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Passed out for inexplicable reasons, and woke up in a daze the next day.Mo Nan felt that he was no stranger to this kind of encounter, and even felt that he did not need to be rescued.

"..."

He opened his tired eyes on the bed, and the first thing he saw was the somewhat familiar ceiling.

Dispelling a little tiredness, Mo Nan scratched his slightly messy hair, and subconsciously began to recall what happened before he fell into a coma in his mind, which seemed to be a habit already.

A few glaring silver threads entered his eyes, which made him sober up a lot, and he vaguely remembered something in his mind.

Yesterday...it seems to be that day...

Mo Nan rested his chin in contemplation. He still remembered some of what happened during the day yesterday. For some reason, after night, his memory became more and more blurred... It's strange.

"Yo, Master Mo is awake." An old man's call pulled him out of his thoughts.

"...?"

Mo Nan followed the voice and saw a scene that seemed familiar at first glance. On both sides of the table, there was a mysterious old man in a dark blue Taoist robe, and a Ji Xiaoren with a rigid face all the time, completely different from each other. The two different people have one thing in common: they don't seem to be good people.

And they seemed to be waiting for him to wake up,

"..." Mo Nan stared at them blankly for a few seconds, then put his head back under the quilt without saying a word, and then murmured faintly from the quilt, "I see, I'm still dreaming... continue to sleep well ..."

"Since Young Master Mo doesn't want to talk, the old man will take his leave first."

The leisurely voice passed through the quilt and reached the self-hypnotic Mo Nan's ears, and the next second the tight quilt was lifted from the inside, and a distraught cry came from inside: "Dream! You can't run away!! "

The bright light came into sight again, and Mo Nan looked at the table with angry eyes, only to see that the old Taoist priest was still sitting there leisurely, without any intention of leaving, Mo Nan felt belatedly. Got tricked.

"You..." He gritted his teeth and pushed the quilt aside, jumped out of bed with all sleepiness gone, jumped to the side of the old Taoist priest and grabbed his collar, with a look of bitterness and hatred, "You give me Wait, I won't beat you today...?"

In the middle of speaking, he stopped again, because he saw a small snow-white snake wrapped around the old Taoist's hand. The bright red eyes of the snake were more obvious against the white snake's body. Seeing Mo Nan's gaze, he raised his body and tilted his head slightly to look at him, his red eyes blinked, innocent and dazed.

"???" The corners of Mo Nan's eyes twitched for a moment, and then he reached out to grab it, but it nimbly dodged it, and he continued to grab it unwillingly, but was dodged by it again.

One person caught one snake, one snake hid one person, and caught it several times. Just when Mo Nan couldn't take it anymore and was about to use his hands to catch it, the snake again anticipated his movement and shrank into the owner's body. It disappeared from the sleeve, and spit out the letter from the cuff to show him.

"..." Mo Nan suddenly wanted to stew snake soup.

"Don't catch Master Mo," the old Taoist said suddenly, his tone seemed to be holding back a smile, "I've been catching it for so long, but I still haven't caught it. It's better to give up."

This sentence had a profound meaning, and it explained the vicissitudes in Mo Nan's heart all the way. After the endless aftertaste, it turned into an increasingly intense anger.

Mo Nan wished he could tear his bones apart.

Hearing the sound of his teeth grinding, the old Taoist quickly said: "Hey, don't be angry, don't be angry, think about it carefully, old man, I saved your life last night, didn't I?"

"save?"

Hearing his mention, the memories of last night flooded up little by little, and Mo Nan also remembered what happened intermittently. Although the memory was a little fuzzy, it also calmed him down a little, and the eyes of the old Taoist suddenly changed. It's a bit complicated.

After a long silence between each other, Mo Nan asked, "What's your background?" His eyes fell on the old Taoist's cuff, and he added, "And the monster in your sleeve."

"Master Mo has calmed down. Sit down, and the old man will explain to you."

Hearing this, Mo Nan also sat down at the table, scratching his messy hair with a complicated expression, but he didn't know that he was more like a monster.He felt the sight from the other side, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Ji Guiran looking at him expressionlessly, and said angrily, "What are you looking at?"

"monster."

"Want to fight?!"

"Hey," the old Taoist interrupted the quarrel that was about to start, "It's been so long, but your relationship is still so good. It really is a hundred years old...It hurts!"

Mo Nan violently pulled the hair in front of his eyes: "Stop talking nonsense!"

"Yes yes yes... Hiss, it really hurts," the old Taoist grinned and rubbed the pulled hair to calm down the pain, and explained, "Oh, I just want to tell you something."

"what?"

"I've been bothering you two all this time...Actually, what I told you back then..."

Before he finished pondering and continued, Mo Nan interrupted him: "Is it fake?"

The old Taoist was slightly surprised: "How do you know?"

"..." Mo Nan forcibly suppressed the urge to hit someone, his knuckles crunching.

Seeing the pulsing veins on his forehead, the old Taoist hurriedly continued: "Don't get excited, don't hit anyone, let the old man finish his speech."

"Say!"

"The things I told you at the time were half-truths and half-false, but this snake is not a monster, it's just the old man's pet."

"Pet??" Mo Nan stared at his cuff in disbelief, but he could no longer see the shadow of the snake.

Keeping such an unbeatable creature as a pet is not as cute as the big yellow dog that chased him last time... Mo Nan rolled his eyes in his heart. This was the first feeling in his heart. After a while, he realized that something was wrong. Subconsciously, she stretched out her hand towards her leg, and said in a tangled voice: "...wait a minute, then this... this seal... is also a lie?"

"This is true."

"Then...?" Mo Nan frowned and thought for a while, suddenly he understood something in a flash of inspiration, and then he slapped the table angrily, "Okay! I finally know, you are the one." You old demon from the deep mountain! All of this is indeed your fault!"

"Bah, bah, look at your appearance, you are a monster," the old Taoist argued with him unceremoniously, "This old man is a god, a god, do you understand?"

"Bah, if you are still immortal, the young master is still the Jade Emperor!...?!"

As soon as Mo Nan's words came out of his mouth, he felt a strange pulling force coming from under his body. This attractive force seemed to come from the stool. I wanted to scold him a few words but I couldn't make a sound, my whole body seemed to be imprisoned.

"Young master, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately," the old Taoist still sat on the spot and said leisurely, "You are too noisy, let me finish first, there is another young master Ji, If you can't help but want to hit me, I can only seal you up with him."

"No, you tell."

"sensible."

"..." If eyes could kill, Mo Nan felt that the two people in front of him would have been cut to pieces by him.

The old Taoist ignored his gaze and continued: "What you said to Young Master Mo just now is not to scare him, the old man is indeed."

"For ordinary people, this may be unbelievable, but for you two, it shouldn't be difficult to accept it?... After all, what you two have experienced along the way is far more unbelievable than what I said." The tone of the old Taoist priest It was rare to be serious, when he was speaking, the little silver snake poked out from his cuff, looking at the scene outside.

He stretched out his hand and gently rubbed the snake's head, and continued: "I was originally a little fairy in the fairy world, and I took care of some trivial matters, but good luck made me come into this world... "

"..." Mo Nan, who couldn't speak, listened to his seemingly absurd words. If he heard such words before, his first reaction would be funny and contemptuous, and he would never believe it.

But the scene that happened last night became more and more clear in his mind with every word this person said, like a strange scene repeated itself.

Mo Nan actually started to believe that this Taoist priest who he thought was a charlatan all along might really be a god from a distant fairyland.Such a subtle contrast is surprisingly acceptable.

And that snow-white and flexible little snake doesn't look like a weird monster...?

A question interrupted his thoughts.

"...Do you know what fate is?"

"edge?"

"Everything in the world is fate. Lovers finally get married, that is fate, and relatives reunite after a long absence, that is also fate. To put it another way, even if a person travels through a place where people are unfamiliar, it is still fate."

Seeing that the two were still in a state of incomprehension, he continued: "Fate is a very miraculous thing. Not only is it fate to be together, but also to be apart. Life and death, two places apart, no news, etc., are all fate." Driven, without the so-called fate, there would be no such a complicated sense of people and things. And this wonderful thing is taken over by me."

"..."

"In the heavens, there is a position specially set up for this purpose, named Zhonghe Shangxian, and I am the old man. Weaving needles for mortals' suitable fates, and cutting off those fates that should not be lingering, this is what we have been doing for thousands of years .”

He showed the little snake in his cuff: "This is the beast I raised, called the Seal Snake. It is responsible for finding the fate of the world, that is, my eyeliner. It can discover many things and then mark them. For example, being A person who is entangled by a dead couple, or a traveler who is lost in a foreign land, can also see the missing person..."

The sense of familiarity gradually spread, and both of them felt an incredible and confused feeling in their hearts.One of them was unable to speak, while the other was in deep thought, continuing to listen to the old Taoist.

"Many years ago, because I was addicted to alcohol, an accident happened, that is, I became unconscious when I was drunk with a snake, and I accidentally let it slip into the human world. Too many irrelevant people, and even so, it caused some confusion."

When he said this, Mo Nan's expression became complicated again. He winked at the old Taoist priest, trying to convey some emotion, but the other party ignored him.

He went on to say: "So the upper realm punished me to come to the human world, and ordered me to clean up the disaster I accidentally caused before going back... To be honest, the matter between you and Ji, Master Mo, is really unreasonable." It's not the original intention of the seal snake, it's just that you caught it for fun, it was in a daze, and it just bit you subconsciously."

"..."

"Old man, I have broken it, and I have made so many ties, you are really not my intention... But," he flipped the hair in front of his eyes, and used his hidden eyes to go back and forth between Mo Nan and Ji Guiran After looking at it, he raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Fortunately, it's not a bad thing."

Mo Nan felt that there was saliva in his mouth and he wanted to spit it out but couldn't, it was extremely uncomfortable.

"Speaking of which, this is also the last place. It is the patron saint who is in charge of disciplining the whole village for one person. I am really using this old man as a corvee." The old Taoist sighed, "Oh, yes Well, Young Master Mo, you have to thank me for arriving in time. That man is planning to sacrifice you to the demonic beast. If Young Master Ji and I hadn't stopped you first, you wouldn't have been able to come back. "

"How is the beast now?" Ji Guiran asked.

"It's just a little god who wants to increase his strength. He will settle down after a lesson. There is nothing to worry about. It's just that those who were deceived by it last year really can't come back." He shook his head. The fate is broken, it should be broken, it should be broken."

"Then us?"

"You shouldn't have gotten involved, but because you were bitten by a seal snake before and you couldn't let it go, I had no choice but to bring you together. Thanks to your help along the way, I was able to make up for a few fates. It's really helpful...Actually, at the beginning, I was worried that I shouldn't pull your fate, but now it seems..."

The old Taoist stared at the white snake on his cuff with a smile, and said to it: "It's considered a success, right, little snake?"

The white snake spat out the letter, as if responding to him.

At this moment, Mo Nan felt that the power of confinement disappeared. He seemed to be a person who had finally been liberated. He felt a wave of doubts and wanted to ask him, but he held back for a long time and didn't know where to start.

After a while, he murmured and asked, "Then...where are we going next?"

"Where do you want to go?" The old Taoist looked at him lovingly, and replied in a calming tone, "It's getting late, young master, it's time to go home and rest."

"...back to...?"

"The old man is responsible for your safe return home."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, as if he had picked an ingenious timing, and everything developed according to the right time.

When the door opened, wisps of sunlight outside came in first, and a piece of clarity fell into the eyes, warming the bottom of my heart.

Looks like a fine day.