She slipped smoothly into the Su Family estate. Using the Phasing Potion and following memories from her previous life, she found the entrance to the treasure vault in the study of the manor's main building, then made her way down through layers of exquisitely designed technological defenses.
She had even prepared herself to charge straight in and grab what she could if the thermal sensors detected her.
But luckily, magic had no solution. Only magic could defeat magic.
She felt as though she had descended several meters and passed through three doors. Just as she reached the final door, alarms suddenly blared around her.
She looked at the tiles beneath her feet and clicked her tongue, instantly guessing there was probably a pressure sensor installed there.
She hesitated no longer, drank a bottle of Phasing Potion, passed through the ancient, exquisite door, and entered the treasure vault.
The treasure vault was no smaller than the manor aboveground. It was divided into various sections: books, jewelry, antiques, gold.
Yu Xunge ran through it and was soon dazzled by gold. Inside one small glass room, gold bars were stacked neatly in rows. Each bar was a little smaller than a phone, but half a finger thick. Having handled so much gold lately, she estimated at a glance that each bar weighed around ten jin.
Who said wealthy families didn't have much liquid capital?!
Sure, they didn't have much liquid capital. They stored it all in gold!
She rushed inside and began stuffing gold bars into her Spatial Pack.
Fortunately, she had bought a new bag. Of her seventy-two inventory slots, forty-four were now empty.
In other words, if she filled them all, she could store forty-four times ninety-nine, for a total of 4,356 gold bars.
If she slowed down and put the gold bars into storage boxes before packing them away, she could carry even more, but there was no time.
Activity soon sounded outside: doors opening, guns being cocked, and more, all drawing closer. Yu Xunge practically sprawled over the pile of gold bars as she shoved them into her bag.
Just as a large group of people rushed in from outside, Yu Xunge immediately stopped. Even though twenty slots remained empty, she decisively abandoned the room containing the gold, drank a Phasing Potion, and sprinted out.
Yu Xunge was greedy, but she understood restraint and trade-offs even better.
Sure enough, just as she reached the main door, the row of armed bodyguards, under the Su Family head's orders, opened fire on the room storing the gold. It did not matter if they damaged the gold or the decorations inside.
Faint currents flowed across the ground outside the door. Yu Xunge abruptly stopped, pulled out ten packs of homemade explosives, lit several of them, and tossed them all into the corridor ahead. She then hid behind the door. Five seconds later, several loud explosions rang out in succession. When she looked again, the floor was charred black, and nothing remained.
She continued charging outward.
Although each dose of Phasing Potion only lasted fifteen seconds, its cooldown was short as well—just thirty seconds. Fortunately, compared with their bodyguards, the Su Family clearly trusted technology more. The group that had rushed into the basement earlier was probably the family's trusted inner circle, and not many more people entered afterward.
Yu Xunge did not flee the estate. Instead, she went to Su Yitong's room.
The moment she entered, she saw Su Baige, Su Jinxuan, and Su Yitong sitting in the bedroom playing the game.
Despite the enormous commotion downstairs, the three of them remained unmoved. Either they trusted the Su Family head's abilities, or they could not bear to leave behind the game that had changed their lives.
Yu Xunge did not hesitate. She raised her hand and fired three Sleepy Falls.
Bang—Bang—Bang!
All three of them collapsed one after another.
At the same moment they fell, Yu Xunge had been thinking of checking their phones, only to find that the screens had gone black as well.
It seemed the game was connected to people's minds. That made sense; otherwise, how could the skills she learned in the game synchronize with reality?
Then, two packs appeared in front of Su Yitong.
Ha, an unexpected bonus. She walked over and stuffed both packs into her arms. Although she only had two pack slots at her waist, just like equipment, it was not as though she could not carry more. Only two could take effect. It was like how someone could wear more than ten vests if they wanted, but since the upper body only had one equipment slot, only one could be activated.
Now, she could wear Su Yitong's packs on her body, but she could not sense what was inside them.
She had planned to hide here for a while, but with Su Yitong's packs in hand, Yu Xunge did not dare take the risk. She had never imagined packs could drop this way. Even with the Thief God talent, she could only steal one piece of equipment or item from inside a pack—even a backpack stored within someone else's pack—but she could not steal the pack someone currently had equipped.
She could knock someone out and forcibly strip off their equipment, but if she wanted a pack someone wore on their body, she could only obtain it by killing them. Otherwise, all she would touch was air.
Yu Xunge took an axe from her bag, weighed it in her hand, and walked over to the three of them.
Liang Yuchuan had given her an arm as interest. What would these three give her?
One ear, then. Since you believed whatever Yu Xunhuan said, taking one of your ears was not too much, right?
Yu Xunge pulled out the butcher knife she had bought and crouched beside Su Yitong. Just as she brushed aside her hair, she saw the Blue Diamond Earring on her right ear.
Ha, Yu Xunge's eyes lit up. She swiftly lifted that ear and cut it off. The intense pain interrupted the effect of Sleepy Fall. Su Yitong awoke from the pain, clutched her ear, and screamed repeatedly.
But no matter how she looked around, she could not see anyone.
Yu Xunge, who had drunk both Invisibility Potion and Phasing Potion, had already fled with the ear and the Blue Diamond Earring. Along the way, she took off her bloodstained gloves and packed them into her bag along with the ear and earring.
She then sprinted all the way to the nearby Han family estate and slipped into a maid's room in the auxiliary building. No one was inside. Of course not—it was already 11:35, the busiest time for the maids.
Unsure whether the maid's room had surveillance cameras, Yu Xunge expertly crawled beneath the bed and lay flat.
This place was still reassuring.
And it was a sunroom, which made it even more comfortable.
12:12
Lying beneath the bed, Yu Xunge logged into the game on time. After disguising herself as a goblin, she ran off to find her goblin teacher.
Twenty-two slots were filled to the maximum with gold bars, and another slot held fifteen gold bars. That made 2,193 gold bars in total, or jin.
After she found her goblin teacher and proposed exchanging all of them for gold coins, the goblin fell silent for several seconds.
The goblin's words popped up in the dialogue box: "I don't have that many gold coins, my friend."
Yu Xunge was genuinely furious. I worked myself to the bone and risked my life to make money, and now you're telling me you can't even come up with 60,000 gold coins?!
Gē Wū Ēn: "You don't even have 60,000 gold?!"
Goblin: "...Do you?"
Yu Xunge: So you're being sarcastic now!
Gē Wū Ēn: "Then how much do you have, my friend?"
Goblin: "20,000."
Gē Wū Ēn: "Don't you have any friends?"
The goblin fell silent again.
Say something, hubby!!!
After a long while, the goblin said, "I'm not trading anymore."
Gē Wū Ēn: "I am your most loyal friend!!!"
Goblin: "How disgusting."
Gē Wū Ēn: "Then let's trade for 20,000 gold first."
Goblin: "Fine, my disgusting friend."
Yu Xunge endured it.
She went to find the goblin engineer and proposed exchanging gold coins, but he ignored her.
Gē Wū Ēn: "Teacher?"
The goblin focused intently on hammering at a copper pipe.
Gē Wū Ēn moved her little character closer. "Teacher?"
When she called him teacher for the third time in the dialogue box.
A reply finally appeared in the dialogue box.
The tiny goblin on the screen flew into a rage. "No money!!! I have no money!!! Asking, asking, asking—can't you see I'm ignoring you? All my money has gone into research! If you really consider me your teacher, then pay more tuition!! If you don't have any, go find that guy Bill!"
Yu Xunge: "..." Sorry to bother you.
Ten minutes after entering the game, Yu Xunge grumbled as she took her 20,000 gold to the Auction House.
The first thing she did was spend gold to bid on the dual SS-rank Phantom Shift.
Then she began shopping like mad.
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