Seventeen and Eighteen.
Except for the faceless sand ball Fifteen, everyone’s complexion was not good.
But if one were to say who was the most exhausted, it would be Su Nai, who had activated the teleportation.
She sat on a rock, closing her eyes weakly.
“Su Nai, rest for a moment first.” Green Vine sighed and plunged his branches into the sand.
“Mm-hmm, Boss, you rest. Thirteen and I will wait for the people picking us up.” Fourteen looked around, stuffing seaweed into his mouth.
“Ptooey ptooey ptooey…” He got a mouthful of sand, but he smiled foolishly again and ran along the way with the small crab.
“Don’t go too far!” Green Vine said softly.
“Got it! I’m catching crabs for Fifteen, I’ll be right back… Ouch!”
Fourteen lost his focus and bumped headfirst into something heavy.
“That hurts!” He raised his head and retreated three or four steps in fright.
Tonight, there was no moon and no wind, and the world was shrouded in darkness. Even the slightest bit of light was extremely conspicuous.
Not to mention that it was a pair of golden vertical pupils. They seemed to float in the darkness, like two clusters of cold flames.
It was the gaze of a predator, and Fourteen was frightened to the bone.
“Qi Ning.” The eyes spoke.
“It’s not me, it’s not me, ah ah ah ah!” Qi Ning was even more frightened.
He stood up and ran backwards, but unexpectedly bumped into something hard again.
Thirteen, who had been flying over, was knocked head over heels by Fourteen, and the feathers that were already painful trembled violently.
“Waaahhh Thirteen, there’s a ghost!” Fourteen touched the familiar feathers, and frightened, he clung to Thirteen’s body.
“Reis.” The eyes spoke again.
“God, how does it know your name too, am I going to die with you?” Fourteen sobbed.
“Stop messing around for a second…” Thirteen was a little speechless.
“Mr. Xuan Bai?” He tentatively opened his mouth.
That voice was very familiar, and… no one at the base would call him by his real name.
Xuan Bai looked at Fourteen’s distorted expression and blinked his eyes speechlessly.
A large group of blue flames burst out from his eyes, illuminating one side of the land.
“Wow…” Fourteen exclaimed, “This is so cool!”
He saw Xuan Bai wearing a black cloak, only revealing a pair of golden pupils and the upper half of his face.
“Not afraid?” Xuan Bai raised an eyebrow.
“Hehe…” Fourteen jumped out of Thirteen’s arms a little embarrassed, “My eyesight isn’t good… hehe… you came too! I thought it was just us on this mission.”
On a mission?
Xuan Bai looked at Thirteen again, and the youth’s expression visibly stiffened after hearing Fourteen’s words.
Silly boy… still counting money for the enemy.
“Reis, where is Su Nai?”
“Okay, okay.” Thirteen was stunned, and he quickly pointed in one direction.
Xuan Bai nodded at him and walked forward.
“You came.” Green Vine sensed Xuan Bai’s arrival earlier than Su Nai. He gently tapped Su Nai’s shoulder with his branches, waking the woman up.
“Sorry, we teleported one hundred and three times, Su Nai’s ability is a bit overdrawn.”
“It’s fine.” Xuan Bai stretched out his hand and lightly touched Su Nai’s brow.
A touch of silver light seeped into her skin, and Su Nai was surprised to find that her ability, which was already at rock bottom, was rapidly recovering.
“Th-thank you.” She thanked him a little awkwardly.
“We were afraid that the Seer would track us. Although Green Vine used the remaining roots to smash the main control room and the upper-level laboratory, I teleported many times on the way to be safe… everyone’s condition is not very good.”
“It’s fine.” The snake still said the same thing.
“Where are we going?” Su Nai breathed a sigh of relief.
“What are they called?” Xuan Bai did not answer her question.
“Seventeen, Eighteen, they are a pair of twins.” Su Nai looked at the two little ones who had come over at some point.
“Woo woo woo!” The twins, wearing heavy cloaks, made a blurred sound. They stretched out their small hands, pulled off their hats, and then held hands, ran to Xuan Bai, raised their hands, and made a lot of gestures.
“Du Xiao, Du Shuang.” Xuan Bai nodded.
“Woo woo woo!” The two little ones jumped around happily and finally hugged each other tightly.
Fifteen secretly told them that the different snake could call Thirteen and Fourteen by their real names.
Seventeen and Eighteen also wanted to be called by their real names!
“You, you can see their sign language?” Su Nai was a little surprised.
“My name is Sha Sha!” Fifteen jumped out of the sand pile, jumping around on Seventeen’s head.
“Sha Sha.” Xuan Bai repeated his name, and the little sand ball was even more excited than the twins.
“Reis, Qi Ning.” Xuan Bai also called Thirteen and Fourteen’s names seriously. “Stand next to Su Nai.”
“Okay.” Thirteen was very well-behaved, not only dragging Fourteen, but also dragging the twins and Sha Sha together.
“Stand in the circle and don’t come out.” Xuan Bai blinked lazily, and the flames that followed him suddenly stretched and bent into a fire ring, surrounding the NHE Association members.
“This is…” Fourteen curiously touched the flames, but the flames were cold and did not have a trace of warmth.
“It’s chasing after us.” Xuan Bai smiled coldly.
Su Nai’s space teleportation was useless. They had left a mark on their bodies, and even if they escaped to the ends of the earth, they would be caught up.
As soon as the words fell, the originally wet and smooth beach suddenly bubbled up.
One after another, thick mud squeezed out from between the sand. A strange and sharp laughter came from the mud bubbles, sounding like fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
“Ouroboros.”
One section after another of bone turned out of the mud, and the sharp voice shouted the snake’s name.
“Ouroboros… Lord Ouroboros…”
“Hee hee~”
“It is an honor for this lowly one to see your true form~ Hee hee~”
The festering bones gradually formed a skeleton, and one layer after another of mud was layered on top.
“Lord… please become this lowly one’s first nourishment~ I will convey your last words to the other Lords and… Your Highness~”
The mud laughed wildly, circling around Xuan Bai.
But the snake did not move. Not only did he not move, but a faint light came from inside the cloak.
“Lord, are you calling for reinforcements!” The mud angrily pounced on him, and in Fourteen’s scream, it pulled off the snake’s cloak.
And the snake, the snake was pressing on his phone.
“What did you say?” Xuan Bai raised his head, obviously not listening to the mud’s announcement.
“You finished shaping yourself? Then I’ll deal with you first.” The snake put his phone back in his pocket.
“Ahhhhh!” The mud was enraged, and it roared and pounced towards the snake.
Bang!
The mud slammed heavily on the barrier three meters in front of the snake, smashing even the bones into eight pieces.
“Wait a moment, my partner replied to my message.” The snake nodded politely and took out his phone again.
The next second, the snake widened his eyes in surprise, and even his narrow vertical pupils turned into round eyes in an instant.
Ji Mo An!
Suddenly gave the snake money!
And gave him fifty thousand yuan!
Forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine yuan and fifty cents more than fifty cents!
The snake suddenly became a rich snake!
Happy!
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