Theft of the Thief God Could Also Mean the Theft of a Bandit

Yu Xunge began wandering around Undead Main City again. Whenever she found a quest, she accepted it. Whenever she saw an NPC, she went over and stole from them. She did not even spare the patrolling guards. Her maximum stealing range was one meter; basically, as long as she could get close enough, she could steal from them. She even controlled her game character to steal from the beggar in the corner.

What if he was some hidden master?!

She wandered from six until seven.

With more than two hours left before the servers shut down, Yu Xunge finally stopped. Aside from one point of Constitution, she now had a level 40 purple bow in her hands.

She had stolen it from the innkeeper.

Without hesitation, Yu Xunge went straight to the weapon shop and sold it cheap.

The weapon shop owner clearly recognized the bow. In the dialogue box that popped up, he kept stressing how much risk he would have to bear by buying it. Yu Xunge stubbornly refused to budge. Dialogue boxes kept popping up over the other character's head, but Yu Xunge was no rookie. Even the most ordinary level 20 purple weapon cost 500 gold. This was level 40 purple equipment—she had never even seen one before.

She lowered the price from 3,000 gold all the way down to 1,000. After that, no matter how many times the trade window popped up, the price she entered remained 1,000 gold coins.

That really was her bottom line. She knew anyone who bought something like this would be stuck holding a hot potato. It was good enough that someone was willing to buy it.

After five minutes of haggling, just as Yu Xunge was thinking time was precious and preparing to give a little, the trade went through.

Yu Xunge immediately controlled her character back to the alchemy instructor, spent 100 gold to raise Alchemy to Intermediate, then clicked to learn every recipe she could. That cost her another two hundred-odd gold.

Then Yu Xunge ran across nearly half the city to the goblin residential district, found a goblin engineer only as tall as her knees, and learned Engineering.

This was the result of careful consideration. Whether it was Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, or Tailoring, those were all professions for crafting equipment. As long as one had the materials, one could make gear. But her time was precious. The equipment those professions could make at the beginner stage was extremely limited in practicality. She would not need it before Game Invasion, and after Game Invasion, it would quickly become obsolete.

Engineering, however, was immensely useful to her right now. Beginner Engineering could already make firearms, bullets, and explosives.

More importantly, she knew where to obtain the blueprint for the Repair Robot, but the prerequisite for learning that blueprint was Advanced Engineering.

She quickly paid to unlock Engineering, learned every blueprint she could, then bought materials for ten firearms, five hundred sets of bullet-making materials, and one hundred sets of explosive-making materials.

Using the goblins' crafting table on the spot, she made ten guns, 5K bullets, and one hundred packs of inferior explosives, pushing Engineering to Intermediate as well.

After clicking the upgrade, Yu Xunge once again learned every blueprint available to her.

Finally, with only a little over three hundred gold left, she returned to the Herb Shop and exchanged it all for herbs, stuffing every remaining slot in her backpack full.

It was already 8:45.

Not far away, Yu Xunhuan was still lying on the floor and snoring. Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo's voices sounded from outside the door. Yu Xunge went into the bathroom in Yu Xunhuan's room, turned on the faucet to create the illusion that he was showering, then returned to sit by the bed.

She controlled her character to the center of Undead City, where the city lord resided.

Unlike in peaceful times, the different races had spent years fighting and plundering each other, worshipping strength above all else. She did not know how many cities the other races had or how their ranks were divided, but she knew that becoming the lord of a city absolutely required real strength. There would be no incompetent nobles rising to power like in novels.

Even in her own world, where everything had been reshuffled after Game Invasion, every city lord had been someone on the top hundred rankings. The powerful and wealthy might have held a greater advantage in gathering resources to cultivate strong people, but in the end, the strongest always had the final say. A city lord might need to listen to those factions, but power would always remain in the hands of the strongest.

8:52

Yu Xunge's game character was stopped by soldiers outside a luxurious palace.

A dialogue box popped up. Yu Xunge typed, "There's a problem with the anchor point."

When she had sold the purple weapon, she had discovered that the game automatically translated between her and the other undead.

The soldiers did not move, but the commotion quickly caught the attention of a higher-ranking undead soldier. After she entered that sentence once more, she was taken into the palace.

The Undead City Lord, clad in black armor, sat upon the throne at the very top of the palace.

A dialogue box popped up: "You said there's a problem with the anchor point?"

9:13

Yu Xunge typed into the dialogue box, "Yes. I'm willing to stake my life on the accuracy of this information, but I need a reward."

"How presumptuous!"

Yu Xunge said nothing. She waited quietly. Perhaps, in the eyes of those in power, she was already a dead person. Dead people were always granted a little tolerance. Soon, the captain of the guards walked over and gave her something.

She opened it and found 100 gold.

Tch! Yu Xunge wanted equipment, but this was just a little extra fleece she could shear along the way. She was not picky.

9:17

She typed into the dialogue box, "This is classified. I am only willing to tell the city lord himself."

She tried controlling her character closer to the city lord. To a level 99 city lord, her level 1 self was like an ant, and for a moment, no one stopped her.

9:20

The character came to a stop beside the Undead City Lord.

9:21

She clicked to use Theft of the Thief God Could Also Mean the Theft of a Bandit.

Gambling on the name of the Thief God, you attempt to steal the talent of Orlov D. Flesh, the city lord of Ghost City of the Undead race.

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

You have died

Immediately afterward, her phone screen went completely unresponsive, like a phone shutting down automatically after running out of battery.

She looked up at the clock on the wall. It was 9:22, and the second hand had just passed twelve.

A full seven hours.

Her phone made cracking sounds. First the screen, then the components inside. Finally, it actually caught fire. She hurriedly threw it onto the floor. In just a few seconds, the phone turned into a wisp of black smoke and drifted into the air, as though it had never existed.

Then, a backpack, a worn cloth sack, and a money pouch stamped with gold coins appeared on the floor.

And the Character Panel she knew so well appeared in Yu Xunge's mind.

Character: Gē Wū Ēn (Level 0, 0.001%)

God-Bestowed Talent: Thief God (S-rank)

God-Bestowed Talent: Immortal (SS-rank) (Incomplete)

Race: Human (?)

Racial Talents: Undead Will┃Eating

HP: 100/100

Mana: 100/100

Strength: 5

Constitution: 7

Intelligence: 10

Agility: 12

Luck: 8

Charm: 9

Available Attribute Points: 0

The glaring SS-rank made Yu Xunge's eyes heat up immediately. Even though it was incomplete, she could already see that three of the five skills beneath that talent were glowing, while only two were dark gray. An SS-rank talent! Even if she had only stolen one, she had not lost out. Judging by the S-rank Thief God talent, not a single one of its skills was useless.

Looking at Yu Xunhuan, who was still sleeping soundly not far away, she only wanted to laugh out loud.

She tucked the two backpacks inside her clothes. The money pouch alone took up one slot, and when she concentrated, she could sense how many gold coins were inside it.

She picked up Yu Xunhuan's phone and unlocked it with his fingerprint. After confirming that his phone truly did not have that game, she carried him onto the bed. Imitating her former self, she tucked him in before leaving the room.

Downstairs, Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo were making breakfast. Yu Xunge stood by the stairs and listened quietly for a while. It was nothing more than Yi Qiuguo blaming Yu Qingshan for agreeing to let Yu Xunhuan buy Yu Xunge a villa, and even putting the villa under Yu Xunge's name. Then came Yu Qingshan's soft-spoken analysis.

He told her to take a long-term view. Yu Xunge could earn mountains of money. A villa only cost thirty million, and over the years Yu Xunge had brought home at least seventy million...

Yu Xunge listened quietly. Only after the two changed the subject did she return to her room expressionlessly.

Only then did she examine her talents.

Yet before she could take a closer look at her new God-Bestowed Talent, Immortal, she noticed something was wrong.

Skill 2, Theft of the Thief God Could Also Mean the Theft of a Bandit: Sorry, I stole your whole house. My apologies. Gambling on the name of the Thief God, steal the other party's talent. This skill can only be used once in the Thief God's lifetime.

The second skill under Thief God was still lit.

In her previous life, she had owned all kinds of skills and items with cooldowns. Any skill or item on cooldown would turn gray and become unusable. If a single-use item could no longer be used after being consumed, it would directly turn light gray, meaning it had become trash.

But why was this Skill 3 still lit now?

"Can only be used once in a lifetime once"?

Did her game character dying count as a lifetime?!

So?

So!

So that meant she could use such an outrageously overpowered and wicked talent one more time?!!!

Yu Xunge closed her eyes and took deep breaths again and again, but she simply could not calm down. She had never been so grateful for the decision she had made back then!

As expected of the S-rank Thief God talent!

She walked over to the small fridge by the bed, took out a bottle of ice water, and drained it in one gulp. Only after she had completely calmed down did she open her new God-Bestowed Talent, Immortal.