She'd said it—what young couple didn't go to the bedroom to whisper sweet nothings?
The two of them dawdled over to sit by the bed, their legs pressed together. Yu Xunge's mind was utterly pure, without the slightest ripple. Time to steal!
After four steals in a row, her HP dropped to 16%.
The person on the bed had a sallow little face, while the person beneath the bed was pale as if she'd been dead for three days.
She downed a potion, taking tiny sips out of fear that the noise would be too loud.
Her HP recovered to 76%.
The jerky in Yu Xunge's mouth never stopped.
Three more times.
Yu Xunge was practically grinning crooked. She'd known it—she must have used up all her luck drawing her God-Bestowed Talent when she entered the game last time. She'd stolen hundreds of times in the game and only succeeded a few times. But look at today! How many times had she stolen in total? Not only had she stolen 2 points of Luck, she'd even stolen an item.
Soros Set: Mask (1/3) (A-rank): After use, can disguise the information on one's Character Panel. Takes effect when placed in the Game Inventory after use; the disguise fails if the mask is dropped. (Cannot be successfully detected by items below A-rank. Note: For every additional Soros Set item collected, concealment level +1.)
The moment Yu Xunge saw this item, she was ecstatic. It made her even happier than drawing Luck Value.
Items differed from equipment. Their effects came in all shapes and forms. Some only needed to be placed in the Game Inventory to take effect, some had to be worn, and some required bizarre conditions before they could function. However, they didn't occupy equipment slots, and some could be used alongside equipment.
After her wild delight came a surge of lingering fear. This was a set. Since there was a mask that could disguise Character Panel information, could there also be Soros's Eye, or some kind of glasses that could inspect others?
Yu Xunge steadied her breathing and waited for the Minor Healing Potion's cooldown to end.
Fortunately, it was broad daylight. The young couple only kissed and did nothing else, or she really would have dug straight through the floor.
Perhaps everyone's luck each day was fixed.
After stealing 2 points of Luck and an A-rank item, she lay beneath the bed for an hour. Whenever her HP ran out, she swallowed potions and ate jerky. Whenever she had HP, she stole.
At that moment, she truly understood the saying that loving theft was like loving life...
In the end, she stole another point of Charm.
Yu Xunge wasn't disappointed. Charm and Luck were both attributes that couldn't be increased with usable attribute points. Naturally, the more rare things she had, the better.
She kept stealing until the young couple left the room. Before long, the whole family went out together. Yu Xunge guessed they were going out to eat. She didn't know whether they had called her, but her phone was switched off and tossed into her Game Inventory anyway, so she would just pretend not to know.
As she crawled out from beneath the bed, pale-faced and with her hair hanging loose, Yu Xunge felt that her current appearance could probably scare Yi Qiuguo, whose heart wasn't particularly strong, to death.
She still had 16% HP and was reluctant to drink another potion.
Today, in order to steal Su Yitong's attributes, items, and equipment, she had drunk over twenty Minor Healing Potions and gnawed through all twenty jin of jerky in her inventory. She felt as though her face had grown a whole size larger.
Yu Xunge returned to her bedroom and slept. She didn't wake until that happy family of three had come back. She checked her talent and saw that Armor Up! had lit up. First, she used the Disguise Skill to turn herself back into the burly man from before, changed clothes, then drank an Invisibility Potion and walked out of her bedroom, downstairs, and out the door.
The sound of the door closing was too loud, so she left it cracked open. They could discover it themselves whenever they did.
Then she headed straight for the stairs. By the time she reached the second floor, the potion had worn off, but her disguise was still intact. Yu Xunge calmly carried her toolbox out of the residential complex.
Before Yu Xunge had even left the complex, she used the Soros Mask to alter her game information.
Her true stats were now
Character: Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%) God-Bestowed Talent: Thief God (S-rank) God-Bestowed Talent: Immortal (SS-rank) (Incomplete) Race: Human Racial Talents: Undead Will┃Consumption HP: 100/100 Mana: 100/100 Strength: 5 Constitution: 7 Intelligence: 10 Agility: 12 Luck: 10 (Maximum) Charm: 10 (Maximum) Usable Attribute Points: 0
She couldn't be sure whether others could see the specific skills of her talents, but she altered them anyway.
Her disguised Character Panel was:
Character: Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%) God-Bestowed Talent: Broker (A-rank) Race: Human Racial Talents: Undead Will┃Consumption HP: 100/100 Mana: 100/100 Strength: 5 Constitution: 7 Intelligence: 7 Agility: 7 Luck: 5 Charm: 9 Usable Attribute Points: 0
Her attributes had become utterly mediocre, but she hadn't lowered her Charm by much. Thinking back, even when she disguised herself as a beggar during her escape, she seemed to have received more money than others. A person's aura couldn't be hidden! Charming people were charming wherever they went.
So she didn't plan to alter her Charm attribute too drastically. For now, she changed her talent to the A-rank Broker, a fairly good talent that wouldn't easily arouse others' suspicions.
If the Thief God talent were ever exposed, she would become the enemy of every player. No one would be willing to let someone capable of stealing their attribute values remain alive.
Once she obtained a more suitable God-Bestowed Talent through Death Mimicry in the future, she would change it again.
She placed the mask at the very bottom of her storage box. For a long time to come, this would be her most precious item.
All the way home, Yu Xunge kept thinking over whether she had left behind any flaws, reviewing every detail from the day she was reborn on the twenty-second.
The time between her rebirth that day and the game's closed beta had been too short. She had no time to make plans or preparations. Just rushing home in time had been difficult enough. If Yu Xunhuan learned the significance of that game, would he hate her?
She didn't care about Yu Xunhuan's hatred, but this concerned whether she could continue hiding within the male and female leads' camp in the future. Many opportunities could only be discovered by the male and female leads. Even if she couldn't ruin them, she could at least follow along and get a sip of the soup while lowering their guard, right?
During the first two years after the Game Invasion in her previous life, Yu Xunhuan occasionally took her to Secret Realms and dungeons completely controlled by the Su Family, Han family, and Liang Family. She truly had obtained quite a few good things through Yu Xunhuan. Even if she now knew the locations of those dungeons and could sneak into those Secret Realms and dungeons using various potions and skills, many good things couldn't be obtained alone.
Especially bosses that required dozens or even hundreds of people working together to kill...
Let her think... Think about how Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan had earned her trust over the years.
Yes. Before and after every time they gained benefits from her, they would bleed a little themselves. For example, they used the money she gave the family to buy her a thirty-million villa. For example, after a dungeon appeared in the villa she gave Yu Xunhuan, he had taken her there too, though he said the Liang Family had already taken the dungeon and he had only obtained usage rights, so he could only occasionally bring her along.
Even when the Su, Liang, and Han families joined forces to hunt her down, he had risked himself several times to tip her off, allowing her to escape several minor crises.
Every time she avoided a crisis because of Yu Xunhuan's warning, she trusted him a little more.
But now that she thought about it, she had nearly died several times after escaping those minor crises...
Then what about her? Should she give Yu Xunhuan a little sweetness, a little bait? After the Game Invasion, only with her strength and Yu Xunhuan's trust would she have a chance to participate in some of the Su Family's large-scale activities and make trouble from within.
There were still two closed betas left. Actually, this was the best opportunity. She could tell Yu Xunhuan the secret, then secretly stop him. From beginning to end, she would only need to say a few words. She could gain his greatest trust while ensuring he got nothing.
But would that allow Yu Xunhuan to turn things around against the odds?
In truth, she knew the safest method was to kill Yu Xunhuan immediately. But she was truly unwilling!
When she used to read novels, she always mocked protagonists for not directly killing their enemies as the first thing they did after being reborn. But when it happened to her, she finally understood. One blade to wipe away all grudges? Impossible. The monstrous hatred in her heart couldn't be dispelled simply by killing Yu Xunhuan!
Sometimes, letting an enemy die cleanly and swiftly was instead a blessing for them.
She could leave Liu Zhengliu behind after tossing her into the mire, at least for the time being, but she couldn't do that with Yu Xunhuan.
She didn't want to look forward. She wanted to look down. She wanted to stomp Yu Xunhuan firmly beneath her feet, make him able to see only the soles of her shoes, watch him suffer every misery. Only an eye for an eye could ease the hatred in her heart!!
And those three women of his, those five idiot brothers!
If Yu Xunhuan died, she would still have to find them one by one!
More importantly, killing Yu Xunhuan would be easy, but she couldn't fight the Su, Liang, and Han families all at once with her own strength. The best method was naturally to infiltrate them and make them fight each other.
But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that letting Yu Xunhuan participate in the closed beta early was far too risky.
There was a way... Yu Xunhuan closed her eyes and tried her best to recall every skill, item, piece of equipment, and potion she had ever known.
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