SIATOWITF Chapter 63
by VolareChapter 63: A Snake is Better Off Fighting Alone… Reduplicated words, so disgusting…
Chapter 63: A Snake is Better Off Fighting Alone… Reduplicated words, so disgusting…
【Survive】
Ji Mo An abruptly opened his eyes.
So painful, so painful, so painful… everything before him was pitch black, his limbs felt pinned down and he couldn’t move them, even each breath was difficult.
He wanted to speak, but a fishy sweetness welled up in his throat.
It was as if he had fallen from the clouds straight into hell.
*Hiss… hiss…*
Eerie sounds came from all directions. Ji Mo An blinked, clearly feeling his eyelashes brush against something.
Not his glasses… he didn’t feel any pressure on the bridge of his nose, his glasses weren’t here.
But what was it then?
His limbs were numb, and he was running out of breath… Ji Mo An felt that the air he inhaled with each breath couldn’t provide the oxygen his body needed to survive.
*Hiss… hiss…*
He tilted his head back, and the back of his head suddenly scraped against something hard.
No… not completely hard, it was that kind of hard, slippery surface, but he could still feel the softness underneath.
It was like… the body of a snake.
A snake’s body!
Ji Mo An shuddered, and he forcefully controlled his body, opening his mouth where his eyelashes had brushed against something earlier and bit down.
“Hiss~”
The snake’s cry suddenly became much louder, and a faint light pierced through the darkness, landing on Ji Mo An’s brow.
He could breathe…
“You’re awake~” It was Xuan Bai’s voice.
The black snake lowered its head, looking at the man wrapped and enveloped in its body.
“If you hadn’t woken up, I would have been strangled to death by you.” Ji Mo An lay gasping for breath on the black snake’s body, finally breathing in cool air.
“Hehe~” The snake chuckled and extended its tongue to hook Ji Mo An’s wrist.
“Where is this… let me down.” His throat was terribly dry; Ji Mo An never knew his voice could be this hoarse.
“It’s my little nest~” The snake finally unfurled its body, its golden eyes shining like flames in the dim environment.
Little nest?
Ji Mo An propped himself up, and waves of stabbing pain surged up from his numb fingertips to his legs, but thankfully… they still obeyed him.
He looked around, examining the little nest in the snake’s mouth.
About twenty centimeters above his head was what looked like a stone ceiling, long but not wide, and at the end of the stone ceiling was an upright board.
“…” Ji Mo An silently looked at the patterns at the intersection of the stone platform and the board, and then at the surrounding curtains.
“Are you sure this is your little nest and not under a conference room table?” He questioned.
“Hiss~” The black snake quickly swam around the dim space, its tone extremely certain.
“It’s the snake’s little nest!”
“…” No, this was definitely under a conference table. Ji Mo An didn’t bother arguing with it, and reached out to grab the curtain.
*Whoosh*… His fingers were still suspended in mid-air when the curtain was suddenly lifted.
Blinding light poured in at once, and Ji Mo An instinctively used his hand to shield his eyes.
“Hiss! Hiss!” The long snake body wrapped around him again, and Xuan Bai rushed to the place where the curtain was lifted, fiercely threatening the human.
“Xuan Bai! Shut up!” Ji Mo An saw through his fingers that the snake had opened its mouth, revealing two sharp fangs, about to bite the wrist that pulled the curtain. Without thinking, he lunged and pressed down on the snake’s Seven Inches.
“Hiss~” The snake immediately obediently closed its mouth and submissively retracted its fangs.
“What are you guys…” Ji Mo An hunched over as he crawled out from under the conference table, and when he looked up, he saw a group of people surrounding him, all with caution and joy in their eyes.
“Why… why are you all looking at me like that?” Ji Mo An was a little confused.
That’s not right… Wasn’t he discussing Star Crest with his grandfather and maternal grandfather? How did he suddenly wake up under the table, with Xuan Bai turned into a snake wrapped around him?
“It’s okay… it’s good that you’re awake…” Mu Nanyuan suppressed the panic in his voice, wanting to help Ji Mo An up but wary of the snake spitting out its tongue beside him.
“What’s going on…” Ji Mo An crawled out on his own. He barely managed to stand up straight when he suddenly realized that his hands were covered in dark red.
Paint?
Suddenly, a wave of nausea surged in his stomach, and something seemed to be blocking his trachea. Ji Mo An covered his mouth, coughing until his vision went black.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, just spit it out.” Mu Nanyuan half-embraced him, gently patting his back.
Large chunks of semi-congealed blood clots fell from his mouth, and the airflow into his trachea suddenly became much smoother.
He remembered… vomiting blood, being injured, the mysterious place and the mysterious person behind it, and the black mist and… the huge snake.
“Don’t speak.” Xuan Bai transformed again into a half-human, half-snake form and stood up. He flicked his golden eyes and rolled them at the surrounding people in dissatisfaction.
“You said things you shouldn’t have said, and you were targeted by the controller of this world. From now on, don’t speak. Don’t talk to any human belonging to this world for twelve hours, and don’t eat anything, but you can get a blood transfusion.”
“Take a nap, and when you wake up, act like nothing happened.” The snake blinked, deeply staring into Ji Mo An’s eyes until the other fell asleep again.
“I’ll take him there, walk slower. Lin Mo, hurry, get someone from the blood bank…” Ji Mo Lin’s eyes were practically glued to Ji Mo An, and when he saw the child being carried to the bedroom, he followed after him, faltering, holding Ji Mo An’s hand.
“Thank you.” Mu Nanyuan looked at the half-snake in front of him with a complicated expression, sincerely expressing his thanks.
“Hmph.” Xuan Bai leaned against the table with his arms crossed, the tip of his tail hidden under the table wagging back and forth.
“Wow, Snake Bro, you’re so cool! Teach me how to transform, and I’ll obey your every command from now on!” Fourteen looked at Xuan Bai’s several-meter-long snake tail with sparkling eyes, almost drooling.
“…” Xuan Bai swept his tail over, and Fourteen fell head over heels.
“I was praising him, sob sob sob…” Fourteen covered his head and pitifully hid in Thirteen’s wings.
“Even I couldn’t avoid getting hurt, and you dare to discuss these things with him.” Xuan Bai looked at Mu Nanyuan with a smile that wasn’t a smile. “This is the only chance, there won’t be such an easy rescue next time.”
“I…” Mu Nanyuan paused, clenching his fist. No one could have imagined this result before it happened.
“Discussing these things is fine, but it has to be by my side.” Xuan Bai impatiently flicked the ground with his tail, and the hard tile floor instantly shattered, revealing the gray-white cement.
“The world’s eyesight is bad, if you speak by my side, it will only think it was me speaking. But if you’re far away, it will naturally know who’s speaking. Even if some humans know things they shouldn’t know, the world will use ‘gentle’ methods to make them forget… But…”
The snake curled its lips into a mocking smile and swam forward, almost touching Mu Nanyuan’s face.
“Ji Mo An is different. He’s the one we protected, crossed time and death, and secretly hid back in this world. Old man, don’t let your stupidity kill him again.”
Mu Nanyuan looked up at those golden eyes and saw a line of bloody tears flowing from the snake’s eye.
“For me, it’s just losing a little blood…” The snake gently touched its eye, the sticky blood staining its fingertip red.
“…But for him, it’s no different from a fatal wound.”
“What’s the rush? The snake has already made a deal and a contract. You’ll know everything you want to know.” Xuan Bai brushed past Mu Nanyuan, the black hair brushing past the old man’s ear, leaving a bloodstain.
“When the snake’s companions arrive, the world will no longer be in the mood to care about humans. You can know anything you want to know, ask anything you want to ask.” He circled around Jing Junze, the dark snake tail transforming into human legs as it moved.
A thin veil made of scales wrapped around the snake’s waist, and mysterious star and moon totems emitted a faint glow at the collarbone.
The snake stepped barefoot on the white floor, and delicate golden rings were faintly visible on its ankles as it walked.
“But if you know things you shouldn’t know, you have to control your mouths. When the time comes… we won’t have to do anything, the world will naturally tell you what you should do and what you shouldn’t do.”
Xuan Bai blinked and, in a moment, transformed back into a black snake and disappeared under the table.
“Get out of the snake’s little nest!” He declared the conference room as his own nest without any burden and then threatened all the humans in the room.
“Are we leaving too?” Fourteen poked his head out from Thirteen’s wings. “Snake Bro, we’re family!”
“Hiss…” The black snake hissed fiercely at Fourteen, and the youth was tragically dragged out of the room by Qing Teng, who was holding his collar.
“Come back!” The snake suddenly poked its head out again.
“I’m coming!” Fourteen kicked his legs, broke free of the vines, and buried his head, wanting to crawl into the snake’s little nest.
“…” Xuan Bai rolled his eyes and swept his tail over again, sending the youth tumbling.
“Fix the snake’s little nest.” The snake haughtily raised its head and looked at Jing Junze, who was walking behind Fourteen.
“…Okay.” Jing Junze looked at the ground that was smashed by the snake himself, personally found new tiles, and repaired the floor.
“Hiss! Get out of the snake’s little nest!” A quarter of an hour later, the snake was very satisfied looking at the pristine tiles, so he once again hissed fiercely at the humans and drove them all out of the room.
“How is it?” Seeing Jing Junze come out, everyone was very nervous.
As soon as the door closed, they only heard the snake chasing people away.
“…” Jing Junze held a bucket in her left hand and putty in her right, her expression strange. She seemed to struggle for a few seconds before squeezing out a few words.
“Reduplicated words, so disgusting.”
“…” Tang Lin pushed up his glasses. “Director.”
“Speak.”
“You’re breaking character.”
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Inside the snake’s little nest, Xuan Bai had no idea what Director Jing was complaining about.
He curled himself into a ball in the corner of the table, and a ball of blue flame flew out of his eyes.
[How is it?] Two words floated in the flame.
“Made a big show.” Xuan Bai wagged his tail.
“Yay! Saying big words as if it were wind, always by my side…” Jumbled cheers came from the flames.
“No.” Xuan Bai shook his tail again, looking slightly anxious. “He and his family said some things about us. I didn’t expect the world consciousness to react so strongly. What if we hadn’t saved him…”
“Pah, pah, pah!” A little girl’s voice came from the flames. “A Meng tells you, you shouldn’t say unlucky things!”
“It’s okay, Bo Bo. We can reach Earth soon.” The little girl’s voice faded away, and a more stable female voice replaced it.
“Alexa, do you have a specific time?” The snake became even more anxious.
“Your Highness is speeding up. In ten days, the channel will be 100% complete. We can compress the reinforcement and testing to three days.” The female voice calculated vaguely.
“Fourteen or fifteen days, about right. We’re fine, but mainly the tailor. You know, an A-level boss’s physical fitness is far inferior to an S-level. I’m afraid he’ll be shaved into a meat roll when he gets there.”
“Come on! The world consciousness is about to pluck the snake bald.” Xuan Bai felt that he needed a blood transfusion.
“Alexa is right. If it really doesn’t work, we can force our way through. I bet you’re biting your own tail tip right now. Turns out Bo Bo snake can be anxious too~” Another ethereal female voice chimed in.
“…” Xuan Bai silently spat out the tail in his mouth.
“I didn’t bite my tail tip.” He said firmly.
However, this only earned him more rampant laughter from the other side.
“I had An set up an exhibition and invited the traitor to participate. Have you figured out his identity yet? I have to find a way to make sure he comes.” Xuan Bai angrily scattered the flames with his tail.
“We’re checking, we’re checking. The system is about to smoke. Mo Sang is scolding people again.” Alexa replied.
“It was already checked long ago. Mo Sang is scolding people because his colleague spilled coffee on his screen, not because of investigating the traitor.” A male voice came from near to far.
“Yu Li?” Xuan Bai recognized the other party’s voice and curled his lips. The scheming dog with squinting eyes just loved to mess with the boss.
“I suspect you’re complaining about me.” The boss called Yu Li hit the nail on the head.
“I didn’t.” Xuan Bai denied it.
“Really? I don’t believe it.” Yu Li also denied it.
“Stop talking nonsense, are you itching for another beating!” A huge smack came from the flames.
“Nan Sheng, you… why are you hitting me!”
“I’m hitting you because that is what you deserve! You black-hearted squinty eyes!”
“Alexa! Control her!”
“I can’t control her. We’re all equal-level bosses~” Alexa yawned, and meows of kittens came from the flames.
“…” Xuan Bai stood blankly opposite the flames, listening to the increasingly fierce bickering in the flames.
The snake clearly had many companions to help him, but it seemed like there was no difference from fighting alone.
The snake shook its tail and quickly denied this idea.
No, fighting alone was much better than this. After all, fighting alone didn’t have pig teammates dragging you down…
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