Second Closed Beta Test

She had never asked anyone in the Yu Family where Yu Xunhuan lived. She had tracked down all that information through her little sparrows. Before Yu Xunhuan entered the hotel, a little sparrow had slipped into the hood of his sweatshirt and followed him all the way into his room, where it was now hiding in a potted plant.

Worried that the scent of decay on the sparrows would spread, Yu Xunge replaced them with fresh ones every day.

After drinking the phasing potion, Yu Xunge smoothly entered Yu Xunhuan's hotel room.

Even with her ability to multitask, she only felt at ease after personally confirming that Yu Xunhuan had not entered the game.

In the hotel room, Yu Xunhuan lay on the bed with a frown, shifting from time to time. It was impossible to tell whether he was actually asleep.

A phone lay in the corner of the room. Judging by the dent in the wall, it had probably been thrown there.

Yu Xunge walked over for a look. She could not identify the brand, but Su Yitong had probably given it to him. Some kind of high-end phone, apparently—it had not even cracked when it hit the wall.

Once Yu Xunhuan married into the Su Family, he would probably not only get to use high-end phones, but also enjoy special dedicated service. He would never receive junk messages again.

She watched Yu Xunhuan. When he turned over once more and happened to have his back to her, Yu Xunge hooked the phone up with her toe and put it into her backpack. Then, using the phasing potion, she went to the room next door, which she had booked in advance through a Hong Kong guy using his identity information.

Yu Xunge took out the phone. She was still invisible, so she was not worried about any advanced technology in it recording her appearance. She turned it over repeatedly and found a shallow dent in its upper-left corner. That corner had likely struck the wall. She aimed the dent at the wall, then smashed it down with all her strength.

With a crack, half the screen shattered. The display automatically lit up and showed the date, but half the screen had already turned into a green-and-purple blur.

Yu Xunge put the phone into her backpack and returned to Yu Xunhuan's room. He still had his back to the door. Yu Xunge went to where the phone had fallen earlier and placed the damaged phone back in its original spot without changing a thing.

Then she quietly left.

Before coming, she had imagined dozens, perhaps hundreds, of possible scenarios. She had not expected the simplest one. She had even considered what she would do if Yu Xunhuan not only failed to lose control over those messages, but instead became more excited the more he read, started practicing his skills, and then, at six o'clock, suddenly decided to find a game to play.

She had even prepared for the worst-case scenario of knocking Yu Xunhuan unconscious.

At exactly six, Yu Xunge returned to Yu Xunhuan's room. The broken phone was still lying on the floor, while Yu Xunhuan had his head covered, making it impossible to tell whether he was asleep. Yu Xunge cast [Wheel of Fortune] on the person in bed, reducing his luck to 1, before returning to the next room to prepare for the second closed beta test.

At 6:06, she found [Calamity of Ten Thousand Races: Fear Rift] right on schedule and immediately tapped download.

After entering the character selection screen, she saw the familiar undead. However, beside the ID [Gewuen] was an extra notice—Wanted.

Yu Xunge touched the hidden pocket inside her clothes. The two backpacks inside had vanished, but the undead avatar on the screen had two familiar backpacks hanging from its waist.

She tried using the God of Thieves' [Alias, Come!] disguise skill, attempting to turn herself into a short goblin.

Very quickly, Yu Xunge changed in reality. Her body shrank, her skin turned green, and her ears grew larger. At the same time, the undead on the screen changed in sync.

Yu Xunge immediately entered the game. No matter where she appeared after entering, she only had one hour of disguise time. Within that hour, she needed to figure out her situation.

The screen lit up. The little goblin stood in a graveyard. After adjusting the game camera, she saw Undead City not far away. She immediately controlled her character and ran toward it, speeding past the occasional low-level monsters she encountered.

In less than five minutes, she was standing at the city gate. A portrait of her original undead character hung there. Fortunately, when she had first created the character, its undead appearance had resembled her by eighty percent and made her uncomfortable, so she had casually hit random every time she created a character.

Though the God of Thieves' disguise skill had a short duration, no item or skill could see through it. Yu Xunge entered the city with ease and headed straight for the goblin district. She found the goblin owner at a goblin shop and asked whether he bought gold.

Goblin: "Time is money. If you have gold, why not make it into gold coins yourself? Didn't your mentor teach you that back then?"

Yu Xunge's breathing quickened slightly. She typed into the dialogue box, "May I ask whether you would be willing to teach me the relevant skill, sir? I am willing to pay for your valuable time."

The other party directly sent over a trade window, showing that he wanted 100 gold.

For such a precious opportunity, Yu Xunge did not even dare haggle. She took out the 100 gold the Undead City Lord had given her earlier and handed it over.

[Goblin Robert L has taught you Gold Forging (Beginner)]

She opened the skill details.

[Gold Forging] (A-rank) (Goblin Exclusive): Infuse a gold coin with magic to forge it into a one-of-a-kind gold coin (Proficiency: 0/10000)

Trait 1: For every gold coin forged, 20g of gold will be automatically deducted and sent through the void to the Goblin Merchants' Guild as tax

Trait 2: Money can buy anything, but to maintain market stability, each goblin can produce no more than 3 gold coins per day for personal use

Yu Xunge immediately took a 500g gold bar from her inventory. After clicking it, it displayed (4/4) crafts. She selected craft all, and golden light appeared between her character's hands. Each progress bar filled in a second. Soon, three gold coins appeared in her inventory, while the gold bar that had displayed 500g now had only 140g left.

Her proficiency had also increased by 3 points.

Did that mean Yu Xunge could make gold coins herself from now on? And after forging ten thousand gold coins, as long as she could obtain blueprints or find a goblin willing to teach her, she could learn Intermediate Gold Forging.

Although she could only make three per day, that number was already terrifying. Ever since arriving here, she could casually steal more than ten gold coins at a time and had even managed to fleece 100 gold from the Undead City Lord. But in the real world, when she used to run dungeons, even by the end of the second year, when the dungeons had become extremely high-level, she could risk her life fighting all day and still earn less than one gold coin in pure currency.

Yu Xunge did not waste any more time. She suppressed her chaotic thoughts, then took several large storage boxes out of her inventory and asked whether the goblin would buy them. After circling the boxes several times, the goblin judged the appliances and assorted toys to be trash, offering at most 2 silver coins per box. But for the two large storage boxes of baijiu and red wine, he offered 12 gold coins each.

Yu Xunge sold all 55 boxes of liquor for 330 gold. She sold the trash as well, receiving less than 1 gold.

Then she took out ten jin of gold and asked how many gold coins it could be exchanged for.

At the moment, she only had a few gold coins obtained from Su Yitong. It was nowhere near enough to learn skills.

The goblin offered an exchange rate of 200g of gold for 1 gold coin.

Yu Xunge spent five minutes haggling and only managed to get it down to 180g for 1 gold. She knew the price could still be lowered, but she only had half an hour of disguise time left. Decisively, she took out all the gold she had on her: the 3,216 jin of gold exchanged in Hong Kong, plus the gold taken from the Yu Family, for a total of 3,240 jin. She exchanged it with the goblin for 9,000 gold.

That was nearly the entire gold reserve possessed by a small-to-medium guild in her previous life.

Then Yu Xunge rushed straight to the goblin engineering master next door, raised her engineering to Advanced, and clicked to learn all one hundred-plus newly available recipes. After that, she rushed to the alchemy shop and did the same thing, raising her alchemy to Advanced and learning every! Single! One! of the more than one hundred new recipes!

When choosing classes at school, she had been meek and timid. When playing games, she charged in with a fist full of determination, her thirst for knowledge exploding!