She Had to Get This Skill

After memorizing the ingredients for the Advanced Invisibility Potion, Yu Xunge went straight to the Herb Shop next door and bought six slots' worth of herbs. It was not that she did not want to buy more, but the game's mechanics were rigid. She could not save inventory space by stuffing different items into storage boxes and stacking them. She also had to leave several slots free for browsing the Auction House.

Yu Xunge was practically racing against time.

She had only 23 minutes of disguise time left.

She hurried to the Auction House. On the way, she stopped by a restaurant, raised her Cooking skill to intermediate level, and learned over a hundred new recipes.

She still had 4,286 gold on her.

Standing before the Auction House, she entered a keyword—Soros.

Nothing.

Yu Xunge did not even have time to complain and immediately tried another word—bag.

She then spent 800 gold on two 36-slot bags. They were the largest-capacity bags she could find.

The instant she paid, a notification popped up from the game mailbox, telling her she had a new package. She clicked to claim it, and two 36-slot bags appeared in her inventory. While rapidly transferring the items from her original game inventory into the new bags, she continued shopping.

The Thief God's talent meant she could choose any class path—Strength, Agility, or magic—but she had no time to pick and choose now. She could only buy a few skills she was familiar with.

But then she quickly spotted a skill that seized all her attention—Phantom Shift!

Phantom Shift (SS-rank): After use, you can travel to any place you have previously visited. The travel distance is affected by the caster's Intelligence Value. (No cooldown. Cast time: 0.1 seconds. Each use consumes 1% Mana.)

Gold! And there was only one such Skill Book in the entire Auction House...

This Skill Book—this skill—hit Yu Xunge right in the heart.

No cooldown, and an extremely short cast time.

That meant this skill was practically impossible to interrupt. As long as she had Mana, she could use it without limit.

Her obsession with the idea that "no one in the world can catch me" had nearly been carved into Yu Xunge's bones.

She almost immediately abandoned all her original stockpiling plans. She had to! Get this skill!

She had never even heard of this skill in her previous life. Yu Xunhuan and his group had everything they wanted, yet even they had obediently needed transportation when entering dungeons.

But Yu Xunge only had 16 minutes of disguise time left.

Yu Xunge spent 200 gold on a Little Blue Outfit necklace. The necklace had only one effect: reduce cooldowns by 15%.

This effect worked on all items, potions, and equipment.

In her previous life, 200 gold could have bought a top-tier level 10 Little Blue Outfit piece with at least three attributes. Yu Xunge felt like she was getting carried away.

Then she searched for the skill Phantom Body Curse.

Phantom Body Curse (C-rank): After use, you can hide your tracks and become invisible to the naked eye. (No cooldown. After use, consumes 10 Mana per minute.)

Invisible to the naked eye meant people could still detect her with skills or items, but for now, it was enough!

Invisibility Potions were useful, but their cooldowns were too long. Alternating between Minor Invisibility Potions and intermediate Invisibility Potions was no longer enough.

Phantom Body Curse was only C-rank because it was an incredibly lackluster skill. Anyone above level 10 had their own detection methods.

But in the current real world, it had a wonderful use. She got the Skill Book for only 120 gold.

Finally, she spent another 50 gold on a copy of Sleepy Fall (C-rank), which could briefly put someone to sleep, as well as a Sleeping Potion that could make someone sleep for six hours.

After buying those four things, Yu Xunge immediately ran out of the city.

She left Gloom City and reached the graveyard where she had logged in just before her disguise expired.

Yu Xunge claimed the items from her mail into her inventory, clicked to learn the Skill Books, equipped the necklace, and then logged out.

This time, her phone did not turn into black smoke. But when she logged out, two bags appeared on the floor—one black and one white. They were her new 36-slot bags. A cold necklace slowly materialized around her neck, and the methods for using two spells appeared in her mind.

Yu Xunge used Phantom Body Curse on herself. Her entire body turned icy cold, as though a layer of ice water had slid across her skin. Then she could no longer see her own body.

Time was precious. After drinking a Phasing Potion, she returned to Yu Xunhuan's room.

Yu Xunhuan was actually awake. He was squatting on the floor, repeatedly trying to turn on the phone he had smashed.

Seeing the irritation on his face, Yu Xunge felt a little lingering fear. Was this what a male lead was like? Half his dick was gone, porn kept popping up on his phone, and he still suddenly felt like playing with it?!

Just as she was thinking that, she noticed Yu Xunhuan walk over to his suitcase and start rummaging through it.

Yu Xunge's sharp eyes spotted the tablet and laptop in his suitcase.

Fuck! I was careless! There's still a tablet!

Fine, fine. So that's how you want to play it, huh?

Without hesitation, Yu Xunge fired a Sleepy Fall at Yu Xunhuan. She had bought this skill for Yu Xunhuan in the first place. She was about to leave the hotel for a long time and could not keep watch over him.

After Yu Xunhuan collapsed to the floor, Yu Xunge walked over and poured the Sleeping Potion into his mouth. Once she made sure he had swallowed it all, she left the hotel. Phantom Body Curse consumed 10 Mana per minute, but she kept chewing jerky in her mouth. One gain and one loss meant she only used 5 Mana per minute.

It would take 20 minutes to use up all her Mana, but at a time like this, a Minor Mana Potion could restore 60 Mana.

Combined with Invisibility Potions, she could stay invisible for a long time without needing to find somewhere to hide while her potions were on cooldown.

Yu Xunge ran straight toward the Su Family estate.

Where could she find a large amount of gold? Other than banks, there was the Su Family's treasury!

All secrets that could not be known to others and all assets requiring protection were kept there.

Yu Xunge knew because the evil array that could strip others of their God-Bestowed Talents was located in that treasury.

It was currently 7:13.

After equipping the cooldown-reduction necklace, Armor Up!'s cooldown had been shortened to five hours and six minutes. At 12:12, she could use the Disguise Skill again and enter the game.

The second closed beta ended at 13:06.

She only had four hours.

At 12:12, regardless of whether she managed to get gold from the Su Family, she would find a safe place to enter the game and use the Disguise Skill to enter the city again. Though she was willing to alter her original plan for Phantom Shift, she would not stubbornly force the issue.

Her original plan had been to stockpile supplies, then go into the wilderness to kill monsters and level up. Now, she was merely replacing the time she would have spent grinding monsters in the wilderness with time spent farming the Su Family dungeon.

Running to the Su Family was impossible. Their estate was a two-hour drive from the city center. Last time, she had nearly died from exhaustion after running all the way from the Liang Family to downtown.

She called the Gun King—the man who had fired seven shots at Yu Xunhuan's dick and missed every one—and asked him to find a brother who drove fast and was willing to make some extra cash. He was to deliver a double-door refrigerator from an alley beside XX Hotel to the suburban villa district. If he got there in an hour and a half, she would pay 50,000. For every minute earlier, she would add another 10,000.

The Gun King charged 50 jin of gold for a job, but he still knew plenty of principled, steadfast brothers who were willing to break the law but did not want to see blood. After Yu Xunge repeatedly guaranteed that there were no dismembered corpses in the refrigerator, he immediately agreed to take the job.

Ten minutes later, a black pickup stopped at the entrance to the alley. Two men got out and looked around. They quickly found the refrigerator their employer had mentioned. After loading it into the truck together, they began speeding away.

At 8:45, the refrigerator was placed in a patch of woods outside the villa district.

Yu Xunge, who had hitched a ride alongside the refrigerator, stored it back in her inventory. Old Rules: she put on a swim cap to make sure not a single strand of hair would fall out, donned a mask and gloves, cast Phantom Body Curse again, and ran toward the Su Family.