Chapter 463: – Black Cat
Even though she tried to convince herself that she wasn’t interested in basketball at all, no matter what, Lin Jin still felt envious of the people who were sweating it out on the court.
With her height, playing basketball with a bunch of men, even if her skills were top notch, if one of those tall, burly guys accidentally bumped into her, she would probably go flying.
Lin Chen's basketball skills seemed pretty good. He was charging around among the people ranging from middle schoolers to middle aged men, relying on his sturdy build to basically dominate the court. Lin Chen’s height and physique could basically be considered as among the top three in the current game. Then adding in his youth and physical abilities, he was basically just stomping those people on the court.
Well, although those middle aged men seemed to have better skills, their physical abilities were clearly not as good as Lin Chen’s. After about ten minutes, they were already panting and slowing down, while that guy Lin Chen was still running around the court like a mad dog.
Hmm, that metaphor might not be very nice.
After the first half of the game finished, Lin Chen finally started to look a bit tired. He happily walked over to the rest area on the side with his teammates, but suddenly noticed his sister sitting in the corner of the rest area.
"Sister." Without bothering to drink water or rest, Lin Chen ran straight over to Lin Jin. With his whole body covered in sweat, he wanted to move beside Lin Jin, but was repelled by her look of disdain.
"Sister, when did you get here?" He awkwardly stood not far from Lin Jin. He clearly wanted to move closer and sit, but Lin Jin’s slight look of disdain made him not dare to go over.
"When you guys were splitting into teams." Lin Jin expressionlessly lowered her head and took another sip of her milk tea. When she looked up again, she found that those friends of her younger brother had also spotted her, and there were even several who were currently giddily running over.
"I'm heading back first." Lin Jin gulped, stood up, and hurriedly escaped without waiting for Lin Chen to persuade her to stay.
That’s way too shy, right?
Lin Chen scratched his head, not understanding how his sister could be so shy.
Didn't Lin Jin often introduce him to her friends like this when they were kids? He didn’t notice anything wrong then. Even with how shy he was back then, he was fine.
"That was your sister?" The good friend who played basketball with Lin Chen until night time was the first to come over to Lin Chen’s side. He gazed at Lin Jin's backview and clicked his tongue. "Your sister is really pretty. It was too dark last night to see clearly, but today I got a good look."
Lin Chen shrugged. If he told them that his sister used to be a man...
"Why did your sister leave already? She could've chatted and gotten to know us a bit." That good friend directly hooked his arm around Lin Chen's neck, grinning as he said. "Brother in law, your bro here is still single. How about setting us up?"
Lin Chen's expression instantly darkened and he snapped back: "Get lost!"
"Exactly, brother in law, Help your bros a bit." The friends who had just arrived started yelling one after another, all enthusiastically calling him brother in law.
The situation on this side was getting increasingly rowdy, but Lin Jin had already returned home. The house was void of people so she didn’t say anything and went straight to her bedroom. Sitting in front of her computer, she planned to play a couple games of Dota.
After all, it really was a bit too boring. Also, she was home alone and the house felt way too quiet. If she didn’t do something, she would feel lonely.
Turning on the air conditioner, Lin Jin propped her chin on one hand and watched the game enter the loading screen.
Suddenly, she felt a bit regretful. If she had hung out with Lin Chen's group of friends, maybe she wouldn't be this bored.
Before the game started, Lin Jin suddenly felt her phone vibrating in her pocket.
She frowned as she took out her phone. She found that on her phone’s wallpaper, the familiar black cat was currently lying there, playing with its tail.
"You're back?" Lin Jin expressionlessly asked. "Where did you go?"
Although she was often scammed by the black cat, after mutually messing with each other for so long, just about a month short of a year, their relationship or whatever had somewhat developed a bit.
"Went out traveling!" The black cat smilingly tilted its head as it said. "You can't just not give me my vacation time right? It’s not like you’re my boss."
"You didn’t even give me a heads up." Lin Jin sighed. Although days without the black cat were comfortable, she always felt like something was missing.
Sigh, one less person to talk to.
"You're not my wife, why do I need to tell you this? And you're not my boss, so I don't need to request for leave." The black cat tilted its head. It seemed fatter than when they first met, that face was almost fattened into a ball.
Alright, she couldn't argue against that.
Although the black cat hadn't seen Lin Jin for several days and hadn't assigned any tasks, it didn't seem in a hurry to assign any. Instead, it suddenly saw the game Lin Jin was playing. Its eyes lit up and he chuckled as it said: "I haven’t played games in so long, let me play a couple rounds?"
"Suit yourself."
The last time the black cat played games was probably before she got the gaming proficiency. Back then, Lin Jin still especially hoped the black cat would help her rank up, but the black cat didn’t seem too enthusiastic about games.
She watched as the black cat appeared on the computer screen and then the mouse began to move around under the black cat’s control.
Lin Jin boredly rested her chin on one hand as she watched the black cat pick the hero Io. She curled her lips, although Io was a very strong hero, it was frighteningly weak in the hands of someone who didn’t know how to play.
"By the way, aren't you going to assign me any tasks?"
Although she didn't really want to be forced to do any tasks by the black cat, Lin Jin still asked.
"Not assigning any, too troublesome. In the future, maybe I’ll give you some tasks depending on the situation." The black cat said while focused on the game "There's not much regarding weekly tasks. Anyway, don’t you already know everything you should? You already have the skills you need and you also don't seem interested in doing tasks or anything."
The black cat glanced at Lin Jin outside the computer screen and continued to say: "Although strictly speaking, you're not exactly a goddess or anything, and you haven’t reached the popularity of a goddess online, but I think you just need to keep posting videos every week and it’ll be fine."
Then her phone vibrated. Lin Jin looked down and found that the black cat had assigned her a task after all.
Long term task:
In order to become a popular goddess, you need to post at least one decent quality video every week and become popular online within three months. Good luck!
Task Reward: Completely break free from the system.
Task Penalty: Do you want to experience the fear of being dominated by tasks?
Lin Jin frowned. This task obviously meant that the black cat didn't want to continue cultivating a so called goddess.
Meaning, the black cat was getting a bit bored...