Chapter 99 – Old Spirit Manor

“Hey, Xiao Chen! Hurry up! Why are you so slow?”

Walking in front, a silver-haired boy donned with earrings and makeup was holding his phone, looking towards the city behind.

At this moment, the six of the seven group members all looked at the boy who was walking slowly at the end.

It wasn’t like the boy wanted to walk this slow, but he was carrying the most things in his hands, while the other six were all traveling lightly, at most carrying a backpack on their backs. Nevertheless if it were a boy or a girl, they all wore beautiful clothes and delicate makeup, each holding a selfie stick in their hand and posing in all kinds of different ways.

They weren’t like him, with a bag on his back, another one hanging on his neck, and both his hands holding two bags each.

What’s strange was that he wasn’t like the other people who were very eye-catching, instead covering his face with a mask, only showing a pair of eyes, as if he didn’t want people to see his facial features.

“Hello dear fans, I’m your little fairy Annie, long time no see.” The girl with luscious golden waves wore suspenders and shorts, pointed the lens of her phone at herself flatteringly, and started to broadcast live.

[Mr. Clown: They’re here! Are you going to live broadcast in another haunted place today?

Sailor Moon: Hee hee, today’s little Annie is still super beautiful!

Shou Shou Shou: Wow! Goddess, here I come! I never thought I would come this early today!

Lavender Field: The death squad has once again started their death-seeking journey! Hahaha, where are you going today?]

Annie looked at the comments that flashed across the screen, placed the phone in a position where her face seemed the smallest, and continued. “Today, our daring little death squad will go to the old spirit manor that circled the internet wildly before.”

As soon as those words came out, the live broadcast room seemingly exploded.

[The Little Cutie Is Me: Oh my god! Goddess, have you guys gone crazy?

Phoenix Prisoner: ??? Did I hear wrong or did you say it wrong?]

Looking at the explosive live broadcast room and the rising number of fans, she smiled. “In this world there are only places where our death squad haven’t found a time to go, never a place we dare not to go.”

After a pause, she gave a flowery smile and said: “For the sake of our sincerity, dear fans, don’t forget to swipe some gifts oh~!”

Xiao Chen walked at the end of the line carrying many heavy objects, observing his surroundings calmly.

He had just woken up from this body a few hours ago.

Thinking of his lover, Xiao Chen couldn’t help rubbing his forehead.

At that time, only after he and Jing Hezhi left those small worlds, did he realize that the many worlds they experienced were nothing more than just movie worlds.

As for him and Jing Hezhi, one is mutated movie data, and the other is a virus capable of destroying the world.

After they left that world, they directly entered a place similar to a transfer station, and found that in this world, there were hundreds of thousands of different small worlds.

It’s possible that Jing Hezhi was too bored, said that he was going to spend his honeymoon in these small worlds, and then after much consideration sent him to the movie world of “Locust Tree Spirit Manor”.

The Huai character brings ghosts, so as its name suggests, it is a horror film.

Six internet celebrities who aren’t afraid of death, plus a miscellaneous assistant, form this little death squad.

The seven of them, adhering to the motto of never troubling trouble till trouble troubles you, came to this old internet-viral locust tree manor for a live broadcast. Then, they were tortured by the ghosts. With the whole squad wiped out, the movie came to an end.

Coincidentally, the character Xiao Chen transmigrated into was the body of the miscellaneous assistant in charge of doing chores.

He sighed, and continued to follow the group while carrying the pile of heavy objects.

The old locust tree manor was located in a remote location, not in the suburbs of any city, but in a remote mountain of a rural area. Xiao Chen really couldn’t think of what these people want to achieve, coming to such a poor place after traveling thousands of miles.

The mountain road was uneven and the traveling route was quite far, in the end they also lost their lives.

Xiao Chen carried the heavy objects all the way up, his forehead oozing sweat.

Zhao Junlu walked in front of Xiao Chen, talking to his fans non-stop. To be precise, except for Xiao Chen, the other six people were all chatting with their fans.

Zhao Junlu flicked his newly permed silver hair, showing a domineering and charming smile.

[Red High-Heeled Shoes: The little assistant in the back looks so tired! Carrying so many things!

Mother Kangaroo: I feel like this little assistant is a handsome guy. I watched up close during the live broadcast before, his eyes are that kind of piercing phoenix eyes, really pretty!

Morning Glory: Junlu, shouldn’t you go help him carry some things? He seems to be working very hard.

Thorn Of The Rose: I really want to know what he looks like under that mask! Can he take it off?

Towel: Curious +1]

Zhao Junlu frowned when he saw that his chat screen was inexplicably bombarded with comments about the little assistant, feeling quite uncomfortable.

Especially with more and more comments about Xiao Chen’s face, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of crisis.

He had secretly seen Xiao Chen’s face before. Truth be told, with all of the internet celebrities present here, even after wearing makeup, they might not look half as delicate as the plain-faced Xiao Chen.

It’s estimated that except for himself, the other five people have not seen Xiao Chen’s face behind the mask.

He remembered that when he accidentally caught a glimpse, he felt the anger of being deceived by a scum girl, because they all thought Xiao Chen was ugly, but in reality he had a face value higher than any internet celebrity.

But what could he do?

As soon as Xiao Chen’s mask falls, all their fans in the live broadcasting room might become Xiao Chen’s licking dogs; then how should he act?

In the end, in order to maintain his charismatic persona, and for Xiao Chen to not get any more of his fans’ attention, Zhao Junlu showed a fan-favorite smile and hinted, “Xiao Chen’s face, en….”

In a low voice, he continued, “He doesn’t really like people to talk about his face, anyway, there’s no need to ask.” As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately added, “But he is really hardworking, so I’ll go and help him.”

After he finished speaking, he directly went to Xiao Chen’s side and said, “Here, Xiao Chen, I’ll help you carry some things.”

He said some, and it really was just some.

Zhao Junlu took away the camera, glanced at the things that Xiao Chen was carrying, then with his back turned to the camera revealed a disgusted expression. Reluctantly, he used an orchid finger pose to take off the lightest, smallest bag from the top of Xiao Chen’s head, the kind that didn’t weigh much at all.

Turning his head, he continued the live broadcast, “Ok, let’s keep going.”

The fans in the live broadcast room immediately started showering him with praise and gifts from all sides.

They all acquiesced to the fact that behind Xiao Chen’s mask was a hideous face.

Zhao Junlu smiled happily, intentionally adjusting the camera to an angle where his fans couldn’t see Xiao Chen, then continued live broadcasting.

Xiao Chen watched this showman’s contrived performance, and without any light luggage on him, he heavily sighed.

Meanwhile, Du Chonghua, who was in charge of looking at the map and leading the way at the front, slightly frowned. Clearly they were walking with the guidance of the mobile phone map, but they were getting farther and farther away from the Old Locust Tree Manor’s location.

The forks on the path were increasing more and more, it was completely impossible to figure out which direction to go.

What kind of situation was this?

Just when Du Chonghua was getting confused to the point of silently cursing, it was unknown what he saw, but his eyes suddenly lit up.

It was an old woman who seemed to be in her sixties or seventies, holding her cane and slowly walking towards the direction of their group.

She was definitely a local! Ask her and she’ll definitely know the way!

With this line of thinking, Du Chonghua took big steps and directly strided over. “Old lady, do you know which way is the path to Old Locust Tree Manor?”

Only when Du Chonghua walked over did he realize that the old lady had an inexplicably appalling face.

Her jawline was very high, with a hunched back that seemed really similar to the two lumps on a camel’s back. Her whole figure appeared to be deformed, and her fully wrinkled face looked like the bark of a big tree that was about to die, seeming very weird.

Of course, what made Du Chonghua unable to breathe was definitely this lady’s feet, with the size of a three-inch golden lotus. Wearing leather shoes that were a size similar to baby shoes, her walking posture was extremely distorted.

This was a woman with unusually small feet.

The old woman raised her head slowly, pointed in one direction with her cane, motioning for them to continue walking in that direction.

Only when the old woman was about two meters away from him, did Du Chonghua breathe a sigh of relief.

Realizing that the attention of the fans in the live broadcasting room were all on that old woman, he immediately pointed the camera over there.

[Green Channel: Why do I get goosebumps just by looking at this old woman?

Pink Lady: Upstairs +1

36k Chunshuai: Damn, her feet are so small, she’s also walking so strangely; looks so deformed ah. This is my first time seeing a small footed woman similar to the ones written in books.]

The rest of the group terribly disliked the old woman. Looking at that kind of face, it kept giving off the feeling that she exuded a bodily stench and didn’t like cleanliness.

If it wasn’t for the live broadcast, they might’ve even said some insulting words.

When the old woman passed by Xiao Chen, she paused, her nearly white eyes meeting Xiao Chen’s.

No words were spoken, but Xiao Chen could confirm that the old woman gave him an extremely friendly, gentle smile. Although the smile was slightly distorted and weird, he, who had long been numbed by encountering ghosts for so long, saw that there were some points of kindness in her eyes.

Xiao Chen remembered this elder.

In the movie, it was also when the death squad was lost did she pop up, pointing out the way for the group. From then after, the group soon walked into the deep mountains where the Old Locust Tree Manor was located.

This little death squad really didn’t use their brains to think; an old woman appearing in the wilderness didn’t stir up any doubts.

However, in the original plot, when the old woman appeared, it was already dark.

It was too coincidental to appear now.

Looking at her smile, Xiao Chen couldn’t help but mutter in his heart.

The old woman stared into Xiao Chen’s eyes, as if wanting to see something. The next second, while everyone wasn’t paying attention, she gently drew some strange symbols on the ground next to Xiao Chen’s feet with her cane, then calmly continued on her way.

“……”

Xiao Chen didn’t speak a word as he looked at her leaving silhouette.

He could feel that after the old woman finished drawing, everything he carried on him seemed to lose weight all of a sudden. Not only did he stop feeling any pressure weighing down, but he also felt his whole body relax.

Xiao Chen felt his head ache.

According to his nature, even without thinking, in this world, his old Gong would probably be some kind of fierce ghost, and he may even be the big BOSS of the Old Locust Tree Manor.

The old woman anxiously thought that his old Gong felt heartache seeing him too tired carrying things, and specially sended her to come over and lead the way while also helping him reduce the weight of the items he’s carrying.

Thinking to this point, Xiao Chen didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.

Hello, hello! Welcome back to the last arc of Dating the Strongest Boss, the Old Spirit Manor woooo~

I picked this up since I thought leaving it with the last arc untranslated is a little sad….don’t know what else to say. Oh, I know! Today is my birthday, you want a chocolate chip cookie?