Little Alpaca – Chapter 66

Volume 1: Little Alpaca

You want… to be like a person, right?

So tired, ah, clearly I am an alpaca, yet like a corporate livestock, every day I live the life of a 007 work system¹.

That beautiful boss who bullied and exploited her every day was done away with by a competitor these last two days because her conduct was too eccentric, and she was preparing to go to Meng Po’s² side in two days to register for reincarnation and become human again.

As a loyal 007 little alpaca, she naturally could not seek refuge with others at a time like this.

Although the beautiful boss was always moody, she was still good to her when she was in a good mood, and before her own downfall, she had even sent her safely away from the center of the storm.

For this very reason, she followed the beautiful boss to the underworld³ to check in.

The underworld of the twenty-first century was very new, very different from what she had seen before, making one have to sigh with emotion that society is developing and technology is advancing.

For example, streetlights were installed on both banks of the Yellow Spring Road⁴, making it look much brighter from a distance.

For another example, Meng Po Soup⁵ went from being served in bowls to being packaged in boxes; it was said to be machine-packaged, which was very convenient, and saved Meng Po a lot of effort.

Also, also, the ghost messengers⁶ had all started using cell phones, but the world of the living had its own signal, and the underworld had its own signal; the two service areas were not interconnected.

It was just that this path of reincarnation was a bit crowded recently. Everyone took a number and queued up, the line was especially long, and you couldn’t get through it in less than two or three days.

Fortunately, the new-century underworld was very user-friendly. They had set up a hot spring business on the edge of the Yellow Spring, allowing her and the beautiful boss to soak in the hot springs while waiting for reincarnation.

The little alpaca, who had been exhausted for a long time, finally got to relax properly before reincarnating.

Hot springs, ah. It had been many years since she had the leisure to soak in a hot spring.

Huu…

This water temperature is so comfortable.

The little alpaca closed her eyes, leaning sideways against the pebble-lined wall of the hot spring. Her whole body was submerged in the hot spring, with only her long neck and small head exposed above the warm spring water.

So comfortable, ah. If that non-mainstream⁷ beautiful boss with the slender eyes and dyed red hair also came to soak, I wonder what style of swimsuit she would wear.

Her figure is actually not bad.

However, why is it that while soaking, it suddenly feels very hot on my jio⁸?

The little alpaca opened her eyes with a look of alarm, only to see that many condiments for boiling a clear-broth hot pot⁹ had suddenly been added to this “hot spring water,” and the place where she was was no longer a hot spring, but a super-large iron pot, and beside the iron pot, a small black dog was puffing its cheeks, continuously spitting fire at the bottom of the pot!

Grass Mud Horse¹⁰! She was about to be cooked!

Why, why even after she died, could she still not escape the fate of becoming an ingredient…

The more the little alpaca thought, the sadder she became, and she couldn’t help but frantically kick her four little short legs, starting to tumble around in the hot pot like crazy.

“Ugh…” Luo Mingyuan suddenly let out a muffled grunt.

Chao Yun, who was grinding herbs at the side of the table, turned her head to look: “Are you alright?”

“I’m…” Luo Mingyuan subconsciously leaned back a bit.

He looked at the little alpaca struggling for her life before him, fell silent for a moment, and finally stretched out his hands, grabbing two legs with each hand, and forcefully held down the little alpaca’s four wildly kicking little legs.

“Don’t cook me, stop cooking! I’m not tasty!” the little alpaca shrieked and flipped over.

She raised her long neck, struggling with her four pinned legs while opening her terror-filled eyes. With her four limbs restrained, her sideways sitting posture appeared particularly comical.

She stared blankly at her little hooves, but her mind was full of that strange dream from just now.

She felt that she had probably gone silly. Was she not being dominated enough by the on-strike villain bird in this world?

How come when she got to her dream, she still had to be dominated by the strong career woman bird in another world?

Wait, when did she fall unconscious?

What happened before she fell unconscious?

The little alpaca let out a thoughtful “En…” and fell into a brief moment of recollection.

She remembered now. They had encountered the vicious beast Huodou in a strange stone cave in Wuzhou. To cover everyone’s escape, You Yan stayed behind alone to bring up the rear.

Her brain spazzed out; she could have run, but instead, she recklessly turned back.

Later, Jiang Yuyao and Luo Mingyuan also turned back. She suddenly became bigger and was carrying You Yan to escape, but her stamina was consumed incredibly fast, and she inexplicably turned into a “0.”

After that, she passed out.

Before she passed out, she seemed to have seen Luo Mingyuan getting beaten violently by the Huodou…

In that case, she should be dead.

The next second, Yi Qiu met Luo Mingyuan’s bewildered eyes.

In the very next second, the terror in her eyes also gradually turned into bewilderment.

Why was she on a bed?

Why was Luo Mingyuan squatting in front of her bed, tightly gripping her hooves?

Just like that, one person and one alpaca stared wide-eyed at each other for a long while. Finally, the little alpaca tilted her head and blinked.

“No… if you don’t understand, just ask… is this the underworld?”

“This is Xicheng¹¹.” Chao Yun stood up with a faint smile. Her long braid hung in front of her chest, and she held a medicine mortar¹² in her hands. She walked a few steps to the bedside and sat down. Her fair right hand released the pestle¹³ and gently rubbed the little alpaca’s fluffy head a couple of times. “Be a little good, don’t move your little feet anymore. We’ll clean them first, then change your medicine, okay?”

Yi Qiu subconsciously glanced at her four pinned hooves, then looked up at Luo Mingyuan, only to discover that there was a red mark the size of an alpaca hoof on his left cheek near his eye.

So, just now I… kicked him in the face?

I’m so dead! You don’t hit people in the face when you fight. I was just having a dream, how did I end up kicking someone in the face…

Fortunately, it’s faint and not very obvious. I can pretend I don’t know.

Thinking this, the little alpaca blinked her eyes with an innocent look, turned her head towards Chao Yun and nodded repeatedly, explaining in a small voice: “I just had a nightmare. I dreamed that that black dog was going to cook and eat me…”

Hearing this, Luo Mingyuan wanted to laugh but was too embarrassed to. He released the little alpaca’s four legs for a moment, lowered his head to stifle his laughter, and continued to clean the scalded little hooves.

“Hiss—” The little alpaca’s hoof trembled involuntarily.

Chao Yun smoothed the little alpaca’s fur and said: “It will hurt a little, endure it for a bit.”

“En…” Yi Qiu nodded obediently, then suddenly remembered something and subconsciously glanced at her attributes.

Her spiritual root had dropped to two hundred.

But in the “You Yan’s Favorability” column, an astonishing number was written—6005!

Yi Qiu suddenly felt her heart being fiercely clenched. She hurriedly looked towards Chao Yun and asked worriedly: “You… What about my master? Is she still, still…”

“She’s not in any serious danger, she’s sleeping now,” Chao Yun said softly.

“En!” The little alpaca’s eyes lit up instantly.

That’s great! You Yan is still alive!

As expected, ah, a scourge is left behind for a thousand years¹⁴. Such a major villain wouldn’t die that easily.

However, the Huodou was so formidable, how did everyone survive?

And how did Chao Yun appear here?

During the time she was unconscious, just how many things had happened?

“How long was I asleep?” Yi Qiu raised her eyes and asked.

“Just five days, I suppose,” Chao Yun replied.

“Five days!” Yi Qiu couldn’t help but be astonished. She wasn’t really injured, so how could she have been unconscious for so long?

“You, ah, you’re really not afraid of death.” Chao Yun stroked the soft fur on the back of the little alpaca’s neck and asked with a frown, “Reversing your demonic power to change your body size, who taught you that method?”

Re… rev… reversing demonic power?

Incredible. No wonder I felt so tired and so awful at the time!

This system is really a treasure talent¹⁵, ah. I’ve really picked up a ghost¹⁶ with this, haven’t I?

Thinking this, Yi Qiu took a deep breath and continued to ask: “What about the big black dog? Is it dead?”

She tilted her head and looked towards Luo Mingyuan: “Little pig trotter, did you kill that big black dog?”

“Me? Impossible…” Luo Mingyuan shook his head. “I passed out. When I woke up, I was here. It was Sixth Shijie who saved us.”

“I came down the mountain to gain experience and traveled all the way to Xicheng. I heard that nearby Wuzhou hasn’t been very peaceful lately, so I went to investigate. I didn’t see any demons or monsters, only the few of you, half-dead.”

As Chao Yun spoke, she frowned, “You all, what on earth did you provoke? To be injured to this extent.”

“You didn’t see anything?” Yi Qiu began to describe without any exaggeration, “A really big black dog, wherever it walked, that place would burn, and it could also breathe fire!”

After listening, Chao Yun just shook her head: “By the time I rushed over, I didn’t see anything except for you all.”

Yi Qiu couldn’t help but be stunned upon hearing this. After a brief silence, a few guesses formed in her heart.

In the original novel, Chao Yun had always been an infatuated female number two who silently protected the male and female leads. She wouldn’t follow the male and female leads around all the time, but she would always be following in the shadows, and no matter what she sacrificed, she would not say it out loud easily.

That Huodou was so ferocious, how could it have let them go?

At the moment of crisis, it must have been Chao Yun who took action and saved everyone!

Reasonable, this is very reasonable.

Luo Mingyuan patted Yi Qiu’s little leg: “Alright, the medicine can be applied now.”

Being patted by him like this, Yi Qiu was suddenly struck by a realization.

Luo Mingyuan was washing her feet!

Just now, the Heavenly Emperor’s precious son, the Heavenly Realm’s Crown Prince, was actually washing her feet!

And at this very moment, her little hoof was taken by Chao Yun, and medicine was being applied bit by bit.

Help me, the Heavenly Realm’s Wood God is actually applying medicine to her little hoof!

She, an alpaca, by what virtue or what ability deserved such treatment!

This probably won’t shorten my lifespan¹⁷, right?

The little alpaca watched the entire process of the medicine application while trembling. Only when she saw her little hoof being wrapped in circles of gauze did her tense nerves relax a little.

The moment Luo Mingyuan and Chao Yun left, she jumped off the bed.

“Ah—”

The moment her four feet landed on the ground, there was only one word in her mind—pain!

The little alpaca limped and waddled her butt out of the room.

This place was a small courtyard, with not many rooms. She explored them one by one and soon found You Yan in the third room.

Yi Qiu lightened her steps and slowly walked to the bedside.

You Yan was rarely lying in the middle of the bed. She looked like she was sleeping very peacefully, and the wounds on her body had also been bandaged very well.

Yi Qiu let out a long sigh of relief and couldn’t resist stretching her neck to gently nuzzle You Yan’s hand a couple of times.

After nuzzling the little hand, the little alpaca raised her head, and in an instant, she met You Yan’s deep pupils.

“You Yan…” Yi Qiu was stunned for a long while before she came back to her senses and asked timidly, “Were you woken up by me?”

“You…”

“Me?” The little alpaca tilted her head in confusion.

“Stupid…” You Yan frowned, reaching out to randomly knead the soft fur on the back of the little alpaca’s neck, the force a little greater than usual.

Yi Qiu leaned her neck forward, being unusually quiet and obediently complying with You Yan for once.

After a brief kneading, You Yan stared at her for a long time.

Finally, she curved her brows and asked: “You want… to be like a person, right?”

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