The Body Swap Game - Chapter 15
Chapter 15: Working for Free
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
By the next morning, Xia Yu understood what Youxue was talking about.
“Wipeout: Cats and Dogs?” Xia Yu asked.
“If you ran the whole race track, we could win a Lengliegu washing machine.” Youxue’s eyes crinkled at the idea of a washing machine.
There was no washing machine in Xia Yu’s home. All of the clothes, bedding, and curtains were hand-washed by Youxue.
It was necessary to get a washing machine.
Although it seemed overkill to go into the black cat’s body to be in a competition.
“How much is that washing machine?” Xia Yu figured he could just buy it for his sister.
“Ten thousand yuan.”
Xia Yu’s hands shook while holding the chopsticks.
Are you washing money or clothes?
“When is the competition?” Xia Yu stopped his outburst and asked about the time.
“Two to three in the afternoon, not sure which day it is,” she replied.
The timing of the competition meant he needed to adjust his game-playing time, and postpone it for 11 hours, which was almost a whole day.
Even though postponing game-playing to win a 10 thousand yuan washing machine seemed like a good bargain, he still needed to gain his piano-playing skills quickly.
What made a washing machine costing 10 thousand yuan so special? A cheaper one could still work, right?
He only had 2500 yuan left in savings, so what if he used a little more money?
Xia Yu was feeling reckless on the verge of bankruptcy.
With his mind made up, he looked at Youxue. Seeing her excited expression, he hesitated but didn’t change his decision.
His sister was awesome, but he was already delaying piano-learning by more than 1/3 of the original time to allow An Siyao time to sleep; he didn’t want to waste more time.
He couldn’t take care of everyone.
“No…”
Before he stopped talking, a string of text appeared in front of him.
[The manufacturer has offered you a testing task.]
Task?
Right, there was something about tasks in the instructions.
Xia Yu clicked to read more.
[1. Log-in to the game outside of 18:00 – 2:00: 0/2]
[2. With the above condition met, use female cat: bug 0/1]
[For every testing task completed, you could pick rewards among the following: earn 5x the experience, increase body search frequency, acquire Curing Lv 1]
After seeing the task details, Xia Yu frowned.
This task basically meant he would have to help Youxue with her wish, why?
Was Youxue the person behind the game?
No, there weren’t that many conspiracy theories in real life.
Maybe the game manufacturer gave him the task with rewards since he was refusing to do the competition. If he didn’t refuse Youxue and did what the manufacturer wanted, they wouldn’t give him the rewards.
Maybe he had already completed all sorts of testing tasks for the manufacturer without knowing; he had been working for free.
What a shrewd manufacturer.
Xia Yu began researching the rewards. He had not seen these three rewards before, other than body search frequency; they were quite lavish.
Five times the experience really tempted Xia Yu. Curing Lv 1 also excited him.
If he was correct, Curing Lv 1 would happen after the body-swap. A Lv 1 skill would be added to his original body.
With this addition, he would be able to gain skills outside the eight hours of body swap time, he could practice whenever and wherever!
I want both five times the experience and Curing Lv 1!
“… actually, it’s okay.” Xia Yu changed his mind. “Find out the time.”
“Yay!” Youxue was overjoyed.
Xia Yu returned to his bedroom after breakfast.
He used the phone to look up this competition, “Wipeout: Cats and Dogs.”
This competition was similar to a show he’d watched in his previous life, but cast with guys and girls. It was all about doing a race.
Here, the competitors were not humans but cats and dogs.
After seeing a video and looking at the race track, Xia Yu relaxed. The race track was simple. There was no question he could win and earn the 10 thousand yuan Lengliegu washing machine.
Maybe he could resell the washing machine?
After remembering Youxue’s eager expression, Xia Yu decided not to.
As a protagonist, reselling a washing machine to make money would be too cheap.
After a while, Youxue knocked on his door. She had found out the competition time; it would be tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m.
Xia Yu arranged the body-swap time to be between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
He would have his night free for a change!
Maybe he could check out the night market with his sister.
As his savings was already on the low side, it would have been okay spending a few hundred more yuan.
…
The next morning, at 8 o’clock, after he told Youxue not to disturb him, Xia Yu entered the black cat’s body.
At this moment, the black cat was being held by Youxue, and the two of them were watching the competition on TV.
“Little Hei, see that bridge? You have to walk on it!” Youxue discussed strategy with the cat.
Xia Yu watched the competition for a bit before losing patience. He jumped out of Youxue’s grasp and opened the door.
“Come home by noon!” Youxue called out.
“Meow!” He waved his paw at her and walked down the stairs.
He went to the park, training his Cleverness by climbing trees and chasing kids.
At around 12:30 p.m, he went home. Then the two of them took the bus to the competition site.
Many middle-aged and older people stood around the site, watching the goings-on.
Youxue went inside the circle while holding Xia Yu.
It was only a little past 1 p.m. All the competitors were told to stay inside a lounge.
Xia Yu counted the number of competitors on-site. There were 10 of them: nine were dogs, and he was the only cat.
Dogs listened better than cats. Methods in dog-training were also more sophisticated than cat-training.
Youxue was slightly nervous in a crowded place. She held Xia Yu so tightly that he could hardly breathe.
He patted the girl’s cheek and jumped out of her hands, leading her to a chair nearby.
One competitor, who was very outgoing, broke the silence by talking about dog-training. Youxue, a cat-owner, had nothing to share.
When they gave her the chance to talk, Youxue, who just started having a cat, couldn’t say much anyway.
He put his paw on her head, trying to comfort her.
Having nothing in common with these older men was normal, it’d weird if she did.
At 2 p.m, some employees invited competitor number 1 to start.
It was a muscular man of at least 200 pounds and the same man who started the topic of dog-training. He spoke easily, and he walked confidently, yet his toy poodle didn’t dare to come on the track, which had water under it. The dog clung to the female host’s legs, not wanting to try at all.
The toy poodle was eliminated.
The three dogs which followed also failed. The best one only ran to level four.
Then, it was Xia Yu’s turn.
Xia Yu was so bored he was yawning. He just wanted to finish up, get the prize, and go home.
