After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Ended Up with the Movie Queen - Chapter 21.2

During this time, the suitcases the group dragged along created a lot of noise. Peng Yushu also nearly tripped over a farm tool casually placed on the ground, creating a huge sound.

But even with this, no one came out to look at them.

“What now? Do we go upstairs and search each room one by one?” Gu Nan had never experienced something like this, so she asked everyone behind her for their opinions.

Actually, this was also asking the production team’s opinion.

The others also looked at the production team first. Seeing that the production team did not say a word, Peng Yushu said, “Let’s go. We’ll go up and take a look.”

It was inconvenient to carry suitcases upstairs, so everyone left their suitcases and backpacks in the first-floor living room.

Gu Nan felt her way to the stairs. The moment she stepped on them, the old wooden stairs let out a creak.

“Careful of the steps,” Gu Nan reminded them.

“Do you feel like the stairs are shaking?” Bai Rui did not know whether it was psychological, but she felt the staircase beneath her feet was swaying.

“It seems… a little,” Tang Ling also hesitated and felt it.

Shen Zhibei gripped the hem of Gu Nan’s clothes even tighter and could not help interjecting, “Is it because there are too many of us? Is it unable to bear the weight?”

“Don’t follow us up,” Lu Xuehai, at the very end of the group, said fearfully to the camera crew from the production team that was following them.

The production team thought of the follow-up cameras already stationed upstairs, so they obediently did not continue going up.

For a moment, the six of them seemed stuck in place, not daring to move.

Gu Nan felt that their current posture was far too silly and suggested, “Shouldn’t we run a couple of steps? Once we’re upstairs, won’t it be fine? If we keep standing here without moving, what if it really can’t bear the weight?”

“That makes sense.”

Under Gu Nan’s leadership, the group “suddenly understood” and thump-thump-thumped up the stairs.

This time, everyone felt the stairs shake even more violently, so they immediately ran faster.

During this, Shen Zhibei failed to keep up with Gu Nan’s speed, and because she was gripping Gu Nan’s hem too tightly, she nearly dragged Gu Nan flat onto the ground.

Fortunately, Gu Nan immediately used both hands and feet to steady herself, then continued running upstairs.

[Why did they feel the stairs shaking and still run wildly on them?]

[I can’t bear to look. I didn’t originally think some of these people were this silly.]

[I’ve already screenshotted the scene of Gu Nan using all four limbs and made it into a reaction image. (doge)]

[Not only did I screenshot that scene, I also screenshotted all their expressions on the stairs. Those are all materials for reaction images. Proud hands-on-hips.]

[After Gu Nan said that, all of them actually looked like they suddenly understood. Hey! Did none of you feel anything wrong with that?]

[I’ve discovered that all the silly things so far were either done by Gu Nan, or started by her.]

[So she’s the head of silliness?]

[Lu Xuehai is interesting too. If he gets turned into a reaction image later, please add the words “Alpha dignity” to it.]

[Shen Zhibei’s reaction images are freshly released. Everyone is welcome to go to the Douqu A Poetic Life group to collect them!]

The moment they reached upstairs, Shen Zhibei hurriedly cared about Gu Nan, who had nearly been dragged flat by her.

“Are you okay? How are your hands? Did your knees hit anything? Does it hurt?”

“It’s fine…”

Before Gu Nan could finish telling Shen Zhibei not to worry, she heard a miserable “Ahhh!” from behind.

Shen Zhibei was so frightened by the scream that she directly shrank into Gu Nan’s arms.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Let’s go see what happened.” Gu Nan quickly wrapped her arms around Shen Zhibei and gently stroked her back to comfort her.

Shen Zhibei had only been frightened for an instant. In fact, the moment she shrank into Gu Nan’s arms, she had already come back to herself. But immediately afterward, Gu Nan wrapped her in a full embrace and began comforting her.

Shen Zhibei’s face flushed red with embarrassment, and she secretly thought: Fortunately, even with night-vision cameras right now, no one can see my face clearly.

“Let go of me. I’m fine now,” Shen Zhibei said softly.

“All right.” Gu Nan let go of Shen Zhibei and pulled her behind herself. “Walk behind me.”

“Mm.”

Shen Zhibei nodded, reached out again to grab the hem of Gu Nan’s clothes, and instead caught Gu Nan’s hand, which was reaching backward.

“Hold my hand. Holding my hem is hard to control.”

Thinking of the Gu Nan who had almost been dragged flat because Shen Zhibei pulled on her clothes, Shen Zhibei silently agreed.

They walked back a little and saw Tang Ling sitting on the ground, collapsed as he covered his face, his entire body giving off an aura of despair.

“What happened?”

Bai Rui had originally been beside Tang Ling comforting him. Hearing Gu Nan’s question, she stood up helplessly and said, “He was frightened into screaming by the red light on the camera just now, and he even fell on his backside. Now he feels like his image has completely collapsed.”

“Didn’t Xuehai tell the camera crew not to come up? What you saw was a night-vision camera fixed there?” Shen Zhibei asked.

“It was one carried by a cameraman. The production team had already planted people here in advance.” Tang Ling rubbed his face hard. “At that time, I had also heard Brother Hai say not to let the camera crew follow us up. Then suddenly, I saw a red light in the corner that moved with me and made sound too, so I thought it was a ghost and got startled.”

“How long had the cameraman been hiding there in advance?!” Shen Zhibei was also startled and hurriedly looked toward the corner.

Sure enough, when the red light saw Shen Zhibei looking over, it bobbed up and down to indicate that it was indeed a person.

If someone had not known in advance, this effect probably would have scared them to death just like Tang Ling.

Shen Zhibei could not help feeling sympathy for Tang Ling.

Especially when Tang Ling said tearfully, “My tough-guy image! It directly collapsed.”

Shen Zhibei could not help thinking of the process of her own image collapsing today and felt a rather empathetic feeling.

“Image collapsing is actually a good thing. That way, you can show your true self.” Gu Nan used herself as an example to comfort Tang Ling. “Don’t carry too heavy an idol burden. Look at me. Once I stopped caring about my image, I lived very happily.”

Although she was comforting Tang Ling, Gu Nan’s eyes kept drifting toward Shen Zhibei.

She hoped Shen Zhibei could understand the meaning in her words and stop thinking about that thing Gu Nan had done that ruined her image.

Having no image—what a beautiful thing!

[Tang Ling has a tough-guy image? As an old fan for many years, why didn’t I know that? (doge)]

[Ahhh, they hugged! They hugged each other! They were also caring about each other and touched each other.]

[After watching the show up to now, I just want to say the guests are too pitiful. But I love watching it. Hehehe, production team, please give us more.]

[What kind of countryside slow variety show is this? It’s clearly a transformation reality show! None of the guests who participated still have an image left intact.]

Tang Ling did not dwell on it for too long either. He also knew that if he acted too dramatic, netizens would criticize him, so under everyone’s comfort, he “cheered up.”

The group continued searching for useful clues.

There were three rooms on the second floor: a mahjong room, a storage room, and another room filled with many winter melons and pumpkins still stained with soil.

Every room had a bed and brand-new bedding, clearly added later by the production team.

After making a round, they did not see Elder Tang Chunhua, nor did they find the power switch. They did not even see a bathroom or kitchen.

“This isn’t scientific. How could there be no bathroom or kitchen in the house?” Gu Nan asked in confusion. “It’s not like they would put both the bathroom and kitchen on the third floor.”

“I actually feel that the house the production team found may not have an indoor bathroom or kitchen.”

Everyone was shocked by this prediction and all looked toward the production team, who had already followed them up.

The production team still maintained their silent attitude, neither confirming nor denying the guests’ guesses.

“Let’s—let’s search the third floor first. Maybe there is one on the third floor.” Holding on to a sliver of hope, Gu Nan said with difficulty.

“Let’s go, let’s go. Hurry and take a look.”

Everyone held onto that final sliver of hope and quickly headed for the third floor.

There were also three rooms on the third floor.

Here, they finally made a new discovery.

The first room they opened should have been a secondary bedroom that had not been lived in for a long time. Here, they found six hurricane lamps and some matchboxes, with a card placed beside them.

“I haven’t even seen what’s written on the card, and I already have a bad feeling,” Tang Ling said. Compared to the others, he had more experience appearing on variety shows.

“Xiao Nan, since you’ve already picked it up, just read it,” Bai Rui said.

Gu Nan walked to the window, where the light was better, and began reading the contents of the card. “Dear guests, hello. Here, we must regretfully inform everyone that because the small building is not connected to electricity, Elder Tang Chunhua previously used candles. But taking the filming visuals into consideration, we have thoughtfully prepared hurricane lamps for the guests.”

“The kerosene for today’s hurricane lamps has already been added. However, the kerosene needed afterward will be distributed by the production team according to the quality of the guests’ participation in tomorrow’s activities. Guests, please work hard in the activities.”

The more Gu Nan read, the deeper her voice became. By the end, she had already begun covering her face.

“At least we know we still have lamps. We won’t have to fumble around in the dark at night.” Although Shen Zhibei also sighed inwardly, things were already like this, so they could only continue forward. “Although today’s kerosene is already filled, we still need to save it. Lighting one for Nannan to carry will be enough. Then let’s go see what’s in the next room.”

Shen Zhibei’s words received unanimous approval.

Gu Nan picked up a hurricane lamp and looked at it, but she completely did not know how to use such an old-fashioned object. She could only begin asking the others for help. “Who knows how to use this?”

“I do.”

Shen Zhibei had come into contact with hurricane lamps while filming before. Upholding the principle of learning and seeing more because one never knew when it might come in handy, she had also learned how to use one.

She took off the glass cover over the hurricane lamp, took a box of matches, lit the wick, then used the control knob to adjust the flame size and brightness to the maximum before putting the glass cover back on.

“Done.”

In an instant, the room that had been dimly lit the whole time finally had a light source.

“Wow!” Gu Nan let out an amazed sound like someone who had never seen the world before. “Zhibei, you’re amazing.”

Shen Zhibei smiled faintly, without any joy from being praised. She only urged, “All right, let’s hurry and go.”

The next room was clearly the master bedroom. On the bedside table were a mission card and a layout map of the small building and its surroundings.

With the hurricane lamp as a light source, the others also gathered around to look at the map.

“I guessed right. There really isn’t an indoor bathroom or kitchen. Look.” Peng Yushu pointed at the two small squares drawn behind the small building, labeled “bathroom” and “kitchen.”

“There’s also a well marked here.” Shen Zhibei also pointed to a certain spot in the courtyard.

Gu Nan suddenly realized it too. “That’s right. We really didn’t see a faucet just now.”

“Then how are we supposed to shower?” Bai Rui asked the fatal question.

Everyone felt dizzy. They truly wished they could tear the production team apart.

Gu Nan also looked at the mission card and read it out loud. “Dear guests, hello. We are the A Poetic Life production team who loves you the most.”

“That’s not right, is it? It should be the production team that wants to play us to death.” Gu Nan could not help harshly roasting them halfway through.

“Let me see what other ridiculous things the production team has written.”

Lu Xuehai took the mission card from Gu Nan and continued reading. “We have already sent Elder Tang Chunhua to another province so that she can meet her son who is working away from home. During the period when the elder is away, we hope everyone can help take good care of the crops she planted and spend these days beautifully. Uh.”

With no water and no electricity, no matter how one looked at it, they could not say they were spending the days beautifully. But the beginning had also clearly been about doing a good deed.

This…

For a moment, Lu Xuehai got stuck in a state where he wanted to roast them but could not.

“The production team being able to send the elder to meet her son working away from home is truly a great good deed. Then we also have to take good care of the elder’s crops. When she comes back and sees nothing at home has changed, she’ll definitely be even happier.” Peng Yushu also had not expected the production team to be doing such a proper good deed. The words he had originally been waiting to use to roast the production team turned into praise instead.

After praising them, he immediately changed the topic. “We should hurry and check the next room.”

Lu Xuehai, who had originally wanted to see what other outrageous things the production team had written but ended up reading something so positive, quickly agreed. “Right. Let’s go check the next room.”

No one mentioned this part again. After putting away the mission card and map, they headed to the next room.

The next room was also a secondary bedroom that had not been lived in for a long time.

In this secondary bedroom, there were many hot-water bags, thermos bottles, washbasins, and other daily necessities.

Gu Nan picked up a hot-water bag and looked at it. It was that very old-fashioned kind made of rubber. “Is this because they’re afraid we’ll be cold, so they specially prepared these for us? Wow, really, I’m crying to death.”

“Yeah, the production team is really so gentle. Why is there such a gentle production team? I’m really crying to death.” Tang Ling followed along.

The production team pretended not to hear these two being sarcastic. Seeing that the guests had already obtained all the resources assigned to them, they continued the process.

“Dear guests, you have now finished looking through all the rooms, and it’s also time to eat. Let’s play a small game to obtain meat.”

While the production team was talking on that side, Peng Yushu was discussing things with the others.

“I just checked the time. It’s already past seven. Later, we still have to go to the kitchen and see what the cooking area’s structure is like. We might even have to spend time studying how to cook. I remember there were winter melons and pumpkins on the second floor, right? Why don’t we just make do with those tonight? What do you think? Is that okay?”

“I’m okay with it.”

“I’m okay too.”

Everyone expressed that they were fine with it, then went to the second floor together to get the melons and prepare to go to the kitchen to cook.

“Hey, you—listen to me!” The chief director stretched out his hand dramatically as he watched the guests pass him one by one without looking sideways, heading toward the second floor. “Are you sure you don’t want to play the game?”

“We’re not playing, not playing. We all feel that eating some vegetarian food is pretty good.” Lu Xuehai, who was walking at the back, waved his hand and directly summarized for the few people ahead who had not answered.

“All right, then. Don’t regret it.”

As expected, the chief director’s “shout” did not receive any response.

Seeing that the guests had made up their minds, he thought for a moment, then quietly said a couple of things to the staff behind him. The cameramen lying in wait in the kitchen immediately received new instructions and began making new preparations for the guests’ arrival.