[Immortal]

[Immortal] (SS Rank)

You are Death

[Skill 1] Wait for Me, I'm Going Home: When you die, your corpse will randomly appear in an underground coffin. You will revive after 7 natural days. Takes effect once every 365 natural days.

[Skill 2] Only the Dead Will Obey: You can control living beings that died by your hand. Control duration and the number of beings controlled depend on mana.

[Skill 3] Death Impersonation Show: Designate a target that died by your hand and imitate their god-given talent. Only one target may be designated at a time. Once you switch targets, the previously imitated god-given talent disappears.

[Skill 4] Sorry, I've Gone Dark: When using all dark-aligned skills or items, skill effects are increased by 250% and cooldown time is reduced by 70%.

[Skill 5] Return of the Dead: While on a battlefield, you can use this skill to revive all deceased members of your race and have them continue fighting for you. Cooldown: 90 natural days.

This was practically a talent made for the battlefield.

Especially Skill 5. No wonder that undead creature had been able to become the lord of a city. No wonder this god-given talent had been rated SS Rank.

What a pity. Skills 4 and 5 were both grayed out, clearly indicating that she had failed to steal them.

Still, she was already satisfied. Skill 1 in particular—so long as one was alive, there was always a chance. Even with a cooldown as long as a year, this was the skill that pleased her most out of all of them.

Her life was absurdly hard to snuff out now.

One enemy's name after another flashed through Yu Xunge's mind.

The potions, weapons, and gold coins in her inventory were all still there. She had even exploited a bug to retain the undead race's talent. If she could still lose with a start like this, then she would have only herself to blame.

Knocking sounded from the room next door, followed immediately by startled cries.

After quickly taking a shower, Yu Xunge left her room. As though she had not seen the shocked, panicked expressions on Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo's faces, she held her forehead and said, "I landed a new endorsement deal yesterday. I got excited and came back to have a drink with my brother. I'm off to work now. Make him some hangover soup."

Without waiting for either of them to reply, she left.

Before leaving, she casually tried to steal from them both, only to find that she could not use the skill. Remembering the line in the skill description—"You cannot act against living beings whose life level is lower than your own. The God of Thieves never bullies the weak"—she guessed it was because neither of them was a player, and their life levels were lower than hers, so she could not steal from them. Then what about players below her level in the future? Would she be unable to steal from them as well?

Only after walking out while pondering this did she realize that her phone was gone.

So she put on a mask, used her ID to replace her SIM card, and bought a new phone. Fortunately, although she was in the entertainment industry, she was only a minor third-tier celebrity. Even if someone recognized her on the street, they would at most take a few pictures rather than cause a crowd to surround her.

Not long after inserting the new SIM card into her newly bought phone, Liu Zhengliu called.

Pretending not to hear the anger in the other woman's voice, she directly asked for three days off.

Liu Zhengliu was so thrown off by her matter-of-fact attitude that she stumbled over her words. "You don't want to keep working in this industry anymore?!"

Yu Xunge sighed. "Give me three days. I'm really a little tired. How about we have a drink together in three days?"

That last sentence stopped Liu Zhengliu cold. Thinking that she should be able to give President Liu an explanation in three days, she suppressed her anger and said, "Then get some proper rest. If something's wrong, don't bottle it up."

Yu Xunge murmured agreement a few times before hanging up and driving out of the city.

She had been discovered by a talent scout and brought into the entertainment industry during her sophomore year of college. Now, at twenty-six, although she was only moderately popular, the industry paid quickly. She had no particularly extravagant hobbies, and even after giving her parents and younger brother more than seventy million yuan over time, she still had more than eighty million in her account.

She would not lack money even if she stopped working. Once the game invaded, this money would rapidly depreciate. As time passed, more and more monsters descended upon the world, and more and more dungeons appeared. Players used in-game currency to trade items, weapons, and armor among themselves. In just half a year, real-world currency was replaced by gold, silver, and copper coins.

She knew that the eighty million was what Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo had their eyes on. In her previous life, it had been on this very day that, despite nearly being sent to a bald executive's bed by Liu Zhengliu, she had still swallowed her disgust and gone to look at villas for Yu Xunhuan. Later, a dungeon entrance had spawned in the basement of the villa she bought for Yu Xunhuan...

If real estate was now a symbol of wealth, then after the game's invasion, possessing a dungeon entrance unknown to outsiders was like possessing a mountain of treasure.

Dungeons were spatial gates for the advance forces sent by other races. Having a dungeon entrance known only to yourself basically meant enjoying all the resources dropped by the other races within that dungeon. If that was not a treasure mountain, then what was?

Yu Xunge had only one task today: buy the villa she had given Yu Xunhuan in her previous life and put it under her own name.

She even skipped the viewing process. Before dinner, Yu Xunge had settled everything concerning the house.

Without even eating dinner, she rushed to the flower-and-bird market to buy a thrush. Then, carrying the bird and several takeout dishes from a nearby restaurant, she returned to the small villa Yu Xunge had bought for herself.

When she entered, she also deleted the fingerprints and facial recognition records for Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, Yu Xunhuan, and the others stored in the front door.

After sitting down, she opened the takeout containers with one hand and snapped the thrush's neck with the other.

Then she activated [Only the Dead Will Obey]. Almost instantly, she felt a connection form between herself and the dead thrush. At a thought from her, the thrush, whose head hung crookedly to one side, flew into the air. Its head also twisted back into place in an eerie manner, as though an invisible hand had straightened it for it.

When she closed her eyes and concentrated, she could "see" everything through the thrush's eyes: the spacious living room, and a woman sitting cross-legged in front of the sofa.

She watched the time and commanded the thrush to circle through the room.

After eating, she briefly tidied up the house. She had never lived in this villa before. Because she had wanted to live with her so-called family, she had always returned to that home whenever she had time off.

Then she drove out with the thrush to buy clothes and toiletries. Throughout that time, she continued controlling the thrush to fly overhead and follow the car. Before going to sleep that night, she also gave the thrush an order: keep flying. Do not stop.

At seven the next morning, she checked her mana. She had twenty points left.

Controlling a thrush's corpse to fly continuously for twelve hours had only required eighty mana. What if she were controlling an adult instead?

That day, Yu Xunge brushed off Yi Qiuguo's remarks about how she already had a house while her younger brother still lacked one. She sorted through her inventory and bought three identical large storage bins. After dividing the firearms, bullets, and explosives among them, she stacked the bins into a single game slot.

Whenever she needed something, she could take out the storage bins and search through them.

She kept one loaded firearm in another slot.

She did not plan to store the healing potions and mana potions like that. Things that needed to be taken out at a moment's notice, where even one extra second could mean death, had to be kept outside. She would only feel at ease once a whole slot was filled.

She ordered a medicinal herb cabinet from a traditional Chinese medicine shop. After paying extra, it was delivered that same day. She labeled the outside of each drawer with the name of its herb and stored the herbs inside. Then she placed the extra healing potions and mana potions in the bottom row of drawers.

As a result, she had only used five of her thirty game inventory slots: Beginner Healing Potion x99, Beginner Mana Potion x99, Beginner Invisibility Potion x3, Shoddy Hunting Rifle x1, Storage Bin x3.