She picked out three pieces from the antiques, jewelry, paintings, and calligraphy she had found at the Yu Family—three she had seen in Yu Xunhuan's hands in her previous life. These three were highly likely to have mutated into equipment or items. She stuffed the rest directly into her backpack and made a trip to Hong Kong City.
That place was a chaotic mix of all sorts, and no one knew her. The influence of the Su, Han, and Liang Families was useless there too.
After arriving in Hong Kong City, she threw everything into an underground Auction House. The commission was a little high, but it specialized in auctioning off things that could not see the light of day. The buyers knew the rules too; most would keep what they bought hidden away rather than flaunt it openly.
There was too much stuff. She had to wait for appraisals, wait for the auctions, and find someone to exchange it all for gold. Exchanging a large amount of gold personally was extremely troublesome. Whether legitimate or shady, someone might be waiting to catch her. Sometimes she had to watch out for sting operations; other times, when someone targeted her, she had to kill them in return and clean up the evidence...
Several times, she had only gotten out of danger thanks to the guns and explosives she made through engineering. This stuff really worked!
Yu Xunge had left S City in mid-April and stayed busy until late May. Only after selling off every antique and piece of jewelry did she return to S City, carrying over 3,200 pounds of gold in her Game Inventory and 800 million Hong Kong dollars in her Hong Kong City account.
Throughout that time, she kept her detection item on, yet she did not see a single player.
More than 3,200 pounds of gold—even at the goblins' outrageously exploitative prices after the Game Invasion—could be traded for over 5,000 gold.
If things went smoothly, she would not only stop worrying about learning professional recipes; she could also buy some Skill Books at the in-game Auction House.
This game had no class system. Neither other races nor Blue Star humans had fixed skills. Players merely formed rough categories among themselves, such as Healing Type, agility type, spellcasting type, melee type, ranged type, and so on. Everyone's core was their own God-Bestowed Talent, and all their skills were chosen to complement it.
Of course, there were also chaotic, freeform builds that learned whatever they felt like learning. Somehow, they even turned out pretty effective.
Yu Xunge had not touched her own fifty million yet.
She planned to first see how much gold she could trade for, then decide what to do with the rest of the money.
During this time, Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo searched for her everywhere. Yu Xunge simply said she was traveling in Italy and was worried she would die before she could spend all her money, leaving them speechless.
She could not figure out why those two wanted her back either. Did the live-in son-in-law's family really get a say in the engagement?
In the days before June 1, Yu Xunge bought all kinds of odds and ends, from appliances to alcohol and food. When she dragged a cart loaded with deliveries back to the villa, the security guard asked whether the apocalypse was coming.
Yu Xunge could only say that she had just moved in and the house was empty, then sent him away.
After the Game Invasion, there would not only be no shortage of food, clothing, housing, and transportation—they would become even more abundant. There was no need to stockpile supplies at all.
By the day Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan officially got engaged, her game inventory was only half full.
Yu Xunge put on light makeup and wore a proper yet understated blue casual suit. When she arrived at the hotel, she clearly saw Su Yitong's satisfaction.
Female rivalry alert!!
How much of an idiot did someone have to be to think her boyfriend's biological older sister would like her boyfriend?!
Yu Xunge smiled and shook hands with her future sister-in-law. After setting down her gift money and exchanging a few pleasantries, she went inside to find Yu Qingshan and the others.
She felt as if she barely recognized Yu Xunhuan anymore. How long had it even been? He had gone from a shy, bashful little puppy to a gloomy little puppy.
It was only half gone! Was it really that serious?
So ungrateful!
Still, the Yu Family genes were strong. His gloominess somehow made him even prettier.
But that worked out fine for a live-in son-in-law novel. Su Yitong's eyes practically glowed whenever she looked at Yu Xunhuan.
Although Yu Xunge had been a celebrity for many years, everyone present was either a wealthy young lady or an aristocratic wife. Even when some recognized Yu Xunge, none came over to greet her. She was happy for the peace and quiet. She had truly gotten tired of killing people in Hong Kong City.
For a while, she really did not want to kill again.
Perhaps after killing so many people, Yu Xunge's temperament had changed as well. She used to have the gentle, soft aura of a white moonlight. Now, dressed in a suit as she walked in, she radiated the unmistakable air of a woman who was bad news.
Yu Qingshan narrowed his eyes and watched her for a while before leaning close and asking gently, "Why have you changed so much lately? Did something happen? Tell Dad."
Yu Xunge answered without hesitation. "I met a Mafia boyfriend in Italy and ran around with him for half a month. Pretty cool, right?"
Yu Qingshan: "..." It was clearly a joke, so he let it pass.
Yu Xunge held her palm beside her mouth and whispered, "I got a gun. A real one." She had picked it up after killing someone. Seventeen of them, in all sorts of models, along with ammunition. It was just a pity she had not wiped out their base. She did not have enough firepower, and flesh and blood could not just charge in. She would take another look once she had skills.
That sounded like it might actually be true. Yu Qingshan pressed his lips together. "Give it to Dad later. Dad will keep it safe for you. That thing is illegal."
Oh? You wanted it, but you were calling it illegal too. If I got caught, would you go to prison for me?
On the surface, Yu Xunge obediently replied, "Okay. I'll listen to Dad."
The engagement banquet was the Su Family's home ground. The Yu Family members behaved as meekly as quails. They did not even get a chance to speak on stage. Yu Xunge glanced at Yu Qingshan's expression. Mm, he still looked like an elegant, handsome professor.
As for Yi Qiuguo, although she occasionally lost her temper at home, she had given birth to a great beauty like Yu Xunge and a little eunuch like Yu Xunhuan, so naturally she was not bad-looking herself. When she sat quietly with a smile, she was still quite intimidating.
Yu Xunge lowered her head to eat, considering how to make Yu Xunhuan miss the second closed beta. After participating in the second closed beta, she intended to tell Yu Xunhuan about the game, then wait with him for the illusory third closed beta.
Give him hope, then make him despair.
The first closed beta had been too rushed, and she had lacked the ability back then, so she had handled things too crudely. The second closed beta naturally had to be smoother, worthy of her current capabilities.
She did not want Yu Xunhuan to get into trouble at the Yu Family again. Otherwise, with that little bastard's habit of immediately suspecting the women in the family whenever something happened to him, would it not be easy for her to be exposed?
However, given Yu Xunhuan's current condition, he was probably still working on his technique and was not yet qualified to move into the Su Family home.
A live-in son-in-law missing half his dick—if the two of them hugged, no one would know who was supposed to call whom wife.
Yu Xunge did not think of a solution until she left the estate.
Thanks to her many years on the run, she knew quite a few fellow fugitives. She found a small shop that took private jobs and still dealt in cash. She had them hire several young women and men to go to the Yu Family home and play Yu Xunhuan's obsessive fans, demanding to know why he had gotten married without telling everyone. They were to be as unreasonable and hysterical as possible.
She also killed a little sparrow and used Only the Dead Obey to control it, sending it to wait outside a Yu Family window.
Starting on the 2nd, people began showing up at the door. Yu Xunhuan did not even hold out until Yu Xunge's Plan B. On the night of the 4th, he moved into a nearby hotel.
That same night, she used an unregistered phone card she had bought in Hong Kong City to call someone she had met while buying gold there. She gave him Yu Xunhuan's phone number, WeChat, and even email address, instructing him to send pornographic messages to Yu Xunhuan around the clock for the next month starting the following morning. He was to have people add Yu Xunhuan as a friend and ask whether he was into hookups, then list his number at a gay bar.
Thus, from that day onward, Yu Xunhuan's phone became a pervert magnet.
The second closed beta would begin at 6:06 on June 6.
At three in the morning on the 6th, Yu Xunge, using the Disguise Skill, arrived outside the hotel. She turned into a narrow alley nearby, stood in a surveillance blind spot, and drank an Intermediate Invisibility Potion. Then she entered the hotel and climbed the stairs all the way to the twenty-seventh floor, where Yu Xunhuan was staying.
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