Little Alpaca – Chapter 50

Volume 1: Little Alpaca

Grass Mud Dog.

Under the moonlight, in the cold wind, the little alpaca stood beside the female demon lord, disheveled in her own thoughts.

To help someone and also break their legs, in Yi Qiu’s half-life of barren experience, this was absolutely something unheard of and unseen.

Yi Qiu remembered that when You Yan was in the Demon Realm, she clearly favored dark-colored clothes the most. It was only after coming to the human world that she changed into a white robe that seemed to be woven from clouds.

But a female demon lord is a female demon lord, after all. Even wearing all white couldn’t hide the blackness in her heart. The more pure, beautiful, and harmless to people and animals she looked, the more she actually had a dagger hidden behind a smile¹ and a needle hidden in cotton².

However, even so, Yi Qiu still felt that You Yan was a female demon lord who was not that bad.

At least tonight, You Yan had burned a few houses and injured a dozen or so Changqing Pavilion disciples, but she had not taken a single life……

“Let’s go,” You Yan patted the back of the little alpaca’s head.

“Ah?” The little alpaca came back to her senses, a look of bewilderment on her face.

“We’re going down the mountain……”

“Down the mountain? Then……” Yi Qiu once again felt her brain was not quite enough.

You Yan let out a light laugh and said with intent: “Do you still want to go back to that guest house to sleep?”

The little alpaca quickly shook her head.

It wasn’t that she wanted to go back to sleep, but if they left now, how would the subsequent plot proceed?

The great villain always has to follow the male and female leads.

Yi Qiu thought for a moment, then quickly said: “But Master…… that kid Luo Mingyuan, is he really okay? You, you broke his legs, don’t tell me…… don’t tell me he’ll be crippled from now on?”

“Broken is not the same as severed,” You Yan said with a frown. “With his constitution, once the bones are set, he’ll be able to walk on the ground in a few days.”

“Ooh……” Yi Qiu nodded, once again falling into deep thought.

But her thoughts were a mess. She thought and thought but couldn’t reach a conclusion. When she looked up again, You Yan had already turned and walked far away.

Yi Qiu was stunned for a moment, then quickly chased after her.

She followed behind You Yan, walking back the way they came. As they walked, the firelight from Changqing Pavilion in the distance gradually dimmed, but the thick smoke in the sky remained.

Yi Qiu couldn’t help but wonder, how should she phrase it to get You Yan to keep following the male and female leads?

She couldn’t leave now. After all, to get past the key node, You Yan still had to…… still had to kill Luo Mingyuan’s adoptive parents.

Thinking of this, Yi Qiu suddenly became lost in thought.

It wasn’t that she had never seen You Yan kill, nor was it that she couldn’t accept You Yan killing.

She had figured it out long ago. Without having experienced another’s suffering, do not persuade another to be good³.

In fact, for many things, if You Yan took the initiative to do them, she would feel that everything was a matter of course.

Anyway, that’s how it was written in the novel, and anyway, You Yan was so powerful, a small alpaca like her couldn’t stop her at all.

But the current You Yan no longer had such thoughts.

The moment Yi Qiu thought that she had to live, and to do so, she had to find a way to make You Yan harm innocent people, she felt somewhat lost, not knowing how to face it.

She suddenly felt that, compared to You Yan, she herself seemed more like a villain.

In fact, she was also a very selfish person, without that kind of great, fearless spirit of sacrificing herself for others.

She knew that this world was so big, and she was definitely not the only one who was this selfish, who could choose to ignore the deaths of some people in order to live.

But she really didn’t want to, didn’t want to push You Yan to do things for her that she originally didn’t want to do.

How about……

Just let it be?

Even if she passed this node, where was the next node, and how was she to pass it?

In the process of passing these nodes, how many insincere words would she have to say, and how many insincere things would she have to do?

It was too hard. In this world, living was simply too hard.

Yi Qiu couldn’t help but say to herself in her heart, it’s really not that you don’t want to live, it’s just that this plot has already deviated from the original work by one hundred and eight thousand li⁴, what can a small alpaca like you change?

The great villain is about to go down the mountain and leave now. Do you dare to ask her to continue following the protagonist, helping you “kill and set fires” all the way?

The more Yi Qiu thought, the more depressed she became, so depressed that she wished she could immediately find a place to start giving up on herself, eating and sleeping every day, not thinking about anything, and just comfortably coasting until her death day to be done with it.

But just at this moment, she heard Jiang Yuyao’s voice.

“Bai-guniang!”⁵

Three short words, like a life-saving straw, instantly pulled her back to reality from her low spirits.

Yi Qiu came back to her senses and stopped with You Yan. Seeing Jiang Yuyao running towards them, she quickly looked around and only then realized she had followed You Yan to the entrance of the Xianlu Sect—the Cloud Bridge of the Broken Cliff.

At this moment, she suddenly realized, if You Yan really wanted to leave quietly, why would she need to take this path?

Could it be that You Yan was just saying it was boring, but had actually already changed her mind in her heart?

This wasn’t impossible. After all, during the martial arts competition that day, You Yan seemed to have said—“Now this is more like it.”

The meaning behind You Yan’s words, could it be understood as, a male lead like this was now worthy of being played with in the palm of her hand?

So, the biggest “fun freak” in the original work was starting to find the main plot “fun.”

The reason she stirred up this wave of trouble was to make Jiang Yuyao take Luo Mingyuan down the mountain for training, thereby using a demon seed on his adoptive parents, then first luring the female lead to kill them, and then luring the male lead to witness that scene with his own eyes.

It makes sense, it really makes sense……

In this way, the plot would return to the right track.

And she, the heaven-chosen grass mud horse, would shoulder her due responsibility, save the protagonist from fire and water, and help a pair of heartbroken people break free from the shackles of a dog-blood⁶ angsty romance’s BE⁷!

And along the way, use love to persuade the great villain to lay down the butcher’s knife⁸.

Ah——

Yi Qiu suddenly felt that an alpaca’s life had become much more meaningful!

The little alpaca instantly held her head high and puffed out her chest, turning her gaze to Jiang Yuyao who had rushed all the way here, her eyes seeming to sparkle with “great love.”

Jiang Yuyao had caught up by now, her gaze towards You Yan somewhat surprised: “Bai-guniang! Why are you here?”

You Yan replied: “Regarding the matter of the bird demon, I should be able to help. However, I am not a member of the Xianlu Sect. I wonder if Miss Jiang will think I’m being a busybody?”

Hearing this, a trace of joy flashed in Jiang Yuyao’s eyes: “Leaving the mountain tonight was me stubbornly doing things my own way⁹. I don’t know how deep that bird demon’s attainment¹⁰ is, so I have no certainty in my heart. For Bai-guniang to be willing to help, I am already endlessly grateful. How could I possibly dislike it!”

With that, she wasted no more time, turned to face the broken cliff, formed a hand seal, and summoned the long Cloud Bridge.

The next second, the little alpaca hugged You Yan’s calf tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably.

You Yan: “……”

Jiang Yuyao stepped onto the Cloud Bridge and looked back: “Bai-guniang, is it serious?”

You Yan shook her head, sighed softly, and squatted down in front of Yi Qiu.

They say the first time is strange, the second time is familiar. This was not the first time the little alpaca had climbed the bird woman’s back, so her movements were naturally much bolder.

She pounced onto You Yan’s body, once again resting her head on top of You Yan’s, giggled foolishly twice, and then closed her eyes.

What could You Yan do with her? For a moment, she could only support her two hind legs and quickly follow Jiang Yuyao’s pace.

After crossing the Cloud Bridge, You Yan squatted down and pushed Yi Qiu back onto the ground.

It had to be said, compared to being thrown down last time, this was exceedingly gentle.

The little alpaca stretched her limbs, and in a great mood, bounced around You Yan for a few steps, her beady eyes wide as if asking: “Where are we going next?”

You Yan randomly ruffled Yi Qiu’s head, signaling not to rush.

Jiang Yuyao clearly had no direction either. She held her sword in one hand and drew a spell in the air with the other. The moment the spell was complete, the body of the longsword suddenly glowed with a faint spiritual light.

This posture looked like the “Soul Searching Technique”¹¹ written about in the original work, specifically used to find people and things.

Can this really find him?

Yi Qiu couldn’t help but tilt her neck and wait.

She saw Jiang Yuyao strike a pose for a long time, but in the end, she put away her sword, frowned, turned back, and said to You Yan: “I can’t sense the presence of that bird demon. Luo-shidi has not cultivated magical arts, and the spiritual power in his body is weak, making it even more impossible to find him.”

“It’s fine, I have a way.” You Yan raised an eyebrow with a smile, reaching out to stroke the fluff on the back of the little alpaca’s neck. “My spirit pet’s nose is very sensitive.”

Yi Qiu: “……”

Hello? Is there a problem?

This drama of treating an alpaca like a dog, do I have to act it out with you a second time?

“Xiao Yi Qiu……” You Yan bent down, hugged Yi Qiu’s neck, and said in her ear as if coaxing a child, “Quickly go find your Luo-dage, he’s in danger.”

Yi Qiu couldn’t help but take a deep breath, puffing out her cheeks and glaring at You Yan.

What does she mean, her Luo-dage?

Please, if we’re only counting this lifetime, she’s eleven years older than that kid!

“You remember his scent, right?” You Yan said, patting the little alpaca’s back.

Yi Qiu couldn’t help but roll her eyes wildly.

Why would she remember the scent of a little pig trotter?

Could a stinky man be half as fragrant as roasted rabbit meat?

How was she supposed to find him like this? This bird woman was clearly just teasing her on purpose!

Yi Qiu was about to refuse in a huff, but when she turned her head, she happened to meet Jiang Yuyao’s worried and expectant gaze, and her heart instantly softened a little.

After a moment of hesitation, the little alpaca unwillingly gave a “hmm,” bent her neck, lowered her little head, and, like a dog, began to sniff the ground pretentiously.

What real skills could a little alpaca have?

The little alpaca could only smell soil, green grass, and the lingering scent of some unknown animal’s feces.

But she had been forced into a situation she was unprepared for¹² by the bird woman and had no choice but to brace herself and continue leading the way.

Was she a grass mud horse?

No, she was a grass mud dog!

The bird woman said that Luo Mingyuan had been thrown down the mountain by her, so no matter which direction, heading down the mountain first couldn’t be wrong.

Thinking this, Yi Qiu ran all the way down the mountain.

The path down the mountain was clearly much easier to walk than the path up, not to the point of making the little alpaca lose her strength while walking.

In order not to arouse Jiang Yuyao’s suspicion, Yi Qiu would bury her head and sniff the scent of “loneliness” every hundred steps or so, one could say she was very dedicated and responsible.

Under the hazy moonlight, in the dark mountain forest, two young women chased a little alpaca, running for a whole night.

When the night faded and the morning light was faint, they had almost reached the foot of the mountain.

They were already down the mountain, yet Yi Qiu, who still had no idea where to go, became more and more bewildered. Just when she was at her most lost, You Yan, who was beside her, suddenly spoke up and asked: “Is it this way?”

At that moment, Yi Qiu, who was diligently sniffing the dirt on the ground, suddenly raised her eyes and saw You Yan pointing in a certain direction.

So the bird woman can also point the way?

You should have said so earlier, you scared the grass mud horse to death!

“Mmm!”

The little alpaca’s short tail almost wagged.

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