[Welcome to the Body Swap Game]
[Here are some important notes:]
[This product is only applicable for body swapping with certain similar beings]
[If you cause discomfort to the other party, you will be expelled from their body]
[You can unilaterally prohibit the other party from entering your body, and your body will be placed under system management]
[Due to anti-addiction policies, you may only play for eight hours per day]
[Due to unavoidable bugs, you may swap bodies with non-human creatures, including but not limited to cats, fish, cockroaches, etc. Please do not panic and wait for the eight-hour period to end]
[After a successful body swap, you will receive enhancements provided by the system]
[The manufacturer may release some test missions, which you may choose to accept or not]
[Have a pleasant gaming experience]
Looking at the text before him, Xia Yu leaned on the counter. The rough texture of the counter told him this was real, not a dream.
After crossing over to this world eighteen years ago, had he finally activated the system?
The system might be late, but it would never miss out completely?
Compared to some people whose systems awaken centuries later, he should consider himself lucky.
“What’s your function?” he whispered.
No text appeared.
“Sesame, open up?”
Still no reaction.
“Balala energy?”
Everything remained normal.
“Start game?”
As those words left his mouth, new text appeared before Xia Yu.
[Please select an exchange target]
[Random Selection / Free Selection]
Random selection probably meant the system would assign someone at random, while free selection meant choosing himself.
Xia Yu tapped on free selection.
[Please face the other party’s body and click confirm]
Xia Yu’s gaze swept around the store and randomly settled on a man.
[This body is currently not supported by this product]
He randomly selected a woman next.
[Single Player Mode / Double Player Mode]
Single player or double?
From the previous explanation, single player meant he would enter the other’s body unilaterally while his own body was entrusted to the system. Double player meant the other party would also enter his body?
Better not try it now; something might go wrong during the day, and the police wouldn’t just stand by.
Suppressing his excitement and curiosity, Xia Yu took the mineral water from the customer’s hand and scanned the barcode.
“Ten yuan, thank you.”
He took the ten-yuan bill from the customer and placed it into the wallet.
Right now, he was working at a convenience store.
In his previous life, at eighteen, he had been immersed in the sea of problems in senior three, let alone working, he didn’t even need to do housework.
But in this life, he was no longer the only son of a comfortable family, but the eldest son of a single-parent, impoverished household.
If it hadn’t been for obtaining this strange body-swapping game today, his transmigration would have been a complete loss.
However, this world was still a modern society. Living was manageable with his unreliable father’s part-time job, and Xia Yu worked only to buy some non-essential items.
In this world, student part-time jobs were extremely normal.
Taking the ice cream from another customer, Xia Yu skillfully scanned the barcode: “One yuan, thank you.”
At 5:30 PM, the relief staff arrived. Xia Yu went to the locker room, changed out of his uniform, and headed home.
His home was in an old residential complex, an 80-square-meter commercial apartment.
After squeezing through the narrow corridor, Xia Yu took out his key and opened the door.
Sitting on the sofa was his father, Xia Dongyang, who glanced at him and continued looking at his phone.
Xia Yu didn’t greet him either. He glanced at his younger sister in the kitchen and walked toward his bedroom.
“I’ve already eaten outside. I’m a bit tired today, so I’ll go to bed first,” he said, closing and locking the door behind him.
Lying on the bed, he exhaled in relief. It was time to explore this body-swapping game.
Turning on the phone’s video recorder, pointing it at himself, and placing it by the bedside, he silently said, “Start game.”
[Please select an exchange target]
[Random Selection / Free Selection]
“Random selection.” Xia Yu didn’t have any particular desire to swap bodies with a specific female, and free selection required directly facing the other’s body, which was quite troublesome.
[Single Player Mode / Double Player Mode]
“Single Player Mode.” Xia Yu couldn’t imagine what a female would do in his body.
[Matching in progress]
[Matching completed]
[Before starting the game, please confirm the following terms:]
[The game duration is eight hours, and you cannot exit midway.]
[This product is dedicated to entertainment and mutual assistance. Please abide by the relevant rules during the game and do not act recklessly (highlighted in red)]
[If you cause strong discomfort to the other party, you will be expelled from the body and will no longer be allowed to enter]
[If you trigger prohibited actions, you will be expelled by the system even if the other party does not object]
[Prohibited actions include…]
[…]
After browsing the information, Xia Yu said, “Confirm.”
Instantly, everything before his eyes turned black.
When he opened his eyes again, Xia Yu saw a scene resembling the top of a tent.
Sitting up, he confirmed that this wasn’t a tent, but a large bed surrounded by sheer gauze.
This bed alone occupied half the area of Xia Yu’s room.
Pulling aside the white gauze, Xia Yu saw where he was: a European-style room with a balcony, about half the size of his home.
It seemed he had swapped bodies with someone extraordinary.
Getting up from the bed, he walked to the mirror, looking at the figure reflected within.
It was a girl, about his age, with long black hair cascading down, wearing pink pajamas.
She was beautiful, with delicate features and a slender build, a gentle and delicate beauty.
Stretching out his hand, Xia Yu touched his cheek, confirming that this body was indeed under his control.
This was truly incredible.
[Body swap successful]
[Generating enhancements based on the other’s body…]
[Enhancement generation completed]
[Acquired enhancements: Music Enhancement Lv1, Painting Enhancement Lv1, Flower Arrangement Enhancement Lv1]
[Have a pleasant gaming experience]
Enhancements? Looking at the slowly fading text in front of him, Xia Yu pondered.
Originally, he had been thinking about what benefits he could gain from swapping bodies—could he control the body’s owner to lend him high-interest loans, or even sell a kidney?
But now, it seemed the enhancements were the real benefit?
Xia Yu also felt a bit reluctant to make an innocent ordinary person do the above things.
“What’s the use of these enhancements?” Xia Yu tried to communicate with the game system, but the system still didn’t respond.
He could only explore on his own. Anyway, he might as well try these enhancements first!
He walked to the desk, pulled out the wooden chair, and sat down.
The wooden chair was heavy—it wasn’t fake wood filled with waste paper in the middle, but real solid wood.
Sitting there, he glanced at the layout of the desk.
The desk was very neat, with only a desk lamp and a photo in one corner.
Xia Yu picked up the photo.
In the photo was a little girl in kindergarten and two adults. The girl should be the younger version of this body, and the two adults were likely her parents.
The background of the photo was a maple forest, the ground densely covered with fiery red maple leaves. The girl pouted, holding a maple leaf, standing beside a maple tree. Her mother squatted beside her, resting a hand on her shoulder, seemingly comforting her, while her father stood expressionlessly behind the two.
This was a photo with a story behind it.
Putting the photo down, he opened the drawer and found the paper and pen he needed.
The paper was very smooth, and the pen was also exquisitely made. As Xia Yu marveled at them, a timid female voice rang in his mind.
“Um… who are you?”
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