Better Kill Him After All

Though it was only vaguely described as "a recently favored collectible," the fact that it was S-rank alone made it clear that this collectible was no ordinary trash like mouse toys or rocks.

In her previous life, this pet hospital had risen rapidly thanks to this cat bed. But with so many people coming and going, the cat bed had not remained a secret over the years. It was quickly discovered, and overnight, everyone in the pet hospital—from people to cats and dogs—was wiped out. Even the hamsters were slaughtered.

That was why she had come early to take the cat bed.

She really did still have a conscience.

Yu Xunge patted herself. You may steal things, snatch things, and like hiding under beds, but you really are a good girl.

Fine, she admitted it. Even if the pet hospital had not been destroyed because of this cat bed, she still would have taken it.

She wanted it, so she got it.

She had not been reborn to be a moral role model.

The cat bed sat outside the pet hospital. Other than during wind and rain, even when the hospital closed at night, that shabby gray cat bed remained outside.

After nightfall, Yu Xunge used her disguise skill and carried two luxurious cat tents. She set one on each side of the pet hospital entrance, then tucked the cat bed beneath her arm and returned to her rental car. She casually tossed the cat bed into the passenger seat, then carried all ten boxes of premium canned cat food she had brought to the hospital entrance. She stuck an A4 sheet of paper on them—Free meals for all nearby stray animals.

She even opened ten cans on the spot and lined them up outside the hospital.

The next day, she disguised herself again and went into the hospital to donate two million.

A textbook case of forcing a purchase and a sale.

As she walked out of the hospital, she could still hear the employees sighing about how there had been so many kind people lately. What a pity the cat bed had disappeared; they had grown attached to using it.

Yu Xunge was afraid of exactly that. She could have waited until after the game invaded to come take the cat bed, but once people grew attached to something, it could easily become bound to them after transforming into an item or piece of equipment.

Once bound, only that person could use it. Even if you killed them, you could not unbind it.

After getting the cat bed, she bought materials needed for homemade bandages and stocked up on ingredients required by cooking recipes. Then she returned to her thirty-million villa, intending to max out [First Aid] (Beginner) and [Cooking] (Beginner) over the next week so she could immediately learn the intermediate versions during the second closed beta.

On the morning she returned to S City from H City, Su Yitong came to the Yu Family again. She had apparently been coming almost every day recently. When Yu Xunge had been in H City, Yi Qiuguo had urged her to return, saying that Su Yitong had been asking about her.

Yu Xunge felt even busier than when she had been running for her life in her previous life!

She had still managed to sleep six hours a day while fleeing for her life!

Early that morning, Yi Qiuguo had called and told her to come home that day. Yu Xunge turned the steering wheel and went straight back to the Yu Family without even returning to her own home. When she entered, it was obvious from her appearance that she had rushed over without going home first.

Nothing could be read from Su Yitong's expression. Yu Xunge was an old hand at acting, so naturally, even less could be read from hers.

During the meal, Su Yitong sat beside her and accidentally bumped into a wineglass, spilling red wine all over Yu Xunge. Yu Xunge appeared to react quickly and lean back, but she did not make it in time.

Su Yitong hurriedly apologized. Yu Xunge smiled and waved it off, saying it was fine, then went upstairs to wash up and change clothes.

With 18 Agility, there was no way she could have failed to dodge. Su Yitong had deliberately tested her reaction, so she deliberately gave her the reaction an ordinary person should have had.

It was not a major incident, but it stirred up many unpleasant memories for Yu Xunge.

Yu Xunhuan and Su Yitong were getting engaged on June 1, Children's Day, right? No matter what, she had to castrate Yu Xunhuan before June, so little Yu Xunhuan could leave Daddy and celebrate Children's Day.

After dealing with Su Yitong, Yu Xunge went to her agency and directly told them she was preparing to leave the entertainment industry. Seeing that several executives did not believe her, and following her principle of avoiding trouble whenever possible, Yu Xunge directly said she could post a retirement statement right then.

Friends who killed people often knew that those who had killed and those who had not were psychologically different.

When ordinary people dealt with conflicts, they thought: Maybe we should just let it go.

When people who had killed dealt with conflicts, they thought: Maybe we should just kill them after all.

She really had been busy lately. The second closed beta was on June 6. Not only did she need to max out the proficiency of Intermediate Alchemy and Intermediate Engineering before then as much as possible, she also wanted to raise Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid to intermediate level. Although most materials contained magic and did not yet exist in the real world, plenty of recipes that granted experience could still be made using substitute materials. For example, she could find the materials for crafting [Gunpowder] in Engineering in reality.

After grinding all the experience she could, she still had to deal with little Yu Xunhuan.

She really was busy and had no time to kill anyone.

Killing someone only took one slash, but cleaning up afterward was too troublesome. Liu Zhengliu had only gotten out yesterday and could not leave S City anytime soon. Yu Xunge had even taken time out of her busy schedule to find Liu Zhengliu and slap her. Since she already knew about Liu Zhengliu and Liu Hongsheng's scheme, she could not act as if nothing had happened—Liu Zhengliu's life could not be taken yet. She needed to keep the heart of the matter and everyone's attention firmly fixed on Liu Hongsheng.

Seeing how resolute Yu Xunge was, the people the company had sent to negotiate lost their nerve. She did not even want to work anymore, so how could they keep her in check? Those with nothing to lose feared no one with something to lose. If they pushed her too far, after all these years in the industry, she knew plenty of the company's scandals.

In her previous life, Yu Xunge had endured it because she had not planned to leave the entertainment industry. She feared that if she retired, there would be no one left in the family to make money, so she had still hoped to turn things around. She had even often used her own connections to introduce friends to Yu Xunhuan.

One who desired nothing feared nothing. It meant that without worldly desires, you could stand up to anyone. After clashing with the executives a few more times, Yu Xunge left the agency. From then on, she had no work. Half a year later, she would just find a lawyer to sign the contract and complete the procedures.

Throughout March, Yu Xunge did not step out of her villa once. She told Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan that the company had abandoned her, that she was suffering lately, and that they should not disturb her because she needed some peace and quiet.

But in reality, she was setting up her safe house.

She could use invisibility potions, and so could others.

She hired a renovation team from a neighboring city and had the top floor of her villa converted into a glass greenhouse of more than two hundred square meters. It was filled with flowers and plants, with misting machines overhead. At the innermost end of the greenhouse stood a heavy wooden cabinet, its top covered in potted plants.

Then she personally found a design and blueprints and had a hidden door made into the wooden cabinet. Behind it was a rectangular compartment seven meters long and four meters wide.

The compartment not only contained a bed for her to rest on, but also two concealed humidifiers. The flooring was specially made as well, fitted with an extremely sensitive gravity sensor. As long as an object heavier than 2 kilograms landed on it, it would light up.

Since there were invisibility potions, there were naturally corresponding revealing potions. She filled the humidifiers with the best Intermediate Revealing Potions she could brew. Once the humidifiers were activated, the potion would turn into a thin mist and fill the entire room. Though the effect would be weakened and could not make someone fully visible, it could reveal a person's outline. That was enough.

Otherwise, using the garden sprinklers would be far too extravagant. A small bottle would be sprayed dry in minutes... she could not afford that.

But with humidifiers, one small bottle of Revealing Potion could last eight hours.

At the same time, she installed humidifiers filled with Revealing Potion in every corner of her home.

As long as she was home, the humidifiers would remain on.