Chapter 15
Yu Xunge tucked her phone into her backpack and returned to Yu Xunhuan's room. At that moment, Yu Xunhuan was still facing away from the door. Yu Xunge walked over to the spot where her phone had fallen and placed the broken device back in its original position, untouched.
Then, she quietly left.
Before coming here, she had imagined dozens, if not hundreds, of scenarios, but she never expected it to be the simplest one. She had even considered the possibility that instead of losing control over her emotions due to those messages, Yu Xunhuan might become increasingly excited and start practicing her skills, perhaps even getting the idea to play a game at five o'clock.
She had even prepared for the worst-case scenario of having to knock Yu Xunhuan out.
At exactly five o'clock, Yu Xunge returned to Yu Xunhuan's room. The broken phone still lay on the floor, and Yu Xunhuan, with her head covered, seemed to be in a deep sleep. Yu Xunge tossed a "Fate Gear" at the person on the bed, lowering their luck to 1, before heading back to her own room to prepare for the second round of internal testing.
...
At six oh six, she successfully found "World of Warcraft: The Fear Rift" and clicked to download it immediately.
Upon entering the character selection screen, she saw the familiar undead figure, but next to the ID "Ge Wu En" was a new note—"Wanted."
Yu Xunge touched the hidden pocket inside her clothes; the two backpacks she had stored there were gone, but the undead character on the screen still had two familiar backpacks hanging at its side.
She attempted to use the Thief God’s "Armor Up!" disguise skill, trying to transform herself into a short goblin.
Soon, Yu Xunge's reality began to shift; her size shrank, her skin turned green, and her ears grew larger. At the same time, the undead character on the screen underwent the same transformation.
Yu Xunge immediately entered the game. No matter where she ended up, she only had one hour of disguise time, and within that hour, she needed to assess her situation.
The screen lit up, and the little goblin stood in a graveyard. Adjusting her game perspective, she spotted Undercity not far away and quickly maneuvered her character to run toward it, speeding past low-level monsters without a second thought.
In less than five minutes, she stood at the city gates, where a portrait of her original undead character hung. Fortunately, when she created her character, she had felt uncomfortable because the undead looked too much like her, so she had randomly clicked during character creation.
Though the Thief God’s disguise skill had a short duration, it couldn’t be seen through by any item or skill. Yu Xunge easily entered the city and headed straight for the goblin district. In the goblin shop, she asked the goblin boss if he would buy gold.
The goblin replied, "Time is money. If you have gold, why not turn it into coins yourself? Didn’t your mentor teach you that?"
Yu Xunge's breath quickened. She typed in the dialogue box, "Could you please teach me the relevant skills, sir? I am willing to pay for your valuable time."
The goblin immediately sent a trade window, showing he wanted 100 gold.
Such a precious opportunity! Yu Xunge didn’t dare to haggle and directly handed over the 100 gold given to her by the undead city lord.
【Goblin Robert L teaches you "Goldsmithing" (Beginner)】
She clicked to view the skill details.
【Goldsmithing】(A Grade)(Goblin Exclusive): Infuse magic into gold to create a unique coin (Proficiency: 0/10000)
Feature 1: For every coin crafted, 20g of gold will be automatically extracted and sent to the Goblin Merchant Association as tax.
Feature 2: Money can buy everything, but to maintain market stability, each goblin can only produce 3 coins per day for personal use.
Yu Xunge immediately pulled out a 500g gold bar from her bag. After clicking, it showed (4/4) for crafting. She selected to craft all, and soon, golden light radiated between her character's hands. The progress bar filled in an instant, and before long, her bag contained 3 new coins, while the 500g gold bar was reduced to just 140g.
Her proficiency also increased by 3 points.
Did this mean she could craft coins in the future? And after crafting ten thousand coins, as long as she could obtain a blueprint or find a goblin willing to teach her, she could learn Intermediate Goldsmithing.
Though she could only craft 3 coins a day, that number was already terrifying. Since arriving here, she had easily stolen dozens of coins and even managed to get 100 gold from the undead city lord. Yet in the real world, even after a year of grinding dungeons, her earnings barely reached 1 gold.
Yu Xunge didn’t linger any longer. She buried her chaotic thoughts deep down and took out several large storage boxes from her bag, asking the goblin if he would buy them. After inspecting the boxes filled with electronics and various toys, the goblin deemed them all junk, offering only 2 silver coins per box. However, for the two large boxes of liquor, he offered 12 gold.
Yu Xunge sold all 55 boxes of liquor, netting 330 gold, and the junk brought in less than 1 gold.
Then she pulled out ten pounds of gold and asked how many coins she could get in exchange.
She only had a few coins from Su Yitong, which was far from enough to learn the skills.
The goblin offered a rate of 200g of gold for 1 coin.
After five minutes of haggling, she managed to get it down to 850g for 1 coin. She knew there was still room for negotiation, but with only half an hour left on her disguise, she decisively pulled out all her gold—3,240 pounds, including what she had obtained from the port city and the Yu family—and exchanged it for 5,000 gold from the goblin.
This was nearly the entire gold reserve of a small to medium-sized guild from her past life.
Then, Yu Xunge rushed to the goblin engineering master, upgrading her engineering skill to advanced. She clicked to learn all the new recipes that appeared, over a hundred in total, and then headed straight to the alchemy shop, performing the same operation to upgrade her alchemy to advanced and learning all the new recipes as well!
When it came to school, she was timid, but in the game, she was a force to be reckoned with, her thirst for knowledge insatiable!
【Chapter 85: She Must Obtain This Skill】
After memorizing the materials for the advanced invisibility potion, Yu Xunge went next door to the herb shop to buy five slots of herbs. She would have bought more, but the game’s rigid mechanics prevented her from stacking different items in storage boxes to save space, and she needed to keep a few slots open for the auction house.
Yu Xunge was racing against the clock.
Only 35 minutes left on her disguise.
She hurried to the auction house, stopping by the restaurant to level up her cooking to intermediate, learning over a hundred new recipes.
At this point, she had 4,255 gold left.
Standing in front of the auction house, she typed in the keyword—"Soros."
Nothing.
Yu Xunge didn’t even have time to complain and quickly changed her search term to—"Bag."
She spent 800 gold to buy two 35-slot bags, the largest she could find.
As soon as she made the payment, a notification popped up in her game mailbox, indicating she had new bags. She clicked to receive them, and her inventory now contained two 35-slot bags. While transferring items from her original game bag into the new ones, she quickly continued shopping.
The Thief God’s talent meant she could choose any profession direction—strength, agility, or magic—but there was no time to be picky, so she could only buy the skills she was familiar with.
However, she soon spotted a skill that captured all her attention—"Phantom Shift"!
【Phantom Shift】(SS Grade): After use, you can reach any place you have been before. The distance of the shift is influenced by the caster's intelligence. (No cooldown time, casting time 0.1 seconds, each use consumes 1% of mana.)
10,000 gold! And there was only one copy of this skill book in the entire auction house...
This skill book struck a chord deep within Yu Xunge.
With no cooldown and an extremely short casting time.
This meant the skill was practically uninterruptible, and as long as she had mana, she could use it an unlimited number of times.
The obsession with "No one in the world can catch me" was almost etched into Yu Xunge's bones.
She immediately set aside all her previous plans for stockpiling. She had to get this skill!
In her past life, she had never even heard of this skill. Yu Xunhuan and her group could command the winds and rain, but they still had to obediently use transportation to reach dungeons.
Yet Yu Xunge only had 15 minutes left on her disguise.
She spent 200 gold on a blue necklace that had one effect: it reduced cooldown time by 15%.
This effect applied to all items, potions, and equipment.
In her past life, 200 gold could at least buy a top-notch blue item with three attributes at level 10, and Yu Xunge felt like she was floating.
Then she searched for the skill "Illusion Spell."
【Illusion Spell】(C Grade): After use, you can hide your tracks; you will not be visible to the naked eye. (No cooldown time, consumes 10 mana points per minute after use.)
Not being visible to the naked eye meant it could still be detected by skills or items, but for now, it would suffice!
Invisibility potions were useful, but their cooldown time was too long. Relying solely on the basic and intermediate invisibility potions was no longer enough.
The "Illusion Spell" was only C Grade because it was a rather lackluster skill; any character above level 10 had their own means of detection.
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