Chapter 95: The Vacant Position

When the girl saw the maids in the room, she instinctively flinched at first, then realized that she was the mistress of the maids.

Entering the room, she picked up the white cat from the lap of a maid.

“Meow meow!” the girl smiled.

This was Xia Yu’s new name. Dissatisfied with his previous name, Xia Yu would ignore the girl whenever she called him by those two syllables, so he successfully earned a new nickname.

Only Old Lady Elma still preferred to use his old name.

“Meow meow,” the girl stretched out her finger and pinched his paw pad.

The name itself wasn’t a problem, but every time Tina said it, Xia Yu felt as if he were tricking the girl into being cute.

Well, that wasn’t the main issue.

The key point was the telepathy skill.

How could he train this skill up to level 1?

Xia Yu frowned, unsure of what he should do.

It seemed that merely sensing one person wasn’t effective, or else he would have already acquired the skill from Tina.

Then, he could only try sensing different people.

There were many servants in the villa; perhaps he could use them to gain experience?

Jumping down from Tina’s arms, Xia Yu passed by each maid in the room. Although none of them were particularly comforting to a cat, none were unpleasant either.

Then he walked out of the room, looking for other maids and butlers to sense, with Tina chasing behind him.

After spending an hour, Xia Yu had sensed all the remaining servants.

He checked his game points and, sure enough, they had stopped increasing.

This method worked.

However, the number of people in the villa wasn’t enough; he needed to find more test subjects elsewhere.

Xia Yu tried to leave the villa but was caught by the butler and taken to Elma.

“Don’t run around, little one. I’ll take you to upgrade shortly,” Elma placed Xia Yu into Tina’s hands.

Xia Yu couldn’t understand her words and was puzzled. He watched as Elma, accompanied by the butler and Tina, took him out and arrived at a club.

He was handed over to a waiter at the club.

The waiter placed him into a cage.

What kind of situation was this?

Not sensing any danger, Xia Yu quietly lay in the cage, watching to see what they intended to do.

His game time was nearly up, and he wondered if he could discover the truth before then.

After an unknown length of time, something finally happened. Xia Yu was taken by the waiter and placed onto a platform.

In front of the platform was a banquet scene, with a group of upper-class individuals gathered. Xia Yu spotted Elma and Tina among them.

Tina looked at him while tugging on her grandmother’s clothes, seemingly urging her.

There was a host on the stage. After saying a few words, people in the crowd began calling out numbers.

Xia Yu now understood the situation.

He had been brought up for auction.

However, this wasn’t an ordinary auction; there were shills among the crowd.

With the help of the shills, Elma raised the price to five million and bought Xia Yu.

Now, Xia Yu had transformed from a cat worth 1,800 into one worth five million, returning to Tina’s hands.

Lying in the girl’s arms, Xia Yu saw Elma repeatedly purchasing items.

Jewelry and accessories were being draped onto Tina, who shook her head in refusal but ultimately couldn’t escape Elma’s insistent offerings.

A sense of foreboding arose in Xia Yu’s heart. Before he could examine it further, his game time ended, and he returned to his own body.

It was four in the afternoon, time for him to play the guzheng at the cafe. Although his fingers began to play, his mind had not yet returned.

Now he was worth five million dollars, with six maids and a young lady attending to him, yet he still had to work at the cafe.

After sighing about this, Xia Yu began recalling the ominous feeling he had experienced while in the white cat’s body.

Clearly, something was about to happen there.

The issue was most likely related to Elma.

Although unlikely, it wasn’t impossible for someone to suddenly become wealthy—for example, inheriting an estate. However, Elma’s behavior was clearly off.

Her luxurious lifestyle could be explained as indulgence after gaining wealth, but her extravagant bidding at the seemingly charitable gala was evidently abnormal.

She raised the price by tens of thousands each time, treating money as if it were worthless, as if—her wealth would disappear soon.

What had that woman done?

Regardless of what happened to Elma, Xia Yu could manage well using the cat’s body, but Tina couldn’t. If something happened to Elma, Tina’s life path would change drastically.

Should he get involved?

In the body of a cat, what could he possibly change?

If Elma had truly committed a crime, it must be significant. Whether in the cat’s body or his original form, he would likely be powerless to intervene.

It would be best to wait and see.

Still, he needed to find a way to learn the language of the second district first. Without language skills, he couldn’t gather information.

After finishing a day’s work, he returned home and pondered through the night. The next morning, Xia Yu logged into An Siyao’s account.

Today was Sunday, and An Siyao was sitting at the dining table.

Breakfast consisted of bread, eggs, and milk. The bread was freshly baked, and the eggs and milk were also delicious.

After finishing his meal, Xia Yu stood up and wandered around the garden, chatting with An Siyao.

In the afternoon, he visited An Siyao’s art studio, watching the girl’s paintings.

“Is this the Holy Maiden?” Xia Yu looked at the oil painting, in which a woman dressed in white holy robes sat quietly in darkness.

“Yes,” An Siyao replied.

Xia Yu noticed that the Holy Maiden’s eyes were closed. Was this a blind Holy Maiden?

As Xia Yu was about to ask, An Siyao spoke first: “Has something happened?”

Although An Siyao was clueless about social relationships and such matters, she wasn’t insensitive.

Previously, Xia Yu had always focused on eating, drinking, and occasionally playing the piano. Today, he suddenly started wandering the garden and visiting the art studio, which was clearly unusual.

Xia Yu was silent for a moment. Indeed, something was on his mind.

To acquire language skills, he needed to find a body with language proficiency. To log into a new body, he had to free up a slot.

Deleting the white cat and Xu Youxiang would make it difficult to restore them afterward.

But An Siyao was an exception.

Now it was already the fifteenth, and in two weeks would be the preliminary contests and finals, when Xia Yu could use the free selection feature to place An Siyao back into his available slots.

Even if something happened during the competition, Xia Yu, who was familiar with the girl’s whereabouts, could easily find her.

Compared to the white cat in the second district and the ever-homebound Xu Youxiang, An Siyao was the most convenient option.

However, Xia Yu hesitated to make the decision, feeling oddly like a heartless cad.

His rational mind told him it was a normal and correct decision.

Something would surely happen to Tina soon, and he needed language skills to determine what was occurring; otherwise, he would be helpless.

It was only for two weeks anyway—he hadn’t visited for six days last time.