But that one glance brought the short-haired man abruptly back to reality.
It also made the short-haired man certain...
He hadn't been dreaming.
He really had...
Found the missing python.
Or maybe...
Had this python been here all along?
Had it never left?
The short-haired man froze.
He whipped around.
The sudden movement startled his colleague with glasses again.
The colleague with glasses didn't know whether he should be angry at the short-haired man for being so jumpy, or at himself for being so timid and easily startled...
"Xiao He."
The short-haired man began, "This python..."
He pointed at it.
"How... is it here?"
The short-haired man's voice was a little hoarse.
The colleague with glasses was baffled by the question.
How... was it here?
What kind of question was that...?
"Where else would it be?"
The colleague with glasses asked.
"It's a snake from the reptile house."
"If it weren't here..."
"We'd be going crazy."
Yeah.
He was pretty much going crazy today.
The short-haired man thought this instinctively.
Then he froze.
"It..."
He looked at the python as it ate. "Was it here the whole time?"
"Yeah."
The colleague with glasses looked at the short-haired man in puzzlement.
"Why do you ask?"
"Where else would it be?"
The colleague with glasses asked the same question again.
"Guo Kai."
The colleague with glasses took a deep breath. "Your questions are all really strange."
"You... have been acting strange today."
"What happened?"
The short-haired man pressed his lips together.
The moment he opened his mouth, he hesitated again.
Should he tell his colleague with glasses that he'd thought the python had gone missing and had spent the whole day looking for it?
Although now it seemed to have been a false alarm...
Still, it