After restoring her health to full, Yu Xunge used Disguise Skill to make herself look like Su Yitong. She had not expected such a low-level frame-up to work, but it was still better than using her own face.
She put on a baseball cap to cover her swim cap, took out a large axe, and then drank a Minor Invisibility Potion.
She carefully crawled out from beneath the bed and walked to its side.
She had originally intended to chop off Liang Yuchuan's head, but she stopped when she saw the black Metal Collar around Liang Yuchuan's neck. Liang Yuchuan had worn this collar throughout her previous life. There was an equipment slot on the neck, and with Liang Yuchuan's abilities, there was no way she could not obtain a necklace-type piece of equipment. That left only one explanation: this collar was equipment, and high-level equipment at that. How had she failed to steal it?
Even if it was not a collar, with her 7 Strength, she was not confident she could sever both the obviously high-quality metal collar and Liang Yuchuan's neck with one swing.
Yu Xunge did not hesitate for long. She aimed at Liang Yuchuan's right arm, leaped high, and swung down with all her strength.
The God of Assassins, huh?!
The axe instantly severed Liang Yuchuan's right forearm. The whole thing took less than a second.
Blood spattered across Yu Xunge's face, revealing her eyes disguised as Su Yitong's as they met Liang Yuchuan's terrified, hate-filled gaze.
Almost instantly, Liang Yuchuan used her skill to merge into the blood on the bed, leaving only a forearm behind.
This was why Yu Xunge had given up on killing Liang Yuchuan outright after realizing she was not certain she could take her head off. She was too difficult to kill. Whether she turned into water and merged with water or stayed in water, she could slowly regenerate health. It was practically a bug!
Would terror leave someone dazed? No. For those with combat talents, terror and pain only made them flee faster.
Moreover, several glasses of water had been placed in Liang Yuchuan's room, and there were even a few bowls of water beneath the bed. Even if Yu Xunge stabbed Liang Yuchuan through the heart or knocked her unconscious first, she would still have a few seconds to escape.
It could only be said that once a God-Bestowed Talent reached S-rank, none of them were weak.
Still, leaving behind an arm—her right forearm, at that—meant Yu Xunge had not lost out.
After people became datafied, even the most severe wounds could heal through restoring health, but missing body parts could not be created from nothing. If an arm or leg was severed, unless the part was recovered, reattached, and then healed, one could only remain disabled.
Now that Liang Yuchuan had lost a forearm, this was merely interest.
Yu Xunge put the severed limb into her game inventory. Before the people outside could burst in, she put on Soros's Eye. The Minor Invisibility Potion was still on cooldown, so she exploited a bug and drank an Intermediate Invisibility Potion. The two potions naturally had separate cooldowns, and the parts of her body revealed by the blood covering them turned invisible again.
After downing a Phasing Potion, she calmly passed through the wall and left the room.
Through Soros's Eye, she saw the information of everyone moving through the villa.
There were no players. Even Liang Yuchuan's brothers were not players yet.
They had probably only entered the game during the second closed beta, with Liang Yuchuan's help.
Yu Xunge ran out of the estate before the Invisibility Potion wore off.
With 18 Agility, she now ran faster than the quickest sprinter. She sprinted all the way out of the villa district before even finishing a bottle of Invisibility Potion. Rather than returning to her own villa, she raced to the nearest lake. Still wearing Su Yitong's appearance, she washed the blood from herself in the lake, stripped off her clothes, and burned them to ashes by the shore, then shoveled the top layer of soil beneath them into the lake as well.
She turned invisible again and ran toward the city.
Liang Yuchuan's blood had once stained her, and Yu Xunge did not know whether Liang Yuchuan could sense anything through blood. God-Bestowed Talents were too overpowered; some things went beyond what was displayed on the skill panel.
Take herself, for example. In her previous life, her initial Agility had been 5, but after receiving the Thief God's talent in this life, her initial Agility was 11. Moreover, even without using a skill, she could now steal someone's phone while brushing past them without being noticed. Her hands had also become extraordinarily nimble and flexible. These were all changes brought about by her skill.
And as she stole more and more often, using her skill became increasingly smooth and natural.
Since the Water God could control water, she did not dare gamble on whether Liang Yuchuan could sense her own blood.
Yu Xunge did not return home for the entire day. After her disguise disappeared, she wandered around in a cap, mask, and Soros's Eye, becoming a street loafer again and slipping wherever crowds gathered. Once Disguise Skill's cooldown ended, she changed into another set of clothes, disguised herself as a man, and took a shower at a trashy hotel that did not require ID to check in.
In the end, she even took an unlicensed cab to the neighboring city.
Her new agent called her midway through, saying he wanted to discuss her upcoming work arrangements. Yu Xunge simply said she was traveling and told him to wait three days.
She was not sure whether she was playing mind games with thin air, but she did not dare take the risk. She would rather look like an idiot than return to her old nest after doing something bad. That was the experience and instinct she had gained through years on the run.
More importantly, her Luck was now maxed out. Sometimes, intuition was simply luck guiding her.
The facts proved that Yu Xunge had made the right bet.
After Yu Xunge left, Liang Yuchuan switched forms, drank a Minor Healing Potion, and was flown to the hospital by helicopter. A family doctor could not treat an injury like this.
On the plane, she kept sensing her own blood. She could feel the trace of her blood leaving the estate and lingering by the lake, but her sensing range was too small. After her forearm was treated to stop the pain and bleeding, she began following the trace of her blood by helicopter.
Just as Yu Xunge left S City, the Liang Family had already tracked her into the city.
The helicopter flew conspicuously back and forth above the city. The Liang Family's influence was such that they did not need to apply for a flight route at all.
But the traces were too chaotic. Liang Yuchuan had obtained her talent less than a week ago; reaching the city was already the limit of what she could do.
She gripped her wound so hard that it bled, yet even that could not suppress the pain in her heart. Only half of her right arm remained!
She had become crippled!!
Liang Yuchuan's eyes reddened with hatred.
She remembered those eyes. She would find her. She definitely would!
Yu Xunge had not been idle in H City either. If her body had not become datafied, she truly feared she would have dropped dead from exhaustion.
She had come to H City for a very famous item.
After the Game Invasion, some things on Earth had a chance to mutate. She had even heard of a starch factory whose machinery mutated into an S-rank item capable of mass-producing starch sausages that granted +2 Strength for five minutes after being eaten.
Yu Xunge did not even consider such things. Though she was selfish and would not tell everyone in advance about the Game Invasion, she would not touch items that were clearly more useful on the battlefield in official hands.
What she wanted was a cat bed at a pet hospital. This cat bed had been there ever since the pet hospital opened. Any stray cat passing by could rest in it, and the doctors cleaned it regularly. It was just such a cat bed with a backstory that triggered its chance to mutate after the Game Invasion, becoming an S-rank item.
Meow Meow Hostel (S-rank): Place it by your front door for a chance to attract stray animals. If an animal stays overnight and you sincerely host it, it will leave behind one of its recent favorite collections as a gift of thanks.
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