chapter 3

Chapter 3

The setting sun gradually sank below the horizon.

Night had completely fallen.

One by one, lights flickered on throughout the park, faint and ghostly like phosphorescence.

Shan Yuan said, “The closing time has arrived. The road ahead will only get longer.”

His Junior Brother poked his head out again. “Let’s do a divination, let’s do a divination, let’s see if the road ahead will be smooth.”

I looked at the pitch-black Tiger Enclosure before me.

Gritting my teeth, I painfully spent five hundred yuan.

Shan Yuan took out a Tortoise Shell and shook the Copper Coins inside.

The Copper Coins dropped out.

He glanced at them and said, “Don’t buy anything from the Administrator. Your currency isn’t accepted here.”

I turned on the flashlight on my phone to light up the road ahead a little.

A dark silhouette stood at the entrance to the Tiger Enclosure.

[This must be the Administrator that the Daoist mentioned.]

[Holy crap! That’s terrifying, back! Back! Back!]

I didn’t dare move forward at all:

“Monsters and demons, go away.
‘Lin Bing Dou Zhe Jie Zhen Lie Qian Xing.'”

I randomly recited a chant and took two steps forward.

The shadow slowly advanced toward me as well.

Why not call this a mutual rush?

My legs were shaking.

The figure slowly stopped in front of me.

I whispered, “So as not to scare everyone, I’ll censor his face first.”

[I’m crying.]

[The streamer is actually kind of sweet.]

After adding the blur, I looked up again.

The Administrator’s face was bloodless, his skin stiff. His forced smile even tore at the corners of his mouth.

He was holding a blood-soaked chicken. “Buy a chicken to feed the tiger, only twenty yuan.”

Shan Yuan had said not to spend money here.

Then maybe I could just shamelessly ask for it?

I said, “I’m a student, give it to me.”

Administrator: “?”

I kept playing the scoundrel. “My family is very poor. I have an eighty-year-old grandmother above and a three-year-old brother below. Please give it to me.”

He stammered, “Then how big is the age gap between your mom and your little brother?”

I started to wipe my eyes. “It’s a long story. My mom isn’t actually my real mom, and my brother isn’t really my brother either…”

I sobbed with the force to shake mountains and bring down heroes.

Administrator: “…Fine, I’ll give it to you.”

He tossed me the chicken and, hunched over, shuffled away slowly.

[The streamer must have ten years’ experience freeloading.]

[Hahaha… hahahaha… Who else can scam even ghosts?]

[Poor Administrator.]

Relieved, I carried the chicken and walked on.