SIATOWITF Chapter 95

Chapter 95: This Is, the Secret of the Stars “Still Love, Snake…”

#Mount Everest Lightning Strike#

The moment Old Master Ji Mo saw this trending topic, his hands trembled as he reached for his quick-acting heart medication.

“Hurry… make a call… I knew none of those people were reliable.”

“Junze, suppress the trending topic.” Mu Nanyuan’s voice was still calm, but his hands were already reaching for Ji Mo Lin’s heart medication.

The old man was getting old and couldn’t handle such stimulation.

“Director, there are climbers already live-streaming on the platform.” Tang Lin was pounding on the keyboard so fast it was almost smoking, the screen filled with live-streaming pages of all sizes.

“They’re all broadcasting from far away, you can’t see what’s happening up close.” Jing Junze grabbed the computer and flipped through them one after another.

“Director… this isn’t a question of distance.” Tang Lin switched to a livestream closest to the event, “Can they hold on…”

“Shut up.” Jing Junze covered Tang Lin’s mouth with one hand, “Even if they can’t, they have to. Don’t say anything that disrupts morale.”

“Can Su Nai be contacted?” She pulled over Qing Teng who was passing by.

“The signal is chaotic, it should still be transmitting.” Qing Teng’s roots had spread throughout the control room, helping the frantic humans pass paper documents.

The secrecy of this event was extremely high, and only core personnel had the right to know. With extremely scarce human resources, the members of the NHE Association were also brought in as laborers.

“Little System, can you still contact them?” Mu Nanyuan leaned down and gently tapped the screen, where a silver light sphere was constantly rotating on the pale blue display.

[001 Waiting for instructions…] The light sphere dragged its tail, like a brilliant shooting star.

Just two days ago, the Seventh Bureau had finally finished setting up the venue, exchanged information with the members of the NHE Association, and were preparing to discuss follow-up matters with the bosses, but to their surprise, everyone had vanished.

An empty room, an empty heart.

When the silver light sphere typed out [They went to Mount Everest] on the screen, everyone present felt a wave of darkness.

Go where?

Go to Mount Everest…

Are you kidding me?

Bang… the door suddenly burst open, and a Tibetan in a black robe rushed in.

“The heavens are angry!” White lines flashed across Yangji’s emerald eyes, his voice in a completely different tone than usual.

His silver ornaments trembled in a direction completely opposite to his movements, colliding with a muffled thunder-like sound.

“We know, Mount Everest is about to be split in two by lightning…” Shisi poked her head out from a mountain of documents.

“Split in two?” Yangji’s voice returned to normal. He turned his head and saw the livestream screens covering the entire wall, with lightning flying everywhere.

“…” Yangji clutched his heart and collapsed to the ground.

“Are you willing to join the Seventh Bureau?” Jing Junze calmly pulled a thick stack of documents from the printer and grabbed Qing Teng’s roots.

“…” Qing Teng was silent.

If they accepted the offer, they would be completely whitewashed.

But…

He silently watched the increasing number of livestream broadcasts and the large chunks of ice falling.

If they joined, they might work themselves to death. He could already feel the faint scent of death emanating from Jing Junze.

“Wait for Su Nai to come back before…”

“We’re back.” Before Qing Teng finished speaking, Su Nai leaped out of the air with a whoosh.

“I’m back too.” Mu Chen carried a backpack over his shoulder, following Su Nai out of the teleportation space.

Countless gazes instantly focused on him.

“How did you…” Mu Chen was getting goosebumps from their stares, but after turning his head and seeing the livestreams, he immediately understood everything.

“It’s okay, the lightning won’t kill them.”

“Chenchen, what did you go to do?” Mu Nanyuan was even more exhausted by his accustomed expression.

“Packed some things.” In Su Nai’s hesitant expression, Mu Chen naturally took out several pale blue things that looked like USB drives and plugged them into the main screen’s port.

“001, help format them.”

“Roger~” The light orb chasing its own tail on the screen bounced and jumped away, hiding itself.

“Miss Su Nai, please follow the diagram I just gave you…”

“Okay.” Su Nai nodded, operating her ability to build a complex teleportation model in the air.

“You come over here.” Mu Nanyuan finally couldn’t help but drag Mu Chen away.

“Can you contact them? At this rate, next year’s geography exam questions will be all about this.” He tried to make his words as tactful as possible.

“It’s not that bad…” Mu Chen pulled up his sleeves, revealing a patch of silver star tattoos, “The marks are still there, they’ll be fine.”

Before the words left his mouth, the star tattoos suddenly flickered and dimmed in their eyes.

“Grandpa, actually, it doesn’t matter if there’s one more unsolved mystery.” Mu Chen quickly changed his tune.

“…” Mu Nanyuan swallowed his quick-acting heart medicine with his eyes closed.

“001, you…”

[Beep! Beep! Beep! Alarm! Alarm!] 001 started yelling at the top of its lungs, [Emergency avoidance mode activated! Alarm! Alarm! Please evacuate as soon as possible! Please evacuate as soon as possible!]

“Su Nai, cut off the space in the middle!” Mu Chen gasped, he leaned on the screen, and the system light sphere immediately flew out along his hand.

Then a blue film appeared from the air, covering the space lines cut out by Su Nai, layer upon layer.

In just a few seconds, the crowd was pushed and squeezed into the corner by the increasingly thick film, and 001’s alarm grew louder and louder.

Clang!

A loud noise came from somewhere, as if there had been an explosion.

The next second, wind and snow violently attacked.

Countless fine lines appeared in the space in the center of the blue film, and ice and cold wind gushed out.

In just a few seconds, the entire room was covered with a layer of frost.

“What’s going on?” Jing Junze protected the shivering twins, her hair already frozen stiff.

Crack, accompanied by the sound of breaking glass, the space was completely cut open.

A transparent figure rushed out with the storm and lightning.

The moment Yun Chuan floated out, his soul returned to become a physical body. Lightning followed his footsteps, blasting the control room into a mess.

Without time to explain, he flipped over in the air, and a large number of golden threads forcibly tore through the air again.

He charged into the second broken spatial rift before the golden patterns covered his entire body.

“He’s not blind, he just wants to strike us!”

“Damn it, I’m going back to complain!”

The witch ran out holding a red dress that was half burnt, followed by Nansheng, barefoot.

Chunks of ice and snow fell, and through the torn space, the raging lightning could vaguely be seen.

“Hurry! Back to the Stars!” Yu Li’s face was charred black by the lightning, and only half of his eyeglass frame was still hanging on his ear.

The three bosses rushed into the second teleportation gate, arguing.

“Where’s An’an?” Ji Mo Lin pushed aside the coverings and looked out, just in time to see the teleportation portal from the snowy mountains slowly shrinking.

Fortunately, in the second before the teleportation portal disappeared, Ji Mo An jumped out of the crack wearing a red cloak.

The giant black snake was wrapped around him, and the man and snake rushed into the Star teleportation portal with accurate aim.

Boom!

The last sound of thunder came from the livestream, and all the screens turned into snow at the same time.

The control room was a mess, broken spaces everywhere, but fortunately no one was injured.

“Don’t move, don’t touch those spatial rifts.” Mu Chen flipped out of the coverings with 001, carefully putting away the spatial film.

“Hiss hiss…” A few minutes later, the hissing of snakes faintly echoed from the spatial rifts.

Small chopstick snakes crawled out of the largest piece of space, and began to crawl in and out, repairing the destroyed space.

This is the Ouroboros, controlling the construction and repetition of time.

Gradually, all the spatial scratches were repaired by the Ouroboros, brand new again.

Finally, the snake finished repairing.

But the snake had just been struck by lightning, and the snake was tired.

So the snake hissed loudly at Mu Chen.

“Coming.” Mu Chen stretched out his hand, and the snake quickly climbed up his arm and coiled into a lump on top of Mu Chen’s head.

Snake, high, snake, proud!

“Are you all right?” More than ten minutes later, Ji Mo An poked his head out of the teleportation gate wearing a red cloak, looking unscathed.

“We’re okay.” Ji Mo Lin’s face lit up, but he still didn’t dare to move easily.

“Then I’m coming over.” Ji Mo An stepped out of the teleportation gate, and Yun Chuan, the size of a palm, sat on his shoulder swinging his legs.

“Hiss hiss~” The chopstick snake lie on top of Mu Chen’s head and began to wag its tail.

So both sides exchanged bosses.

“Hiss hiss~ hiss hiss~” The chopstick snake immediately wrapped itself tightly around Ji Mo An’s fingers, and its tail wagged like a propeller.

“Xuan Bai.” Ji Mo An just wanted to open his mouth but suddenly realized something was wrong.

“Still Love, Snake Willing.” The snake began to be ‘shy’.

“No, you’re burnt.”

“?” The chopstick snake was stunned. It raised its tail and flicked it, and a pile of black debris fell down.

Poor snake, every piece of scale was charred and curled, but it wasn’t very obvious because of the snake’s color.

Actually, it’s a little fragrant… Ji Mo An wisely didn’t say it out loud as he watched the snake’s scales explode in an instant.

“Grandpa, I’m still coming back for the New Year, I hope the Star’s affairs can be kept secret.” Mu Chen pulled open the side zipper of his backpack and rummaged for something, and the sound of glass colliding came from the bag.

“You…” Mu Nanyuan opened his mouth, but swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

After a long time, he opened his mouth again.

“Won’t you stay for a meal?” The old man’s voice was almost pleading.

“This…”

Yun Chuan suddenly stood up from Mu Chen’s shoulder and whispered a few words in his ear.

“Okay, then I’ll go change my clothes?” Mu Chen put the bag and Yun Chuan together into the teleportation gate. “This door can only last for seventy-two hours at most.”

“Oh, right.” He turned to the chopstick snake, which was shedding tears, and Ji Mo An, who regretted saying too much, “There will be a period of chaos for more than ten days after the memory is restored, so it’s best not to go out. This is for you, as a gift for leaving the Stars.”

“Thank you.” Ji Mo An took the box with both hands, feeling a little touched for some reason.

But this emotion lasted for only a very short time, which could even be pinpointed to the moment the box was opened.

“Criminal Law?” Ji Mo An picked up the red book and read it again, unsure.

Seriously? He flipped through the book, and the contents were indeed criminal law, the latest version of the Criminal Law.

“…” It was a little outrageous, but it made a lot of sense for some reason.

Ji Mo An closed his eyes, and all he could think about were those years of fighting and killing in the past.

Okay, the snake used to read criminal law, now it’s his turn?

“Chief!” Jing Junze suddenly interjected, holding her phone with a serious face. “The head office called in, all the head office’s networks, including satellites, failed an hour ago. After recovery, it was found that all records about the Star were formatted, and the Star boss’s limb fragments and experimental test tubes were all disap…”

She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly saw Mu Chen backing away.

“Mr. Mu Chen, can I ask what’s in your backpack?”

“…”

“Grandpa, I’ll come back for the New Year.” Mu Chen silently averted his gaze.

“What New Year are you talking about, go change your clothes for me!” Mu Nanyuan kicked him out the door.

“…” Jing Junze stalled, slowly moving her gaze to the snake. “Xuan…”

“Hiss hiss! Hiss hiss!” The chopstick snake immediately pretended to be busy, arching back and forth in the box, unexpectedly arching up a corner.

It was a white envelope, with a line of unreadable words written on it in pale gold. The envelope was tightly attached to the bottom of the box, and it wouldn’t have been discovered without the snake’s random movements.

This is… Ji Mo An opened the envelope, and golden words floated out of the envelope and automatically arranged themselves neatly in the air.

[Congratulations, you have officially cleared the novice dungeon, Player Probationary:

My name is Star, from the Earth of the future. At that time, natural disasters have arrived, the apocalypse has descended, and my father is the last human on Earth. I travel with my father in the Great Thousand Worlds, turning all disasters into dungeons and storing them in the Stars.

A hundred years ago, I finally had the opportunity to come to the Earth of the past, but I could not interfere with history, so I had to summon excellent souls into the Stars. The Stars hereby promise that all purposes are to save the collapsing planet of the future.

By clearing the dungeon, you will receive strange abilities and material rewards. When the apocalypse comes, the Stars will arrange a new identity for you to return to Earth to save the world.

The Stars once again promise that if you help Earth through this difficult time, the Stars will retain your abilities, and attach all your materials and reputation needs, and arrange a new identity for you on Earth.

The difficulty of the Star dungeon will gradually increase, I hope you will think twice and don’t regret it.

If you are willing to walk with the Stars, please sign your name in the blank space, and the system will take you to the player lobby.

If you still have nostalgia, please reach out and mess up the text, and the system will take you back to Earth to reincarnate.

Sincerely, greetings to the savior.

Star, respectfully submitted]

This is, the secret of the Stars.

One day, the Stars born from the hands of mankind will meet mankind again, and be known by mankind.

But, definitely not today.

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