Though it was only vaguely described as "a recently favored collectible," the fact that it was S-rank made it clear this collectible was no ordinary piece of trash like a dead mouse or a rock.
In her previous life, this pet hospital had risen rapidly thanks to this cat bed. But with so many people coming and going, the cat bed had not remained secret for long. It was quickly discovered, and overnight, everyone in the pet hospital was wiped out—people, cats, dogs, even the hamsters.
That was why she had come early to take the cat bed.
She really did still have a conscience.
Yu Xunge patted herself. You may steal things, snatch things, and enjoy hiding under beds, but you really are a good girl.
Fine, she admitted it. Even if the pet hospital had not been wiped out over this cat bed, she would still have taken it.
She wanted it, so she got it.
She had not been reborn to become a moral role model.
The cat bed sat outside the pet hospital's entrance. Other than during wind and rain, the shabby gray cat bed remained outside even after the hospital closed for the night.
After nightfall, Yu Xunge used the Disguise Skill and carried over two luxurious cat tents, placing one on each side of the pet hospital entrance. Then she tucked the cat bed under her arm and returned to the car she had rented, casually tossing it into the passenger seat. After that, she moved all ten boxes of premium canned cat food she had brought to the entrance of the pet hospital and taped an A4 sheet of paper above them—Free meals for all stray animals nearby.
She opened ten cans on the spot and lined them up outside the hospital entrance.
The next day, she disguised herself as someone else and entered the hospital to donate two million yuan.
A textbook case of forcing a sale.
As she walked out of the hospital, she could still hear the employees marveling at how many good people there had been lately. It was just a shame the cat bed had vanished—they had grown attached to using it.
That was exactly what Yu Xunge feared. She could have waited until after the Game Invasion to come take the cat bed, but once people grew emotionally attached to something, it could easily become bound to them after transforming into an item or piece of equipment.
Once it was bound, only that person could use it. Even if you killed them, it could not be unbound.
With the cat bed secured, she bought materials needed to make homemade bandages and stocked up on ingredients required by cooking recipes. Then she returned to her thirty-million-yuan little villa, planning to grind First Aid (Beginner) and Cooking (Beginner) to the max over the next week so she could immediately learn the intermediate versions during the second closed beta.
On the morning she returned to S City from H City, Su Yitong went to the Yu Family again. Apparently, she had been visiting them almost every day lately. Back in H City, Yi Qiuguo had urged Yu Xunge to come home, saying Su Yitong had asked about her.
Yu Xunge felt even busier than when she had been fleeing for her life in her previous life!
Back then, she had still managed to sleep six hours a day!
Early that morning, Yi Qiuguo had called and told her to come home that day. Yu Xunge turned the steering wheel and headed straight to the Yu Family without even returning to her own home. When she entered, it was obvious at a glance that she had rushed over without going home first.
Nothing could be read from Su Yitong's expression. Yu Xunge was an old hand at acting, so naturally, no emotion could be seen on her face either.
During the meal, Su Yitong sat beside her and accidentally bumped a glass of red wine, spilling it all over Yu Xunge. Yu Xunge appeared to react quickly and lean back, but she had not made it in time.
Su Yitong hurriedly apologized. Yu Xunge smiled and waved it off, saying it was fine, then went upstairs to wash up and change clothes.
With 18 Agility, there was no way she could not have avoided it. Su Yitong had deliberately tested her reaction, so Yu Xunge deliberately gave her the reaction an ordinary person should have had.
It was a minor incident, but it stirred up many unpleasant memories for Yu Xunge.
Yu Xunhuan and Su Yitong were getting engaged on June 1st, Children's Day, right? No matter what, she had to castrate Yu Xunhuan before June so little Yu Xunhuan could leave his daddy and celebrate Children's Day.
After dealing with Su Yitong, Yu Xunge went to her talent agency and directly stated that she was preparing to leave the entertainment industry. Seeing that several executives did not believe her, Yu Xunge followed the principle of avoiding trouble whenever possible and said she could release a retirement statement right then and there.
Friends who killed people often knew that people who had killed and people who had not killed were psychologically different.
When ordinary people handled a dispute, they thought: Maybe I should just let it go.
When people who had killed handled a dispute, they thought: Maybe I should just kill them after all.
She really had been busy lately. The second closed beta was on June 6th. Not only did she need to grind Intermediate Alchemy and Intermediate Engineering proficiency as high as possible before then, she also wanted to level Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid to intermediate. Although most materials containing magic did not yet exist in the real world, plenty of experience-giving recipes had substitute materials she could find. For example, she could find the materials for making gunpowder in Engineering in reality.
After grinding every bit of experience she could, she still had to deal with little Yu Xunhuan.
She really was busy. She did not have time to kill people.
Killing someone took only one stab, but dealing with the aftermath was too troublesome. Liu Zhengliu had only been released yesterday and could not leave S City anytime soon. Even amid her hectic schedule, Yu Xunge had made time to find Liu Zhengliu and slap her, because now that she knew about Liu Zhengliu and Liu Hongsheng's scheme, she could not act as though nothing had happened—Liu Zhengliu's life could not be taken yet. She needed to keep the heart of the matter and everyone's attention firmly fixed on Liu Hongsheng.
Seeing Yu Xunge act so resolutely, the people the company had sent to negotiate lost their nerve as well. If she did not even want to work anymore, how could they keep her in check? Those with nothing to lose feared nothing. If they pushed her too far, she had been in the industry for so many years and knew plenty of the company's dirty secrets.
The reason Yu Xunge had endured it in her previous life was that she had not intended to leave the industry. She had feared that no one in the family would earn money if she retired, so she had wanted to turn things around. She had even often used her own connections to introduce friends to Yu Xunhuan.
With no desires, one became strong. It meant that without worldly desires, one could stand up to anyone. After clashing with the executives a few more times, Yu Xunge left the talent agency. From then on, she had no job. Half a year later, she would just find a lawyer to sign the contract and complete the formalities.
Throughout March, Yu Xunge did not leave her villa even once. She told Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan that the company had abandoned her, that she was in great pain lately, and that they should not disturb her because she needed some peace and quiet.
But in reality, she was setting up her safe house.
She could use Invisibility Potions. So could others.
She hired a renovation crew from a neighboring city and had them turn the top floor of her villa into a glass room over two hundred square meters in size. It was filled with flowers and plants, with sprinklers overhead. At the very back of the glass room stood a heavy wooden cabinet covered in potted plants.
Then she found her own design and blueprints and made a hidden door in the cabinet. Behind it was a rectangular compartment seven meters long and four meters wide.
The compartment not only contained a bed for her to rest in, but also two concealed humidifiers. The floor was specially made as well, equipped with an extremely sensitive gravity sensor. As long as an object weighing more than 2 kilograms landed on it, it would light up.
Where there were Invisibility Potions, there were naturally corresponding Revealing Potions. She filled the humidifiers with the best intermediate Revealing Potions she could brew. Once the humidifiers were activated, the potion would turn into a thin mist and spread throughout the room. Though its effect would be weakened and it could not make someone fully visible, it could reveal a person's outline. That was enough.
Otherwise, using the garden sprinklers would have been far too extravagant. A small bottle would be sprayed out in minutes... she could not afford that.
But with humidifiers, one small bottle of Revealing Potion could last eight hours.
At the same time, she installed humidifiers in every corner of her home and filled them with Revealing Potion.
As long as she was home, the humidifiers throughout the house would remain on.
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