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The two of them stared blankly at the mark on Ji Tianze's shoulder, and did not respond for a long time.

This definitely proves an old saying: There is nowhere to find if you break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

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"...Alas, my clean and clean body has been defiled just like that, so defiled..." Ji Tianze complained a lot to himself, only to realize that these two people were staring at him intently, and he couldn't help but wonder, "You... Why are you so surprised?? Don’t be afraid, this snake is indeed weird, but it doesn’t seem to be poisonous, and the thing left on it has no effect on the body.”

"However... I still want to know what it is," Ji Tianze rarely became serious, "Also, what kind of snake is that, actually...!"

Before he was serious for a few seconds, Mo Nan suddenly raised his hand and slapped him hard on the shoulder, casting sharp gazes on him.

"..." Ji Tianze was caught off guard, "...the baby was scared to death! What's wrong with you?"

"When did you meet it? When was it bitten? How long has the mark existed? Where is that snake now?" Mo Nan couldn't wait to ask.

"Don't, don't worry, let me digest one by one," Ji Tianze clearly couldn't accept so many questions at once, so he hurriedly interrupted the questions he wanted to continue.He thought for a moment quickly, and then said embarrassedly: "Well... what was the first sentence you just asked?"

"This..." Mo Nan also forgot his series of continuous questions, and couldn't remember them after thinking about them for a long time, so he just stayed there in embarrassment.He also felt a little embarrassed, and smiled, trying to take back the hands that were placed on him.

"Hey, goodbye~" Ji Tianze felt playful when he saw this, he restrained Mo Nan's hand, deliberately pulled his shirt open, and said with a wink and a smile, "Baby, how about you touch it~" Go in and touch it too? If you don’t think it’s enough, you can go down there too, you can do whatever you want~”

Although he knew that this unscrupulous person was probably joking, but Mo Nan still became hot when he heard these teasing words.

"Why are you shy? I haven't seen it before. If you're embarrassed, I'll take you with me." Seeing his blushing, Ji Tianze smiled and led his hand to slip down, "Come on, come on..."

Then, he made an astute movement as expected, avoiding the hand that suddenly attacked him.After the near miss, he just looked at the murderer with an expression of "I knew it".

"What are you doing?" He pretended to be puzzled, "I didn't let you touch it, why are you so excited?"

Ji Guiran's attack failed, he withdrew his hand sullenly, and clenched his fist while withdrawing his hand.

"Oh, why are you looking at me like that, baby, I'm so flustered." Ji Tianze approached Mo Nan without fear, and suggested with a playful smile, "Amo, look at how scary he is. If you stay with this kind of person for a long time, your life will be shortened. How about you look at how cute I am, how to avoid evil, prevent pregnancy and attract wealth? Just abandon him and forget about it?"

"Well, what you said makes sense!" Mo Nan couldn't help agreeing.

Ji Guiran looked at the two of them who sang together and frowned deeply.He suppressed the fire of ignorance in his heart, and asked in a deep voice, "When did you meet that snake?"

"Ah? What?" The topic was dragged back, and Ji Tianze didn't respond for a moment. After a moment of trance, he finally thought of the topic. I forgot the specifics, but it won’t take more than a week.”

Mo Nan and Ji Guiran looked at each other. They happened to be on their way to Xihe Village during that week.

This snake really knows how to pinch time.Mo Nan murmured in his heart, but suddenly he thought of something again and asked, "Why were you bitten?"

After hearing this, Ji Tianze hesitated for a while, as if he was contemplating organizing his words, and after a while he slowly replied: "Some time before you came here, one day I remembered that I hadn't cleaned the study for a long time, and then I Going to clean it up..."

"Wait," Mo Nan interrupted him curiously, "Is there a study room here?"

"Yes, but it's in a remote corner of the house, and it's not marked as a study, so the sense of existence is very low."

"Oh...you go on."

"Where did I just talk about... Oh yes, cleaning," Ji Tianze seemed to recall more clearly, "I remembered, I saw it as soon as I opened the door. I was scared at the time, Daddy is scared to death, there is actually a snake coiled on the table! Normal people can't accept it!"

When he talked about this, he still wanted to say a few bad things about it, swallowed the nonsense with patience, and continued: "Anyway, I don't know what I thought at the time, maybe I decided to drive it out, and then I will Let’s do it. I’ve heard before that you need to grasp seven inches to catch a snake, but unfortunately I haven’t practiced it, but the situation is urgent, so there are so many details, so I just bite the bullet and go for it!”

Looking back on his heroic deeds, Ji Tianze described with relish: "However, it's too late to say it and then it's too late—strike! Ahhhh!... Well, I didn't catch it. To be precise, I haven't touched it at all, dammit This guy just bit it! It, it bites my hand! It’s even aimed at the shoulder! Even if it’s small, it can’t be like this, right! I’ve never been bitten by a snake since I was a child, and this is the first time in my life. Kind of a ghost place! And it bites mercilessly...It hurts...It hurts to death...Eh, wait a minute...It doesn't seem to hurt too much..."

"And then? Where did it go?" Mo Nan asked nervously.

Hearing this, Ji Tianze hesitated for a while, his expression gradually became complicated, and he replied hesitantly: "This...it...that...after biting me, I was a little panicked...when I reacted , it's gone."

"Missing? Did you run out of the study or stay inside?" Mo Nan continued to ask without giving up, and unconsciously grabbed his clothes.

"..." Ji Tianze stared blankly at Mo Nan's posture of breaking the casserole to ask the end, and asked cautiously, "You... really want to know?"

Seeing him like this, Mo Nan felt clear in his mind that Ji Tianze must know the specific whereabouts of the snake, but he just refused to say it.He nodded firmly: "Yes, I want to know."

He looked at the extremely similar face, and was a little afraid that Ji Tianze would say "then think about it", if that's the case... he couldn't help but hit him.

Fortunately, Ji Tianze didn't have that bad mentality, he just hesitated for a moment, and said, "Okay, but I'll tell you... you may not believe it..."

"how?"

"...Ah, I still don't want to say it!" He scratched his head in pain, and said off topic, "Well... from what you're saying, it seems that you know what it is? Tell me first?"

"I don't," Mo Nan refused, "You speak first."

"You first."

"You first."

"Then you guess."

"I do not guess you guess guess."

"Guess, I guess, you guess, I guess or not~"

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"Enough!" Ji Guiran, who was listening silently, couldn't take it anymore, after the veins on his forehead twitched again and again, he finally interrupted their meaningless conversation impatiently.He glared at Ji Tianze with terrifying eyes, and said in a threatening tone: "Say."

"Hey..." Ji Tianze wasn't too frightened, but he tended to compromise, "Okay, okay, I've made an agreement with you... But I'm ugly, you don't have to believe me, at least the existence of this snake You have to believe it."

"Success, success, I believe everything." Mo Nan quickly replied with a smile.

"I told you before, where am I from?"

Mo Nan thought for a while, then shook his head: "No, Brother He didn't say that either."

"Of course, I never mentioned it to him," Ji Tianze shrugged, "If he treats me as crazy and kicks me out, wouldn't I be homeless?"

"Then where was your previous home?"

"Before..." He pretended to be mysterious, and wanted to say the word "you guessed it". He looked at Ji Guiran's gloomy face, sighed and swallowed, and said, "Actually, I come from an amazing place..."

"magic?"

"Yes, it's amazing. In other words, I'm not from this world at all."

"Ah..." Mo Nan thought for a while, and then he looked horrified, "Are you a ghost?!"

"Have you ever seen such a handsome ghost like me?!"

"Then what are you?"

"Hey, don't use things to describe me, okay! I'm human!" Ji Tianze only felt his brain ache, he restlessly held the black frame on the bridge of his nose, scratched his messy short hair, and continued, "Forget it , the explanation is not clear, you just treat it as some other country, it’s not here anyway.”

Hearing this, Mo Nan thought of the geographical location of Xihe Village, so he tentatively asked, "An Guo?"

"NO."

"?"

"……no."

"Rain Country?"

"no!"

"It's weird... I've asked all three countries." Mo Nan was puzzled.

"I..." Ji Tianze felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and he was full of words and didn't know how to express it. This kind of situation has happened to him not once or twice.He frustrated: "Brother, you think I'm a ghost..."

"Oh no," Mo Nan felt that both his ears were drooping, and couldn't help but step forward and rub his hands, "But the fact is true, there are only these three countries in this world."

"In China?" Ji Tianze shook his head to cooperate, "What about other parts of Asia? Europe? Africa? America? Oceania?"

"what is that?"

"……forget it."

"So what's the point?" Ji Guiran knocked on the table displeasedly, reminding him of the deviation from the topic.

"What are you doing? I haven't laid the groundwork yet. What's the rush? Eh? Right, Amo~" He gently took off Mo Nan's hand on his head, and kissed him on the side of his palm. She winked again, and the latter's face became hot again.

"..."

The atmosphere of this scene is a little subtle.

"Cough," Ji Tianze felt that something was wrong, cleared his throat and continued to get back to the topic, "In short... I am an angel with broken wings from a magical place, yes, you just need to remember this."

"Snake!" Ji Guiran said impatiently, frowning.

"Let me lay the groundwork later...Why are you so anxious, can I still run away? Big brother, do you know that you have such a temper and lonely life?" Ji Tianze looked contemptuous, "I guess you definitely don't have a girlfriend, man Neither do friends."

He looked at Ji Guiran's face that darkened a lot, and then continued the topic of the snake and said, "Stop making trouble, let me be serious. In fact, that place is far away from us, and is it close?" close."

"how do I say this?"

Ji Tianze paused, looked around, and lowered his voice, as if he was telling some ulterior secret.

"...the entrance is in the study."

"..."

"..."

Mo Nan twitched his lips and stared at the serious Ji Tianze in disbelief. He didn't look like he was playing a prank, but the words he said were magical, mysterious and mysterious.If he hadn't known him, he would have thought Ji Tianze was a charlatan.

After a while, he reluctantly chose to believe in Ji Tianze, so he also asked mysteriously: "Well... Tianze, are you... a monkey that jumped out of the cellar??"

"Look!! You really don't believe me!! You don't even believe me!" Ji Tianze was very wronged.

It's not that I don't believe you, but it feels too much like being tricked!Mo Nan really wanted to tell him so.

"Hmph, forget it," Ji Tianze adjusted his mentality, and he didn't want to make more excuses, "But you guys below have to believe that the entrance is in the study room, which is an iron door, and there is a picture scroll in front of it. I saw it with my own eyes. A snake crawled up from under the painting, I thought it would come out, but it disappeared, it must have gone through the door!"

"..."

"Be sure to believe me!" He grabbed Mo Nan's shoulder and shook it, as if he would not give up until he was sure.

"Okay, I believe you, I believe you!" Mo Nan only felt a golden star in front of his eyes, "Let go first!"

"Really?"

"Really!" Mo Nan nodded affirmatively.Then Ji Tianze let him go quickly, Mo Nan calmed down and said, "Why don't you take us to the study?"

"Don't you not believe it?" Ji Tianze curled his lips.

"I……"

Mo Nan really wanted to hit him, but seeing him acting like a child, he couldn't get angry even if he was angry, so he gave up and said to him: "I believe it, of course I believe it, but I still have to Go and see, right? I believe it even more when I see it.”

Ji Tianze looked at him suspiciously, and Mo Nan felt as if he was comforting his younger brother, and said, "Let me tell you, the snake you saw was not an ordinary snake, it was a...well, a very spiritual snake, it It must have something to do with the entrance you speak of."

"Really?" Ji Tianze's eyes lit up.

"It's absolutely true." Mo Nan patted him on the head with a light smile.

"Then go, go~" Ji Tianze hurriedly pulled him out of the door, suddenly felt his hands were wet, he let out an ah, and then he reacted, "Wait... you should go... change your clothes first? I'll catch a cold."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, and it won't last long, and it's okay to go after watching it."

"Oh fine."

He led Mo Nan and Ji Guiran into the so-called study room. The remoteness he said was true. The outside of the house was covered with layers of green shade, and the plants in the courtyard almost blocked the door. If you didn't look for it deliberately, you might be It's hard to find this room.

Mo Nan thought that when he entered the room, it would be like the living room again, with dust all over the sky disturbing his nose and nose. Fortunately, the study room was relatively clean, and miscellaneous things were piled up neatly and orderly.

The picture scroll that Ji Tianze said was not placed in the middle as Mo Nan thought, but hung in the corner of the room, on a wall that was vacated by a bookcase.

It was a framed ink painting. Before Mo Nan had time to see the contents of the painting clearly under the dark light of the rainy day, Ji Tianze lifted it up. Behind the painting was an iron gate. The height is the same as the height of a person. From the horizontal view of the door, it is not very wide, and the space is estimated to accommodate one person.

The door seemed to be embedded in the wall. Mo Nan tried to push it open, but it still didn't move even after trying hard. He wanted to pull it away from the inside, but he couldn't find a place to put his hand on.

"Don't be so busy, if you can drive like this, I went back three years ago." Ji Tianze reminded.

"You really came from the other side of this door?"

"I have emphasized it several times! Really!"

Mo Nan figured that this door should be connected to the road outside, but he was afraid that Ji Tianze would get angry again if he said it, so he asked implicitly, "Where...is it leading to?"

"That's a good question," Ji Tianze said indignantly, "I used to think that society was indifferent, cruel, and tortured, but now that I'm here, I don't need my body to withstand the severe cold in winter. Flesh feeds ants. I think that place with heating and air conditioning is heaven!!"

After listening to his impassioned exclamation, Mo Nan didn't understand a few words, but he was used to it.He took it easy and continued to ask: "Then how do I open it?"

"How do I know? I still want to ask!"

"Huh?" Mo Nan was puzzled, "Didn't you come from there, why didn't you know?"

"I..." Ji Tianze was at a loss for words, "I really don't know...it was closed after I came here...and then I couldn't push it or pull it out. It’s solid, but it won’t move, which is annoying.”

Then he sighed with some inexplicable words: "How did such a solid door be made... If Chinese manufacturers can learn from it, how can there be so many shabby projects, tsk."

Mo Nan didn't bother to care about what he said, and started to investigate on his own. He stroked the outside of the door. The surface was not very smooth, and there were some unknown lines on it. Then his eyes fell on a depression in the middle of the door. Above, the narrow slit seems to have been specially chiseled out.

"This," he felt a little familiar, and asked, pointing to that place, "could it be used to insert a key?"

"Yes, the keyhole, but the key can't be found."

"Why is the door constructed in such a way?"

"This is a proof of human progress and a symbol of wisdom." Ji Tianze said earnestly, "It's really good that your doors are built like this, how safe they are, they can protect you from wind and rain, and they are better than yours, which can be broken with a single poke. The door leaf is much easier to use."

"..."

"Ah... when I think of these modern lives, I really want to go back..."

Seeing his eager expression, Mo Nan thought about the seal snake chasing all the way, made up his mind, and said resolutely, "Then open it."

"To put it lightly," Ji Tianze smiled wryly, "Whether it's smashing the door or looking for the key, I've spent three years."

"Don't be discouraged, there are still many years to come."

"Amo, you are so optimistic."

"That must be."

It's easy to say, but in fact Mo Nan has no clue. Looking for a small key in the vast world is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

He looked at Ji Guiran, who was also bowing his head in thought, and was about to ask him if he had any clues, but before he could say anything, he felt a burst of irritation in his nose.

"Sneeze!—" He sneezed loudly.

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