Thief God's Theft Can Also Be a Robber's Theft

Yu Xunge wandered through the Undead main city again. Whenever she found a quest, she accepted it. Whenever she saw an NPC, she went over to steal 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 had her game avatar go steal from the beggar in the corner.

What if he was some reclusive master?!

She wandered from six to seven.

With over 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 for cheap.

The weapon shop owner clearly recognized the bow. The dialogue box kept popping up as he emphasized how much risk he would have to bear by buying it. Yu Xunge stubbornly refused to budge. Dialogue boxes kept appearing above the other avatar's head, but Yu Xunge was no newbie. Even the most ordinary level 20 purple weapon cost 500 gold. This was level 40 purple gear—she had never even seen anything like it.

She dropped her asking price from 3,000 gold all the way to 1,000. After that, no matter how many times the trade window popped up, the price she entered was always 1,000 gold.

That was truly her bottom line. She knew this thing would be too hot to handle for whoever bought it. It was already good enough that someone was willing to buy it.

They haggled for five minutes. Just as Yu Xunge was thinking that time was precious and preparing to take a step back, the trade went through.

Yu Xunge immediately guided her avatar back to the alchemy instructor, spent 100 gold to raise Alchemy to intermediate level, then clicked to learn every available formula. That cost her another two hundred-odd gold.

Afterward, Yu Xunge ran across nearly half the city to reach the goblin residential district. She found a goblin engineer who was only knee-high and learned [Engineering].

This was the result of careful consideration. Jewelrycrafting, leatherworking, and tailoring were all equipment-making professions. As long as one had materials, they could make gear. But her time was precious, and the gear these professions could make in their early stages was extremely limited in usefulness. She would have no use for it before the game invasion, and after the invasion, it would quickly become obsolete.

Engineering, however, had great uses for her right now. Even beginner Engineering could make firearms, bullets, and explosives.

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

She quickly paid to unlock [Engineering], then learned every formula available. She also bought materials for ten firearms, five hundred batches of bullets, and one hundred batches of explosives.

Using the goblins' crafting station right there, she made ten guns, 5,000 bullets, and one hundred packs of inferior explosives, pushing Engineering to intermediate level as well.

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

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 inventory full.

It was already 8:45.

Not far away, Yu Xunhuan was still lying on the floor 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 guided her avatar to the center of Undead City, where the City Lord resided.

Unlike the peaceful era, the different races had spent years fighting and plundering one another, revering strength above all else. Though she did not know how many cities the different races had or how their hierarchies were divided, she knew that becoming the lord of a city absolutely depended on strength. There would be none of those useless nobles rising to power like in novels.

Even in her own world, when everything had been reshuffled after the game invasion, every city lord had been someone on the top hundred rankings. The powerful and wealthy might have had greater advantages in gathering resources to cultivate strong people, but in the end, whoever was stronger had the final say. At most, a city lord needed to heed the voices of those factions, but power would always remain in the hands of the strongest.

8:52

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

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

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

The soldier did not react, but the commotion here quickly drew the attention of a higher-ranking undead soldier. When she entered those words again, she was brought into the palace this time.

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

A dialogue box appeared. "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 the information I received, 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 came over and gave her something.

She opened it. One hundred gold.

Tch! What Yu Xunge wanted was equipment, but this was just a little extra fleece to 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."

She tried to guide her avatar closer to the City Lord. To the level 99 City Lord, her level 1 self was no more than an ant, so no one stopped her for the moment.

9:20

Her avatar stopped beside the Undead City Lord.

9:21

She clicked to use [Thief God's Theft Can Also Be a Robber's Theft].

[In the name of the Thief God, you attempt to steal the Flesh Talent of Orlov D, City Lord of Ghost City of the undead race.]

[Theft successful—target's God-given Talent level detected as too high—theft interrupted!]

[You have died.]

Immediately afterward, the phone screen went completely dead, like a phone automatically shutting down 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.

Exactly seven hours.

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

Then, a backpack, a tattered cloth bag, and a coin pouch stamped with gold coins appeared on the floor.

At the same time, a character panel she knew all too well appeared in Yu Xunge's mind.

[Character] Gewuen (Level 0, 0.001%)

[God-given Talent] Thief God (S-rank)

[God-given Talent] Immortality (SS-rank) (Incomplete)

[Race] Human (?)

[Racial Talents] Undead Will┃Feeding

[Health]: 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 at once. Even if it was incomplete, she could already see that three of the five skills beneath that Talent were lit up, 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, none of its skills were useless.

Looking at Yu Xunhuan, who was still sleeping soundly nearby, she only wanted to burst out laughing.

She stuffed the two bags into the inner layers of her clothes. The coin pouch alone took up one inventory slot. When she focused, she could sense how much gold was 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 moved 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 staircase 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 for putting the villa under Yu Xunge's name. Then came Yu Qingshan's soft-spoken analysis.

He told her to look further ahead. Yu Xunge could earn huge amounts of money. A villa only cost thirty million. 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 inspect her Talents.

But before she could take a close look at the new God-given Talent, [Immortality], she noticed something was wrong.

[Skill 2] Thief God's Theft Can Also Be a Robber's Theft: Sorry, I stole your whole house. I apologize. In the name of the Thief God, steal the other party's Talent. This skill may only be used once in the Thief God's lifetime.

The second skill under [Thief God] was still lit up.

In her previous life, she had possessed all kinds of skills and items with cooldowns. During cooldown periods, any skill or item would be grayed out and unusable. If a one-use item could not be used again after being consumed, it would turn light gray directly, which meant it had become trash.

But why was Skill 2 still lit up now?

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

Could it be that when her game character died, it counted as one lifetime?!

So?

So!

So that meant she could use such an insanely overpowered and immoral Talent one more time?!!!

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

Worthy of the S-rank Thief God Talent!

She went to the mini-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 the new God-given Talent, [Immortality].