The Body Swap Game - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: The Cat
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
In the morning, Xia Yu returned to his own body. He sat up and said softly, “Control Panel.”
In the next moment, a small control panel appeared in front of him.
There were two functions on the panel.
[Drawing Skill Lv 1, Music Lv 1]
Lv 1 was probably entry-level. If he wanted to apply for a job, he’d need a Lv 3 or Lv 4.
According to the estimate given by An Siyao, it’d be at most a month.
Going toward his desk, Xia Yu looked at his homework. The system, which took over his body when he was living as An Siyao, did his homework very well.
Maybe he could do really well on the college-entrance exams with this system.
However, body-swap was the key here; body control by the system was just a perk. Even if he got the top test score in the country, if it wasn’t his own skill, it was still useless.
Xia Yu didn’t like living in a disconnected way. He liked living with his feet on the ground.
Back in bed, he used his phone to look up rich people in District 1.
An Siyao’s family was beyond regular rich. Her father’s name was probably on a list of millionaires somewhere.
He could tell from the last name which person was her dad. “An” was not a very common last name like “Ma” or “Liu.”
He scanned the list of millionaires and found a possible match.
An Tianfeng, the richest person in District 1, a real estate developer.
Xia Yu began looking up more information on An Tianfeng.
Most of the information was about his business. Luckily, in this world, there were also websites like Baidu. Xia Yu located a page about his family.
It listed a wife and a son.
Is this the right person?
There were no other people who had “An” as their last name on the list.
Whatever, he was just searching to satisfy his curiosity. He didn’t need this information.
He exited the search page and clicked on a mahjong game.
It wasn’t so much that he didn’t want to play other games, but in this world, mobile games were pretty behind. There were plenty of PC games and online games, however.
It’s Saturday, and there were no classes during the day. Xia Yu ate the breakfast made by Youxue and returned to his room, feeling listless.
At around 9 a.m., Youxue knocked on his door.
She asked, “Brother, I need to borrow a dictionary.”
Xia Yu was surprised, he realized that his sister didn’t have a cell phone.
He took a dictionary from the bookshelf and handed it to Youxue.
Xia Yu started to think.
Youxue was already in 7th grade. Unlike in his previous life, elementary school students already used cellphones, so it was time for his sister to have a phone too.
But it was a fantasy to think their cheap dad would get his sister a phone. Even Xia Yu’s own phone was paid for by his job in high school.
He opened his text messages, checking the balance on his bank card.
During the three years of high school, he saved a total of six thousand yuan. Initially, he wanted to save seven or eight thousand yuan, and buy a notebook computer to play 3A games.
Games or sister, which is more important?
If he chose games, his sister wouldn’t have a cell phone, but if he chose his sister, he wouldn’t have games.
He sighed at the dilemma.
At noon, he finished lunch and went to the convenience store to work.
He worked all afternoon on Saturday but didn’t need to work on Sunday.
Being a cashier was an easy job, but it would have been easier in his previous life. In the past, he could just scan Alipay to finish payment, not needing much effort. In this lifetime, mobile payment hadn’t appeared yet, so people still used paper money.
In paper money, counterfeiting was common. Thankfully, Xia Yu had lived without mobile payment in his past life too, so he was smart about counterfeit money and hadn’t made a mistake yet.
As the sun moved from the middle of the sky toward the west, the pedestrians seemed to slow down under the lazy orange rays.
Xia Yu’s shift was over. A college girl from a nearby school was his replacement. She was ordinary-looking but had a great figure.
“Fenglin said he’s busy tomorrow. Can you take his shift?” The girl asked him.
“I have something to do.” Xia Yu made up an excuse.
The answer surprised the girl. There were often people who needed Xia Yu to work their shift before, and he’d never turned them down.
Xia Yu, now in possession of the body-swap game, didn’t care about the money from the job that much anymore. He was already pretty responsible for staying at his convenience store job.
“OK, I’ll let him know.” The girl asked with hesitation, “Is everything okay? Maybe I can help.”
She sort of liked this guy, who was a little handsome and not as immature as other guys his age.
“Thanks. I’m ok. I just don’t need money as much now.” He thanked the girl and went to the locker room to change.
In this world, everyone had uniforms, from store cashiers to bakery workers.
Xia Yu felt that these uniforms had no purpose other than giving adult movies more materials.
He thought it was pointless.
After he got back in his own clothes, he went to a cell phone store and picked a white cell phone priced at around 1900 yuan after a discount.
There was no Alipay, and online shopping didn’t really work yet. Buying a phone in a physical store was the only way.
He saw Xia Dongyang downstairs in the neighborhood again. His father was sitting by a garden near the stairs, smoking with a miserable expression.
He probably had a problem he couldn’t fix and didn’t want to be seen by him nor his sister.
It wasn’t out of concern for his kids, it was his pathetic pride.
It was like how some people didn’t like walking on the grass, not for the sake of the grass, but for the cleanliness of their shoes.
Xia Yu ignored him. He actually admired his father’s ability to solve his crises. Before, his father had gotten in trouble with a bunch of thugs and owed a lot of money, and the man had actually fixed the situation.
He walked around his father and went back home.
Youxue wasn’t in the living room. He checked her room. No one was there either. She was probably out getting groceries.
He put the cell phone on his sister’s desk and returned to his bedroom.
Laying in bed, he entered the game.
[Please pick a target]
[1. An Siyao]
[2. Blank]
The game had spaces for two characters. An Siyao took up one space, leaving the other open. If he deleted An Siyao, he would have two spaces.
Still, the two spaces were not much. He hoped he could have more spaces in the future.
He clicked on space number 1, and his vision went dark. When his eyes opened again, he saw a giant trash can.
The can was really big, it was at least five or six times his height.
What happened?
[Unknown bug occurred. Player, please do not panic, simply wait for the eight hours of game time to end.]
Bug?
Xia Yu looked down at his hands.
He had claws of a black cat.
When he came near the glass window of a shop, he saw a black cat.
He was a cat? This game was too unreliable. It was his third time playing, and there was already a bug.
[Body swap complete]
[Addition created based on the target body…]
[Addition complete]
[Addition received: Night Vision Lv 1, Scaring Lv 1, Cleverness Lv 1]
[Have fun playing]
Scaring? Cleverness?
These could be good skills.
