The Body Swap Game - Chapter 26
Chapter 26: A Weird Body Swap Target
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
After highlighting the chosen names in red, Xia Yu put away the phone. He put on the suit given by the coffee shop owner and got to the piano. He started to play.
He played the Gulda piece, “Autumn of Reeds,” “Reed’s Reflection,” and another classical piece.
The Gulda piece was the most well-known classical melody, but it wasn’t as popular as the “Autumn of Reeds” or “Reed’s Reflection.” As for songs like “The Blind Saint,” very few people outside the piano world knew about them.
He played these pieces over and over. When it was almost four, he went for a break at the rest area. By four p.m., he went to the piano again.
By now, the coffee shop had the most customers.
This was because of the shop owner’s promotion. He told people Xia Yu was playing “The Pope’s Dancer” at four and four-thirty p.m.
“The Pope’s Dancer” wasn’t easy to understand, but it had a popular background story. Creations like the movie, The Pope, the classic opera, the Dancer’s Veil, or the classic essay, Night in Lengliegu, all made the song more famous.
The song was also hard to play, so it became a high-brow standard for artsy people everywhere.
After some reflection, Xia Yu continued to play.
Finally, it was five-thirty p.m. He put down the lid of the piano and went to change in the rest area, so he could go home.
As soon as he opened the door of the rest area, someone tried to grab him.
Startled, Xia Yu dodged the hand with Cleverness. He stared at the person in front of him.
It was a highschooler with glasses and a medium build.
“Class leader?” Xia Yu was surprised.
The guy was indeed his class leader.
The class leader walked forward and grabbed Xia Yu’s hand. He looked excited. “Xia Yu, I mean, Yu Bro!”
His words and action almost seemed romantic. Xia Yu pulled away from his hand and asked cautiously, “What do you want? What are you doing here?”
“I come to this coffee shop all the time. Never thought I’d see you here!” The class leader seemed solicitous. He grabbed Xia Yu’s shoulders. “Yu Bro, why didn’t you show off your talent before?”
“Just tell me what you want. Didn’t you say you don’t need me for the project?” Knowing the guy had a purpose, Xia Yu stayed guarded.
“I don’t need you for project planning, but you can help with the execution. Like playing the piano.” The class leader revealed his intention.
“Isn’t the project for after school tutoring? Why am I playing the piano?” Xia Yu didn’t want to deal with these headaches. He just wanted to save money and get a Pig-Head Man computer.
“Hah. No one said the tutoring is for school. We could do tutoring for music appreciation, no?” The class leader gripped Xia Yu’s hand tightly, stopping him from escaping.
“Even if I could play, where do we get a piano?” Xia Yu tried to bring up obstacles.
“Don’t worry about it. As long as you play the piano, I’ll take care of the rest.” The class leader patted his own chest, expressing confidence.
Out of excuses, Xia Yu started to make up stories, “I need to spend time with my girlfriend that day.”
“Stop saying nonsense. You don’t have a girlfriend.” Patting Xia Yu’s shoulders, the class leader said, “It’s settled then. I’ll head home now.”
Xia Yu rubbed his forehead, watching the class leader walk away.
In fact, he wasn’t that against this project. Though he was reborn, he was still a passionate young guy.
It would be fine.
He left the coffee shop and went home.
At 6 p.m., he didn’t log onto An Siyao’s body. Instead, he grabbed the black cat from the living room. He was trying to experiment with the game.
He wanted to see if he could log onto the black cat by free selection.
He chose Free Selection, then put the black cat in his field of vision.
When Free Selection appeared as an option, Xia Yu smiled.
This meant he could log onto the black cat at any time.
Now he didn’t need to delete the slot for Xu Youxiang, just the one for the black cat.
He clicked on No, put down the black cat, then logged onto An Siyao’s body.
After a brief darkness, Xia Yu saw the piano room.
“Did something happen?” An Siyao asked with worry. Xia Yu didn’t arrive as early as usual.
“I was trying something.” Xia Yu opened the lid of the piano to continue practicing “Maple Leafs of Xianfeng Monastery.”
For Xia Yu, the song wasn’t that difficult. To play it expertly, however, required some practice.
At the end of the eight hours, Xia Yu had managed to learn this song.
He told An Siyao that Sunday was his day off, so he wouldn’t come to her. Subsequently, he returned to his own body.
He sat up in bed and stretched. He used his phone to look at the list.
Gui Zixiao’s list had 16 names, after filtering the women who were married or who had boyfriends, eight people were left.
Three of the eight women lived nearby.
Xia Yu needed to find his target body among the three. If none of them worked, he would have to consider the other five, or worse, he’d have to pick a married woman.
He stayed home all day. At five-thirty a.m, he left his place and got downstairs to locate his first target’s home.
It was in an older neighborhood and not one of the trendy tall apartment buildings. The building had six floors.
He tried to avoid cameras on the street. After he checked the time, he yelled the target’s name and hid behind a tree.
Soon, his target opened her window and looked around for the source of the noise.
He was lucky. The first target worked.
Xia Yu picked the target and hit Confirm.
After some darkness, he logged onto this woman’s body.
He’d already seen the woman’s face from the pictures. He didn’t need to see it again; the face wasn’t exceptional anyway. If An Siyao was a 100, this woman was probably a 60.
As for Xu Youxiang, she was probably a 95. If it was someone like her type, she could get another five or six points. In general, she was similar to An Siyao.
He looked downstairs. The game’s AI carefully maneuvered his body, avoided the cameras, and left the neighborhood.
Xia Yu nodded his head. He was happy with the game’s body deposit AI program.
By now, the game had finished loading.
[…]
[Body swap complete]
[Addition created based on the target body…]
[Addition complete]
[Addition received: Goofing Off Lv 1, Shirking Responsibility Lv 1, Computer Games, Lv 1]
[Have fun playing]
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