Second Closed Beta

She had never asked the Yu Family where Yu Xunhuan lived. She had tracked down all that information through her little sparrows. Before Yu Xunhuan entered the hotel, a little sparrow had slipped into the hood of his sweatshirt and followed him all the way into the room, where it was now hiding in a potted plant.

Worried that the stench of decay on the little sparrow would spread, Yu Xunge changed it for a new one every day.

After drinking a Phasing Potion, Yu Xunge smoothly entered Yu Xunhuan's hotel room.

Even with her ability to multitask, she could only relax after personally confirming that Yu Xunhuan had not entered the game.

In the hotel room, Yu Xunhuan lay on the bed with a furrowed brow, shifting from time to time. It was impossible to tell whether he was asleep.

A phone lay in the corner of the room. Judging from the dent in the wall, it had likely been thrown there.

Yu Xunge walked over for a look. She could not tell the brand, but Su Yitong had probably given it to him. Whatever premium phone it was, its screen had not even shattered.

Once Yu Xunhuan married into the Su Family, he would probably not only get to use premium phones but also enjoy special dedicated service lines. He would never receive junk messages again.

She watched Yu Xunhuan. When he turned over once more and happened to have his back to her, Yu Xunge hooked the phone up with her toe and put it into her backpack. Then, using the Phasing Potion, she went to the room next door, which she had arranged for a Hong Kong City local to book in advance using his identity information.

Yu Xunge took out the phone. Still invisible, she was not worried about any high-tech feature recording her appearance. She turned the phone over and inspected it, discovering a shallow dent in its upper-left corner. That was probably the corner that had struck the wall. She aimed the dent at the wall, then smashed it down hard.

With a crack, half the screen shattered. The display automatically lit up and showed the date, but half the screen had already turned into a distorted mess of green and purple.

Yu Xunge put the phone into her backpack and returned to Yu Xunhuan's room. He was still facing away from the door. Yu Xunge walked to where the phone had fallen and placed the broken phone back exactly where it had been.

Then she quietly left.

Before coming here, she had imagined dozens, even hundreds, of possible scenarios. She had not expected the simplest one. She had even considered what she would do if Yu Xunhuan not only failed to lose emotional control over those messages, but instead grew more excited as he read them, started practicing his skills, and then at six o'clock suddenly decided to find a game to play.

She had even prepared for the worst-case scenario of knocking Yu Xunhuan unconscious.

At exactly six, Yu Xunge returned to Yu Xunhuan's room. The broken phone still lay on the floor, while Yu Xunhuan had his head covered, making it impossible to tell whether he was asleep. Yu Xunge threw a Fate Gear at the person on the bed, reducing his luck to 1, then returned to the neighboring room to prepare for the second closed beta.

At 6:06, she found Dread Rift: Warcraft right on schedule and immediately clicked download.

After entering the character selection screen, she saw the familiar undead. However, beside the ID Gē Wū Ēn was an extra message—Wanted.

Yu Xunge touched the hidden pocket inside her clothes. The two backpacks inside had vanished, but the undead avatar on the screen had two familiar backpacks hanging from its waist.

She tried using Thief God's Armor Up! Disguise Skill, attempting to turn herself into a short goblin.

Very quickly, Yu Xunge changed in reality. Her body shrank, her skin turned green, and her ears grew larger. At the same time, the undead on the screen changed as well.

Yu Xunge immediately entered the game. No matter where she appeared after entering, she only had one hour of disguise time. Within that hour, she needed to figure out her situation.

The screen lit up. The little goblin stood in a graveyard. After adjusting the game camera, she saw Undead City not far away. She immediately controlled her character toward the city, speeding past the occasional low-level monster.

In less than five minutes, she stood at the city gates. A portrait of her original undead character hung above them. Fortunately, when she had first created that character, she had felt uncomfortable because the undead looked eighty percent like her, so she had casually clicked randomize every time she created a character.

Although Thief God's Disguise Skill had a short duration, no Item Skill could see through it. Yu Xunge easily entered the city and headed straight for the goblin district. She found the goblin shopkeeper at a goblin store and asked whether he bought gold.

Goblin: "Time is money. If you have gold, why not turn it into gold coins yourself? Didn't your mentor teach you that back then?"

Yu Xunge's breathing quickened slightly. She typed into the dialogue box, "May I ask if you would be willing to teach me the relevant skill, sir? I am willing to pay for your valuable time."

The other party immediately sent over a trade window, showing that he wanted 100 gold.

Such a precious opportunity left Yu Xunge not daring to bargain. She directly took out the 100 gold the Undead City Lord had given her and handed it over.

Goblin Robert L has taught you "Gold Casting" (Beginner)

She opened the skill details.

Gold Casting (A-rank) (Goblin-exclusive): Infuse a gold coin with magic to create a unique gold coin (Proficiency: 0/)

Trait 1: Each time a gold coin is cast, 20g of gold will automatically be deducted and sent through the void to the Goblin Chamber of Commerce as tax

Trait 2: Money can buy everything, but to maintain market stability, each goblin may produce at most 3 gold coins per day for personal use

Yu Xunge immediately took a 500g gold bar from her inventory. After clicking it, it displayed (4/4) crafts. She selected craft all, and golden light shone between her character's hands. The progress bar finished one segment per second. Soon, three gold coins appeared in her inventory, while the gold bar that had displayed 500g now had only 140g remaining.

Her proficiency had also increased by 3 points.

Did that mean Yu Xunge could make gold coins herself in the future? And after refining ten thousand gold coins, as long as she obtained blueprints or found a goblin willing to teach her, she could learn Intermediate Gold Casting.

Although she could only make three per day, that number was already terrifying. Since coming here, she could casually steal more than a dozen gold coins at a time and had even managed to fleece 100 gold from the Undead City Lord. But in the real world, when she used to clear dungeons, even by the end of the second year, when the dungeons had become extremely high-level, she could risk her life for an entire day and earn less than 1 gold coin in pure currency.

Yu Xunge did not waste any more time. She suppressed her chaotic thoughts, took out several large storage boxes from her inventory, and asked whether the goblin would buy them. After circling the boxes several times, the goblin judged the appliances and assorted toys to be trash, offering at most 2 silver coins per box. However, he offered 12 gold coins for the two large boxes of baijiu and red wine.

Yu Xunge sold all 55 boxes of alcohol for 330 gold. She sold the trash as well, receiving less than 1 gold.

Then she took out ten jin of gold and asked how many gold coins she could exchange it for.

She only had a few gold coins obtained from Su Yitong on her now, far from enough to learn skills.

The goblin offered an exchange rate of 200g of gold for 1 gold coin.

Yu Xunge spent five minutes bargaining and only managed to get it down to 180g for 1 gold. She knew the price could still be lowered, but she only had half an hour of disguise time left. Decisively, she took out all the gold she had: the 3,216 jin of gold exchanged in Hong Kong City, plus the gold she had taken from the Yu Family, totaling 3,240 jin. She exchanged it with the goblin for 6,000 gold.

That was nearly the entire gold reserve of a small-to-medium guild in her previous life.

Then Yu Xunge rushed to the goblin engineering master next door, upgraded Engineering to Advanced, and clicked to learn every one of the more than one hundred newly available formulas. Then she rushed to the Alchemy Shop and did the same, raising Alchemy to Advanced and learning every! Single! One! Of the more than one hundred new formulas!

When choosing classes at school, she had been timid and hesitant. In games, she charged in with blazing fists and an overflowing thirst for knowledge!