Happy Again

Yu Xunhuan sighed. Thinking of how Yu Xunge had told them the moment she discovered the game, he could not help but feel relieved. It was good that she had run away. He had been too hasty.

He still had so many options. There was no need to lay a hand on Yu Xunge.

Thinking about how lucky he had become in the game by making food for passersby, Yu Xunhuan decided to try a few more times. With the end of the year approaching, the Su Family had so many banquets. If he could put something on the banquet tables...

Were those people born with golden spoons in their mouths not far luckier than Yu Xunge?

Still, it would be best to keep this from the Su Family... Even though he was certain that if he told Su Yitong about the effects of this skill, she would definitely help him, he still wanted to keep it hidden. Unless absolutely necessary, he did not want to say anything.

But since he had already bought the ingredients today, he could not let them go to waste. Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo flashed through his mind, and the next second, Yu Xunhuan thought of Ye Dong, who was still living in his apartment.

With a smile, he began cooking. Ye Dong had lived at his place for so long and had not even paid rent yet.

Yu Xunge still did not know that her dear little brother was not only not angry, but was even glad that she had run away.

Even if she knew, she would not be touched. What kindness could a villain's kindness possibly be? He had merely treated her as emergency rations.

After arriving in Sawatdika Country, she first used her disguise skill to turn into a bald man. Then she found a guide and asked her to take her shopping for some shady items. Money was no object, but they had to be shady—the older-looking, the better.

The guide's smile grew a little more sincere. Another sucker has come along.

Then, in the next second, Yu Xunge pulled out a miniature pistol with her right hand and pressed it to the guide's temple. With her left hand, she took out a thick stack of U.S. dollars. "Which do you want, this or this?"

The guide's smile looked worse than crying as she told the truth. "But none of that stuff is real..."

Yu Xunge put away the gun and calmly, seriously stated her requirements. "It can be something involved in a murder case, something with a long history, or something with many stories behind it. As long as you help me look properly, I'll give you a bonus for every item you find. At least five hundred U.S. dollars each. If I'm satisfied, I'll pay more. There is no upper limit."

Seeing that Yu Xunge was mild-mannered and did not look like a lunatic who might lose control and kill someone at any moment, the guide calmed down as well. She confirmed, "I can only guarantee that I'll tell you everything I hear about, but I can't guarantee that the items are truly useful."

Yu Xunge smiled and pulled out several U.S. bills, handing them to her. "Fine. I'll be staying here for a week. How much you earn depends on you."

She had not believed in such things before either, but after the game invasion, many items had been related to this sort of mysticism. There were such things back home too. Incense ash accumulated in ancient temples, meditation cushions used for years by genuine eminent monks, and so on had all undergone mutations. But later, those became official property, mostly used to protect ordinary civilians or by official dungeon-raiding forces.

If she spent her own time and energy searching among the public, these mysticism-related items had too long a history in the country, and scammers were highly experienced at making fakes. She knew she could not outplay them. Besides, collecting them herself would draw too much attention.

She had enjoyed the protection afforded by being half a member of the Su Family. There were pros and cons to that. No one would easily move against her, but every move she made would also draw the attention of interested parties. Other small families and minor forces all wanted to know how major families like the Su Family and House Liang were responding.

Most of their attention would be focused on important members of the Su Family, but Yu Xunge, who had recently been doing business with wealthy people, was worth observing too.

They would not send people to follow Yu Xunge around the clock, but if she spent a long time and considerable effort collecting things related to mysticism, someone would certainly notice. If things with long histories or stories behind them mutated in the future, her actions would become highly suspicious.

There was naturally still a chance she would continue to be investigated after arriving in Sawatdika Country, but all the tedious errands were handled by the guide after she disguised herself. Yu Xunge herself would simply visit attractions and shop like a tourist.

Maybe Yu Xunge was overthinking things again, but she had always been cautious. She only hated that she had not thought of even more possibilities.

Another exhilarating battle of wits against the air~!

"This is a camera from a horror movie?" Yu Xunge, currently disguised as a bald man, was fiddling with an ordinary-looking instant camera. "Which horror movie?"

The guide rubbed her hands together and gave an awkward smile. "It was never finished. Those college students said that while filming, they encountered something terrifying. They were too scared to keep filming, so they stopped."

Yu Xunge noncommittally set down the instant camera and looked at the other items on the table.

A worn, bloodstained Buddha amulet. Supposedly, a woman seeking romance had obtained this amulet and gotten married soon after returning home. Then she discovered that her husband was a scumbag and, in a fit of rage, killed him.

A wolf fang, supposedly from a wolf that had eaten many people.

A veil once worn by a princess of Thailand several hundred years ago.

And... a small piece of durian shell.

Hmm... Yu Xunge controlled her expression and pointed at the durian shell. "So, may I ask what twists and turns, touching story, and background this one has?"

She leaned over to smell it and could still catch the scent of fresh durian!!

Did this guide think there were no bullets in her gun?!

The guide gestured animatedly, saying that this durian shell was no ordinary thing. Usually, one person climbed the tree to cut down durians while another waited below to catch them. But this durian had not been caught and smashed into the person's forehead. The person died on the spot. The durian had not even managed to pierce the skull, because the skull had shattered immediately.

At the time, everyone had been busy crying, shouting, and pressing their palms together while chanting "kuotuokuotuo." No one cared about the durian. Later, a nearby child picked up the bloodstained durian and took it home, even eating the flesh, but this small piece of durian shell had been preserved.

Yu Xunge said, "That child you mentioned wouldn't happen to be you, would it?"

The guide said, "Not me. My child..."

Yu Xunge said, "..."

She had been wrong. How had she thought that just because she could not outplay domestic scammers, she could outplay foreign scammers?!

There were plenty of scammers back home, but at least they respected your intelligence. Not only were there plenty of scammers abroad, they even treated you like an idiot while trying to fool you!

Even the gun was useless!

Wearily, Yu Xunge waved her hand, pulled out 2,500 U.S. dollars, and placed them on the table. She swept the pile of junk into her black backpack and decided to abandon her plan, buy a few latex mattresses, and return home.

She was tired. Rather than wasting time on this, she might as well train properly and raid dungeons after the game invasion!

Less than a week after leaving the country, Yu Xunge returned to her homeland.

She still had nearly thirty million in her hands, but nowhere to spend it. That was truly troubling.

She decided to use all the money to buy gold. If anyone asked, she had a perfectly good reason: she believed the future belonged to players, money would depreciate, and exchanging it for gold would be safer.