Free Web NovelChapter 44: Chapter 44: No Market for Greasy Guys
Gu Zhao cleared her throat and looked at the livestream drone. "Oh my! We’ve found some wild cards!"
Zhong Mingrui caught on this time. He quickly looked left and right. "Big King! No one’s claiming these cards, so they must be ours now!"
Gu Xulin: ...
’Such over-the-top acting. Who would actually fall for this?’
"Wow! Big King is amazing! You can even find wild cards just by walking around!" Song Yi’s face was full of admiration.
’Just keep spoiling her, why don’t you!’
Little Eagle was happy too. It flew down, landed on Gu Zhao’s shoulder, and nuzzled her cheek.
Gu Zhao felt the soft, furry nuzzle against her face, and her heart melted.
Stroking Little Eagle’s feathers, she said, seemingly offhandedly, "It would be great if more cards fell from the sky. This hot weather is perfect for a card shower."
Little Eagle, who was enjoying the petting, perked up instantly upon hearing this!
"Sister! I know where there’s more! Wait for me, I’ll go get them all for you!"
Gu Zhao fought to keep the corners of her mouth from turning up, looking at the sky, then at the ground.
Little Eagle flew off happily.
[Isn’t this cheating?]
[Cheating? What cheating? It’s just a few cards that can fly, what’s all the fuss about?]
[You’re not supposed to have animals help, but you can’t stop them if they insist on helping. It’s not like you can just lock them up.]
Gu Zhao looked through the three new cards.
Shear the wool of five alpacas.
Prepare a meal for the picky raccoon and make sure it eats at least one-third of it.
The last card was: Clean one-third of the aviary.
The group looked at the three cards and decided to go shear the alpacas first.
Song Yi was a bit reluctant about the alpaca shearing task. "Big King, alpacas love to spit on people!"
Song Zhe nodded quickly in agreement.
The animal companion at their cabin was an alpaca, and the two of them got spat on several times a day.
It would spit at the slightest disagreement.
At first, they would try to dodge, but later, Song Yi started fighting back, and the two of them would have spitting contests.
Every day, the cabin reeked of spit.
Gu Zhao wanted to pat his shoulder to comfort him, but then she had a thought...
’Does his shirt have alpaca spit on it?’
Gu Zhao silently withdrew her hand, cleared her throat, and said, "When we get back, I’ll teach it a lesson for you."
Song Yi was instantly overjoyed. "Long live Big King!"
[Silly boy, she’s grossed out by you. Go give her a hug~]
[Hurry up and go! There’s a surprise waiting over there!]
The group arrived at the alpaca area, cheerful and excited, only to be completely dumbfounded.
On a grassy field, alpacas were chasing two people, spitting furiously as saliva flew everywhere.
"It’s that annoying pest and his sister!" Zhong Mingrui was thrilled to see Yu Zimo being chased and spat on by the alpacas.
"He bullied Big King! This is what he deserves." Song Yi was also beaming. He felt this was a case of an evil person getting their just deserts!
The alpacas were excitedly chasing and spitting on the two people who were afraid of them when they suddenly seemed to sense something. They all stopped in their tracks and looked toward Gu Zhao.
"Is that the sister the sparrow was talking about, the one who can understand us?" one alpaca said, secretly taking a few steps toward Gu Zhao.
But before it could get far, a companion spotted it and kicked it back with a hoof. "We’re avenging our sister right now! If you go over there, won’t it look like she told us to do this?!"
"You stupid ’paca! You’re a disgrace to all alpacas."
The other alpacas quietly spat on it a few times as well.
’If it made our sister angry, they would offer it up to her as a sacrifice!’
’They had heard that everyone loves to eat mutton, so alpaca meat should be just as good.’
Yu Xiaowei noticed the alpacas’ reaction. She scrambled away from their attack and looked in Gu Zhao’s direction.
When she saw Gu Zhao and her group, a hint of pleasant surprise appeared in her eyes.
Yu Zimo, on the other hand, was furious when he saw Gu Zhao.
He was convinced Gu Zhao had come to laugh at him!
Taking advantage of the alpacas’ distraction, Yu Zimo quickly ran out and walked over to Gu Zhao’s group.
Gu Xulin instinctively stepped in front of Gu Zhao.
When Yu Xiaowei saw him go over, she felt her vision go black with despair.
’Why is he asking for trouble again?!’
Yu Zimo glared at Gu Zhao, his expression dark and his tone exceptionally hostile. "Gu Zhao! Did you know this would happen all along? Did you bring them here on purpose to laugh at me?!"
His chest heaved, and the fury in his eyes was about to spill over.
Clearly, he was blaming Gu Zhao for the embarrassing predicament of being cornered by the alpacas.
Gu Zhao: ??!!
’Buddy, do you even hear the nonsense you’re spouting?’
Gu Zhao raised her hand.
Yu Zimo instinctively recoiled. The moment he saw her raise her hand, he felt a stinging pain on his cheek.
Zhong Mingrui looked at him with disgust. "Could you please stop offering up your face to be slapped? It hurts Big King’s hand to hit you."
Gu Zhao nodded in agreement.
Yu Zimo felt even more humiliated. He glared at them and snorted coldly. "You were following me, and you won’t even admit it."
Song Yi couldn’t hold back either. "Who’d want to follow you? Big King already said that greasy guys like you have no market."
Song Zhe facepalmed. ’What on earth has my little brother been learning?!’
Being talked back to repeatedly made Yu Zimo even more furious. He looked at them, his voice growing more sinister, as if laced with ice. "Don’t think you can control me like this. If you piss me off, can you really bear the consequences?"
The two younger ones were intimidated by him, but Gu Zhao said coolly, "What are you daydreaming about? A guy like you could never get hot."
Yu Zimo: ??
’Was that what I meant?’
"Don’t change the subject!"
Gu Zhao rolled her eyes at him. "Narcissism is a disease. You should get it treated."
[I’m dying laughing! Does Yu Zimo have a persecution complex or something?]
[I guess poor people like me can’t afford a persecution complex. I can’t exactly imagine Gu Zhao is after the eighteen yuan in my WeChat balance.]
[Hahahaha, did Yu Zimo’s brain get kicked by an alpaca? She wasn’t even paying attention to him!]
Ignoring the scowling Yu Zimo, Gu Zhao and her group walked into the alpaca enclosure.
The alpacas all lowered their heads, looking very guilty.
’SOB SOB SOB, we forgot to stop that bad two-legged brat.’
’It’s over. We even let him be mean to our sister.’
They all kept their heads down, though a few defiant ones glared fiercely at Yu Zimo.
Gu Zhao approached them and patted the head of a fluffy white alpaca.
The petted alpaca fell to the ground with a THUD.
Gu Zhao silently withdrew her hand.
Seeing this, the other alpacas were extremely jealous and sneakily stepped on the one on the ground.
[I’m past the point of just saying ’I’m jealous’!! Now I’m just shouting: GIMME! GIMME! I WANT! Send over the alpacas and Gu Zhao!]
[I’ve figured out how to understand animals like Gu Zhao! The secret is just three words! Lie down, dream.]
Yu Zimo was still glaring viciously at them.
Gu Zhao’s group learned how to shear from a nearby keeper. Unlike with Yu Zimo and his sister, the alpacas were fighting to be the one chosen by Gu Zhao.
And they were all spotlessly clean alpacas, too.
Any unclean ones were kicked away by the others.
Gu Zhao’s group completed the task with ease, and at the moment they received the completion stamp...
Yu Zimo felt as if he had just been hit by another invisible slap.
