She Had to Get This Skill

After memorizing the ingredients for the Advanced Invisibility Potion, Yu Xunge went straight to the herbal shop next door and bought six slots' worth of herbs. It wasn't that she didn't want to buy more, but the game's mechanics were rigid. She couldn't save inventory space by stuffing different items into storage boxes and stacking them. She also had to leave several slots free for browsing the auction house.

Yu Xunge was racing against time.

Only 23 minutes of disguise remained.

She hurried to the auction house. As she passed a restaurant, she went in and raised her Cooking to Intermediate, learning over a hundred new recipes.

She had 4,286 gold left.

Standing before the auction house, she entered a keyword—Soros.

Nothing.

Yu Xunge didn't even have time to complain. She immediately changed the keyword—bag.

Then she spent 800 gold on two 36-slot bags. They were already the largest bags she could find.

The instant she paid, a notification popped up from the game mail saying she had a new package. She clicked to collect it, and two 36-slot bags appeared in her inventory. While moving the items from her original game inventory into the new bags, she continued shopping at high speed.

The Thief God's talent meant she could choose any class path—Strength, Agility, or magic—but she had no time to pick and choose now. She could only buy several skills she was familiar with.

But she soon spotted a skill that seized all her attention—[Phantom Shift]!

[Phantom Shift] (SS-rank): After use, you can travel to any place you have previously visited. Travel distance is affected by the caster's Intelligence. (No cooldown. Casting time: 0.1 seconds. Each use consumes 1% Mana.)

10,000 gold! And there was only one such skill book in the entire auction house...

This skill book—this skill book was practically tailor-made for Yu Xunge.

No cooldown, and an extremely short casting time.

That meant this skill was practically impossible to interrupt. As long as she had Mana, she could use it without limit.

The obsession of "no one in the world can catch me" had practically been carved into Yu Xunge's bones.

She almost immediately abandoned all her previous stockpiling plans. She had to! Get this skill!

She had never even heard of this skill in her previous life. Yu Xunhuan and his group got everything they wanted, yet even they had obediently used transportation to enter dungeons.

But Yu Xunge only had 16 minutes of disguise left.

Yu Xunge spent 200 gold on a blue-rarity necklace. This necklace had only one effect: reduce cooldowns by 15%.

This effect worked on all items, potions, and equipment.

In her previous life, 200 gold could buy an excellent level 10 blue-rarity item with at least three attributes. Yu Xunge even felt like she was getting carried away.

Then she searched for the skill [Body-Illusion Spell].

[Body-Illusion Spell] (C-rank): After use, you can conceal your traces and cannot be seen with the naked eye. (No cooldown. Consumes 10 Mana per minute after use.)

Unable to be seen with the naked eye meant people could still detect her with skills or items, but for now, it was enough!

Invisibility Potions were useful, but their cooldowns were too long. Alternating between Minor Invisibility Potions and Intermediate Invisibility Potions was no longer enough.

[Body-Illusion Spell] was only C-rank because it was a very mediocre skill. Anyone above level 10 had their own methods of detection.

But it had a wonderful use in the current real world. She got the skill book for only 120 gold.

Finally, she spent another 50 gold on [Knockout] (C-rank), which could make someone fall asleep briefly, as well as a Sleeping Potion that could make someone sleep for six hours.

After buying those four things, Yu Xunge immediately ran out of the city.

Just before her disguise expired, she left Dark City and reached the cemetery where she had logged in.

Yu Xunge collected the items from her mail into her inventory, clicked to learn the skill books, equipped the necklace, and then logged out.

This time, her phone did not turn into black smoke. But when she logged out, two bags appeared on the ground—one black and one white. They were her new 36-slot bags. A cold necklace slowly materialized around her neck, and two spellcasting methods appeared in her mind.

Yu Xunge cast Body-Illusion Spell on herself. She felt a chill run through her body, as though a layer of icy water had slid over her skin. Then she could no longer see her own body.

Time was precious. After drinking a Phase Potion, she returned to Yu Xunhuan's room.

Yu Xunhuan had actually woken up. He was squatting on the floor, repeatedly trying to turn on the phone he had smashed.

Seeing the irritated look on his face, Yu Xunge felt a lingering sense of fear. Is this the male lead? Half his dick is gone, porn keeps popping up on his phone, and he still suddenly feels like playing with it?!

Just as she was thinking that, she saw Yu Xunhuan walk over to his suitcase and start searching through it.

Yu Xunge's sharp eyes spotted a tablet and a laptop inside his suitcase.

Fuck! I was careless! There's a tablet too!

Fine, so that's how you want to play it?

Yu Xunge did not hesitate. She fired [Knockout] straight at Yu Xunhuan. This skill had been prepared specifically for Yu Xunhuan. She was about to leave the hotel for a long time and would not be able to keep an eye on him.

After Yu Xunhuan collapsed to the floor, Yu Xunge walked over and poured the Sleeping Potion into his mouth. Once she made sure he had swallowed it all, she left the hotel. Body-Illusion Spell consumed 10 Mana per minute, but she kept chewing jerky. One gained and one spent meant she only used 5 Mana per minute.

It would take 20 minutes to use up all her Mana, but at a time like this, drinking a Minor Mana Potion would restore 60 Mana.

Combined with Invisibility Potions, she could remain invisible for a long time without needing to find somewhere to hide whenever the potions went on cooldown.

Yu Xunge sprinted straight toward the Su Family Manor.

Where could she find a large amount of gold? Aside from banks, there was the Su Family Vault!

All secrets that could not be known to others and all assets that needed protection were there.

Yu Xunge knew because the evil formation capable of stripping others of their divine-gifted talents was inside that vault.

It was currently 7:13.

After equipping the cooldown-reduction necklace, [Alias, Come!]'s cooldown had been reduced to five hours and six minutes. At 12:12, she could use her disguise skill again and enter the game.

The second closed beta ended at 13:06.

She only had four hours.

At 12:12, whether or not she had managed to get gold from the Su Family, she would find a safe place to enter the game and use her disguise skill to enter the city again. She was willing to alter her original plan for Phantom Shift, but she would not stubbornly force it.

She had originally planned to stockpile supplies before heading into the wilderness to kill monsters and level up. Now, she was merely swapping her time spent grinding monsters in the wild for time spent clearing the Su Family Dungeon.

Running all the way to the Su Family was impossible. The Su Family Manor was a two-hour drive from the city center. Last time, she had nearly died running from House Liang to the city.

She called the Gun King, the man who had fired seven shots and still failed to hit Yu Xunhuan's dick. She asked him to find a brother who drove fast and was willing to earn some extra money, someone who could deliver a double-door refrigerator from an alley beside XX Hotel to the suburban villa district. If he got there in an hour and a half, she would pay 50,000. For every minute early, she would add another 10,000.

Though the Gun King charged 50 jin of gold for a job, he still knew plenty of principled brothers who could break the law but did not want to see blood. After Yu Xunge repeatedly assured him that there were no dismembered corpses in the refrigerator, he immediately agreed to take the job.

Ten minutes later, a black pickup truck stopped at the mouth of the alley. Two people got out and looked around. They quickly found the refrigerator their employer had mentioned. After working together to load it into the truck, they sped off.

At 8:45, the refrigerator was placed in the woods outside the villa district.

Yu Xunge, who had hitched a ride along with the refrigerator, put it back into her inventory. Same old routine: she put on a swim cap to make sure not a single strand of hair would fall, donned a mask and gloves, cast Body-Illusion Spell again, and ran toward the Su Family.