Refusing to Work for Nothing

Xia Yu followed him, watching as he arrived at the middle part of the ruins, inside a relatively intact house.

Quickly stepping forward, Xia Yu also entered the house.

Gong Tumor glanced at Xia Yu, licked his lips, and gestured for him to come over.

Xia Yu stared at Gong Tumor as if he was an idiot for a while, and Gong Tumor finally gave up on the idea of cooking soup with him.

Not caring about the black cat, Gong Tumor moved a worn-out table to one side, waking up the sleeping guard with the loud noise.

Xia Yu hadn't noticed the guard before since he was sleeping so quietly.

"Tumor," the old guard yawned, stood up, and helped Gong Tumor move the table, lift the carpet, and open a wooden board.

Below the wooden board was a basement, and from the basement came excited shouting.

"Do you want it? Do you want it?"

"All in, hahahaha!"

After Gong Tumor went down, the old guard covered the carpet, put the table back in place, and went back to sleep on the side.

Observing everything, Xia Yu left the ruins and headed towards the nearby police station.

Inside the police station, two police officers were on duty.

Seeing Xia Yu, one of the young police officers tried to lure her with a ham sausage.

After eating the sausage, Xia Yu jumped onto the policeman's desk, picked up a file, and ran.

The young police officer was shocked and immediately chased after her.

As an agile level 2 cat, Xia Yu could easily lose the young police officer, but her goal was to lure him to follow her.

So she slowed down, gradually leading the young police officer into Yanghu Old Village.

In the end, Xia Yu entered the house in the center.

The young police officer followed, seeing the black cat lying on a table, with the file neatly placed on the side.

It seemed like the black cat was waiting for him and had deliberately let him catch up on the way.

Am I really thinking this much about a cat?

He picked up the file, then noticed the black cat trying to push the table and scratching the carpet, which puzzled him.

The scene of a cat mother leading humans to save her child flashed in his mind, so the young police officer pushed the table and lifted the carpet.

However, underneath was not a trapped kitten, but a crude basement entrance.

From the entrance, voices calling "king bomb," "self-drawn tiles," and the like could be heard.

The young police officer touched his chin, took out his phone, and quietly reported to the side.

"Captain, I discovered a big case!"

"Really? Which child went missing?" The sleeping captain said irritably.

For them, these ordinary grassroots police stations, a lost child had already become a rare major case.

"It's a real major case! I received a report from... uh, a cat, like this..." The young police officer told the director.

"What? Don't startle the snake in the grass, let's go there immediately!"

On the other side, Gong Liuzi went into the basement and played with several friends.

"Liuzi, I heard you cheated Xia Dongyang out of 1.5 million?" a bald man said.

"Not really, Xia Dongyang only managed to scrape together one million, and he couldn't come up with the remaining 500,000!" Gong Liuzi said modestly.

"Are you not impressed with the money?"

"Where's the money? I had to repay one million to Old Xing." Gong Liuzi sighed.

"You're quite bold; Xia Dongyang is nothing, but his family's child isn't someone to be messed with."

"Am I afraid of a kid? He's on the right path now; what can he do to me?" Gong Liuzi didn't want to continue this topic, "Come on, let's start."

After playing a few rounds and with his card friends deliberately trying to trap him, Gong Liuzi quickly emptied his pockets.

Cursing, he stood up, climbed the ladder, knocked on the wooden board, waited ten seconds, and opened the cover.

He saw a line of police officers, six of them surrounding him and staring at him.

"Are you done?" asked one of the officers.

"Uh!" Gong Liuzi responded blankly.

"Well then, let's go." The officer gestured for him to proceed.

Gong Liuzi was not immediately taken to the police car. After the police officers caught them all, they lined up in order of height.

"Meow." Seeing that they were really about to leave, Xia Yu called out, indicating there was still one hiding in the corner.

The old man guarding the place looked confused; he had just dozed off, and when he woke up, he saw a group of police officers surrounding the house, so he could only hide in the corner and pray not to be discovered.

However, he was exposed by Xia Yu.

"Hey, there's an escaped fish." The director was happy, "Take them all!"

Before leaving, Xia Yu rubbed against Gong Liuzi's feet, acting affectionate.

This was an act of framing, but whether the framing would be successful was hard to say.

With the matter resolved, Xia Yu arrived at the entrance of Yanghu Xincun, and the driver picked him up on time and took him home.

The next morning, Xia Yu saw the news.

Last night, the Yanghu Police Station in our city arrested 15 villagers for illegal gambling.

Shocking! Fifteen strong men gathered in the basement late at night, full of excitement!

...

In one of the reports, Xia Yu saw the result of his framing.

According to a person from the police station, the cause of this operation was a black cat that mistakenly thought its owner had encountered danger in the basement, so it brought the police to rescue.

With this report, Gong Liu Zi will definitely not get away with it.

Satisfied, Xia Yu put down his phone and let the matter go.

The house belonged to Xia Dongyang, and Xia Yu had never expected Xia Dongyang to give it to him. The loss was Xia Dongyang's; he and Yuxue were innocently involved.

Moreover, Gong Liu Zi was an old hand; as long as the police were a little serious, they could follow the vine from him and uncover a lot.

Gong Liu Zi also liked to play big, and it was estimated that he would not be seen for a long time.

Putting this matter aside, Xia Yu began to think about the musical instrument competition.

If he participated in the musical instrument competition, he could get a recommendation from Hua University and a million-dollar prize.

However, to participate in the competition, he would need to invest a lot of time, at least upgrading his music to level 4, and even level 4 might not be enough.

This took up the time he could have spent learning programming.

Moreover, there was a high probability that An Siyao would find out about his participation in the competition.

If the girl found out, it didn't really matter; knowing An Siyao's character, Xia Yu understood that she wouldn't do anything.

However, this would leave a flaw, and he couldn't judge whether this flaw would lead to serious consequences later.

A thousand-mile journey may be destroyed by an ant's nest.

Although he had ways to make himself unrecognizable to An Siyao, it was too troublesome to put into action. A recommendation from Hua University and a million-dollar prize were not worth his effort.

Without a recommendation, he could still coax Hua University's students to work for him in other ways.

The million-dollar prize was even more useless; perhaps he could use it to redeem Xia Dongyang's house, but what was worth redeeming in that broken house?

Xia Yu was a practical person, and he had no feelings for the old house from his childhood.

When the competition came, he would just go up and play casually.

Standing up, Xia Yu paced around the room, feeling like he was still missing something.

After pacing a few rounds, Xia Yu sat on the bed and tried saying, "Ah, the competition is so troublesome; it's better not to participate."

[You have received a test mission.]

Such a big event indeed has a test requirement!

Damn the developer! If I participated, I would have been taken advantage of!

Xia Yu opened the email, deciding to check what the reward was first and whether it was worth his effort.