Chapter 265 - Animal Language Card and Drawing Card

Translator: Lav

Editor: Seliniaki Ilikia

The Scepter was impatient. “Hurry up and ask,” it urged.

“If I only have sixty points when I level up, can I still get rewards? Or if I want private funds as a reward, do I need to reach a certain amount of points to exchange the one point equals one percent into my own money?”

“Why?! Why?! How can you even think of this question?!” The Scepter roared again, making Shi Lei jump.

Seeing that the Scepter was still asking why repeatedly, Shi Lei felt guilty. He was worried that it would start singing: he said this pain is nothing in the storm, dry your tears and don’t ask, why…(1)

“Uh…Perhaps…I think…Because I’m pretty handsome!” Shi Lei touched his forehead and replied with difficulty as he faced the Scepter’s constant mumbling

“Stupid marmot, you are really making me angry. If you want your own money, you must reach seventy points during the grading process.”

Shi Lei clapped his hands. “I’m the embodiment of wisdom! Okay, I finished asking my questions. We can start drawing prizes now.”

When he asked the last question, he had already decided that there was no point in asking any more. Shi Lei chose to quickly wrap up the day’s conversation, thinking that the Scepter was at risk of getting a stroke.

The wheel for prize drawing gradually appeared on the screen. It was same old display.

“I can draw twice today, right?” Shi Lei had to made sure.

“Yes.” The Scepter didn’t want to talk anymore. It knew that Shi Lei would still ask questions, regardless of what he drew.

Shi Lei didn’t talk further and pressed the button. After a while, he pressed the button once more and the wheel began to slow down until it stopped.

The area where the needle pointed to didn’t have anything written. It was only a drawing.

The pattern was somewhat strange. It was a creature with the head of a horse, the horns of an ox, the nose of an elephant, the body of a snake, the tail of a fish, and wings…Uh, we shall call it an animal temporarily. And it had the legs of a centipede.

Neither fish nor fowl? But was it just that it didn’t even look like ten things(2) put together!

Although he didn’t understand and couldn’t recognize what the thing was, Shi Lei wasn’t in a hurry to ask.

He had one more chance. He would ask after he finished drawing the second prize.

Hence, Shi Lei smashed the button down without a word and thought: Don’t be like last time and draw the same damn thing.

The wheel spun again and Shi Lei pressed the button once more before it gradually stopped. This time, he understood what the area where the needle stopped was for. It had two large characters: Drawing.

Although he could read what it said, Shi Lei didn’t fully understand the meaning of the prize. He could still briefly guess that it probably had the same function as the Ancient Times’ Martial Arts Card. Perhaps he could be possessed by master artists through this.

If that was really the case, it looked really weak. But it would be fine to use it to pretend to be cool once in a while.

“The Level Two Employee has drawn two prizes. The first is the Animal Language Card and the second is the Drawing Card. For the Animal Language Card, you can use it twice a month. After you use this card, you possess the ability to communicate with any animal for ten minutes. The type of animal includes all on earth, except for plants and other lower beings that are incapable of speaking a language. There’s no need for you to keep asking. I’ve told you very clearly. Anything you can imagine, including all animal calls. Even some sounds that humans cannot hear, such as those made by a fish or shrimp, you can use to communicate for ten minutes. As for the Drawing Card, it is similar to the Ancient Times’ Martial Arts Card. You can use it twice a month for a duration of one hour. It functions in the same way as the Ancient Times’ Martial Arts Card. These two cards will form into two apps on your phone and you are only required to click on the corresponding app when you want to use it.”

The Scepter knew that Shi Lei would ask questions to make everything clearer, so it had learned to tell him everything he needed to know to save trouble for itself, trying its best to not give him room for any questions.

But even so, Shi Lei still had a question.

“Uh…I don’t really want to ask this, but I have to…”

The Scepter had been pestered beyond endurance. “Ask, ask, ask. Ask everything clearly.”

Shi Lei was speechless. “For that Animal Language Card, do I only have the ability to communicate with them, or can I give them orders?” he asked almost apologetically. “You know, if it’s only communication, then it’s useless, but it would be different if I can give orders, such as asking the dog to bite its owner…”

The Scepter felt a bit sad at Shi Lei’s question. How did the owner offend you to make the dog bite them? There was no way for the Scepter to know that Shi Lei had once encountered an extremely fierce dog and he had almost been bitten by it as he fell down trying to avoid it. But the dog’s owner just laughed loudly and even felt proud that his dog was f*cking awesome. Shi Lei was scarred from this, so when the Scepter introduced the Animal Language Card, he thought that if he had the card at that time and could give orders to the dog, he would definitely tell the dog to bite that laughing retard until he was disabled.

“You can give simple orders, but not things that animals can’t do as animals.”

“In other words, I can never make a dog meow like a cat. I understand that. I’m not bored enough to tell a dog to learn a foreign language.”

Foreign language your ass! How can dogs have foreign languages?

“Level Two Employee, do you have any other questions?” The Scepter asked halfheartedly.

Shi Lei waved his hand generously and said, “Nope!” As soon as the Scepter heard that, it immediately disappeared and ejected the Black Card for Shi Lei.

“Damn, can you leave any faster? Am I that scary?” Shi Lei mumbled to himself sadly and pocketed the Black Card.

He took out his phone and checked as he walked up the stairs.

There were two new apps on it already. It was the same as the other apps. They didn’t have a name, only the same picture or writing as what he had seen when he drew the prizes.

He tapped on the Animal Language Card and saw something like a search engine. There were two other buttons on the side. One was for audio and one was for the camera. There was a line beneath it as an introduction, telling Shi Lei that he could use the audio button to search for the breed of the animal. If he couldn’t get the accurate name of the animal, then he could use the camera function and search the animal by the photo.

“This is is very detailed. If the providers of our apps can all provide this much detail, how nice that would be.” Shi Lei closed the app and opened the Drawing Card.

It was slightly different from the Ancient Times’ Martial Arts Card. The Martial Arts Card had three photos or portraits of three martial arts masters without a lot of detail. Perhaps it was because the Black Card thought that as long as it gave Shi Lei enough combat ability, it wasn’t important what martial arts master was used to fight. But there was a problem. If it didn’t matter, then why were three options given? Wasn’t it easier to just summon a martial arts master to possess him at random? Shi Lei temporarily casted this doubt aside and looked at the display of the Drawing Card. It listed the four big options of Western drawings, Chinese drawings, pencil sketches, and manga.

Shi Lei clicked the manga button and three photos appeared under the option. It was quite similar to the Martial Arts Card and the rest should also be the same. While he was looking at it, a voice sounded next to him. “What are you looking at?”

1. The lyrics are from a Chinese song called “Sailor”

2. Neither a fish nor fowl: in Chinese, it’s called 'si bu xiang”, which literally means “doesn’t look like four things,” so the author exaggerated it and said that it doesn’t look like ten things combined