Chapter 298: – Heartbroken Black Cat
After finishing the breakfast that Xia Tian brought, Lin Jin continued streaming until 12:30 at noon before ending the stream with a tired look.
The streaming session was quite fruitful, but it didn't meet Lin Jin's ideal target.
When he ended the stream, it had reached 400 followers. The peak viewership was 5000 and the average was around 2000, though the actual number of real viewers was estimated to only be in the hundreds.
However, the black cat's task required 5000 people.
So naturally, Lin Jin failed his mission. If he had started streaming earlier, maybe as early as Monday of this week until Sunday today, he might have been able to meet the 5000 popularity requirement. But unfortunately, Lin Jin had the wrong approach at the start.
"I'm never streaming again" Lin Jin sighed.
Though watching the popularity slowly rise and seeing the chat messages steadily increase was quite satisfying, Lin Jin felt that someone like him just wasn't cut out to be a streamer.
Whether it was a gaming or entertainment streamer, as a lazy salted fish, he couldn't stand sitting in front of the computer for five to six hours a day just to please an audience.
Sitting too long would make his butt too big, yep.
Lin Jin felt he might not touch the game Dota for a week, nor did he plan to play Hearthstone anytime soon. Usually, he would feel satisfied after playing for just two hours. Any more would make him feel tired and resistant to gaming. But this time, he had streamed for 24 hours straight with approximately fifteen of those hours spent gaming.
This was simply not a job fit for humans!
He didn’t know how those people who stream for seven or eight hours a day, or those professional players who play a game for more than ten hours a day could manage to keep going.
Too horrifying.
He stood up from his chair in a daze. Although the stream was black because it was turned off, people were still typing in the chat on the right, either trying to persuade him to continue or expressing sympathy for the streamer.
No matter how they tried to get him to stay, he will never stream again!
Even if he did stream again, it would only be for two hours a day at most! A bit more or less didn't matter.
Staggering into the bathroom, he turned on the water, washed up, ordered some lunch delivery, and then flopped onto his bed as if he was boneless
"Lin Jin, your task failed." Braised Pork hopped onto Lin Jin’s stomach and looked at him. At the same time, the black cat’s voice came from his phone.
"That doesn’t matter" Lin Jin, lying on the bed, pushed the black cat off his stomach and rolled his eyes, "Isn’t the task punishment already gone?"
"Indeed." Braised Pork seemed a bit down and the unhappy tone of the black cat also came from the phone "And because of you streaming, the streaming platform might even offer you a contract after half a month. Meaning you might have got the task reward of a job yourself."
Hmm?
Hearing this, why did he feel much better all of a sudden?
Lin Jin has always been unable to resist any task from the black cat. Although he was reluctant, Lin Jin didn’t know how to resist this black cat who was like a creature from a fantasy or sci-fi. So, Lin Jin ended up reluctantly enjoying some conveniences brought by the black cat and being transformed by the black cat into half a girl...
It was probably like being r*ped but having to just close your eyes and enjoy it.
But now, for the first time, he had a chance to resist. Albeit coincidentally, it did provide him with an idea.
Maybe in future tasks, if he could take care of the key characters in the task punishment, he could happily ignore all the black cat's tasks?
It was quite a nice thought!
"Alright, here's your task for next week" the black cat was still rather unhappy and its tone carried a sense of despair. Braised Pork, who was also temporarily possessed by it, also had a face as droopy as if it had lost its mother.
Weekly Task:
As a multi talented goddess, you should be proficient in the arts like music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. But I won't embarrass you too much right now, just learn to dance! Please improve your dancing skills to a beginner's level of proficiency within a week!
Task Reward: Basic proficiency in musical instruments [You'll be able to play any instrument!] and feminization +10.
Task Punishment: Being dragged home by your mother.
Learn to dance, huh?
Lin Jin's face immediately turned sour.
It's not that he was discriminating against dance or anything, nor did he think the task was too difficult. He just felt that as a lazy salted fish, learning so many skills was useless!
Also for dancing and stuff, besides performing on stage, it could only really be useful during live streams, right?
But performing on stage was too troublesome. As for live streaming, he had just been thinking about never streaming again.
The task rewards didn’t really tempt Lin Jin too much, but the punishment was a bit troubling.
Being dragged back home? To be honest, even if the black cat didn’t set this as the task punishment, he was afraid that his mother would really drag him back soon anyways.
After all, Lin Jin's appearance had already changed significantly. It was probably only a matter of time before his mother realized and deemed it too risky for such a handsome boy like him to stay at school.
What if her devastatingly beautiful son was assaulted by some beastly man?!
If her nerves got the better of her by then, Lin Jin might indeed be dragged back home.
So, it was time to learn to dance! Anyways, he could just follow some videos. If that doesn't work, he could look for that young, good looking, and fit physical education teacher at school who also teached dance!
If he remembered correctly, that teacher wasn't just a gym teacher and a singing instructor but also a dance instructor, right? Although the school didn't seem to have any dance specific courses.
"This task isn't hard, right?" The way the black cat assigned tasks was like a kindergarten teacher assigning homework. After assigning the homework, they would be worried that the kids would find it too difficult or bothersome and not even do it at all.
If a kindergarten student didn’t do their homework, the teacher could still call the parents. But if Lin Jin doesn't do the task, the black cat can only resort to the task punishment. The problem was that the loophole in the task punishments had been discovered by Lin Jin…
So now the black cat was acting like a concerned elder, worried that Lin Jin would find the task too challenging and not do it, especially since he'd found a loophole in the punishment.
"If it's too hard, although I can't lower the difficulty of the task, a magnificent cat like me will of course graciously offer you some tips!" The face of Braised Pork grinning somewhat resembled a creepy cat demon from an anime.
Although Lin Jin had long been used to the smiling appearance of the black cat on his phone, even though it was in a realistic art style, it was still just a 2D image alright? Seeing a cat grinning ear to ear in real life was just as eerie as seeing a ghost.