Costume

Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong both looked grim, their moods hitting rock bottom as they simultaneously felt humiliated!

It was not only because their bodies were now mutilated, but also because the killer had clearly been toying with them like monkeys. Using such a crude framing scheme to make the two victims meet face-to-face and the two families recount their ordeals—the culprit was probably quite pleased with themselves.

House Liang had recently been focused on the game's development. Every member of House Liang had entered the game, and after the closed beta ended, they had searched everywhere for information on players, trying to find those with divinely bestowed talents related to divination. The evidence had already vanished, so they could only seek help from the mystical side. But just when they had finally found someone not long ago, they discovered that person could not divine anything at all.

Now that the two families had sat down to talk, they came to the conclusion that this person must have held a grudge against both the Su Family and House Liang. As for the driver House Liang had lost, he was most likely just a minor accomplice who had been silenced after working with the killer.

Thus, the elders investigated people who had grudges against both the Su Family and House Liang, while the younger generation worked together to use divinely bestowed talents to search for clues.

That was why Su Yitong had sought out Yu Xunge and asked her to give the player with the divination talent a Luck buff, just to see whether it might help.

But the result was obvious: they still came up empty-handed.

Although the buzz-cut young man had not divined anything, his ordinarily average luck had been absolutely explosive that day. He had even won a prize after buying a lottery ticket while passing a lottery shop on his way home. The matter was immediately reported to Liang Yuchuan, and once Liang Yuchuan learned of it, she naturally told Su Yitong during their conversation. She wanted to gather information about Yu Xunge. This divinely bestowed talent was quite useful, and there would always come a time when it might be needed.

Liang Yuchuan had actually known about this talent long ago. Back when she had Soros's Eye, after the first closed beta ended, she had looked over everyone in House Liang and naturally discovered the divinely bestowed talent of the driver, Liang Hui. At the time, however, she had not publicized the matter. She had only told the family head about the game while observing whether Liang Hui would develop inappropriate ambitions after obtaining such a fortuitous opportunity. Before she could probe him further, he died.

But even after hearing Yu Xunge mention a divinely bestowed talent with the same name and ability, Liang Yuchuan did not suspect anything.

After all, it was only a B-rank talent, and its owner had only become a player after joining the second closed beta. In Liang Yuchuan's view, it was like the mechanics in certain games: after the owner of a divinely bestowed talent died, [Wheel of Fortune] would return to the card pool for someone else to draw again. Or perhaps low-level talents like this simply were not unique.

Not everyone could be a heaven-blessed prodigy like her and draw an S-rank divinely bestowed talent. Among the nearly thousand players in House Liang, she was still the only S-rank talent holder.

Most importantly, House Liang had long since confirmed one thing: divinely bestowed talents could not be taken by killing their owners.

That was why she never connected Yu Xunge, an insignificant nobody she had never met, with what had happened to her family.

That night, Yu Xunge received a message from Su Yitong: "Let's work together more in the future~"

Yu Xunge was not at all surprised by Su Yitong's reaction. One million for six hours of luck really was not expensive.

The next day, she headed out with the money, rented a small cruise boat, and went out to sea. The ocean was a wonderful place to escape with Phantom Shift. Its safety and concealment rivaled a safehouse. Not only did she not have to worry about being seen, but after killing someone in the future, she could shift straight there to wash away the clues before returning.

After that, Su Yitong came to her from time to time, asking her to use her skill on people. Of course, Yu Xunge did not hide it when she used her skill on them. She practically wished she could grab a loudspeaker and shout, "I changed your Luck stat to 10!!!"

Over time, her reputation spread through wealthy circles. At the same time, Yu Xunge's rule also became known: she would only give people good luck and never bring them misfortune.

In truth, she could have simply claimed that her skill could only raise a person's Luck stat. But that would have made it too "flawless" and "harmless," which would easily arouse suspicion. Besides, she would need this skill to alter monsters' Luck stats when clearing dungeons in the future, so she had never intended to conceal it from the start.

Yu Xunge's rule did indeed extinguish much of the malice directed at her. On top of that, some people privately sought her out and failed to make her break her rule even after offering as much as twenty million. As time passed, everyone believed her, only thinking that she was truly clever, tactful, and cautious.

More importantly, no matter what, she counted as half a member of the Su Family. She was not someone they could easily touch.

Yu Xunge had never expected that the skill which had killed her in her previous life could make money for her in this one.

As the third closed beta ended, Yu Xunge no longer worried about others discovering that she was a player. The Su Family and those who needed her divinely bestowed talent would protect her.

Her divinely bestowed talent was not very threatening, yet it was unique enough that, like divination, it might be needed someday. And she did not hide it away—she openly did business with it. Anyone who needed her could find her at any time. Even if they needed cannon fodder, it would not be her turn to be pushed out.

More importantly, there were plenty of players with no background at all. There was no need to go to great lengths to capture someone who had dealings with all the major families.

Yu Xunge was making money far faster than she had as a celebrity before. Whenever she traded with others, she only wanted money. Even though any one of those people could obtain weapons more easily than she could, she would rather go through the trouble of buying them herself after getting the money.

What if they mutated later? It was like buying a lottery ticket. Someone owed her two yuan, so she had them casually buy her a lottery ticket to repay her. Then it ended up winning the jackpot!

People would not think Yu Xunge had been farsighted. They would only think Yu Xunge had stolen their good fortune. If they discovered that a weapon they had traded to her had mutated after the game invaded reality, it would be one thing if it was ordinary. But if it had especially good attributes, they might even demand that she return it.

Yu Xunge figured that if it were her, she would probably be furious enough to die.

She now spent two to three hours every day using this skill to earn extra money, saving it all up as she prepared to make another trip to Sawatdika Country at the end of November. That place had plenty of creepy stuff, and she wanted to get some to stockpile and gamble on mutation.

But before that, she planned to buy back one of her old costumes.

When she had first debuted, she had played a supporting female role as a secret guard hopelessly in love with the male lead in a drama. It had only thirty-six episodes, and in thirty-five of them, she wore black clothes and black boots. It had been a low-budget historical drama, but it had unexpectedly become a modest hit. She had risen to fame because of it, climbing step by step from a newcomer to a third-tier celebrity.

Hit dramas often sold off the leads' costumes to recoup costs. That outfit had been bought by one of her fans back then. In her previous life, after she was "exposed" for all sorts of scandals, that fan had sadly stopped supporting her and sold the outfit. Then, after the game invaded reality, the costume bought by someone else mutated into an exceptional low-tier blue item.