Chapter 17
Yuxun Ge crouched down beside Su Yitong, pulling out the pig slaughtering knife she had bought. As she lifted Su Yitong's hair, her eyes caught the glint of a blue diamond earring on her right ear.
Ha! Yuxun Ge's eyes sparkled with excitement. She quickly grabbed that ear and sliced it off. The sharp pain jolted Su Yitong awake from her drowsy state, and she screamed, clutching her ear.
But when she looked around, there was no one in sight.
Having downed an invisibility potion and a phasing potion, Yuxun Ge was already on the run, clutching the severed ear and the blue diamond earring. On her way, she discarded her bloodied gloves and stuffed the ear and earring into her bag.
She sprinted to the nearby Han family estate, slipping into the maid's room in the annex. The room was empty—of course, it was 11:35 PM, the busiest time for maids.
Unsure if there were cameras in the maid's room, Yuxun Ge quickly crawled under the bed and lay down.
This was a comforting spot.
It was a sunroom, making it even cozier.
12:12
Lying under the bed, Yuxun Ge opened her game just in time. Disguised as a goblin, she set off to find her goblin teacher.
Twenty-two slots were filled with gold bricks, and one slot contained fifteen bricks, totaling 2,193 gold bricks, or 21,930 pounds.
When she asked her goblin teacher to exchange all of it for gold, the goblin fell silent for a few seconds.
A message popped up in the chat: "I don’t have that much gold, my friend."
Yuxun Ge was genuinely angry. "I’ve worked my fingers to the bone to earn this, and you’re telling me you can’t even cough up 50,000 gold?!"
Ge Wu'en: "You don’t even have 50,000 gold?!"
Goblin: "…Do you?"
Yuxun Ge: "Are you being sarcastic?!"
Ge Wu'en: "So how much do you have, my friend?"
Goblin: "20,000."
Ge Wu'en: "Don’t you have any friends?"
The goblin fell silent again.
Say something, darling!!!
After a long pause, the goblin finally replied: "I’m not exchanging anymore."
Ge Wu'en: "I’m your most loyal friend!!!"
Goblin: "That’s just disgusting."
Ge Wu'en: "Then let’s exchange for 20,000 gold first."
Goblin: "Fine, my disgusting friend."
Yuxun Ge held back her irritation.
She approached the goblin engineer to request an exchange for gold, but he ignored her.
Ge Wu'en: "Teacher?"
The goblin was focused on tapping a copper pipe.
Ge Wu'en moved her character closer: "Teacher?"
On her third attempt to call out to him in the chat, a reply finally came through.
The little goblin on the screen exploded with rage: "No money!!! I have no money!!! Can’t you see I’m ignoring you? All my money is going into research! If you really consider me your teacher, pay me more tuition! If not, go find that guy Bill!"
Yuxun Ge: "…" Sorry to bother you.
Ten minutes into the game, Yuxun Ge cursed under her breath as she ran to the auction house with her 20,000 gold.
The first thing she did was spend 10,000 gold to buy a double SS-level Phantom Shift.
Then she went on a shopping spree.
**Chapter 20: Shopping Frenzy**
**Anima Gass** (A+ level): Can transform into any animal you’ve touched within the last seven natural days. Cannot be seen through by skills or items below A-level. If you take any damage, the skill is interrupted. Cannot use skills other than divine gifts while transformed. No cooldown time, each use costs 50 mana points.
The restrictions are a bit much, but it’s practical, and the last line about not being able to use skills other than divine gifts is simply wonderful—this skill was made for her!
3,000 gold, bought!
**Shadow Control** (A+ level) 2,500 gold! Can control shadows to act freely. Shadows can use all the skills of the main body, but all attributes are only 20% of the main body’s. A perfect skill for sneaky tactics! Bought!
**Fountain of Light** (A+ level): Creates a well that lasts for 3 minutes, with spring water that restores health. Each ml of spring water restores 1 health point. Skill cooldown time is 30 minutes, each use costs 1% of mana.
A lifesaver! Not only can it save her, but with this skill, she won’t be easily discarded in team fights. Even the main characters wouldn’t dare to attack her easily. 3,000 gold, bought.
**Ice Flower Seal** (C level): Creates a snowflake that flies toward a target, freezing it within 3 seconds of contact. The freezing effect is influenced by the caster's intelligence. (Casting time 2 seconds, cooldown time 30 seconds, each use costs 50 mana points.)
An ice control skill. Although it can be countered by fire spells, that’s just how it is—most skills counter each other. And at only 103 gold, bought!
**Magic Missile** (C level): Directs a magic missile toward a target. No casting time, no cooldown time, costs 10 mana points per second.
An instant-cast spell with no casting time, 80 gold, bought!
**God of Food’s Drool Pouch** (B level): When you wear this item while eating, all benefits from food are doubled.
A useful item for life, 700 gold, bought!
**Peisi’s Cat Toy** (F level): No special effects, but cats go crazy for it, attracting them.
Perfect for her Meow Meow Inn, and it’s cheap at only 17 gold, bought.
**Compass** (E level): It can help you locate unclaimed treasures within a kilometer and guide you to them.
A kilometer is a bit short, but at 80 gold, it’s a steal.
**Magician’s Dentures** (B level): Contains 1 cubic meter of space, requires one of your tooth sockets, can hide anything you don’t want others to know about (items placed inside cannot be detected by any skills or items, but also cannot be used).
A must-have for the wealthy! Yuxun Ge thought she had too many good items, 999 gold is acceptable.
**Alchemist Set** (E level): Increases your alchemy success rate and has a 1% chance to elevate your potions by one level.
**Alchemy Notes**: Reading may allow you to comprehend alchemy recipes you haven’t learned yet (recipe level can be at most one level higher than your alchemy level) (only effective once every 30 natural days).
**Engineering Notes**: Reading may allow you to comprehend engineering recipes you haven’t learned yet (recipe level can be at most one level higher than your engineering level) (only effective once every 30 natural days).
The alchemist set is inexpensive at only 50 gold, while the two notes together cost 2,000 gold.
But 2,000 gold is a small price to pay. With her alchemy and engineering both at advanced levels, reading these notes could lead to mastering high-level recipes. It’s practically a treasure trove, even if she can only learn once a month!
She also found **Cooking Notes**, which were much cheaper at only 350 gold.
She bought everything.
Turning money into resources is what matters; otherwise, it’s just worthless paper.
With the 20,000 gold she exchanged from the goblin, plus the 3,115 gold she hadn’t spent earlier, she had a total of 35,115 gold. After buying all this, she was left with only 220 gold.
After the game invasion, most skills obtainable in dungeons were C-level. Since she could buy them, she naturally focused on those she couldn’t obtain otherwise, so she only bought two C-level spells—one for control and one for attack. That was enough.
Her focus was on those top-tier skills and useful items she had never encountered in her past life.
Time flew by during her shopping spree.
After collecting her packages and clicking to learn all the skills, Yuxun Ge left the auction house, still feeling exhilarated.
12:42
Only 85 minutes left until the beta test ended.
She ran to the herb shop and filled all thirty backpack slots with herbs before leaving.
12:47
Yuxun Ge stood not far from the Undead Palace, gazing at the structure. Since she had stolen the divine gift from the Undead Lord last time, the guards outside the palace had multiplied by hundreds. These undead soldiers were almost holding hands to encircle the palace.
But it didn’t matter. Yuxun Ge maintained her goblin disguise and walked to the teleportation array in the Undead City, using her last 5 gold to teleport to one of the elf main cities—Blood Moon City.
12:57
Standing in front of the elf main city, she approached the elf captain, who was armed with a magnificent bow and arrow, and mentioned that there was an issue with the anchor point and that she needed to see the city lord. The captain drew his bow at her.
In that moment, Yuxun Ge’s mind went blank. Almost as soon as the little character’s name turned red, she didn’t hesitate and immediately used **Thief God’s Theft, which can also mean Robber’s Theft**.
**Betting on the name of the Thief God, you attempt to steal the divine gift of Blood Moon City’s captain, Elphara.**
**Theft successful.**
**You have died.**
The screen went black.
It quickly lit up again, revealing only a ghostly goblin standing in a graveyard.
In the upper right corner, there were two choices: either go find her corpse to weakly revive, or wait for automatic resurrection, with a countdown of 47:57:35.
Yuxun Ge held her phone still, quietly waiting until the time reached 13:05.
The phone turned into black smoke, leaving only two packages on the ground.
She looked at her hands—good, she hadn’t turned into a ghost. Even though she had known all along that she wouldn’t die in the beta test, seeing her character turn into a ghost still startled her for a moment.
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