The Body Swap Game - Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The Game
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
[Welcome to the Body Swap Game]
[Here are some important directions:]
[This product is limited to body-swapping with some bodies of the same type.]
[You can one-sidedly forbid someone from entering your body and have the system control your body.]
[The obsession-prevention policy allows a maximum of eight hours of playing a day.]
[Due to an unavoidable bug, you might swap bodies with other species, including but not limited to: cat, fish, roach, etc. Please do not be alarmed, simply wait for the eight hours to end.]
[After a successful swap, you will receive an addition from the system.]
[The game maker might issue some testing tasks which you could choose to accept.]
[Have fun playing]
Seeing the words, Xia Yu propped his hands on the counter. The rough texture of the counter told him, this was real, this was not a dream.
He traveled in time for 18 years. Did he turn on the system?
The system may be late, but the system will never be absent?
Compared to some systems which woke up after 100 years, he was very lucky.
“What do you do?” He asked in a low voice.
No words appeared.
“Open sesame?”
There was still no response.
“Abracadabra energy?”
—Still the same.
“Start game?”
New words showed up for Xia Yu.
[Please pick a target for body-swapping]
[Random pick/free pick]
Random pick was probably letting the system pick for you, and free pick was picking on your own.
Xia Yu chose “free pick.”
[Please look at the target’s body and click to confirm]
Xia Yu looked around the store and chose a guy randomly.
[This product does not currently support swapping bodies within the same gender.]
He randomly chose a woman.
[Single body mode/Double body mode]
Single and double?
Is single mode entering a target body and leaving one’s own body to the system to control, and double body mode is also letting the target enter one’s own body?
Better not try this right now. It was the middle of the day, and he didn’t want trouble with the police.
He tried to control his excitement and curiosity. He took a bottle of water from a customer and scanned the barcode to check the price.
“Ten yuan. Thank you.”
He accepted the 10 yuan from the customer and put it in the money folder.
He was working at a convenience store.
In his previous life, he was 18-years-old and in the middle of studying for the college-entrance exams. Not only did he not need to work, he didn’t need to do any chores either.
In his current life, however, he was not the only son of a comfortable family anymore. He was the elder son of a poor single-parent family.
If he didn’t find this odd body-swapping game today, his time-travel would have been a bad deal.
This was still the modern world. He didn’t have trouble surviving with his unreliable father’s income, but he did want to work in order to buy things beyond the essential.
In this world, a student working a job was considered very normal.
He took over a popsicle from another customer and scanned the barcode. “One yuan, thanks.”
At 5:30 p.m., the replacement employee arrived. Xia Yu went to the locker room to change and walked home.
His home was in an old and dilapidated neighborhood. It was a commercial apartment of 80 sqm.
He crossed the narrow hallway, then opened the door with his key.
His father, Xia Dongyang, looked up at him and went back to his phone.
His dad didn’t greet him. Xia Yu looked at his younger sister, who was in the kitchen, then headed toward his bedroom.
“I already ate. Feel a little tired today. I’ll head to bed.” Xia Yu locked his door.
Laying in bed, he breathed a sigh of relief. Now he could explore this body-swapping game.
He opened the cell phone’s recording app and put himself in the shot. Putting the phone by the bed, he said, “Start game.”
[Please pick a body-swap target.]
[Random pick/Free pick]
“Random pick.” Xia Yu didn’t have a woman he really wanted to swap bodies with, and a Free Pick required a frontal view of the other person’s body, so it was not easy to do.
[Single body mode/Double body mode]
“Single body mode.” Xia Yu couldn’t imagine what a woman would do inside his body.
[Matching…]
[Matching complete]
[Please confirm these conditions before the game begins:]
[The game lasts eight hours; there’s no exit within this duration.]
[Due to an unavoidable bug, you might swap bodies with a foreign and non-human species.]
[…]
After scanning the conditions, Xia Yu said, ‘”Confirmed.”
Then, his vision went dark.
When he opened his eyes again, he could see what looked like the inside of a tent.
He sat up and realized this was no tent. He was on a big bed with a soft canopy.
This bed was more than half the size of Xia Yu’s room.
He opened the soft white curtain and saw where he was. This was a European-style room with a terrace. The room was more than half the size of his entire home.
He seemed to have swapped bodies with someone with a good life.
He got off the bed and went to the mirror. He saw his body.
This was a young woman with long black hair. She wore a pink nightgown.
The young woman was about his age. She had a beautiful face and a slim body. She was a soft and gentle beauty.
He reached out a hand to feel his cheek. He confirmed that this body was under his control.
This was incredible.
[Body swap complete]
[Addition created based on the target body…]
[Addition complete]
[Addition received: Music Lv 1, Drawing Skill Lv 1, Flower-Arranging Skill Lv 1]
[Have fun playing]
Addition? Xia Yu pondered as he watched the words fade away.
He was thinking of the possible benefits from swapping bodies, maybe forcing the body owner to give him a loan, or controlling the body owner to sell a kidney?
Now that he’s tried it, maybe the addition was the real benefit to the game?
Xia Yu would feel bad if he’d made an innocent person do such things.
“What’s the point of addition?” Xia Yu tried to communicate with the system, but he was ignored.
He’d have to figure it out on his own. He’d try these additions first!
He went to the desk, pulled out the chair, and sat down.
The wooden chair was quite heavy, it wasn’t cheap plywood but real solid wood.
He sat on the chair and looked over the top of the table.
The top of the table was very neat. Other than a single photo by the corner of the desk, there was just a lamp.
Xia Yu picked up the photo.
In the photo, a girl in kindergarten and two grownups were shown. The girl must be the younger version of the body owner, and the two adults were probably her parents.
The photo was taken inside a maple leaf forest. The ground was covered in fiery leaves. The girl, pouting, stood next to a maple tree while holding a maple leaf. Her mom squatted next to her, seemingly trying to console her, while her expressionless father stood behind the two of them.
There was a story behind the photo.
Putting down the photo, he opened the drawer and found the paper and pen he needed.
The paper was creamy, and the pen was well-made too. As Xia Yu marveled at the quality, a timid female voice sounded in his head.
“Um, who are you?”
