NOVEL NEXT 03
Chapter 3: Goodwill at 0.2, steadily rising!…
Yi Er was stunned when he heard this sentence. But soon, his expression returned to normal.
Whether it’s a concubine or a queen, they are the same in his eyes. The only difference is the status brought by different titles.
In the end, they are all just objects for male zergs to satisfy their mating and sadistic desires.
Even so, there are countless female zergs rushing to offer themselves to male zergs.
He couldn’t understand, why do female zergs like being submissive so much?
Anyway, he didn’t like it.
But if it could make those zergs who treated him as an oddity and looked down on him feel ashamed, then the title of queen didn’t sound too bad.
“You don’t need to intervene. I can handle him myself,” Yi Er said as he sat in his aircraft.
Qi Yao smirked slightly, “You’re about to be my queen. Would I, as the male master, just stand by and watch my queen being bullied?”
Yi Er didn’t say anything more.
The aircraft leaped lightly and flew straight to the lower district.
In the end, he couldn’t personally escort Yi Er home, but instead, Yi Er ended up escorting him back.
They didn’t even have dinner. Apart from gaining a Schrödinger-style fiancée, Qi Yao was now penniless.
Qi Yao couldn’t tell whether he should be happy or worried.
Suddenly, Yi Er asked him, “Do you have a terminal?”
Qi Yao: “… No.”
That kind of high-tech product, which was so valuable that it was only popular in the aristocratic circle, was something Qi Yao, a commoner, could only observe from afar, not possess.
Yi Er threw him a delicately packaged small box.
Curious, Qi Yao opened it and saw something that looked very much like an electronic watch.
“What is this…”
Yi Er looked ahead, “Terminal. The Empress and Emperor should meet with you tomorrow. When the time comes, I’ll use this to notify you to come pick me up.”
Qi Yao thought to himself, feeling a bit guilty about receiving such a valuable terminal as a gift right after they met.
“Don’t like it?” Yi Er asked when he didn’t say anything.
“I like it.”
“Inside is my terminal number. From now on, I’ll contact you through the terminal.”
“Okay, thank you.” Qi Yao felt a bit overwhelmed. He thought about returning an equally valuable gift to Yi Er, but he really had no money left.
After hesitating for a long time, Qi Yao finally said, “I don’t have a gift to give you right now. I’ll owe you one. When I come across a suitable gift for you, I’ll give it to you then.”
Yi Er glanced at Qi Yao with a hint of energy and realized he was sincere, without any pretense.
A male zerg, actually earnestly considering what gift to give his future queen. He had never heard of any male zerg doing this.
Noble male zergs, aren’t they supposed to just lie at home, carefully cared for by female zergs, and be served without thinking? They scold female zergs when they’re happy, and hit them when they’re unhappy. They don’t need to think about what gifts to give to female zergs.
How could there be a male zerg who cares about what gifts are suitable for female zergs, and what gifts they like?
“You also gave me a suppressant, didn’t you?” Yi Er said.
“Can they be compared?” How much does a tube of suppressant cost? Qi Yao thought, the accounts can’t be calculated like this.
Yi Er fell silent for a moment, “Since you say so, then let’s leave it at that for now.”
“Okay.”
After Qi Yao was dropped off in the lower district, Yi Er left.
“Host, good news! Just now, because of the mention of giving gifts, Yi Er’s goodwill towards you has increased by another 0.1 percentage point! It’s now at 0.2 percent!” The system excitedly reported this news.
Qi Yao remained expressionless, “Wow, we’re only 99.8 percent away from completing the task!”
The system: “…”
It seems like there’s still a long way to go.
The system felt dejected again.
Qi Yao cheered up the system and himself, “Cheer up, the beginning is always difficult, but we’ve started off well. Look, as long as I flatter him and go along with his wishes, we can accumulate 0.1 percent goodwill every day. At this rate and in this way, as long as I stroke Yi Er’s fur a thousand times, we’ll complete the task, right?”
As long as there’s no love-hate relationship, anything can be done, right? Isn’t it just pandering? Isn’t it just acting according to someone’s mood? No big deal!
In the face of all difficulties, there’s only one word to treat the boss.
Kneel.
As a qualified corporate slave who has been rolling around in the Blue Star, Qi Yao knows this well.
*
The lower district is not like the bustling upper district. Here, the street lights are dim, the red bricks and tiles are worn out, every cobblestone alley is filled with a strong sense of life.
The clanging of old mechs, the cracking of whips, the occasional suppressed sobbing, and the occasionally faint but pungent pheromones drifting by, together form the normal life of the lower district.
Qi Yao walked along the dim and damp alley, turned three corners, and returned to his residence.
A small apartment of fifty square meters, with one bedroom, one living room, and one kitchen.
The original owner had always longed to ascend to the aristocracy, so he kept his shabby little apartment clean, hoping that when a female zerg who caught his eye suddenly visited, he wouldn’t lose face too much.
According to the prompts from the system and the memories inherited from the original owner, Qi Yao learned that the original owner’s male and female fathers were both from humble origins.
Because the female father was abandoned by the male father, he returned to the lower district to live out his old age alone, while the original owner, as a male offspring, was left with the father. If it weren’t for the father’s impoverished life in his later years, having to support a bunch of crippled female concubines and servants, as well as taking care of a house full of male and female offspring, the original owner wouldn’t have left his father to find his mother.
Then, after a fierce drinking spree, the mother never woke up again, leaving this fifty-square-meter small apartment to the original owner.
Qi Yao returned home, tidied up the borrowed high-end clothing, thinking that if he had to meet the emperor and empress of the zergs tomorrow, then this outfit couldn’t be returned, and the deposit couldn’t be retrieved either. Ah, he didn’t have a single penny left in his hands.
Speaking of which, he didn’t even get to eat the expensive candlelit dinner at the aerial restaurant, and now he was a bit hungry.
He rummaged through his belongings and found some expired nutrient solution. Qi Yao poured it down his throat without hesitation, then lay on the bed and examined the gift Yi Er had given him.
After carefully studying it for a while, Qi Yao quietly put the terminal on his wrist and muttered to himself, “Is this thing waterproof?”
The system: “Waterproof, fireproof, theft-proof, once bonded, it’s for life. This is a good thing, Host. General Yi Er is so generous to you!”
Qi Yao, who was trapped by money, asked, “How much does this thing cost?”
The system: “The key is not the value of the terminal, but the goodwill from General Yi Er to you, isn’t it? The terminal is precious, but the goodwill is even more valuable.”
“…Makes sense.”
Being a male zerg is great! No wonder the original owner wanted to cling to Yi Er’s thigh. Just by stroking Yi Er’s fur a bit, Yi Er gave him a terminal. It shows that Yi Er isn’t as brutal as described in the original text, and it also shows that the original owner’s way of sucking up was incorrect.
The days ahead are still long, and he’s confident he can achieve a perfect outcome!
After pondering for a while, Qi Yao turned on the terminal. The terminal automatically recognized his information, and then, a lifelike hologram appeared before his eyes.
Having seen a lot of high-tech on Blue Star, Qi Yao didn’t show much surprise. He clicked here and there steadily. Before fully exploring the various functions of the terminal, a video call request from Yi Er came through.
After hesitating for two seconds, Qi Yao answered the video call.
In the hologram, Yi Er was still piloting the aircraft without glancing sideways. “You’ve started using it?”
“Yeah.” Qi Yao knew Yi Er was referring to the terminal.
Yi Er said, “I’ve greeted the emperor and empress. I’ll come to pick you up tomorrow at ten… Hmm? What’s that on your desk?”
With this sentence, Qi Yao also looked at the desk in front of him.
Two glass bottles stood neatly on the old yet clean desktop, with the labels on them still clearly visible: “Special Grade Nutrient Solution for Male zergs.”
Yi Er’s voice came through the terminal, “Did you drink this tonight?”
Qi Yao: “Huh? Yeah… I thought it was water.”
In the hologram, Yi Er lowered his head and fumbled for a while, not knowing what he was doing. After about half a minute, he raised his head again.
Qi Yao heard a “ding” from the terminal, and Yi Er spoke again, “You were in a hurry at the aerial restaurant and didn’t eat anything. If this gets out, they’ll say I, this female zerg, am irresponsible… Anyway, I don’t care. I’ve sent you some money, consider it the expense for this blind date. Go eat something, don’t show up tomorrow looking malnourished in front of the emperor and empress.”
After ending the call, Qi Yao looked at the account on the terminal.
The account was new, with Qi Yao as the account holder.
Yes, this poor zerg of the original owner didn’t even have a savings account.
Qi Yao stared at the string of numbers and asked the system, “How much did I spend on the table at the aerial restaurant?”
The system: “Including the meal, a total of 28,888 star coins.”
Qi Yao: “But Yi Er sent me a hundred thousand.”
System: “Host, to General Yi Er, a hundred thousand seems as inconspicuous as leg hair.”
Qi Yao hesitated, “I know, but with a hundred thousand star coins, I don’t even have a single star coin now. How am I going to repay in the future?”
Is this the feeling of clinging to someone’s thigh and living off them?
What to do? The thought of the terrifying outcome of being disowned and tortured by the sugar daddy made him feel uncontrollably anxious.
But it feels so good!
“System, what’s the current level of favorability?” Qi Yao asked, wanting to enjoy yet afraid to enjoy.
The system glanced at it and said, “0.2, steady as ever!”