NOVGO.NET Chapter 71: The Overachiever and the Sales Guru
Chapter 71: Chapter 71: The Overachiever and the Sales Guru
The men were still feeling a bit regretful that Su Luoluo had rejected the duty roster.
When they suddenly heard that Xi Yi wanted to form a totem bond with Su Luoluo, the four of them immediately looked up at her in unison.
Su Luoluo was also stunned to hear this.
’This Xi Yi is certainly persistent.’
The corner of her mouth twitched. She tried to be tactful. "Why don’t you reconsider? After all, with someone like me... well, you can still look for someone else."
Admitting you’re ugly is an embarrassing thing to do, and Su Luoluo was no exception.
Although she had long since accepted this fact, saying it aloud in front of everyone was another matter entirely. Su Luoluo did her best to phrase it delicately, at least to save a little face.
It was unclear whether Xi Yi genuinely didn’t understand or was just pretending not to. Hearing her words, he simply smiled and said, "There’s no need to reconsider. I think Luoluo is great."
’It’s impossible to get through to this Beastman.’
Su Luoluo felt they weren’t getting anywhere, so she changed the subject. "But I don’t want to right now."
"Why?" Xi Yi asked blankly.
"Because you haven’t proven yourself to me yet."
Su Luoluo didn’t dare to reject him outright. What if that unreliable system suddenly assigned another mission involving him? If she couldn’t find him then, she’d be completely helpless.
Xi Yi looked a little dejected. "All right, then! What do I have to do to prove to you that I’m good enough?"
Su Luoluo said coolly, "I can’t tell you that. You’ll have to figure it out for yourself."
Xi Yi fell silent for a moment. Then, just as quickly, he nodded, a happy look on his face. "I’ve got it."
The speed at which his expression changed took Su Luoluo by surprise.
She had expected him to get moody or something, but she never thought he’d cheer himself up so quickly.
His eyes were bright and filled with confidence. Faced with such a gaze, Su Luoluo couldn’t bring herself to dash his hopes, so she just nodded and said, "As long as you know."
Hearing Su Luoluo refuse the totem bond, the four men were both surprised and delighted.
They never expected Su Luoluo to actually give up such a golden opportunity.
She had really changed so much these past few days.
Not only had she learned to cook, but she’d also gotten much prettier. Most strikingly, her personality had become far more likable than before.
As they spent more time with Su Luoluo over the past few days, the men realized they no longer disliked her; in fact, they found her quite interesting.
But then there was the matter of the duty roster today...
They were also shocked that she hadn’t agreed to it.
This was clearly something she would have been desperate for in the past.
Su Luoluo had no way of knowing what her Beastmen were thinking. After dealing with Xi Yi, she immersed herself in making breakfast.
Meanwhile, the rest of the tribe was in an uproar because of their group’s recent actions.
The square, usually packed with Beastmen queuing for breakfast, now only held a sparse line of young and unmarried Beastmen.
Lan Ya looked at the nearly empty square, confused. "Where did all the Beastmen go? Why are there so few here today?"
The eyes of the females standing nearby flickered at her question. They lowered their heads slightly and remained silent.
Their strange behavior made Lan Ya suspicious. She swept her gaze over the females. "So quiet, not a single word. Out with it. Where did they go?"
At her words, only an older female spoke up with a smile. "Leader’s Wife, don’t mind them. They went out early this morning to hunt for beast skin. They should be back soon."
"Hunting for beast skin? So many of them?" Lan Ya asked, astonished.
People had hunted for beast skin in the past, but never this many at the same time, and especially not in the morning.
The older female smiled. "This morning, Luoluo wore a new Beast Skin Skirt. It looked very nice, and now everyone wants one, so the females have sent their Beastmen to go hunt for beast skin."
Lan Ya’s expression stiffened. ’What on earth is that Su Luoluo up to every day?’
’Getting the whole tribe to copy her over a single skirt.’
The Beastmen of the tribe had plenty of unspoken grievances about this matter.
They had been out hunting for beast skin since the crack of dawn for one reason only: Su Luoluo’s Beastmen had raised the bar by hunting so much of it, and now their own females were clamoring for the same.
Su Luoluo’s Beastmen were all Fifth-stage Beastmen, so of course, they were fast hunters.
Most Beastmen in the tribe were considered decent if they reached the Third Rank, so to get any beast skin at all, they had no choice but to set out early.
Luckily, while Fu Feng and his group were exceptionally fast, the rest of the men were much slower. This helped lower the average expectation, so hunting just two pieces of beast skin was enough.
This competition was absolutely brutal.
The first thing the females did after receiving the beast skin was to find Su Luoluo and ask for the Beast Skin Skirt pattern.
Su Luoluo delegated the entire task to Cai Xia and Ah Zhu.
’Teaching them one-on-one is too exhausting,’ she thought. ’It’s better to just teach a couple of team leaders and let them take it from there!’
Cai Xia was enthusiastic and Ah Zhu was meticulous. The two of them partnered up and produced excellent results.
Thanks to this widespread popularity, one day when Su Luoluo went out, she was secretly astonished to see that every female in the entire tribe was wearing her style of Beast Skin Skirt.
’Damn, did I just accidentally become a fashion influencer?’
Lan Ya had once criticized Su Luoluo for not being helpful enough with her popular Beast Skin Skirt design.
To this, Su Luoluo’s counter was that she needed to research how to transport salt on a large scale.
Since this was a major affair for the tribe, the tribespeople were understanding, and Lan Ya had no choice but to let the matter drop.
...
After finishing the breakfast Su Luoluo made, Xi Yi left the "wild kitchen" to go hunt for beast skin.
He found a deep stretch of forest, glanced around, and then snapped his fingers.
Before long, a young, bear-eared boy appeared before him. He clasped his hands together in a salute and, looking at the man before him, said, "My King, you summoned me?"
Xi Yi gestured with his chin. "There’s some noisy prey up ahead. Get me some pelts, but only the white ones."
"Yes," Guli replied with a nod.
He waved his hand, and his figure disappeared from Xi Yi’s sight like a lightning-fast shadow.
Not long after, he returned with seven or eight white fox pelts. "My King, is this enough?"
Xi Yi was lounging on a tree branch, hands pillowed behind his head and legs crossed, with a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.
He glanced down at the pelts. "You got too many. Pick out the five largest ones and set them aside."
"Yes!" Guli did as he was told.
After sorting through the beast skin, he looked up at the man in the tree, looking as if he wanted to say something but was hesitating.
Seeing him repeatedly glance his way, Xi Yi said lazily, "If you have something on your mind, just say it."
Only then did Guli finally voice the question on his mind. "My King, do you really plan to form a totem bond with that Su Luoluo?"
’If that’s truly the case,’ he thought, ’then frankly, the future queen’s appearance is... difficult to describe.’
’Every single one of the females his subjects so carefully selected for him was more beautiful than her.’
’I have no idea what the King is thinking.’
Xi Yi toyed with the blade of grass in his hand and chuckled. "Why not? She’s quite amusing, isn’t she?"
"My King!"
Hearing his king’s casual tone, Guli grew anxious. "But Su Luoluo looks the way she does... the cubs will be ugly."
Hearing this, Xi Yi chuckled softly. "You’re already thinking that far ahead."
’How is that thinking far ahead?’ he thought. ’Isn’t it obvious to anyone with eyes?’
To Guli’s confusion, Xi Yi only said faintly, "Guli, don’t forget. This is a divine directive."