Peach-Orange! – Chapter 205 – Xiaocheng’s Revival Countdown

What kind of rational man was he, always pretending to be so deep in thought?

This bastard, it was about time he exploded with emotional points.

Late at night after being brought home by Su Tao, Chi Xiaocheng listened to the constant system notifications in her mind. The anxiety she had been feeling immediately eased considerably.

Although she had burned through a lot of emotional points using illusion skills along the way, Chu Lingfeng had provided quite a few in return.

Combined with the points Si Chen contributed by losing sleep over her note, Chi Xiaocheng now had another 1,400 emotional points.

Chu Lingfeng was a new character, and Si Chen usually didn’t generate many emotions in the first place, making him practically “90% new.”

The initial contributions from these two were quite substantial.

Chi Xiaocheng felt confident she could save up the 3,000 emotional points needed to exchange for the Poisoned Apple before her revival.

Even in her doll form, she couldn’t just laze around at home doing nothing while Su Tao was out during the day.

She needed to go out, conceal her situation, and approach various named characters from the original story to harvest emotional points.

But before that, she needed a mode of transportation.

Chi Xiaocheng browsed through the system store and soon found what she was looking for.

[Animal Communication Pills: A box containing two pills. After the host consumes one and gives the other to an animal, they can communicate with each other. Both parties will understand each other’s speech, but be cautious about giving it to animals with excessively low intelligence, as they may still fail to communicate properly.]

[Price: 2,000 emotional points.]

“So expensive!”

Chi Xiaocheng clicked her tongue. Still, considering this was a permanent effect, the high price made some sense.

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But buying this clearly wasn’t feasible.

First, it was too expensive. She didn’t have nearly enough emotional points.

Second, King was a dumb cat, clearly of rock-bottom intelligence, and the description explicitly warned against giving it to low-IQ animals.

Third, as a doll, she couldn’t ingest pills anyway.

So she had to settle for the next best thing.

Chi Xiaocheng soon found an alternative:

A 400-point Virtual Perception Pill with similar effects, but with the host fixed as her. After King consumed it, the two would be linked, though with weakened results.

Chi Xiaocheng still wouldn’t understand what King was saying, but King would be able to more intuitively grasp the meaning behind Chi Xiaocheng’s words.

That’s right, not understand her words, but perceive their intent.

Like a well-trained pet, only far more direct and intelligent.

The next day, while Su Tao was out working at the café, Chi Xiaocheng exchanged for the pill.

After an epic 300-round battle with King, she finally managed to force the pill into its mouth.

Once it swallowed the pill, King tried to carry Chi Xiaocheng around in its jaws as usual.

Wanting to test the pill’s effects, Chi Xiaocheng immediately feigned anger.

“You stupid cat, if you keep swinging me around like this, I swear I’ll eat cat meat next time!”

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“Meow?!”

This wasn’t the first time Chi Xiaocheng had said something like this.

Every time before, King would just keep tossing her around like always.

But this time, King’s eyes widened in clear surprise.

Then it became docile, pressing its head against Chi Xiaocheng’s doll face and nuzzling her gently.

Chi Xiaocheng’s current body was only about the size of an adult’s palm. To her, King was practically a giant.

But clearly, King had understood her words!

Chi Xiaocheng continued testing.

“Sit.”

King obediently sat down.

“Spin left three times, then spin right once.”

King promptly executed the command.

“Backflip.”

This one seemed a bit harder. King froze for two or three seconds before attempting a backflip, its agile body pulling it off effortlessly.

“Turn into a catgirl.”

“?”

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After several tests, Chi Xiaocheng roughly figured it out: King could understand simple commands. For slightly more complex ones, it needed time to think.

If it couldn’t do something, it would just stare blankly. The pill didn’t just let King comprehend her, it also seemed to boost King’s intelligence slightly.

The training was a success. Now, when Su Tao wasn’t home, she wouldn’t have to worry as much about being discovered while outside.

Chi Xiaocheng climbed onto King’s back.

“Let’s go, time to head out!”

With her mount trained, Chi Xiaocheng spent the next few days using King to familiarize herself with the surrounding areas.

Her main focus was the Si family residence where Chu Lingfeng stayed. Aside from him, there were three other named side characters from the original story:

Si Lai (Si Chen’s younger brother), Si Zhenliu (the family elder), and a butler in his 40s.

Take Chen Qian as an example. In the original story, she only appeared for about ten chapters total. Even someone like her could provide a small amount of emotional points.

So as long as a character had more narrative weight than Chen Qian, they could be farmed for points.

Someone like Xiaowei, who in the original was just a sleepy roommate whose name wasn’t even mentioned, naturally couldn’t provide anything.

The three at the Si residence all had significant roles in Si Chen’s storyline.

Si Lai was the classic brainless cannon fodder. In the original, he fell for Su Tao at first sight, was used as a pawn by Si Chen’s elder brother, and died early.

Si Zhenliu was a minor boss. In the original, he also interacted with Chu Lingfeng and caused plenty of trouble for Su Tao and Si Chen.

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The butler was the typical messenger, but he had a side arc about saving his family, after which he’d join Su Tao’s faction.

After spending several days scoping out the residence, Chi Xiaocheng began her late-night operations.

Using her illusion skills, she created “haunting” incidents to stir up panic.

Chu Lingfeng knew Chi Xiaocheng was targeting him again and provided small amounts of emotional points, though nothing like the windfall from their first encounter.

The butler, annoyed by the “haunting,” didn’t contribute much due to his low narrative weight.

Si Lai, the younger brother, provided the most points. He wet himself after one scare and kept calling Si Chen in terror, which even transferred some emotional points from Si Chen himself.

After a few rounds, not only had she recouped the 400 points spent on King’s obedience pill, but she’d also earned an extra 2,000 points!

But the highest-value target, Si Zhenliu, remained nowhere to be seen, leaving Chi Xiaocheng unsure how to proceed.

With eight days left until her revival, Chi Xiaocheng finally found her chance. Riding King, she infiltrated the Si residence.

Today was Si Zhenliu’s treatment day. Chu Lingfeng would once again use the Thirteen Taiyi Needles to extend the elder’s life.

Earlier that day, Si Zhenliu had suddenly collapsed, his condition deteriorating rapidly. His face turned deathly pale, as if he’d brushed shoulders with the underworld.

Various families from Jiuzhou City came to witness the Miracle Doctor’s skills.

Even Si Chen and Dongfang Yang showed up, hoping to assess Chu Lingfeng’s true abilities.

However, the Thirteen Taiyi Needles technique couldn’t be performed with distractions, so Chu Lingfeng isolated himself with the elder in a private room.

This was how Chi Xiaocheng, riding King, made it to the room’s window, where she witnessed something utterly shocking.