Little Alpaca – Chapter 60

Volume 1: Little Alpaca

You already like me enough.

What kind of concept is ten favorability points?

Judging from past experience, the lowest increase in favorability points was ten points, so as long as none were deducted, then one more increase would be enough to reach one thousand.

Thinking of this, Yi Qiu hurriedly pulled out her attributes to take a look.

【Current Attributes】
Intelligence: 185
Strength: 115
Spiritual Root: 200
Agility: 95
Health: 100
Stamina: 100
You Yan Favorability Score: 990

During these days of following You Yan to the human realm, if the favorability score was excluded, her other attributes were basically all turtle crawling¹.

However, she did not care too much, since after all, excluding the favorability score, the requirements for the other attributes were not considered high and had reached the standard a long time ago.

Now, seeing that the favorability score was just ten points away, she suddenly became nervous.

This all felt like a dream; before she could even react, she had already walked to the door of her 「dream」.

Thinking about it carefully, it seemed like the favorability score had not been deducted for a very, very long time. Could it be that this was the indulgence and doting from the great villain after reaching nine hundred favorability?

Then in what way would these final ten points be added?

After one thousand favorability, would the relationship between a pet and its owner step onto the little boat of friendship²?

Would the bird woman then transmit power to her own little alpaca?

As Yi Qiu thought this, she could not stop herself from hugging the soft pillow in her arms, letting out a silly hehe laugh, and turning over slightly on the prepared bedding.

This silly laugh suddenly floated lightly into You Yan’s ears. You Yan turned to look and saw the little alpaca hugging a pillow and rolling around on the floor bedding, looking so silly it was beyond description, and was silent for a moment.

A few seconds later, her long lashes drooped low, and she hummed a very light laugh from the tip of her nose.

【You Yan Favorability Score +5】

The little alpaca was briefly excited for half a second. After the excitement passed, she fixed her gaze, and her rolling body instantly froze stiff.

Grass³!

It can really add a single-digit number?

What does this mean? Could it be that the closer it gets to the critical value, the harder it is for it to increase?

Facts proved that this guess was indeed correct.

After that day, Yi Qiu worked very hard to express herself in front of You Yan every day, but she felt that even though she had already used all the skills of her entire body⁴, she had not gained even a single increase in favorability score again.

At this point, she could no longer figure out whether it was the system playing with her, or You Yan playing with her.

She even gradually began to suspect that when the favorability score reached 999, it might continue to turtle crawl upwards in the form of decimal points.

Just thinking about it made her feel agitated to the point of panic!

Yi Qiu completely no longer wanted to look at this ghost thing⁵ called the favorability score.

She became Buddha-like⁶, she completely became Buddha-like.

She felt that she must have achieved some kind of sublimation under the repeated torture of this favorability score, thereby transcending from the skin of an alpaca and turning into a Buddha-alpaca.

Recently, Luo Mingyuan had been recovering from his injuries, so the entire plot was stuck at this point.

From time to time, Yi Qiu would recall the main storyline of the original work, trying to find a general direction, but the more she thought, the more she would discover that there was no direction at all.

The main storyline had collapsed, collapsed too thoroughly.

If one were to say that before passing the previous node, the two world lines that were running in opposite directions still had some similar points——

For example, the chance encounter on the mountainside, for example, eliminating demons in the city, for example, the trial tournament, and for example, the male lead descending the mountain.

But at this very moment, she truly could not grasp a single similar point.

In the original text, after the Luo couple died, Jiang Yuyao, in order to protect Luo Mingyuan, concealed the matter of the demon seed and single-handedly shouldered the blame for 「indiscriminately killing the innocent」, and was expelled from the Xianlu Sect by her father Jiang Xuan, who did so with great pain.

The subsequent story was enough to make one angry just summarizing it. Anyway, it was just the two of them, because of that deepening misunderstanding between them, amidst a pile of dog blood with various supporting characters helping to add snow to frost⁷, loved each other to death and back to life, and hated each other to the point of never resting until one was dead.

A plot like this was fundamentally impossible to happen again.

It wasn’t that Yi Qiu hadn’t asked the system how the main storyline would proceed next, but the system seemed as if it would only ever say that one sentence.

【An important node has changed, and the main storyline has been altered accordingly. Please explore on your own, Host.】

Explore on your own…

Alright, then she would just wait for the little pig trotter’s injury to heal, follow him directly, not let him and the female lead get killed, and not let him argue with the female lead. That couldn’t be wrong, right?

Holding this thought, Yi Qiu began to concern herself with Luo Mingyuan’s injuries daily.

The Golden Crow was truly worthy of being the Golden Crow; even though he was now in the mortal world, the demigod power within his body was still tyrannical.

Injuries that an ordinary person might not even recover from in a year or half a year, for Luo Mingyuan, had already recovered by fifty to sixty percent in less than half a month. Although he still limped, he was already able to walk and jump, able to resist and carry.

If it weren’t for the fact that his complexion was consistently not very good, and that he still had to change his medicine every two or three days, Yi Qiu would have thought he had already fully recovered.

Speaking of the matter of recovering from his injuries, Luo Mingyuan was more anxious than anyone.

From the day he was able to get down and walk, he had been constantly proving to Jiang Yuyao that his injuries were almost healed and that he did not need to continue resting.

The person behind the scenes who had buried the demon seed in the bodies of the Luo couple had not been heard from since that day, and their whereabouts were still unknown.

First, he was captured alive by a demon, and later, his closest relatives were killed.

Luo Mingyuan knew that all of this was aimed at him, and he did not want to continue lying down like this under the care and protection of Jiang Yuyao.

Seeing Luo Mingyuan so insistent, Jiang Yuyao finally relented on the ninth day after he had woken up.

When Yi Qiu heard this news, she told You Yan at the first opportunity.

Upon hearing this, You Yan closed her eyes, savored a sip of tea, and asked faintly, “Do they know where to go?”

The little alpaca recalled in a daze.

It seemed like, they really didn’t know.

“Oh, right, then where are they setting off to?” Yi Qiu could not help but frown.

You Yan let out a light laugh and said, “You know…”

Yi Qiu was startled by You Yan’s words and immediately shook her head like a pellet drum⁸: “I don’t know!”

Why would You Yan think she knew? Had she exposed something again these past few days?

But even if she had really exposed something, with the main storyline having collapsed like this, it was impossible for her to know anything!

Just as the little alpaca was extremely terrified, You Yan put down her teacup, slowly opened her eyes, and said faintly, “Your nose is sharp.”

“I…” Yi Qiu was choked up for a long while, and finally took a long, deep breath.

Fine!

What could a grass mud dog not know?

As long as the bird woman was happy, the grass mud dog had to know everything.

Yi Qiu: “Master is right, so in which direction should this nose of mine be sharp?”

You Yan was silent for a moment, then raised her eyes to glance out the window, and said with a curl of her lips, “The direction of the sunset.”

“Are you sure?” Yi Qiu asked, raising her head.

You Yan withdrew her gaze and looked down at Yi Qiu, “Are you questioning me?”

“How would I dare!” Yi Qiu said, turning to walk towards the door and stretching out her front hooves to try and open it.

“Little Yi Qiu…” You Yan suddenly called out to her.

“Hm?” Yi Qiu stopped her little paws from scratching the door crack and looked back at You Yan.

“After this matter is concluded, will you return with me to the demon realm?”

A bit of confusion could not help but appear in the bottom of Yi Qiu’s eyes.

She did not know if it was an illusion, but the tone You Yan used to say this did not sound like a command at all; instead, it was as if she were discussing it with her.

But how could a great villain whose word was law⁹ discuss matters with a little alpaca?

Could it be that she had misunderstood?

“Answer…” You Yan urged impatiently.

Yi Qiu returned to her senses and discovered that You Yan was actually asking for her opinion. For a moment, a bit of warmth welled up in the bottom of her heart. She tilted her head, blinked her eyes at You Yan, and replied earnestly, “Does that even need to be said? Where you are, is where I am.”

After hearing this, You Yan gazed at Yi Qiu for a long time, then suddenly looked away and gave a faint “en.”

“Then I… I’ll go out and 「promote」 my nose!” Yi Qiu asked tentatively.

“Mm…”

Having received permission, the little alpaca scratched open the door crack and swaggered out of the room.

【You Yan Favorability Score +10】

Yi Qiu:

The little alpaca instantly froze on the corridor of the inn’s second floor.

After staring blankly for a moment, she looked at her attributes in disbelief.

After the colon in the You Yan Favorability Score column, there was, impressively, a 「1005」.

Jiang Yuyao heard the commotion, pulled open her door, and at a glance saw the little alpaca standing motionless in the corridor: “Little Sheep, we are preparing to set out tomorrow. We’ll first go to the east of the city to check for traces of demonic creatures. What did Miss Bai say?”

Yi Qiu abruptly returned to her senses, glanced at Jiang Yuyao, and then glanced at the favorability score again.

She didn’t want to promote her nose anymore!

She wanted to become human! Right now!

Thinking this, the little alpaca twisted its body around and scurried back into You Yan’s room.

Jiang Yuyao: “…”

The instant the just-closed door was bumped open by the little alpaca, You Yan subconsciously glanced towards the doorway.

Then, she asked faintly, “Back so soon?”

“I’ll go later!” Yi Qiu said, kicking the door shut with a backward kick, and with a face full of joy, scurried and bounced to You Yan’s side.

She raised her head, a smile on her face, and stared with wide, round little eyes, looking at You Yan with a heart full of expectation.

The favorability score was enough; it was time for You Yan to transmit power to her.

She waited and waited, and waited and waited, until the expectation in her heart faded, until the smile on her face stiffened, but You Yan still sat at the table, fiddling with a bored expression with the pot of Rixiang Gui¹⁰ that had just been moved from the windowsill to the table at noon.

No… Bird woman, don’t just play with it! What’s so fun about it! Look at me! Isn’t your little alpaca with over a thousand favorability points more fun than a pot of flowers! Still playing, you’re still playing with it!

The more the little alpaca watched from the side, the angrier she became. Suddenly, she huffily moved her head close to the pot of flowers, opened her mouth to bite one of the small blossoms, and began to chew with an unhappy expression.

“Don’t make trouble…” You Yan gently pushed aside her fluffy head and conveniently patted the back of her neck.

Yi Qiu could not help but take a deep breath, spit the flower petal in her mouth onto the ground, stand in place and stomp her feet for a long while, then lie down and roll around a few times, continuously emitting a kind of 「I am extremely unhappy right now」 「en」 sound.

You Yan finally could not resist drawing Chuixue from her waist and tying up the little alpaca that had been manic for a long while.

“What sickness are you having?”

Yi Qiu lay on her back on the ground, tied up by that long whip to the point she could not move. She had no choice but to stubbornly raise her neck and roar fiercely at You Yan, “You Yan! Did you forget something!”

“What?” You Yan asked faintly.

“The favorability score has been reached!” Yi Qiu shouted, twisting her body.

You Yan looked at Yi Qiu and contemplated for a moment, then suddenly turned to the side, sat down propping up her cheek, and slowly uttered three words to her in a tone that was neither salty nor bland¹¹.

“Speak human words…”

Yi Qiu could not help but sink into a bout of deep thought.

She had miscalculated; the bird woman fundamentally did not know about the matter of the favorability score.

So, how on earth was she supposed to tactfully remind the bird woman—you already like me enough, it’s time to transmit power to me?

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