Third Closed Beta

As soon as they left, Yu Xunge turned on every Revealing Potion humidifier in her room. Not only did she add high-grade Revealing Potion, she also made sure there was enough potion in them to keep the humidifiers running for a week. Only then did she drive out of S City, setting off on a road trip to Jiang City, four thousand kilometers away. If she could avoid the highway, she avoided it; if she could take smaller roads, she took them instead—mainly because if she traveled there by highway, then the place she could Phantom Shift to later would be on the highway. What if she got hit by a car the moment she landed? She was afraid she would die with regrets.

She treated it as unlocking the map. If she traveled the route once now, she would have more places she could Phantom Shift to in the future.

Fortunately, she had traveled all over the place for filming over the years, and she had been to most cities before.

Halfway through the drive, Yu Xunge truly could not hold on anymore. Not only did she put on the plain white belt that gave her +1 Constitution, which she had gotten from Su Jinxuan, she also had to stop from time to time to cook herself meals that restored energy.

She finally arrived in Jiang City on the morning of the 9th. Without caring about anything else, she first found a hotel, took a good shower, and slept.

At seven in the morning on the 10th, Yu Xunge made a video call to Yi Qiuguo. She showed Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan the scenery of Jiang City, asked whether they wanted any local specialties from Jiang City, and reminded them that they absolutely had to make sure her younger brother kept his phone with him today. The two of them had to stay by their phones as well. They chatted for another ten-odd minutes before hanging up.

After ending the call, Yu Xunge began Phantom Shifting toward S City...

It was over four thousand kilometers. With her current 14 Intelligence, the farthest she could move at a time was only fourteen kilometers. Since the route was not via highway, it was not the shortest distance either. She conservatively estimated that she would need to shift three hundred times, all while continuously maintaining the Phantom Body Curse.

After fifty Phantom Shifts, Yu Xunge felt a little dizzy.

After one hundred Phantom Shifts, Yu Xunge felt like vomiting.

She stopped to drink some coffee and replenish her Mana, then ate food that could boost her mental strength.

One hundred and twenty shifts... one hundred and fifty shifts...

After two hundred shifts, Yu Xunge sprawled on the ground and vomited for a long time.

It was not yet eight o'clock, but rather than feeling fortunate, Yu Xunge felt a chill in her heart.

She had left so far in advance and had even factored in her rest time, yet something still went wrong.

It was as though an invisible force was preventing her from returning to S City smoothly. Especially after she had passed the halfway point, her Phantom Shifts kept deviating slightly. Clearly, one Phantom Shift could cover fourteen kilometers in a straight line, yet she would veer a little to the left, then a little further left, as though she had hit a ghost wall.

Yu Xunge gritted her teeth and continued!

Yu Xunhuan's luck was not low, but her Luck was at its maximum now too!

Even if she had to crawl, she would crawl back to S City today. If she could not stop Yu Xunhuan from entering the game in time, she would just kill Yu Xunhuan!!!

After three hundred Phantom Shifts, she was still more than five hundred kilometers away from S City.

Yu Xunge suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood.

A new status, Weakness, appeared beside her character status.

For the next 24 hours, her attributes would be reduced by 20%.

Fine. Fine. Fine.

Yu Xunge scooped up the blood on the ground into a bag and put it into her backpack, then swallowed the blood in her mouth with coffee that replenished Mana.

Nine o'clock.

There was still time!

10:07.

Yu Xunge entered the boundaries of S City. After replenishing her Mana, she was already prepared to make Yu Xunhuan fall asleep the instant she entered his villa.

10:10!

With a mouthful of blood still in her mouth, Yu Xunge shifted into Yu Xunhuan's room!

The room was empty!

Yu Xunge's eyes blazed with fury.

But the angrier she was, the more urgent the situation, the calmer she became.

Even though her entire body and mind were gripped by terror, dread, and regret, her mind and heart remained calm.

She took out her phone and used mobile data to download "Dread Rift: Warcraft."

Yes, Yu Xunhuan would not want anyone else to know about his God-Bestowed Talent, not even his parents.

Then where would he be?

The Yu Family home?

At 10:11, the invisible Yu Xunge appeared in Yu Xunhuan's room at the Yu Family home.

No one?

Yu Xunhuan's apartment? No, Ye Dong was there. That was even less likely.

Then...

Yu Xunge left the room and went to the Yu Family study. She drank a Phasing Potion and passed through the wall.

Inside the Yu Family's secret room, Yu Xunhuan sat atop a wooden crate, staring at his phone with wild delight on his face.

Yu Xunge walked over and, at that very moment, saw the moon rush toward the screen.

At that instant, Yu Xunge's soul screamed madly: Kill him! Kill him now! Otherwise, he would soar to the skies!!!

But the next second, even she was shocked by her own calmness, greed, and madness.

She thought that perhaps all the things she had told herself back then had merely been excuses. What about not letting him have it too easy? What about an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? None of it was true. Perhaps from the moment she drew Thief God—no, perhaps even in her previous life—she had always coveted Yu Xunhuan's God-Bestowed Talent!

Even though he had not told anyone all of his God Bestowed Skills, it was a God-Bestowed Talent that had made the three great families fight over him. It was a God-Bestowed Talent that had made three favored geniuses and three great aristocratic families willing to lay down their pride and coexist peacefully for his sake...

She refused to believe Yu Xunhuan was so charming that three top-tier rich beauties would cast aside their dignity and pride to share him.

Almost instantly, she used Fate Gear on Yu Xunhuan, altering his Luck Value. Then she left behind her shadow, letting it merge into Yu Xunhuan's shadow, before walking out of the secret chamber and returning to her bedroom.

Separated by only a wall, she opened her own game. At the same time, through her shadow's perspective, she saw Yu Xunhuan's game interface—and his God-Bestowed Talent: Food God (SS-rank).

It felt as though her mind had been split in two. One half was as calm as ice, while the other screamed with fear, madness, and greed.

Yu Xunhuan's avatar appeared in Silvermoon City, the Blood Elves' main city.

Yu Xunge logged into her own game and used Disguise to transform herself into a Blood Elf. She then passed through the city gate plastered with wanted posters. One depicted an undead, the other a goblin—both looked familiar.

She used teleportation to send her character to Silvermoon City.

It was the third closed beta, and the number of players logging in was ten thousand times what it had been before. The city was packed and bustling, nearly shoulder to shoulder. If the main forces of the other races still could not be projected over, these main cities probably would not have been able to hold so many people.

Yu Xunhuan's avatar stood in the vast city, curiously looking around.

He passed an inn, a Herb Shop, a weapon shop. He passed the statue of the Elf King.

Following in his footsteps, Yu Xunge walked past the exact same inns and shops, past the exact same statue of the Elf King. She brushed past Yu Xunhuan and used Inspect on that Blood Elf avatar with long silver-white hair.

Character: Xunhuan

God-Bestowed Talent?

The next second, she used her skill without hesitation!!

She wanted to steal Yu Xunhuan's God-Bestowed Talent!

In the name of the Thief God, you attempt to steal the talent of the elf player Xunhuan.

Theft successful—target's God-Bestowed Talent rank detected as too high—theft interrupted!

Yu Xunge walked toward the city gates while opening her quest panel.

She saw that Skill 2 of Thief God—Thief God's Theft, the theft of a thief—had turned an unusable dark gray.

And beneath Immortal, a new God-Bestowed Talent had appeared: Food God (SS-rank) (Incomplete).

When expanded, it contained five skills, but only two were currently lit up.

When she had stolen from the Undead City Lord, she had stolen three skills in one go. Yet when stealing from Yu Xunhuan, whose Luck Value was 1, she had only obtained two.

She did not carefully read the skill descriptions. Instead, she left the city, found the cemetery closest to Silvermoon City, then clicked Use on all the explosives in her inventory and dropped them beneath her character's feet. A few seconds later, the screen went dark—

You have died.